Youtube comments of DynamicWorlds (@dynamicworlds1).

  1. ". . . as if the concept of improving as a person was invented by hypersensitive millennials in 2010 Nope, turns out people have been trying to not mortally offend their audience since forever! Who knew" Thank you for that Red. A beacon of sanity on the dark waves of the internet.
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  2. "I'm willing to suspend my disbelief. I'm not willing to hang it from the neck until dead."
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  3. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  4. There's just something about guys who self-identity as "nice" 🤮
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  5. My friend came up with a pretty damn good definition, actually. Magic: rules that break other rules.
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  6. "Charge him with espionage" More like "Charge him with journalism" “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” -George Orwell
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  7. Reminder: the invasion of Iraq was illegal They're complaining that he's not a criminal.
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  8. Just goes to show that having one kind of intelligence doesn't mean one won't be incredibly stupid in some other way or make some grand mistake even in our area of expertise.
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  9. And this is why learning the cause and effect patterns that drive history is the entire point...unfortunately most history teachers and textbooks just view it as a list of names and dates to memorize for....reasons?
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  10. That's about the level of consistency I find from people extoling the "virtues of the free market"
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  11. Yeah, his actions meet even fairly strict definitions of terrorism, so he's gotta know it's better to shut up and take the hit to his bank account than provide more evidence.
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  12. Watching their expressions go from what seemed like "what's this jerk's problem?" to those wholesome smiles was wonderful.
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  13. The Bible is not appropriate for children. Full stop.
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  14. We have conservatives in the US who believe science is important. They're called "Democrats"
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  15. Pretty much every country has some banking system to blame for huge economic problems. Japan has this BS, Wallstreet keeps fucking the US economy, and don't even get me started on the World Bank/IMF.
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  16. “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -The Treaty of Tripoli 1796
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  17. I'm generally fine to be like "people got all sorts of wierd kinks, I'm fine to let them be"...it's when it moves to romanticizing f'ed up stuff that I start quickly having very strong objections.
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  18. Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism is what is actually antisemitic.
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  19. This is attemped murder and all the cops covering for the criminal are accessories/accomplices. Edit: oh, and btw, if the driver was not a cop, it's also state-sponsored terrorism.
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  20. There's even an academic game for it "techniques of propaganda". Works for all sorts of advertisements too. If we're going to have standardized testing, identifying propaganda should absolutely be part of reading comprehension (not that most who would be making that decision would actually want it taught).
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  21. White dwarfs are the corpses of larger stars and don't undergo fusion, so may not count as "surviving stars" depending on how you're defining that.
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  22. There are no limits for fascists.
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  23.  @janellek21  nice projection there. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012
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  24. Does killing indirectly count? Because the ideology he pushes has killed a lot of people.
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  25. Even just returning to a talking filibuster and requiring the talking to be on topic would be a massive improvement. Imagine the "quiet parts" they would say outloud several hours into filibustering voting rights legislation or a minimum wage increase being compiled together from cspan feeds to show what they really think of the people of this country.
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  26. Carlin was VERY clearly a leftist, in both the social and economic senses of the term, but I think you're overestimating the right's ability to understand comedy...and words...
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  27. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  28.  @tanbir11  if you're getting called a conspiracy theorist, it's not for understanding propaganda techniques.
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  29. On cookie dough safety: pasturized eggs are a thing, but a big danger is uncooked flour. If you're going to do it, prebake your four to kill the pathogens on it first.
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  30. Spoilers: it's never been about states rights.
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  31. glamourgirl656 and Apollo likes it a lot I think
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  32. And terrifs on construction materials is definitely going to help the housing crisis. Mhm. I forsee no problems there!
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  33. "I do my homework" Speaking a foreign language to him there.
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  34. Proof the democrat establishment prefer to lose to republicans than let progressives have a voice.
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  35. pinochet pilot #666 no he's not, definitions of masculine and feminine shift throughout history and norms have even changed in the short life of our country. Boys used to wear dresses when they were young and pink and blue used to be for boys and girls respectively, rather than the other way around like they are today. Going outside our own country, the ancient Greeks used to view women, not men, as the more lustful ones, dresses (or at least dress-like garments) have been worn across genders, and many cultures have had more than 2 gender roles. To top it off, psychotherapy doesn't find trying to enforce strict gender roles on people based on their sex to produce good mental health outcomes, and neurology has been able to pick up differences in tras people in brain scans. Sorry, but he's full of shit and is talking like an actual Nazi.
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  36. Feudalism supposedly ended centuries ago. Stop thinking like serfs!
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  37. A right-winger talking about 'the left wants power' is such projection. More power for those at the top and less for everyone else is what DEFINES right-wing politics.
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  38. Well, modern tanks are not slow. Plenty of early tanks (especially heavy tanks) were, hence the expression.
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  39. Butters The Bean hate to be the cynic here, but it's probably just looking for warmth the way it would on a sun-baked rock. I'm no expert on that species, but most reptiles don't form the kinds of social bonds you find with mammals and some birds.
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  40. There's a word for colonialism brought home. That word is "fascism".
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  41.  @Felice_Enellen  it's called the paradox of tolerance. Look it up. A tolerant society must be intolerant of advocating intolerance. I have no interest in tolerance towards fascists or anyone else who's ideology would result in the genocide of me and those I love.
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  42. Have you met humans? We're very often incredibly stupid.
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  43. If you build a temple to the god of craftsman and it's NOT the last one standing, you're doing it wrong!
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  44. We've been requiring authorization to protest since at least as far back as the Bush era. The GOP has been moving in this direction for a long time. If we have to ask for permission to do something, it's not a right.
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  45. Yeah, I find a common part of growing up is being afraid of Disney villians as a child, dismissing them as overly simplistic cartoonish exaggerations of evil as an adolescent, and then looking backas an adult and going "nope, not only is that kind of evil absolutely real and even disturbingly common." and that not just applying to the more complex villains like this one.
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  46. Unironically, I wouldn't complain about a history/comparison of pasta dishes before tomato sauces came to dominate.
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  47. I just realized that murdering Baldur could be read as trying to hook up his daughter who can't really get out and date because she's trapped in the underworld (and sparing Baldur from ragnarok)
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  48. I make Denouncing Venice my new religion Bonus points to any that get the reference.
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  49.  @kylehill  for whatever it's worth, I see no good reason to not continue the series as planned if you can avoid releasing any information that might cause harm and which the Russian government wouldn't already have access to. The tone and structure of the resulting videos may change, of course, and as with this video, there may be other things you find more pressing to talk about, pushing the planned series back, but I can't think of any harm that could come from it unless there's some concern I'm missing. You've been pretty good about being careful with more serious videos and reliable sources of accurate information are increasingly important and rare when things get bad. I'm not in a position to see what the ideal course of action is, but I don't see anything that makes me worried that I'll see a video posted on your channel that I'll wish hadn't been made, or a reason to not trust your judgement on what to do with serious topics.
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  50. Imagine that, but around 100x worse....and if something gets too worn out you stop being able to breathe.
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  51. It's never been about protecting fetuses. If it was, they would support things like comprehensive sx ed and assistance to poor mothers as those actually lower abortion rates. No, they just want to punish women for sex.
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  52. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it) "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."
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  53. So they fired a guy for criticizing ethno-nationalism, but get called left wing? And we're supposed to take the right seriously?
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  54. That's because you see a house as primarily something to live in rather than a speculative investment you're hoping to sell one day.
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  55. Right wingers gonna right wing There were signs all around. It was only a matter of time before something like this happened no matter how much his fanboys wanted to pretend otherwise.
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  56. Not just physically, but he crosses into a lot of roles that are traditionally given to female deities and I'm seeing a lot of parallels with things like his role as being in between sides in conflict and serving as a usually cooperative balance to the dominant power group that are often given to 3rd gender roles in many societies, which is very interesting.
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  57. Honestly, I can't even tell how much of his unhinged ranting is sincere vs a grift so I can't even tell, but I've reached the point where I no longer care. He's only doing harm to the progressive movement at this point, and that and that he cannot be reasoned with at this point are all that matters.
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  58.  Aspiring Marauder  I mean, a lot of that is hardly unique to Japan. French maid and secretary uniforms didn't get sexualized out of nowhere, for example.
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  59. What about the navigator? Dude probably only managed to not fall out because his massive balls acted as a counterweight!
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  60. Yeah, the Greeks kinda went back and forth on how they treated women...mostly back. Ironically, dictatorial Sparta with its absurd level of machoness was probably the best, and (sometimes) democratic Athens, the worst...kinda got to pick and choose what to take from those city states there.
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  61. More accurately: when fascists accuse the left of trying to do something, it's projection and you should be watching out for it from them.
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  62. 3 way conflicts are kinda like that. Hell, there's a game called "diplomacy" that is that principle distilled into a pure form.
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  63. Unity without justice is called "appeasement" How well did it work last century?
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  64.  @magister.mortran  depends, causing an enemy war elephant to go panicking through their own lines by the use of ranged weapons and pointy sticks of our own doesn't sound so bad.
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  65. Reality has become almost impossible to parody
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  66.  @adamk.7177  He hated both parties because they were both far to his right.
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  67. Can we also notice how he basically pulled a "I'll buy you a pony" with her? Can we please get someone checking in on his behavior around little girls while we're at it, because that's incredibly suspicious.
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  68. You don't need to go full communist for that. Look up Richard Wolff and Democracy at Work.
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  69. If I were Christian, I'd be so offended about the prosperity gospel types calling themselves "Christian" that I would never, ever be quiet about it.
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  70.  @beamyshark  "the one party in a totalitarian state is the voice of the people" -an idiot, paraphrased
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  71.  @sanjikaneki6226  China is leading development of green technology and planting huge forests to help. Meanwhile, a huge portion of their CO2 production is to produce cheap, disposable consumer goods for the US. I think China is awful. I want to be better than China, but we're not, so we need to spend less time finger pointing and more time getting our own house in order.
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  72. Social murder IS murder
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  73.  @mfield942  yeah, with the rarest of exceptions, they cannot tolerate vampires in that setting. With how the vampires (especially the older ones) tend constantly towards ever greater depravity and inability to survive without causing ever greater harm while growing increasingly powerful (especially with how terrifyingly powerful the eldest ones are), the fact that (dispite typically being a kill-on-sight enemy) they might not even place on a list of their top 5 priorities is really telling of why it's the World of Darkness.
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  74. The Byzantines eventually solved this by stealing the silk worm and making their own
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  75.  @shaereub4450  go look to any graph comparing minimum wage to productivity over the years to see how BS that "add value to the company" line is and then stop bootlicking.
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  76. They were brave too. Going out onto floating ice with a panicking Moose is not a task for the fainthearted! The amount of damage it could do to you on accident is nothing to brush off.
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  77. ". . . and then they came for me, and there was no one left to say anything."
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  78. If there was ever a point when the feds need to step in and take over for the local police not doing their jobs, this would be one of those instances. Instead, they're teargassing protesters in Portland and throwing them in unmarked vehicles to be taken to undisclosed locations and threatening to shoot people if they follow them. This is what fascism looks like.
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  79. Terry Pratchett had a just wonderful mind!
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  80. All of the above and more....unfortunately.
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  81. "More extreme weather of every kind" is what they told us it would be and that is what we see. Anyone who doesn't understand this is lying.
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  82. Antonio Small the bible doesn't say "be good" by any modern definition of the term. It says to be obedient, which usually brings out the absolute worst in humans (see Milgram Shock and Stanford Prison experiments, along with a mountain of real world data to start) Ethics based on compassion produce a more pleasant world for people than those built on arbitrary authoritarian commands every day of the week. Organized religion at best retards moral development of humans.
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  83. Red, fellow viewers, please please go watch Steins;Gate. It's an amazing handling of time travel in fiction that manages to write a very compelling story about the act of time traveling and playing with the implications of the rules and consequences of its time travel while remaining consistent and comprehensible. It is also both funny and amazingly emotional beyond the technical mastery of being able to write with such a plot premice in the first place so I cannot recommend it enough. Here is episode 1 (it's a slow build, so don't be surprised when you don't understand everything happening immediately) https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY And here's a good review if you need a 2nd, more in depth, recommendation: https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY I know anime isn't covered much on this channel, but Steins;Gate is easily both one of the greatest anime of all time and one of the greatest time travel stories ever told in any medium (and it even has an absolutely excellent dub, which I linked above) so please don't let not usually watching anime shy you away from the series.
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  84. As soon as he said that I understood why.
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  85. To be fair, without spiders, we'd have a lot more bugs.
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  86. So, imagine a world with no Republicans in government?
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  87. Picking a marginalized group to target to distract from their involvement in illegal, anti-democratic activities? I wish this was new... -.-
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  88. Free market capitalism is just as much as an extremist position as Marxism. Sorry we don't treat the bs the country was indoctrinated with durring the cold war as a religion. Btw, as automation increases we'll have to choose between some form of communism, UBI, or a cyberpunk-style dystopia. I'm not apologizing for holding the moderate position on that.
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  89. So we don't want to remind Loki that Odin is riding his kid?
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  90. Fascist get so much special and preferential legal treatment it's not even funny.
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  91. It's not the last straw yet, but they are enormously undermining the foundations of their economic ideology and I'm all here for it.
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  92. "Don't worry, the rising sea will put it out soon" -Helmsman
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  93.  @parkerhynson3581  *and bred to never grow out of being pups in mind, if not always size.
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  94. ​ @Xenochrome you want to know what creates a situation where abuse is more rampant? Making it illegal
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  95. "Love is a very powerful force. Even more so when it's focused into a coherent beam of destruction. . . I'm given to understand the divorce rate goes up with each blast."
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  96.  @DB-sd3cw  dude, the last president from your party fits multiple widely-respected definitions of fascism to a T and the overwhelming majority of your party fell right in line with it.
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  97. Me, an American where bleaching/dying hair natural colors is fairly common: "Uhhhhhhhh...yeah, idk either tbf"
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  98. ​ @rm4po4 probably too optimistic, but we're short on hope so I won't blame you for it.
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  99. Unpolitically Correct well, more like applied loopholes, but when you have ways to ignore the rules of, say, physics, it's usually pretty easy to weaponize that to make a fragile human organism stop functioning.
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  100. I agree. Historically speaking, the first thing tankies tend to do after they seize power is kill leftists. In online discourse they're also the only group that fantasizes about killing leftists anywhere near as much as fascists. They also, in implimenting a centrally-planned economy in a totalitarian state, work against worker control of the means of production (which is in no small part why socialist George Orwell said that the USSR wasn't socialist). Let them have power and they tend to target minority groups for oppression and even genocide. Watch them get heated, either in a debate or in attacking a minority group they don't like, and they'll start to sound a lot like Nazbols or even Strasserites. Frankly all that is even just a fraction of why I don't think anyone should consider tankies actual leftists and why every leftist should always remember what happens to us when these so-called "comrades" end up with power.
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  101.  @gypsysprite4824  quite a few mythologies, really. Sometimes the not locked into 1 gender is quite explicit too (either through shape-changing, being some manner of non-binary, or having multiple aspects) because decent deities care little for a strict gender binary
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  102. True heroism isn't about the glorious path, but simply understanding one's place in the larger picture and doing what needs to be done regardless of personal risk or cost.
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  103. Let's put a bit finer point on that. It's not "decades of denial" It's "decades of appeasement towards what will amount to a defacto generational genocide eclipsing the toll in death and human suffering of all the genocides of the 20th century combined if we don't immediately take drastic action"
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  104. Sounds like a situation where the appropriate cleaning tool is fire.
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  105. I'd like to point out that in the last couple years, the FBI stopped tracking statistics for right-wing domestic terrorism. Just let that sink in.
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  106. Fascim normally fails at it's first grab for power and succeedes on its 2nd or 3rd try. Nothing is over, unfortunately. We will be fighting against this for years
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  107. VLOGeneric's Rants the real reason we pulled out: we weren't #1
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  108. The term is "internalized ageism"
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  109. I was legit like "I don't see the problem" until it was mentioned that they were poisonous....then I understood it was a problem we couldn't just hunt our way out of.
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  110. I don't. Drug addiction is a medical problem, not a criminal one, regardless of what the BS laws say. The whole antagonism between them started when the cop took out his anger about clinic wait times out on House (who wasn't in control of it), and when he didn't like how House responded to it, decided to trip a cripple by kicking out his cane. House's addiction does cause problems, sure, but it's the hospital's call as to whether he's fit enough to practice, and frankly, no-one without a medical degree has any buisness telling a chronic pain patient that they shouldn't be taking meds. The cop needs to stick to crimes that actually have a victim, rather than abusing an unjust law to go after someone for a personal grudge (which actually, should have excluded him from working on any case involving House in the first place). House is a criminal (technically), an ass, and an addict that needs help, but Tritter is the menace to society.
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  111. "Generational preferences" in practice usually translates to "younger generations choose to be poor" Replace "younger generations" with, say, "black people" to see how much the current system is founded in a large part on ageism towards the young.
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  112. Crime will go up because desperate people lash out when pushed into a corner.
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  113. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."
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  114.  @phastinemoon  the dumbest cause of the deaths of 1-3% of the world's population so far
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  115. Phesheya Bhembe actually, while it stops them from going too long, it can actually keep them from being too short (like a lot of modern sports fighting) too because there's so little margin for error and no respawns. Here are some people that work on teaching early middle-ages martial arts talking about this https://youtu.be/7vqte0QbXnc
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  116. Civility and decorum have always been the shields of those who see themselves as rulers and prefer the negative peace that is the absence of conflict to the positive peace that is the presence of justice (to borrow from MLK). It has been this way since the dawn of civilization. He is the only person in that room that understands that he is a representative there to serve citizens, and not a ruler there to manage peasants. The subtext is always the same: "pipe down peasants. Politeness is worth more than your lives."
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  117. Millennial-bashing is boomers projecting. It's that simple.
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  118.  @WanderTheNomad  it's unfortunately not. They're legally obligated to maximize profits. If giving out the food would result in any reduction in sales, the system effectively obligates them to throw it out. Note that I say this not to defend them but to condemn the system.
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  119.  @beamyshark  nice goalpost moving, and no they're not.
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  120. And, let's not mince words, ageist as fuck. Imagine if a candidate had said "I have no empathy for black people" and you'll understand how bigoted boomers are.
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  121. The problem is more that they pretend to be neutral and then pull this shit. You're neutral or you play favorites and approach things with an ideological viewpoint. You pick one, not flit back and forth as you find it convienant.
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  122.  @olivia892  I was thinking more getting his daughter a worthy bf, and then taking the fall for it to keep their anger away from her, like a protective parent, but yeah, he usually works in indirrect ways so it makes sense to look at even killing Baldur as the means and try and infer the ends.
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  123. If you're making enough that you're paying 30k/year, you're doing better than most of us, so stop fishing for sympathy. Not saying you're rich (CA's taxes and cost of living are high) or that I'm not glad to have you on our side (assuming you are), but it sounds really whiny.
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  124. ShieldWife probably true on average, but hardships like poor nutrition and disease did often leave people less than they could have been and there are still plenty of people that lead physically and mentally demanding lives even today, so I'd say there's certainly a fair amount of overlap.
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  125. All right-wing politics is about consolidating power and building heirarchy. All right-wing populism is, therefore, a fraud. Btw, "economically liberal and socially conservative" means "I'm a moderate economically, supporting regulated capitalism, but these uppity degenerates are corrupting the system and need put in their place, so we can have the right people in the right places in the heirarchy"
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  126. That...might actually be dumber than Trump. Achievement unlocked?
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  127.  @onomatopoeia162003  She's a straight-up nazi, so yes.
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  128. I mean, I think they're used to seeing animals a lot bigger than them. I'd imagine the mood is more "what the fuck is all this? I don't understand anything I'm looking at. Am I tripping? Where's the water? Where's the sand? Why is this thing moving? It it actually the current and I'm just so far gone I can't recognize water?" Seriously, they're just really big bugs who've ever known oceans and beach, then were caugh, put on one thing they didn't understand (a boat), in another thing they didn't understand made of an unknown material (a luggage bag), were tossed around a bit in total darkness before they went to altitude (which I have no idea how it might affect them), then were tossed around a bit more, then ended up in an airport luggage claim are that is just a completely alien environment in every conceivable way. Some fear? Probably, but the overriding emotion I think would be total confusion (with fear and "yay, I'n free" coming in tied for second)
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  129. Yup, the real enemy is always the one who puts a gun to your back and tells you to march into hell for their ambitions. "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on." -Joseph Heller, Catch-22 To end a conflict, remove the cause. The cause of this war could be removed with a single bullet. It's not often things can be solved so simply.
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  130.  @aminromero8599  https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs Rules for Rulers. I got you.
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  131. Mass eye-plucking is the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.
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  132. Everyone who things that is actually far-right and doesn't belong in the party.
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  133. Drowned in a bottomless pool of hypocrisy. Where else?
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  134. As a white person, I approve of this. They don't care about my approval, I'm sure (as well they shouldn't) but other white people need to hear it.
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  135.  @Puleczech  left-leaning voices have been being silenced for decades but sure it "started" with crackdowns on the right for flagrant violations of TOS....oh please.
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  136. Anything that involves the distribution of power is political. It is naive to expect any other reaction.
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  137. They see Israel as a sacrificial alter.
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  138.  @9876karthi  it is, but it still may not be good enough. The boomers voting for Biden in the primary may just have lit the futures of the younger generations (which they already spend decades destroying) on fire.
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  139.  @paxundpeace9970  the hunting that happens where you probably live is likely the least ecologically damaging to the environment source of animal protein you can find, including milk and eggs. Sure, human hunting has been done non-sustainably in the past and is done that way in some parts of the world (mostly by people desperate to put food on their tables), but that's not really relevant to most modern hunting in the developed world where not only is it sustainable, but stopping without reintroducing predators would be ecologically catastrophic.
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  140. Obama: "Old men running the world is a problem, now let me, an old man that ran against a woman in his primary, tell everyone to listen to me instead of the overwhelming voice of younger generations."
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  141. "Arians are the master race but those jews best us every time."
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  142. The right vs left divide traces its roots back to royalists vs those that opposed them. Taken out of that specific context, it's best understood as drawing a distinction between entrenched power and populism. Any time you fall on the populist side of that divide, you're supporting a left-wing position. For example, libertarians are by in large left wing on social issues while right wing on economic issues (mostly due to what IMO is a misunderstanding of economics, though I'm sure they'd say the same about me). Sure, it's neither a binary, nor does is encompass all range of political thought (as politicians like to twist it to mean, among other things), but as this is about entrenched power vs populism, the use is valid. Ideally, it wouldn't be partisan because we'd have multiple left-wing political parties debating issues on other axes because serving the people was just assumed, but the reality is we do have strong opposition to both the will and interests of the general population in both major US political parties and until we get an election system that weeds both the corrupt and power-hungry out and we get voters who largely stop voting against their interests the right vs left spectrum will continue to be relevant in discussion. The best we can hope for is to try and re-establish the real definitions of political terms that politicians have twisted into meaningless buzzwords to throw around and be very judicious about how we use them.
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  143. Let's be real, for a not insignificant number of people, "count every legal vote" means "count every white vote" We cannot afford any delusions about what we're dealing with.
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  144.  @beamyshark  "I won't argue with you anymore because I know I can't defend fascist-leaning totalitarian state capitalism to someone who can see past the red color"
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  145. Corporate left wing? That's not a thing. Corporatism is right wing by definition.
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  146.  @iamalongusername  if by "some" you mean "basically the entire establishment" you're right, because real progressives will end the corruption they all get rich on and end their political careers.
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  147. Technically aren't all lumberjacks professional falling tree avoiders?
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  148. People can't be left alone because right wingers need to fuck with people to maintain their hierarchy, because their self-worth is intimately tied to how many people they can imagine (or better yet force) below themselves. That is the fundamental core of all forms of oppression and bigotry, and why solidarity of all people under the acknowledgement that it can happen to any of us for any arbitrary distinction that can be made is the answer. As long as right wing politics exist, so will this kind of BS.
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  149. Every Single One
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  150. I'd also point out that sugar, fat, and salt are cheap nowadays and that it's real nutrition that's expensive. I can get a wide variety of chips, soda, and candy at the dollar store and in decent-sized quantities, but not a bit of fresh produce and even the canned goods section is severely lacking.
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  151.  @jrconcerned6064  the fact that the generation that saw the huge shift to the right of this country can't see that it even happened is stunning.
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  152. Ethnonationalists don't get to accuse others of playing identity politics.
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  153. I'm fairly sure if you have the right technique and design of whip it should be possible. There's no reason why the tip shouldn't be able to be made small enough to crack especially with the slower initial motion and double-handed grip allowing a human to put more energy into the chain to be concentrated as the wave travels down the length. It may take making some really strong custom chain links and you might need to make the ones designed to break the sound barrier out of titanium or something but it should be possible. No way in hell I want to be anywhere near it when it's tested unless I'm behind something bullet proof, though.
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  154. The idea of the kneeling protest was invented by a veteran as a way to respectfully protest because kneeling has been seen as a higher display of respect than standing throughout history.
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  155. So many idiots calling everything they don't like "Marxist" these days. It's almost like they've either never read Marx or are counting on none of their audience to be informed enough to notice the BS.
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  156. Just the first sentence: "Things need to be particularalized, rather than generalized, as a general rule" said without irony or any indication of awareness, and his audience/cultists eat it up. He's a charlatan quack who (to use his framework) has a messiah complex.
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  157. With Fae tales, that's almost always a possibility, even if said child hasn't even been conceived yet.
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  158. Tankies have been called red-fash for a LONG time and for good reason. Right vs left is about hierarchy and concentration of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. Tankies are "left" in the same way that North Korea is a "Democratic Republic": in name only. 'Authoritarian left" is just as much of a non-existent oxymoron as anarcho-monarchism or "libertarian right" PS, if you're not familiar with the term, look up "state capitalism" because the USSR and China have never been "moneyless, classless, stateless societies"
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  159. I had that happen just once. Thankfully, I knew about how that nerve can be pinched and will return once the pressure is removed for long enough so I was able to push down the panic until I could start to move my arm again. If I hadn't known what the fuck was happening, though, I would have been a total wreck.
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  160. These talking heads: "no, YOUR world is literally ending. This isn't going to affect me much at all, so stop bothering me about it. How dare you rudely inconvenience me with your desire for a livable planet!?"
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  161. Seriously, the way he talks about his former patients is consistently horrifying and has been for a very long time!
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  162. Mixed figure, but when he was right, he was right!
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  163. *a misunderstanding of wolves created in error by a scientist that then spend decades trying to discredit his own work after he noticed the deep flaws in it that came from only looking at wolves in captivity. Imagine if all of popular understanding of psychology was based on extrapolations from one flawed study of prison gangs. It makes even less sense than that because at least those would be humans.
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  164.  @minerva9104  or are the Byzantine Emperor and doing something very right.
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  165. Error: Abort Abort
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  166. Now now, he didn't imagine the god he worships. He needed someone else to do that for him.
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  167. Israel and Hamas are not equivalent. Israel is worse.
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  168. The sad reality is that we train our cops to be somehow MORE trigger-happy than soldiers. It's disgusting that vets comming back from a war zone where collateral damage is just a fact of life show more restraint than our fucking cops when doing the same job. "Protect and serve" my ass.
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  169. Complex language requires being able to encode information into a sensory medium with a high "bandwidth" and keeping that information in a specific order. Due to the way smells work, this makes a poor medium for this. Despite what hive insects like bees are able to achieve with it, they're limited to a specific set of information they can communicate. They do, however, make decent mediums for information sets that change on evolutionary timescales, such as emotions. Visual might seem like a good way to go, but it tends to be expensive (bio-luminescence or lots of movement) and often ties up important body parts when it's even capable of being fast enough. It will most likely be a 2ndary channel for information, much like how we use body language, but it's limitations get in the way of evolving as a primary medium for complex language. (though, unlike smell, it is possible, as we can see with sign language) Really, auditory, especially vocal, is the way to go, and convergent evolution will drive species towards it. That said, auditory ranges being incompatible could be a trial to overcome, though not insurmountable with some very basic technology. The big questions are: How does one attempt to teach one's own language to an alien? (they'll likely be trying to do the same with us anyway) How does one comprehend an alien mind? Think about taking a magic universal translator and sticking a hunter from the stone age, smith from 700AD England, noble from 1700AD France, farmer from 2000AD Congo, tax collector from 1300AD China, warrior from 1000BC Greece, fisher from 900AD Mexico slave from 100BC Rome, priest from 2000BC Egypt, monk from 1500AD Japan, and yourself in a room and try to have everyone just get along. Now realize that this is just the tutorial level because you're all the same species (using the same brains), from the same planet, all from within a few thousand years of each other, and most of you have some knowledge of at least 1 or 2 of the others. Now remove those advantages, have several billion voices clamoring behind them, arm everyone, and try to negotiate and cooperate without killing each other.
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  170. GeneralGoth yeah, that magic & healing combo is nearly universal for tribal cultures that accept non-binary people. It's kinda interesting how consistent it is.
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  171. ​ @thatguythere6161 not as many customers as he would loose with the end of the rule of law in America, tbf
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  172.  @passytchxn7645  Most Americans agree with Bernie's platform policy for policy, there is ample evidence of election-rigging, Bernie is a moderate, and you have no clue what you're talking about.
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  173. That's what happens when you're on the right side of things for decades. Why doesn't she have a catalogue of clips like that, since she's "been doing thisnfor 30 years"? Sorry, rhetorical question.
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  174. CIA: hey, if we just arm crazy people who hate us, we don't need to do false flag ops, because we can just wait for the inevitable consequences of our actions.
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  175. The same way we justify seperating children from their families at the border: rank bigotry.
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  176. Of course Ben wants to avoid addressing the real problems at all costs. He's one of them!
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  177. ​ @kyle1235 you mean when Clinton had brought Reagan's neoliberalism into the party and abandoned unions and such? Yeah, we still haven't gotten back to where the party was before that.
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  178. Except they're not making a mistake. This is a calculated move to feed into the establishment "Democrats" electability narrative. Even Trump is smart enough to be afraid of Bernie. You really think all these people genuinely don't know the results of every relevant poll or how well he did at the Faux News town hall?
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  179. The overwhelming majority of who conservatives call leftists are STILL far to the right of Carlin.
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  180. They should. And failing that, the military should. Everyone with the real power is being complicit.
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  181. I appriciate the open-mindedness. If I may take a moment to try and convince you a bit more solidly; his "Universal" Basic Income is paid for (not even completely) with a regressive VAT tax, which will fall mostly on the poor, and, since you have to choose between the "UBI" and other assistance programs...well that leaves the poorest completely fucked, the rich $12k/year richer, and those in the middle exactly where they were. (And we haven't even talked about what it would do to housing prices) More: https://the2020progressive.com/andrew-yang-ubi-not-answer-for-progressives/ We will likely need some form of UBI in the future (especially if we're not going real, post-capitalism socialiam), but not Yang's, and using a jobs guarentee to do all the work needed to fight climate change and rebuild our infrastructure (which Bernie's plan does) will set back the deadline for the automation issue a good decade at least (and we need housing as a human right before a UBI anyway) so step 1 appears to need to be Bernie's platform.
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  182. Relevant quote: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." -A.R. Moxon
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  183.  @Erakius323  anarchism is a far left ideology. Nazis were about as socialist as North Korea is a democratic republic. The propaganda you're spouting is about a century old and has been debunked endlessly. Think of something new already.
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  184. "Just following orders"
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  185. It's impressive how small an amount of any substance can be lethal mixed with an adequate amount of kenetic energy.
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  186. It's also worth mentioning the (albiet rare) sleeper cell mind control where the character is mind controlled before they enter the story (or even before it starts) and the mind control is removed later.
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  187.  @garywheeler7039  hell, given a particularly volatile air-to-fuel ratio at a given point, I wouldn't be surprised if a spark caused by dropping a steel tool the wrong way could set it off. There are tools out there that specifically avoid using steel in their to prevent the risk of those sparks you get when tiny fragments of metal break off and oxidize in the air.
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  188.  @krypanzer3620  the USSR was part of the Allied Powers before the US (officially) was.
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  189.  @barbrasosi  global warming is as inseperable from ageism against the younger generations as the policy of appeasement was inseperable from Europe's antisemitism. Ageism against the young is the main concern here or have we forgotten all those headlines blaming millennials for everything. Replace any other demographic (like say black or gay people) and see how that sounds into those headlines to see how normalized and extreme the ageism against the young is.
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  190. Not someone on the left.
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  191. Even within the clip shown, one politician maybe mouthed "stupid woman" about a politician he has strong political disagreements with. Then, another politician stood up to hijack the metoo movement to make a show of complaining about it, minimizing sexual assault and rape (likely to score political points). Tell me which was worse again, please.
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  192. 2 things to mention: 1-chemical: bleach is concentrated chlorine and chlorine hyopcloride (the same stuff thay is put in your water as a disinfectant) This is to say nothing of the mouthfuls of heavily chlorinated pool water most of us choked on as children in the process of learning to swim. Any possible health risks of that are pretty insignificant at most. 2-psychological: most grocery stores in the US seem to try and present food that's rather, for lack of a better term, sterile in appearance. Even slightly misshapen produce and dirt are often removed from produce to give as clean a presentation as possible and put under mist sprayers that give an appearance of them being rinced. There's more going on of course, like the rampant anti-intellectualism and denigration of science classes that would help people stop and think about the aformentioned example of putting unbagged produce on a belt like that, but I think there's a component of how perfect and clean companies try to make our produce look. Also, anecdotally speaking, the concern with rinsing in the US seems to be mostly about pesticides, which is probably a whole other angle of shaping behavior that could be analyzed.
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  193.  @Bird_Dog00  I think it would have to be both or neither to preserve symmetry
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  194. ​ @wakemiamigreatagain most Palestinians weren't even born when there was last an election
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  195. Humanist Report and Rational National suppliment nicely.
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  196. Ben's closet is about as transparent as that flute.
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  197. I no longer have the source, but I remember reading that the late Roman cataphracts used their long-hafted maces to strike spear shafts, further opening up a path for the wedge to basically just trot unstoppingly over any infantry unit in front of it. (And of course we can infer that even if you survived a mace-blow to the head due to your helmet, if you were knocked over or significantly stunned, it meant almost death by trampling) On top of that, the empire was already incorporating archers into their infantry formations to great effect: warbows at close range shooting at distracted infantry who needed to worry about not opening their guard to the infantry in front of them protecting said archers (to say nothing about the potential of targeting anyone who spoke up to give orders) We can assume the mixed archers in the cataphract units served a similar purpose while also providing some way to retaliate against ranged attackers. Knights may have been shock troops, but cataphracts are a juggernaut you can send right through enemy lines toward the enemy's commanders. I'll take the one not hard countered by a disciplined pike block any day.
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  198. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  199. That moment when the Pope schools you on a matter of science.
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  200. THIS. When I was a kid, I was thinking "OW that really hurt!" but now I think "well that was dumb. Now I'll hardly be able to taste my tea. That's disappointing."
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  201. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  202. He knows his people are a bunch of manchildren in need of a surrogate father figure to cover up their daddy issues...you know, because that's what he is.
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  203. Because she's a white nationalist....because Ms. "Jewish Space Lasers" is a Nazi.
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  204. The correct term for that is "selective populism" You'll find it in Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism"
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  205. Btw, traditional mores around relationship between the sexes treated women as basically property and fuck that BS. Damn right we destroyed it!
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  206. Yes, they've been trying to equate Bernie with Trump's and the rest of the far-right's fake populism for a while now. They also put both Bernie and Hillary on the same economic axis of 95% government control, just 5% away from a 100% command economy (which not only equates the economic policies of both of them, but would put them in the same economic category on their ridiculous chart as fucking Stalin, who would be in the populist camp) It would also put Hillary as basically the equally flawed opposite to Hitler from the libertarian perspective (which, even though I hate Hillary, is absurd)
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  207. Didn't just ignore it. Dismantled it!
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  208. Alternatively: toxic masculinity is what an asshole teen boy thinks being a man is, and many never grew out of even well after their hair started going grey.
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  209. Angelo Igonia efficiency is intelligent laziness
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  210. "Elizabeth obliged her and sat her in a totally separate room...by herself" I laughed so hard, especially with the visual at 3:47 to go with it!
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  211. They learned that they managed to keep a progressive out of the White House if they push their BS hard enough with a side of election fraud. Or did you mean winning the Presidency? Because that is a distant 2ndary objective to them.
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  212. It's exactly like that because neither of them actually want the bad behavior to stop.
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  213. Pacific Rim (cont): "by working together."
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  214.  @johnwhite2925  got that one backwards bucko.
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  215.  @CinnamonComplex  been in use for a couple decades, and not that complicated, but it is a highly academic term and refers to the exact opposite of his dumbass politics because he gives not a single fuck about how racial oppression intersects with discrimination based on class or (as displayed in this clip) gender. Meanwhile, oligharch is a pretty commonly understood term in the general sense.
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  216. Thanks for not loosing the spirit. We'll do our best, but we need every avalible hand.
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  217. True (also, the FBI should be investigating her anyway for obvious evidence of criminal misconduct)
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  218. The right ALWAYS projects.
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  219. I'm suspicious of anyone ever trying to sell me gold. If it's such a great investment, they should be wanting to buy up as much of it as possible for as low a price as possible without my added demand driving up the price. Doesn't take much thinking for red flags to pop up everywhere.
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  220. It's not legal. It's being done anyways.
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  221.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  also the entire premise of X-Men
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  222. Americans need to realize that billionaires running everything is the enemy of a democratic society.
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  223. See, you had a conservative-lead government. We had a reactionary/fascist-lead government. There is a difference.
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  224. It wouldn't matter. Maher's a corporate shill and a unabashed tool for the DNC. Don't waist your time on him.
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  225. Not to mention helping to level the playing field slightly between big and small businesses, which is an immeasurable boon to the economy.
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  226. That's about what I expect from that cult, yeah.
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  227. There's a reason a "boar spear" has a crossbar behind the point and it's not to hook anything. It's to stop it from running up the shaft and killing you after you stabbed it. Boars are absolutely nuts (also, if it had any momentum, you'd want to foot the bottom into the ground like bracing a pike for a cavalry charge)
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  228. I mean, Rome did have Sicily, so a failed Sicilian assassination is not at all out of the realm of possibility.
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  229.  @theharmelodynetwork  even if we accept that as flat true AND ignore the fact that real wages have declined, why tf should the workers' extra productivity provided by force multiplication of more modern tools (developed by other workers) go basically exclusively to rich people who's only claim to that wealth is that they already own more wealth than the people working for them? And how does that counter my point AND are the CEOs and stockholers sitting on their asses working any harder than they used to to justify getting a bigger piece of the pie? I'd be fucking mortified if I made an argument that stupid.
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  230. Yeah well...we have the most powerful military and a whole bunch of nukes. We need to fix these problems pronto before we get full-out fascism taking over and dropping the pretenses.
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  231. They didn't "become". It's who they've always been.
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  232.  @tinahorn3671  cheap wine??? No, we'll celebrate dragging them out of their bunkers to face justice with their wine.
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  233. Don't forget Israel and Saudi Arabia in that list
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  234. Pretty sure the courts have ruled that they have no obligation to do so, and that's not at all what their training it about (unless we're talking about serving and protecting themselves)
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  235.  @Naoise012  I hear you. Another way to put the distinction I draw is between a short little thing that can be read as something someone into kink might use for fantasy material (for solo or non-solo play), which can include straight-up deliberate and explicit non-con stuff and things which are intended to be more than just fuel for fantasy and seek represent something someone might use to think about a relationship with. Kink can transmute all kinds of toxic stuff into a non-harmful form through fantasy (especially in the bedroom), but it's once you're portraying something that someone might mistake as a desirable relationship that you need to be a lot more careful. Tdl;dr, if you're just writing masturbation material for an erotica site, you've got a lot more room to focus on just "is it hot?" before it starts becoming a problem than if you're writing something that could be put into even an 18+ only romance section. That said, as with other art, knowing the "rules" before you try to break them is going to consistently better results, so there's never an excuse to not do research on what you're trying to portray, even if you're not going for realism.
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  236. More accutately: Western Rome: fallen Western Europe: "free real estate" Eastern Rome: "um, that's still ours" Western Europe: "over our dead bodies" Justinian: "that can be arranged" Black death: "you sure about that?" Eastern Rome: "hacks!"
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  237. Theoretically, if you have the drone's location, altitude, and the angle of the camera, that should be sufficent on reasonably level ground to give you the location of anything you can see using a little trigonometry to whatever precision you can determine those data points. If you can tell the distance between the drone and the target too, you get even more precise and elevation stops being a problem. Precise enough data the drone and you wouldn't even need the size reference or fly over (though yes, in this case with such a clear landmark so close by cross referencing the video with google maps or something would also work just fine)
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  238.  @coilledragon279  your obviously deliberate misreading of what I said just made you look stupid and dishonest. Congrats on publically embarrassing yourself.
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  239. "So, I need you to design a high throughflow pump." "Sure no biggie" "I wasn't finished." "Ok continue" "It needs to operate with cryogenic and highly reactive volitile fluids," "Um..." "A tiny distance away from temperatures that may be higher than the melting point of any know material" "But-" "At ambient pressures ranging from sea level to a total vacuum" "Doable I gue-" "Oh, and it needs a reliable remote start and to not be maintenance while being as light and cheap as possible cause we're kinda sorta gonna treat it as disposable and we're on severe weight restrictions." "Mfer! ANYTHING ELSE?" "Oh yeah, it needs to operate under the backpressue of the weight of an entire building and if it fails, it will cost money and lives, because we don't exactly have a backup plan if there's a mechanical failur*choking sounds as is being strangled*" And that's just the engine pump!
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  240. As much as it makes me cringe to type....the revolution will be tweeted and livestreamed.
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  241. Most of the people they paint as far left are far to Carlin's right
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  242. The UK has not just a single-payer system but actually nationalized healthcare which scores very high dispite the Tories trying to undercut and underfund it. Bernie wants to leave 2/3rds of the industry private and suddenly he's "radical."
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  243.  @Nanook128  the thirst for clear understanding. ....admittedly the line between the types of thirsts blurs a lot https://youtu.be/l5S1fftQe28
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  244. "Death merchants" also works.
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  245.  @LDIndustries  it's not really a thing in wolves either, at least, not in the wild. The study on wolves they're all referencing was retracted with prejudice by its author because of how basing it entirely on wolves in captivity skewed the results. They're trying to emulate frightened caged animals like it makes them tough (probably as a coping mechanism for feeling frightened and trapped in a world they don't/won't understand).
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  246.  @doeeyes2  because they don't care at all if what they say is true. It's politically useful for them to blame weed, so they blame weed. It is that simple.
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  247. The point of no return seems to have been when Bernie followed through on his promise to support the nominee in 2016. Whatever grip he had on reality slipped right then and he's been wandering ever further from the plot ever since. Idk if its a grift or insanity or if there's even a distinction between the 2 anymore, but he is ever increasingly a liability to the progressive movement at this point.
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  248. It's almost like she's just saying whatever is convenient to support entrenched power like any other right winger.
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  249. yr4hcaZ pleasepleaseplease
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  250.  @RemixedVoice  the most toxic community I played in was WarThunder, but I think that was largely due to the kind of audience it drew in due to subject matter (let's just say we all know a certain type of person who would really want to play German vehicles). Before I left for gameplay reasons years ago, I will say they had a decent reporting system, so due credit there.
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  251. Those are called fresnel lenses by the way in case you want to know the search term to look up more of that content by and they are really damn cool. That was only a fraction of what I've seen them do. 😉
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  252. She gets better every time I see her speak. If she keeps this up she'll be amazing at 35.
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  253. They are of this world. Unfortunately they are also the Old Ones waiting to take back what was once theirs.
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  254. Counterpoint: everything could have been fine if it weren't for rich assholes disregarding the realities of the conditions of the poor as they almost always do.
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  255. That moment when you realize arguably the best Greek philosopher was basically a homeless guy living in a box.
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  256.  @markzeflame5985  not significantly harder than making friends as an adult and mostly hard for the exact same reasons, which have nothing to do with feminism.
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  257.  @bingwen469  whether we're talking about Upton Sinclair's list that was already listed or Umberto Echos characteristics of Ur-fascism or the (perhaps overly) succinct definition of "palingenetic ultranationalism" Trump is absolutely a fascist. We cannot afford denial of reality on this point. We just saw a failed fascist coup, and make no mistake, fascists normally fail the first time they make a hard grab for power and there will be another try after they regroup and reorganize. We will be fighting this for years
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  258. People need a certain daily intake of wierd for proper mental health. This is good
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  259. Fascists do not give a single, solitary fuck if what they are saying is true.
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  260.  @alisonhamilton994  tripods don't care about the mechanics of what's sitting on them, only the forces applied. (Which if we're not talking about guns, just involves the weight of the object resting on them and any incidental lateral forces from wind, being bumped, being on a slight slope, etc) We're not talking about anything sophisticated like steady cams. We're just talking about 3 legs stuck together so that it can make a base that's stable even on an uneven surface. You can make them out of wood and the first cameras had them made of that. It's cameras that DON'T need to be mounted on tripods and can still produce decent quality when held or mounted on something moving that are the fancy, higher-tech things. A tripod is just a portable stool for the camera.
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  261.  @Tetra392  the sea peoples need citrus badly accidentally destroy literacy and create myths about golden apples of discord due to story drift? ...that seems entirely too plausible.
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  262.  @pinkfloyddwc  I live less than half a block from a bus stop in a neighborhood as gridded as the topography makes practical and much prefer that to more modern designed areas around my city, thank you very much. The area is extremely walkable, with its grid, sidewalks, and everything you need withing walking distance and still manages to keep much of the neighborhood fairly low traffic by simply using 1-way streets to encourage use of the main roads and save space and pavement. Public transit is great and we need more, not less of it.
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  263.  @kieramcadams4103  out of context numbers aside, I'm just talking about risk of ingredients relative to each other and how easy it is to mitigate it (and pre-baking your flour is really easy, cheap, and doesn't significantly affect the final product, so I recommend it). Keep in mind that the amount you eat affects your risk. I'd likely still lick batter off a mixing tool because that is fairly low risk, but if I was to make a habbit of making batches of cookie dough to eat raw, it'd be worth it to me to take a couple extra steps toward risk mitigation.
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  264. Respectfully, people need to stop saying things aren't politics. The choice between democratic government and fascist dictatorship, is political. As is the choice to listen to a reality TV hoast over scientists, the choice of how we structure our medical system to center profit over people, the choice of what to do with our military and police, the choice of how much assistance to give to people in the pandemic, the choice to protect marginalized people from discrimination that may lead to their death by suicide or some other cause, etc. Politics is about power and choosing what to do with large amounts of it is normally a life and death decision for enough people that we use statistics to talk about the relative harm done. Treating politcs like a game with low stakes that all oppinions are valid in is a large part of how we got here.
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  265.  @wayneshilcock3027  Musk alone pretty openly engaged in market manipulation for this currency in question, so you're obviously wrong.
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  266. Mainely  let's call a spade a spade. He's a wannabe brownshirt who targeted this man to try and intimidate the left. He's a nazi terrorist who attempted murder and he should be behind bars way longer than the 1-5 years he got
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  267. They also have really high rates of being victims of sexual assault and rape, which this change will exacerbate.
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  268. Projection is all they have.
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  269. Far from the first time.
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  270. Conservatism was created to oppose democracy in the first place so...
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  271.  @우찬호  actually, the Iranian government was more secular, humanistic, and social democratic before we installed a puppet government friendly to US business interests. The theocratic people in the country siezed more power than they had before durring the overthrow of said puppet government, leading to the Iranian government we see today. The US made Iran worse, not better.
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  272.    because lead is an amazingly useful metal that can be put to such a wide range of applications due to its range of beneficial chemical and material properties. If not for the fact that its poisonous (to the point, as we have learned in modern times, that there is no "safe" level of lead exposure) we would still be using it everywhere. Many of the applications we put it to have only found suitable replacements in the chemistry and metallurgy of the last century and still they're often not quite as good as lead (if you ignore the poisoning issue, of course, which we should not) The fact that they didn't fully understand the harm of widespread low levels of lead exposure is the other half of the answer to that question (but even after we did in the 20th century we still had to fight to get people to stop using it because it was just so damn useful). Also for perspective, we knew about the harm CO2 was doing about 5 decades ago and we're still burning it for many of the same reasons.
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  273. He already has. It's called "the hill"
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  274. You really pissed off the racists with that simple observation. 😂
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  275.  @mfield942  the eldest ones are very powerful, but also very rare. Most of them, though, yes, medium to low power with the youngest barely more capible than humans and with an average vampire v werewolf fight being almost guarenteed to go to the werewolf. What I understand of what happened when the founder of clan Ravnos awoke is...intense, requiring mages to get involved and resulting in collateral damage reaching beyond the physical world before it was put down, though this is, of course, an outlier to the more general power ranking.
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  276.  @michaelarmijo4112  ah yes, "progressives" who like Steven Crowder and Tim Pool. Drop the BS chud. We know what you are.
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  277. It's not the Earth. It's the rich fucks willing to exterminate humanity if it means they can die on a pile of gold. They must be stopped by ANY means necessary.
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  278. When the center-right is too far left to even talk to, you're an extremist, Bennie Boy, and not a conservative, but a reactionary. You also have ethnonationalism down and are willing to use violence to achieve it. He's just 1-2 position changes away from being a full-out fascist and can't even see how spewing his bile publicly might not be the best thing for Jews in America.
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  279. Even supposing that all his videos get re-monitized after some period (which as Samuel points out, hasn't always happened), it's still a terrible system, since most of a video's views happen within roughly a week if I understand, and if you're demonetized during that week, it means you basically make no money on it.
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  280. Along with everyone else who did the same and everyone who knew and covered for them. Enough with criminals in uniform.
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  281.  @Metalworks41190  so were the SS
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  282.  @AngelaMay66  just raw indifference and incompetence leading them to not confirm who they were bombing before they started blowing shit up. They're giving their pilots bombing targets scribbled by hand on pieces of paper and both sides are often using similar (or the same) equipment. They're just shooting at what they're guessing might be Ukrainian soldiers without information of where their own are and are hoping they're right more often than not. Like the guy said, it's a clownshow, not a military operation. They're basically pulling a Leeroy Jenkins on the scale of an entire war. We're literally watching one of the greatest displays of military incompetence in history and they've so overcommitted that they probably don't even have the capability to properly reorganize and get their shit together.
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  283.  @zedex1226  that would be why they're looking into leather scales instead of (chain)mail...though if we're being technical, it may end up being more like lamellar if they're looking for breathability unless they want to look into a breathable backing to connect it to (which could work). The main design issue I see is the dirrectionality of the scales vs the unpredictability of a crash. Even if that doesn't work, it might make for some awesome street wear (that would be both breathable and heavily rain resistant...a hooded trenchcoat/greatcloak of leather scales sounds awesome if the weight can be kept low enough)
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  284. Yeah, 1-2% is not a newsworthy bump. I wish it was a bump that was newsworthy, but this is meaningless.
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  285.  @zerefdragneel2289  tackling climate change and rebuilding our infrastructure will take care of your concern about a jobs guarentee for at least a decade. There is a lot of work that needs doing because we need to mobilize in a way we haven't done since WW2. Luckily it won't need a draft or sending people off to kill and die and all the work will go into useful things instead of bombs and tanks. Once that problem is dealt with, we can decide how we want to tackle the automation problem.
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  286. He knows what his job is: keep people like AOC and Crockett away from the levers of power.
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  287. Not just conservative, fascist It was a fascist one. It wasn't even subtle with how close they came to drawing parallels to the Nazis.
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  288.  @jth4242  you're almost getting it: no country is allowed to do jen o cide in the name of self-defense.
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  289. Wow the Nazis are out in force in the comment section today and fast. Get your tall boots on before scrolling down because the shit is deep and toxic
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  290. Even just not having time to read most of the bills is more than enough reason to get private money out.
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  291. Just the Israeli-Palistinian conflict comes from Britain promising the same land to 2 different groups of people. Iraq is 3 groups of people that hate each other....the list is nearly endless.
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  292. After learning about what early Egyptian archeology was like (including grinding up mummies) my reaction was "yeah, that sounds about right..."
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  293.  @paulanderson6834  lies and slander.
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  294. ​ @purplenights1 "nothing I can do about it" Objectively false. You could also learn what's in the vaccines but that would require using your brain for a change.
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  295. He explicitly said "too many exits" more than once. Let's stop pretending he's not saying stupid shit.
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  296. By making them afraid again.
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  297. Just facts
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  298. It's not that he doesn't know. He simply does not care if anything he's saying is true or not.
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  299.  charmander  you actually buy into the myth of supply side economics? No, demand creates jobs. Increasing income inequality stagnates an economy.
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  300. It's almost like their outrage has nothing to do with what happened and everything to do with who they can get away with blaming. Too much of the blame is on their hands and suddenly it's "wrong" to even talk about it.
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  301. Because the ministry of truth told us they were the ministry of peace.
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  302. Because then the Republicans have to fight each other for seats instead of having 2 chances at defeating progressives.
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  303. @John-Paul Hunt Trump is a steriotypical cult leader though and qanon and elements of the Maga movement can absolutely be correctly characterized as cults.
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  304.  @Code_Dee  you can get a facsimile of it back with weights. The specific structures and extra nerves are gone for good.
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  305. Not only did they purge voters from the rolls, but they did so illegally and pled guilty to it. The New York primary was completely illegitimate and the fact that the results were kept dispite the law being broken to get them should enrage every American.
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  306. Because when a veteran suggests kneeling as a form of protest because it's been seen throughout history as more respectful than even standing, suddenly it becomes disrespectful to our troups...somehow?
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  307. ​ @Kira1Lawliet we're seeing (in a great many ways) why it's important that EVERYONE get people in Congress to represent them so that no-one's problems get ignored. And yes, that ABSOLUTELY means having youth representation in Congress. How do you not understand this?
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  308. You could tell that took a lot of courage for him and should absolutely have been applauded. Shame on that entire room.
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  309. Please talk to people your age because most of them don't want to listen to listen to anyone under 40 about anything, writing us all off as "stupid kids"
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  310. Correction: they're armed children acting like they're in a zoo. Subtle but important distinction.
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  311. Reminds me of when an account/group that was documenting abuse and illegal activity by police was shut down to try and appear "neutral" when also taking down some fascist hate groups. The compulsion to appear neutral when it comes to fascists is really telling of any person or organization.
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  312. I mean, you used to be able to set some rivers in the US on fire due to the polution so that's not an unreasonable guess.
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  313. I notice that nearly every time right-wingers make an insult that doesn't amount to "you dirty commie" they're projecting. That's what I notice.
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  314.  @asherif3893  mRNA vaccines are a wonder drug that have been in development for decades and have the potential to revolutionize healthcare, providing cheaper and faster vaccine development for more diseases and have even entered human trials for use as a cure for cancers. Also, the race angle is BS in this case and you know it. The first ones to get it after the volunteer-based trials were rich old white guys, so it's not relevant to this case and bringing it up in that way is only going to get more black people with a mistrust of doctors killed.
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  315. At the end of the day, they are the final enforcement mechanism. They swore an oath and it covered threats foreign AND domestic. The big question is if they will keep it.
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  316. Yup, we have another accomplice to the crime now.
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  317.  @TurdFerguson.  there are permanent sides. The right wants to build heirarchy and consolidate power into "the right hands" and the left wants the opposite: democracy, egalitarianism, etc This is why right wing populism is always a con.
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  318. Really??? No offense, but this is entirely unsurprising to me.
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  319. He's already gone full conservative. The only difference would be if he admits it or goes further right than that.
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  320. So did the whole pantheon it seems
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  321. They're not forgetting, they're gaslighting to pull some reverse psychology on people who are barely involved with politics beyond turning on corporate news in the background and turning out to vote blue every election so they can pat themselves on the back.
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  322. Better question: why not?
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  323. I'm just going to assume that was rhetorical.
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  324.  @pinkfloyddwc  such a cutting and thorough rebuttal. /s stay in school kid, and pay attention in class. You might learn something.
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  325. So, the note left is explcitly homophobic, but it has nothing to do with being gay? Also, even that excuse is BS. If the name was redacted, who TF cares?
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  326. She's not jaded. She's always been like this. Don't forget she was a Goldwater Republican talking about "super predators" back in the day.
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  327. Why? Because he's competition for shows like "Deadliest Warrior". Experimental archeology like this has been on TV for YEARS and no-one had a problem with it. This whole Adpocalypse started with advertisers wanting to get control of the political narrative back in their hands by the influence their ad dollars have over news media and old news media in a downward spiral as they lost all semblance of credibility and people migrated elsewhere to get their news. The media companies are huge conglomerates that do more than news, however, and quickly realized that their other content was loosing viewers to the internet and further pressured youtube to clear out competing content so they could move in and get more eyes on their content and more ad dollars in their pockets. This is just the next step. Expect to see more.
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  328.  @sineadmurtagh943  no, it's not. Legally speaking, the right to seek asylum is protected, and our constitutional rights are generally not limited to citizens but are structured as restrictions on what our government can do, flat out. We're just ignoring our own laws.
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  329. It's like a white guy in the 1980s getting offended by someone saying "ok white boy" Seriously, shut up.
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  330. Obama: "Old men running the world is a problem, now let me, an old man that ran against a woman in his primary, tell everyone to listen to me instead of the overwhelming voice of younger generations."
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  331.  @TheDJMysterE  especially the screwups
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  332.  @seanmatthewking  they don't want to eliminate political conflict. One of the characteristics of Ur-fascism is that life is lived for struggle. They just always want to be on the top of it. Even if they magically got a society of straight, white, conservative/fascist, Christian cismen, they'd just divide along different lines and it'd keep going as long as there are people to divide against each other.
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  333. Notice, also, how right at the beginning how he conflated "job" with a source of "income" so he could count managing investments as a "job' to bring in extra money. By his standards having 1 cushy job, doing some consulting work on the side, and managing his own stock portfolio would count as 3 "jobs" Fun how the right plays with language, isn't it?
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  334. See, rich people can afford to stay on the upwind side of the major sources of pollution, have homes and offices with walls that don't leak, high-end air filtration, and garages that allow them to never actually breath a significant amount of unfiltered city air. This isn't even new. Take a look at one of the cities with the worst history of air polution in the US: Pittsburgh. There are neighborhoods founded to be both upwind and on the other side of the hills from the steel mills. To this day, those areas are, on average, nicer than the comperably distant neighborhoods downwind of (and in the same valley of) the majority of the steel mills. That money they are addicted to buys them insulation from the worst effects of their actions. For further understanding, look up the "prisoner's dilemma" (Wikipedia will do fine) and ponder that for about 5 seconds.
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  335. Yuwan and yet somehow less dumb than the standard version's "dumps out all the evils, so those are in the world, but hope doesn't come out so we have that too"... The myth is a huge mess
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  336. @Hein Spijker yes they are. Far right.
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  337.  @TheOtario007  boomers took advantage of all the social programs set up by their parents, and rather than paying forward their debt, dismantled them for lower taxes with the mindset of "I got mine" resulting in their own children being the first generation in modern US history to enter the adult world with worse prospects of their parents. Meanwhile millenials are fighting to give free college to the younger generations, create a sustainable future, and end the imperialistic exploitation done by our country for cheap oil (among other things). I guess Robin Hood is a story extoling the virtues if greed in your world, though so...
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  338. The 1st debates pretty clearly showed, to anyone able to read between the lines and notice favorable treatment, that Warren is the establishment's real intended candidate in this race. Biden and the other chaff are just the opener. They want another faux progressive to defeat Bernie and either loose to Trump ("proving" that progressivism can't defeat Trump and his reactionary ilk) or win and become an Obama 2.0, "fighting" the GOP and just "having to compromise" all the way to their position on most issues while they slide further right. Warren herself has only shown a real interest in change in-so-far as it keeps the current status-quo from destroying itself. Dispite her rhetoric, that doesn't make her a progressive. That makes her a liberal conservative, and mildly right wing. How well did Obama work out last time? Normalizing most of the bad things from the previous administration, dirrecting the energy of the left down dead-end alleys to stab us in the back, and give us a bad name, paving the way for a yet more extreme right wing demogogue than the one he replaced. #HindsightIs2020 #Bernie2020 Accept no substitutes
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  339. It's not like any other environment of scarcity. Normally in situations of high scarcity people pull together to get by. It's far worse than that. Everything you said starting with the prison example is 100% spot-on, but it's only the tip of the iceberg. They're running right into the hard limitations of the ideology Putin has imposed on Russia which results in massive and irreconcilable internal conflicts both through the command heirarchy and horizontally across ethnic groups as massive effort is constantly dumped into trying to establish ethnic supremacy. Likewise, there's a fundamental ideological opposition to reason and truth and a constitutional incapability to objectively assess the strength of their opposition. Add to that a cult of death and you have a recipe for disaster. For more I highly recommend looking up "Umberto Eco 14 Characteristics". I'm mostly in agreement, but what you're talking about is only the tip of the iceberg and it goes far, FAR deeper than resource scarcity.
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  340. Not only don't I mind it, I approve. He explained how it was a loaded term applied to way too many people to be useful and then detailed exactly where he stood on economics. Then either her eyes glazed over because she was entirely out of her depth or she acted stupid because she wanted a reductionist term to ignore everything he just said (like he just explained was the problem with the term). That was exactly the level of respect that kind of hack pretending to be a journalist deserved.
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  341.  @WhyNotTruth  you just going to spam those quotes you don't understand on every comment?
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  342.  @Bluecho4  yeah, if anything, the biggest problem with religion is how easy it is for people to cloak evil in the reputation of saints. A genuinely good person, left to their own devices, will largely shape their religious beliefs to their morals, but the potental for the absolute worst people to use the assosiation between religion and morality as a tool (unintentionally strengthened by its assosiation with the aforementioned good and moral believers) to justify attrocities to themselves and others is so incredibly dangerous repeatedly through history, unfortunately.
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  343.  @sensible1163  selective populism is fake populism, yes. You are correct. It's populism as an aestetic, picking and choosing the right voices out of the populace and pretending certain elites embody that populist will (typically while pointing to other elites as a dangerous "other" that needs to be violently excised for "cultural Marxism" aka "cultural Bolshevism" which is just an antisemitic conspiracy theory)
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  344. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  345.  @ivanvoronov3871  even more topically, he specifically did NOT want statues put up. The Jim Crow South didn't care though, because it was never about honoring the man even for them. It was always about intimidating black people by putting up a statue that let them know every day who was still in charge.
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  346. Spend the money on research, give every US citizen rights to use any publicly developed technology (that doesn't pose a security threat) within the US borders for any buisness endeavor they want. Boom, economic powerhouse for the next century or 2, no petrol-dollar needed.
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  347. Why did this go viral? It sounds like everyday right-wing projection from Faux News to me.
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  348. We're rapidly approaching the point where the only defense remaining for the first amendment will be the second
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  349.  @Blah53455  ah yes, the guy defending the Nazi with whataboutism starts talking abouy "birthrights" and "globalism" as soon as their false equivalency is obliterated.
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  350. Less an explosion and more a very fast hot air balloon inflation if I may be technical for a moment.
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  351.  @xensonar9652  that's the idea
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  352. They are protesting complacent moderates like YOU who care more about how they made their statement than anything else. You are entirely missing the point to avoid self-reflection.
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  353.  @martinnolhaf3151  I denounce Venice
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  354. But they complain so loudly when we compare them to Nazis. What can I say? The truth hurts. Deal
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  355. Considering Ben is an ethnonationalist...
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  356.  @SkullCandy5671  first off, they were armed and stormed the capitol trying to get at the elected representatives while carrying zip-tie handcuffs looking to take people hostage. We can look to their guns and the noose they put up outside for what may have happened nextb along with the plans of the group that tried to kidnap a politician from Ohio. Also, the BLM protests were mostly peaceful AND most of the violence that did happen was started by the cops. These are objective facts about reality. Stop spreading lies. It makes you look weak and pathetic. Notice how other people can defend their positions without lying? There's a reason for that.
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  357. Way more than 1-0, but yes, add another tally mark to the score
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  358.  @ArmoryMedia  nope, too busy denouncing Venice repeatedly
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  359. They are cute, but harmless is a stretch as they are a reservoir species for a BUNCH of diseases. Also, they have very tiny teeth, so you may not know if you've been bit, so if you come in contact with one, go get your shots!
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  360. Yeah, Biden, if you want to know what "being the next FDR" would look like, just look at Bernie, you bigoted right-wing warcriminal. The even worse part: if we didn't have Covid and the BLM protests hit the same year, not only would we not have Bernie, but we would have a second Trump term, because Biden was on track to loose to him before Trump's poor decisions exploded on all of us because all that BS about the "moderate" being more electable was a lie
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  361.  @dylantowery1827  we've lately been flooded by the usual type of far-right trolls and what appear to be DNC bots Yeah, they're scared
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  362. He'll never admit that because he's ageist against the young.
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  363.  @Erakius323  oh, btw, look up the origins of the terms right wing and left wing to see how little right wing politics is about small government.
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  364. Even the whole bit before they started showing "enemies of freedom" was talking about our greatest weapon being freedom while displaying expensive military hardware. It's almost like they're using a different definition of freedom isn't it.
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  365. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  366. No one knows, because the technique is lost to time.
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  367. Translation: "Isn't it great how quiet and obedient their serfs are? I wish ours were like that but they keep thinking they're in a democracy. An embarrassingly unruly and ungreatful lot on the whole."
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  368. I'd argue that owning majority of shares of something IS owning that thing.
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  369. No, she doesn't. Psychopaths are way overrepresented in the positions of CEO and politician.
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  370. Including aftercare! 😜
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  371. I would assume the effect is still there in darker hair colors, if harder to notice. Considering how many people dye/bleach their hair where I live, though (usually natural colors, making it even harder to tell who's hair is their natural color), I can't even say how true it is in America from my experience.
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  372.  @syd.a.m  interesting, though unfortunately that's a farming thing, not a hunting thing.
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  373.  @RipOffProductionsLLC  probably just because they were already so short on crew ammo
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  374. I like the way you're thinking, but with the added drag of the net increasing fuel consumption and the fact that they usually follow the currents (which means not going through the patches) it doesn't really work. Specially-designed crafts like these ones and designing and releasing genetically-engineered plastic-eating plankton are really our only options do deal with the plastic that's already there. The other half of this is to stop it getting into the water in the first place, but every piece of the greater puzzle matters.
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  375.  @sawyermiller8739  see the fact that we went from FDR to Hillary vs Trump by voting blue no matter who. How's that strategy been working?
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  376.  @ogaugesantafeandbnsf1157  ah yes, a Christian wanting to sacrifice human lives to that bronze bull on Wallstreet on the whims of those rich people for whom it is written that Jesus said it would be harder to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Funny how most atheists are more Christ-like than most Christians, huh?
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  377. Let's not pretend the anti-vaxers have any moral ground to stand on either, please.
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  378. *does not count loopholes (still useful perspective though)
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  379.  @OrbObserver  the "confectioners sugar" near me has corn starch. (I just checked the bag to be sure) As usual, if you're trying to be specific, always check the ingredients list on the back and not what the front of the package calls it.
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  380. Reminder: history shows this is how capitalism behaves towards leftists when in crisis right before throwing all-in with full-out fascism. They really don't want Bernie giving a speech on the issue of having to choose between left-wing politics and fascism.
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  381.  @2wyzegaming97  also Ben Shapiro
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  382. They're being paid over $700/person/day. Funding was never the cause for the poor conditions even before we bring up how they are sexually assaulting and torturing these poor people.
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  383. Almost like right-wing politics traces its roots back to royalists
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  384.  @TheOtario007  most Americans are at least as left as Bernie. Anyone to his right is further from the real center of the country. Those are the facts
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  385.  @Erakius323  oh yes, and we should take Hitler's word that he was a socialist over all the evidence? Should we take North Korea's word that they're a democratic republic? This assertion is rediculous on its face and if you weren't too lazy to do a tiny bit of actual research you'd know that and know that this right-wing=small government thing was BS too. I'll hand that factoid to you too, though: right wing covers monarchies and theocracies because it's not for "small government" it's pro-heirarchy.
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  386. There are absolutely stupid questions. If you bake a stupid assumption into the question, it's a stupid question.
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  387. And how much do all these for profit corporations hosting these debates make off of heath insurance advertising? Let's start asking this question loudly and publically.
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  388.  @jandrews6254  yeah, for as fucked up as the native life on that continent is, at least you're free of rabies. Fuck anyone who threatens that silver lining.
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  389. We're talking about self-identifying as the US usage of the term. It's high. It's very high.
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  390.  @jaysonfalsonusa2892  you think the party rigging elections right now is patriots? Guess I spotted the facist.
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  391. I mean, that's what those words would mean to a sane person, but we're dealing with legit fascists here so...
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  392. AIPAC needs to be Nuremberged.
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  393. Yup. He knows better, but he's unwilling to apply the same logic to trans people.
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  394.  @DaKrazyMonkey25  boomers are the first generation in US history to refuse to make the sacrifices necessary for their children's generation to have a better future than they had. They're, on average, more concerned about living as comfortable life than the future, but they call us the most selfish generation.
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  395. Right wing politics is about heirarchy and consolidating power, therefore, right wing populism is always a con. It's really simple.
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  396.  @darren871  capitalism naturally concentrates wealth. If you want a system where workers can be paid less than the value they produce for the company, you need systems in place to check the otherwise exponential increase in inequality, reguardless of the talents of those who hold it. The proposed tax is extremely modest and things like it are required to keep capitalism from eating itself.
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  397. Usually? A neoliberal. Sometimes? A neoliberal that's more bigoted than normal.
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  398. -says the person who won't even by on the ship when it starts sinking Seriously, it's just that they don't actually give a fuck about the victims and know that it's not going to significantly affect THEM so they're just irritated that they're being reminded of the problem and inconvenienced.
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  399. More like "Israel is just defending itself."
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  400. Today I learned that corporate has budgeted a job that should have 15+ man days/week with 7 to complete the work even though they have seen us extremely backed up on work when we had 14 man days/week and were pulling labor from other parts of the workplace. Meanwhile, we spend about 4 times as much for some of our supplies as we should be, and of course, the people making these decisions are micromanaging from another state without ever having worked the job and want no corners cut.
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  401. And I'm here thinking "at least it was just a handful of beers. I've seen far worse outside a bar irl...and also in this clip"
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  402.  @jrconcerned6064  and we appreciate every one of you that doesn't fall into the trap of projection. It's just easy to tell why the ones who are bashing millennials are doing so is my simple point.
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  403. Rational national? Humanist report? I could do far more if we go beyond news reporting too. But nope, it's the left that's irrational.
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  404. Lead the way with courage my northern neighbors. We'll join you as soon as we restore democracy to our government to displace the oligarchy. Apologies for not being able to do more to support you with the mess the boomers put between us and any actual action.
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  405. Side note: conquering China isn't always a good move for an empire in the long run, as it just converts your heirs into Chinese and goes right back to being China.
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  406. There is a difference between being a corporatist and being a fascist, but Greenspan does a good job showing how blurred that distinction is. https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs
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  407. They even resorted to photoshop and video editing to make him appear more sick: https://youtu.be/iuHlWe_aydE Everyone at CNN should be ashamed of themselves for working for such a rank propaganda outlet.
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  408. While exceptions exist of course, as far as generation blocks go... Greatest generation: New Deal and fight Nazis Boomers: break the chain of generations doing what was necessary for their kids to have a better future than them, dismantle the New Deal for tax cuts that went mostly to the rich, know pot isn't dangerous but ban it anyway, know the government lies us into war but believe them anyway, support Nazi sympathizers, do nothing while climate change becomes an exponentially increasing problem, and blame everyone younger for all of their failings as a form of projection GenZ&Millenials tired of their shit: "Ok, boomer" Boomers and their bootlickers: "How dare you!"
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  409. And the why is very simple. All right wing politics is definitionally about consolidating power and building heirarchy. "Economically liberal, and socially conservative" means "I'm a moderate economically and generally support regulated capitalism, but these degenerates are getting uppity and are corrupting the system." We know where that leads. That's Saagar's politics and he's let the mask covering his fascistic politics slip with a lot of the coverage of the protests.
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  410. "8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. . .However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." -Umberto Eco, the 14 Characteristics of Ur-Fascism
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  411.  @GrannyGlass  on the subject of Tim having dating problems, his choice to dress in an unattractive way that broadcasts his insecurity and immaturity is 100% relevant.
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  412.  @CarlDillynson  at least 99% of millenial-bashing is projection. It really is that simple. Most boomers cannot stand to face what they have become or done to this country, and no longer have the will to change anything, so they scapegoat even their own children to escape responsibility. Boomers are the "me" generation. Millenials are the "we" generation.
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  413. @John-Paul Hunt are you ok? You're not even coherent.
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  414. The talking head let his arrogance go to his head.
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  415. There's a word for a "post-truth society". That word is "fascism". "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  416. But he is right wing
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  417. When the US gets a president that cares about international law....so not anytime soon.
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  418. The same reasons any working class person votes Republican: Bigotry overriding self interest and/or being hopelessly misinformed
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  419. Double irony: the term "toxic masculinity" was created by men's movements, not feminists, but today's "MRA"s have so completely abandoned actually trying to help men in favor of complaining about women that they think terminology from the original form of their own movement is misandrist propaganda and their brains shut down in anger as soon as they hear it, leaving feminists to continue making progress on men's issues without them. The feminist movement has picked up the torch they dropped in their tantrum-throwing so all encompassing that they forgot it was even theirs to begin with.
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  420.  @themaxterz0169  maybe spend more time listening to the lefty channels you troll on and less listening to fascists like Sargon and you'd know the answer to your question is "no, antifa obviously isn't terrorism" without embarrassing yourself. The fact that you're asking that when the top sub in your list is philosophy tube speaks volumes about you, and nothing good.
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  421. How much of what Russia counts as "electronic warfare" is just online trolls, I wonder...
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  422. Side note from my experience with even just online games: being the only disciplined member of your team is a very reliable way to end up dead, especially if you're on the front lines. Not a 1-to-1 analogue there, of course, but food for thought.
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  423. She had the high ground.
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  424. Don't get embarrassed. Get mad. That's your election they're stealing!
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  425. Libertarianism: n, 1-the belief that unchecked accumulation and concentration of private economic power will maximize freedom for everyone 2-making a golden calf religion out of the invisible hand of the market (typically with as little understanding of economics as the average Christian has of what is actually in the Bible) 3-dressed up neo-feudalism.
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  426. What do you mean "kinda"? The entire economy has been being rigged against the younger generations for decades
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  427. They understand just fine. Their customers are the advertisers and those advertisers prefer corporate "news" outlets which are already financially beholded to the status quo because they're not going to rock the boat.
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  428. Anecdotal but, I have been electrocuted twice now by having my finger under a plug I was inserting or removing from an outlet or other extension cord slip under and touch the non-ground pins while it was partially in the outlet. One of those times, I was unable to let go of either the plug or tool for several seconds as the electricity running through my body (including my upper chest) was clenching both my hands tight. Whatever hypothetical (or actual) benefits there may be about liquids or other things falling down on the prongs, ground down is a safer orientation for clumsy people like me to handle such poorly designed plugs. The most dangerous part is clearly in view and in front of the tip of my thumb rather than to the side of my finger, giving me more control over it and less chance of the part of me closest to it to slip. I don't know if my experience is at all representative (it's certainly biased my pov as one has never caused me problems and the other has caused me multiple including one that could have killed me), but I feel way safer with ground down, especially since most plugs are shaped to be gripped best in that orientation. Would probably watch more plug related videos, though, including on that topic for the pros and cons, and curious to see what data might exist to compare that with my experience.
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  429. M Grinblat he doesn't use Tumblr most likely, but he creates his own ecochamber and actively shuts out and ridicules philosophies and fields of study that would challenge him. Anthropologists and post-modern psychologists would immediately start by pointing out that he's starting from religion, and reasoning from there (as opposed to starting with reason and evidence and seeing where those point). That's why he tries to shut down any conversation about those subjects with ridicule before they happen.
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  430. Remember when he was actually a good journalist? Peppridge Farm remembers.
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  431.  @passytchxn7645  wow, move those goalpoasts to a different field why don't you?
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  432.  @VeeraBun  one with holes poked in it. Just the illusion of making getting fucked over safer.
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  433. At her heart, Warren is a right-leaning moderate who is interested only in the reforms she thinks are needed to keep the current established power structures from destroying themselves, not in changing the status quo. There's a term for that: Moderate/liberal conservative...and for a former Republican, that makes sense. She only appears progressive because the US political Overton Window is filled with radical conservatives and reactionaries.
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  434.  elijah mikle  what an incredibe display of the dunning-kreuger effect. Remarkable work embarrassing yourself.
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  435.  @user-gl7ek8md5j  so, like every alt-right manchild loosing a debate? I mean, that fits with him never attacking Bloomberg.
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  436.  @mjinba07  until Russia's government changes, learning isn't really something they're capable of doing.
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  437.  @citricdemon  the idea that Congress would need to spell out every single right you have is contrary to the constitution, which you clearly don't care about, meaning your idea of "doing things the right way" is just dishonest garbage.
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  438.  @formerdemocrat9972  fun fact: that is a straight-up lie. Among active duty, it's even below 40%
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  439.  @chrisraczak6931  ignoring the party flip, as your side always does because you can't own up to where your ideology leads, because then no reasonable person would tolerate it.
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  440. Step 6: the police come and destroy your property without due process.
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  441. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012
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  442. We'll see if they illegally disenfranchise millennial voters again in New York. They had to plead guilty to it last time, they were so brazen, but the results were kept because US democracy is so dysfunctional it's almost non-existent.
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  443. Considering how systemic and horrible Russia's warcimes have been so far, I suspect recruiting from those people is not an accident.
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  444.  @lennyjenkins9931  antifascists lean left because fascism is a far-right ideology and because the first thing fascists do when they secure power is to send leftists to concentration camps and kill them and far left because the further left someone is, the less they trust police and liberal institutions to be a sufficient bulwark against fascism (which judging by the historical record, they are correct on). The poem starts "first they came for the socialists" because that is what the Nazis and pretty much every other fascist movement has done. Also, related: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/yes-the-trump-campaign-used-a-nazi-symbol-in-its-ads-heres-what-it-means/ar-BB15Gunw
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  445.  @Erakius323  you mean the proud boys? There are a lot of fascists groups in the US and some fascists are doing a hell of a lot more than getting into fist fights as non-Islamic right-wing terrorism makes up the majority of domestic terrorism in the US including repeated mass shootings at black and Jewish places of worship.
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  446.  @arkthul8872  yup, just like "libertarians" it's just stolen left wing terminology to slap on conservatism.
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  447. There's a version from the great show Babylon 5's Londo Mollari: Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow.
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  448. 1-start building paper trail for doing the right thing 2-gain favor from lawyers by exposing attempts to destroy evidence relevant to their case 3-do the right thing by refusing to destoy the evidence (and preventing it from being destroyed) 4-get fired for doing the right thing 5-call in the favor from those lawyers 6-profit
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  449. Justice isn't something inherent to the universe. Like homes, it only exists when we make it.
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  450. Homophobia (as it involves something going up the butt which makes a lot of guys insecure) and other elements of toxic masculinity
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  451. "The poor are there... just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs." - George Carlin Explains all about this you need to know.
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  452. We just have to keep trying until either we win dispite the rigging, or their theft of our country becomes so undeniable that it triggers revolution. Vote and try to volunteer for anything that will get more eyes watching for election integrity. The more evidence we have the better, and the more eyes we have on things, the better our chances of getting it are.
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  453. This x100
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  454. Leone Maledetto simply touching food won't transfer an STD...that's why it's called an STD you uneducated bigot. Replace gay with black, or Jew, or Christian and see how that sounds to you.
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  455. Very very sad
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  456. Childish sense of humor, perhaps, but you're not throwing a temper tantrum over a shot so...
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  457.  @fcdl61  I'm sorry, which administration is running the camps, seperating the kids from their parents, and taking away their medicine? People like you would have approved of the camps in Nazi Germany and then pretended to be surprised after the war when it was revealed that the labor camps had turned into death camps
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  458. We should force water bottling companies to move to areas getting increased rainfall and forbid them operating in drought-striken areas.
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  459. Like the amount of subtext and shipping for a certain Faustian anime? shoots Kyubey
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  460. Also, WallStreet is starting to look favorably on Warren. What does that tell you when the thing she was mainly liked by the left for was banking regulation?
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  461. Elon has basically one skill: marketing his own name.
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  462. +Xco Tsoh not effective, actually, since the higher resulting pilot death rate leads to a lower average experience level for your pool of pilots. Also, it wasn't about them fighting harder (lower risk generally leads to more aggressive behavior, actually, just see video games for an extreme example) but rather about trying to get pilots to try harder to land damaged aircraft. In the end, though, the policy was deemed to be an overall negative (as usual, psychopathic decision-making proved poor for long-term planning) and it was reversed to giving pilots parachutes. See the Battle of Britain to see this encapsulated in one battle, or WW2 to see how it became a big issue in a war with a bigger focus on air power.
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  463. There's not a pattern of behavior THAT WE KNOW OF....yet
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  464. I mean...just look at how cookie-cutter Faux News makes all its women look and act to see the political divide there. You want women who are allowed to be people and actually express themselves. Fascists want them to be objects for men.
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  465. The 25% supporting some military action is the same 25% that comes up repeatedly as being completely disconnected from reality because they do not care about evidence and rationality. You cannot reasonably expect to reach that block on any issue. The unsure are the ones we need to focus on.
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  466. I didn't even catch that one. Nice!
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  467. Religion is a pretty normal tool for evil people to cloak themselves in the reputations of saints. Whenever you equate religion (especally organized religion) with moral authority, this, and worse, is what you get.
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  468. I'd consider that a mark of pride
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  469. One of them and employed by richer ones.
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  470.  @emilianorosales235  ah, I see your mistake. No, they're pro-punnishing women for sex. Not the same thing.
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  471. Basically everyone I know is worse, not better, off for their hardships and we see this in the large statistics too. Just see attachment styles or the results of those who grow up in bad neighborhoods. This is usually just an excuse to wash your hands of helping another and only serves to hurt the growth of both victim and abuser.
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  472. Bernie should have considered that the cheating freed him from his promise, but he's literally honorable to a fault.
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  473.  @Snuzzled  yup, just downright genocidal levels of ageism treated like it's totally normal.
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  474.  @cocoabeanzwantstopuzzle  religions do love their silly hats
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  475. I'd add to that that heavy tanks were a bad idea to begin with. The US was wise not to waste resources on them.
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  476. 🎯
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  477. More accurately, the people who would vote for Biden over Trump, but Trump over Bernie are not at all disenfranchised, no matter how much they whine.
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  478. You are disagreeing with the party. Please report to the Ministry of Love for reeducation.
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  479. Count on absolutely nothing as long as the GOP has any power whatsoever.
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  480. No dog that small is sane. Once you breed them small enough that they can't stand over your lap something just goes wrong with the wiring in their brains. Not always the same problem, and they can still be "gooddog" but every single one of them is just not right in the head.
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  481. Repeat after me: "Bernie would have won"
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  482. Chomsky's an anarchist. No room for ring kissing there. Jimmy's going to have to rely on his ever increasingly far-right audience for that bit of ego stroking.
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  483. Which is how we know that it's not weakness but complicity.
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  484. Bernie 2020 with Tulsi as VP/SoS then run her 2028
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  485.  @xmobile.  and let's not forget his "Universal" Basic Income is paid for with a regressive VAT tax, which will fall mostly on the poor, and, since you have to choose between the "UBI" and other assistance programs...well that leaves the poorest completely fucked, the rich $12k/year richer, and those in the middle exactly where they were. Fuck! That! Shit! (And we haven't even talked about what it would do to housing prices)
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  486. "Unity"=appeasement We all know how well that worked out last century. Fuck unity. These people would send me and people I love to die in concentration/death camps. Give me justice.
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  487. And would pave the way for a right wing demogogue more extreme and less competant than Trump and whoops, there goes 12-16 years when we only have a decade to take drastic action on climate change. Younger generations simply can't afford the time Biden would take from us.
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  488.  @reedspun  it's at least pragmatic pessimism.
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  489. I'd say that NOT being tried in their jurisdiction (due to conflicts of interest we've seen manifest time and time again) is more important than where they live. Really, all trials of police misconduct should automatically go to federal courts and all investigations should be handled by a department of the FBI that only handles corruption of courts and law enforcement agencies. Relying on colleagues (be they other police or in the judicial branch) to handle this through local trials (or even worse "internal investigations") is proven to cultivate a corrupt organization and should never happen.
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  490.  charmander  yeah, because economies of scale only work for private businesses...oh wait, no, that's completely idiotic, so the opposite of that; the size of our country is even more of a reason to do it.
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  491.  @LP12576  call a spade a spade. You mean nazbols. Yeah, there are people who believe internally contradictory garbage.
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  492. This, only really, really stupid.
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  493. ​ @zoyadulzura7490 if only our "representatives" didn't have contempt for human life or find fulfillment in our suffering.
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  494. Look, I'm just saying that sometimes you pray to a volcano deity for the volcano to NOT erupt. Sometimes it's about mercy, not a boon.
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  495.  @aslapofreality1444  negotiations with uneven power dynamics produce uneven outcomes. Why is this so hard to understand? You think employees are just as able to turn down an employment arrangement as an employer? It's really simple: Money is power One use of power is to aquire more power Therefore, as soon as there is any power/wealth imbalance, it will naturally increase if nothing is done to deal with that problem. There are only three options 1-allow unchecked accumulation of wealth and power until we end up with a defacto global dictatorship 2-put multiple strong checks on the accumulation of said power ala strong social democracy 3-abandon market economies entirely and go full socialism There is no way to have unchecked wealth accumulation and liberty in the long term. Deal with the reality.
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  496. Obviously.
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  497. This is the guy who sold lead-laced suppliments, right?
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  498. "the poor exist just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs" -George Carlin Everything they do to the homeless is a threat being leveled at everyone who works for a living and should be treated as such.
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  499. ​ @badluck5647 "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  500. Yeah, and let's be real, those few minutes are nothing compared to getting through security and boarding. If you want a form of fast transportation where you get underway faster, it's called high-speed rail. Traffic control is not to blame for unavoidable inefficencies of your chosen transit method.
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  501. Exactly. Step 1 is stop making the working class tighten their belts. If that's not enough to maintain a steady population on a global level because too many people just don't want to have kids if they can choose not to, just pay people to have them. If it's a service to society, there's no reason we shouldn't all chip in to those willing to do it, just like we do to keep the roads paved, to get the fires put out, etc.
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  502.  @nnvist  nope, the talking point of Nazism being on the left/socialist/communist is widely debunked, American fascism is undeniably white nationalist in character, and fascism (including Nazis with their alliance to the papacy) almost always rolls religion into the state because religious authority is another form of power to consolidate and another characteristic by which heirarchy can be differentiated and groups isolated for discrimination. So yeah, you packed a lot of being wrong into that comment.
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  503. Yup, though Yang's UBI plan was shit which should really have been people's first clue. The "Yang Gang" was more interested in the aestetics of intellectualism than the real thing though.
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  504.  Les Damnes  they are concentration camps. Historians, jewish groups, experts on concentration camps, and even Godwin of Godwin's Law are all calling them concentration camps. The only ones saying otherwise are people in denial and fascists like you.
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  505.  @Kornelius707  Hillary and Obama are both center right (Hillary arguably far right)
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  506. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/16/look-data-domestic-terrorism-and-whos-behind-it/ You're objectively wrong, sorry, not even close. The (non-Islamic) right wing is roughly on par with jihadists for acts of domestic terrorism in the US, with who's in the lead determined by just how you measure with even black nationalists (the next leading group) far behind. Stop covering for self-rebranded NAZIs you anti-American tool.
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  507. Link please!
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  508. "be not like the hypocrites. . .pray in your closet" -Jesus Don't trust anyone who makes a public spectacle of their "Christianity". They may believe in the monstrous god of Abraham, but they prove they don't care for the teachings of Jesus.
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  509.  Ricky Spanish  been a long time since I've seen you, troll, where have you been?
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  510. What got me was: "That's... less cute" "Ooh, that's a new obscene gesture! I'm gonna use that"
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  511.  Hermann Hemholtz  sorry to hear that (seriously, not just saying that), but I do hope you understand that we were talking about broad trends which affect men disproportionately enough to be statistically significant, not (admittedly genuinely tragic) anecdotes or condemnation of every single man. I hope you find justice and peace for what happened to you.
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  512. Yup. If you're lucky, you can have the revolution without firing them, but the threat must be there for that to happen.
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  513. Wow, 2/3 replies failed at reading comprehension.
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  514.  @autohmae  counterpoint: it means more people driving at any given time which means more accidents overall, even if fewer will happen at that particular intersection. Without these designs we could have more walking, biking, and public transit, which come with all sorts of advantages over cars, including less accidents.
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  515. @Sheep #5491 yes, the most consistent politician in the country is going to be exactly the same as politicians who get most of their money from special interests, vote establishment, and portray themselves as progressive visionaries. /s Your head is at least as far up your own ass as the people you want to mock and you think in equally simplistic terms.
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  516. Silly bird. The whole house is the nest. The scale is so different he doesn't realize he's always in her nest.
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  517.  @panzertee9790  Saudi Arabia is basically a client state of the US and their geopolitical situation is untenable in the long run, and when that happens, the suppressed internal conflicts will come right up to the surface.
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  518. And the problem keeps getting worse. Funny about that.
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  519. It's more than simple pride. Those told they might be an infection risk or even in danger of catching a disease often see it as an insult claiming they are impure (or at least unclean) The closer a culture is to superstitious explanations for disease, the more there are negative connotations to disease susceptibility. It takes generations to move the emotional connotations from "diseases happen because you're sinful" to "diseases happen because you're dirty" and generations more to move to a totally rational perception of disease and even more generations to push antiquated notions of disease truely to the fringes instead of a mere minority. This is an ongoing struggle in the fight against disease to this day and will continue to be so in some parts of the world even when everyone reading this right now is dead.
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  520. It used to be common among many Western Christians too with that whole "brotherhood of man" outlook. Not as much talk like that since the rise of "prosperity gospel" theology, it seems, if I may gesture towards a correlation.
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  521. Karen Skinner rig a primary by (at minimum) disenfranchising a particular group and you should expect they won't turn out for you in the general. That's just a fact of human behavior. Treat them with contempt and scorn, and it's also a fact that you're going to make a lasting grudge. It's amazing how many establishment folks just don't get this.
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  522. And let's not forget that a VAT tax is regressive, or that it would just raise housing costs if done without massive reform there, meaning if you're poor enough to have to choose between Yang's "Universal" Basic Income and other assistance programs, you get fucked!
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  523. +DPOH Productions Not even close. Crucifixion maybe, but not hanging, even without the drop. This would be like being burned alive for almost 2 hours. You have to go for execution methods intentionally designed to be painful before you get into this territory. Barbaric is an understatement.
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  524. ...people that watch Fox "News" maybe
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  525. Absolutely! The only time that sees any success is when they're not supposed to be fighting in the same area. And for the love of Rome, stop sending courtiers to help generals! They are of no use and usually cause problems with the chain of command. You need one to deliver reinforcements? Fine, but their orders should be "drop off these troops and return" not "bring these troops and help."
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  526.  @garym6338  Bernie is a social democrat, not actually a socialist, and you don't know the definition of communism. Communism doesn't empower the state. Communism is a utopian ideal that has no state. You're thinking of "state capitalism".
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  527. yeah that would mean policy changes, and they're not allowed that option
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  528. "Just a joke" uh huh, question: If he's a comedian, why is he never funny?
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  529. I think that's largely what it comes down to. I don't think they're thinking much deeper than the short-term numbers, and with their viewer share in trouble they're a bit desperate
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  530. I just store my brown sugar (I usually buy dark, because why would I want light when I can just cut it with white?) in a tupperware container and use a metal measuring scoup (or spoon if I need a larger amount) to scrape it off the block that both forms more slowly (due to it being in a more airtight container) and it's not difficult as it ends up softer (because it's not light brown sugar, which is completely impractical) If you usually use brown sugar in smaller quantities (I use 1 or 2 tablespoons at a time for some of my cooking, making pure molasses less practical for those situations, so I needed an alternative) or just don't feel confident with pouring out the amount you need, it's something that does work quite well too.
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  531.  @Dutchswish  more this for me, but he's occasionally unintentionally helarious. Everything around WAP, for example.
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  532. Not uncommon...at least your cousins aren't out of their minds.
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  533. Almost like a whole bunch of people have realized that Bitcoin is effectively a Ponzi scheme and the only way they're getting their money back is if they can get other people to buy in, huh?
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  534. ​ @ad8447 "banning alcohol is good. A lot of men struggle with alcohol addiction." Remind me how that worked out.
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  535. Fascism is supposed to not make sense.
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  536. Aside from corporate interests like the prison industrial complex and competing industries I can shed some light on it. “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -Nixon aide John Ehrlichman Notice how Biden (a really ageist person) used it to target young staffers?
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  537. Sue them until the company value is $0 then use eminent domain to nationalize them for free. Take these private railroad companies down permanently one at a time if that's what it takes.
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  538. They know. They just don't actually WANT to oppose Trump
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  539. Hell, if a different group of Americans tried this, they would have been gunned down.
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  540. To truely appreciate Gawain's character, you have to go back to the older versions where he's still pagan. In those, he serves as another foil to Morgan la Fay, putting aside his religious differences and focusing on the shared values of chivalry to work together with Arthur and the knights for the good of the realm. Of course, once that element is removed, and you get a bunch of paragons added (deminishing the whole "good people trying to live up to an even greater ideal" theme), he becomes less interesting. Oh, I'd be remiss to not post a link to this song about him and the green knight. Some liberties are taken with the narrative, but as the story is rather inconsistent from the versions I've seen and the original version of Gawain has been flattened with his Christianization, I'm cool with it (and it's a fun one). https://youtu.be/O7Fa1B7cAGE
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  541. oscar romario florez camargo civil wars could be considered carrying on the Roman tradition lol
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  542. Reminder; the right has its roots in royalists opposing democratic government itself.
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  543.  @muntu1221  I think we celebrate criminals more than just sometimes, sadly.
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  544. When you have a system that idolizes competition and hierarchy, this is the inevitable result.
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  545. I've a good bit of l sympathy for Scottish people right now. My understanding is the last vote for Scottish independence only narrowly failed because they wanted to remain part of the EU, only for Brexit to happen based almost entirely on the voting swinging pro-Brexit in England, which is what they wanted independence from in the first place. Not as rough as the situation in Ireland (which seems to be a pattern) but it still seems like an unpleasant situation to say the least even by my admittedly limited understanding.
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  546.  @kennethmcneil3478  pretty sure he's talking about the treaties that helped end the cold war, not the destruction of the USSR
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  547. HeWhoDwells to be fair, it's possible a politically-minded enough person could have made that work by making each title and authority style seperate for each region. As for his "Megas" epithet, part of me wonders if it's dual-meaning of "great" (as in excellent) and "large" may have been a bit of a double-meaning that stuck. Either as a sarcastic comment about his hight (not unlike how the connotation of Tyrion being called "half-man" changed in Game of Thrones) or a comment on another ahem attribute (there were indications he was likely Bi and in love with at least one man following him) I don't mean to be deliberately crass, but we're talking about a time that was far from prudish.
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  548.  Shema Echad  every academic field with anything to say on the subject rejects the idea of a sex-equivalent gender binary. The one spreading evil is you...speaking of which, reported.
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  549. Maniacman2030 except that models of gender that aren't just male=man/female=woman can be found in plenty of societies of varrying levels of development from modern to hunter-gatherer, even in societies that do have a gender binary the roles differ significantly across time and region, intersexed people exist, we have brain scans that can show differences between cis- and transgendered individuals, behavioral and mental aptitude differences between sexes do not show clear distinctions (instead show mere tendencies), and (much like homosexuality) attempts to change how a person feels to how they look only result in negative mental health outcomes. So that means the fields anthropology, history, neurology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychotherapy all oppose rigid gender binaries. 6 fields of study agreeing is pretty solid support, and we have prescient for the same argument we're having today over trans-acceptance back with gay acceptance (which was also labeled as a mental disorder with some pretty horrific history of "correction treatments")
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  550. ​ @potato9832 yes and no. Yes there are advantages to massive solar farms, but you also have to take into account land value and energy losses getting the power where it needs to go. Likewise, distributed power generation feeding into a smart grid will be less susceptible to power outages. Solar on every roof combined with distributed storage batteries would be a very robust system and reliability of power is valuable as well. Weighing the costs vs benefits of different approaches gets complicated quickly.
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  551.  @jmbreche  what? Without nukes, the cold war wouldn't have stayed cold. We would have had WW3 instead of the space race.
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  552.  @PapiCthulu2  yeah, my first thought was "um, you sure you want to be confessing this publically, Ms?"
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  553. Domestic abuse in a nutshell
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  554. Is it beurocracy? Yes. So was the war effort that defeated the Nazis.
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  555.  @JLeww69  especially Ben Shapiro's desperate desire for her attention.
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  556. Tell the rich to give up all their money and that they'd never get into heaven if they didn't.
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  557. Agreed. It's so frustrating when they don't take the blatently obvious points (and yes, I know why most don't)
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  558. Used to remove iron and manganese Blood needs iron Bones need manganese Government "not great, not terrible"
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  559. Don't put anything past them. Even Kyle and Cenk are still naive about how far the powers that be will go.
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  560. Not just another religious fucknut, but one who supports violent ethnonationalism while complaining about violent ethnonationalists.
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  561.  @Dave_Sisson  nah, just their favorite hobby.
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  562. I don't mind the levers on modern toasters....I just want to know why its so hard to get one that will toast even one side of one slice of toast evenly one time. I mean, yeah, having my toast done to the same doneness every time no matter how hot the toaster is inside would be really nice too, but can we please stop making toasters that toast my bread in wide strips? Please?
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  563. It's becoming less about him having an audience and more about him having a cult of personality.
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  564. "The poor are there... just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs." - George Carlin Explains all about this you need to know.
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  565. Misha and did it ever occur to you that the settlements shouldn't be there in the first place???
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  566. Um, I think the character of Mina Harker basically entirely refutes that point. She's at least as smart as the smartest male character and without fail, whenever the men treat her as anything less than a fully equal member of the group it goes poorly. If anything, the book is arguing that women can be just as mentally capable as men if they're allowed to exercise their minds like Jonathan Harker enables his wife to do, and that men, in trying to shield them from the real world, are doing more harm than good, no matter how noble their intentions are. The total consistency which the narrative meets sexism with disaster doesn't leave any room for that interpretation of author intent.
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  567. @Ann Campbell nice ramble down your NPC dialogue tree. Shame it was both off topic and wrong in every way. M4A is cheaper, more effective, and no more radical than the government paying private companies to build and maintain our roads and fully nationalized healthcare is no more radical than how we handle things like firefighters. Whether fully private or fully public or anywhere in between, doctors voluntarily trade their labor to the hospital for a wage, at which point their employment contract would say that they do have to treat patients that come in or else Unless you want to make the socialist argument that wage labor isn't voluntary in a capitalist system or argue for the insanely idiotic position of abolishing all taxes, your rediculous argument has no foundation.
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  568. “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power." Robert Ingersoll
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  569. It would help if we started teaching history as a series of cause and effect rather than just a list of names and dates to memorize. The few times we do teach the "why" of the story, it's usually a lie manufactured to make ourselves feel good, or the one teaching is accused of having a (usually liberal) bias or being unpatriotic. Considering the numerous political ideologies that have taken to revisionist history, it's not an easy problem to solve, but it's one we're going to have to find a way to.
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  570. Maureen Lycaon it's not even that all complex societies are multicultural/multiethnic, but that multiculturalism makes nations stronger. From multiple examples in Egypt (including even adopting the technologies of their conquerers), to the multiple ancient empires (being multicultural by definition as being empires) that allowed conquered lands to maintain much of their culture and autonomy, to China being a combination of multiple (often separate) lands, to Rome's adoption of basically any good idea they ran into (and even every god they couldn't find a rough enough equivalent of to say "oh, we just call the god of _ the name ___"), to the golden age of Islam's welcoming of other faiths and even "doubters" into their courts and intellectual circles (which saw their science boom immediately stoped when they became more religious purists), to Mongolia's often forceful conscription of the intellectuals of other cultures allowing them to create and administer one of the largest empires the world has ever known almost overnight dispite starting with essentially 0% literacy, to the enlightenment's rediscovering of Greek culture and philosophy, to Russia's program of paying a great deal for Western industrial experts to move to their country (rappidly catapulting them from irrelevant backwater to major world power), to the USA which not only is often referred to as a melting pot but our very from of government is based on ancient greek philosophy, Roman bureaucracy, English common law, and Native American peace treaties (and was the beta version and template for basically all modern government). The majority of the problems people blame on multiculturalism are actually from ethno-cultural purists tearing appart their own societies in a hissy fit over being asked to share it. The remainder are more than made up for by the benefits of one of the most surefire ways to create national success in human history.
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  571. They deflect like real republicans now.
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  572. Because we're now living in the world of the Onion, and the Onion doesn't know how to handle it.
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  573. Both blew the whistle on Obama actually. The real difference for those in power is that they've had years of torture to try and break Manning's will. This both works to discourage her from speaking out ever again and to intimidate future whistleblowers. They can make a gamble with her release (but not pardon) for legacy and image and all that, but they know Snowden will go right back to effectively opposing the powerful and upholding the constitution. (Something they absolutely hate having their power limited by)
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  574. Investigation? Here's all you need to know: He was handcuffed. If someone needs pepper spray to subdue someone in handcuffs, they don't have what it takes to be a cop: immediately fired.
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  575. Dorian Simmons this x100 A statue and free drinks for life would be just a start of what she deserves.
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  576. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas Republican Party, official 2012 platform
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  577. Because they're harder to make a safe version of. Ovulation is a periodic event that already has a built in off switch. All you need to do is use some natural hormones to trick the body into thinking it's already pregnant for part of the month, and you stop the 1-2 cells. Sperm production is an ongoing process producing millions with no natural off switch, so trying to stop all of that is much harder. It'd be nice to have, but it's just harder to figgure out.
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  578.  @padalan2504  you forgot "composite"
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  579. https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-white-people-know-what-it-is-like-to-be-poor?share=1 1st comment sums it up pretty well. I'm poor, white, and (while I wish he hadn't said it) am completely unoffended because I'm able to use context to read past an unfortunate choice of words to understand what he was trying to say. Instead of quote mining to try and misrepresent someone's position, you should try it sometime.
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  580. About as sick as you have to be to think that a god you need to prey to for mercy and love or he'll torture you forever. Or that guilt can be inherented by the childern from their parents (even once, much less through all of human history). Or that you can be redeemed for your "sins" by the suffering and sacrifice of another. Or that suffering and sacrifice (rather than trying to right the wrongs) equals redemption in the first place. The entire belief system is entirely twisted down to its core. And that's to say nothing of Yahweh's psychopathic behavior, or how no infinite punnishment can ever be justified for any finite wrong done, or that morality based on obedience is at best juvenile to begin with and consistently produces such bad behavior in humans that some studies on the subject got so out of control so quickly that they had to be shut down due to ethical concerns.
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  581. Reminder: we cannot wake up MAGA by making their kids suffer. If they cared about their kids, they wouldn't be MAGA in the first place.
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  582.  @AEIOU-v5e  no, she's just a fascist (probably a Nazi) hiding behind the guise of libertarianism because it's a garbage ideology held by people usually too gullible to see through the facade. A really common fascist trick, actually.
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  583.  @wiseratedr9850  _says the person subscribed to multiple overt white nationalists...gee, I wonder why you would say that /s
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  584. ​ @OnlyKaerius more likely he ate some human food that he shouldn't have.
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  585. Ioannis Morakis I haven't used it, but I know a great player who swears by elections.
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  586.  @thegreatselkie6009  the last dog I lived with was genuinely a psychopath who I never saw an ounce of guilt from and who I still have scars from. I'd prefer him to a Republican every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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  587.  @patrickvernon2749  wrong. So very wrong.
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  588. Reminder: history shows this is how capitalism behaves towards leftists when in crisis right before throwing all-in with full-out fascism. They really don't want Bernie giving a speech on the issue of having to choose between left-wing politics and fascism.
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  589.  @emhu2594  the biggest problem is he set himself up for a ground-based campaign and then the virus hit.
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  590.  @andrewkohler3707  imho, the best way to deal with the toxic attitudes we have around virginity is to, perhaps counter-intuitively, roll with the expanding of the use of the word to be something that only functions to relate a person to a specific activity/experience rather than being an encompassing characteristic of a person that one either is or isn't. Within sex this could mean something like the more used concept of "anal virginity" or any number of more niche/kinky activities, but also to things outside of sex. Never been kayaking? You still have your kayaking virginity. Expanding the concept in the dirrection it alreays seems to be slowly moving is easier than erasing the idea. It also means that everyone is both a virgin and not at the same time, just in relation to different things, and helps transport healthy attitudes toward introducing someone to a new, non-sexual activity/experience (and being the person trying the new thing) into the sexual realm.
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  591. Outsource their jobs, take away their food stamps and healthcare, but give them guns...this sounds like the most convoluted suicide attempt in history.
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  592. Cockoff Gewgle no one is entitled to anything sexual/romantic from anyone. Period. Also, if you take that mindset, people will smell it on you from a mile away and find it repulsive. Being a virgin doesn't make you a victim and acting like it does makes the status self-perpetuating.
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  593. The colonizers did however, manage to find enough silver to crash their economy back home because they didn't understand how to manage inflation.
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  594. I could smell that clip!
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  595.  @TheHesseJames  or the metaphorical kid just fucks up his life all on his own and needs someone to blame...the US is both a huge problem for the world and a potential key to fixing it, but either way, we need to take its problems seriously, whether we live here or not, because the successes and failures of the US almost never are contained within its borders, for better or worse, especially now that the corporatocracy that controls our government is a fairly global institution.
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  596.  @Deusmach1008  pink is a troll. Truth is inconsequential to him.
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  597. Better than "civil asset forfeiture"
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  598. They must be very diplomatic with their word choice if they can make it to telling Elon for the 6th time a truth he doesn't want to hear before getting fired first.
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  599.  @tinasmith1391  back when they were going to extreme lengths to equate communists and socialists. Other socialists include Einstein and Orwell (yes, the Orwell that wrote Animal Farm)
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  600.  @corriejohnson1475  they have forsaken the teachings of Christ, but not those of Yahweh. Important distinction.
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  601. 1:56 "Her face was degloved" GAH! That is ALL kinds of no! I can only hope she doesn't remember the incident.
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  602. Broken clocks...
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  603. ​ @simransultan8483 thanks for showing that no hate like Christian "love"
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  604. Radical centrism Establishment left Neoconservate (lit: new tratitional) Progressive conservative Classical liberal Notice how all of the political labels that are oxymorons are for ideologies that are full of shit. Btw Centrism=golden mean logical fallacy Conservativism=appeal to tradition logical fallacy
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  605. The real way Israel and Benny boy are functionally antisemitic: working to legitimize ethnonationalism as if that works out well for Jews.
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  606. Right wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  607. I had political views separate from my parents by the age of 11. I agree with the sentiment and ethics, but on a matter of fact, children absolutely have political views.
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  608. C.F. Gauss not to mention that almost all of us have stolen something if you include digital piracy. Adultery is pretty poorly defined as well when you bring up things like 3-somes (whether you think they're a good idea is a separate issue to morality) and remarriages (which the bible isn't really keen on) Notably absent: rape, torture, slavery, abuse (in almost any of its many forms), pedophilia, genocide, etc
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  609. You know, with bloodsucking politicians, I'm a believer in the Bram Stoker approach.
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  610.  @jwadaow  that's what the kind of sparks steel gives off on impact or from scraping against a hard surface are. The heat from being broken off combined with the drastically changed mass to surface area enables rapid oxidation that generates enough heat for them to glow white hot. This is how flint and steel works, shaving off tiny bits of iron that then get very hot as they rapidly oxidize into iron oxide. While it takes a little encouragement from a 9-volt battery, you can also see a macro-scale example of this with people using steel wool as a firestarter.
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  611. Nah, TYT was never extremely far left at all. They just sold out. Simple as that. TYT is actually an example of how this happens to ALL parts of the political spectrum.
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  612.  @MartianManHunter2258  why would they boycott Nestle? The bible condones slavery.
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  613.  Richard Dixon  you seem confused so let me help you out. No large privately-owned corporation is on the left. It's that simple.
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  614. Yeah, let's take one of the most effective people the left has at pulling people out of the alt-right pipeline and vaguely criticize and ostracize them. Forget that Contrapoints and Peter Coffin have also attacked "cancel culture". He's the toxic one, not us! /SARCASM Come on, there's room to make substantive criticism of anyone, but this is BS and you all know it.
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  615. Anyone else notice the train-wreck of preemptive actions made out of fear and in haste with incomplete information and planning?
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  616. +Paulie Walnuts besides expanding unconstitutional Bush policies and ensuring nearly all gains of the "recovery" went to the rich? Let's see, Dakota Access Pipeline, no substantial action on climate change, enabling the GOP to hold this country hostage multiple times, not prosecuting the bankers and war-criminals, helping shift the political spectrum further right (enabling Trump's rise), torturing Manning and exiling Snowden (American heros), continuing to enflame violence in the middle east (getting more of our troops killed for nothing), etc Have you only been listening to his rhetoric the past 8 years or actually paying attention to what he's done?
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  617. Considering the corporate dems seem to hate democracy so much, I'd argue THEY'RE not real democrats, but it's not worth wasting my breath on them.
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  618.  @InternetMameluq  I think you missed the point where "Cultural Marxism" is just a rebranding of the "Cultural Bolshevism" conspiracy theory thought up by Nazis, and not a real thing.
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  619. Honestly, I've been kinda suspicious about the "involuntary" part since I first heard about this story...it seems like what happened looks pretty fucking voluntary on the parents' part to me...
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  620.  @LP12576  would you prefer "Strasserite" as a specific example? It's a real thing people fall into and something we need to be on the watch for with how fascists like to coopt elements of leftist messaging on economics while they build power. Maybe learn more about history and fascism because if we wait until we're seeing it in the streets regularly, it'll probably be too late.
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  621. Not sure I do...the first vaccination was infecting people with cowpox to prevent smallpox, hence the meaning of the term
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  622. Yup, in the universe of the fate series, Aturia (female Arthur pretending to be a man to fill the role of king, with only her closest friends and advisors knowing the truth) and marries Guinevere, a close friend, so Camelot has a queen. She learns of the love between Lancelot and Guinevere, and allows it to continue as long as it's secret as she sees the real love between them, but things go bottoms up when the affair that Arturia was pretending not to be aware of goes public. Tragic for all involved. Also, supposedly there's magic stuff at play that makes Mordred, and a LOT of other stuff, because the "original" legends (in their altered forms) are just background for the fate stories.
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  623. Tells us everything we need to know about MSDNC that he won't be.
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  624.  @Hard-Boiled-Bollock  well, he thought a women getting wet was a sign of an infection, so I don't think he's ever had good sex at least.
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  625. If he was more coherent, he could take a shot at being the next Lovecraft. Instead, we got infowars.
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  626. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's hard to keep track of it all.
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  627. France: sure, but to get really good at those takes a lifetime of practice England: we made all other sports illegal on Sundays France: ....we may have a problem.
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  628.  @yoimiyafan69  that's not even debatable or subtle!
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  629. This x100 You can't end up this way without being gaslit by the corporate propaganda outlets we call "news stations"
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  630. Fascism has been described as "imperialism brought home" so yeah...this is disturbingly accurate.
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  631. That says more about you than about anyone else.
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  632. Exactly. They are a business. Their major customers are the health insurance, fossil-fuel and MIC corporations. They will always be our enemies. What we need to do is to get "normie democrats" to look at MSDNC and all the corporate outlets like they look at Faux News. To do that, we need to hit their credibility hard and often where boomers will see it. If you're going to be on Facebook anyways, might as well start there. Start feeding them independent outlet links exposing the lies.
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  633. Our government responding to things before it's a crisis is the exception, not the rule... We really need to work on that.
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  634. Yeah, Nazis explicitly encourage each other to join the military to get training. A fair number go on to commit domestic terrorism when they get out. It's a known problem.
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  635. Also started to collapse when xenophobia set in and they started looking backwards to past glories instead of forward to new ideas to deal with the inherent flaws in their systems.
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  636. The normal answer: religion.
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  637. Historians are going to find these couple years really strange.
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  638. Oops
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  639. As terrible as the internment camps were, what we are doing now is So much worse. Taking meds from people, seperating families, forcing people into life-threatening living conditions, and generally being deliberately punitive. For as much as the internment camps were concentration camps and a violation of the rights of the Japanese, more people came out of the camps than went in, and we talk about their harm in terms of the financial, psychological, and social damage done, not in terms of deaths. Once we're talking about deaths and seperated families, to use a term other than "concentration camps" is to downplay the severity for the sake of actual politically correct language. This is the real face of the #resistance(tm)
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  640.  @NikNeil107  the irony of saying that while believing politicians over scientists and doctors is thicker than the dirt they're burrying the covid victims people like you are killing.
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  641. Yeah, the average has probably shifted (especally here in the US), but there is still a lot of overlap room for fit people today to outclass plenty of historical examples. That which doesn't kill you doesn't always make you stronger, and malnutrition is a huge example of that.
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  642. Fuck Faux News, the Corporate Newspeak Network, and MSDNC. It's not the blandness that is the problem, but the bold-faced dishonesty.
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  643.  @RonaldhinoMcLean  on the contrary, progressive politicians campaigning for him harder than he did for himself is the only reason he was able to win. The evidence supporting that is incontrovertible.
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  644. Sure they won't, but pushing good legislation that you know the other side will oppose and then nailing them to the wall with their vote in the next election is smart politics we rarely see from dems.
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  645. App exclusivity is monopolistic BS...just sayin'
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  646.  @andrewmattox1233  city dwelling has far less environmental impact by basically every metric. Fuck off and do some research.
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  647.  @henrynorcrossii3363  I think you just gave some chemist a headache, I'm afraid.
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  648. Sounds less like public servants and more like an occupying army....with extremely loose rules of engagement.
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  649. "Things need to be particularalized, rather than generalized, as a general rule" Ffs! 😑
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  650. They will only make safety a priority when the costs to their profits (and executive benefit packages) is so expensive that they take it seriously or we start getting serious about slapping executives with criminal charges and throwing them in prison for a long time over things like this. Until investment firms respond to seeing a company be reckless with safety by dumping all their shares in said company, the penalties are not high enough.
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  651.  @HunterStiles651  well, considering it's a lesson we still haven't learned...
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  652.  @lennyjenkins9931  strictly speaking, Communism is a moneyless, classless, stateless society, so I don't know of any of those existing in the modern era and I argee with George Orwell's sentiment that the USSR wasn't even socialist (which isn't the same thing as Communisim), but yes, I also oppose what today are called "tankies"
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  653. Yup, he's really incredibly ageist.
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  654.  @fohb7291  it's...really unclear, actually. There's an argument that she burned with the world because she's not listed among the named survivors, but she was also not part of the battle and not high up on the world tree, to there's also a good argument that she wasn't listed among the survivors because Ragnarok never burned her realm and she is frequently not counted among the Æsir and Vanir, so it would be reasonable that she wasn't mentioned even if she survived.
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  655. Blood may be thicker than water, but not maple syrup. :d Seriously though, my sympathies (my entire family had to disown one of our blood relations over a certain unrepented incident) and agreement that people put way too much emphasis on blood ties. Unbreakable blood bonds are an archaic concept to begin with.
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  656.  @darkstar4494  oh please, do tell me how "right wing" means "small government" in the face of royalists, fascists, theocrats, and ethnonationalists all being on the right. It's helarious when people are dumb enough to pull that BS. Politics is about the distribution of power. The most fundamental political axis is about consolidation vs distribution of that power.
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  657. Decades of cold war propaganda indoctrinating multiple generations through both media and the education system at every level is why (and it's hard to overstate how extensive and extreme it was). Note that the generations that grew up after that eased up a little (millennials and gen Z) have a negative view of capitalism.
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  658. Are you a lobbiest and does he look like a politician?
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  659. Occum's Razor says that it was someone from Crimea that is still unhappy about the Russian occupation of their home and saw an opportunity to do something about it.
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  660.  @Will9c  if they get a government contract, guess where they are getting money (aka funding) from, genius
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  661. These monuments need to be treated with the respect they deserve. I know of a high power cleaner that is very effective at getting rid of filth: C4 A demonstration of the technique https://youtu.be/PzEBp9EV2pg
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  662. HelloKittyFan 26 there's something like 400k miles of road in California. 40k X 400k = $16 billion, and you have to keep replacing it every 7 years (which is SUPER generous IMO) For reference, that would be 10% of all tax revenue for a year, just to have white roads (& wouldn't count things like increased accidents from reduced visibility or more slippery roads or any environmental concerns from whatever they're using)
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  663. Appropriately enough, sounds a lot like a Greek story where someone tries to fight their fate. It's a pretty common recurring theme actually, and largely how ancient Greeks seemed to view trying to fight your fate.
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  664. +erick villagrana the same folder of attacks that were slung at him during the primary by Hillary and the MSM to no real effect.
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  665. Corporate dems will do whatever it takes to keep real progressives from having a voice. That's their job, and they proved it in the last primary in every way possible. Their entire plan was to get the media to push forward as extreme a right wing candidate as possible on the GOP side so they could run as right-wing a platform as they wanted while still being the "left wing" choice. Neoliberalism IS neoconservatism with a paper-thin veneer of support for a token handful of social issues. They would MUCH rather loose to the GOP in the general than progressives in the primary because to them, that is the lesser "evil".
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  666. +Michael Hill Bernie's only far left in the spectrum of the establishment. Issue by issue, he's supported by the majority of people. If we had ranked voting, nothing like this embarrassment of an election where we were told to pick from the 2 most disliked candidates in US history would Ever have happened!
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  667. From what I've seen, cops in the US don't have a damn clue what they are and aren't allowed to do. Hell, just citing your own rights at them often leads to violence.
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  668. Sorry, but no matter how eloquently he words it, G.K. Chesterton is a self-righteous prick. Even just talking about the symbology of it....saying suicide is worse than rape or terrorism is, frankly, abhorant. If someone in full mental clarity says that others should live in suffering beyond their comprehension so they can maintain their rosy view of life, and not have to deal with the aftermath (and thereby take an honest look at mortality and suffering) then their humanity has been warped by something to a very dangerous degree.
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  669. +hentropy lol
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  670. I've been telling myself that since Columbine and making plans on how to deal with such an event (tactics, places of cover, where to get improvised weapons, keeping track of who was most likely to become a shooter, etc) since then, and for 20 years, the problem has just been getting worse.
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  671. Reminder that it would SAVE the government money to just GIVE every homeless person a roof over their head than to have homeless people around, but that we pay more so we can have homeless people to abuse as a THREAT to keep everyone who works for a living showing up at jobs paying them poverty wages. ALWAYS take how they treat the homeless personally, because it's all done with the very loud subtext of "if you don't stay in line, you're next".
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  672.  @ricgus2883  high top marginal personal tax rates don't take money from buisnesses. On the contrary, they disincentivise CEOs ripping the wealth out of a company for personal gain. Instead, the incentive is to collect a large, but not obscene, salary and invest the rest in the company's stability (including worker's salaries and even the communities the buisness relies on) and move from chasing quarterly profits to sustainable prosperity because that enables those at the top to continue collecting that salary in a more reliable way. Scams like Enron are discouraged even without laws prohibiting them when the top marginal income tax rate is high because the quick payout get's taxed at a high rate and then you loose your cushy income source. Bonus: the tax income can be used to help with things like education and infrastructure spending, which further help the economy. Some of the best times of our economy were with a 90% top marginal rate because of this.
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  673. Lee never wanted statues. These were put up in the Jim Crow era to intimidate black people. This isn't even a question.
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  674.    he's already moving to put more troops back in Syria to stop the little genocide-enabling favor he did for the far-right leader of Turkey from getting out of hand (like the US loosing control of the nukes we had stationed in the area). Your news source didn't tell you those details, did they?
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  675. They plaster them all over demonitized channels because the ad space there is super cheap.
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  676. Compare to Trump: "Now, tomorrow is a special day for me. I’m going to receive my gold watch. And since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago. A man wrote me and said: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.” Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it’s the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close. This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people — our strength — from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." You know who said that? RONALD REAGAN! Today's Republicans are NOT conservatives. They're fascists. There is a difference and it does matter.
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  677. I'd say he's smart, but not as smart as he thinks he is, which is a problematic combination at best.
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  678. While an average male's advantages in size and reach are certainly significant, I'd like to reemphasize the importance of skill and training. I'd put my money on a female master of almost any serious martial art against almost any newbie in said art. You can find similar differences in size and strength between men practicing martial arts and while there is certainly an advantage to be had in those traits, the guy that's a 6'6" wall of muscle can be taken out by a well-trained person who's significantly smaller if the smaller fighter possesses significantly greater skill. Sure, women in war wasn't the norm for several reasons, but let's be careful not to overstate things.
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  679.  @downsidebrian  nah, speaking for myself, it was more of a "ah, yeah...that makes total sense, actually" moment, followed by a depressing reminder of how little has changed in certain circles.
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  680. ISPs have: 1- engaged in anti-compeditive collusion to create regional monopolies and price fixing. 2- bribed congress to destroy internet privacy 3- subverted democracy to destroy net neutrality. 3-strikes, you're out, time to make it a national/municipal utility and utterly destroy these companies. They've proven without doubt that they simply cannot be trusted with a utility vital to the information age.
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  681. If only
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  682. Everyone but Bernie on the last debate stage admitted they were opposed to democracy. None of them are real democrats. They're just right wingers on team blue.
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  683. There's one logical conclusion to be drawn from this: Too much flattery is illegal.
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  684. The term "right wing" got its political meaning to describe royalists opposing democratic government and enlightenment values. All right wing politics traces its roots back to that.
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  685. Thank you. In a world where they seem to be using his work as an instruction manual (rather than the warning it was intended to be), we need Orwell quotes more than ever.
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  686.  @richardburnett-_  and yet for as terrible as he was, somehow we keep going downhill/to the right. There are many "democrats" today to the right of Reagan.
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  687. I got a cold chill at that...no hyperbole. Legit heard that and my skin felt cold for a moment.
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  688. The problem is not that they don't have a spine. They do. The problem is that they are COMPLICIT.
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  689. And now they're selling graven images to prey with.
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  690. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012 This problem was intentionally created.
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  691. And thus is the difference between patriotism and nationalism. The real patriots are all on the left.
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  692. And are still wrong. Hotels do use fitted sheets and they're not that hard to fold when you know how. Sincerely, a hotel worker.
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  693.  @Justme-rt4gj  you mean like the accusations Elon made because a rescue diver told him his idea was dumb? Yeah, he totally got away with that. The rules for the rich and powerful are clearly not the same as those for the rest of us.
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  694. Yeah, seriously. We don't need to build neighborhoods to be tinder boxes!
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  695. The first generation to enter the workforce with worse economic prospects than their parents were millennials. That means boomers were the first generation in American history to not uphold the American tradition to do the hard work needed to ensure that their children had a better future than they did. The majority of the generation then turns around, blames their victims and unleashes an unending stream of insults (made up entirely of projection) to distract themselves from the fact that they've become exactly what they fought against in their youth and that this nation has slipped into decline under their watch because they sold out the future of this country for a little temporary comfort. To top it off, boomers still refuse to let us start cleaning up the mess they left us and are blaming us for (as if we'd had a chance to actually do anything yet). While I, like most millennials, value every ally we have in the older generations, as a group, boomers can fuck right off. To every millennial-bashing boomer out there: when the demographics flip (and no one from any other demographic who you're not directly related to cares what you think or feel anymore) and you're sitting there wondering why no one cares about your years of "wisdom" remember this time and how your generation behaved, because this shit is why.
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  696. thetruephoenixful 2018 and we're still not close to learning this lesson
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  697. If you believe an all loving, all powerful god created this shithole world, you practice cognitive dissonance constantly to begin with.
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  698.  @moamoa7067  a lot of federal regulations are based on the ability for the federal government to regulate interstate commerce, so unfortunately, once Texas cut its grid off from that of other states, it had a lot more leeway to make dumb choices that would get people killed.
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  699. Funny thing about rot: it spreads. Throw out the bunch and the barrel it's in.
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  700. 32-45k/year die just from lack of any health insurance. What do you call a class war where only the poor are doing the dying part?
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  701.  @peterkrug2327  I read "Zeus" and "touch" and my brain immediately went "bad touch! No!"
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  702. Either you're dishonest enough to be ok with it, dense enough to not realize it, or you're fired/sidelined. That is how corporate "news" media works.
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  703. Cowardice has defined this country since AT LEAST 9/11. We haven't been "the home of the brave" for a LONG time.
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  704. You don't need to outrun the fastest lion, only the slowest horse.
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  705. "Restoring decision-making back to the states is always a good idea" um..slavery and voter suppression? How about the total failure with the Articles of Confederation that made us make the Constitution to replace them? How about when you yourself wanted to ban gay marriage across the country to override state laws? Spare us your BS talking point you corporate shill, because that's all it is.
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  706. Hell, it's been 243 years and counting since we rebelled against the British Monarchy and still we have Americans making celebrities of the royal family. -.-
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  707. 9/11 We've been without those for a long time
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  708.  @occamsrazor5376  I put up with ageism every day and don't even get to do shit about it because age-based discrimination is legal to those under 40. I'm tired of being the target of ageism and expected to turn the other cheek, so yeah, fuck off boomer.
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  709. Read the old testament. Makes perfect sense to me. Take Numbers 31:17-18 (which means exactly what it sounds like it means) for example.
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  710. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman Any "Democrat" who supports the "war on drugs" is complicit in undermining of democracy in the US.
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  711.  @chippypills  really? That's the false equivalence you want to go with???
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  712. If there were exit polls a quarter as far off as ours, a functional democratic country would immediately void the results, open investigations and redo the election.
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  713.  ajs1031  well, approaching the Sci-fi part. We're missing a bit of the tech level to go full cyberpunk
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  714.  @creationnova9491  "toxic asshats" aka people that get too angry when they're lied to to make coherent arguments. I support them too. Being furious is better than being a bold-faced liar like the warmongering "journalists" in the MSM.
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  715. Universal means universal. Have it count toward your taxes and more and more of it goes back to the coffers as someone's income increases. Creating cutoff points for entitlement programs only creates conflict between those who receive it and those who don't while creating an awkward point where making a dollar more can leave you worse off than you were before and creating a complicated buerocracy to administer just that rule. Universal social programs side step so many problems.
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  716. Can I just ask why tf it's normal for the color of the top of gas stoves to be white? It should be ash black to match the cast iron parts above it and the eventual spills that will burn onto it. Just because it's not burning wood doesn't mean it's not a literal fire pit and it's not an eating surface you need to be confident is completely cleaned in the first place. Can you imagine if it was normal to have the inside of propane grills or ovens be bright white and how annoyingly stupid that would be? But that's what we get on the heat source we can't hide by closing.
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  717. End all gerrymandering
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  718. See that "big government" rhetoric is only brought out to object to the government helping the downtrodden. Everything else has always been fair game.
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  719. I just saw another channel that put up a 3 minute video that just said to go to another site because they had posted their real video there over Youtube's unfair treatment of channels like theirs and also linked to a Facebook page about some Youtube union...and that may be exactly what we need. Whether reforming this site or moving to another, organizing needs to be part of the solution. We need a union of content creators.
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  720. I've literally worked at places where company policy explicitly only protected against age-based discrimination for those over 40 and it's so normalized in our society that no-one seemed to find anything wrong with that, even if they were under 40 themselves, and believe me I heard plenty of stuff that I would have been able to take to HR before I left that job if the policy had been different. Every other demographic divide is set up where you can't discriminate on EITHER side of the divide except for age, where explicitly only one side of the divide is both protected and allowed to discriminate as much as they want. I am so fed up with being treated as "one of the good ones" by almost EVERYONE from a generation older than mine and I'm well into my 30s. It's disgusting how prevalent it is even in "progressive" circles. We desperately need youth liberation.
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  721. ​ @BryanM86 it's not December. Touch grass troll
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  722. And lets not forget the whole slavery thing, which not even all ancient religions allowed. Hell, all even large details aside, the central narrative of original sin & redemption through Jesus is terrible. It's teaches inherited guilt, redemption by proxy, and redemption through suffering (rather than restitution to the wronged). Even the whole forgiveness line is bunk as it's "if you love me, I'll forgive you, but if not, you'll suffer for eternity". The whole thing down to it's supposed "moral" core is barbaric.
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  723. Ethics and effectiveness aside, every doctor I've known hates having to deal with insurance companies! So many more hoops to jump through (they want as many barriers in front of them having to pay afterall, denying service is the only way they make money other than overcharging) and they're in a different arrangement depending on which company/companies someone's insured under.
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  724. Ranked voting is about as important as campaign finance reform. If Maine passes it, that's a HUGE victory!
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  725. So, how many states has she rigged so far? I count at least 2.
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  726. Instead, she'll apparently be keeping her security clearance, job, and chance for promotion...
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  727. Wrong. Go back to highschool biology.
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  728. The establishment dems project just like real republicans now. They must be so proud.
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  729. *60 going on 14
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  730.  @themaxterz0169  dude, you're not fooling anyone. We all know you only sub to leftist channels to troll them 😆 the fact you think you're fooling anyone is pathetic. Btw, you're not even baiting me. I'm just enjoying mocking you.
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  731. It's so obvious you used google translate for that.
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  732. Except storm dragons of course
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  733.  @optricks2469  the majority of the population agrees with the platform of Bernie Sanders The GOP is a far-right party (with one foot in fascism) with a politics with minority support that only maintains political power because we have a first past the post voting system that is heavily rigged in their favor in multiple ways such as rampant voter suppression, systemic voter disenfranchisement, unbelievable levels of gerrymandering, as well as the undemocratic structure of the Senate and electoral college. You're not the silent minority. You're an incredibly loud minority throwing a tantrum whenever you don't get special treatment.
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  734.  @notksiolijadebt6558  they meant "Indians" as in "People living in/citizens of India, the country" implying they should have seen people from other races/ethnicities there. That said, idk if there's enough of a northern European demographic in India to make blond hair common enough for that to matter, as we're talking about a trait possessed by a minority of a minority that is recessive, so unlikely to show in mixed-race people. Idk if it was a valid point, but you misunderstood it.
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  735. Considering the Bible condones conquest rape...yeah, that at least half checks out.
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  736. Won't help as much if we end up being the epicenter of the outbreak, though
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  737. Mainstream Republican politics is far right.
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  738. Remind him that's nearly twice the number of US deaths in both world wars combined!
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  739. @Fintan so someone that wanted to be a cop but couldn't cut it?
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  740. And Republican politicians will have a bunch of minorities and lefties who will regain their voting rights. Have we all forgotten the war on drugs was started as a targeted voter disenfranchisement program?
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  741.  @zammmerjammer  I don't think he should be trusted as a trashman
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  742. So they prop up the establishment "Democrats'" electability narrative. This is obvious people.
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  743.  @farmerboy916  kinda the point, and why quotation marks were used. In practice "free markets" just allow unchecked accumulation of private power, eventually resulting in a monied aristocracy to replace the past's titled and landed one, and the withering, and eventual slow usurpation, of democratic government.
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  744. They have been for quite a while. Projection is their default state of being.
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  745.  @cnnnpc4351  well that was a steaming pile of stupidity you just plopped down here.
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  746.  @richardg1917  oh, you're one of those morons who think taxes are theft. Your "ancap" religion isn't bought into here.
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  747. For primary choices, Sanders supporters are those who learned from the Obama presidency Warren supporters are those who don't understand how we got to Trump.
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  748.  @rebeccapresti9650  unintentional, but appropriate
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  749. They had the radical idea that the natural resources of a country belong to its people and that, therefore, all profits from their sale belong to the people as well. If allowed to succede, that idea would drastically undermine the corporate state, so they will do whatever they need to to ensure it doesn't. Remember, to the rulers, the oligarchs and their interests are the US, not the ideals and people.
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  750.  @gladonos3384  I mean, there are other buffer solutions besides burning fossile fuels, but it is a problem that needs addressing.
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  751. #HindSightIs2020 #Bernie2020
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  752. Even if he wasn't military trained he would know what he was doing. Anyone who keeps choking someone 50s after they go limp is just a murderer. Normal people stop whatever they're doing once they notice the other person has gone non-responsive whether it's a chokehold or they're just punching. I'm never going to buy the "I didn't notice him going limp in my arms" BS.
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  753.  @ubuu7  if Biden gets the nomination you can kiss 2020 goodbye anyway
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  754. Ian Luman there are plenty of moderate jews outside of Israel, but yes, the nation is becoming increasingly extreme. I see it as a magnet that is attracting radicals and repelling moderates. The situation's more complicated than that, of course, but it's a factor.
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  755. 1ronin is a cryptofascist troll, btw, so there's no point trying to convince him of anything, but for anyone else interested in learning more: Denial as a Tool of the Radical Right https://youtu.be/HOHthnsuhPw Steve Bannon (and fascism) https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo The Philosophy of Antifa https://youtu.be/bgwS_FMZ3nQ (important context even if you disagree with some of the things done by antifa activists)
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  756. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it) See also, the alt-right playbook' "the card says moops". It's not just that they are fact-free. They are ideologically anti-truth.
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  757.  @generalpatton7876  stupid bet. Dems voted 81 vs 126 in opposition to the war. That means only roughly the worst, most Republican, 2/5ths of the party voted for the war. Even if we only assume him to be an average Dem, odds are that he would have voted against it. I've no love for the "Democratic" party, but the likes of Biden and Hillary are actually abnormally aweful even for them.
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  758. Apperently the wannabe brownshirt struck him from behind with brass knuckles, then tried to run him over, but only got 1-5 years and was still trying to pretend that he was the victim.
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  759. Very belated, but thoughts on riding vs putting your load on the horse and walking with little weight on your person?
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  760.  @sylviewalker7560  Bernie gave his endorsement unconditionally (to be fair, as he promised he would), so he has no leverage. The DNC doesn't care if Biden looses, so there's more leverage gone. Workers will always have leverage, though. All we have to do is put our tools down as one and we hold all the power.
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  761. Establishment: gaslights, harms, and plays the victim when they get called out. What does this sound like?
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  762.  @Name-jw4sj  we're talking about lying war-criminals who's hands are soaked in the blood of Americans and who just admitted on stage that they want oligharchy instead of democracy. Battered wife syndrome much? Democracy is non-negotiatable and these issues are literally life and death for hundreds of thousands at a conservative estimate.
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  763. Even without the wordplay: Conservative=traditionalist Appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy.
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  764.  @leslurp7600  not unrelated. One of the more common ways it manifests is them acting like they're 100x as big as they are.
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  765.  @jethroneemo2150  it's sad when you need to lie to engage in enough whataboutism to even try to defend a fascist manchild. No, the problem with liberals is they idolize the golden mean fallacy as a virtue and subscribe to an ideology that is a bastardized mix of discarded left-wing ideas and conservative propaganda (and that they're way too soft on fascists like Trump)
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  766. Truth: "Ok boomer" is the generational equivalent of "ok white boy" Boomers have no room to complain about ageism.
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  767. Right wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  768.  @janewright315  it's not an accident. When there is a crash, those with enough capital can buy up a lot of assets when everything is at rock bottom prices and be in a better place when the market rebounds. The instability is a feature for them, not a bug.
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  769. The question is will he keep his job?
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  770. "All that is needed for evil to win..."
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  771. Scientists: How does that help Musk: it protects you from the rioters who want to kill you for destroying the planet and living rich after the next market crash tops the great depression
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  772. I wouldn't even call Warren a social democrat. A conservative Liberal or liberal conservative maybe, but too far right to be a social democrat.
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  773. ​ @KiltedYaksmen83 THAT is projection.
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  774.  @TheTruthKiwi  just because they often have trouble with handles doesn't mean animals can't figgure out what a door is by watching humans use them.
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  775. Faith in the system is a bad thing if the system is unworthy of trust. Persistent faith in the system we have is either naive or disillusional.
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  776. Unfortunately, I think you're forgetting the "invade the Hague" act...
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  777. I mean...they tried that once....and then realized the basement they thought it was happening in didn't even exist under that pizza shop.
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  778. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  779. The DNC "strategists" have been starting to do a number on her head recently though.
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  780. Who is also ageist af and using the pretence of drug use to go after a demographic he's bigoted towards. Sounds like Nixon huh?
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  781. Also a good point. Doesn't tell you how the day-to-day operations are running now, but it does tell you a lot about the layout of the permanent facilities.
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  782. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." This is a restriction on the government, not something special for US citizens. If you think nationality/citizenship matters, you don't understand the constitution.
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  783.  @mjchakos1  if that's why you voted for him, you just straight up have blood on your hands.
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  784.  @BaronSaturday66  let's be frank, every Zionist is legitimizing ethnonationalism and thus aiding Nazis. It really is that simple.
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  785. Why did CNN put a climate change denier in charge of the election just over a decade before we reach a catastrophic tipping point on climate change? Maybe because they take money from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute which "describes its mission as to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." They're not paying to reach people to get them to buy their product over a competitors'. They're buying influence over the narrative just as much as they are buying legislation when they "donate" to politicians. The ads are just another form of bribery. This isn't just bias. Corporate "news" is in the business of corporatist propaganda. Misinformation isn't a mistake; it's their job.
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  786. This! We need this!
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  787. "The retired Air Force four-star general wholeheartedly concurred Wednesday night with an Aug. 12 Twitter post by Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce that read: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.” “I agree,” Hayden wrote. “And I was the CIA Director.”"
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  788.  @furiousapplesack  I mean, I don't really think he gives a fuck about truth, personally.
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  789. You're assuming that their main goal is to win the general. It's not. Their first priority is to protect the corruption-fuel gravy train, which means the real election to them is the primary where they take on their #1 enemy: real progressives. They'd much rather pass control of government back and forth with the GOP who are just as invested in the status-quo than ever allow real progressives to have a voice. Since they consider us their main enemy, we need to respond in kind, because until we do, we will continue to find knives in our backs with the establishment dems pretending they don't know how they got there. Sure the GOP may be worse, but until we either take over or destroy the "Democratic" Party, there's nothing effective we can really do about that.
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  790.  @CallMeAWeeb  because they didn't want to follow national regulations that would require them to spend money on things like winterizing their infrastructure.
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  791. Wtf are you talking about. We know for a fact that Russia has sent their best into the meat grinder in Ukraine.
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  792. Selective Populism One of the 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism as described by Umberto Eco And yes, I'm calling Ben a fascist.
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  793. I'd like to add 2 things: 1-Most knights didn't have castles and couldn't afford them. Most knights just has a manor house and the surrounding farmland. They would absolutely not be wearing the best kit off of just that. 2-Income disparity is a lot larger today than most people realize. The top 8 people have more wealth than the bottom half of the world combined dispite a much higher population today. Which is worse kinda depends on how you compare wealth. Given the way the economy worked, I think it's generally better to think about how many skilled manhours went into making a set or armor. If anyone has good numbers on that, please share and your source if you can.
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  794. Unfortunately globalism comes in multiple flavors. Some forms of globalism are quite beneficial, if still inadequate. (the rise of multiculturalism has greatly reduced tensions between different peoples, and the UN, for all its failings, has still managed to avert WW3 so far) Others, though, are exploitative at best, and aren't so much about supranational cooperation as making nations subservient to privately-owned, transnational corporations. (the TPP being a rather blatant and current example of that) Then, there's the experiment of a new form of international integration we see in the EU that's having its ups and downs (but still a lot better than enlarging a nation through war or other forms of imperialist subjugation)
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  795. Who cares? Both are fatal. We're well past the point where debating who's worse has any value. We MUST defeat BOTH.
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  796. She may be the lesser of 2 evils, but it's irrelevant. Both she and Trump are entirely unacceptable as candidates, so no matter the odds, opposing them both is the only sane position. Do we really have to get to debating Hitler vs Stalin for "lesser of 2 evils" before we stop voting for the lesser of 2 evils? Every time we buy into that false dichotomy, we get a worse pair of evils to choose from next time. Supporting the lesser of 2 evils is still supporting evil. Let them expend their energies fighting each other while we work on overturning the system supporting the lot of them.
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  797. Obnoxious nodding while talking to try and get people to agree with her 1:30 "leader who shall remain nameless" Putin's not nice, but he's not Voldemort, chill. 2:20 "we do speak out about rigged elections" ...seriously? Stfu! Also, Putin hates you because you want to escalate toward WW3, not because you're fueling descent in his country (which you're not, and even if you were, you're bragging for the same thing you're accusing him of) 3:00 You take full responsibility? Really? No-one fucking believes that! 3:50 wikileaks is an independent organization, not a Russian one 4:50 Russia stole the e-mails? BS, they were leaked from inside your campaign by someone sick of your corruption. 5:00 "You just can't make this stuff up" you just did Insufferable liar! Someone, please, find a rock big enough to hide her under and keep her there. I can't take it anymore!
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  798. I had to debate (well. thoroughly trash with citations really) someone in the comments who thought it was a good video -.- Glad to see a video helping debunk this nonsense though
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  799. If he's an ally in the "terror war" the we're not on the right side.
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  800. As a Byzantine enthusiast, the only attitude I can take to Venice's later problems is "good riddens. You brought this on yourselves."
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  801. And the last page And every other page in between. The overwhelming majority of boomers are incredibly ageist.
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  802. phoenixkhost you mean like you're conveniently forgetting to mention that the idea of the kneeling protest came about when one of the players asked a veteran for an idea for a respectful form of protest? Kneeling was suggested as it's been considered even more respectful than standing for ages and is far more respectful than staying in the locker room. If them kneeling offends you, either you have some screws loose in your head, or its the message you don't like, but don't want to come out and say it.
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  803. Yes Please!
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  804. @The Great Drake not ready for VP yet, but a cabinet seat would be great.
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  805. Mnd0vrMnky BP, the foreign company that got an exemption (which can be traced back to Dick Cheney) to not have to use the proper shutoff valves they have to use in the rest of the world (which would have stopped the disaster immediately) to save a couple cents per barrel? The same company which let the spill get worse because they kept trying to stop it in such a way as to not have to dig a new well rather than stopping the spill in the most efficient and effective ways possible? That's the company and incident we're trying to shift blame from? Come on now
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  806.  @s0elex  largely correct, though there is a desire for a little bit of lean into a turn so that the net effect of gravity and the centrifugal forces point perpendicular to the floors to help prevent the mentioned spillage.
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  807. More accurate take: 90% of millennial-bashing is raw projection.
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  808. It's not a perfect simulation by any means, but the tabletop rpg "Savage Worlds" handles wounds and the feel of combat better than many games I've played (especally for not focusing on accuracy as a primary goal). Numbers would need to be tweaked to be less pulp action, but it is nice to at least not have an HP system. Idk about computer games though
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  809. ​ @RARufus trial lawyers endorsing the party that is for actual law and order? Makes sense to me!
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  810. The capstone to the whole thing is we already have other words to describe what he talks about. True is objective truth. Useful can be used for what's being called metaphorical truth here. Right can be used to describe what he's calling ethical truth. Using "truth" in all contexts when we have an extensive vocabulary (which he's clearly not short on himself) is just intentionally obfuscating things to make it hard to argue against him. He's a hack.
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  811. Idk 5:59 is pretty good
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  812. ...it really puts the frequent warfare in Ireland through the middle ages in a new perspective.
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  813. Greg's Kitchen [unsupported claim]
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  814. Nice catch!
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  815.  @FNLNFNLN  the best least bad scenario is that it happens a bit before the primary so we can hammer the corporatists on how they set up the house of cards after 2008 to begin with.
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  816.  @MeadowBrook2000  normally, you might have a point. Trapped on an island, though...there's not exactly a fallback point to go to regroup at, and I can't say how trusting I'd be of Russia's treatment of POWs right now...not so clear a call in that situation.
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  817. Disgressionary spending for military in 2015: $598.5 billion Extra spending: $700 billion That's insane to not talk about!
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  818.  @thebloodredeye8553  yup, he just wants to pretend he can have a redo but have them hold the antisemitism this time.
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  819. This is winning though...for the rich who will both buy up all the cheap assets (property and stocks) while everything is cheap as well as get bailed out (which means giving them tax dollars they will use to buy up a larger share of the economy when investment costs are at rock bottom). Those with enough capital to wether the crash (either by eating the short term loss, or by being too big to fail) can ride boom-bust cycles as the ultimate buy low/sell high enterprise. (And you can bet they are the ones that have the fastest trading AIs to liquidate their assets first for maximum value when the crash happens)
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  820. ​ @golDroger88 he DID intentionally kill him. He felt the man go limp in his arms and kept choking him despite an unconscious man not being a threat. You're just trying to excuse a murder.
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  821. "It's a takeover of the military" Um, he's already the commander in chief...that means he's already in charge of the military. Fascists just say things with absolutely no regard to reality whatsoever.
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  822. Fear of change, fear of people who are different, etc Fear tends to be the core of right-wing ideology. The hatred and anger displayed typically is just the flip side of the fight/flight response.
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  823. Fascists: the term is "fascist" Tucker is a fascist and a white nationalist. We know how this ended last time. It can happen here.
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  824. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  825.  @emhu2594  Japan's low productivity can mainly be attributed to their overwork (as mentioned), plus the fact that their work culture places more emphasis on time spent at work than how productive that time is, plus the seniority system of promotion greatly slowing adoption of new technologies in their workplaces and sticking to things out of tradition because of the preferences of those in management positions. For as tech-innovative as Japan looks (and to a degree is), seeing that contrasted with, for example, the amount of time fax machines persisted in common use points to some real issues.
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  826. Well done
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  827. I'm sure many knew it was a eugenics program and just didn't care. If this surprises you, I'm sorry to say that too much of your knowledge of history comes from state-approved history books. For example, the US was also doing horrible human experiments on non-consenting (and even often unknowing) subjects during this era among other atrocities.
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  828. It depends on what you're trying to defend against. Remember that one of the main things that influenced European armor design was the presence of the lance (which far outclasses the penetrative power of anything on the battlefield short of guns and siege weapons) Also, more mass on the head can help protect from concussions (or alternatively the lighter weight could allow for a wider helmet with more room for give when struck). I'd probably take more weight on the front torso and helmet and keep the limbs light but it could depend as it's always a tradeoff.
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  829. Because we have allowed a system where money dominates, the rich are idolized, and obscene wealth can be inherited. They will never go away. We need to stop the creation of new ones. We need a very high estate tax asap.
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  830.  @262sosa  you say that like it's a bad thing 😜
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  831. Like Bramble mentioned, there's a lot of reason to HIGHLY suspect his statement being extremely sketchy. We need to actually know what's going on before we eat our own.
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  832.  Ben Shapiro  Reagan is to the left of most "Democrats" on most issues.
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  833. Red, fellow viewers, please please go watch Steins;Gate. It's an amazing handling of time travel in fiction that manages to write a very compelling story about the act of time traveling and playing with the implications of the rules and consequences of its time travel while remaining consistent and comprehensible. It is also both funny and amazingly emotional beyond the technical mastery of being able to write with such a plot premice in the first place so I cannot recommend it enough. Here is episode 1 (it's a slow build, so don't be surprised when you don't understand everything happening immediately) https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY And here's a good review if you need a 2nd, more in depth, recommendation: https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY I know anime isn't covered much on this channel, but Steins;Gate is easily both one of the greatest anime of all time and one of the greatest time travel stories ever told in any medium (and it even has an absolutely excellent dub, which I linked above) so please don't let not usually watching anime shy you away from the series.
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  834. He's technically right, though. We want to pit people who aren't racist against the people spreading and maintaining racism. I somehow don't think that was the groups he was referring to...though, given it's him, maybe that's exactly the conflict he doesn't want to happen.
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  835.  @Abbadon380  hey, remember when an actual anarchist absolutely destroyed your surrogate daddy Carl in a debate and exposed him as a white nationalist who didn't like democratic government? https://youtu.be/EZZ7FvaFzbQ It was classic! Really pathetic for you to be acting like you carry the legacy of the founding fathers after that, but then all of right wing politics traces its roots back to royalists opposing the enlightenment and democratic government in the first place. Seriously, though, how much of a looser do you have to be to think Carl Benjamin has anything of worth to say on anything? Your mind is so fucking weak.
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  836. The left: infights mainly over diffences of oppinion over how to make the world a better place The right: infights mainly over personal desire for power and heirarchical position.
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  837. Occulta Veritas a boomer talking about responsibility? Tell me more /s
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  838. @Grass yup, just Karens, toxicly trying to live vicariously throught their kids, getting mad that their little Tmmy didn't come home with a trophy. Nearly all complaining about millennials is just ageist projection.
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  839.  @J4R0D  says the guy subbed to at least one straight-up Nazi! Fuck the gaslighting is so uniform over you fascist NPCs you can clock it across a football field! Lol
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  840. The Byzantine army was an amazing engine of war with one serious flaw; it relied heavily on the skill of its commanders to bring out its potential more than just about any other other army fielded at the time, effectively trading consistency of performance for maximizing potential performance under great leadership. The result was an army that was notoriously inconsistent in how well it performed when leadership changed hands. The leadership problems are even evident in the manuals (of which I think the fact thar there are multiple is significant) with, for example, how often one of them repeats "do not pursue Bedouin (read light) cavalry" such that you can tell that people being baited into pursuing such forces and breaking formation/running into ambushes was an ongoing problem. I would argue against the idea that they were less well equipped than the Romans is flawed. The Byzantine army just allocated its resources differently. So again, it comes down to the generals.
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  841.  @nygeriunprence  yes, conservative "Democrats"
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  842. I just want to point out that terrorism is specifically against civilian targets. The other 3 terms all refer to roughly the same thing, but by definition no attack on a military target is terrorism. Anyone trying to paint any attack on any country's military by any organization as "terrorism" is more in the realm of propaganda than journalism. Keep that in mind both within the war in Ukraine and in other conflicts.
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  843. Any argument of a constitutional violation being ok because it's a state and not the federal government is invalid because the 14th ammendment says that all the rights the constitution gives you, states have to respect. That argument hasn't been valid since 1868.
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  844. Just goes to show you how light and fluffy modern baked goods are that it was something to take note of.
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  845. Jacqueline Goodspeed https://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Franklin-roosevelt.jpg Nightgown? I think not.
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  846.  @abrahamlincoln937  if we want to get into semantics, conservatives would be far right and OAN, being fascists, would be right-wing extremists. Liberals are the moderate part of the right wing.
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  847. The entire philosophy behind the form of government the US pioneered is that the government serves the people, and derives its authority from the people. As soon as the government seeks to control the masses for its own convenience (or worse), it's just kicked the foundation for the entire system right out from under itself. They just don't get/care that they're supposed to be serving, not ruling, but they continue to act like aristocrats trying to control the peasantry.
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  848. The Amazing Lucas Please take a moment to realize how unhesitatingly consistent and principled the responses you got were, and how dishonest those who you've been getting information from are and reevaluate where you place your trust and loyalties.
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  849. Not only that but everyone (including Kyle) is missing that the poll was measuring what voters thought the 2020 general election chances were with/without Bernie. All they proved is that 56% of their polled audience has been so thoroughly propagandized that, even after the disaster that was Hillary's campaign, they think that corporatist candidates stand a better chance in a matchup against Trump than the guy who has won every hypothetical matchup poll against Trump. You have to be as disinformed as the average Faux News viewer to believe that....meaning CNN just did a poll to prove that they are fake news. That's impressive!
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  850.  @morphkogan8627  ah, yes, all the charity he gets a tax break and a boosted public image for, but which hardly dents the problems he is actually going after like it could if he would throw more than the equivalent of pocket change for him at it. He's such an altruist. /s Charity is a well-known tactic the rich use to invest in trying to keep the people from trying to seriously deal with inequality. It's a trick older than feudalism and you fell for it.
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  851. ​ @JeffGusman-fs6oo tfb, it's just a prop to a lot of pastors too.
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  852. Not only that, but the union rep said "no way a rational person could say they could process that and their muscle reaction would be less than 1 second" MFer, yes I can! A slow human reaction time is 0.5s. A martial artists' will be in the 0.2-0.3 range especially within their field of training. If you need more than a second to see someone raising their hands isn't holding a gun, you're unqualified to be a cop on reaction time alone.
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  853. I remember she ran uncontested in her district unless I'm mistaken, but yeah, the fact that she was even allowed to get the nomination shows the state of the GQP.
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  854.  @Amaling  that'll happen when you spend decades purging the education system of leftists and teach capitalist economics like a fucking religion.
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  855.  Hobo assistant  what's immoral is forcing trans kids into the closet and denying them the treatement that is the wide consensus of the medical community, thus forcing them to go through an unwanted puberty, drastically increasing their risk of suicide because you're more interested in stubbornly holding to your bigoted talking points than listening to the people who actually know what they're talking about on the issue.
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  856.  @trpl7  you're right "sky daddy" is the much more appropriate euphemism for this given story about a 69 year old pastor sucking guys off
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  857. If we tried everyone complicit in that warcrime it would clear out most of Congress. To be clear, I'm counting that as a plus.
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  858. Even though one did it with a political manifesto echoing Faux News talking points that were being used while the news came in and the other was just because he was a rare, left-leaning incel, not a shooting motivated by left-wing politics.
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  859. It's a time honored tactic, really. Works great in Crusader Kings btw.
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  860. Explain it with farm animals if needed.
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  861.  @popasmurf6834  4-the DNC leaks aren't even what the charges are about. (It's the warcrimes he exposed) 5-there's no evidence he withheld comperable information on Trump (do you want media to only release stories when they have comperably damning information on the other party?) 6-the leaks show Hillary colluding with the media to push Trump in the GOP primary. 7-I WANT TO FUCKING KNOW IF THE DNC RIGS A PRIMARY 8-even if Assange can be shown to have a bias for Trump over Hillary, all journalists have bias (those that claim otherwise are liars) and the most likely explanation why is simple. Assange's top issue is transparency and Trump's administration leaks like a sieve. The list just goes on and on. People airing the government's dirty laundry are giving all of us more power against the government. What we do with that is on us (but shooting the messanger is always the dumbest move and always backfires)
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  862. You want to know what the center of the political spectrum and the country is? Go look up Bernie's platform.
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  863.  @Evanmnm  you asked "how" I answered. (By "we" I meant "our country" if that was the point that was unclear for you)
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  864. Basically every European mythology/legend that endured through the middle ages has some kind of connection to Christianity somewhere. Outside of Greco-Roman stuff, almost everything we know of European supernatural beliefs has been preserved through being either interwoven with Christian beliefs or as an account of what Christians were saying about "pegans" and their beliefs with almost every account of beliefs not making it to us by a Christian-held pen writing from a decidedly Christian perspective being erased from the historical record. The loss of knowledge is sad, but it does mean that it's not really "if" but instead "where" any supernatural tellings from Medieval Europe have ties to Christianity. Pick a subject and dig, and you will find them.
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  865. @Ad3m_02 a-the Nazis learned from the US. b-Netanyahu is a fascist and has engaged in holocaust "revisionism" c-being a victim of an attrocity doesn't give you a pass to inflict it on others Do you need more reasons why your comment was dumb?
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  866. "Don't you dare tell my audience that most NRA members want a universal background check or make a distinction between the organisation and the members. I need to paint you as a radical attacking all members to cover for an organization taking their money to protect the interests of gun manufacturers."
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  867. Much as Red didn't want to go that far, I still kinda wish she had. It would have been hilarious.
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  868. Yes he was. He was corrected on them very rationally in detail. He, being a rational person, was able to accept the critiques. Follow his example and do the same. Don't fall into dogmatism and close your mind. You're feeding the irrationality just as much as the ACA board. Please stop.
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  869. You know, the one who put people in prison by withholding evidence proving their innocence, and kept people in prison past their sentences to get nearly slave labor from them. #KamalaForJail2020
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  870.  @kendov288  really? 1 yard=3 ft If you ever saw one of those really long rulers in school it was probably a yardstick. (Which, imo, are about the proper length for a bastard sword) I find 3ft incriments are really useful for easy estimation of distances in day-to-day life and bonus: 1 yard is roughly equal to 1 meter so as long as you've got a bit of fudge room for your measurements, you can hope right over to metric there. It's one of the most practical units to be familiar with in the imperial system.
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  871. They're not being stupid. "What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: Who is to blame?" -the opening lines of HBO miniseries Chernobyl. They are waging a war on people's ability to recognize truth because they are ideologically opposed to truth.
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  872. Side note: abortion CAN trace it's roots back to the founding of the USA. When the court claims otherwise, it is lying. It was commonly known of and done and if the founding fathers had intended for it to be illegal, they would have made it illegal. More of the "origionalists" not actually caring what the original intent was.
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  873. Why would you say that?? Ugh, fuck you for that *shudders*
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  874.  @WanderTheNomad  not having enough money to meet basic needs is not the same as not having any money at all. If someone is choosing between paying for food and paying for gas for the car they're living out of or a cheap motel room to take a shower so they stand a chance in that job interview, it's to the corporation's benefit to make sure those limited funds go to food. Dollars are dollars, and the only reason they'd want to turn down those dollars is because they want to keep poor people away from their higher-paying customers (in which case we're right back to throwing out food).
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  875. Yup, the term was coined to describe royalists opposing democratic government in the first place and then when that failed, conservatism was created to use the market and the dictatorial way we structure corporations to uphold neofeudalism. All right wing politics is about heirarchy and consolidation of power, so democracy is a threat to it.
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  876. Philex Leung and you don't understand that as long as the dems can count on your vote, they will continue to refuse to represent you. Imagine walking into a shady used car dealership and saying "I'm not leaving this lot without a car, now give me the best deal you have." Do you expect you'd be treated fairly? Any negotiation where you're not willing to stand up, say "no deal", and walk away from is one you should expect to be taken advantage of in. Unless Bernie starts his own party, a 2-pronged strategy, attacking the corporate dems from within and without is the only viable option. You all need to get off your high horses and work together rather than letting yourselves be divided by those who would love us to spend all our effort fighting each other while they laugh all the way to the bank.
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  877.  Proud Progressive  as someone who has family working on a covid floor of a hospital, please take this with the deepest sincerity. "People" like you are a blight on the species. Keep your science-denying mouth closed.
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  878.  @BlaqueCzar  if Biden gets the nomination, don't be so sure about that.
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  879. I was stunned that the interviewer even asked her "What do you mean occupation of Palestine?" The question being asked is what the controversy should have been about.
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  880. Benny boy wouldn't be who he is if he was affected by saying hypocritical things.
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  881.  @kansasthunderman1  please look up the prisoner's dilemma. It applies to public transit vs driving (among a great many other things) Everyone doing what is in their personal best interest in a situation quite often leads to worse overall outcomes.
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  882. @Ann Campbell side note: left wing politics traces its roots back to the enlightenment. Right wing politics traces its roots back to the royalists opposing it and the democratic government it called for. You really don't want to bring up the enlightenment. That doesn't go well for you. Stick to simpler, less philosophical, points.
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  883. Fear. Both are over 50% disapproval, so a public that wasn't too afraid to support a 3rd party would already have decided the results of this farce of an election.
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  884. His wife doesn't have them; his corporate donors do (along with his spine)
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  885. The first ad was simply Hillary saying "court Bernie supporters? They're even more fractured than our party, so I'm already winning! Let's be clear, I don't need them, I'm winning." To which I flick her off. 2 losers yelling about "winning" with elementary school logic...this election's turning into a Charley Sheen breakdown...
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  886. His work led, indirectly, to the deaths of countless innocents. Look at just the death tolls from for-profit healthcare (45k per year WITH the ACA, which reduced it), and the Iraq war (aprox 500k) that his work has helped perpetuate and cause. That's just a small fraction of what he's had a hand in. For example long term toll of climate change and ISIS may outclass both of those put together, and that doesn't even touch on all the non-lethal harm he's done. Manning is free and Ailes is dead! Today is a DAMN good day!!!!
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  887. Someone like Bernie? Plenty of republicans were planning to vote for Bernie over Trump if he won the primary. The republicans you can reach are really simple to reach. -Be pro-worker. -Be strong enough to stick by your principles no matter what. They just want someone strong that's for the little man. The rest is just details so it's easy, but that's why these spineless corporatists can never do it. Forget the Republicans though. 40% of the voters are independents. You want to win, those are the votes to go for, and the simplest 1st step to do that is to open primaries.
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  888. +Proud IrishAmerican Yup, though as a sidenote, this (and overbooking in general) coming back to bite them is their own fault, so any price they need to raise it to to get someone to voluntarily leave should be what they have to pay. In buisness, if you screw up, you're supposed to eat that loss, whatever it is. You sold too many tickets? Well, now you need to buy them back at the lowest price someone is willing to sell at. That's fair. Deal with it, or don't overbook. It's not just the ticket you're taking from them, but a lot of their time on short notice. They get to set the price for that.
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  889. +goran77ish Your assessment is correct. The skill level you're seeing is lower than the majority of people I've seen before they get any training. The only ones that are worse are those that fight by trying to imitate bad anime & game techniques. I'm not qualified to be any kind of professional teacher on this and I could have pretty much any able-bodied person able to beat him 9/10 matches in under an hour of instruction.
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  890. +Joshua Dunbar They weren't even fighting against the status quo. They were fighting to keep the status quo of enslaving other people. They even shot first in protest against an election to start a war they couldn't win and dragged it out far past the point where they'd lost costing huge numbers of American lives. and please, don't give me that BS about "states' rights" or comparing them to someone like Schindler because we all know it was about the "states' rights to keep slaves". Every statue of a confederate general on public land should be destroyed and replaced with one of Lincoln or a Union general. We've been having the same damn arguments with this group of people since before the founding of the country and they've been wrong the ENTIRE time. Confederate apologists are nearly as bad as holocaust deniers and are a dead-weight dragging our country down.
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  891. You mean like he was through the entire primary and likely for most of his political career?
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  892. At 56% disapproval, I think we've officially reached the point where the public would prefer a random selection to either of these so-called "candidates"
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  893. No, but he is what Bill Maher pretends to be.
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  894. This reply needs to happen more often. ...a LOT more often, since it's simple enough that even Rush could understand it.
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  895. Poorly trained (often conscripted) soldiers, a government staffed based on loyalty to Putin instead of competence, abysmally low morale, fascist brainrot throughout the system (see Umberto Eco for the details), etc....yeah, the Russian military has some massive hurdles to achieving baseline competence, which they're currently tripping over and faceplanting in front of the world from.
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  896. The 25% supporting some military action is the same 25% that comes up repeatedly as being completely disconnected from reality because they do not care about evidence and rationality. You cannot reasonably expect to reach that block on any issue. The unsure are the ones we need to focus on.
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  897.  @1Hippo  that sounds like a yeast infection waiting to happen
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  898. Yeah, gotta make the will of the average voter seem like some mysterious leftist conspiracy...clearly can't help but going back to the cold war playbook they loved so much.
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  899.  @discreteelite_318  good source, but he's not asking the question in good faith.
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  900. Civility and decorum have always been the shields of those who see themselves as rulers and prefer the negative peace that is the absence of conflict to the positive peace that is the presence of justice (to borrow from MLK). It has been this way since the dawn of civilization. He is the only person in that room that understands that he is a representative there to serve citizens, and not a ruler there to manage peasants.
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  901. The question is very simple: Do we trust politicians with the power to tell any citizens "you can't vote"? The answer, of course, is "no"
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  902.  @andreipopescu5342  poverty is a public safety concern.
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  903. He constantly needs to redefine terms and invent new language even when it seems unnecessary because it starts to isolate the thinking of his adherents from everyone else where they might run into views that differ from those he pushes or strawmans....and yes, that is a dangerous sign.
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  904.  @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770  I mean, he keeps supporting ethnonationalism and helping the rise of Nazis so...
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  905. Correction: politically correct grammar is more important to him This is what real political correctness looks like; policing correct use of language to insist on euphemisms that protect the established political class. Remember; when push comes to shove, corporatists support fascism over anything leftist and fascists are happy to ease them into things one violation of human rights at a time.
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  906. I'm more in agreement with Kyle's position, but devil's advocate a minute; they're not banning a substance. They're banning the sale of one delivery method among many (including one which could be disassembled and turned into the banned one at home for personal use) I agree with the general concern of black markets, but how much of a danger is that, really, when it's not tobacco, but just cigarettes being banned? Non-rhetorical question, btw, I legit don't know how many would turn to a black market instead of switching to vapes, chew, or cigars. I admit I'm uneasy about unintended consequences of this law as well (and don't find it the most effective way to combat the problem), but how much of a risk is there? I can think of issues, but is there any parallel we can use to try and judge the likelihood of those problems?
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  907. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahano
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  908. Hmm, his approval ratings are in freefall right now but also at 53%? Yeah, that doesn't pass the smell test.
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  909. The unfortunately the enemy of my enemy would rather loose to MAGA than work with people like me. We shouldn't put all the blame on the left for this.
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  910.  @CBlargh  You're underestimating how much of a mess the Arizona's wreckage is. Other ships that were sunk that day were raised up off the seabed, repaired, and sent back out. The Arizona wasn't and for good reason. Also, Japan wasn't trying to take that ship or the US at all. They were trying to prevent the US from stopping them from taking over east Asia and that section of the Pacific.
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  911.  @RiatsuNoYomi  have you read the biblical descriptions of angels?!? No, that is not the treatment you want to use.
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  912. The far-right didn't gain power by moving to the center. If you want to move the Overton window, you have to be willing to at least push the boundaries of it. Better still is to move significantly outside of it and defending that position unapologetically (which also has the effect of making everyone between your position and the center of the Overton window into the new moderates). Also, you can't move reachable right wingers while looking weak and afraid of admitting what you really believe.
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  913. Bernie Sanders isn't even a full socialist, just a social democrat. In other words, he's an economic moderate. He's basically FDR, who's explicit goal was to "save capitalism". I guarantee you that anyone who's more afraid of that than Trump will not only refuse to make the compromises needed to stop total economic collapse, but will end up siding with the facists after it happens.
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  914. Begun? It never ended.
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  915. Chick-fil-a donates to the GOP so they're going to make sure they won't be blocked from getting government money through contracts, so they "need" to be protected because they push the same homophobia as the GOP. Pretty standard corruption, really.
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  916. ...it is so rare I want a shirt with a print that my desire for this is confusing.
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  917. Ikr? David, stop calling Nanci Poloci left. She's center right (at best) and will oppose progressives at every turn because that's her job as much as it is the job of Justice Democrats to to a "hostile takeover" of the party so we can return it to a party for the people. That's not a problem caused by Trump. That's a problem caused by the "Democratic" Party being filled with people to the right of Reagan!
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  918. Funny thing about violence, they want you to think it's only ever violence when you do it, but every law is backed with violence. It's violence that says you have to give up your home if you can't pay. It's violence that says the hungry poor can't have food if you're hungry and broke. What does that say about putting someone in a situation where they need to risk their lives in a pandemic to not die for the greed of rich assholes? Is that a form of indirrect violence especially when we know such decisions will have a body count?
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  919. Prostitutes just sell themselves. Who sells out non-consenting 3rd parties? Politicians and human trafficers.
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  920. Democracy will never be safe as long as the CIA exists. Kennedy knew that. Kennedy was shot.
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  921. He has faced a challenge though...his own moronic incompetence. Who bankrupts multiple casinos?
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  922. lnkstain I'd say don't drink the cool-aid, but I think he's snorting it...
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  923. Even if you personally are better off with a car (not that that's always true, as others have pointed out, or that that excludes you from also using public transit) personal vs public transit largely comes down to defecting vs cooperating in a prisoner's dilemma. Look that up if you don't know what I mean by that because prisoner's dilemmas are everywhere, but simply put, societies (and the individuals in them) are better off when the norm is mass transit instead of the norm being driving. Environmentally, economically, socially, and even just in commute times.
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  924.  @adamgarcia7192  in other words theocrats trying to take over an explicitly secular nation.
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  925.  @professorpancakes6545  I mean that was basically the defense of that one cop that went on a killing spree lately, so that's barely an exaggeration.
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  926.  @sewerrat7321  that was a bad reference, but I got it 😉
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  927. I don't know the specifics of how it functions, but YouTube absolutely has a blacklist. I know of a channel that found out they were on a blacklist when their income dropped to literal cents (down from a professional income) and the had a friend saying they were trying to advertise on their channel specifically and were being prevented from doing so. They were eventually removed from the blacklist, and it may have changed overtime (since they were hit very hard, very early in the adpocolypse), but it absolutely exists. (channel was Secular Talk, for those that want to do research, though the specific channel is irrelevant for this specific)
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  928. I'd argue anticipating possible changes to warfare is part of a general's job. (An often neglected part, but part of it just the same, so yes, it is fair to blame them)
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  929. crackshack2 I wouldn't give too much credit to the Nazis, as their military strategy wasn't as much a stroke of brilliance as just being the only method of war they had the capabilities to wage synergising well with the optimal ways to use the weaponry of the era. Of course, failing to make a plan to defend against your enemy's only viable strategy only makes the French failure even more embarrassing. The only defense you can make for French military leadership of the time is that failures in war caused by gearing your entire military to be overly committed to the way the last war was fought is so insanely common throughout history that I can only assume there's some near universal human cognitive blindspot causing it. Humans are predictably foolish if nothing else...hell, if we weren't, we wouldn't get into so many stupid wars in the first place.
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  930.  @zerefdragneel2289  you're missing the big picture for the next decade. We will literally not be able to automate ourselves out of the pile of work that has been growing for decades before the deadline to deal with climate change. Even when things are developed, there is rollout time to consider. There's simply too much work to be done that the market won't pay for to allow automation to make human labor unnecessary during that time period. As things get automated, that would just free up labor to put to other tasks that have been going undone for decades. This process will push back the threat of automation by increasing the amount of work being done in the economy by getting to work on those tasks that markets don't incentivise the doing of. After that sure, we absolutely should be looking into a (better) UBI plan, but the immediate problem isn't a lack of work for human so do, but markets not putting labor to tasks that need doing. (Side note, the jobs guarentee would also greatly increase workers' negotiating power vs their employers)
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  931.  @gnome3928  BS, Bernie's plan is way better than Canada's and Yang's won't get us any closer to a public plan than Warren's for many of the same reasons. While you fuss over how quickly the festering bandaid is being pulled of to be replaced with M4A (which itself is already a compromise plan that leaves the hospitals and big pharma private instead of nationalizing them too) 10s of thousands of people die and the market failure of privatized healthcare continues to exponentially raise costs (as it always will with how market forces act on healthcare in the real world).
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  932.  @theburninator888  because of the fascist obsession with violent "heroism," machismo, and weaponry. For more, look up Umberto Eco's "Ur-fascism"
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  933.  @spencerschubert5001  at least I can see the sun
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  934. I really hope his tendency to be unable to keep his mouth shut continues. If I was his legal defense, I would be trying to figgure out if it was possible to get him into the courtroom gagged.
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  935.  @Babygirlly555  thank you for proving by thinking that it's the people that should be loyal to the politicians that you (and those like you) don't understand our form of government at all. I love when my posts get replies that prove my point. Go find youself a dictatorship; you'll be happier there and won't have to think about complex things. Btw, fealty better describes what you're talking about.
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  936. The Satyr ironic, isn't it.
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  937. Well he makes a living off of "alt-right" propaganda so...
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  938. It's called gaslighting.
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  939.  @heinzarniaung2915  yeah, it's unfortunate for those who don't abuse it, but can be worth it to cut down on the spam bots depending on how hard they hit a channel.
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  940.  @destinal_in_reality  false equivalence Try again?
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  941. The biggest danger is unlikely to even be the egg, but rather the flour. Just an interesting fact.
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  942. Except she's not fake. She actually is as insane as she appears.
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  943. It's really simple to me: You cannot hand politicians the ability to use the law as a tool to take the right to vote away from anyone, because if you do, we have seen they will use it to take the right to vote away from people less likely to vote for them. It falls into the broader issue of politicians being allowed to choose their voters being poison to democracy.
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  944.  @SkullCandy5671  I said "started the violence" but yes, in many cases, we have confimed that the property destruction was started by police going under cover to infiltrate the protests to start smashing windows. The auto-zone incident was one of the earliest confirmed cases of this rather common police tactic. This is also an objective fact about reality, but really inconvenient for you, huh?
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  945. Our government has been controled by psychopaths for decades and I'm not being hyperbolic. This is the only outcome a rational person should expect from such. We must take it back from the usurpers and restore democracy before it's too late.
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  946.  @Steven9567  the EU is flawed but "tyrannical"? Really?!? Got a pretty low bar for how you use that word, huh?
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  947. I've heard it put that laws and constitutions are like fortifications in that they are absolutely meaningless unless there are people actively defending them.
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  948. A certain leftist YouTuber did one titled "the origins of conservatism" that explains this down to its root.
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  949. The tryhard of quotemining
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  950. Kyle Wynne Washington is in the business of making sure the "sweat of a man's brow" ends up in a rich man's bank account.
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  951. Krazi Renee oh sure, it would suck, but let's not be dishonest and pretend there aren't those on the right that fantasize at taking another crack at it.
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  952. I can settle this pretty solidly. Look up the origins of the "War on Christmas" scaremongering. Spoilers though, it's literally Nazi propaganda created by Henry Ford. Faux News just put white out over the part where they explicitly blame Jewish people....much like they did with "Cultural Marxism" and the "great Replacement" BS Tucker keeps going on about. It's all just whitewashed antisemitic Nazi propaganda. Look any of it up if it sounds like I'm exaggurating. I promise you if anything I'm underselling it.
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  953. @dskmb3 no, fascists do not think rules should apply equally....actually, at least half of the right side of the political spectrum doesn't believe that because right wing politics is about consolidating power to create heirarchies. Considering right-wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing things like democratic government and equality in the first place, this should surprise no-one (other than the fact that we have a government that deliberately tries to keep its population politically illiterate)
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  954.  NNA S  why should a rich person want to vote for someone who would distribute economic power to the poor when that would be against his interests? Why should a white man have voted for anything in the civil rights movement when that meant sharing social, political, and economic power? If "because it's the right thing to do" how about because the alternatives to a tax increase are pitchforks and guillotines or fascism? But no, let's sympathize with the short-sighted whining of a billionaire going "oh no, if they take just several percent of my wealth, what will I have left? I may just have to vote for the unstable, moronic, protofascist manchild who's agenda will do more damage to the world in 8 years than my lifetime of philanthropy (which this waffling reveals my less than altruistic motives for)" /S Come on dude, do you have no self-respect?
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  955.  @GSP-76  or, you know, if the people took back the country from the oligarchal usurpers, reinstituted a democratic government and tried them ourselves (you know, those that survived the treason charges for sending weapons to our enemies for personal gain, of course).
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  956. Nevermind that part of Congress's explicit responsibility is to "provide the the general welfare" or that the government dirrectly paying privately owned hospitals is about as moderate a position as the government paying private civil engineering companies to maintain roads and bridges. But sure, going with the will of the people to do a completely moderate thing that the Constitution arguably demands is anti-American and extremist, but using legalized bribery to override the will of the people is fine... Fuck these rich assholes. If we can use tax dollars to save American lives from fire, dangerous products, dangerous working conditions, murderers, foreign threats, etc we can use it to save Americans from things like cancer. Them arguing otherwise is to drench their hands in our blood and take the stance that the Government only exists to preserve US power and business interests.
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  957.  @FidelCattto  Communism is a moneyless, classless, stateless society. China isn't even socialist (but George Orwell was).
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  958.  @keirfarnum6811  citizen vs professional wasn't the real cause of the fall of Rome. The professionalization of the army happened long before the peak. Militarily, the fall was related to the privatization of the military (aka mercenaries which may have been more what you had in mind) and the loss of the ability to absorb losses and get right back on its feet. It was also caused by increasing xenophobia and a stalling of the process of ongoing reforms to keep ahead of the flaws in the internal political/social/economic systems (which then left unchecked, rotted the system from the inside out) We are showing lots of signs, though, I agree.
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  959. This is mentioned in the text at the end and where that version came from
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  960. Americans still sadly think like serfs looking for a leader to rule them, rather than like true citizens looking for representatives to serve them. Even more broadly, the way most treat celebrities is disgustingly childish. Just this idol worship where people are put on pedestals and need to be forced to view them as anything less than perfect is something humans are meant to grow out of, but our culture is great at keeping a lot of the population as children all the way from birth to grave.
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  961. I've come to a very simple standard on this: Reckless endangerment is already a crime. Your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose. Thus, if you want to self-isolate in the woods or in your home to avoid the shot, have fun, but you don't have anymore right to spread around a pandemic than you do to drive drunk or wave around a loaded gun in the middle of a crowd for no good reason. It's a very simple and consistent standard. Whether we're talking mask rules or vaccines, if you refuse to not follow basic rules to not endanger the wellbeing of the people around you, we have a lot of jailcells with non-violent offenders that we can make make room in. I really don't give AF. And while we're on the subject, remember that BS where people were responding to employees asking them to please put on a mask by shouting and deliberately coughing on their face that was going viral repeatedly towards the beginning of this. That's assault. If spitting on someone's shirt normally counts as assault, pulling that BS in a pandemic is at least assault and that's not even up for discussion. Self defense and arrests would have been the appropriate responce and shut this BS down early.
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  962. I don't know why I didn't expect this comment. I really should have, in retrospect.
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  963.  @andrewmattox1233  hey dumbass, more people in cities means more land is left wild which results in an even better carbon footprint than stretching infrastructure out to everyone so that they can personally own the land trying to keep up with their carbon output. If you can't be assed to do some basic research and just want to keep a myopic perspective so you can feel superior, you don't deserve any respect in a discussion on the topic you're willfully ignorant on. Ps: suburban sprawl isn't necessary or integral to cities
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  964. Adorable art, fascinating information, funny jokes, and that amazing shade at 13:22 all with some nice singing at the end. Red's doing awesome, as usual (and maybe a little above average, though with how high that standard is, that's always hard to judge)
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  965.  @6789uiop  black BOOMERS opposed Bernie.
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  966. It's not just where you live. The belief that liberals are leftists seems to be one shared almost exclusively by people in the US and fascists. The Cold War propaganda broke Americans' understanding of politics so thoroughly we're still reeling from it.
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  967. This, Secular Talk, and Humanist Report are my main 3
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  968. @The Millennial Gamer that stat reaks of the asshole it was pulled from. Just stop and do more listening and less talking please. You're making up stats and throwing around fallacies like crazy.
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  969.  @kaskus7147  no, he's on the Alex Jones path
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  970. By a completly strict reading of the constitution, all sorts of things would be legal (including conspiracy to commit murder as freedom of speech). That's why all rights spelled out in the constitution are subject to some bare-bones, common-sense restrictions. Also, we have prescedent of pardons being given before any sort of legal proceeding, so a President could just pardon himself before the impeachment proceedings even started, rendering the entire point of impeachment (which is about leveling charges, not removal from office) being included in the constitution moot. The common sense reading of this is that a President cannot pardon themself because it would make no sense within the context of the document.
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  971.  @thulyblu5486  anarchism is opposition to all heirarchies which cannot strongly justify themselves. That is the opposite of capitalist corporations which functions internally as a dictatorship with very stratified heirarchies where the rich make the rules. (And routinely become tyrannical defacto governments whenever the local government isn't strong enough to oppose them) Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoronic rebranding of conservatism which was invented to conserve feudal heirarchies under different pretences (capitalism replacing the divine right of kings) in opposition to those who overthrew the monarchies in favor of democratic, egalitarian societies.
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  972. He's already been involved in politics for a LONG time. Hell, his hyperloop idiocy was a con to kneecap California's plans for highspeed rail.
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  973.  Steven Bee  these kinds of bass-ackwards rules are what you get when you have a country with a constitution prohibiting a police state, but your government wants one anyway.
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  974. Gandalf the white I'd argue that Obama just caused the left's anti-war movement to realize it was a lost cause until we took back our government, so the effort was redirected.
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  975.  @JohnSmith-cq6jn  wanna bet you don't know what the actual law is?
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  976. There's a significant reduction in airflow with glasses and more of that has to pass over/through the eye lashes and less of it is going to be moving horizontally across the eye. When you're dealing with a disease that needs a certain viral load to infect people, that adds up.
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  977. I have my issues with the Dems, but the only political position the GOP has is "be evil"
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  978.  @talkingbutt3150  in other words, Dr Oz is a Republican
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  979. Ben will cry antisemitism on Bernie, the rest of the establishment will cry antisemitism on the rest and ignore that Bernie isn't going too, and the real antisemitism in America will go ignored.
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  980. If FDR had been like Obama, we would have had a civil war and joined either the Soviets or the Nazis depending on who won.
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  981. ​ @adamesd3699 that's because it's true of ALL right wingers.
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  982. "Can" is unfortunately the operative word. Many are still continuing to return to sources that have proven themselves entirely untrustworthy.
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  983. The advertisers probably don't really want it being covered.
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  984.  @vashtanerata1799  hearning boomers complain about being alienated by millennials is like hearing whites in 1980 complaining about feeling alienated by blacks. You ever thing the hostility might be a completely normal reaction to the constant ageism that millenials experience that boomers almost never call each other on?
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  985. Placebo or some other change in their life unaccounted for. These "medicines" do nothing and the theory behind them is based on long disproven superstitions. Chemistry and our universe just doesn't work that way.
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  986. Or a corporate executive.
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  987.  @CahzinarX  just going to blatently ignore that this is happening to children to so you can act like a monster and pretend to have the moral highground?
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  988. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  989. Rest in power
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  990.  @darren871  how much are you getting paid?
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  991. Question for all the MRAs in the comment section: Why did men's movements stop talking about 'toxic masculinity' (a term that came from men's movements, not feminism) leaving only feminists to discuss that serious issue impacting men while the current MRA movement just whines? Might it be that the current MRA movement is less about helping men than it is about trying to keep women down?
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  992. mud cat You're trusting the CIA and the DNC on no evidence and calling others "naive"?
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  993. Are you sure he wouldn't hurt himself? Bad techniques asside, with as uncomfortable with and afraid of his sword he looks, that isn't unlikely.
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  994. We're already not a democracy. Public opinion has 0 statistical effect on government policy. Placeboes have more than that. We're still a democratic country on paper, and we're fighting to get back to being a one in practice, but in reality, we're an oligarchy.
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  995. +liberty2014 if we're an oil economy for the next 100 years we are beyond fucked.
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  996. Warren's just been a huge disappointment this election cycle. If she ran, she would have won. If she had endorsed Bernie early, he would have won by dispelling both the notion that he was a joke candidate that existed early on and cutting into Hillary's woman card (and let's be honest, she has been playing that with trying to label all her opponents sexist). I can barely call this disappointing with how much of my respect she'd already lost.
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  997. Kyle Kulinski's Black Son because bigotry is fundamentally a divide and conquer strategy. When your self worth is based on your social rank (or your self-percieved social rank), the more people you can put "beneath" you in your own eye, the "better" you are. Just like schoolyard bullying, the actual differences selected don't matter.
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  998. Anyone else notice him fiddling with his wedding ring twice really early on and then trying real hard to not do it again (until he put his hands under the desk, where he probably went right back to that). I don't want to read too much into that because it could mean several different things, but that's sure an interesting guilty tell, I gotta say!
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  999. Anna nailed: it doesn't matter what she says because we don't believe her. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 100s of times, and I'm a Clinton supporter. They can go on about how "she won" all they want, but to put it bluntly, she cheated at every oppertunity; that doesn't count as a win. All that does is make people (correctly) feel that they don't have any real voice.
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  1000. It's important to understand there isn't just one evil behind the curtain, but yes, they're attending the banquet back there.
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  1001.  Ej MoreG  unless Trump takes us to full-out fascism, there's no way he could do more damage to our institutions than Bush. There just isn't enough remaining for him to fuck up after Bush's incalculable damage to our democracy.
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  1002.  @billy-ps7jz  a right-leaning moderate is too far left to you to even consider having credibility? Are you a fascist by chance?
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  1003. Used to remove iron and manganese Blood needs iron Bones need manganese Government "not great, not terrible"
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  1004. It's not targeting older people. It's targeting communities that are often underserved by polling places. Aka black people.
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  1005. I want to say "really?!" but honestly, that wouldn't surprise me at all
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  1006.  @Kekkeri59  yeah, because leftist content isn't basically universally demonitized. Sure buddy /s
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  1007. Sore arm + being a little tired for a few days vs intubation and lasting lung and brain damage...hmmm....idk, hard choice
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  1008. I wish that surprised me....
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  1009. A progressive in favor of the status quo is, by definition, not a progressive, reguardless of what they might claim. Neither is one who wants to curtail free speech or institute forms of segregation to deal with bigotry. That's what the term "regressive" was created to describe.
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  1010. Sitting near the center between a center-right party and an increasingly fascist party means you're far right.
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  1011. The right has only 2 insults: 1-Some variation of "dirty commie" 2-projection End of list.
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  1012. We're talking about people who see kneeling as a sign of disrespect to our troops even though the idea of the kneeling protest was tought up as a way to respectfully protest by a veteran and kneeling has, throughout history, been seen as a higher level of respect than standing...
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  1013. See also Numbers 31:17-18 (which means exactly what it sounds like it means) to see just how nauseating the form of slavery in the Bible is.
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  1014. @debunker300 here's your argument thoroughly debunked: https://youtu.be/WqCCx4wj79o (Ironically from your perspective, perhaps, Rome fell in no small part because of xenophobia) Please watch and then really scrutinise and source that is feeding you that falsehood (because many are doing it intentionally as a form of white nationalist propaganda)
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  1015. @YTCensorsMe Poop it is still not clean and they're not the only place innthe US without clean water
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  1016. It's the US so the most likely explanations are: A-people were putting all sorts of stupid shit in it and a legislator got overly specific about saying what chocolate can contain and still be called chocolate to stop that in its tracks. B-the dary lobby wanted to cut out some competition C-a politician had some chocolate with vegetable oil he really didn't like and snuck it into a line in a large bill (and to get his vote, everyone else went along with it) D-some combination thereof
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  1017. Serves them right for Photoshopping Bernie! How the MSM has any viewers when they lie so frequently is stunning. How pathetic do you have to be to keep going back to news outlets you know are lieing to you?
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  1018. Cons -pervasive disgust toward Crusaders Cons? Knowing what I know of the first Crusade, I'm inclined to agree, and I've got about 1000 years and a continent and ocean distance from it.
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  1019. Same reason people are normally cruel when there's no personal benefit or mental disorder: some spiteful religion told them some normal thing was a sin.
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  1020. Tony DiMeo there is something new: Millenials were the first generation to enter the workforce with worse economic prospects than their parents. Boomers gotta deflect from that failure somehow.
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  1021. As a Byzantine enthusiast, Denouncing Venice is, of course, my religion.
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  1022. My thanks and sympathies. I'll keep donating so please keep calling.
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  1023.  @ad8447  all you did there is prove you know nothing of history. Go learn about prohibition.
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  1024. Noam Chomsky on the (BS) definition of democracy this corporatist is using https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc (Spoilers, it has nothing to do with actual democracy)
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  1025. Joe pretends to be a lot more moderate than he is to try and act as a gateway. Joe is actually a far right bigot. That's why he bahaves the way he does, and why fracking reactionaries need to walk him back to a more moderate position when he starts getting too into the bigotry with them.
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  1026. Lately? Bill Maher is an establishment tool with the jobs of defining the leftmost position of the Overton Window and directing the anger of progressives to where the establishment "Democrats" want. He's just performing his job as normal.
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  1027. "Non lethal rounds or lethal" At that range pointed at someone's head, almost everything is lethal.
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  1028. Musk is a wannabe cyberpunk dystopia villain. I'm not even joking or exaggerating there.
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  1029. "harrassment" kinda burries the lead when he's being accused of repeated sexual assault of unconscious coworkers
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  1030.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  you don't want to take it from me? Fine, here's a Gen Xer significantly to my left to school you on how the right is antithetical to thw values this country was founded on and the values that made us strong. https://youtu.be/YZi-lMsixcM Or continue laughing like a flat earther who thinks someone explaining how we know the Earth is round is funny. You're free to do that, but anyone who actually has the maturity of an adult will continue to see you for the pathetic, scared manchild that you are.
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  1031. Pluralism isn't a uniquely modern thing, though. Let the nationalists get their heckles up over history, as it's full of examples of cultures made stronger by not being closed-minded. The whole point of learning history is to be able to learn from it. Just because the risk of projecting our own veiws backwards onto others is ever present, doesn't mean we should look at history as just a list of names, events, and dates.
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  1032. Somehow those bits were the most offensive part of that pile of vague BS. Also, if you want to bring up the nation's real motto, don't then end your speach with "in God we trust" and "God bless America" in quick succession...
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  1033. ​@Georgina602that is a temporary state of affairs
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  1034.  @catherinerodriguez4598  if you think lies are unacceptable, you can't support Hillary.
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  1035. Not just murders, but knowingly suppling arms to Al-Quaida (a declared enemy of the US) through Saudi Arabia means that nearly the entire US government should be tried for treason.
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  1036.  @TheKirkami  simply because it's cheaper and quicker to build.
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  1037.  @JohnnyBGoode-xn9mo  I'm not writing an academic paper. If you think linking excellent, well-researched overviews of a subject in a format that the audience I am talking to obviously likes to use to learn about the broader field we're talking about (politics) is a "never do this" I'm sorry, but you're a fool and shooting yourself in the foot. Content is more important than medium, people looking for an overview aren't typically going to delve into primary/formal academic sources linked in a YouTube comment thread, and those who are ready to delve to that level obviously aren't who I was talking to. If you want to be effective in communication, political or otherwise, be mindful of your audience.
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  1038. Either she's lying, or it reveals a great deal about the bubble she was raised in...I'm not sure which reflects worse on her.
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  1039.  @michaeldavis2135  so when tax dollars are put into something there should be no influence or profits returned to the taxpayers, but when investors put money into something they need to get a large return on it? Do you see your own double standard, you dishonest hack?
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  1040. Me: that sounds like, at minimum, grossly inappropriate professional misconduct to put it very politely (if you know what I mean)
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  1041. Voting for the military budget and then waging their finger perfectly encapsulates the McResistance of the establishment "Democrats"
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  1042. People like that are just as bigoted as white people who assume that the interracial wealth gap is due to laziness.
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  1043. @Saga of the Warrior King No True Scotsman fallacy The Bible explicitly forbids prostitution, explicitly demands the death penalty for far less, heavily implies the death penalty for prostitution (even having one king order it in genesis, to say nothing of a couple cities that Yahweh obliterated), and has been used to justify killing prostitutes throughout history. Funny thing about "holy books" is they're full of so many contradictions that you can use them to justify almost anything.
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  1044. I saw the prophet after I met God So you support banning all pain relievers and medical treatments which reduce suffering? That's the logical extension of that idea.
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  1045. I highly recommend Innuendo Studios' "alt right playbook" In particular, "always a bigger fish", "the origins of conservatism", and "I hate Mondays" The very notion of "solving problems" in the sense a progressive would think about it isn't actually a part of the ideology. Problems exist as something to sit around and passively just keep agreeing it's bad (without taking any systemic steps to reduce in the future) or as either evidence that people aren't "in the right place in the hierarchy" or just something to sort those deserving of power and privilage from those underserving. It's often not even that they believe that solvable problems need to persist. It's that (especially beyond "just put the right people in power and it'll sort itself out") they don't even believe "solvable problems" are a thing, and look at attempts to solve (or at least mitigate) them as either dangerous naivete or a cynical plot to put the "wrong" people in power. And yeah, there is almost zero room for compromise there. Unless you can make them feel like following their thought leaders will make them weak (the avoidance of feeling weak being the underlying motivation for everything), you can't get through to them because not only do they not believe in your goals, they probably don't think you do either. Why do they resist masking (for one of countless examples)? Because who's telling who what to do and blaming China are more important to them than any reduction in the death toll. Notice also the black and white thinking: either something is 100% effective, or it's worthless. They don't believe that, say, a 50% reduction in death toll would matter to anyone because they don't. To them, either a single solution will completely eliminate the problem, or it's worthless. And if it's worthless, they assume you're either a "sheep" or (by projecting their own motivations onto you) trying to control them just for the sake of wielding power. They are occasionally (accidentally) right on some things, though. Like psychology, as a field, being far too PC. Right-Wing Authoritarianism is a mental disorder and needs to be categorized as such.
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  1046. “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman, former Nixon Aide The war on drugs is doing exactly what it was intended to do.
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  1047. "Yes, this is Ukraine customer service. Our account records show you have ordered one combat death that we have not yet delivered to you. If you wish to cancel your service, we can set up an appointment for you to meet one of our customer service representatives."
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  1048. Right wing populism is always fake populism because populism is left wing, definitionally. Cover right wing authoritarianism with a veneer of populism and what do you have?
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  1049. Unironically, the public getting to see politicians' tells in a low stakes environment where who is lying isn't up for debate might not be a bad thing.
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  1050. The GOP would love to go back to the 50s and we're talking about the south so...kinda
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  1051. Yeah, AT&T has managed to pass Verizon in my rankings of phone companies I would least like to give my business to. An impressive feat after Ajit Pai.
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  1052.  @danextrinsic0174  conservatism = traditionalism = supporting maintaining the status quo above all = appeal to tradition = logical fallacy Just like the golden mean fallacy of "centrism" it's just not that thought out a position and puts feelings over facts falling into the pitfalls of the fallable human mind.
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  1053.  @ClarkPotter  if your positions are so bad that you need to lie that blatently to defend them, wouldn't it be less embarrassing to just admit you were wrong and change your oppinions?
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  1054. Spelled it right the first time.
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  1055. Jack Stanley try reading that again.
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  1056. A-they are alt-right, get over it chuds. B-I think that would be rather unfun, but very interesting
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  1057. As if we needed another..
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  1058. This is 100% within the realm of the powers delegated to the states.
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  1059. They put on the veneer of fighting for human rights abroad for the sake of imperialism and corporate profits, and they lean towards fascism at home for the same reason. 99% of the time, corporatists ally with fascists to stop the left. This is how fascism almost always happens; the establishment decides to endorse it with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
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  1060. There's no perhaps. There's no comparison between right wing and left wing domestic terrorism numbers and you only embolden them by pretending that there's even a chance in equivalency.
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  1061. It's even simpler than that. The more dirt you have on someone, the easier they are to control, and if that dirt came from a loose sense of morality, all the better when you want to get them to do immoral things. Psychopaths don't like to surround themselves with ethical underlings because it's dangerous and counter-productive.
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  1062. Not true. They also care about making sure any country in this hemisphere further left economically than Canada fails. It's not just about the oil. It's about making an example of them.
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  1063.  @mattdrummond3552  even at the harshest, pointing out that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones is hardly equivalent to the body shaming from the right.
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  1064. RyuFireheart I was already red-pilled. Now the only choice is seeing how far the rabbit hole goes
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  1065.  @CMA418  no vaccine is 100% effective, the immunocompromised and people who can't take the vaccine exists, and the longer it circulates the more chance it has to mutate into something that bypasses our resistance (through infection and vaccination) putting us right back at square 1. This has been repeated endlessly for a very long time and isn't even touching on the issue of our hospitals being overwhelmed impacting the ability for everyone to count on their being able to access needed medical care. Seriously, considering putting this comment on a note file so I can copypaste it with how sick I'm getting repeating the same damn thing...
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  1066. WarblesOnALot actually, that's (sadly) only the cover story. The reality is that old news media (who was feeling the heat of competition from YouTube news channels who weren't bought off) scoured the site to find one hateful video that had an ad on it which slipped through YouTube's previously existing filter system and jumped on it to try and get YouTube to crack down on content. A selection of large companies (such as Walmart and several predatory banks) joined in step immediately to boycott YouTube. Their motivation is that they were used to their advertising dollars buying bias, and the rise of people turning outside of TV news with said bias was leading to a wave of public opinion that threatens their goals. To give a couple specifics, Walmart really likes their suppliers to outsource their products, so they were hugely in favor of the planned TPP trade deal. While Trump may have latched onto it in his campaign, the original push-back against it came from the internet latching onto something that was supposed to happen quietly and spreading around how terrible it was. The banks, on the other hand, have had a nice long streak from Bill Clinton, to Bush, to Obama, to Hillary/Trump of presidents that would happily play ball and let them continue to screw over people more. Then Bernie (who's campaign was largely driven by the grass roots on the internet) came along and threatened that con-game and they were NOT happy about that. Of course, the mainstream media instantly piled on this, because of their ever shrinking credibly and viewer base. Meanwhile, youtube works with them to roll out TV news channels, and eventually "youtube tv" shortly thereafter (at a time-period which suggests they started this plan immediately after the first corporations started the boycott). To top things off, the same "news" corporations are really just huge media conglomerates who make money on non-news content, and so are perfectly happy to see other good content get hit, even if it's not political. To give an example relevant to this channel (beyond just time spent watching youtube competes with time watching TV), General Electric may have gotten into the game because of MSNBC (which they own) but, among other companies they hold, they also own The "History" channel, which is directly threatened by channels like this that make actually historically accurate content that people want to watch (& for far lower production costs than their BS shows). I could give more specifics if you want, but this is wall of text already long enough.
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  1067.  @paulanderson6834  he 100% fits the criteria. Whether we're talking about Lawrence Britt or Umberto Echo's 14 characteristics or the "palingenetic ultra-nationalism" definition which covers basically every widely accepted definition of fascism. Trump is a fascist (and a steriotypical cult leader). Also, let's look at Charlottesville: the true alt right to see how non-existant they are https://youtu.be/zcoYKuoiUrY I can keep going supplying more evidence about how prevalent fascism is in the US to everyone seeing this if you want to keep pushing this dishonest propaganda.
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  1068. I'll solve the confusion for you: Deep down every informed, thinking person knows that Trump dying would have saved thousands of lives.
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  1069.  @TheLilbigBlack  dude, you're subbed to at least one admitted white nationalist among the list of fascists you watch. We all know what you are.
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  1070. You or an archfay? Those are different answers.
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  1071.  @radein26  no see, the requirements for being a cop in the US are a bar you have to pass under. Too smart, moral, or honorable and they find out that you're actually fit to do the job, and you can kiss your policing career goodbye.
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  1072. They should have BUT.... "The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. . .However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare." "militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. . .the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors." "the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." -topical excerpts from Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism They were cowards terrified of acknowledging their own relative weakness and drunk on their own propaganda that the US didn't have the stomach for a drawn out fight, so they refused to acknowledge the reality of their situation for a very long time until even many of them could no longer deny it. To Yamamoto's credit, for all his misplaced loyalties, he did not let his mind be consumed by the death cult that had so consumed his government and maintained the ability to make rational assessments of his situation....which of course we're ignored. And why wouldn't they ignore him? It's not like fascist governments actually care about their people, so sending them into a meat grinder is just part of their day job to them. It's easy to bet on longshots when you're betting the time, money, and lives of others instead of your own (at least if you have no conscience). So yeah, just like the US Civil War, they picked a fight they couldn't win and preferred stacking up the bodies of others over admitting they were wrong for as long as they could, which is not at all uncommon for authoritarians of any stripe. The longer they put off surrender, the longer they stayed in power.
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  1073.  @4TwentyFour20  not that kind of mandate and you don't have the right to threaten the lives of those around you. That's normally called "reckless endangerment" in civilized society but you're being treated with kid gloves and still throwing a tantrum over it.
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  1074.  cm. CG  kinda just proving my point.
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  1075. Please encourage him to share stories of what he saw publicly. We need every voice we can get on this one.
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  1076. It does give us both an insame amount of charisma from his character, and the best title for him: King of Conquerors (Alexander Promachos is pretty good too)
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  1077.  @iwhxiwbdiqbxjdb  a- nice ad-hominem B-Musk is not working tirelessly to help people without concern for money. He's using his wealth for his own ego. C-you didn't address, at all, the central assertion about Musk's competancy or intellectual diligence So yeah, you're acting like a typical Musk fanboy.
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  1078.  @louisrobitaille5810  I don't know the term for the method, but I'm guessing the can was WD-40 as that's pretty flammable stuff, though with as many cans are pressurized with and/or contain flammable chemicals, I can't be sure. The context just seems more like WD-40 than, say, hair spray. I can say that it didn't work by making a vaccume, though. You'll notice that it inflated before the flames went out, so it was being filled with the rapidly expanding gasses. Unfortunately, I understand the physics better than I understand tractors so I'm limited with some of the specifics.
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  1079. You're really pissing off the Nazis by pointing this out. Keep it up.👍
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  1080.  @IshtarNike  has there ever in history been a protest movement that succeeded without making a wide swath of the population really uncomfortable? Protesting is like teaching history. If it's not making people uncomfortable, it's probably not being done right, or you're not actually doing it at all.
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  1081. Isn't not answering the question asked the norm for right-wing politicians or is that mainly a US thing?
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  1082. You know what else is a safety hazard? A "home" with no heating or water or roof or walls. Housing is a human right and necessity. Any government not willing to make sure everyone has it has no business complaining about what makeshift things people do to get by.
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  1083. The consent of prisoners is questionable as is the need for the trial. I'm on the fence myself, but there is a case to be made for the experiment being against the standards of medical ethics.
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  1084. hood off, armband on.
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  1085. Ziolek2000 and a union
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  1086. Um, that category has been emptied out for years. We just now live in the world of the Onion
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  1087. "The retired Air Force four-star general wholeheartedly concurred Wednesday night with an Aug. 12 Twitter post by Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce that read: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.” “I agree,” Hayden wrote. “And I was the CIA Director.”"
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  1088. Money makes money. The modest 2% is just a minor check on wealth's natural tendency to accumulate around itself. Money is power. One use of power is to get more power. Therefore, unchecked power/wealth disparities will naturally increase, eventually to the point where the individual who holds it is of little importance. People who actually know how to use it wisely will still be able to make money off their money just fine at such a modest rate. Only rich fools who shouldn't have such money in the first place will start to fall because of this, and if you want market economies in the first place, that needs to happen.
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  1089. No, that would be volcel. Incel are just bratty standard ones who feel entitled to other's bodies and get together to create a cesspit of a social bubble of like-minded individuals to validate and reinforce their toxic mindset. Of course, since people easily pick up on that BS, it only ensuring none of them will ever get laid by feeding the thing that's the main problem. (The mix of misogyny, entitlement, and victim identity)
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  1090.  @Anthropomorphic  correction: CNN: Bernie, why did you eat Warren's cookie Bernie: I've never eaten anyone else's cookie and have a record of giving others cookies CNN: Warren, how did you feel when Bernie ate your cookie.
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  1091.  walt charamba  it was a stroke. He almost certainly went to the closest hospital. I bet he didn't have to worry if it was in-network, though. Wish we could all have that and catch up to the rest of the developed world.
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  1092.  @unslaadkrosis3489  the simple truth is that the further right someone is, the more they care about power for their team than truth. This makes sense when you understand that the defining characteristic of all right-wing ideologies is consolidation of power. This gets even worse with fascists and other reactionaries who, no matter how much they may like to adopt the aestetics of intellectualism, fundamentally oppose the enlightenment and the values that came from it.
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  1093. Didn't just assume you have a friend. Assumed you have 62.5 friends! As an introvert I just have to say "Wtf?!"
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  1094. I will never say Avatar is a good movie. However, I will, dispite not normally caring about a movie's visuals beyond how they further the plot, say that it was drop-dead gorgeous and I don't regret going to see it in the slightest dispite the 3d glasses giving me painful eye strain. The plot dealing with the humans was just a wrapping and a visual palette cleanser to break up the enjoyment of the finest ambrosia of eye candy.
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  1095. It's fucking centrist. If you think it's far left, that means you've bought into far right propaganda, plain and simple.
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  1096.  @aliamjon2550  just in this segment he's hitting 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” Also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation. And that's just talking about what's happening here. Tucker is absolutely a fascist.
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  1097. Well that's the character House was explicitly based on, just remained as a doctor instead of a detective.
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  1098.  @ceshmate1953  I seem to have mixed up a Portland incident with a San Diego insident or it has happened in both places (there's so many incidents of the police straight-up acting like brownshirts right now that I can't keep it all straight), but here's some video evidence https://youtu.be/WzHuvYNtK6I Btw, the very next escalation step after where we are right now is openly disappearing people, breaking into houses to murder political dissidents in their sleep, and/or opening fire on crouds of protesters with live ammo.
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  1099. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  1100.  @aishabintabubakr4944  someone who clearly owns a klan hood shouldn't be accusing anyone else of being a white knight.
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  1101. Both malignant narcissists, 100%
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  1102. Matt Purvis at the very least what sanity we had took an abrupt nosedive about then and hasn't recovered.
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  1103.  @stefanfrankel8157  you can sell a real service and have it still be a scam if you lie about it ro sell it.
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  1104. North Georgia is a shithole (my sympathies btw), but thankfully, not all of Georgia.
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  1105. Wouldn't be the first time he bailed on a debate with Bernie
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  1106.  @NikitaOnline17  that, like this, was a calculated talking point. In that case, to deflect from talk about loosing the popular vote. Stop underestimating the oligarchy.
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  1107. Romano Coombs the truth is even darker than that. There's a portion of the human population that does almost nothing but sick random things in their mouth and does nothing to contribute to the group: babies. As much as we like to put their wellbeing first today, evolution considers babies more expendable than adults.
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  1108. The constitution requires that there be due process to take things from citizens, not due process for citizens to apply to get things taken back. It is 100% unconstitutional. The excessive fines prohibition is irrelevant.
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  1109. Welcome to the movement. We've been counting on you for a long time.
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  1110. "Fell" I'm sorry, but it would take monumental incompetence to both be involved in politics and not know that the Bush administration was lying with how they kept changing their justification in a circle the moment they got a whiff of pushback on any point. The correct assumption for anyone in politics is complicity unless evidence of monumental stupidity and gullibility.
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  1111. +Protemp That is frighteningly likely to be exactly what they're thinking given their recent behavior...
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  1112. Dispite my better sensibilities, I have to admit that I still find it helarious.
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  1113. How's voting for the lesser evil been working so far, hm?
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  1114. Peter Kapeel and that lack of empathy is your problem. Sure, compassion should be directed towards those feeling the loss, but empathy isn't just about being nice. It's about understanding. You're only able to be angry at them because you've closed yourself off to empathizing with them, as has most of our society for centuries now. It's easier than trying to understand how we could have let someone get into such a bad state that continuing to live could be so much worse than death as to override our self-preservation instincts and ties to loved ones. Problem is, turning away from that reality and pretending it doesn't exist (while it may help avoid some discomfort) just creates an environment where that kind of pain goes overlooked, isolates those feeling it, and closes our minds to seeking real solutions to prevent the situation from happening in the first place. The uncomfortable truth is that if there had been more empathy for her when she was alive, the abuse wouldn't have gone on as long as it did and she would likely have been able to be helped. She's dead, in part, because the rest of us were too cold to notice what pain she was in.
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  1115. Their job is to keep progressives from getting representation. Beating the GOP will always be 2ndary to that.
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  1116. Christianity has a bunch of guys convinced they need to submit to a father-figure and become a good person by loving him and taking his flesh and fluid into their mouth. The best ones also swear off woman and lead other men in praise and worship of their "lord", often even guiding "His" flesh into the mouths of others by their own hand. Is it really that different from bad yaoi? While we're on the subject, if the image of god is both male and female together, does that mean god's a Futa? 'Cause that might get better turnout than the bearded old man.
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  1117. Taylor Avalos Exactly! I'm not even convinced of the Russia talking point, but this cannot go unanswered for the sake of what's left of rule of law.
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  1118. We Are Rip City except she doesn't just effect her district.
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  1119. 1st strike capability means being able to destroy a nation's nuclear arsenal before they can respond. NO-ONE has 1st strike capability against the US. Even if they were to magically take out all our ICBMs (and let's be real, it would take actual magic to do so), a nuclear sub in the Pacific would still wipe them off the face of the planet.
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  1120. AFNacapella technically, in the moment it's still aggravated assault, so still a crime, but a lesser one
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  1121.  @user-dn3fn3bg4l  what a pethetic state in your life were you in that left you vulnerable to this level of cult indoctrination?
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  1122. If you're against the estate tax, you're against a meritocracy, by definition.
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  1123. The refusal to defend freedom of the press is the biggest proof there is that the MSM isn't doing journalism and knows it.
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  1124.  @Predestinated1  how much are you being paid to spam this?
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  1125. Jason H no, it just takes the example of another religion they're afraid of to remind people that freedom of religion requires and includes freedom from religion, so the Satanists have more success.
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  1126. Sounds like a DEATH cult to me
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  1127.  @Anthonycheesman2024  and now most places in the country have better sex ed and std treatment and screening....well, not as much red states but that's not the fault of liberals or leftists.
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  1128. You already have a place where the only book they use is the bible. It's called church. You just want state-mandated religious indoctrination to make the masses easier to control. Bring bibles into schools and I get to bring science and history into church, and you don't want that, I promice you.
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  1129. Fascist. The word you're looking for is "fascist".
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  1130. Tbf, he's so much worse today than he was even just 5 years ago.
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  1131. Reminder that Trump ran a Facebook ad that branded his political opposition with the same red triangle the Nazis put on their political prisoners in the concentration camps.
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  1132. Both Mussolini and FDR would tell you that extreme corporatism is a defining aspect of fascism. If both the creator of the term and one of the main leaders fighting against it agree on an aspect of what fascism is, well... Btw, it may not be obvious here, but Ant Man is a cryptofascist troll, as evidenced by his persistent behavior across a large span of time and multiple channels, which he has largely abandoned for becoming too well known for people pay him any attention.
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  1133. Depends on if the neoliberals get to write them.
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  1134. @73151cb that just determines the order of the line to the metaphorical gallows. Once they allowed their own primary to be rigged they lost all rights to call themselves "democrats" or hold any seat in government.
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  1135.  @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770  that is the effect (dirrect for the former and only slightly indirect for the latter) of his political advocacy. Israel is an apartheid state committing a creeping genocide against Palestinians (who Ben is horribly racist against) and he's a white supremacist. The only real difference between Ben and the shit we saw at Charletsville is how overt it was and if they were blaming the Jews for it instead of including them as a subgroup of white like "Nordic" or "Irish".
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  1136.  @jeremyofficer5038  this is a joke, right? There are a whole bunch of antisemitic Christian Zionists (largely but not exclusively evangelical) who are pro-Zionism (and therefore "pro" Israel" because they think it's a precondition for Armageddon where every Jewish person who doesn't convert to Christianity will be slaughtered and sent to hell. Supporting Israel because one believes that it needs to be set up as a nation-sized alter for the mass sacrifice/extermination of Jewish people makes someone about as antisemitic as HITLER and that shit is not uncommon in our country.
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  1137.  @KyleHUNK  which comment did you post first? This one, or the one where you cherrypicked Bernie's record to paint him as racist by misrepresenting his begrudgingly voting for a crime bill he spoke out against because of a needed violence against women provision? Either way you're a lying hypocrite, but I'm curious.
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  1138.  @Socialism_on_Roids  I mean, the leftmost portion of his audience is and will continue to be increasingly either driven off or dragged with his cult of personality to the right. It's not possible to both remain an actual leftist(or anything close) and follow him where he's headed indefinitely, no matter how much someone wants to not see what's happening.
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  1139.  @imacarrot6570  citation needed. Also, stop spreading lies that will get people killed.
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  1140. See Germany last century.
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  1141.  @Modellux  sorry, who wrecked their countries of origin again? Or right, the US. Yeah, it is our fucking responsibility.
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  1142. You're asking why oligharchs are worried about a popular, principled social democrat, or was that a rhetorical question?
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  1143. It's not a lack of backbone. It's a lack of morality. These "people" are monsters.
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  1144. There's a gem of a quote. Horrifying, but valuable.
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  1145.  @Tacos_Paco  you can't really no-true-scottsman and whataboutism your way out of this after the last president was a fascist who repeatedly used Nazi symbolism and Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Green was put in Congress. Also, we all know you are far right from all the fascists in your subscription list.
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  1146. In a word? Anti-intellectualism
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  1147. If we want a general strike in the future, we need to start building unions now.
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  1148. Can we please take a moment to appriciate how insane things have to be where being a moderate makes you an outsider?
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  1149. You're underestimating what you can fit into an O'Neal cylinder.
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  1150.  @doug8474  you know who's pushing real right to work? Bernie, with a job guarantee program But yeah, the "job creators" nonsense is just propaganda to justify the lie of supply-side economics
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  1151. That quarter of the country is a lost cause on basically every issue.
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  1152.  @thyCarrot  That's their goal (Or actually, to find a patsy even worse than Trump next time) Make no mistake, Trump's politics were what they wanted.
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  1153. Please learn all the ways our system produces these results and fix them in your own counties, because the shift to the right is a global one and you want to head it off as much as possible.
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  1154. They don't. That's why promises to endorse the winner have been such a big deal in the last 2 presidential primaries.
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  1155. Except the Polish police, which following the norm for police, were more sympathetic to fascists than to their own country when push came to shove. (No offense to any good cops out there, but police forces have a track record of being more sympathetic to those who want to impliment a police state than the communities their duty is to protect)
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  1156. And that most of the funding for it came from the Saudi royal family and that they continue to funnel money and weapons (including the ones that we send them) to the group that did it. Anyone who's voted to give arms to Saudi Arabia should be tried for treason.
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  1157. WAY more than 33%
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  1158. And is at least fairly well defined.
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  1159. Why divide the issue by sex? It's all child abuse.
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  1160.  @christopherdahle9985  an insulating coating part way up the prongs so that you can't touch them once they're far enough into a standard outlet to complete a circuit would be a simple, cheap, and highly-compatible step we could take in that dirrection. More fuses incorporated into plugs also probably wouldn't be a bad idea. We're starting from a bad design, yes, but there are improvements we could make without sacrificing compatibility, and as long as we stay compatible with current enough devices to not require too many adapters to be produced, we could incrementally move over a few decades to any plug design we wanted. It wasn't that long ago when ground prongs weren't standard, afterall. We managed that rather extreme design change fairly well so I'm confident we can do it if we're willing to make the choice to engage in sensible risk mitigation, and many changes wouldn't even take that but merely stepping past the "this is how we've always done things" and a couple extra cents to the production cost.
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  1161. Koko and another character from the anime Jormungandr also come to mind now that you mention it.
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  1162. ....really? -.- Thought you far right nuts were gone by now.
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  1163. Jonathan Nguyen I don't know that it's even strawmanning in the classic sense. The problem is that he starts with the conclusion he wants and twists logic and even language itself to try and support that until it becomes nearly impossible to attack his position without either cutting him of halfway through his wordplay before he can get too far from the actual point that the reality is lost in obfuscation, or the BS in his semantic arguments are painstakingly dismantled.
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  1164.  @sawyermiller8739  Warren is Obama 2.0. Obama slid the political spectrum further right, paving the way for the protofascism of Trump. If Warren wins the general, this will almost certainly repeat, and what is to the right of protofascism? If Warren becomes president, start looking into either firearms or another country to move to. In the meantime, please work on looking more than 1 election ahead. Myopically focusing on just the election in front of us is how we went from FDR to what we have today.
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  1165.  @lonerlink1993  we spend more on our military than the next 10 nations combined. It doesn't necessarily follow from that that we could successfully invade Iran. Make logically coherent arguments that actually address what others are saying if you want to disagree.
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  1166. Kevin Medina wow, very nice accidental symbolism catch there
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  1167. ​ @lluchadden4040 but it never will. We need different politicians who are responsive to the working class and not just big money donors.
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  1168. Fascism is sometimes described as "colonialism brought home" for a reason.
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  1169. Central leadership has downsides too.
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  1170.  @halo3603  making everyone wear a mask doesn't force minority groups to out themselves as a member of that group to make them more vulnerable to discrimination and hate crimes. Forcing, and I'm just spitballing here, transwomen to use the mens room though DOES do that. But hey, don't let Trump literally using Nazi propaganda for one of his Facebook ads clue you into the reality that you're already supporting fascism, right?
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  1171. Scale, but yes, that sounds amazing! I don't even bike and I'm excited by that.
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  1172. To be fair, the overall building had one, and the scale, era, and location (near a major fault line) win it some major points. Holding the record for largest dome in the world for so long (over a millennia!) next to a fault line outweighs the negative points of the more recent poor interior design and maintenance choices in my book. Best dome.
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  1173.  @lncafein  Russia has Nazis in their army. Everyone has some Nazis in their army. Funny how you only care about the Nazis in the government with a Jewish president and not the ones in the government with a fascist dictator.
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  1174. Bad Company Gaming it'd be wise to shut the fuck up about the "mostly white" talking point because even if in the unlikely event racial tensions become a prohibiting factor, we'll get rid of racist shitlords before we get rid of ethnic minorities, so how about you sit down, shut up, and let the adults talk before you get the belt boy.
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  1175. Correction: Elon Musk: I forget. How many democratic governments are there in the world?
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  1176. ​ @Trashboat221 he absolutely WAS talking about white nationalists.
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  1177. No justice, no peace. Know justice; know peace.
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  1178. The only time Biden cares about millenials getting healthcare is when we might be carrying a disease that poses a risk to someone like him.
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  1179. Do it
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  1180.  @julieabel6063  so our examples are a fascist that hangs around with and supports Nazis and a soc dem and we're calling it 50-50? This seemed like a good argument to you?
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  1181. Empathy for people who are different? When have we EVER had that?
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  1182. Your first mistake was assuming that things like making sense, being true, or being consistent (or even how pathetic their grasping at straws is) matters to a lot of the people who push that narrative. They just want to portray that particular period of German history as an era of unsurpassed strength in every way as part of their propaganda (though most won't own up to what they're doing). Just look at Kevin trying to both claim that Bismarck was the best battleship of its era by a long shot and that it lacked radar. True? Consistent? Making any sense? Nope, just "we strong, you weak" and then excuses to try and cover up why they keep loosing despite their supposed superiority. That particular brand of idiocy always has been and always will be like that, as hard as that can be for someone who actually believes in truth to wrap their head around.
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  1183. It's not just the news channels, but the advertisers themselves who want to get back to the days where their advertising dollars bought influence over narrative. (And sometimes, the news channels and those who they're supposed to be reporting on are part of the same conglomerate) Youtube's gain out of this is they get to turn into cable TV 2.0. Just take a look at how they started pushing corporate content channels and TV-styled models of buisness (even calling one of them "Youtube TV") like clockwork just a few months after the adpocolypse started.
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  1184. I caught that and it was Super adorable!
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  1185.  Metal Scar  if you think giant, privately-owned, for-profit corporations who's customers are other giant, privately-owned, for-profit corporations lean left I have a bridge to sell you.
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  1186.  @TJay-et3iu  considering they can be legally fired in many places for a part of their identity they can't change (so say nothing of the violence and suicide rates), I believe the most appropriate response to you putting emphasis on people loosing their jobs for choosing to promote bigotry against them is uh, go fuck yourself.
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  1187. On the one hand, due to the inclusion of hell, I question how bastardized this version is. On the other, I know fae myths, so the origional may not be much better.
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  1188.  @golgothan  the Boring Company is a scam. Just invest in real mass transit.
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  1189. It in fact, very explicitly says that its enumeration of rights is not to be read as a complete list.
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  1190.  @italianboyz12345  This 👆 is your brain on fascism. Don't do fascism kids.
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  1191. Got a hunch from him proposing making more babies as a solution to climate change and quickly looked him up. "his father became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School" (which he then got his doctorate at) Yup, just as much a product of nepotism and religious fundamentalism as he sounds. Vote for a rich fundamentalist and this is exactly what you should expect.
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  1192. Death Valley
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  1193. Ew. Why would you pick a label of a conservative not willing to admit to being a conservative?
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  1194.  @ladybug-mv8tn  if your liver or kidneys are failing, you need to go see a damn doctor, follow their advice to the letter, not consume strange things or strange quantities of normal things, and likely go through extensive treatment likely involving dialysis and possibly even an organ transplant if you're lucky. The last thing you need is getting quack "treatments" from the internet.
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  1195. The real reason for MGM isn't that cleaning was hard, but that boys found out that touching themselves felt nice. You want to make that choice as an adult, go for it, but a child cannot consent to such a permanent change.
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  1196.  @PROVOCATEURSK  the other side is a mix of everyone opposed to fascism. You seem suspiciously absent, though.
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  1197. Fox in particular has repeatedly had their viewers test as being less informed than those who don't watch any news. They are objectively fake news, hence being called "Faux News" for ages so anyone who gives them preferential treatment has no business complaining about "fake news" because it's clearly not truth they care about.
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  1198. Donovan in this comment thread? I don't see them.
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  1199.  @daha9546  for what part? C-16? The Canadian BAR Association had to come out to correct the information he was spreading there.
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  1200. Yup. Also separation of church and state from the looks of things. This far-right activist court is just going to be running rights through a woodchipper as fast as it can.
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  1201. I hate to say this, but that's how most of the rest of the elections of our life are gonna feel.
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  1202. This surprises you? The right is made up mostly of manchildren afraid to grow up.
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  1203.  @supernes64eaa86  well, Britian and France drew the borders to make the middle east unstable, so there's some blame there too, but within living memory, yeah, like 90% the US.
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  1204.  @JonPais  one doesn't become or remain a billionaire by caring about people more than money. One does so by hording wealth while others go hungry.
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  1205. @kevin paul halliday he's asking because he's a troll trying to draw people into pointless arguments where he pretends to want to debate but actually refuses to listen to any reason or evidence on anything
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  1206. That would be terrorism.
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  1207.  Scorched Earth  both. Definitely both.
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  1208. Lmao!
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  1209. A moderate Republican is called a "Democrat" A moderate conservative is called a "liberal" Just sayin'
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  1210.  @rishabhanand4973  exept you get no voting rights or dividends, only making money when others are buying in at a higher price than you did and you cash out and they either make money on other rubes or loose money themselves. That makes it a pyramid/ponzi scheme.
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  1211. Everything that they CHOOSE not to fillabuster they are complicit in. They are NOT allies.
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  1212. That is far too little a change to mean anything. Publically finance elections and ban political "donations" (aka bribes). Then close the revolving door where corrupt politicians get cushy jobs when they retire, end the electoral college and gerrymandering (1 person, 1 vote), mandate elections be done with paper ballots, and set up ranked choice voting to end the 2 party system. That would be a good start.
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  1213. The term ripped right out of NAZI propaganda to have the word "Bolshevik" replaced with "Marxist" to hide the NAZI connections? Woulda been nice, but I don't think she even knows enough to be able to spot that.
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  1214. How easily we forgot he usually preferred to use terms like "civil disobedience" and "non-violent resistance". The truth is that "peaceful protests" are merely one strategy. The function of peaceful protests is to appeal to the sympathy of "moderates" and to be the "easy" part of an implied "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" when in conjunction with a more militant parallel dissident movement (to oversimplify a bit: like Malcolm X's side of the movement). If only the militant side is there, you get demonized (and often have your movement fail because it was taken over by monsters). If only the peaceful side is there (especially if it's non-disruptive) you get ignored. Taking punches and refusing to throw them is just a move you can play, nothing more.
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  1215. EgadsNo I don't vote for war criminals, those who rig elections, or those who have contempt for the constitution or demographics I am a part of. None of those are high bars pass, but Hillary failed all of them (and Trump either failed or promised to fail most if not all). That left me with Jill vs Johnson after eliminating unqualified candidates, and since I don't have faith in the "invisible hand", I voted Jill with hopes to get the Green party up to a large enough percentage to start qualifying for things. If they want to end, or at least reduce, the spoiler effect, they can institute something like ranked choice voting. Until then, the can fuck right off with complaints about 3rd parties, because until they do that, you know they're not serious and are just using it as a talking point to silence dissent.
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  1216.  @Kryojenix  if Faux News' profit margin is bothering you, I'd like to remind you of 2 things: 1-investigative journalism (what little there is on TV) costs more money than just spouting unresearched BS (or just repeating whatever is put out by far-right think tanks) 2-all the corporate "news" networks are funded not by people buying a product, or by advertisers buying airtime. That's not exactly the same thing as selling access to viewers (though that's certainly part of it, and a more gullible audience is easier to sell to). To illustrate the point, do you think an oil lobby or a company like Boeing is advertising to get consumers to buy their product (the companies in the oil lobby are all in competition with each other and when was the last time you bought a jumbo jet or piece of military aviation equipment?), or do you think they are buying advertisements to really buy control of the narrative the same way PAC money and overpaying at Trump's hotels work? Those advertisers are the networks' real customers and it's not just the commercial breaks they are selling but the content between them.
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  1217. Um...those are the same phrases in the quotation marks.
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  1218. And price gouging for coins to be used in religious services. There are layers to the blasphemy and it's helarious!
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  1219.  cm. CG  dude, be specific or we're just going to have to assume you're dogwhistling about the "great replacement" Nazi conspiracy theory.
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  1220. BadApple5 a lot. Predrilling with a good drill (most bulletproof fibers aren't super resistant to cutting/piercing, so it probably wouldn't be much worse than really tough fiberglass: tedious, but not impervious)
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  1221. Well, you could tell someone that tomorrow. Just sayin'
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  1222. I mean, chocolate cake should be rich and heavy not light and fluffy, so that checks out.
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  1223.  @Cussy69_420  rule of thumb: however bad you think shit in America is, it's actually significantly worse. That applies even if you live here.
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  1224. Simple compromise: religions can be tax exempt if they open their books and prove they're actually not for profit like every other non-profit exemption.
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  1225.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  doesn't mean they didn't storm beaches to kill fascists. It's "anti-fascist" moron. You don't need knowledge of an ongoing genocide to oppose fascism by any means necessary.
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  1226. Oh please, not only is it the media's job to question the government, but it was blatantly fucking obvious the government was lying about Iraq to anyone paying attention. They claimed Iraq had WMDs, but when it was brought up that the UN inspectors were asking for more time they claimed Al-Quaida ties, but when it was brought up that Saddam and Al-Quaida were enemies and that this would distract from actually going after Al-Quaida they claimed it was about how Saddam was treating his people, but when it was brought up that Iraq's human worse human rights abuses were in the past and that there were legitimate genocides we were ignoring they claimed it was about WMDs, etc. This is obvious lying that no professional has any excuse to have missed. The fact that MSNBC took a host off the air who criticized the warmongering and most Fox "News" viewers years after the invasion still believed Iraq had WMDs proves these networks care nothing about truth (and with the advertising dollars that roll in from military ads who aren't even selling a product, the motive isn't exactly a mystery).
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  1227. Bingo
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  1228.  @alien0gamer139  we don't even have a left wing party, but sure, it's "both sides" 🙄
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  1229.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  funny how you present yourself as loving America but you clearly hate democracy. Maybe you'd fit in better in Saudi Arabia?
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  1230. His policies are basically FDRs, and his explicitly-stated goal was to "save capitalism." He's more afraid of a total economic moderate than a proto-facist, and doesn't realize he's making it perfectly obvious he'll side with the facists if SHITF.
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  1231. Nope, just the fascists.
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  1232. The 2016 primary had all sorts of rigging including illegally purging voters from the rolls which was plead guilty to in court allong with a pile of other problems and circumstantial evidence for a whole lot more. Every half-way functioning democracy would throw out that election and redo it with only half of what we saw about it. If you saw that the 2016 was legit, you're either incredibly un/misinformed on the facts, or are still thinking like a serf. Election integrity is what seperates citizens from subjects. It is non-negotiable!
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  1233. No, they're trying to gaslight to prop up the electability narrative of establishment "Democrats". Even Trump knows Bernie is a threat.
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  1234. 🎯
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  1235. Someone gets it!
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  1236. Because the party was slowly taken over, seat by seat, by Republicans with a D next to their name.
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  1237.  @notime9616  she's a minority. Most millennials love Bernie. You can find shitty people in every generation, but there are way more of them in older generations, so it's not "just as bad".
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  1238. Jee, I wonder why! /S
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  1239.  @aliamjon2550  honestly, most of your subscription list that I can recognize. You're not exactly fooling anyone familiar with big name far right channels that bothers to check.
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  1240. If it makes you feel better, the first full game of Crusader Kings I played to the end was when I started as a Welsh duchy, took over all of Britania before Norman and Saxon culture had time to homogenize into English culture (I kicked the Normans out). Then I went on, with nothing better to do, to win a crusade basically singlehandedly (and permanently), and do plenty of other awesome stuff to eventually end the game with more prestige in my Welsh dynasty than any of the real life benchmarks the game gives you for comparison. Good times.
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  1241. Also, a wealth tax, or some approximation thereof, is arguably the most common form of tax in history (income taxes being a relatively new idea)
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  1242. Poe's law is incredibly real. Always use /sarcasm or some variation thereof, even if just /s
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  1243. I'm wondering how long that is going to last
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  1244. Corporate structures select for those drawn to power so effectively they filter psychopaths into CEO positions at a proportion at least 20x higher than the general population, and that's just the extreme of those craving power not including malignant narcissists or anything else including those who aren't mentally ill but just kinda self-interested, power-hungry assholes. All power is relative, so the more they have relative to others, the better they feel about their status because they're focused primarily on their position in a heirarchy than any real measure of their well-being. Hell, there are jobs that exist for the sole reason to make their boss look more important by having more people working under them (and research suggests it's not a small number). The idea that the way we structure our business is efficient is just mythology on a good day.
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  1245. @Sheep #5491 yeah, because Obama and Bernie have identical voting records /s You're colorblind
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  1246. This comment was stupid. Dore's dumbfuckery kicked out a whole lot of the squad's power to accomplish something productive, so I'm not surprised her ability to gain anything useful was hampered. You just did the GOP thing of stripping funds from a program and then pointing to it failing.
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  1247. The final scene of Animal Farm was Orwell accusing the USSR of being state capitalism and not real socialism/communism. Also, whatever you think of such systems, he was correct in that. As a side note, ironically it's VERY Orwellian that 1984 and Animal Farm are so often part of US school curriculums with (like MLK) NO mention that they were socialists, but the same system will pretend like Stalin was a socialist even though he clearly hated the idea of workers controlling the means of production (which is the most central requirement for a system to meet the definition of socialism). The propaganda is frighteningly thick.
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  1248.  @loverofthemilf  MLK was a socialist (Also that was before the parties flipped with the Southern Strategy)
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  1249. Because they're looking to retire to a nice, cushey defence contractor "job" as a reward for keeping the war machine turning.
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  1250. @KJW it wasn't even against all believers. Just the ones going to church instead of listening to where the Bible says you should be praying and the advice of the medical professionals. If you're going to a church in the middle of this, you're straight-up in a cult, not just religious.
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  1251.  @johmyh14  funny thing about that. Every political ideology gives conditional support to violence. To pluck an example right out of your comment, and borrow some phrasing from another person, it's the "police force" not the "police let's sit down and talk about it" and that's not getting into the military or that every border on the planet implies the threat (and often actuality) of violence needed to maintain it. What qualifies as "necessary" can be up for debate, but stopping facism absolutely justifies any means necessary because you're effectively fighting a conspiracy to commit genocide against (at minimum) most human beings in existence.
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  1252.  @NeyJ  yeah, I don't know if I can give them credit for it at this point, but Bran is the only explanation for a non-panicking horse right there at the right time...and even then it's a bit of a stretch.
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  1253. We have a center right and a far right political party. We're already on the slippery slope to full fascism, so of course it is.
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  1254. Look up the "Dunning Krueger effect"
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  1255.  @hedgehog3180  it really helps that fascists tend to think they are way smarter than they actually are while simultaneously being rather anti-intellectual. Relevant: http://www.interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html
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  1256. They are also biased, but Faux News viewers have repeatedly polled as less informed than those who don't watch/listen to any news at all, making them objectively fake news by any sane definition. https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5 The only rational stance if you want voters to be most informed, is to go with the source that has the most informed audience (again, repeatedly): NPR Bonus points: little-to-no advertiser-induced bias.
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  1257. ​ @Drownedinblood Nuremberg 2.0
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  1258. vortexgen1 the idea that money made from investment doesn't get counted with income made from labor is absurd. Income is income and the income tax should be just that: a tax on total income from all sources. If anything, capital gains should be a tax on top of the income tax to offset wealth's tendency to concentrate itself.
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  1259. Simple: the traits to get ahead in the buisness world are a near perfect match with the list of symptoms of psychopathy. This leads to psychopaths being selected from ~1% of the general population to make it so that ~25% of CEOs are at least borderline psychopaths. Now, since psychology studies have found that about 2/3rds of people will effectively suspend their morals when enough situational pressure is put on them, you now have about 75% acting as functional psychopaths in the context of power. Since we're an oligarchy and our politians are selected based on their willingness to serve said psychopaths, we can assume that our government has statistics at least as bad. And there you go, you have a country run by psychopaths aka people with antisocial personality disorder (btw, unlike the colloquial use, antisocial in the field of psychology means "destructive to social groups") And now you also know why America is destroying itself. If you allow corporations to buy your government, it will happen where you live too.
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  1260. Yeah, because war is the only way to have electric cars /s Just off the top of my head our military budget could have easily fast-tracked ultracapacitors made of (for example) graphene filled off of a thorium grid and helped lift the nation out of poverty such that we could simply trade for it. The only options aren't military imperialism or environmental destruction.
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  1261.  @RichO1701e  your lesser evilism is how we got to Trump vs Hillary, so really, you should be answering your own question. Hillary rigged the primary. Election fraud is an immediate disqualification as election integrity is what seperates citizens from subjects. On top of that, Hillary colluded with the media to puah Trump through the GOP primary and then couldn't even beat the most disliked candidate in US history. But sure, keep voting for incompetent, election-rigging war criminals and pretending that that makes you significantly different than a Trump voter and that it will somehow fix everything even though every election cycle the Overton Window shifts further right thanks to people like you.
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  1262.  @sekhmara8590  Biden is their ideal choice, but they don't have any real hope of that. Their intent is to push Warren and are clearly setting her up for that and using Biden to make her look more left by comparison.
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  1263. My preference is for what I'll call "conditional tariffs". Those would be tariffs imposed based on how the goods were produced. These are there to level the playing field between companies that follow our standards for worker protections, environmental standards, etc. but if a company can show they meet certain standards, they get exemptions/reductions. This would not only allow us to take unilateral actions to make improvements in such areas without harming our own economy, but would also encourage companies and nations abroad to raise their own standards to try and match ours because having lower standards costs them. If other nations followed suit, which would be to their advantage as well, this could end the race to the bottom problem with globalization while keeping the (non-explotative) benefits. Bonus points: because it's a tax applied to all goods with only their production, not national origin taken into account, it's much less likely to start a trade war (and we could even encourage countries to institute the same types of laws, as if they do have higher standards in one area, it would give us more freedom and motivation to improve there). That's the kind of virtuous cycle that could be used to even get the world powers united on dealing with climate change, because it removes the prisoners dilemma.
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  1264. I'm farily sure whatever he's "adding" counts as littering.
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  1265. Well yah, they do seem to be using Orwell's works as a how-to guide. Actually, how seamlessly they've woven the ideas of 1984 and Brave New World together with each reinforcing and covering the weaknesses of the other (and preventing them from using either too heavy-handedly to incite rebellion) would almost be an achievement worth the admiration of future generations, if it wasn't so blatantly evil.
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  1266. Amphiuma III good people don't use depleted uranium rounds
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  1267. Just picking "the lesser of 2 evils" has resulted in the whole political system sliding to the right over time. In the long-term, it's proven to be a loosing strategy, so kindly fuck off $hillary! I didn't vote for you in 2008 because you're a sellout, and nothing has changed since then to make me change my mind.
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  1268. Not to mention that voter turnout just plain sucked this year. but hey, dems want to complain about 3rd party voters "spoiling" an election, then give us ranked-choice voting like Maine just passed. Until you do that and give the people a real choice rather than this "lesser of 2 evils" bs, kindly shut the fuck up about 3rd parties (even if they DO cost you an election at some point)!
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  1269. Syggy "It's 2017" is referencing all the history we've had and other modern nations doing things successfully. We learn things collectively over time as a species. To use older, more extreme examples, if you lived in 1800, it'd be excusable to think homosexuality was a mental disorder that needed forceful correction. If you lived before the great depression, you could be excused for thinking that unregulated banking was just fine. We know better now, so, any ignorance at this point is willful.
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  1270. Slightly off topic but... How does one manage to combine "there aren't enough jobs because the Mexicans are taking them" and "anyone who doesn't have a job is just lazy" into the same political ideology? I'm honestly having trouble comprehending that level of cognitive dissonance....
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  1271. It was a gotcha question: He asked her what would line up with her strengths. She doesn't have any strengths relevant to any department position.
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  1272. Medwin Hsu Then what he calls "arguing from a position of principle" I call "arguing from a position of extremism". So-called "free-market" economics is a greed-worshiping religion that is self-contradictory and doesn't match reality. Yet people keep acting like the market's "invisible hand" will take care of everyone like some modern-day golden-calf despite most being Christians and greed being one of their 7 deadly sins.
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  1273. This is just another attempt to try to take a minority group that they can't visually identify, and use the law to force them to make themselves known. Sure, it's more subtle, and has more room for deniability than more well known examples, but the intent is the same: They're trying to solve the "problem" of wanting to discriminate against a minority but not being able to tell who they are. (The most well known example being the nazis requiring jews to wear the star of david) ...and before anyone brings up that idiot Godwin's "law", or call this hyperbole, remember that people are still being murdered in this country for being trans and that we're talking about the south here...
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  1274. The library one was just stupid. You want to get into a battle of facts via the written word against librarians, making light of how underfunded they are, without the facts on your side? Walked right into that one.
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  1275. The establishment gives us a corporate sellout like Obama, who pretends to be a liberal until he's in office. Then, the best they can do is give us the candidate that we didn't nominate in 2008 because she was too far right of what Obama Pretended to be. They think with how dissatisfied we are with Obama that we're going for that? F-off! Being in a closed primary state is the only reason I'm still registered democrat. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to finish researching the minor candidates on the ballet before I go vote for Bernie and other real liberals/progressives to represent my voice in government. (As opposed to power-hungry corporate shills that presume to think they rule me)
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  1276. Not only that, but the entire central moral parable of christianity is that you can be guilty for something someone else did, redeemed by the suffering of another and submitting yourself to an authority figure who will love you instead of torturing you for eternity. Every part of that is the opposite of real morality. Inherited guilt is BS. Redemption through another is BS. Redemption through suffering, rather than making amends to right the wrong caused is BS. Morality derived from the dictates of authority is a juvenile form of moral development that we're supposed to outgrow (so telling people that that's the highest moral principle stunts their moral development). Plenty of studies have shown that obedience to authority makes people LESS moral. The concept of "love" is that of an abuser. There's no concept of proportional punishment. It's dressed up nice with some hippy stuff from Jesus, but the religion is immoral at its core.
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  1277. I'm actually pleasantly surprised that he made the distinction to blame the US government rather than the whole country. With a religious leader talking about a tense political situation under a very short character limit, I'd expect much less nuance than that. As an American, I have absolutely no problem with these comments. I'd say "keep it up" but Trump has a notoriously short fuse and a powerful military, so probably better to just let that statement stand and be quiet for a bit.
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  1278. Same reasons that politicians get so much money in "donations".
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  1279. "free"
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  1280. Berzerkar!
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  1281. From the article: "The Catholic Conference has argued that opening a one-year window to revive old cases could ultimately bankrupt the Church." um, if it was that bad that an organization as rich as the Catholic Church would go bankrupt, then that organization should be sued into oblivion. (Pretty sure Jesus was against the hording of wealth anyway, so why are they fighting so hard to keep possession of their worldly riches?) I'm so tired of hearing "but if you let them sue, I'll be bankrupt" from rich assholes. Well then, maybe you shouldn't have been indifferent to the harm you were causing, hm? You're NOT the victim here, stop pretending to be!
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  1282. There have been laws signed by both the current and previous administrations, as well as that Orwellian "due process doesn't mean judicial process" nonsense, but the constitution is still pretty clear on the subject.
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  1283. Paulie Walnuts -Dakota Access Pipeline is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen (not even counting the increasing dependence on oil), a use of police brutality against peaceful protesters and journalists on behalf of private interests, a violation of Native American rights, and you expect progressives to be for it? -"Treat climate change as a WW2 level threat." Do massive investment in renewable and nuclear for a start. There are plenty of things we can do as one country if we have the will. -"Obama and the Democrats were stubborn pricks" hahahaha yeah, we're done here. You're either completely deluded or a troll
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  1284. A pen and no brain
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  1285. "Pay a tithe to hell" God damnit Christianity, stop messing up my myths. I want to know the original versions! -my legit and immediate reaction Going back to watching the video now
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  1286. *for now
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  1287. Compare to Trump: "Now, tomorrow is a special day for me. I’m going to receive my gold watch. And since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago. A man wrote me and said: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.” Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it’s the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close. This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people — our strength — from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." You know who said that? RONALD REAGAN! Today's Republicans are NOT conservatives. They're fascists. There is a difference and it does matter.
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  1288.  Inside Voice  yup, the card says moops. Disdain for truth and rationally engaging with reality are halmarks of fascism
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  1289. It won't. It's been shown that the wall will increase the number of them in the country. I wonder why Trump would want that /s
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  1290.  @enragedstead  alone? Idk, but counter question? How many people die of HIV alone? Zero Do you see how incredibly fucking stupid that argument is?
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  1291. How is everyone (including Kyle) missing that the poll was measuring what voters thought the 2020 general election chances were with/without Bernie. All they proved is that 56% of their polled audience has been so thoroughly propagandized that, even after the disaster that was Hillary's campaign, they think that corporatist candidates stand a better chance in a matchup against Trump than the guy who has won every hypothetical matchup poll against Trump. You have to be as disinformed as the average Faux News viewer to believe that....meaning CNN just did a poll to prove that they are fake news. That's impressive!
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  1292. Real American the only significant difference between Christianity and Islam is that Christianity has been largely declawed by secular humanism over several hundred years. Before that, Christians behaved just as barbarically.
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  1293. ....I don't say this often, but I really would have preferred continuing to not know that was a thing....
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  1294. That's their goal as they make so clear with setting up to go after contraception next and writing laws that would ban abortions of even ectopic pregnancies (which are non-viable and a death sentence to the mother if not aborted). They quite simply want to punish women for sex. Everything else is just grasping at excuses.
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  1295. Yup. Very simply the rule of law (among many other things) is on the ballot. This is an act of moral courage and principle.
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  1296.  @captainvonkleist8323  congrats, you just redefined "bigotry" so broadly to include intolerance of Nazism so that it would include opposition to your movement. Really a great job representing your movement. I appriciate it.
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  1297. Boss: "Ah good, well, just sit tight until the situation is resolved" Sailor: "So, about overtime pay..." Boss: "....we'll see what we can do about getting you out of there."
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  1298. ​ @theradiantdehd3997  No, the problem is the right thinks their edgy shit is in the same category of comedy as someone like George Carlin, but in reality it's in the same category as a 6th grade bully (on a good day) because you don't understand comedy and just wallow in the most immature and unsophisticated sadism. Sitcoms that need laugh tracks to tell people when the jokes happen have a better grasp of comedy than you. It's just pathetic. I love dark humor. I even thoroughly enjoy well-done edgy humor. You're just not funny to anyone who isn't an insecure manchild or a bratty teen trying to quiet their own self-loathing.
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  1299. Philosophically speaking, is it robbing if the wealth was acquired illegitimately in the first place?
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  1300. @Tyler TV as long as politicians are allowed to be bought, this will continue for any country willing to pay their bribes. Oligharchs don't care about borders or sovereignty.
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  1301. Why WOULDN'T someone want to live in an O'Neil cylinder as opposed to a planet (especially excluding Earth)?
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  1302.  Benjamin Muller  chardumbass is a fascist troll hoping to increase Trump's chances of winning. Just thought you should know
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  1303. Rogue Gen the thickness of the plates is so thin that doubling it is inconsequential. Most of the bulkiness of armor comes from the gambison (and possibly mail) under it. Even for the fine articulations of gauntlets, increasing the thickness isn't a problem and reenactors do it all the time to make safer steel sparing gauntlets. The absolute thickest part of thicker plates generally tops out at about 14 guage (0.0747in / 1.90mm) but that would only be for specific points on the helm and breastplate with much or the armor significantly thinner.
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  1304. Disinform, dirrect the anger of liberals and progressives where the establishment wants, and define the leftmost position of the Overton Window.
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  1305. Suffering with an external cause moves a nation toward right wing extremism with remarkable consistency. This is the kind of climate that gets you things like the Nazis, but not democracy.
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  1306. Or at least left of center....which none of the establishment "Democrats" are.
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  1307. Take the doll, with a homicidal soul that can hop to other nearby dolls, back to a store with more dolls? Worst. Plan. Ever.
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  1308.  akbrs  I do expect that leftover mash from getting oil is fed to livestock, but it's undeniable that whole soybeans are also used as feed and that forests have been cleared to make room for feed (including soybeans) to feed to livestock.
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  1309.  @kylesmith1408  hey look, a video showing Peterson's comments about women in the workplace and why they are dumb af. https://youtu.be/_kktI8-lZw8 Not like you couldn't find stuff like this yourself debunking him on basically every issue....oh wait, it's easy! Just search "Jordan Peterson doesn't understand" and start watching to deprogram yourself.
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  1310. Knowing your audience is a very important life skill.
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  1311. T e x a s. Yes. Hell they've tried to ban sex toys more than once, necessitating Supreme Court intervention. They also keep trying to rewrite the history books used across many states to (among other abhorrent things) portray the US as founded on Christianity. We live in a nation with theocrats and they have alarming power in some areas.
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  1312. It's good when you actually listen to them, but the headlines aren't going to show their message in the best light, unfortunately.
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  1313.  @DannyBowen25  argue how personhood can predate brain development.
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  1314.  @dipojones  Matthew got it right. Also, it has been almost/entirely replaced with other non-mercury compounds today, so it's not even true anymore and was irrelevant when it was.
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  1315. Or the fact that the pedophilia scandals were far worse when they had an even more right wing pope?
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  1316. He's probably packed 7 likes into a single sentence in one point in his life....likely back when he was still able to construct longer sentences.
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  1317.  @communisttrash8590  still not enough quotation marks, but it had to be cut short so the word wasn't hidden below a "read more"
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  1318.  @justiceprevails3305  the gender non-conforming have been around as far as we can tell, as long as humans have been around and are referenced in some of the oldest surviving myths. As far as we can tell, the people you're kicking down to have been around longer than non-black people have. But please, tell me more about how much you know of history.
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  1319.  @BandidoDescalzo  not only that, but it frees up the stove and your attention for the rest of the meal
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  1320. @T. Meyer  they wouldn't need armed guards if he and those like him weren't emboldening fucking Nazis and calling them "very fine people" How is that not obvious to you? Or, is it, but you're just pushing Nazi propaganda?
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  1321. While cash assistance is good, there is the concern that it opens the door to landlords knowing they can just jack up the rent and resulting in people being right back where they started.
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  1322. Wolf-pac Justice dems Etc
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  1323. """they""" means "Jewish people"
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  1324. If they want inclusiveness and a respectful environment, how about they look at the people that think other races are inherently inferior and want to address that with ethnic cleansing (which always means genocide). They are trying to avoid offending people who advocate against the very things they claim they want her to take the sign down to protect. Even if the University didn't have hate crimes recently that would be disgusting. With that recent history, it's so much worse. If someone is trying to silence opposition to Nazism, they're Nazi sympathizers at best.
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  1325. By their own "logic" if the chief of staff is willing to work for $80k, that's the market value for that position, and anyone who is not significantly more skilled at the job in the rest of the Congressional staff is being overpaid. Notice how the "logic" is never applied in that dirrection?
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  1326. @Edward Turner except the USA was founded as a progressive nation and that whole "liberty and justice for all" bit is adamantly opposed by the right.
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  1327. ​ @Freerider93 if she had won, we could be having President Desantis by now.
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  1328.  @michaeldelyjah5696  ...dude, the demonitization system doesn't even work that way. This was the algorithm and/or mass flagging, neither of which have anything to do with truth. Cope harder.
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  1329.  @MelB868  fuck off with your literally medieval approach to psychology while patting yourself on the back like you're helping people.
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  1330. We have a sexist, classist black man trying to talk about intersectionality as if everyone understands it when he doesn't while acting like "oligharch" is above the understanding of common people. Wtf do you even say to that shit?
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  1331. "11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet." -Timothy 2:11-12 Her book, not mine.
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  1332.  @andrewwestgate2415  welcome to the standard behavior of the right wing everywhere.
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  1333.  @reviewtechussr  the right. Always. Projects. Literally all the time and so accurately that if you just assume that every accusation they make to be projection and just ask "ok, but in what way?" you have one of the most effective means of telling what they're doing behind closed doors.
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  1334. I love how dishonest you fascists have to be, and how dumb you are to think you're being subtle/"crypto" when it's painfully obvious.
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  1335.  @LLL-v5k3m  it's a troll that calls everyone else trolls. Don't bother trying to reason with it.
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  1336. To say nothing of the effects of overworking our medical professionals or the immunocompromised or the risks for mutations that endanger everyone...
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  1337. But I was told that capitalism and democracy were inseparable, not in opposition!
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  1338. Jordan Allen  asexuals aren't sexually attracted to anyone (there's a spectrum, though, between asexual and sexual) but may or not be open to doing it for someone they love (asexual =/= aromantic and not all are repulsed by the idea of sex). Asexuals may or may not have a libido, but if they do, don't really have any desire to do anything with it with another person. Incels really want it, but can't get it (at least on terms they find acceptable, which often include absurdly high standards for physical appearance and toleration of sexism) Tl;dr when asked "what sex are you sexually attracted to? A heterosexual says "the other sex" A homosexual says "the same sex" A bisexual says "both sexes" A pansexual says "any and all" An asexual calmly says "none" And an incel throws a tantrum
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  1339. Unnamed object Ingredients: Hydrogen, time
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  1340. Conservative=traditionalist=resists changing the way things are done=appeal to tradition logical fallacy It really is that simple, sadly.
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  1341. Well Liberty Hangout went full Nazi, let's be clear here. I don't think Ben is big on the JQ, but he's not the "libertarian" he claims to be, that's for sure!
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  1342.  @Eqcrw  well he was baptized and brought up as a very devout one , described himself repeatedly as one, allied himself with the Vatican, gave the Catholic church control over the education system in Germany (among many other entwinings of Church and state), constantly justified the holocaust with references to the Christian religion (from private meetings to public statements, to Mein Kampf), put "Gott Mit Uns" on belt buckles, killed religious enemies of the Catholic Church, wasn't excommunicated, after the fall was in good enough standing for the Vatican to help hide other Nazis from the Allied forces. For more see: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/06/hitler-the-catholic/ https://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/hitler-was-a-christian/ http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
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  1343. Noam Chomsky on the definition of democracy this corporatist is using https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  1344.  @kilalawak70  even if you leave out the politics, FB is toxic as fuck. Gtfo.
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  1345. Technically true, but sometimes the supermarket is the distributor for that kind of food so in some cases you're both right.
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  1346. Pretty much all millennial-bashing is projection from a generation unable to accept the fact of how horrible they have become.
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  1347. Oh, and a huge portion of said military trains specifically to do insurgency. Oh, and our own wargames show us loosing to Iran.
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  1348. This is your brain on fascism.
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  1349. Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' would have straight-up been a member of the German-American Bund (that was the US-based Nazi party, for those unfamiliar) because she is a Nazi.
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  1350. It's almost like austerity politics produce economic problems that leave a region unable to contribute as much as it recieves.
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  1351. At least in power. He understands his jop is to serve and represent the citizens. She thinks hers is to rule and manage peasants.
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  1352. Wow, I'm white and even I know that would be dumb to say to a cop! (I'd be thinking it real loud though)
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  1353. "look what you made me do" The standard excuse of every abuser.
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  1354.  @christopherczimback6091  so you admit it was a generational divide that you're trying to make about race dispite all evidence? Cool story bro.
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  1355.  @wallykramer7566  could be the manufacturer or a middle-man depending on the company I assume.
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  1356. They even copied Spectre in naming their organization "Shadow" after another slang term for government spooks. It's like they're not even embarrassed about being the baddies.
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  1357.  @merrymachiavelli2041  how is trying to create a compelling personal narrative immune to any of your criticisms or in any way more useful than trying to make value judgements?
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  1358. This should exist!
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  1359. Bats and hair can be like Velcro. Thankfully my experience with it was using heavy gloves to help untangle a bat from some of the hair in my tub, and not the stuff attached to my head, but their ability to get tangled in it is impressive.
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  1360. Boomers: the first generation in US history to have their children enter adulthood with worse prospects and life expectancy than them, but still too narcissistic to believe it was their fault, so insist on calling millennials "entitled" as a form of projection because they're a bunch of children who could never own up to the fact that selling out their own childern's futures for short term profits (in a nation with a previously unbroken chain of parents making the sacrifices necessary to ensure their children had more opportunity than them) makes them the most selfish generation in history. Also the most cowardly, and gullible, etc...wtf happened to the generation of the hippies?
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  1361.  @parkermudsen1063  "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson
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  1362. Those would leave very obvious blast patterns which we do not see.
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  1363. Troupes are not cliches. Trying too hard to break the mold and expectations gets you the final season of Game of Thrones.
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  1364.  @andrewkohler3707  fair point on the better phrasing, though framing it as "shedding" instead of "loosing" could also work. Reguardless of specific phrasing though, I just want to bring some of the healthy ways we already look at introducing someone to activities that might be exciting and a bit intimidating to someone new to it into how we act and think reguarding sex. Side note, another way to push things in that dirrection besides using "virginity" in non-sexual contexts is to try and gently push the idea that the correct response to questions of virginity status (when they're to be answered at all, of course) be to reframe the answer in that way. Ex: answering a question about if oral sex counts as loosing your virginity by talking about specific types of virginity rather than the reductive yes/no.
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  1365.  @phile5437  that I believe
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  1366.  @fefe6995  decades of American exceptionalism propaganda
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  1367. There appears to me (and I could be way off here, so feel free to say so if you think so) to be a political divide between the older and younger Gen-Xers created by, if I may speak metaphorically and speak in generalities, the older ones catching a ride on the ladder to success the boomers pulled up behind them and being more able to culturally fit in with and pass as younger boomers. Meanwhile, the younger Gen-Xers, while not as hard hit as millenials, tended to be hit by boomers attacks on things like education, unions, etc and subject to the condescending ageism pervasive through the boomer generation, and so, while not that culturally seperated from older Gen-Xers, tended to be significantly seperated from boomers.
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  1368.  @davigurgel2040  "liquifying" could be via a cheap solvent or just by mixing it with some other oily waste and sending it through a grinder that only would need to be coursely ground/shreaded. The advantage is that rather than digging a wide, deep hole that you'll need to cover again in a way that won't let it come back up, you can just pump it right down existing oil and gas wells. Industrial shreaders are cheaper than mining equipment, so it is cheaper because you're able to take advantage of existing deep holes and geologic reservoirs capable of containing it. That's not to say dumping solid plastics into, for example, mines is a bad move, but we're talking about trying to dispose of a lot of material and pumps and pipes are a really efficient way to move large quantities of matter. Yes, burning plants also releases CO2, but the main challenge with carbon sequestration is getting the carbon into a form dense enough to be viable for sequestration (and ideally in a ways that doesn't release methane as decomposing biomass does while also being hard to seperate out all the water from the hydrocarbons). Plastics are simultaneously a waste product and one of the densest and purest forms of hydrocarbons we have, so disolved by waste solvent and/or ground into a slurry with waste oils is already the ideal carbon sequestration form, so needs minimal effort for processing/containment. When the goal is "shove as much carbon back under the Earth's surface" starting with the stuff that is both extremely carbon-dence and already waste is the most logical choice.
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  1369. Why would he change his party registration when he can sabotage what is supposed to be the opposition party?
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  1370. Let me settle that for you: she's not. She's a fauxgressive like Obama only interested in doing the minimum amount of change to keep the current power establishment from destroying itself. President Warren would "give in" to Republicans as much as Obama and result in another Trump (or worse) after her.
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  1371. Excuse my answering the rhetorical question, but it really is because they KNOW it does make a difference.
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  1372. Selective populism is one of the 14 characteristics of Ur-fascism. https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism Play along at home. How many did this guy just check off?
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  1373. They have all the information they would need to learn available without these videos. Between the corruption, conscript soldiers, gutting of their command staff, exceedingly poor training of even their non-conscript soldiers including NCOs, and ideology we're seeing about all the learning which they are capable of. (For more on the psychology behind their ideology, I recommend looking up "Umberto Eco 14 Characteristics". I promise you the amount of thinking you would expect is going on is something they're constitutionally incapable of doing.)
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  1374. Gotta buy time shit shit "could you repeat the question?"
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  1375.  @northernpunx1978  that's not ageism. That's pointing out boomers' ageism, but sure, blame the victim for pushing back bigot. 😒
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  1376. Doesn't hurt that becoming conservative would involve turning our backs on our friends to kiss up to ageists that hate us for simply being millennials and the scapegoat their own failings. We refuse to do to the next generations what was done to us. Solidarity with GenZ forever. Proud to draw aggro for you. Now, where's another thing we can "ruin" to draw more Boomer attention away from GenZ?
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  1377. And breaking the other 8 aren't crimes.
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  1378.  @calvinmiguel4405  I have to disagree. When you know what to look for, most of our politicians are terrible liars.
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  1379. Politicians cannot be trusted with the ability to tell any adult citizen "you cannot vote" for any reason. The right to vote must be truely inalienable for the same reason that you cannot allow politicians to draw their own voting districts.
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  1380. Please call Bolsonaro what he is: a fascist. There is no debating that point. Call a spade a spade.
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  1381. You misspelled "exactly"
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  1382. Unfortunately we can't get her with it as the crimes were already committed, but we need to amend the constitution to make election fraud fall within the legal definition of treason as it's undermining the very foundations of our form of government at best, and borderline usurping rule of the nation from the people at worst. Down with the oligarchy. Down with the usurpers. We cannot tolorate such crimes because without real elections, we cease being citizens and become merely subjects.
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  1383.  @munkeepawify  could be both, given what workers rights were like back in what they imagine as the "good old days"
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  1384. Compare the map of the 2016 "Democratic" primary results in PA to the general election results. Bernie will landslide Trump in PA. Everyone else will loose unless the economy crashes before the election. #HindSightIs2020 #Bernie2020
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  1385.  @archdukemarduk  oh look, there are 4 Nazis in this comment thread
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  1386. We talk about how it is emotionally and financially liberating for the parents but while this is anecdotal, I know plenty of parents (especially boomers) who undermine their children's ability to succede and leave home, actively working to keep them trapped in an abusive, co-dependant relationship because they don't want to let go of that control over their children. Let's not loose sight of the fact that the generation that our society is forcing millenials (and even some older gen z) to be dependent on were known helicopter parents trying to live vicariously through their children and that right when millennials started leaving home, the rampant ageism from our parents was enough to drive 15 solid years of headlines blaming millennials for everything imaginable (as, keep in mind, we were entering an economy already in ruins, among other problems we had no hand in creating). Undermining and then punnishing for failing to succeed is an abuse tactic and it is being carried out between generations at the macro and micro scale by a generation displaying rampant bigotry toward their own children's generation. Not every boomer, of course, but we need to acknowledge that this is very often no accident at all and that we shouldn't take complaints about the kids not moving out entirely at face value.
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  1387. The far right doesn't actually care about free speech. They just see it as a useful tool to get their message out, and will not return the courtesy of respecting your rights to it.
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  1388.  @ColorMatching  was going along with, not disagreeing.
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  1389.  @arudegesture  yeah, anyone not knowing who Jimmy is upsets him, and especially if they have status.
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  1390. Aerosolized even of the normal version would be terrifying. Not only would it hit every cat and rat and bat it came across, but the delivery to the eyes and mucus membranes inside the skull would rapidly accelerate (and normalize) the incubation period as it would be traveling up the optical and olfactory nerves, which means it only needs to go a couple inches rather than likely several feet from a normal bite wound so even the smaller amount of exposure could produce a fairly short incubation period and since the length of those nerves is more consistent between people, there would be a tighter clustering of the onset of symptoms.
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  1391. An authoritarian corporatist praising the dictator of a state-capitalist nation? The only surprise I can muster is that of being shocked he would take the mask off and admit the truth.
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  1392.  @divasbraidz  well I mean, they manufactured the crisis that is actually happening from both ends so...they're right, just not in that the crisis is fake.
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  1393. Honestly, with all the other fucked up shit I know about him, I wouldn't even be surprised. Dude was kinda just a lucky psychotic jackass.
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  1394. Capitalism: "We can expect people to behave in their rational self-interest." Reality: "...What? Have you met people?"
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  1395.  @tonioshea9870  Nazism is a death cult. The don't care about protecting any lives. It's just about the order people die in until they're stopped or no-one's left.
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  1396. ​ @Cipher71 Kessler syndrome is about low orbit debris, not what happens at Lagrange points (which is where you'd ideally want to put said mirrors)
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  1397.  @gsf23  she's in a district that is pretty much guaranteed to vote against working people. The problem is that she has a position of prominance in the party instead of being some fringe outlier.
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  1398. Of course Ms "Jewish Space Lasers" would treat the attrocities of the holocaust lightly. Why would we expect anything different given what she so obviously is?
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  1399. Yeah, I'll admit that my current smoke detector situation isn't exactly up to par, but on the upside, I am able to get out of the window of every bedroom in my house rather quickly. Hell, my bed is right next to a picture window that opens and the window next to it opens onto the roof of my porch (which I could use to escape even if the side of the building I sleep against was what was going up in flames. I don't have as many detectors as I should, but I have abundant access to ways out if I really need to exit the building in a hurry and don't care if I get a little scuffed up on the landing. Hell, if I had a spare 30 seconds I could shove my mattress out the window and drop down on that.
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  1400. Only 11 The rest are fine with a Nazi having committee seats.
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  1401. Shh, they're allergic to facts. Besides, it's better and more helarious to not defend their strawman and just start listing European countries instead.
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  1402.  @antediluvianatheist5262  that doesn't mean that voting for an election-rigging war criminal is the best option. There are other considerations too. The backlash about a campaign illegally disenfranchising millennials is important having teeth, for example. Also, if Hillary had won, we'd be looking at the GOP putting up someone worse than Trump for 2020, and worse than that in 2024 if that didn't work. Voting for the lesser evil no matter what is a huge part of how we went from FDR to Hillary vs Trump. It's a strategy of loosing the war by turning every victory into pyrrhic one. More neoliberalism isn't the cure for the problem it caused.
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  1403. Crocs: look, we already optimized our evolution form. The only thing we have to do is play with our size slider to fit the size of the land animals at the time.
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  1404. YouTube is telling us why. They're not saying "family friendly". They're saying "advertiser friendly" Whether corporations like the content is the important factor, and capital tends to be more approving of fascism than anything left-wing when push comes to shove.
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  1405.  @guidojones6107  obviously by solar wind I was referring to that created by other stars. There's also cosmic wind in the interstellar medium in interstellar space. And yes, at relativistic velocities and over the large areas of a solar/magnetic sail it would be significant. Less posturing and more educating yourself, please.
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  1406. And paper and cotton and racists and other right wingers
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  1407. You're forgetting one possibility: Flagrant dishonesty
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  1408. Lol not inaccurate
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  1409. @ArizonaTengu  doesn't justify genocide and the sex slavery of little girls. This is exactly what I mean. You have NO business judging anyone else because you have no moral compass whatsoever. Also, no, not only do I not believe for a second that you throw out all of the old testament, but Matthew 5:17-19 says your BS interpretation of that verse is incorrect.
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  1410. Btw, since the liar won't post it, the most up-to-date numbers for Trump's approval among active military is 38%, down from 46% at the start of his term. Not surprising to anyone who payed attention to how he treated them for a second.
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  1411.  @Amadeus-ni3et  you think a government decided to send one of the most important political figgures in the world (especially outside of those in official government positions) off to likely torture and execution because he wasn't a better guest? You might be too dumb for this whole politics thing.
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  1412.  @CMA418  also, this equivocation between the self defense against the right and the deadly aggression from the right is disgusting BS.
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  1413. Has been overthrowing democracies to replace them with fascists friendly to US corporate interests for decades. The age of the banana republics never ended. Look up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" for more (you can find the audiobook free on YouTube even)
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  1414.  Janet Baker  it is a vaccine and it can't edit your genes. Spend less time listening to conspiracy theories because you're a walking Dunning-Kreuger effect
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  1415. John Charlton no, that's his father. This is a Republican pretending to have ethics
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  1416.  @TheLilbigBlack  then why do so many of the arguments you trot out when talking about, say, trans people and bathrooms, mirror the ones you used against black people? Btw, anyone who looks at your subscription list doesn't believe for a second you give a fuck about black people.
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  1417.  @xtech4200  Bernie lost because of election fuckery and lies about electability, just like last time. Funny how you're ignoring the other factors that go into primaries that make them harder for progressive than general elections.
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  1418. The problem is most "conservatives" in this country are really reactionaries, and part of that is a rejection of enlightenment values like rationality.
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  1419.  @MrAranton  I have had multiple veterains tell me how they personally saw pallets of money loaded onto planes to be sent over seas to some unknown purpose they knew better than to ask about.
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  1420. But if he was a virgin, why would his wife have to have lied to him about pussy wetness? That shit is still funny.
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  1421. Not asking questions you don't actually want answered is a very important life lesson (and that goes tripple for asking google for image search results)
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  1422. As historical accuracy bleeds out into the arena sands "That wasn't the question I asked though!"
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  1423.  @JJaureguii20  sounds like Gabbard or Turner most likely. Gabbard is looking like the best choice atm, but the other options that fall into that description wouldn't be bad either.
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  1424. Kelly O'Connor it's not 2-3lbs, but more like 1500lbs https://weedpress.wordpress.com/science/studies/ld50-of-cannabis/ (The article goes on to mention that pot is safer than potatoes in terms of OD) Hell, at that LD50, it could be argued that it's safer than water
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  1425. They're not weak. They show that when it comes time to oppose progressives. What they are is complicit!
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  1426.  @magnummax78  how about just getting money out of politics entirely. If we weren't an oligharchy, none of this or 100 other issues would be a problem.
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  1427. Wise to know it was a bad idea, but naive to think his government would listen to reason. Unfortunately, this meant that all he managed to accomplish was to turn his government's foolish war into a longer, bloodier, and more expensive thing than it needed to be. For all the positive traits they may individually possess, misplacing their loyalties is the tragic flaw of men like Yamamoto which is unfortunate for them and everyone on both sides of any conflict they end up in.
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  1428. Ailish Forner comparing to the way he talked 10-20 years ago there's clearly some kind of mental degradation. He was never brilliant, but he at least used to be more coherent.
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  1429. Well duh. Even just more book smarts would help them realize how illegal and unconstitutional so much of what they're told to do is. That'd be bad for them in many ways.
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  1430. It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't put one of them right on the edge of the bottom so it dug into our fingers when we went to use the darn things.
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  1431. Of course it breaks all intuition. It's moving in a circle. The day I saw my highschool physics teacher do those demonstrations with a flywheel was the day I gave up trusting my intuition with anything spinning. Clearly our brains did not evolve to handle such things well without help.
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  1432.  @32tray  you're an idiot or a racist if you think that how Bernie acted in 2016 when the black women went up on his podium hurt him. Bernie remained calm and turned the situation to his advantage rather than lashing out at every perceived threat and constantly trying to maintain an image of absolute strength and dominance...you know, like an insecure coward would. When If you grow up, maybe you'll understand one day how unending posturing is a sign of covering up weakness and fear. Until then, stay in school, kid.
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  1433. In Germany, you don't have a defacto oligarchy where public opinion has zero statistical correlation to policy.
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  1434. Also continues his pattern of saying out loud the things Republicans do, but try to leave unsaid.
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  1435. Unfortunately, the thing you need for that to work is strong unions willing to back it. We don't have that so we need to work on building unions before we unlock that option.
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  1436. Reminder: this is the MFer who used "but it would give power to the Republicans" as the argument for refusing to abolish our absurd (and fairly new, historically speaking) filibuster rules even as the GOP was shreading voting rights.
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  1437.  @PittsburghSonido  ikr? I was promised a hobbit home! Where is my hobbit home?
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  1438. MR should have him on more and people need to go subscribe to him.
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  1439.  Dragon1717  they were all at least Nazi sympathizers. All of them. You don't march under mostly Nazi imagery with people chanting Nazi chants without being a total piece of shit. Any "decent people" that showed up for the right-wing side of that would have noped the fuck out of there basically immediately.
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  1440. @Nick Arjomand "gone after"? Wow that's in incredibly dumb take.
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  1441. Its even more than that. All real currency is fundamentally an IOU a society issues to it's public servants which can be exchanged in a market for goods and services due to the demand for said money created by the government demanding the money back in taxes. The value of said money is created by this supply and demand relationship. Not paying your taxes isn't just any crime, but theft of the labor of everyone who makes your civilization possible AND theft from the pockets of everyone with even a single coin to their name as it changes the supply and demand relationship.
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  1442.  Patrick Eatmon  US politics effectively has no left wing. Left-leaning moderates like Bernie get called radicals.
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  1443. Not really. Most of the ones we get have been scanitized by Disney and a 55 gallon drum of bleach. Debatable if it counts as a myth (depending on how loose you want to use the word) but Sleeping Beauty, for example, is fucked up. For decency's sake I'll just say that she wakes up a mom.
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  1444.  @ponderoustomes9005  how has that been working? How long have we been in Afghanistan?
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  1445. If you want Kyle to see something, you want to use twitter, not YouTube comments.
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  1446.  @letrouvere2158  not just the monopoly. The demand for access through that chokepoint also drives up costs. There's only so much traffic a given canal can handle in a year and as we saw with Suez this year, it's not like the major canals are going under utilized. Becoming less strategically important may also help Panama get out from the imperialist thumb....supposing it doesn't get too hot for human habitation which is a real possibility.
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  1447. Also, canals are limiting the size of ships. We may see some absolutely massive cargo ships be built specifically for these routes going between northern ports which are often particularly deep being cut by glaciers. It'd be better if we could keep the ice, but we're going to need all the silver linings we can get, especially if the equatorial regions become uninhabitable.
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  1448. It's only a vocal minority of the 3rd wave, actually. The norm is still sex-positive feminism (albiet with some acknowledgement of the problems with the porn industry and wanting to improve that, not ban porn, though at a glance the 2 stances can be confused)
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  1449. "And by 'lie to me' I mean 'lie to you' because this is all about keeping the population complacent under the corporate boot"
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  1450.  @Harsh-mg2em  understandable. Whatever the case, the current labor party cannot be allowed to solidify itself as another neoliberal party like the Tories. You only need look at the current state of US politics to see where that leads. I cannot stress enough the importance of building power outside the labor party while you still can.
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  1451. https://youtubersunion.org
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  1452. I had to pause the video to fully appriciate that one! I'm glad Red's powers are used for good because, damn, I do not want that wit aimed at me!
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  1453. Forget Reagan, we haven't recovered from the CIVIL WAR yet.
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  1454. Pssh, we were totally capable of achieving that without the internet. I don't think we can blaim linking our computers together for that if it happens.
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  1455. No justice: no peace Know justice: know peace This is a simple statement of fact.
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  1456. Speaking truth to power rarely makes you friends in high places. It's surprising he did as well as he did, honestly.
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  1457.  EpiDemic117  you know what would be cheaper than that or even what we already do? Just giving every homeless person a small efficiency. The costs in things like crime and emergency room visits are greater than what it would cost to simply house every homeless person in America. We could also greatly reduce crime by ending the war on drugs, which funnels money into organized crime by pushing it to the black market. Problem (mostly) solved for better than free rather than just pushing it elsewhere at great cost. Just food for thought (and no, not making it up, as surprising as the first part may sound)
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  1458. Wow!
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  1459. Minder666 lead makes people stupid and violent...yeah, that checks out
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  1460.  @travisdejong2354  oh look, a chart that puts the US at a mostly favorable rating even though public oppinion has zero statistical correlation to policy. I know where to put that: the trash bin.
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  1461. If we actually had a population that read at a high school level this might not be as much of an issue...
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  1462. After 9/11, Hitchens' Islamophobia kinda damaged his ability to be rational about things, unfortunately.
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  1463. Passive income=being a leech It's only really excusable as a way to deal with our country not providing properly for the disabled and retirees, and even then it's a moral compromise, not something to be aspired toward. A good social safety net/floor would remove even that excuse and allow us to really crack down on schemes to make wealth without work.
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  1464. Don't think it won't stop them if they can find an angle for it. They called him racist dispite him getting arrested protesting in the civil rights movement.
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  1465. Ironically enough having thousands of Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' running around fighting against vaccine mandates is like Nazi Germany (where they rolled back previously existing vaccine mandates).
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  1466. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -Florence Ambrose In this case though, I think it's just someone off their meds...
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  1467. What left? I see a center right party and a far right party, both of which aren't just moving, but actually accelerating to the right.
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  1468. rubikfan1 we've found microbial life living in rock miles below the surface. Unless you make the entire mantle molten or freeze the entire planet to sub-zero temperatures to the core, you can assume that some microbal life will survive. Complex, multi-cellular life, however, is an entirely different story.
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  1469. Honestly, I don't give a fuck who Bill Maher supports. He's not half as smart as he thinks he is. He's an abrasive ass who's fed talking points by MSNBC that they feel will be cathartic to liberals watching them. It was nice to see during the Bush years and lead to him usually being right, don't get me wrong, but he's never really been a serious political figure. Jimmy Dore is what Bill Maher pretends to be (minus the egomania), and even within more mainstream TV, Stephen Colbert and Louis Black beat him out easily on both comedy and truth-telling. Hell, Louis Black even beats him out on angry outrage. I can't think of anything in Maher's performances that I can't get better, and more genuinely, elsewhere, especially online, but even on TV.
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  1470. Definition time: Liberal=Open to new ideas & ways of doing things AND/OR supporting freedom Conservative=traditionalist, opposed to change/pro-order/pro-stability, conformist Those are your textbook political definitions, stripped away from all spin, specific issues, and even whether we're talking about economics at all. As an aside, left vs right terminology came from the French Revolution with left being commoners and right being aristocracy, so in modern terms: Left=populist Right=establishment/elitist/corporatist/authoritarian(in one sense of the term)
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  1471. To a student of history there's something poetic about vanity causing crowns to fall, and the fall of one crown causing others to fall... Unintentional performance art?
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  1472. That would require enough logic to not be a Trump supporter
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  1473. Actually, the point is to force trans people to publicly out themselves and make them a target for discrimination and violence. [sarcasm]You know, because forcing persecuted minorities to publicly identify themselves as such has such a great track record in history.[/sarcasm]
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  1474. "Politician's are like diapers; they should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons."
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  1475. Free-market economics is a religion where the invisible hand is god, Adam Smith is his profit, and greed is the primary virtue. This is not hyperbole. It functions as a religion in every way, from the illogical & dogmatic thinking shown here, to the internal contradictions, to not describing reality in even it's base premises.
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  1476. +A86 citation needed As Jesus Fingers pointed out, the facts are the exact opposite.
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  1477. Jace Solomon It shouldn't be supprising. Neoconservativism is just facism-lite in every way. That's why they look at us like we're just serfs.
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  1478. Um no, Bernie wasn't "judging what happened in retrospect", but actually told you all so before Iraq. (btw, I could tell the Bush administration was lying to try to get the war and I wasn't old enough to vote at the time or that involved in politics, so people elected to congress have no excuse) Also, since Hillary doesn't even learn what went wrong considering she continues to make the same mistakes, the straw-man of Bernie Sanders you set up is better than your candidate you fool! the first one now will later be last for the times, they are a-changin'
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  1479. I just figured out a good thing to do when I'm at home and a PraggerU add comes on: Switch devices and let the add play on the device I'm not using. They have to pay Kyle, and I don't have to listen to their BS! XD
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  1480. Yah, he may be an establishment war criminal like the rest, but at least he can put on a decent act. Judging by this election, the establishment doesn't think it needs to even bother with that anymore.
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  1481. You know who Hillary's quote does apply to? The Washington establishment. And we are going to bring /them/ to heel in the coming elections.
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  1482. Unironically, that would be an improvement.
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  1483.  @thunderpooch  I may be an antitheist, but it's less the religion that's important here and more the GOP's accelerating slide into fascism that's the problem. The religion is just a tool for that.
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  1484. Yeah, this is just to prop up the electability talking point. Even Trump is smart enough to know Bernie is a threat.
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  1485. Kyle .Robertson I believe he's using the dictionary definition of "traditionalist, resistant to change and new ideas" That's a global issue as a cognitive tendency in humans, not a western ideology.
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  1486. And sentenced
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  1487. Right-wing politics is, fundamentally, about concentrating and consolidating power (in all its various forms). As this ends up reducing the power of normal people, the further right the politics, the more dishonest and Machiavellian they are, because that is what it takes to maintain those hierarchies they are so fond of. Side note: that dynamic is also why there are such parallels between what we see in politics and domestic abusers that the 100% accurate term for what was displayed here is "gaslighting". So yeah, since Hillary is, at best, center right....
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  1488. Because it is
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  1489.  Jack Neet  ah yes, lemmings of both parties in the comment section that hates Biden and the entire establishment. Nice false equivocation there but sorry, reality isn't neutral. You don't get to point to both sides accusing the other, not look at evidence, and wash your hands of it like you're above it all. We hate CNN too.
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  1490.  @TheGroovyJones  no, that was the focus of the bill. The key thing you're missing is that the high-level executives are effectively a class of their own, and they're the ones who decide if, how much, and to which politician the company "donates" so their interests are protected as well. On paper, the CEO is just the employee of the shareholders but in practice generally it's more like the power sharing relationship between the clergy and nobility in medieval Europe kept in balance dispite competing interests through moving in the same circles, an unwritten code of conduct, solidarity in contempt for the rest of us, and the implications of what the other's elimination would mean for their position. Some differences, of course, but the highest level executive positions don't function in the same employer/employee dynamic the rest of us live in, dispite how much they want to offload responsibility for their actions when convenient. It's....complicated.
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  1491.  @Hatsternator  I wonder if there is a correlation between butt/breast preference and sunset/sunrise preference...
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  1492. @itsinmyvein I think he was making a joke about how she's closer to Hitler than the actual left.
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  1493. Faith do you have access to a printer. I recommend printing a bunch of: "legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State" -Thomas Jefferson 1802 "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" Treaty of Tripoli (signed unanimously and without debate: 1796) And then constantly reposting them.
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  1494. reggie freeborn the greatest evil is the corporate dualopoly. Until that system which makes it so that public opinion has zero correlation to policy is broken, we're just the proverbial frog in the pot arguing about how to slow how fast the temperature is increasing. Maybe that reform will come through something like that Justice Dems, but if you actually think electing Gore would have somehow saved this country, you shouldn't be calling anyone a sucker because you're playing right into a good-cop/bad-cop routine. Btw: we didn't get Bush because of Nader. Gore won the election even dispite the rigging. Did you even watch the video?
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  1495. Really? No discussion of the destigmatization of getting out of toxic relationships or the insane pressures of the modern economy on younger generations affecting these numbers? The selection bias in these explanations being just things that subtly can be seen as finger pointing doesn't seem strange to you?
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  1496. Addicted to Not Smoking when do fundies ever really pay attention to what they're saying?
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  1497. Can't let the audience see that Bernie is the only one that can take support away from Trump in the more rural parts of PA.
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  1498. It's not incompetence. It's on purpose.
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  1499. amy small YES
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  1500. This is a good start, but it needs to be the warm-up to make people ready for the harder-hitting ones.
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  1501. To everyone saying he's a moderate progressive. No, that would be Bernie He's a liberal/moderate conservative who's attempts to pretend to be progressive are helped by the establishment doing everything they can to make a moderate like Bernie appear radical and the GOP having 1 foot in full fascism.
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  1502. Diamond Fighter strawman, 'nuff said
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  1503. We're talking about the guy who started the war on drugs, knowing pot wasn't significantly harmful, so he could destroy black and liberal communities and lock them up so they couldn't vote. He was the prologue to the mess we're in right now and helped pave the way for Reagan who really got shit rolling in the wrong direction, so don't give the asshole too much credit.
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  1504. @hello8 goodbye9 not all of us share your taste for the polish on jackboots. Keep your kink in the bedroom please.
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  1505. George Pemberton the more a society is a meritocracy, the more social mobility we should see. Look up the US's numbers (spoilers: they're not good). We can debate why it's not, and what to do about that, but the fact that it's not isn't really something that can be rationally doubted when confronted with the evidence.
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  1506. Eh, I don't think there's a solid foundation to that "should" claim. People that preferred Shapiro were likely already going to vote for her.
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  1507.  @SirCharlesDeKoy  slippery slope fallacy.
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  1508. And that kneeling has been throughout history a higher display of respect than standing.
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  1509. The moral absolute is "obey God"
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  1510. Except right vs left is Establishment vs antiestablishment Top vs bottom Oligharchy vs democracy Consolidating power vs distributing power The problem is we have a center-right party (the "Democrats") and a far-right party (the Republicans)....and we no longer have enough of a coherent political vocabulary to actually have productive conversations about politics.
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  1511. Remember to report the fascist for misinformation.
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  1512.  @terminsane  so if government using tax dollars to fund social services is immoral to you, you support abolishing the police, the military, public roads, etc?
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  1513.  @mitrioneworld  no, he doesn't, unless you count caring about actual law and order a left-wing value.
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  1514. If people like Sessions and Pence get in, I don't think that counts as heaven. I'll pass on spending eternity with the likes of them.
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  1515. Warren isn't even on the left and issue for issue, the majority of the public agrees with Bernie. "Too far to the left" for them is any real democratic representation in this country.
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  1516. Because the system is thoroughly rigged against independents too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  1517.  @chad_bro_chill  we have a very low population density in the US, crime tracks to poverty (which means it only has a correlation to population density), and if you want to look at the living situation that causes mental health problems, it's not dense cities, but (especially American) suburbs that are the problem
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  1518. Well, a lot are actually Chinese, but they get about the same amount of sympathy from the establishment.
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  1519. Long term? Income-based affirmative action and lowering the costs of housing so they're less likely to end up in a situation where they're dependent on awful parents well into their adult lives. Just throwing out ideas, though, not pretending to have an exhaustive list.
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  1520. It seems to me the obvious answer would be "depends on the contex-I mean harness" Idk why we'd assume a binary answer here.
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  1521. @Chris Firm people like you are how we got to Trump vs Hillary in the first place. Once you learn the difference between being a citizen and a subject you will understand that rigging elections isn't a negotiable fault.
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  1522. ​ @EdenRose_anoushella learn some basic reading comprehension please
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  1523. Time Lord just like Jimmy Dore and Kyle weren't affected by youtube's demonetization, oh wait_
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  1524.  @michael_c2  do you know what the word "just" means? Also yeah, plenty of the shit he said people are taking issue with wasn't part of a joke, so for much of it, yeah I can actually.
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  1525. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012 "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  1526.  @Stratosarge  none of that has anything to do with the hypothetical he put forward. Try reading it again.
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  1527. I'd like to add that one of the first modern artifical sweetners was discovered by someone accidentally tasting some of a chemical he had on his fingers (and this was a modern lab with all the "never taste or dirrectly smell anything" rules). IMO, it probably was created by accident when creating salted fish and then iterated on to improve it.
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  1528. BDizDaBest no, but Trump did win in part due to a lot of patronizing attitude like this from the Clinton campaign (when the attitude wasn't total contempt) Cheap ways to try to appeal to voters who want policy substance is shooting your chances in the foot.
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  1529. So obvious. How do people stand Fox without smashing their TVs?
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  1530.  @justiceprevails3305  I use a broader term because the information is vauge, but the idea of a strict gender binary is entirely BS. Not that you even care. You just want an excuse to be bigoted towards people different than you. That's all this is.
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  1531.  @justiceprevails3305  ah yes, taking a stance every academic field with anything to say on the subject disagrees with and being corrected in a bunch of ways means you're SO right and not AT ALL displaying the dunning-kreuger effect and an unwillingness to engage with the actual facts as they might go against your bigoted outlook. You got it!
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  1532.  @Elkator955  /handlers
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  1533. ​ @WooshMagoosh you don't know what that word means. He's doing the opposite of coping right now
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  1534.  Trump 2020  you think anything on TV is leftist? Lol 😆
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  1535. I've had people admit to me that how hot a candidate is is a big factor in their decision to vote for them. They said this out loud to my face without embarrassment. (Also note the plural). Also relevant for those with a half-hour to spend on learning more about the waifu aspect of politics in Britian (actually not clickbait, as rediculous as that statement sounds): https://youtu.be/x2W7P3wGBI8
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  1536.  @wiseratedr9850  bullshit. You expect me to believe, for example, that you don't know that the Golden One is a white nationalist, when he's a full-out Nazi? Sorry, that crypto shit isn't going to fly with me.
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  1537. Just a little bit after the gun manufacturers took over the NRA and used the group formerly representing gun owners to funnel bribes campaign contributions blood money bribes to politicians.
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  1538. Can we take a minute to talk about how he said "free job" like working was a fucking privilege to pay for? That's "let them eat cake" levels of elitism there.
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  1539.  @davidstewart1757  first off, Saagar is a cryptofascist (and kinda light on the crypto part, tbh). The fact that he puts on a presentable appearance doesn't change that.
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  1540. *just hugs you*
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  1541.  @rawhidelamp  I didn't imply that and the fact that 3/4 of your examples are a total mess because of US foreign policy isn't doing your argument any favors, nor is that the 4th is straight-up totalitarian. Btw, the corruption perception index ranks us as, in fact, tied with Cuba for corruption, and that's being generous. If you look at their definition of corruption as "the misuse of public power for private benefit" and compare that to the near total lack of correlation between what the public wants to happen and what politicians so suggests an even worse situation of near total corruption. Our political campaign financing amounts to legalized bribery. We're a haven for money laundering. The amount of tax evasion by those at the top is insane. There have been plenty of documented cases of industry lobbyists handing Congress bills to pass. The problems with our "justice" system are endless even beyond private prisons regularly both using forced labor and lobbying (aka: legally bribing) politicians to put more people behind bars. Legislators are not only allowed to own stock, but vote on bills directly related to stocks they know they own. Gerrymandering and voter suppression are rampant. The corporate news is funded by the same companies buying our politicians and tows the state line with remarkable consistency. (See "manufacturing consent" and us ranking 44th in press freedom) Etc etc etc. Hell, the biggest scandal out of thr Panama Papers for the US was how much of what happened was legal. Whatever other countries' situation is isn't that relevant to the reality that the US effectively runs on corruption. Even the saying "it's not what you know; it's who you know" is an acknowledgement that our entire system runs on cronyism and nepotism. Btw, a real patriot would never deflect discussions about problems their country is facing by pointing to other countries that are doing worse. Being able to point to another country that's worse in some way doesn't do shit for improving this one. It only helps nationalists feel complacent about their country falling apart around them.
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  1542.  Matthew Huszarik  check polls on policy. Most Americans want the platform of Bernie. Hell, even most Republican voters agree on many issues that the establishment "Democrats" think are radically left (meaning in many ways those politicians are to the right of the average Republican voter) The center of the country is _not- between the parties and by the metric of the full political spectrum, the views of the American public, and the political consensus of almost every European country, Bernie is a complete moderate. Even by our nation's own history, Bernie is just FDR (you know, that guy who bragged about "saving capitalism") minus the racism. You're the ignorant one and have drunk too deeply of corporatist propaganda to even recognize the truth.
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  1543. Thing to understand about the US is that so-called "free market capitalism" is a damn religion over here even more than Christianity, and that's saying something because the US is VERY Christian. We've even managed to equate blind consumerism with patriotism. Once you mentally frame the cultural mindset in those terms, the behavior makes sense. (Though "thankfully" people have been getting fucked hard enough for long enough that that mindset it starting to crack...with help from Bernie un-demonizing the term "democratic socalist" and the millenial generations being spared a lot of the cold-war brainwashing)
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  1544. No, we got to Trump in large part by Obama who was a lot of talk and no conviction. That sounding familiar? It's not that absurd strawman about not getting everything desired. It's about not trusting a right leaning morderate conservative to follow through substantially on anything as she paves the way for a further right-wing demogogue. People don't support Bernie because we believe we'll get everything we want. People suppory Bernie because we believe he'll actually fight for us.
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  1545.  @ALC0LITE  real currenies get their exchange value fromt the universal demand created by the government accepting them as taxes (and are fundamentally a quantized debt relation). (Legitimate) stocks get their base exchange value because of the potential for dividends and/or voting rights. Bitcoin gets its exchange value purely on the potential that some other sucker will buy into the game at a higher price in the future. That makes it a (at least defacto, if we're to be charitable with assuming intent) Ponzi scheme.
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  1546. Capitalism: "you know, if we get our workers to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" it will make our customers who celebrate other holidays (like Hanukkah) happier and spend more while still being inclusive to Christians" Faux News: throws an annual hissy fit, breaking from their normal sucking off of capitalist "free" markets to make sure they're not being inclusive.
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  1547. Well, there are the conservative, white, boomer men...isn't that the same target demographic of the GOP?
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  1548.  @maximsavage  and what is the troll going to do about the aforementioned 500 paladins? Sure, it's also good to keep a handful of specialists close so you don't have to brute-force every problem with numbers, but that's easy when you convince them that it's a team of equals who all bring something different to the table (afterall, wouldn't want to trigger the inferiority complex of the professional killers who guard you while you sleep).
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  1549. ​ @MP-db9sw my comments keep getting deleted no matter how I phrase them so I'll just say "well said"
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  1550. Exactly. This was a hatecrime and he was trying to escalate the situation so he could be more violent. He's a threat to society and needs to be locked away for public safety for a lot longer than 30 days
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  1551. North Korea is NOT going to preemptively attack the US. The nukes are for the same reason they're normally built: deterrence. If they nuked us or one of our allies, one of our subs would turn their country into a crater before the dust had even begun to settle and they damn well know it. Their jingoistic rhetoric is largely about controlling their population through propaganda. They just want to keep their cult.
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  1552. GCarlin Disciple without consumer protections, fraudsters will always have the upper hand due to an uneven playing field and just the sheer number of them making it impossible to look into everything (not to mention monopolistic collusion and oligopolies meaning you don't always have a good choice to begin with). Yes, people have some responsibility to at least try to protect themselves, but pure caveat emptor leaves a society too riddled with paranoia and exploitation to function correctly.
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  1553. The poor generally have far less free time than those of median income due to a number of factors. If you have a problem with public transit being congested you could A-move the costs of improving the system to drivers, because they benefit by reduced commute times because of the lower traffic B-move the costs to businesses (especially those in urban areas) who will economically benefit from the improved infrastructure C-acknowledge that public transit is a public good with a multitude of benefits (dirrect and indirrect) and fund it out of the general budget D-ask business owners to change the work schedules they make so that start times for shifts are more staggered throughout the day E-do several of those options F-fuck over the poor making them waste time and your public transit system as a whole (which will drive more people to commuting by car, which will fuck your traffic situation too) so you can be a classist bootlicker. You chose F. Congrats asswipe, now kindly F-off.
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  1554.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  not true. Like, not at all true. You're just repeating talking points you were taught and never questioned.
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  1555. Good advice, but can we take a moment to appriciate how authoritarian it being illegal not to carry ID is? That's litterally "papers please" in plastic.
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  1556. Making cannibals out of herbavores, "what could go wrong?" they said. 😑 Seriously we were just asking for prion diseases with that BS. Not that hard to make sure you're not feeding animals to their own species...
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  1557.  @JohnSmith-ef2sx  what was secret about it exactly?
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  1558. Pro-heirarchy Pro-civility Anti-overt bigorty* (excepting for acceptable targets like millennials)
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  1559.  @GlobalWave1  um, your 2nd sentence is a fragment and loaded with a bunch of buzzwords you're not even using quite right, and is built on at least one logical fallacy, and you're not convincing me you know where the actual center of the political spectrum is....and even if all that was fixed, you still just straight-up ignored my pointing out that just saying what amounts to "look spooky far-left people" isn't really going to scare a lot of people left of center. Tl;dr wtf was that excuse for a reply?
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  1560. We should be doing that already just for the obvious blackmail attempt and to support local businesses. I mean, I don't drink anything from Starbucks anyway, so my boycott makes no difference, but if you drink their shit, don't wait for the nomination.
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  1561.  @shadowcrux0  even setting the danger aside, it will never get cheap enough for lifting nuclear waste out of the gravety well and chucking it into deep space. The laws of physics won't allow it. Whoever you're getting that idea from doesn't understand the physics of what they're talking about at all.
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  1562. His psychology is bunk too
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  1563.  @iDreamOfOkra  check your "holy" book again and compare the atrocities of your Yahweh to your Satan
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  1564. Taxes are not theft. Taxes are what gives your currency the universal demand that creates its exchange value and how you pay your debts to those who labor outside the market economy to make your civilization possible.
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  1565.  @sharding14  sure, the illegal voter suppression and collusion with the media and DNC never happened dispite being completely proven /s How does it feel not being able to tell the difference between being a subject and a citizen?
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  1566.  @jarenc2048  trans people aren't above you, and him spreading this BS hurts black trans people the most, not that I think you care.
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  1567. Mike C nonononono If votes can be linked to specific people, all sorts of bribery and intimidation tactics become viable. Votes must be anonymous, no exceptions.
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  1568. Spoilers: he's not actually a libertarian, he's a corporatist that pushed libertarian ideology because it's a way to sugarcoat the government stepping out of the way to let corporations screw you.
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  1569. Left leaning?
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  1570.  @stevenbaumann8692  $10-$11 if it kept up with inflation >$15 if it kept up with the cost of living $21-$22 if it kept up with productivity
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  1571. The thing you often need to do to have a rational discussion with children who want to pretend to be adults on something they will have an emotional reaction to, unfortunately...
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  1572. Well, considering our cops at home act like mobsters, the confusion is only too understandable.
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  1573. There are plenty to watch without even the mentioned channels, the YouTube algorithm is just hiding them from you to create a bubble to tell you what you want to hear.
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  1574. A lot of people would answer "yes" to that question if they were compelled to be honest and that's the root of the problem.
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  1575. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  1576. Or better yet, stop committing a genocide in Yemen, and you won't get a Yemeni group attacking you in retaliation and taking credit for it. But then you wouldn't be able to blame Iran to use the US military as an offensive weapon against a regional rival, I guess. Saudi Arabia is a barbaric country and a false ally that should be sanctioned, not aided.
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  1577. All the ones who voted for him for policy dropped their support for him by the time he was done filling his cabinet with swamp things. All that's left are people who are still thinking like serfs looking for what looks to them like a strong ruler. The population deciding what policies they want and electing politicians to enact that will is a left-wing way of looking at government.
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  1578. Nothing new there
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  1579. To evil men, religion is simply a tool to hide their actions and intentions behind the reputations of saints. Make no mistake, if you are known as a virtuous believer, evil men are cloaking their deeds in your good reputation. Until either there is no evil in the world or religion and morality are no longer conflated, this will continue.
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  1580. The cover of her book says it all: What happened? Hilary Clinton
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  1581. Also the golden mean fallacy.
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  1582.  ss  let's cut to the heart of the issue. Joe, like those on the side of big money, prefers fascism to any kind of left politics as a response to the failures of laissez faire capitalism because it allows them to keep their wealth and position. OF course the far-right Joe Manchin prefers a protofascist to a social democrat. He would prefer full fascism to a social democrat. People like him rolling out the red carpet to fascist to scapegoat people for their failings to avoid actual reform is how fascism happens.
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  1583. The police have a long history of siding with Nazis and other fascists.
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  1584. ​ @Rubix-Qube really choking on that boot, aren't you?
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  1585. I know. I've had just 2 college level psych classes no philosophy outside of the internet, and I can punch holes in some of his arguments with easy. I expect he did much better with public speaking than his actual psych classes
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  1586.  @TheGreatAtario  beyond a certain population density, every single person who chooses a car for their mode of transit slows the entire system down. It's a prisoner's dilemma, where every person making the choice to have the shortest travel time of their available options means everyone has a longer travel time than if everyone had taken a bus. There are only 3 real solutions to traffic in a population dense area: 1-shorten the distance of average vehicle trips with better neighborhood design 2-reduce the number of vehicle trips (via increased walkability) 3-increase the number of people per vehicle That's really the end of the list unless you like sitting in something like LA traffic. You can't personal choice your way out of a prisoner's dilemma. Finding a way to cooperate (be that softer incentives for public transit or outright banning personal vehicle through traffic in certain key areas) is the only way you solve a prisoner's dilemma.
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  1587. Eric Best I said they aren't crimes in agreement with and expanding on what you said. Hell, I break several of them almost religiously I'm not apologising for that downright sinful pun. Or that one
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  1588. The Iranian Liberal even then, you could avoid solitary by use of a stong clear material like plexiglass with some reinforced areas to let sound through. Other than brief periods to help someone cool down, there's no excuse for the practice.
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  1589. "The poor exist just to scare the shit out of the middle class: keep 'em showing up at those 'jobs'" -George Carlin Never forget for a second that the treatment of the homeless in this country is a threat leveled at every single person who works for a living. Every thing those in power do to the homeless is something they do while looking pointedly at YOU.
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  1590.  @michaelpettersson4919  apparently they have barrier troops for their barrier troops to try and keep their barrier troops from retreating, according to recent intercepted audio
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  1591. At what point are we going to label Faux News a hate group and charge them with inciting violence/terrorism?
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  1592. Looks like another plague predicency
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  1593. Racist, classist, and ageist...vote for biden if you want someone who hates you.
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  1594. Or duckduckgo Anything really where you can
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  1595.  @lukeg8466  more accurately, India recently exacerbated a long standing problem that has been going back and forth for a long time with both India and Pakistan proving unwilling to do right for the people of the region, and thus, unworthy of holding it. Regional independence with international support to keep it from falling into being a puppet-state appears to be the only just, long-term solution.
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  1596. He was always kinda a jackass you needed to take with a big pinch of salt, but the moment Bernie endorced Hillary in 2016 is the moment that knocked him off the tracks. He's been heading further and further towards crazy down ever since and there is no way to stop him. On the upside, he's starting to get so far away from the plot and bleeding off so much leftist support as his audience becomes increasingly fascistic in proportion, that he's finally starting to loose relevance as he drifts into the more fascist circles and out of being a liability to leftist ones. ...and good fucking riddens. Whatever good will he may have earned with his earlier work is long since spent.
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  1597. Not even a moderate one!
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  1598. And would have a third time if they weren't actively stopped.
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  1599. Honestly, I'd have no clue what to make of that either, and if someone's crazy enough to pull something like that, it's almost always better to just let them take what they want. Last thing you want is to get shot over some fast food because you wanted to mess with someone completely unhinged over something trivial. Same reason you don't get into arguments with some crazy person ranting downtown about whacko conspiracy theories.
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  1600. Can you imagine what the NHS would be like if they had more like US per capita spending (giving basically double the budget)? They're already one of, if not the, best healthcare systems in the world.
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  1601. Yup, the grift was super obvious. The only questions were when we'd learn the details and what they would be.
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  1602.  @Unclejamsarmy  is WV magically cursed to be poor, or is the poverty because of economic policy decisions we could change rather than driving families out of their homes through economic oppression? Try to think just a bit more please.
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  1603. ". . .the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up at those jobs." -George Carlin
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  1604. It's not even about intellectual laziness. It's about people being ideologically opposed to truth and reason.
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  1605. Enrique Vivanco I've known this years before I could vote. The willful ignorance of the US baby boomer generation is something else though. That's why political change is comming at the pace of generational overturn.
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  1606. they're not even demanding unity. Unity would encompass aspects of all components. They're demanding assimilation and blind obedience and calling it unity.
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  1607. There's also that dirty trick he uses where he puts his pauses in the middle of, rather than end of, his sentences to keep people from responding to his BS or even thinking about if before he's already onto his next "point". Combine this with Gish Galloping (spewing out falsehoods faster than your opponent can debunk them) and you have an easy way to spread your BS.
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  1608. "Truth is whatever we say"
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  1609.  @agghiad360  they weren't even authoritarian socialists. A totalitarian, centrally planned economy isn't workers controling the means of production. It's most accurately described as state capitalism as the normal power structure of the capitalist workplace is preserved with the difference only being that the normal business owner is replaced with a non-democratic state. That's why, for example, socialist George Orwell ended Animal Farm with the animals looking in on the pigs (ment to symbolize the party officials in the USSR) and the humans (meant to represent the capitalist business owners) and were unable to tell them appart.
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  1610. +
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  1611. What? No, the Kurds are nearly the exact opposite of Al Quaida. Please research Rojava more.
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  1612.  @DigitalNoodle  they likely will ask something like that, but it's much easier to for him to argue against the more overt opposition he's likely to get from them than the undermining from people who are pretending to be on the same side. Also, commentating on the Faux News coverage of Bernie puts them in the catch-22 of having to side with Faux News to oppose him. It's not good for the establishment Dems for him to be there.
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  1613.  @draconisthewyvern3664  which is also 1 yard. Seriously, being able to visualize 1m as about 1 yard (which you probably ran into as a yardstick in school in the US) is really useful if you're wanting to get an idea of instead of doing precise measurements.
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  1614. She knows what she's been doing. She just doesn't care.
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  1615. Reguarally going out and saying things you know will get you insulted to reinforce your ingroup/outgroup distinctions like you Jimmy Dore fans regurally do is a behavor most associated with cults and how they increase dependancy on the cult. Just pointing out the red flag you just displayed that's showing how you're being wrapped up in the cult of personality Jimmy is creating around himself, intentionally or otherwise.
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  1616.  @outerspaceisalie  that's the thing though, it's NOT. Capitalism is where you spend 40ish hours a week (more without unions) in a dictatorship while your country slides into dictatorship. Socialism is economic democracy. "Socialist dictatorship" is an oxymoron.
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  1617.  @camronbitzer3159  demonize content, and the ads go to the lowest bidder.
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  1618. Just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Find me even one hypothetical matchup poll that has Trump beating Bernie.
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  1619.  @maxhuneeus7211  nothing borderline about it.
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  1620.  @caad5258  seriously, all the people talking about "but the janitor" clearly haven't worked any job where they had to clean anything. This is nothing. It's not difficult, gross, or a biohazard. No broken glass. Nothing that requires strong solvents. Nothing that came out of a person. Someone dropping a glass of water is more of a pain than cleaning up that.
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  1621. You think tumbler banning porn was because of leftism? No, that was capitalism, sorry.
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  1622. That whole acting like he can dictate reality by asserting things strongly enough that will make the universe bend over to make him correct?
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  1623. Fascists are gonna fascist. It's that simple, unfortunately.
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  1624. ​ @ArizonaTengu by "traditional marriage" you mean 1 man and his human property. Yeah, we don't care about that.
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  1625. The main thing I see is this BS of having a human behind the wheel to take over stopping accidents making it safer. It doesn't. For a human to prevent the accident, they have to realize that the computer is not going to react, choose the correct action to make (brake/swerve/etc), and then do it. Let's be generous and say they're only going 35mph and respond with 0.5s reaction time. (Considering most humans have a 0.3s reaction time for something they're anticipating rather than only realizing the AI isn't going to take action when it's too late, that's generous.) That comes out to traveling over 25 feet past where you needed to stop. Either your AI can drive a car or it can't. I'm all for self driving cars, but this idea that a human is going to step in and prevent a disaster is a fantasy. Also, can we not pretend it's going to be fucking uber that makes that breakthrough? It's going to be a company with a long history of AI, Robotics, or both that will develop it and then sell them to companies like Uber. The kinds of software they're used to dealing with are highschool projects compared to what you need to make a safe self-driving car, so they need to just be fucking patient and keep their programmers on less dangerous projects.
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  1626.  @markbenjamin1703  having fun beating that strawman?
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  1627.  @pooooutine  wtf are you talking about?
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  1628.  @paulanderson6834  remember when rev Cornel West credited antifa activists was saving his life from the Nazis at Charlottesville? I do.
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  1629.  @josiahmccallister3150  the amount of energy and computer parts wasted in "mining" them are absurd and it only has the value it does because of people paying real currency for it. That's why its price is as volatile as it is. Normal/real currencies found their excange value on debt relations, traditionally the debt to the people who work outside the market to make your civilization possible, mediated by the fact that the government of said civilization accepts them as taxes, creating a foundation of universal demand. Cryptocurrencies have nothing like that. They're no more actual money than nfts or stocks which give no voting rights or dividends. They just get to trick people they are because they look like it and people are taught myths about what money is and its origins.
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  1630. Liberal and Conservative channels were both targeted at the start of this. TYT was likely spared just because YouTube feared their size (or they've already sold out. Haven't watched them in long enough to say). The real reason is corporatism. Advertisers want their ad dollars to buy influence over the news again and TV channel conglomerates want to clear out their competition. These channels we watch compete with the "History" channel and specifically shows like "Deadliest Warrior". This is how companies act when they have the power to seriously influence the market on a large enough scale.
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  1631. Pampered snowflake manchildren spoiled by a non-adversarial pro-establishment media
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  1632. At least as many as are shot now so a LOT
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  1633. The US government doesn't act in the interests of the nation anymore. "Defense" contractors, banks, and the egos of insatiably power-hungry psychopaths? All the time, but never the nation unless it happens to be in line with those goals.
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  1634. They've been on fire a lot the last few days. Guess they're having trouble downloading the Alex Jones app.
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  1635. Also one. We will join you as soon as we get democratic representation back in our government and cast off oligarchy. Every year we get closer to casting off the yoke of corporate rule which prevents us from standing proud next to you, our northern brothers and sisters, but know that most people here are with you. We may tease a bit in good humor, but if asked who to side with between you and the Saudis there would be no hesitation in our answer.
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  1636. Stunning professional spin artist into silence for that long is quite an achievement. Gotta give the man credit for that
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  1637. Ant is a troll. He's not arguing honestly, so not worth your time.
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  1638. *claps*
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  1639.  @joolzvega7298  you greatly overestimate the man, he's not an idiot, but there are lots of people as smart as him right where you live I'm sure
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  1640. The fact that this gets glossed over nearly always frustrates me so much, as it's basically irrefutable evidence of a systemic problem. The fact that the caller saying that it could have been a toy was never relayed to the officers is stunning incompetence.
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  1641. The plot is hurting the people they hate, which is anyone different from them.
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  1642. Rather than an anecdote, I'll point to how consistently conservative dating apps fail. Not our fault no-one wants to date you, bucko.
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  1643. Pure projection. We're not like you.
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  1644. Glad to have you on board and free from the red-scare propaganda that poisoned our country.
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  1645.  @mach1553  like the back of their own hand
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  1646.  @JosephMetts  wtf are you even talking about?
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  1647. He also wanted to nuke a hurricane.
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  1648.  @kickenerbutt  and everything they should be reporting on would make their advertisers (which include lobbying groups and MIC corporations) less happy to fund them with buying advertising from them. Never forget that they are all large corporations who's "always right" customers are other large corporations. You can't expect good news coverage from that incentive structure.
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  1649.  @stephj9378  lol, good one.
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  1650. It's not even patriotism. It's crass nationalism. They just equivocated the terms because bigoted nationalists wanting to turn back the clock on history starts to sound uncomfortably similar to something else.
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  1651. @Alexander Invictus you believe in a meritocracy and monarchy at the same time? Yeah, that checks out /s
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  1652.  @MillerIndustriesInc  unfortunately, I think you'll find if you read through Umbero Eco's list of 14 characteristics of Ur-fascism that the GQP response to Covid does, in fact, line up with exactly one political ideology at the extreme right of the political spectrum.
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  1653.  @MWSin1  that is about the level of reality denial we're working on because truth doesn't matter to him, apparently. Only opposition to his political opponents (the antifascists, tellingly) seems to be a consideration to him. That and talking to death these rediculous points to filibuster discussion of the OP's point about antifa being an ideological stance, not an organization. Really curious, no?
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  1654. ​ @AzLツ  It's better if you just know it as standing for "nuclear thermal rocket" and that it's to be avoided it in all other contexts. You'd gain nothing of value from this knowledge so just leave it be.
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  1655. Give all his wealth to the poor and turn the other cheek, the pacifist commie.
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  1656. This isn't even a matter of Republicans doing it to "Democrats". It's a matter of the right doing it to the left. As we saw in the 2016 primary, far right "Democrats" like Hillary are perfectly happy to pick up the same election fraud playbook as Republicans to stop real populist candidates from getting nominated. This shouldn't surprise anyone though, as right-wing politics is fundamentally about favoring consolidated, entrenched power (be it buisness, government, or otherwise), and the whole nomenclature of right\left wing originated from royalist vs those favoring representative government. In short, the right has been opposed to the democratic process from the very beginning and as soon as they get past being moderate right-wing, they start actively sabotaging it when they feel threatened.
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  1657. ​ @Dommifax that's because we keep calling people "conservatives" when they're really fascists.
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  1658.  @whyamimrpink78  ah, trolling here this month pink? Which community were you last in that caught onto you being an empty pathetic troll that led you to switch this time?
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  1659. "Look, we're capitalists"
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  1660. Here's an idea: make all the MIC companies who profited from and pushed us into the war pay the reparations, then, when they have to declare bankruptcy, use eminent domain to nationalize the companies for $0 Iraq gets paid, the US doesn't have to pay for being lied into the same war twice, and many of the actors responsible are permanently removed from the world stage.
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  1661. Considering all the years of millennial-bashing is pure projection, there's a lot of self-hate there....and no wonder; the generation of the hippies grew up old to became bigoted cogs in a blood-soaked corporate machine that was the first in modern US history to see their children grow up to having worse prospects than them.
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  1662.  @codeecomah5920  ikr? Doesn't everyone know that economies of scale magically vanish when it comes to the government? /s I know it's hard for someone of your political leanings, but can you make an effort to not be arguing backwards from your conclusion?
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  1663.  @thomashattie9880  a better way to do it than taxing automation would be to just structure corporate taxes progressively like income taxes. Less beurocracy and you get side benefits to the economy.
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  1664. The entire model of classifying civilizations by their energy usage is kinda stupid to begin with. It not only assumes infinite growth, but also completely ignores efficiency. For example, most of the increase in the lifespan of our mobile devices has been from making more efficient electronics, not higher capacity batteries. The K-scale has nothing to say about things like that, nor about what things a civilization can DO with it's technology...and that's all still judging a civilization by its tech, to say nothing about how well people are living or respect for the ecosystem, or anything else. A civilization being able to move up the K-scale JUST by being more wasteful should clue people in to how absurd it is.
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  1665.  @c0mpu73rguy  because our institutions have been undermined for decades and the Dems are weak and more concerned with fighting off barely left of center progressives than they are with stopping fascism...and that's the "Democrats" who aren't conservatives.
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  1666.  @wolfcat1998  they're called Nazis. Ms 'Jewish Space Lazers' is a Nazi. In congress...and not the only one. And no, that's not hyperbole or a term I throw around lightly.
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  1667.  @GweAnakJakarta  the only question was how far down it would be. I found it 4th down from the top
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  1668.  @aliamjon2550  you're subbed to a bunch of fascists. You don't get to hide behind that one.
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  1669. Cenk has never been able to control Jimmy from day one and both know it. That isn't changing any time soon.
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  1670.  @harrykane1748  an election-rigging, bigoted war-criminal against a bigoted protofascist promising to commit war crimes. After the primary was rigged, there was no good outcome to the 2016 election.
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  1671.  @restlessDSM  I mean, that's not all human fears, but even as someone without a phobia for any of those things, that is SO much nope!
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  1672. Shirt!
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  1673. Please keep repeating this. A lot of people on the left are planning to vote for Tulsi and that isn't good for the left this time. Tulsi 2028 is something I really want to see, allong with her as VP/SoS, but we need to lock in a Bernie win to use the momentum we got in 2016. Strategically, Bernie is the better choice and that's not a lesser evil argument because, while no candidate is flawless, Bernie and Tulsi are both on the non-evil side of things.
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  1674. As long as thet beat progressives in the primaries and stop the rise of a 3rd party, they still get paid.
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  1675.  @CallMeAWeeb  oh, don't get me wrong, I agree. You just asked so I answered what their idiotic justification was.
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  1676.  @hunter1779  if you want a more specific answer than "the same way every neighboring state knew to" or "because scientists have been warning of 'more extreme weather of every kind' for decades" how abouy basic pattern recognition because they do get severe ice storms not infrequently. https://www.weather.gov/crp/stormhistory Oh look, here's a list of just south Texas and even narrowing it down to specifically ice storms in a fraction of the state in the last decade you have several examples. I'm in the north and even I know Texas periodically gets hit with severe winter weather and that it's been happening more frequently and more severely in recent years. It's called data. You get it from science. Not my fault the GOP likes to ignore both.
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  1677. @Drakilicious many if not most people on food stamps don't have enough land to be able to feed themselves from, and not enough hunting availability to support themselves on either (to say nothing of the time investment interfering with work). I'm glad your family was able to support itself that way, but that's just not feasible for a great many people. The human population just can't support itself at these numbers without industrial food production.
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  1678. Not as funny as the author, self-describing as objective, and then dying from years of heavy smoking because she associated the self-poisoning with the appearance of intellectualism. I can't think of a better metaphor for her "philosophy"
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  1679. Religiosity correlates strongly with increased rates of violent crime within the US and across nations and changes in religiosity over time correlate the same. In laymen's terms: you have it ass backwards.
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  1680. The smug expression at 6:46 is amazing!
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  1681. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  1682. This is the guy who sold lead-laced suppliments, right?
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  1683. They have words. Those words are (correctly) "look, it's a Nazi"
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  1684. ​ @Schaubnation Kamala isn't even leftist, much less socialist. If you can't tell the difference between a moderate right-winger and a socialist you are truly lost.
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  1685.  deharleyva  Fact: likely Bernie voters were systematically disenfranchised through (at _least_) targeted closing of polling places and illegal voter roll purges Fact: there was collusion with the media Fact: the DNC broke its own rules about not favoring candidates Fact: when a lawsuit was brought against them, the DNC argued that it was legal for them to rig their primaries to the point where they could just choose whoever they wanted in a smokefilled back room All of this is easily verified and proven, so how about you STFU until you actually inform yourself on the issue? Btw, what I listed is just the stuff that's absolutely true (which is damning enough on its own), but there's circumstantial evidence of even more, such as initial exit polls being widely off of the results (several times what would have forced many other developed nations to automatically void and redo the entire election), but only on the "democratic" side of the ticket and only in areas with electronic voting. Get your head out of your ass and stop thinking like a serf debating which tyrant is better. One may be better than the other, but neither is acceptable.
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  1686. I mean, if we're talking about a 2 for 1 bargin bin in a dollar tree maybe.
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  1687. It's not pro-life. It's radical pro-birth. Different things.
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  1688. 41% too little
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  1689. Our current for-profit banking system is just fraud upon fraud upon fraud. This is the absolute minimum necessary to address this problem. The more you understand about finance, money, and debt, the more it seems such a thing being done for profit should be illegal. She's offering the compromise position. They should take it and run or they're going to start seeing actually radical proposals with sound arguments behind them.
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  1690.  @fpm8338  lol, double posting to tell me how mad I am. Dude, at first I was just bordly pointing out how stupid you were so no one took you seriously, but this shit is getting entertaining! 😆
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  1691.  @lorenzovaletti4951  the younger generations clearly have a better idea of how we got here than the older ones.
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  1692. Corporate market fixing. YouTube is working with TV media conglomerates to clear out content that competes with theirs. This whole adpocolypse thing started with media conglomerates and huge corporations getting together to force YouTube to serve there interests above all others, and YouTube seems quite happy to go along with this BS plan.
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  1693. She's already so bloodied by Trump that she should step down out of embarrassment. Loosing approval to that clown that quickly is a damn disgrace.
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  1694. "Zoom in there...enhance" Repeat 'nuff said
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  1695. Our society (both public and private sector) is run by actual psychopaths. No, I'm not being hyperbolic.
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  1696. It's that or write in Bernie anyways
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  1697. Removing the foreskin is more like removing the labia. Female genital mutilation is significantly worse. That said, they're BOTH genital mutilation and should be banned from being done to children without question.
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  1698. And lets not forget what kicked it off: After the worst terrorist attack in US history (that we later learned he was warned of and did nothing to stop) instead of leading the country with strength and courage, the President (after finishing reading a story to children, of course) stood up an basically said "omg, everyone PANIC!". This was followed by the adults actually LISTENING to the manchild (proving their own complete cowardice), and handing him the bill of rights to shred if only he'd protect them from the big bad terrorists. And thus did my childhood end early and abruptly when I realized that most "adults" couldn't be trusted to handle anything of importance.
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  1699. +TheRezro stupidity begets stupidity Violence begets violence Greed begets poverty Poverty begets greed Victory begets pride Pride begets stupidity and violence Failure begets fear Fear begets stupidity and violence Etc, etc, etc Reason and compassion are the only things that interrupt the many intertwined feedback loops and they're so quickly discarded as unaffordable luxuries rather than the necessities they are.
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  1700. I think Bernie is the perfect nominee for 2020. Just look at "Bernie would have won" basically becoming a meme among those who hate having been told to pick between the 2 most disliked candidates in history (about 65% of the country). He does well with independents (who are a plurality of the country), the "firewall" Hillary lost, and even Republicans. He's the most liked politician in the country by far, and a symbol for the will of the people that the establishment in BOTH parties rejects. Sure he's old, but stick a strong VP next to him and that weakness evaporates, while he keeps all of the name recognition and reputation he's earned. McCain's age/health was only an issue because he had Palin as his VP. I can't imagine anyone not voting for Bernie just because they were afraid of Tulsi or even Warren becoming president.
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  1701. The leaks proved that the Dem establishment was colluding with the MSM to push forward Trump in the primary in the hopes that he was too extreme a candidate to beat Hillary. Just look at him saying "He was the frontrunner right from the start" despite all the MSM being dismissive of Trump's chances innitially. Look at the empty podium incident and all the PROVEN bias against Bernie (that earned them the "Clinton News Network" name) Put all that together and it's pretty clear that it wasn't about any of the BS he said. It was about access to Hillary and her ad money from the very start.
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  1702. If they're not pushing the prices below the point where the companies are making money, no one has to make up the costs. That said, prices will go up in the general market regardless of which way this goes because healthcare is an area of the economy where demand is inelastic (meaning that people's willingness to pay isn't related to the price because the alternative is death). Until you get at least a public option, that will always continue because of the way markets function with inelastic demand (like price gouging disaster survivors for necessities).
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  1703. It's also the origin of the sexy lesbian vampire trope as I understand, so totally a relevant follow-up this Halloween
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  1704. It is, but he's always been like this. This isn't Alzheimer's. Let that sink in.
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  1705. Maher is, and has always been, an establishment tool to defign the left-most position of the Overton window and to keep the left's anger dirrected at the Republicans. This was cathartic and at least somewhat useful under Bush, but he became a problem long ago.
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  1706. So we're ignoring Hillary's record of pushing for racist laws and using racist rhetoric during the 2008 primary while pushing a smear campaign about Jill being anti-vax ( https://shadowproof.com/2016/08/02/jill-stein-smeared-anti-vaccine-crank-sanders-supporters-consider-alternative-clinton/ )? I could go into the others, but those are more complicated issues, so baby steps for now
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  1707. Evidential Media Clinton...increased wallstreet reform? You actually believe that? Wow O.O
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  1708. The establishment doesn't care about the opinions of the peasants beyond the need to manipulate them enough so they can gerrymander, trick, and suppress the vote enough to stay in office.
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  1709. +Kevin O'Neal what do you mean "nearly"? The establishment candidate Hillary did rig the election. Combine that with the huge issues in previous elections (Florida in 2000 jumps out as an obvious example), massive problems with how our elections are run when they're "legitimate", and the fact that we're told we have to choose between the 2 most disliked candidates in American history, and democracy is already dead in the eyes of much of the public. And you know what? They're right! Public opinion has absolutely 0 statistical influence on policy.
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  1710. Paid to loose. That's what it comes down to.
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  1711. Joshua Griffin so if the actual thing doesn't matter, only the lying, it's just like Bill and Monica. How upset were you about that? (no BS, just level with us all)
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  1712. Denise Devoto the shit they'll say once Zuckerberg runs for office. that's going to be stomach-turning. Mark my words on that one.
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  1713.  @morrighanwermarn-arnburg7333  JP is center right and too liberal for you?? How extremist are you?
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  1714. +betarage No, google is an inherently capitalist organization (being a corporation afterall) and has no intention to do anything like abolish private property. There's an old definition about fascism being when business and state merge but I think the term you're looking for is "totalitarianism". While the two have been historically paired due to authoritarian methods of trying to achieve it and the views of famous advocates, communism and totalitarianism are separate terms and a non-totalitarian communist system isn't a contradiction (whether you think that is achievable or desirable in practice is a separate issue).
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  1715. Only occasionally, but yes, they used to.
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  1716. Sadly, the FBI's likely going to wait until after the convention. Sucks, but that's how it's likely going to happen. On the other hand, the closer and more obviously rigged this primary has been when that happens, the better shot a third party has of pulling off an upset.
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  1717. Opposition to contraception exists because more poor people means more cheap labor, a greater class divide, and more soldiers for imperialism. All expansionist religions ban it by design for entirely worldly reasons. Whether they understand it or not, the ideology the republicans push is designed to produce as much expendable population as possible so that they can expend it to further their own power.
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  1718. If that's all it takes to make you unable to focus, there's a simple fix: Watch more porn I know "heresy" but seriously, being so pent up that such a little thing is too much is exactly what repression leads to.
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  1719. We're really not as smart a species as we like to think. We hit the bare minimum needed to set collective learning into a feedback loop, and that's about it.
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  1720. Voting for the lesser of 2 evils has proven to just slow the downward spiral to the point where, like the proverbial frog in the pot, many people don't notice how bad things are. If Bernie doesn't win, I'm voting independent like I did last time. If all that means is driving up numbers to show how sick of both mainstream parties we are to help fight the establishment in the next election, so be it. And if people like me doing that is enough to let someone like Trump into the whitehouse, then this country NEEDS that harsh of a wakeup call to make us turn back while we still can. It's ugly, but that's the reality I realized years ago. The only thing different this time is that we actually have a real chance this time. (really could use to get Hillary charged with the election fraud that's been happening though)
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  1721. Flintlock? Probably would go through, I'm guessing, but those are fairly late period as far as black powder weapons go. Earlier weapons would have trouble, however. What we think of as conquistador armor was designed to deflect firearms with its pronounced centerline to present a glancing surface and its increased thickness (at the cost of limb armor). Eventually though, guns got too powerful to wear thick enough armor to realistically defend against untill modern ballistic armor.
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  1722.  @itiswhatitis1306  dude, as an American, stfu. You're an embarrassment to the country. We have fuckall control of our healthcare under our insurance-based system and (even if we get it) often no control over what insurance we get as that's chosen by our employers who frequently change it and even if they don't pick a different insurance company as they often do, the company can and does adjust their plans. Fact is we pay about 2x as much as the average for the worst healthcare in the developed world, and even studies by far-right Republican think tanks show that M4A would save us money and American lives, but you don't give a shit about that because you're too busy licking the boots of big business to stand up for your country.
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  1723. Given the average age of their viewer...senility, dementia, and Alzheimers likely play a role for a fair section of their audience. Religious fundamentalism and cold war era right-wing propaganda likely didn't help either.
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  1724.  @e8iMm7KE999  or, you know, use an election system that doesn't use fucking coinflips!
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  1725. Dude's a fascist. The Nazis sent people from everywhere in the queer community to the camps. Not really far off...
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  1726. No it's not. Jokes are funny.
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  1727.  Classical Scholar  you're subbed to PragerU. You have no room to call anyone a lemming.
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  1728.  Richard Busby  don't vote for Trump. Vote 3rd party instead in that case and I'm right there with you. Election riggers should never get support no matter who they run against.
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  1729.  @belovedone151  boy
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  1730.  @tciesla  fuck that BS. Break the cycle boomers intensified instead.
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  1731. I mean, fascists do, but when anti-intellectualism is a core component of your ideology you tend to say some pretty stupid shit on a near constant basis.
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  1732. @Scott Johnston that's kinda the problem isn't it. The general population has been intimidated by the threat of violence (be it physical or coughing/screaming) from the Trump cult that it makes a mask mandate almost impossible unless you're willing to clear all non-violent offenders put of prison and start locking them up en-masse. Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't to that, but in the meantime, can someone remind me of the word for the non-state use violence or the threat of violence on a civilian population for a political cause to influence those beyond the immediate area of effect. I'm blanking on the word but it seems like we're seeing the results of it right now in the behavior of the general population.
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  1733. If we ask wiki for a quick working definition we get: "Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy." If we're being charitable, then, sexual non-anarchy would mean "sexual heirarchy" ...if we're not, it would mean "rape". And you know what, in what he views as the "good ol' days" before we centered consent in conversations about sex rather than puritanical rules, it absolutely was both.
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  1734. Categorically oppose ethnonationalism ✊
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  1735. If you see a group of facists beating someone on the ground, that's when it's time to crack some sculls at least. I'm all for free speech, but as soon as facists get violent, the gloves need to come off immediately, and if they fight back, back off and pull out the guns. I don't give a shit.
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  1736. Hey, they got out and saved face. Better than I can say for some empires.
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  1737. If your mythology has seperate deities for the sun and dawn who are not dirrectly related, and you're not shipping them, that would be wrong.
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  1738.  @Spider-Too-Too  we already have a system where only about 1% of people have an effective voice in government. The shithole world you see is the result. We need a government that's more democratic, not more fascistic.
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  1739. Aldana Media millenials were the first generation in US history to enter the workforce behind where there parents were at that age because boomers broke the long chain of doing whatever it took to make sure the next generation had a better life than them, and instead, chose to sell out their own children's futures for greater comfort. Then, the real most entitled generation in history blames millenials for the problems in the world while simultaneously denying them the chance to actually change anything significant. That's the reality of what the macro picture boils down to.
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  1740.  charmander charmander  Bernie is a left-leaning moderate and you're a walking Dunning Kreuger effect.
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  1741. Let's be clear, there is a mountain of evidence (from polling to interviews with normal people) showing Bernie's essentially unprecedented appeal with independents and even moderate Republican voters, especially in the rust belt Hillary alienated with her elitism. Even those who disagree with his policy specifics pretty universally say something to the effect of "I don't agree with him on everything, but I believe he believes it and will actually fight for working people, which is more than I can say about anyone else." The image of a "Democrat" in the mind of a Republican-leaning voter is that of a spineless corporatist who will talk out of both sides of their mouth while enacting onerous regulations that they will put in loopholes for the big businesses that pay them off so that all the actual burdon will fall on the small business owner and normal person. Bernie has shown he is able to buck that image. Warren has shown she cannot. Hell, she can't even convince a lot of us on the left that she won't sell out through either greed or lack of spine, so pulling people over? Good fucking luck.
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  1742.  @TheGroovyJones  kinda yes, but not as much as you may think. For example, in 2007, Republicans blocked a bill that would have given shareholders a yearly non-binding advisory vote on their executive compensation packages...so in some ways, shareholders have a lot of power, but in others, they have remarkably little and our country is so corrupt that even giving them a non-binding vote to check their executives' ability to decide what they're paid is too much for DC. The thing to keep in mind is that the conservative ideal is to have businesses run in a form of neofeudalism, so too much accountability on consolidation of power kinda butts heads with that, unfortunately (so much so, that they're willing to oppose something that would increase their own profits)
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  1743.  @rome368  think you're forgetting the piad piper strategy where Hillary colluded with the media to push Trump forward because they wanted an extremist candidate because it was the only way they could win. Covering Trump constantly is the Clinton plan.
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  1744.  @davemorgan6013  sadly, it's likely the beard was severed as well.
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  1745.  @alangivre2474  yeah, they won't get anywhere on Bernie or bust, but something they can have a productive conversation on would be great
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  1746. The top marginal tax rate should be open ended so that the percentage increases the higher over it you are, approaching 100% as your income approaches infinite. Ex: (using a $5million top bracket starting at 70%) [Top marginal rate]=70%+30%((Income-$5)/(Income)) Using that formula the top marginal tax would be $6million: 75% ($250,000 from top bracket remaining) $10million: 85% ($750,000 from top bracket remaining) $15million: 90% ($1,000,000 from top bracket remaining) $100million: 98.5% ($1,425,000 from top bracket remaining) $1billion: 99.85% ($1,492,500 from top bracket remaining) Etc (Picked those numbers semi-randomly just to demonstrate the idea of how the tax percentage always goes up, but never reaches 100%. I'm not saying they're good or bad numbers, so replace with your own as you see fit.)
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  1747. Depends on what you mean by "failed". If you look at the real goals admitted by a Nixon aid of locking up blacks and liberals (especially their community leaders) so they could win elections, it was pretty successful seeing as the whole country kept voting against their own interests and generally moving right on many issues. Bigotry of all forms really comes down to being a divide and conquer strategy pushed by authoritarians whether the people the doop into adopting those mindsets realize it or not.
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  1748. Barik he's a long time troll on this channel, don't feed him
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  1749. Haven't read the old testament, have you? Or looked at divorce statistics?
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  1750. J L here's one plan for it https://draftbernie.org/hq27v2/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/From-Resistance-to-Revolution-The-Case-for-a-Peoples-Party1.pdf Our system has always been a 2-party system, but that doesn't mean that upsets aren't impossible. The fact that the Whigs are consigned to the history books is proof of that (and not the only time it's happened. Even just the threat of being overtook by a 3rd party can influence change by making support from actual progressives conditional rather than a given. As for the threat of media coverage, we've already seen it, and no-one trusts the MSM anymore, so being totally silent on the most popular politician in the country running for president would only push people further away from them. I believe a 2-pronged approach is better than putting all our eggs in one basket, and overtaking with a 3rd party is certainly hard, but it's not actually impossible in 2020 (though was in the climate of 2016 without an INSANE level of screwup by both establishment parties)
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  1751.  @ikexbankai  Bernie is the only one who has a real strategy for moving the country left from the current insane Overton Window: Put forward very popular, strong, progressive policies to get a movement behind you, and use that pressure to force politicians to work with you and primary out of office those who don't. FDR did it, and it worked. The "Democrats" have abandoned the strategy for decades and now we have a protofascist in the Whitehouse.
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  1752. Did Boeing forget to buy CNN advertising by chance?
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  1753. Even more than the oil, they are a social democracy in the western hemisphere so they "must" fail to preserve the rule of the oligarchy. It's not even that they have oil that is the issue, but the idea that their oil belongs collectively to the people of the nation that is the issue
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  1754.  @bondjames5874  well he's sure not a leftist.
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  1755. Even though it shouldn't, not voting reads as "do whatever you want" apathy, not outrage. Never vote for bigoted, anti-democratic war-criminals, but there are other ways to constructively use your vote (I expect I'll be using mine to boost the prominence of the green party or DSA depending on who's in the lead because we need to be setting up options for ourselves to get a win by 2024 at the latest or the climate, and by extension all the younger generations, are completely fucked)
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  1756. che zus the thing that gets me is how Christians can tolerate a reference to God on something as dirty and materialistic as money when their religion has so much to say about greed. It gets even worse for those who believe in the free market who basically worship one of their 7 deadly sins, via the invisible hand of the market, as a 2nd religion. I guess I'm simply not capable of that level of double think.
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  1757. He also thinks our capitalist system adequately socializes human aggression dispite all evidence to the contrary. He doesn't understand postmodernism with reguards to psychology either, and his overt disdain for anthropology has left him with massive cognitive blind spots. He's just another person using his very articulate way of speaking and his sizable education to argue for his initial biases rather than actually challenging them and expanding his mind.
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  1758. The entire concept of origional sin is about inherited guilt...which is then redeemed, not by those who did the "wrongdoing" (that's a whole different discussion) making it up to the "wronged" party, but through the suffering and sacrifice of a 4th party ...who is also the wronged party to begin with (again another discussion). The central narrative structure of the Bible, even when you strip away all the other BS, teaches entirely perverse lessons about guilt.
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  1759. ....kinda telling they went through with this after their recent scandal, huh?
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  1760. Neoconservativism is just facism-lite. I've been saying this for years and with the constant slide to the right it was only a matter of time before the "lite" part went away. They are fundamentally the same ideology. It's only a matter of how hardline.
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  1761. Left vs Right, originating from republicans (as in literally supporters of republics) vs royalists has come to refer more broadly to collective, democratic power VS hierarchical, establishment power. If someone's not a real populist, they're not a leftist by definition, nor are you if you support mega-corps in an effective oligarchy. Even if you use the twisted economic version of boiling the whole thing down to communism vs capitalism (which you REALLY shouldn't) the establishment Dems and the corporate media are still way far right. While we're on the subject of definitions "liberal" means "open to new ideas and ways of doing things &/or pro freedom" so the Hillary camp isn't that either. (I know this all seems pedantic, but if we allow politicians to constantly redefine political terms, they become meaningless and all discussion devolves into screaming empty buzzwords at each other, while they get to do whatever they want) Corporatist, oligarch, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, right wing, or hell, regressive (which as a parallel of "progressive" has come to mean someone who pretends to be about progress while taking us backwards), all are much better descriptors of those like Hillary. What YouTube is actually doing, at the behest of advertisers (who are used to their dollars buying control of the public narrative) and old media (who want to continue to exist despite people not liking to watch their content anymore), is trying to crack down on all alternative media (regardless of political slant) to make way for the giant media conglomerates to step in and make YouTube the new cable TV. (I can dig up specific companies and related agendas for examples if needed) It's all about power and money, as usual, and to be honest, I'm surprised they didn't hit this channel sooner.
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  1762. Election integrity is non-negotiable. It's what seperates citizens from subjects. Election fraud should be legally reclassified as treason, as it is effectively stealing the government from the people.
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  1763. Yeah, get out of the way old man. The younger generationS and women overwhelmingly want Bernie to represent them. Stop talking at people and listen for once.
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  1764. Better if you can, use a burner so you can record. Just make sure you don't eve have both your phones on in the same location and to not have your burner on in transit to/from the protest.
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  1765.  @freeman7079  and black cops don't treat black Americans with a negative racial bais /s Why does everyone defending the concentration camps have such weak ass arguments?
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  1766.  @StormCrownSr  also rampant sexual abuse, lack of heat, multiple forms of torture, children taking care of other children covered in human waste because there aren't daipers or cleaning, people having their medications taken and not returned/replaced, and generally people dying from the harsh conditions. The internment camps that were such a black mark on our history have nothing on what we're doing to these people right now. Concentration camps is the only acceptable term for these inhumane conditions. Anything less is real PC BS, an insult to the victims, and paving the way for worse crimes against humanity. Even Godwin of fucking Godwin's law is calling them concentration camps.
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  1767.  @RSW552  no, Bernie was the more electable candidate and if not for the pandemic and BLM protests, Biden was on track to loose to Trump. Way to prove you don't understand politics at all though.
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  1768. Of course it's been experienced before....back when the same ideology reared its head in Germany last century. Today's enemy is nothing new, and we better not kid ourselves about what it is.
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  1769. Because some people care so much about personal gain that they're willing to undermine important movements to help get justice for real rape survivors and shead light on serial abuse issues that have been going on for decades (on top of the shaming and hostility leveled at real victims face when they come forward). All this makes an environment where real rapists thrive in, but again, they care more about their gain than the consequences for their actions.
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  1770. Jonathan C. You think it's not the US and their businessmen who are responsible for the situation there?
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  1771.    well, that would explain the slower timetable this time
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  1772. We need to exhaust the last few avenues of peaceful revolution first and back them into a corner where they need to strike first. If things go that far though, by all means, heads on spikes.
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  1773. Anyone want to start a petition to strap Disney executives to chairs and force them to watch their own movie until they learn the same lessons as Scruge?
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  1774.  @michaeldowson6988  yeah, the Nazi regime often gets protrayed as brutally efficient, but it was often extremely dysfunction in reality.
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  1775. It's political because politics is about the distribution of power. Women, workers, or really anyone who's not a rich, white, straight, cis-gendered, far-right man having rights is about power and so political. One side of the political divide there is simply pro-evil, just like EVERY civil rights fight.
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  1776. The racist vote always goes red. If Trump was about racism, we would have expected to see a bump in the proportion of the total population that voted GOP. Instead, we had completely normal (even slightly low) turnout, meaning Trump turned more people off by the overt bigotry than he dragged off their couches by not being subtle about it. The anomaly we do see, however, is that between election and taking office (a time when a president's approval numbers normally go Up) his approval numbers dropped sharply. What was the only significant thing to happen in that time? He picked his cabinet, proving to everyone paying attention with 2 brain cells that he wasn't going to "drain the swamp". Basically, non-racists voted for Trump because they knew that Hillary was 100% corrupt and going to work against them, so they took a gamble on the wild card. You want to know why we have president Trump? Stop looking at Trump. Look at the 2nd most disliked candidate in US history who rigged the dem primary, overtly scorned those she stole it from, colluded with the media to push Trump through the GOP primary, and ran such an incompetent campaign that (among many other failings) hit Trump with attacks so incompetently that it helped a compulsive liar seem like a straight-shooter. Hell, even just looking at the polling leading up to the election (where they leaned towards Trump when Hillary was speaking publicly and away from Trump when she was out of the public eye) shows that the election was just a reaction to her and what she represented, not a favoring of Trump (the most disliked presidental candidate in US history). The only part of the 2016 election results that can't be traced back to the establishment "democrats" is interstate crosscheck, and even that voter disenfranchisement program is something they ignored for years and pulled something similar in their own primary, so they had no room to suddenly complain about. Sure, racism is a problem and Trump emboldened them to be more overt and violent, that's all true, but if you want to understand the 2016 election, you need to look no further than the cover of Hillary's book: What Happened? Hillary Clinton
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  1777.  @otre3947  it's literally conspiracy theory cooked up by the Nazi party to drum up hatred against Jewish people. Everyone who's out there talking about how "cultural Marxism is destroying western civilization" is just flat-out repeating Nazi propaganda.
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  1778.  @SallyBlumCGN  "Vaush the neolib" lol 😆 Still malding over how he got Carl to go mask-off in their 2nd debate I see. Also defeating your own argument. Do only Marxists say that Marx was not authoritarian, or is Vaush a neolib. Pick one...oh wait: Deliberate irrationalism is one of the defigning characteristics of fascism, so your don't actually give a single fuck if you're arguments are self-contradictory (unless you count how you prefer it that way). Stay mad little fascist, or grow up and abandon your dogshit ideology.
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  1779. Because libertarians have faith "the invisible hand of the market" will protect them like it's some kind of god. Anarcho-capitialistism is a religion pushed by corportaists to undermine people's ability to organize effective checks on their power.
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  1780. Short answer: Armor? Yes. Weapons? No, you want the mass to help you do damage.
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  1781. Unironically, rates of psychopathy are remarkably high among CEOs (like 20-25%) and it's a fair assumption that politicians in our system are at least as bad. That's your starting point before you add in political ideologies that, among other things, dehumanize large groups of people (including poor people).
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  1782. veel60 seriously, why would someone dig up the Cosby show to watch it? There's more media out there than can ever be consumed to the point where no-one can even be expected to have seen all the classic movies, much less some middling tv show that doesn't have hardly anything to do with them, but somehow he's at fault for not watching it? Also who cares if it's on TV? I don't even watch anything TV anymore unless you're counting me using a tv for my computer monitor.
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  1783. @Olivia P true, really fucked up, and the source of most of today's problems because Nixon was already way to far right to have any place in politics.
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  1784. This would be a great angle to apply pressure through, I think.
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  1785.  Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy  how much are you getting paid?
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  1786. If you're expecting corporatists to stop playing appeasement with the far right before it's too late, don't hold your breath.
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  1787. Yes
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  1788.  @TeddyKrimsony  so is the butter in my fridge...
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  1789. IMO, the less Galahad we get the better unless someone does a good job wiping the Sue-ness off him. Gwain, Tristain, and some of the other knights of the round table would be nice to see more of though. There's some nice story that can be done with Arthur, Gwain, Merlin, and Morgan if both the latter stick to their pegan versions over the change from the old pegan ways. Arthur in some versions of the tales embodies the change from older pegan ways to a new religion and society, and the ways and reasons each react to that could be explored a fair bit. You can make a lot of stories around little 3-4 character sets around a theme, but then all the stories center around Arthur as he ties all the stories together. Then, you can have a narrative over all of them of how both how powerful a group built around a great leader can be, but also how fundamentally fragile such a structure can be when it all comes crashing down.
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  1790.  @anthonymacgregor9790  Sam said nothing about finishing
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  1791. So make it closer to an actual debate rather than a curated question-and-answer session?
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  1792. The kind of self assurance and acting/speaking on incomplete information the media demands (and public has come to expect) would be considered pathological in any other context. Until we change that expectation and say "you know, I think we've had a few too many overconfident idiots. Maybe it's time to check our preconceptions" we're going to continue have an insane asylum for a government.
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  1793. ​ @newbieprepper8451 blatent lies.
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  1794.  @Irishtradchannel  so you knew when he went and said that depictions of coiled snakes were evidence that ancient people had some knowledge of dna, or that you can't quit smoking without a "spiritual experience"?
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  1795. ​ @nikolamilicevic1040 try reading that again
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  1796. PJ Demigod Danny may not make the best decisions, but "politically savvy" Cersie is not. She may have power and succeed in politics because of marrage, Tywin being her father, and people consistently underestimating how evil and foolish she is (leaving her to do things they didn't expect) but she pretty consistently acts in ways that make her situation worse, not better. She's responsible for most of the problems in her own life and close to half of the dead characters were smarter than her (including ones who weren't even playing the game). She just started in a more advantageous position.
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  1797.  @joshbreidinger2616  the establishment's version of identity politics is fundamentally the same tactic as the GOP's use of finding black people as a "see, we're not racist" while dogwhistling at any black people outside of their in-group. There are some surface-level differences, as usual, but the underlying tactics differ little.
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  1798.  @guacamolekid3899  I will never not appriciate the eagerness of people like you to provide evidence to my claims.
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  1799. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  1800.  @samkinison2375  Kyle doesn't really read YouTube comments and that's not even how the system works. That victim complex must be absolutely crippling. Might want to see someone about it.
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  1801.  @fitawrarifitness6842  the right traces its roots back to the royalists opposing the enlightenment and democratic government in the first place and is fundamentally about consolidating power and building heirarchy. It is right vs left.
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  1802.  @ideapowerfulweapon  giving the homeless housing is cheaper and more ethical.
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  1803. What, you think that they're going to bring up that a Houthi rebel group already took credit for the attack and that it was a less than equivalent retaliation for Saudi Arabia's ongoing genocide in Yemen? That won't give them an excuse to go into Iran and install a puppet government to replace the CIA installed puppet government the Iranians overthrew. (To anyone who finds this at all conspiratorial, look it up yourself. It's all publically avalible information.)
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  1804. He lies about everything. The only question is if and what else he might do.
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  1805. Fascists don't care about truth. They just care about power. Saying whatever is useful in the moment is both a flaunting of power in the face of basic morals and a tool for further concentrating power, so they just eat that shit up. For more, see Innuendo Studio's "The card says moops" video
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  1806.  @Puleczech  no, I'm saying it because it's true and the equivocation is stupid on every conceivable level. Not only is there a difference in quantity, but the right is almost always banned for violating TOS becuase they're too bigoted to not spout hate speech, incite violence, or shit like that which is their own fault. Even fucking 8-chan has rules about what content you can post. Deal with it.
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  1807. Probably not as many as you think. Most people that get up to a federal court level are smart enough to not act like that.
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  1808. Right wingers gonna right wing.
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  1809. No, not doing basic research before you file a lawsuit is short sighted. Pushing a free market ideology that comes back to bite you is short sighted. Allowing people to spread the myth that this is about youtube cracking down on one ideology so we spend time fighting each other rather than seeing the bigger picture is incredibly short sighted (and very very common)
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  1810. cool beans facepalms the one you're on right now, for one, is being demonetized more than Prager U...
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  1811.  @stephj9378  in a fucking pandemic where everyone going back to work means a whole lot of people dying, yes, people absolutely should be falling back on government assistance right now and staying home as much as possible you fucking psychopath.
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  1812. You want mean tweets check the end of this video to see the toxicity coming from other campaigns' supporters https://youtu.be/r8z3qTGL7R0 (though the whole thing is good)
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  1813.  @derbistheeternal2947  there really isn't. It's pretty rare dispite pornography being very widely consumed.
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  1814. I think the phrase is "seen but not heard"
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  1815. Or clean water for all Or sewage for all Or actually maintains its infrastructure Or doesn't sell out its children's futures for extra profit Or Or Or ...
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  1816. Not even joking (well, ok, only half joking, but real question): you can notice a difference???
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  1817.  @robingourde9366  that is the point of the rhetorical question, I expect.
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  1818. Ha! Or Pelosi's or Biden's or Hillary's or McConnell's etc etc etc
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  1819. A good starting point could be to just put a huge tax on unoccupied buildings to pressure them into converting unused buildings into something useful. This would also help small businesses with their rent prices.
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  1820. @Fred Freddy go away DNC bot
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  1821. The right really has only 2 insults: Some variation of "dirty commie" And projection That's it.
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  1822. You think the death of a black man is going to shock the Maga croud to their senses? No, to them, he was a useful tool to oppress minorities, nothing more.
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  1823.  @1911GreaterThanALL  It's saying that a lot of people that wear MAGA hats are white nationalists....I wonder how you thought I was talking about immigration...or wait...no I don't. Btw, you do realize everyone knows you're upvoting your own comments like the pathetic little cryptofascist you are, right? Gotta hide behind your own upvotes to protect your ego like you hide behind your pistol to deal with your insecurity, I suppose, but you're not fooling anyone about any of these 3 things.
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  1824. Neil Hale they're pissed because the 4th ammendment bans civil asset forfeiture (which is how they pay for all their "toys"), "rough rides", locking people up to "teach them respect", etc. They want being a member of law enforcement to mean they are the law, but the constitution says otherwise and they hate that. Derailing a cop's power trip is about as libel to end with you bleeding on the ground as if you did it to a gangster...I'll let you complete that thought.
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  1825. The far right simply doesn't care about their own hypocrisy. Period.
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  1826. I expect it can be used as any by just changing it's position in the sentence.
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  1827. And yet every "centrist" wanted to pretend the arguments were really about immigration laws.
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  1828. The answer is simply the logical reverse of what you described: because he wants Canada to become like the US.
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  1829. Does spreading anti-intellectual rhetoric help the right or left more? Food for thought.
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  1830. Abbreviated excerpts from Umberto Eco's Ur-fascism: 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. 8. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” "Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." 10. "every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors." 11. "In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." Why are they so stunningly stupid and incompetent? Because fascists aren't actually ruthlessly efficient and get the trains running on time or even good at the violence they're so eager for. They're just idiotic loosers drunk on machismo and hatred. Feel free to apply this to all their fuckups earlier in the war and yet to come. It won't stop being true. "Passable competency" is the most they can aspire to on their very best days.
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  1831. I don't know her story, but I remember seeing stats durring the Bush administration that showed the leading cause of teen homelessness was parents kicking their own children out on the streets for being gay. That's how morally bankrupt our country has been for a long time.
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  1832.  @MaynardCrow  how many peaceful protests have faced violent crackdowns over the past 2 decades with significant public support of the police? More than you can count.
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  1833. To elaborate: The very concept of elections is to have voters choose politicians. The notion of politicians stopping any adult citizen from voting for any reason undermines the very foundations of our entire form of government. That's how you get things like the war on drugs and Jim Crow. Voting must be an inalienable right for the system to function at all. Just like gerrymandering, politicians cannot be allowed to choose voters or the whole system collapses (just with even more collateral damage when disenfranchisement is done through incarceration).
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  1834.  @revolutionarydissident2051  it conserves only the one thing it was designed to: feudal heirarchies under different justifications. I say this with no exaggeration. Protecting the elite from democratic governments was the intent of Conservatism from the beginning. https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
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  1835. You don't need to believe in a deity to believe in that. Just vampires (which are much more plausible)
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  1836. *groans* why would you do that to me?
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  1837. Rand talks a good game, but when the vote is tight, he falls in line with the establishment. He's, unfortunately, not his father
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  1838.  @Ramblebar  imagine trying to unironically defend Crowder and getting shown to be a liar that quick. How do they live with embarrassing themselves like that so thoroughly and frequently?
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  1839. Ain't gonna benefit most whites either. Poor and working class people of all colors need to just tell the rich to go fight their own damn wars.
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  1840. Their loyalties aren't to Israel. Their "loyalties" are to money. Israel just so happens to give them a lot of it.
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  1841. One of the most unpatriotic acts ever signed in our national history...quite Orwellian.
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  1842. Yeah well, as China has proven, corporatism and state capitalism are actually adjacent political systems...tankies are just too dumb to understand this obvious fact, but what do you expect from people who think creating a ruling class in a totalitarian state brings you closer to actual communism?
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  1843.  @CaBdosdos  the quality of healthcare is better in nations with a single payer system, so you're full of shit. You know that, right?
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  1844. Having read Darwin Awards, I can believe it's entirely possible that they were that dumb (and nearly earned one themselves) But a cover story is a plausible explanation too.
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  1845. Those people just want permission to be their worst. They get it both from Trump and their religion.
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  1846. The audacity of talking about white nationalism while defending an ethnostate!
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  1847. Problem for them is all the effective counter arguments go against their own agenda. Rather hard to argue against someone you agree with.
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  1848.  @NuketownG  and all of the things you mentioned (and much more) are changed by HRT. Your "common sense" doesn't override science and falling back on that as you talk out of your ass on a subject you clearly don't understand is anti-intellectual AF.
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  1849. 3rd parties can't get off the ground because we have a first past the post voting system. I'm not defending them, but don't let some bad actors distract you from the systemic forces at work and systemic change needed. As long as out elections are structured the way they are, they will always (and quickly) return to exactly 2 major parties. No more. No less.
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  1850.  @stalemateib3600  corporatism is the inevitable result of unchecked market forces. If you don't understand this, you don't understand economics. Btw, when demand is inelastic, you get exponentially increasing prices, exactly like what we have. Market forces aren't the answer. Leave the cult of the free market and the false idol of its invisible hand.
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  1851. ​@icarus313 people decide their views on war based on that all the time. Sorry if you don't have a moral compass when it comes to that.
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  1852. Trump still hasn't overturned democracy so we're not out of the fight yet
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  1853.  Metal Scar  what media are you talking about then? And why do you keep talking about Biden like he's left? He's center-right (at best).
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  1854. To evil men, religion is simply a tool to hide their actions and intentions behind the reputations of saints. Make no mistake, if you are known as a virtuous believer, evil men are cloaking their deeds in your good reputation. Until either there is no evil in the world or religion and morality are no longer conflated, this will continue.
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  1855. Obama: "Old men running the world is a problem, now let me, an old man that ran against a woman in his primary, tell everyone to listen to me instead of the overwhelming voice of younger generations."
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  1856. No, it amounts to a legalized gang.
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  1857. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 funny how the laws of supply and demand don't exist for people like you whenever it's inconvenient for those already holding wealth.
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  1858.  @joearnold6881  I think you've grossly misinterpreted what I meant. By "great for noise pollution" I meant basically the quietest transportation option around (other than thinks like foot and bike) and was contrasting that with the noise that is a major downside to trains (although one of the very few downsides to trains). By "mixed" I was referring to a public transit system using both bus and rail. I don't disagree with anything in your reply.
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  1859. Every time they get up and talk about how Christian they are, the right is simultaneously playing identity politics and virtue signaling. And lets not forget that past the casual bigotry mentioned (which is all negative identity politics), the right houses the reigning kings of identity politics: the fucking Nazis (who even are trying to rebrand themselves as "white _identitarians_") Meanwhile the left is so inclusive that it's becoming a joke on both sides how many letters have been added to the lgbt acronym, and we have at the extreme anarchosocialists who want to destroy hierarchies entirely. But sure, identity politics is a left thing /s
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  1860.  @tiger_lord305  honestly "fascist" is probably more accurate.
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  1861. Alternatively, early humans all over the world: found dinosaur skulls and freaked the fuck out.
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  1862. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
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  1863. They told someone in the military to aquire something and that it explicitly didn't matter where it came from. I don't know what they were expecting but they got off easy.
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  1864.  @markitgeek  Secular Talk first, but also Humanist Report and here and a few others now and then. It's good to get your news from multiple honest sources.
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  1865. Bipartisan=/=nonpartisan Bipartisan=both corporate parties agreeing to fuck you at the same time.
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  1866.  JOOGAL1111  most of the wokescolds are actually neoliberals, not actual leftists, and the actual far left has been hitting them hard for the past year on their cancel-culture BS. Stop listening to far right dipshits like Stefan Molyneux and Carl (Dunning-Kreuger) Benjamin and maybe you'll stop sounding like a fucking idiot and not be dragged into fascist ethnonationalism.
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  1867.  @French-Dutch-English-blooded  thanks for proving that the Bernie Bro narrative is pure projection.
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  1868. Same situation I was thrust into after 9/11 where, instead of a speach about courage and not relenting on our values and freedoms in the face of violence like we would have gotten from most historical leaders I'd read about we had the president basically stand up and say what amounted to "everybody panic and give up your rights" and the adults listened! It was at that moment that I realized I needed to grow up very fast because the "adults" were still scared little childern. This kind of inability to have a childhood seems to be just part of what it means to grow up under the kind of politicias that certain generations consistently vote for.
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  1869.  @BudderBoyz  estrogen is a component of many/most standard birth control.
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  1870.  @kevin6293  the ones dividing the working class are the white supremacists and mysoginists and homophobes and transphobes etc. I don't know if you're intelligent enough to understand this but "we want equality, but not for you icky people" isn't an effective rallying cry, so those in power spread bigotry among the working class to keep idiots like you working to divide it for them to conquer.
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  1871. But the current system pays for advertising time, and a lot of it
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  1872. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon They're unfortunately not uncommon.
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  1873. Actually "whether or not you vote has little impact. Nowadays, procuring a state-issued ID or driver's license, buying a home, and/or filing tax returns can get you on the list as well. Basically, if you're an active citizen of the United States you can expect to be called someday." -https://lifehacker.com/eight-myths-about-jury-duty-debunked-1538152456
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  1874. The difference is that when the boomers engaged in peaceful protests and were brutalized, their parents demanded the government stop and actually listen to their childern rather than trying to silence them with brutal force. When the boomers then saw their own children being brutalized, they sided with the authorities and bought into the propaganda so much that they're still bashing those generations to this day. Protests only work when they can evoke either fear or sympathy in those with power, and the generations in control of things right now have proven they're utterly unwilling to do the work needed to bring the government to heel no matter what they do to their own kids.
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  1875. Check out CNN's advertisers. They include (among many others) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute which "describes its mission as to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." They are buying control over narrative with "ads" (which aren't trying to promote their product over a competitor, because they're a lobbying group comprising most of the fossile fuel industry) just as much as they are buying control over legislation through "campaign donations". It is all legalized bribery. The bias isn't a mistake. Propaganda is their business.
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  1876. David Owens imagine walking into a shady used car dealership and saying "give me the best deal you have, but I'm not leaving this lot without a car." What kind of deal do you expect you would get? Any situation where you're not willing to stand up, say "no deal" and walk away is a situation you should expect to be taken advantage of in. Not only is accepting a loss in withdrawing support as part of a demand for fairness the entire basis for a strike, but we even see monkeys go out of their way to demand fair treatment because we have an evolved sense that when we don't demand fairness, we won't get it. It's just that we've been conditioned to ignore the evolved sensibilities that enabled our survival and held together our social groups since before we were even hominids. This is why voting for a "lesser of 2 evils" every election cycle keeps resulting in a worse choice of evils every following election cycle. In short, the worldview you have been tought to accept is how we got Hillary vs Trump in the first place.
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  1877. Oh she bent....the knee
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  1878. I fear no army of god, for we have iron chariots. (Ref: Judges 1:19)
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  1879. My gut says that the timing is suspicious, but random timing can appear suspicious by coincidence. If I may steal a quote; I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day, but I don't trust coincidences.
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  1880.  @DissedRedEngie  your broader point is correct, but when talking about vaccines, smallpox is a much better example. The plague is treated with antibiotics, not vaccinated against.
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  1881.  @ojpimpson3343  you are anything but logical. Just shut up, bigot.
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  1882. "You know, I just am against the idea of privacy and wanted to create a 'hot or not' site to rank my classmates (and then con it away from my business partner), but when it becomes a tool for fascists (some of whom I hang out with), suddenly I'm the bad guy."
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  1883. Calling it a genocide is acknowledging reality. Calling it a war is what is ideologically biased.
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  1884.  @potato9832  you're conflating the efficiency of large wind farms to the kind of small mills that would be able to fit on a house and they're not at all comparable. You know that, right?
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  1885. Before or after the trials for treason for knowingly supplying weapons to our enemies via intermediaries like Saudi Arabia?
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  1886. The only questions are tactics and timing, not moral justification.
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  1887.  @ChiefKale  yup, there are Americans who are informed about history, but most of them had to do that learning outside our school system which is usually more concerned with teaching American Mythology than American History. Between the defunding, the racism, the theocrats, and the idological purge durring the red scare, our education system is in ruins.
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  1888. geoingo even, say 2/3rds of the states. We should also have ranked-choice voting too, so that the spoiler effect is nullified.
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  1889. You're thinking about this the wrong way. People like this are proof why quality education is vital to any democratic system and that our education system doesn't teach critical thinking skills at all to a large number of people.
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  1890. Laws about waterways and commons (along with if the rivers were damed) varried by region and time period.
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  1891. Or, more likely, complete tools
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  1892. Warren seems to be largely establishment with mainly just a progressive streak on banking/finance. Even if she's more progressive than that at heart, with her listening to her advisers, we simply can't trust her. Ally with her on many things? Absolutely Trust her? No
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  1893. That's survivor's guilt fuel right there.
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  1894.  @primecyber1  and we only have those legal grounds because unions fought for them (often quite literally) is my point.
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  1895. I'd argue that in the face of our propensity to kill each other, thinking up new and kinky ways to have sex is our specialty.
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  1896. Rebranding the old as something new has always been easier and more common than making something actually new.
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  1897.  @patrick3671  a group from Yemen took credit for it almost immediately and the same media that beat the drums for the war on Iraq is refusing to talk about it like they refused to debunk the lies about Saddam's alleged Al-Quaida ties and the UN weapons inspectors saying to not invade. How many more times does this have to happen for you to stop being such a gullible tool? What, just because the Saudis (who kill our journalists, funded 9/11, are funneling US given weapons to Al-Quaida, and are committing a genocide with our help) say the weapons were made in Iran we should invade Iran?
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  1898. That's really not an exagguration. America has made a golden calf religion out of laissez-faire capitalism, and acts like the invisible hand will save us if we just stop trying to restrict it and put our faith in it to catch us once the last regulation is removed so it can finally carry us to prosperity.
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  1899.  @R_A_3000  if they just buffed the floor, the floor is fine. Buffing is a step in applying a protective coating. You're just proving that you have no clue what the job actually entails. Also, being inconvenient IS part of the point of a great many forms of civil disobedience. If you're against inconvenient protests, you are against protest, full stop.
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  1900. Welcome to the real face of #Unity It's just NewSpeak for "fall in line peasants"
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  1901. Don't hope: act
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  1902. Meaningless if people don't know where to point them isn't it?
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  1903. “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by things other than power." - David Brin
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  1904.  @creamwobbly  usually both simultaneously.
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  1905. Sanders supporters are far more likely to maintain their own political oppinions and just flatly state disagreement with him while maintaining support. That's not worship, that's just not waiting for perfection to get someone good in. Don't mistake enthusiasm for obedience or worship.
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  1906. ​ @Timmycoo it isn't about high schoolers messing around. The large majority of the cases are of underage girls being married to older men.
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  1907.  @Timmycoo  could be a troll, could be a fascist. Either way, I was using it to prove a point since there are plenty of people that actually take the stance he was putting forward.
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  1908.  @ArizonaTengu  Christian history is FULL of g-sides.
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  1909. Best defense is not being there when the blow comes through, so you're not exactly wrong.
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  1910. Empathy (just none for millennials)
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  1911. Beau of the Fifth Column has had some pretty informed, concise, and insightful commentary on the Afghanistan withdrawal (as usual, tbh) if you're looking for quality commentary from someone with a military background. Don't judge the book by its cover, btw.
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  1912. Counterpoint: FDR
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  1913.  @davidwalker6038  Tulsi should be VP as it makes a better stepping stone to a 2028 run with how US politics go. Warren has started sipping kool-aid and needs to be eventually phased out. She can keep her Senate seat for now, but it's only a matter of time before she becomes an issue so she shouldn't be trusted with more than that
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  1914. No reason for that. Demographics are shifting hard. They don't have that much time left before they become politically irrelevant. That's why they're trying to destroy democracy so quickly in every way they can.
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  1915.  @Mike-mc3sh  catching yourself in your phone screen there Dore fan?
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  1916.  @klbriceno1  It's actually worse than that. These people are ideologically opposed to truth and reason on a fundamental level. There's a word for being ideologically opposed to The Enlightenment. That word is "fascism". "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name." -Chinese proverb
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  1917. Apologies, but until we retake our government and make it actually responsive to the will of the voters, you can't expect anything more than citizen support from the US (and even that will be limited as we have our own mess to deal with). Unfortunately, the most I can say is that we're working on the problem and should we succeed, we will not be beholden to foreign dictators any longer. Again, apologies, but the mess the boomers left us is not an overnight task to clean up.
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  1918. Good. Election integrity is non-negotiable. It's what seperates citizens from subjects. Never vote for someone who rigs elections. They are never on your side.
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  1919. "Aggressively bad" is a good way to put that, but "bad" is a weak word. Try something stronger like "evil"
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  1920.  @paulanderson6834  they're not imaginary. They're the leading source of domestic terrorism in this country and politically active enough to get a fascist into the white house.
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  1921. Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's right. There's a good chance what's going on behind the scenes does break laws designed to protect competition and prevent collusion, but good luck getting the hard evidence to prove it.
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  1922.  @nihiliz94  btw, the transphobia that Chappell is spreading is getting black trans people, in particular, killed so no, that defence is BS (and really only scratching the surface of how BS it is)
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  1923. *if there's no arms embargo, there is ACTIVE support of what is happening.
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  1924. I understand and want to help the billionaires with their struggles in dealing with their addiction to wealth...intervention-style.
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  1925. To be fair, in many parts of the US, this is true as well....just not all of it. Here're maps if you're curious. https://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/firedforbeinggay.asp
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  1926.  @sjbrooksy45  more like actively dismantling all the work that the previous generations did one after the other to insure they had a better future than they did. Or in more poetic language: It is said that societies flurish when old men plant trees they will never sit in the shade of. The Boomer generation, after a long, unbroken chain of paying that forward putting (as a generation, if not individuals) in the most privileged/prosperous position in history decided that, instead, they wanted to pull up the metaphorical ladder behind them, say "fuck you, I've got mine" and then shout insults made up mostly projecting their own failings on the younger generations.
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  1927. I was just watching a cooking show and 2 out of 4 contestants were wanting the prize money to cover medical bills, one for his daughter's kidney cancer and the other to repair some constant pain in his hand from problems from a previous surgery. Welcome to America
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  1928. And he claimed Bloomberg is the best shot to win the primary "but I'm not saying he could win the general" and then procedes to gush over the idea of a Trump vs Bloomberg matchup. They really are so predictable aren't they?
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  1929. Tbh, just rushing him unarmed would be more effective unless you're on the baseball team. Fighting a gunman at distance without a gun (or at least a bow) is just suicidal. 1st rule of combat is don't fight at your enemy's preferred range. This goes for everything from armies to boxers.
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  1930. My mom was a fairly loud snorer too, but never made a big deal out of it. If you're rejecting the statistics because it is in conflict with your anecdotal experience, the problem is probably with you.
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  1931. There's too much suffering in the world for me to waste emotional energy sympathizing with shills that increase the amount of suffering out there.
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  1932. @Black Manta yes. Specifically though, if memory serves me, she held off endorsing anyone until the result was basically assured, and then endorced Bernie, presumably hoping to get a cabinet position or something. It makes some sense as a fallback to try and get a progressive in the cabinet as a backup plan, but that kind of thinking is how the slippery slope to corporate shill starts.
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  1933.  @josephbrandenburg4373  the problem with abiogenesis is we have more hypotheses than evidence. In plainer terms, that's lots of ideas, but no way to know which one(s) are true.
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  1934. If you mean the American people, less and less every day, and far less than it seems at this point. We just have a government that passes legislation with Zero statistical correlation to public opinion (not even a damn placebo effect) meaning we're functionally not a democratic country dispite having elections.
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  1935. Of course the protofascist rises in the polls when the media distorts and misrepresents the truth to suppress the left. We're seeing exactly what we would expect from the establishment running hitjobs on real progressives constantly for a while now.
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  1936. Nailed it
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  1937. No, the term limits are a distraction. That just speeds up the revolving door and gives voters less of a voting record to look at.
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  1938. Link please?
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  1939. Robert Toddford Williams yes anecdotes beat statistics, sure, we can completely ignore all the actual problems I brought up and how (while marginally better), the shrinking trades market is affected by union busting, minimum wages, and (partly due to outsourcing the boomers benefited from) couldn't have handled the influx of workers anyway (and is about to shrink even further as automation increases) /s You're either stupid, or playing stupid. Either way I'm done with you.
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  1940.  @1harrismccarty  unfortunately the golf courses are where many of the deals that screw the American people are made behind the scenes (or more accurately away from walls with ears), so no, being on a golf course isn't exactly being removed from politics. https://youtu.be/TGMgXSg9TgM
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  1941.  @ALV694  "alt-right" is a term made up by fascists to replace "neo-nazi" so that centrist and potential recruits wouldn't realize what was happening untill it was too late. Call a spade a spade Brazil's president is a fascist. Everyone who describes themselves as "alt-right" is either a fascist or part-way down the indoctrination pipeline into that ideology/cult without knowing where it leads.
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  1942. Well the honest ones. I'm seeing a whole lot of excusing going on.
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  1943.  @Mark.Richter  self awareness of a conservative
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  1944.  @TheYakisobaNoodle  Kyle's also just more correct on more issues and uses more sound arguments. Packman is usually for the correct position, but tends to use weak arguments to support them...still manages to school the far right because they're fools but not impressive IMO.
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  1945.  @Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF  the right/left divide origionated with royalists vs those wanting democratic republics. All but the most moderate right wingers will absolutely put winning ahead of democracy because being right wing is fundamentally about supporting entrenched power and opposing real populist power.
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  1946.  @alien0gamer139  rather than being condescending about something you know nothing about, go look up the political compass for the 2016&2020 primaries if you need a visual aid.
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  1947.  @alien0gamer139  you get the response your anti-intellectualism is worth. Deal with it and stop dodging the actual point being made just because your fe-fes got hurt.
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  1948. The "right" traces its roots back to royalists. The rest should be self-evident.
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  1949. Read the old Testament again
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  1950. Every year is another batch of allies and another dead batch of traitors. A grim form of optimism, but true, and unlike the boomers, we're not buying into the BS as we age.
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  1951. I know people with all kinds of social troubles who get laid. Hell, I knew an aspergers guy who wasn't conventionally attractive, didn't take the traditional male relationship role of the dominant pursuer, and who would actually "yip" in conversation who got in a 3-some with 2 women. You know what the main difference was? He wasn't a whiny brat who felt entitled to other's bodies or affections. People intuitively pick up on that at least as easily as they pick up on someone being violently insane and it's just repulsive. That's why the incel group is so toxic; it just perpetuates the same problem that is keeping these people from getting laid in the first place. Create a downward spiral like that, and yeah, some of the unstable involved will get set off if they spend too much time deep in that mindset.
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  1952. See the alt-right playbook's "always a bigger fish" to help understand what's going on. Seriously, I cannot recommend it enough.
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  1953. If by "people" you mean oligharchs, of course. They are 99% of the timd more sympathetic to fascists than anything on the left. They fuck things up, and then crush left wing solutions to the problems they made and before you know it you have fascism. That's how fascism happens: with the consent of the moneyed interests.
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  1954. A major problem is that most Boomers are too ageist to seriously care what happens to the younger generations after they're gone.
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  1955. Sorty but, this is a terrible idea, since it will just drive people into the arms of the Republican party and play right into their rhetoric about "those crazy lefties want to take all the guns and institute a facist state". As seen with the PC attacks against Trump, attacking stupidly is even worse than not attacking. You go on the offense on guns by saying you stand WITH nra MEMBERS in calling for universal background checks to keep guns out of the hands of would be murderers. Then ask why both the NRA and GOP want murderers to have guns and point to the money from gun MANUFACTURERS. THAT is how you attack on gun laws and get gun owners on your side at the same time. Reframe it as responsible vs irresponsible gun ownership insteatld of pro vs anit-gun and you win.
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  1956. Side note: anyone else noticing a lot of new usernames flooding the channel to defend Trump on this? Kinda strange huh?
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  1957. A gorget is a seperate piece of armor worn around the throat, not something built into the breastplate. It fills much the same role and there were some earlier breastplates with comperable features, but they're not the same thing.
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  1958.  @k7u5r8t4  yeah, Cenk can afford to go a lot angrier (let's be honest, if AOC talked like Cenk, we all know what the pushback would sound like) and that will also give AOC more elbow room to flex her strengths best which will also be amazing.
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  1959. It's not an accident, nor is it new, to type it as "Faux News"
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  1960. Yeah, AT&T has managed to pass Verizon in my rankings of phone companies I would least like to give my business to. An impressive feat after Ajit Pai.
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  1961. *supposedly amphibious
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  1962. You can't rig a primary, treat the people you disenfranchised with unveiled contempt, and expect them to turn out for you in the general while you want to sell out the sovereignty of their country to a court of multinational corporations when corruption was one of their main issues (and would block them from addressing 90% of their other main issues, while making them worse) Politics doesn't work that way with an electorate that is at all close to being informed.
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  1963.  No Dogma Mama  really? Then explain the guilty plea for illegally removing voters from the rolls in NY as a start
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  1964.  @AsadMalghani  and what kind of person assumes every Jewish person is part of some international conspiracy? _ _ z _
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  1965. Because they wanted the results they are getting to try to deter people from comming here. This even matches the statements of those of them (like Trump) dumb enough to say aloud the parts that are "supposed" to be secret.
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  1966.  @HIIIBEAR  the whole NPC thing, like everything else, was projection.
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  1967. That'd be nice, but a more practical alternative is to have what I call "conditional tariffs". These would tax all imported goods that do not match national standards for rules about labor and the environment. If a company can show they abide by the same standards, they get their goods exempt, reguardless of where their produced (and other nations can fast track the importation process of their goods by raising their own standards to match and having decent enforcement/inspections). Also, since it's targeted at HOW the goods are made, not who makes them, you don't have as much risk of trade wars.
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  1968. "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
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  1969. https://youtubersunion.org Can someone with a twitter account please share this on the secular talk twitter page where Kyle might see it?
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  1970. He actually is playing 4d chess...he just thinks the game he's playing is checkers so yeah...gonna loose.
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  1971. I think the only questions are if he's a witting one and of who.
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  1972. They are in freefall in a bottomless pit. "A new low" is just the daily routine.
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  1973. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0
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  1974. Or the even more significant cause: income inequality. Guns do make the events far more deadly though.
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  1975. Let's see, a right wing populist demogogue who mixes bigotry, right wing talking points, and just enough left-wing rhetoric to appeal to the working class only to fuck them over but gets away with it by building a cult of personality around himself...where have I heard that before?
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  1976. As long as corporations are still allowed to pay lobbyists and give former politicians cushy "jobs" after they gat out, this doesn't change that much beyond optics.
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  1977.  @enricomahoney6617  Obama was to the right of Reagan on many issues and Bernie is basically just FDR minus the racism and considered a total moderate in basically every developed nation. Meanwhile the GOP is cozying up to actual Nazis. Which way has the political spectrum shifted again?
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  1978. Or the biggest kissass. It's almost like we have a system designed to reward people with a greater desire for power than capability to responsibly handle it with exactly what they keep asking for.
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  1979.  Justin Griffith  I believe the term is "biorobots"
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  1980.  @chickencurry420  slight refinement of your terms if I may: vaccines didn't become political. Fascists made them partisan.
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  1981.  @jeffdiamond486  wasn't referring to you, just in case that wasn't clear. 😉
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  1982.  @thescopedogable  don't be too eager for rivers of blood and an uncertain outcome. We could end up with a huge chunk of the population dead and Nazis in charge.
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  1983.  @PADOYLE  it is how median averages work, though, and since as much as we can give intelligence some kind of value it seems to follow a nice symmetrical bell curve, those averages are the same average.
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  1984.  @Shooting_Star-v2e  we get it. You're a Jewish fascist who needs to make every single topic about their own personal hate campaign. You can shut up now. Your message has been heard.
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  1985. The US is a declining power. What's your point?
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  1986. I mean, he's a full-out fascist, so...
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  1987. He was doing perfectly fine answering the question So all hell broke loose. I mean, making sure to talk over Bernie any time he was making a good point seems to have been Pete's entire strategy. Bunch of neoliberals acting like chuds when they're loosing an online debate; just do whatever possible to prevent the audience from hearing any good points from the opponent even if you have to throw a tantrum to do it.
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  1988.  @lukeohlsen3994  some fought hard, yes, but there is pretty strong evidence that others were complicit. It's also undeniable that they went way softer on them than they would have on non-white leftists pulling the same stunt.
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  1989. Kaze most ISPs are those huge ISPs due to anti-compeditive collusion, high entery costs into the market, and bribing of local governments. Most people get to choose between 2-3 of the mega corps if they have any choice of provider at all.
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  1990. First, prove that he held back info on the Trump campaign (remember, Wikileaks' activity is verifying the information they're given, not sourcing it themselves) Then, show that someone who's #1 issue is transparency favoring Trump (who's administration leaks like a sieve on its own) over Hillary (presumably with intent to leak later) is at all inconsistent with his past behavior. I don't think you can do either, much less both. Edit: typo
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  1991. That's not their state ideology, though. Not even close. They're a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. "The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. . . 8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy. . . 10. Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism. 11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death. 12. Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise. 13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view — one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples” — “maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism." -topical excepts from Umbero Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-Fascism
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  1992. Let's play high stakes hangman F _ _ c _ s _ s The longer it takes us to be sure of the answer, the more people will die.
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  1993.  @spacedye2001  that's what they said.
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  1994. Even multiplayer games that aren't MASSIVELY multiplayer can work just fine. If it's small, little community-run servers you can even allow modding and the problem will basically be handled by the community as long as they are given the tools to ban people. It's not even the multiplayer aspect that's the biggest hurdle. It's trying to get thousands if not millions of players in what at least seems like the same multiplayer lobby/game. That's when you get all kinds of problems at massive scale and try to automate solutions in an insane arms race.
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  1995. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. . . . As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence." -Frank Wilhoit
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  1996.  @J0SHUAKANE  it started as a joke (if we're being generous) and the was adopted by actual fascists, including at least one terrorist in his mug shot after a mass shooting. It's not falling for it. That's what it is now.
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  1997. Average Ben Shapiro viewer.
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  1998. How many of you caught both that he's lying about having no plan AND that he was holding back the hammer of the gun during that little coin flip?
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  1999.  @wwaitkus  there a point somewhere in all that edge or are you just a pizzacutter?
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  2000. Remember when CNN Photoshoped Bernie to make him look ill? I do.
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  2001.  @names_are.uselessyt7908  stop trying to make literally everything about your bigotry. It's pathetic.
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  2002. Avrysatos it's like when it comes to healthcare, economies of scale magically don't exist. It couldn't be that everyone arguing against single payer either knows as much about economics as the average Christian knows what's in their bible (spoilers: that's not much) or is lying to exploit suffering for profit, though, so I can't figgure it out. Obviously I must be an idiot /s
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  2003. There's about 25% of the country that is, functionally, divorced from reality. Pay attention and you'll see the 24-26% number show up repeatedly in statistics. Pay attention more and you'll see patterns where it becomes harder and harder to convince people of an obviously true fact as you get closer to 25%, but then much easier to convince people of reality once you break past that number. It's like the equivalent of the sound barrier for truth, instead of speed (at least in the US).
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  2004. Zachary Henderson statistics show that, yes, the US healthcare is more costly, less effective, and covers fewer people than the modern norm of a successful healthcare system.
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  2005. If I may play devil's advocate for a moment, CNN and Faux may not be exactly equivalent, but they are both unacceptably horrible. I can point to CNN using photoshop and video editing to make Bernie look sick more than once as a particurally flagrant and deliberate micro example of their total lack of journalistic integrity.
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  2006. @nauticadon no, he's been scared of Bernie for years. Any fear of Biden is faked.
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  2007. The right loves projection though. (To the point where part of how you can tell a Democrat is too far gone is when they start projecting like a Republican)
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  2008. We're basically in a perpetual state of outrage at our government's actions, this included. We just know they don't care so are focusing on trying to overturn the system that preserves our oligarchy so we can get a government that is responsive to the people.
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  2009.  EpiDemic117  it's not really a different problem though. You're proposing treating the symptoms, which seems reasonable at first glance, but I'm proposing treating the causes of those social issues instead.
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  2010. Sure we can. We just have to take back our government from the oligarchs, institute massive election reforms to prevent it being taken from us again, and put on trial as many of these corrupt politicians as possible. When we start putting politicians on trial for treason for their taking bribes to ship weapons to our enemies, we'll get our respect back.
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  2011. Unfortunately national strikes typically require a stong union base to work. That may not be a card we have to play for a while.
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  2012. Reminds me of rape apologists talking about what a victim was wearing or an abusive husband saying their wife made him hit her ...notice the pattern?
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  2013. Is that why we have shortages of TP?
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  2014. Headed? No, these are leftover blasphemy laws meant to protect Christians. We need to move past this, of course, but it's nothing new.
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  2015. "Sometimes"?
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  2016. Somehow, I suspect your optimism may be misplaced, but I find myself admiring it non-the-less. That said, I wouldn't even give him that. Neither he nor the record company need the money nor would they do anything good with it so fuck 'em. Those lost profits aren't going to be hurting anyone and there are ways to not have to pay them and still get the thing you're looking for if you want it. Hell, some are even legal.
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  2017.  @sensualeye  and Bernie would make their advertisers rather upset.
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  2018.  @outlawscar3328  yup, for all the long list of flaws of online content, getting spoonfed a narrow sensationalised perspective via the TV from a private, for-profit megacorp who's in the business of getting other private, for-profit megacorps to keep spending lots of money on advertising (thus creating abundant and massive conflicts of interest with actually presenting the news halfway honestly) was even worse. It's a large part of why the generations that grew up with TV and no internet are actually the ones most susceptible to disinformation on Facebook, not the generations so often stereotyped as addicted to social media. Also, on a less serious note: cable tv is already an obsolete format even for plain entertainment. The main reason streaming services haven't completely replaced it yet (dispite being objectively superior because, for starters, you're not set to a specific programming schedule) is those who are still somewhat uncomfortable with technology. In just a few decades, it's going to come to an end to free up bandwidth for internet connections because it will be entirely unprofitable because no-one is going to be watching TV channels.
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  2019.  @BTinSF  policies are different, but the "anti-retreat" forces are generally only sufficient to stop individuals to handfuls of people from leaving in panic. A large, organized, committed force will blow right through them if push comes to shove because otherwise it would take too much of the army's forces in the anti-retreat role for it to accomplish any objective. You're not wrong, but at the same time, the practicalities of what's possible can only change so much.
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  2020. +Peter Ernst Actually, even if you ignore the unconstitutional actions, election fraud, and selling out of national interests to multinational corporations for legalized bribes, there's still bits that fit the legal definition of treason. For example, arming Saudi Arabia knowing full well that they're arming Al-Qaeda does actually fit even the very narrow legal definition. (and conducting war in a way that only increases support for terrorist groups does in spirit if not letter) "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
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  2021. Yah well, that someone had to pay to set those up should be your first clue to an ulterior motive. People that don't make money when they pay to put up advertisements don't put up ads for long before they run out of money.
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  2022. Using fake conspiracy talk to distract from the real ones she's involved in? Sounds like a solid strategy to me.
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  2023. paberry007 honestly, with as many Americans loose loved ones to lack of healthcare every year, I'm supprised it hasn't already, even if just in the form of seemingly random outbursts of violence by the grief-stricken. I can't say I hope it gets violent (I don't think we're at the stage where that's necessary yet, and jumping the gun on what should be a last resort is a bad idea), but I couldn't really blame someone that'd lost a loved one from trying to put a bullet in one of these fuckers dispite thinking it's better that they didn't. Hell, I don't even know that I couldn't be pushed to that point at the loss of someone I love. They walk a very dangerous line and don't even seem aware of it.
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  2024.  @TRUTHandLIGHT4809  randomly capitalizing words isn't a substitute for educating yourself. No definition of socialism is "the elites control everything" and whoever told you that is an idiot or a liar.
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  2025. Everyone that votes against this should be brought up on charges of treason for aiding the enemies of the United States.
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  2026. Trump was the most disliked candidate in US history, and his popularity is dropping like a rock. You cannot ask for an easier candidate to beat. Hillary just sucked.
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  2027. Truth is truth, regardless of who says it.
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  2028. Maine is the election to watch. Ranked choice voting would be a huge victory!
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  2029. +James Lopez Romney looked like a stereotype of a crooked used car salesman and the GOP couldn't see through his either even though his tells were loud af. Personality cults are scary huh?
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  2030. Of course costs are going up. That's what happens in capitalism when you have inelastic demand (demand that doesn't change with price because people will pay whatever it costs because they don't have a choice). So long as we have a for-profit system like we have now, costs will continue to increase exponentially.
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  2031. None? I make several dollars more per hour than minimum wage and would still struggle if I wasn't sharing a multi-bedroom place. Minimum wage is far too low and rent and property values are artificially high. This happens (almost) everywhere.
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  2032. As long as they get your vote, they don't care how upset you are. "Holding their feet to the fire" only works when they actually believe they're going to loose votes (so "always vote dem and then make a lot of noise" is nonsense) AND winning is a higher priority than pushing the interests of their doners. Neither is true with establishment democrats.
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  2033. +Harith Azmi Like Xiren Seo said, it depends on the type of tank. Compare the Matilda1's 8 mph (12.87 km/h) (only 5.6 mph (9 km/h) when offroad) A13 Mk III Covenanter's 30 mph (48 km/h). Both were British tanks in service during 1940.
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  2034. robb How's voting for the lesser evil been working so far? It's got a lot of rhetoric behind it, but it's proven to be a loosing long-term strategy.
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  2035. +Anh Triệu "You shall not pass. I am servant of the people's will, wielder of plain-spoken truth. Your dark money will not avail you, corporate sellouts! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" Something like that?
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  2036. Azuriyuu He's a troll, he will always dodge. Don't feed the troll
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  2037. Also the same candidate not taking huge bribes from weapons manufacturers...
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  2038. +devilmikey00 Counter example: "Priority? I don't have a priority. We need a comprehensive and balanced approach. It's as simple as that. Next question." Other than Trump being clearly Not in favor of balanced approaches to anything, that's a far better BS answer for not understanding the question. It's on topic, sounds like you know what you're talking about even to people that do know, and is a defensible answer to a lot of questions.
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  2039. Evidential Media Yes she says that, but if you believe it from someone with her LONG record of lying and supporting the banks, frankly, you're incredibly gullible. Politicians lie, so look at their record, especially when they like as much as Hillary.
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  2040. Peter Kapeel "You're angry at them because by committing suicide they show that you are worth less than the suffering that they are enduring." You're projecting your viewpoint onto me. What you described is how you view and frame suicide, as shown by your previous posts. I haven't said anything even implying anger at those that have killed themselves. The only people you could imply my being "angry" at would be those that hurt her, those that let it happen, and those that perpetuate the mindset that contributed to it being overlooked for so long. That said, for the record, yes, I do believe that someone's suffering can be bad enough that it can outweigh the pain their death will cause. (even without taking into account the pain other feel from seeing the pain and not being able to eliminate it) There's no anger in that, only sympathy and compassion. There is anger, however in a mindset that sees the suicide as a personal and general affront. "In my last post I said I try to empathize with the living that suffer. So, i don't know what you're trying to get at." Then read it again, please. Half of my post is addressing how not empathizing with the dead, specifically, is problematic. If something's unclear, I'm willing to clarify if you can be specific, but to my eyes it looks clear enough to suggest the problem is more that you don't want to understand what I'm saying. (which I can sympathize with; it's not a comfortable truth of reality to wrap your mind around and let into your heart, but it is the reality of this world we live in)
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  2041. David Ilea Hillary, through the TPP wanted to sell out our sovereignty to extranational courts run by giant corporations with the power to bring the US (and other nations) to THEIR courts for having laws that interfered with their profits. Don't kid yourself: Hillary is absolutely terrible on the economy too. (disclaimer: no, I didn't vote for Trump)
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  2042. I don't know why anyone would want to be a teacher in Texas even before this. They make it pretty clear that they don't like teachers there. (at least at the state-level, regardless of what any local area may be like)
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  2043. Lara Aletta Aside from a lot of the punishments, being outragiously disproportionate? (beyond the whole eternal punnoshment for a finite crime thing) I mean, come on, depression means you're going to hell? Dude's wish fulfillment book is largely just stroking a massive hate boner.
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  2044. I already swapped my registration to independent at drop dems day, and despite living in a closed primary state, I doubt I'll change it back with how willing the party was to rig their own primary. They've proven that they have no interest in even pretending to represent people like me or listen to what we have to say, so there's really no point in being a Democrat anymore, even in name only.
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  2045. hence why it's a complicated issue. Zoos do a lot of good and a lot of harm, so it's not a simple subject. Personally, I'm of the position that zoos should exist, and even be common, but be designed to be as humane as possible while still being viable. ....That only makes the discussion more complicated as you then get into both deciding what's humane, and how to balance the idea situation with the practical realities of the zoo needing to at least break even to exist, but I still think it's the correct position.
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  2046. He's got a reputation to maintain. He can't go sounding like he's not evil.
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  2047. so a "self-caricature"^n?
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  2048. America is more than just the ground that makes up its territory or its current set of citizens. America is the set of ideals and ideas that it was founded on, and without those, is nothing of value. Anyone that decides that civil rights are the problem, is deciding that America itself is the problem. It's good that the cowardice that gives birth to this kind of "philosophy" largely paralyzes them into inaction. Unfortunately, they eagerly throw their support behind would be tyrants. "Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the US constitution." Take a look at how we've been coexisting with people like you for the entire history of our country and you'll find answers. ex: have better ideas, and actually believe in American values (not just when it's convenient)
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  2049. "Uniquely unqualified"? Just wait until the next election. Trump is a product of the system, and it can and will find someone just as bad, if not worse.
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  2050. Wait, everyone wasn't already assuming he was going to do this from the start??? I know that sounds like a rhetorical question, but I thought that everyone who'd taken 2 seconds to think about Trump's likely fiscal policy was working under this assumption anyway! Then again, our so-called "economic experts" didn't see 2008 coming, so they're kinda dumb....
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  2051. but if the problem was 50 years in the making, how will we blame it on millenials?
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  2052. It's called voting 3rd party.
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  2053. Harry Stoddard Very strongly support it. It's indispensable for the modern world, so it need those protections. There's a small role for private companies for innovation in my mind, but we need good public utility internet going forward in a very bad way.
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  2054. That's how we treat a lot of the larger corporation here in the US too, where they can pay no taxes at all depending on how they can abuse the loopholes that were set up for them.
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  2055. Klimó Péter It takes a lot of fast talking to peddle the BS that we should just trust the CIA in red-scare stuff.
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  2056. No he's really not. Start here (with an overly generous critique) and realize his "philosophy" is just a pile of logical fallacies: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcIPV7s4KSBe8iCczxI0GwLhyOa1O2TN
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  2057.  @MH-ro1lg  "I just wanted to hear an origional oppinion" Nice lie, troll.
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  2058. Which is why those characters work.
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  2059. They're a "threat" to the United States [Oligarchy] because if they can ever drag themselves out from being a 3rd world shithole while under economic attack, it would prove Social Democracies can work in this hemisphere. Once you understand that the oligarchs believe they are the USA and that the rest of the citizens are really just upity subjects, it's really easy to understand them.
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  2060. Worse: Yahweh lets children die because of the "sins" of adults. Welcome to inherited/collective guilt, the worst and most inescapable ethical issue of the Abrihamic religions.
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  2061. Someone had to be
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  2062. Yet common to racists and "free market capitalists" good thing racist "ancaps" are a thing of the past...oh, wait, still killing people to this day.
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  2063. Dumber than voting for politicians who promice to expand the fossile fuel industry and claim that global warming is a "Chinese hoax"?
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  2064. That's not a symptom of Alzheimers. That's a symptom of psychopathy.
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  2065. Chomsky on the definitions of "democracy" and "peace process" as used by US establishment political figgures (as opposed to what the definitions actually are to everyone else): https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  2066. I suspect he was once faking for profit, but did it so long that he now believes it.
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  2067.  @hughmiller6389  what-aboutism at work
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  2068. Kelsper fair point
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  2069. He's less of an economist than Dr. Phil is a psychiatrist.
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  2070. Neither is any election reform issue (including money in politics)
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  2071. YES!
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  2072.  @ionbusman2086  it absolutely has. Many times. You don't know your history well enough.
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  2073. Check humanist report and the rational national too
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  2074.  The Headhunter  this all started when the CIA overthrew Iran's government and they have consistently responded less than tit-for-tat against US aggression you moronic warmonger. Also, nice strawman on Chomsky and Kyle.. Tl;dr fuck off tool.
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  2075. Alt-right is proven to be a rebranding Neo-Nazis came up with to make themselves more palatable to "normies". I refuse to use their euphemism. Call Nazis "Nazis" ("neo" just means they don't care about making the ethnostate in Germany anymore) It's all the same thing and any that pick up the label for themselves without looking into it should be shamed.
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  2076. Zack NoLastName Liberal: 1-open to change and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of personal feedoms 3-generous. Source: cross-referencing multiple dictionaries to find the common definitions. Hillary and her ilk are in no-way liberal. Also, the right-left divide traces back to royalists vs those supporting representative government, so it can be most accurately viewed as entrenched power vs populism. This means that "establishment left" is an oxymoron.
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  2077. No, fundamentalists lie constantly.
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  2078. Yup, Faux News doesn't even have to want to be fair. If for no other reason than they've drunk so much of their strawman kool-aid at this point that they're no longer able to effectively counter strong progressives, you get a better result going on Faux then the other corporatist outlets. Not only that, but repeated strong showings on Faux from progressives help debunk the "centrist" electability arguements.
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  2079.  @amoxcillicpsychosis2967  yup, he was constantly scanning like 50 ft down the hallway in each dirrection while facing the elevators. None of that was an accident.
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  2080.  @ShitTalkerExtraordinaire  Basically it's turning into "I'm the one good lefty. I get to arbitrate who's a good lefty and spend all my time attacking people you don't like, so pick me Tucker Carlson! I want your fascist approval so bad I'll spend all my time attacking libs and progressives and not engage with anything left of that. Look at all the infighting I caused uwu!"
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  2081. Proud Manarchist the Nazis after rebranding themselves "neo-Nazis" and then "alt-right" have taken up the euphemism of "identitarians" because it's explicitly about ethnic identity, but still complain about identity politics. If someone can definitively prove whether we're living in the Twilight Zone or the Onion, I'd appreciate it so we can start finding a way back to reality, because this is maddening.
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  2082. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET if you want people to even take that number seriously enough to discuss, what's capitalism's death toll?
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  2083.  A Volcel  the black community doesn't hate him because he's gay. They hate him because he has an incredibly racist record.
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  2084. Isn't it public knowledge that it's under the river Thames?
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  2085. To any boomer who doesn't hate millennials: Asking us to vote for an agist establishment candidate like Biden is like asking a black woman to vote for a Republican. They have overt contempt for us and will continue to push for policies that will make our lives worse.
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  2086.  @kevinnk5584  Dore and his little personality cult are one of the biggest obstacles to the progressive movement right now, so no, it's justified.
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  2087.  @hatoru17  because, you know, unlike civilzed countries, when someone violates election laws we don't redo the election. We keep the result won through cheating.
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  2088. I disagree. The most powerful message of the night was the other 5 candidates letting their masks slip to show that they oppose democracy. Funny how that bit got clipped out https://youtu.be/oOy_FohuoYY
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  2089. Enclaves for people who hate people.
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  2090. Well, you could always split the difference and get a stronger armor at 75% of the weight.
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  2091. That would explain the almost immediate invention of groin coverings.
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  2092.  @DissociatedWomenIncorporated  it gets worse. If 1×1=2 then 1=2 and 2=1 and 1=0 and 0=1 which is basically as close as you could get to a mathematical negation of existence itself!
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  2093. Not all...just the overwhelming majority.
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  2094. Fascists are prefectly fine with breaking laws and killing civilians for political power (especially if said civilians are a different ethnic group). Power is all that really matters.
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  2095.  @stefan4159  neoconservativism is about spreading democracy? Hahahahaha
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  2096. The teamster union has a rather mixed history including at times rather severe involvement with the mafia, and one of their presidents mysteriously disappearing. Unions are organizations like any other, and often lack any serious checks on the power of individuals who get into high places within them, so are prone to corruption. Don't get me wrong, we're much better of before we had them, but they can easily devolve into a lesser of 2 evils situation, so they should never be trusted unconditionally.
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  2097. “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -The Treaty of Tripoli 1796
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  2098. Funny how the racists are the same ones who are ok with undermining the foundations of democratic government...it's almost like you're actually a facist /s
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  2099. Same, but this will be good. Getting anything good right now is like pulling teeth, so at least it's something.
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  2100.  @RSW552  yeah, because of the BLM protests and hundreds of thousands of dead from a historic and mishandled pandemic. I mentioned that.
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  2101.  @fredapeeples6619  because it benefited the rich at the expense of the workers which means it benefited him and the lobbiests backing him. Or put simpler: rich people working together to get richer screwing the working class. Was that supposed to be a difficult question?
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  2102. I'll call it a "class war" when it's not just the working class doing the dying part. Untill then, I suggest they not go around using those words. It might give people ideas.
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  2103.  @jonathans8760  I seem to have misread your comment slightly. I still stand by saying we have a Nazi problem, but apologize for it being a bit of a non-sequitur. But to your actual point, it's absolutely based on nothing. Bigotry is fundamentally about divide and conquer (even though most bigots aren't consciously aware of it). Just like a far more evil version of schoolyard bullying, the actual differences used for the discrimination are basically arbitrary ways of trying to put someone below themselves because their pathetic egos need the validation of imagining themselves better than others and will use force to preserve that. All the forms bigotry takes are just masks to hide that pathetic truth.
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  2104. That's because right-wing politics are incredibly stupid and Bernie is a total moderate, so all politics significantly to his right are fucking stupid.
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  2105. You spelled that wrong. It's Fox "News" or Faux News.
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  2106. Bill Anderson I like the cops in my local borough, too, but when cops have been brought in from larger departments, it's usually been a disaster of excessive force and often collateral property damage. As soon as you have a police department big enough to develop a culture seperate from the community, you have a big problem.
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  2107. How is everyone (including Kyle) missing that the poll was measuring what voters thought the 2020 general election chances were with/without Bernie. All they proved is that 56% of their polled audience has been so thoroughly propagandized that, even after the disaster that was Hillary's campaign, they think that corporatist candidates stand a better chance in a matchup against Trump than the guy who has won every hypothetical matchup poll against Trump. You have to be as disinformed as the average Faux News viewer to believe that....meaning CNN just did a poll to prove that they are fake news. That's impressive!
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  2108. To be fair, we were still putting together a public education system...and if ours wasn't failing now, there wouldn't be much of this today, so there's no excuse for anything less than universal suffrage today.
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  2109. I wouldn't cut ALL foreign aid. Humanitarian works like working on disease and world hunger have decent returns in security and goodwill. No way in hell we should be shipping weapons out to dictators or those with human rights violations though.
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  2110. Not only that, but sounded like he was on cold and flu medication and had a bit of a sniffle.
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  2111.  @robertcampbell8070  true that it didn't have as bad a reputation that it does today, but mislabeling themselves "socialist" because of the positive image of the term at the time was better propaganda, and fascists are (at best) unconcerned with the idea of truth.
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  2112.  @dreamlandbuds7710  it aged just fine. Some people (by choice or stupidity) just didn't understand. The fact that this turned into complaining about safe spaces should leave some people mortified at themselves.
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  2113. hoodiewoman louisiana only because their most recent big leak was on the DNC. Once that changes they'll be right back to doing hit pieces on him. I just watch Secular Talk because Fox is intolerabe and it's impossible to tell when the grains of truth end and the ocean of lies begins. As the establishment Democratics have become just like Republicans, there's also another fairly reliable trick to tell roughly what they're doing. Assume they're projecting whenever they accuse anyone of anything, and if it sound even remotely plausible work off the assumption it's true. That sounds like a joke, but it has like a 90-95% accuracy rate with the GOP, and the establishment Democrats are becoming indistinguishable from them. (I'd guess they're at like 80%, and rising)
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  2114.    the right/left distinction traces back to royalists vs those supporting representative government. Removed from that specific context it refers to those supporting entrenched powers vs those supporting populist power. It's not even that "most" right wingers have strong tribalist loyalties but that tribalist loyalties and submission are intrinsically part of the right wing worldview.
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  2115.  @haegger666  there's no possible way to know this for sure, but I'd bet the first human to drink non-human milk was a baby with desperate parent(s). How we got from that to cheese, though, I don't know enough about prehistoric food preservation to make a good guess at, especially without knowing if cheese or adult lactose tolerance came first. Edit: dark truth though: most human discoveries of what wasn't unsafe to eat likely came from babies and little kids stuffing random things in their mouths (as they are want to do) and some of them not dieing.
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  2116. Somehow for these people, economies of scale somehow magically disappear when it's inconvenient for business interests to talk about them.
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  2117.  @Dakarn  defense from what, exactly? Most conflicts our military has been involved in since WW2 have been offensive and/or fighting enemies we created (and often armed). On top of that we could make huge cuts and still outspend Russia and China combined. Unless we really want to go Axis powers with Israel and Saudi Arabia and take on the rest of the world (not saying we're not trying to do that) a military this big isn't of any use to our country, and certainly more than we (and our real allies need for defense).
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  2118.  @BeastNationXIV  no excuses. No rules. No accountability. No morals. No intelligence. Just power and cruelty.
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  2119.  @emileconstance5851  transgender women are women. Black women are women. White women are women. Tall women are women. Short women are women. Young women are women. Old women are women. Infertile women are women. Fertile women are women. Straight women are women. Homosexual women are women. Pan women are women. Asexual women are women. Gender isn't sex (and neither is a binary). It's not complicated.
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  2120.  @emileconstance5851  the point you're trying to dodge is, yes, they will be told they are women because they are. Being a transwoman is a subcategory of being a woman, by definition. There are all kinds of ways you can divide up women into groups but it doesn't make any of them less of a woman, and yes, if you try to tell women they're less of a woman because they don't fit neatly into how you want to think of women, that's bigoted. (And frankly, your rediculous strawman about people denying their sex isn't even worth acknowledging)
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  2121. All religion is molded to fit a person's worldview and ethics. The perception that it works the other way around is an illusion. Due to conflicts (both internal and with reality) everyone, even fundamentalists, has to pick and choose. I find what is chosen and what is discarded is a great judge of the person's character.
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  2122. This is from the swing districts (read: not the districts around the major cities) Compare primary: https://graphics.latimes.com/election-2016-pennsylvania-results/ To general: https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/pennsylvania/ Bernie is the only one who has a lock on PA. Even Warren is likely to loose to Trump, and all the overt neoliberal technocrats would get crushed. #HindSightIs2020 #Bernie2020
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  2123. yeah, when you make an ideology with the core being a logical fallacy (in this case "Argument to Moderation") the result is poison. Just look at conservatism (aka Appeal to Tradition).
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  2124.  @misanthropicgodband6773  yup! that seems to be the best thing about loosing your virginity to most people: no longer thinking its that big a deal either way. Like your first kiss, it's probably going to be awkward and you're probably going to be bad at it and not even know what you like, much less what your partner does. A willingness to embrace and laugh at the awkwardness with your partner is a good attitude to go in with. And yes, most people, especially most women/girls, don't like much tongue.
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  2125. Americans need to keep hearing this kind of stupidity from people with English accents until we stop automatically equating the accent with intelligence.
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  2126. Kris Niznik Mathew 6:6 "but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray" "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
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  2127.  @julietfischer5056  that's not really practical to enforce as you're trying to outlaw charging "what the market will bear" while keeping a profit-driven market structure. The better answer is to just provide housing as a public service rather than leaving it up to markets to handle.
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  2128. If you opposed this, you have nothing to be ashamed of. We're not scoffing at you. We're afraid for you. Anger, not shame, is the appropriate emotion, though I cannot say what the right thing for you to do with the feeling is.
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  2129. @AirandThoughts I don't think that. I know that.
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  2130. It's ok, some traffic will tear that right up lol (Yes, I'm quite skeptical of that 7 year life expectancy)
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  2131. Benny boy, when has talking about this subject ever gone well for you? 😆
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  2132. Yup, they're just another hate group.
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  2133. BS. The deal put inspectors in Iran to prevent that and let us know if they were trying it. Now we don't know what they are doing you colossal moron.
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  2134. Yeah, time is your biggest issue, so the question is the amount of paperwork as your limiting factor. Currency trading probably doesn't count, but gold is a good you can buy. Another option would be stocks, as you could buy a lot of them very quickly. Almost all large purchases come with a lot of paperwork, so smaller purchases that take little-to-no paperwork and that you can resell later are by far the better choice.
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  2135. J P "Name 1 way the government has imposed Christianity on you. . ." "Those were courts, not churches" Congratulations on being the very personification of moving the goalpost.
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  2136. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca Trump absolutely sees religion as useful.
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  2137.  @rawhidelamp  I think the fact that our country has legalized so many forms of corruption is skewing those statistics, tbh. Looking at how negligibly correlated public oppinion and government policy are is probably a better metric, and by that, the US is extremely corrupt.
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  2138.  @michaeldelyjah5696  no-one is reviewing something like this this quickly after it's been uploaded without reason. I do actually know what I'm talking about. If that offends you, sorry, not sorry.
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  2139. And so often the damn tops are white! Ffs, you know shit's going to get spilled and then turn to ash there. Don't make it so that every bit of charred carbon left there is going to be an eyesore! Who decided that bright white was the appropriate finish for that part of that appliance???
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  2140.  @28604  yeah, but Tankies aren't really anti-imperialist. They just don't like US imperialism.
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  2141. Right wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  2142.  @Darkllamaboy  says the guy with a maga hat in his avatar? Lol, ok
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  2143. 110%
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  2144. *gives you an irl slowclap for that masterpiece*
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  2145. Drop them off in Yemen? From what altitude?
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  2146. They are stopping basic medicine and food aid getting to civilians in blatent violation of international law. They know exactly what they are doing. The results we see are intentional.
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  2147. We already have a method for generating answers for random general knowledge questions. It's called "search engines". Jordan Peterson forgot GOOGLE Existed!
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  2148.  @kamau506  ah yes, Chappell repeatedly targets and kicks down to a group that is disproportionately antiracist and your response is to further his erasure and alienation of black trans people and the myth that these things are in conflict (which only exists as far as people like you and Chappell are unwilling to take an intersectional approach to tackling bigotry). But hey, dividing up minority groups has been doing great so far right? It's not like white bigots have ever tried to get the black community attacking another minority group as a form of divide and conquer that you're doing right now, right?
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  2149. Damo2690 um, 1066
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  2150. You want the real reasons, or their cover story, because those are very different answers. The real reason is that the historical YouTube channels we watch kick the pants off of the History Channel, and the huge media conglomerates (like the one that own that) want to turn YouTube into cable TV 2.0
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  2151.  @yayaetc7334  because Reagan convinced a bunch that greed was good, and then Clinton did the same for a bunch more. This is what you get when your Overton Window is entirely on the right.
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  2152.  David Renton  protests are an appeal to sympathy. When you protested and were brutalized, your parents stood with you and forced the politicians to take you seriously. We protested (remember Occupy?), were brutalized, and your generation sat back and joined in the media sneering at us. We voted for Bernie in 2016 (unlike your generation, on average) and when we were targeted for systematic voter suppression your generation dismissed us when we came forward with evidence of it, voted for Hillary, played up the Russiagate hysteria (which was an obvious distraction from the rigging) and moat of you voted for Trump. We've been doing our part, we just realized that our protests weren't going to move the generation complicit in selling out our futures to do theirs, so switched tactics. Thank you for proving my point about the agism, though, now kindly fuck off for betraying the causes you fought for in your youth and becoming what you fought against. I'm glad not every former boomer leftie bacame as big of a POS as you, but you are certanly a disgrace like most of them.
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  2153.  @richardburnett-_  every election cycle we get a worse choice of evils, but people keep pretending that just voting for the lesser evil will change things. And thus sums up the past several decades of US politics.
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  2154. If someone can read the Bible and say that Yahweh is the good guy in that story, I become seriously concerned about their moral compass. Thankfully, most people who call themselves Christians don't know what is in the Bible, or just choose to flat-out ignore it.
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  2155.  @jacobr5627  you like PJW? That's sad.
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  2156. His hair went from grey to white as he's been sent back stronger...does that make Hillary the Balrog?
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  2157. Agreed
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  2158. The corporate line obviously. It starts with someone obviously objectionable (typically on the right) Then some people speaking against the far right are taken down for the appearance of neutrality Finally, the real targets speaking out against the corporate establishment are hit. It's a pattern and has been very popular so far this century so we should learn to recognize it because we'll keep seeing more of it.
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  2159. You might still die https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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  2160.  @AbdulMeykal  it sounds like you may be grossly misinformed about the origins of money and why it was created.
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  2161.  @andrewklang809  could? Yes, but more than likely to hit an ammo rack, transmission, engine, gun, etc and then detonate on that
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  2162. Humans produce mega doses of oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that promotes emotional bonding, when they have sex. For people who aren't aromantic and those who don't have some kind of psychological disorder (like ASPD), both parties remaing emotionally unattached is entirely unrealistic, especially for people with enough in common to be friends in the first place. The only ways around this dilemma are very careful selection of partners (who have one of the rare predispositions to NOT getting attached), or a lot of careful and skilled management and communication (which kinda defeats the purpose to begin with). That's the reality most in FWB relationships are naive to, sad to say, so there's no ignoring the complexities of human social interactions.
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  2163.  @stephj9378  it's an unnecessary surgery on an unconsenting child that causes long term negative health impacts and even https://duckduckgo.com/?q=circumcision+deaths+each+year&t=fpas&ia=web
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  2164. At her heart, Warren wants to do only the reforms needed to keep the current status quo from destroying itself. There's a term for that; a moderate conservative, which, given her former GOP status, is unsurprising. She only looks progressive because she's borrowing Bernie's rhetoric in a far-right Overton Window. She will not change the status-quo.
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  2165. Athiest just means not having a belief in a god. You're thinking of non-religious which while overlaps highly with athiest, the ven-diagram isn't a circle. Athiestic religions, while rare, do exist. We don't have to twist language because of that fact.
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  2166. The fact that human instinctive violence tends to manifest with punching rather than biting gives us a massive passive resistance to intraspecies rabies transmission without which large human population centers would have been rather difficult to establish. With as much as pre-modern cities were already plagued by disease (including but not limited to those caused by poor sanitation), large human settlements might simply never have developed if we tended to bite each other when mad. Before knowledge of viruses it would just look like putting too many humans together in one place eventually causes them to go insane and start killing each other. Switching our instincts from biting to hitting may have been a prerequisite for civilization itself.
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  2167. Ha! I was trying to put that kind of evil into words, but I don't think I can top that.
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  2168.  @hawk71432  yeah, Bernie's master plan was to spend his entire career playing the role of a stalwart progressive to cash in well into his retirement years rather than selling out early and often like the rest of the more wealthy Senators. /s Do you realise how incredibly stupid you sound?
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  2169. This is part of a large and consistent pattern of behavior redefining terms with well established meanings to mean things we already have good words for (such as "values" for "religion") and then using them in their normal definition (such as then equating "religion" and "theism") without ever defining how he's using words unless pressed, because it helps him pass one of his favorite logical fallacies off as truth. By his own standards of judging people by actions rather than what they say (or even believe) about themselves, this makes him a charlatan. Please look up more "Jordan Peterson debunked" videos on this and other channels until what he is becomes clear because he's very skilled at hiding it.
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  2170. Right vs left is about consolidation vs distribution of power (read also: pro- vs anti-heirarchy) The rich/elites consolidating their power is definitionally right wing.
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  2171. How far up some rich guys ass do you have to be to call 2:37 an "unlikely coalition"???
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  2172. I'm out here on team "whatever we have time left to build" which thanks to sitting on our hands for decades, nuclear no longer has much (if any) place in. I used to be pro nuclear, but expediency is the name of the game right now.
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  2173.  @rundmc555  if you read the list of things in an apple you wouldn't eat one.
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  2174. If you don't it, you'll only be playing into the organization's plans
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  2175.  @electric6877  also true, though "centrism" has kinda become its own garbage ideology trying to follow the center of the Overton Window, so I would describe Bernie as a left-leaning moderate (or possibly moderately left wing) using the moderate lable to refer the the actual center of the spectrum, rather than risk confusion with "centrism" the idology. Hell, I'm only a social democrat (admittedly, about as far left you can get and still have that label apply before slipping into the real democratic socialism camp), and there's still enough room for me to be significantly to the left of Bernie on basically every issue. He is a great step in that dirrection though, and about the biggest one we could expect to make in the current situation, so I'm quite happy voting for him.
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  2176.  @randomentity6553  he favorites PragerU videos. He's not on our side.
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  2177. Because fascists have become increasingly commen and loud, and they're hostile to the concept of truth
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  2178. The corporatocracy cares as much for national borders as the Canadian government cares for provincial ones; they're merely a useful administrative tool.
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  2179. I mean, he actually asked multiple times in the same meeting why we couldn't just use nukes so...
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  2180.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  just use a shotgun to the head or the same captive bolt system we use to painlessly kill cattle if you're trying to preserve the organs after killing someone...but that would make us face the barbarism of the thing we're doing (sometimes to innocent people) rather than sanitizing it for our own comfort.
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  2181. @Sturgeon black voters were very strongly divided on generational lines, so yes, it was boomers.
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  2182. Omfg, the POINT is that we should be AT LEAST as outraged at what's happening to the planet as we would be if they actually destroyed that painting. Throwing soup at the things you mentioned wouldn't make that point AT ALL. Seriously, how is this kind of idiocy getting all the upvotes despite showing no understanding whatsoever?
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  2183. They see it. They just care about hurting others more than getting hurt themselves.
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  2184. Our political spectrum has shifted pretty far right, hasn't it?
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  2185. Rolling Thunder I'd argue any plan for any of the big 3 invading another and expecting it to stay as a war fought with conventional arms, instead of devolving into a thermonuclear war once one was loosing would be a better example. Russia and China are upfront about the fact that they'll use nuclear arms first if they're being invaded and loosing, and while the US claims it will only use atomic weapons to respond in kind to WMDs, our history speaks louder than our rhetoric, so I'm sure we would use them if backed into a corner. Sadly, there are some people in government that seem to think that a war between the large powers can end in anything but their mutual destruction, so this kind of stupidity is alive and well (and part of why we're at 2 minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock again).
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  2186. WiiWiiDingler because they don't. Objections to the pledge come from athiests and religious denominations which object to making any oaths that aren't to God. He's just talking out of his ass to be a troll/bigot.
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  2187.  @ohawwgeez3112  yeah, but we can replace anyone with Gravel, hypothetically speaking
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  2188.  @CutThroatJuggalo  both want the cultural battle to go on indefinitely, though. The GOP will stir up irrational hatred to get bigots to vote against their own interests, and the "Democrats" then get to play "good cop" and say "I know you don't really like the platform we're giving you, but can you risk not taking the deal?" They can also, like $hillary and many others have done, play things such that the public has to spend their political capital in the form of time and energy to get them to "evolve" on an issue. In the meantime, they're made a mess of the economy, violated constitutional limits on power, and "ops" lost ground on another social issue. We won some ground with the last administration on gay and trans rights, but Obama broke deportation records, normalized Bush's constitutional violations, set up the next market crash, put the healthcare discussion back to "is Romneycare too left-wing", and "couldn't do anything" as the GOP set themselves up to stack the courts to (among other things) put Roe vs Wade back under threat so that they could use that as a threat on the voters to vote for an even further right-wing "Democrat" than Obama, shifting the Overton Window further right no matter which way the election went. They even quietly expanded executive power after Trump won to ensure he would be able to do even more damage when he got in so their next candidate would look better by comparison. As long as the current illusion of a 2-party system remains, all gains are temporary, because neither the GOP nor "Democrats" want anything solved permanently.
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  2189.  @malungtvnews  ah yes, because forcing a vote on a bill we know will fail will surely get us there /s No shit healthcare's important
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  2190.  @DVankeuren  execpt multi factor analysis has been done. Britian's NHS (especially before the Tories started their privatization and austerity measures) ranked very high across the board. The US system was absolute garbage by basically every metric. Market-based healthcare is shit for a mountain of reasons that should be obvious to anyone who actually understands economics and thinks about it for a few seconds.
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  2191. Still hasn't clerified the individual doners vs individual donations distinction, so this is just the tip of the iceberg
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  2192. Anil Singh got to it before me. Fear is the main motivator for people to keep showing up to shitty jobs.
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  2193. Vinícius Ferrenberg I'd argue Iraq is worse, though that's damning too
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  2194. Yang's "universal" (it's not) basic income plan is really just a Trojan Horse to privatize the social safety net. Not interested.
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  2195. whyamimrpink78  "there are open minded people on both sides" and you have proven over time to not be one of them no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise or how well you put on the act.
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  2196.  @bigchedds8389  corporate lies.
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  2197. Honestly, in that kidnapping situation, there's a good chance that shooting random paramilitary guys of unknown affiliation who wouldn't identify themselves while kidnapping someone could hold up in court as justified. I know there's at least 1 case where someone killed several cops who broke into his house in a no-knock raid and got off because he didn't know they were cops so there appears to my lay perspective that there is legal precedent for it.
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  2198. As I understand, a lot of them are bought in bulk and then given away...which is a way to move money through certain legal loopholes to the politician's actual pocket. Grain of salt with that one, but that is my understanding of where a significant chunk of the purchases of a lot of these books go.
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  2199. Yup, forget protect and serve. They're not even law enforcement. They're just gangs.
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  2200. Not true. Bernie is the best matchup against Trump. Yang has huge vulnerabilities like Warren does.
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  2201. I support you standing up for your rights, but I caution you that many cops flat out do not know what your rights are (because they spent more time training about violence than the laws surrounding their job), and do not take kindly to having their authority questioned, or being embarrassed by a civilian who understands their job better than them (because fucking cops). Please still do it if you're up to it, but be cautious about tone and wording for your own safety (as much as it disgusts me to say that).
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  2202. Because boomers can't deal with the fact that the nation fell into decline under their watch, they sold out their children's futures for their own comfort (becoming the first generation in US history to have their children enter the workforce with worse economic prospects than them, to say nothing of climate change or how legislation no longer has any correlation to public opinion), or that everything they say about millennials is even more true about them (if it's even true about millennials in the first place). In short, they became exactly what they fought against in their youth, and use projection as a coping mechanism because they're not mature enough to handle the reality.
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  2203. Yolo Solo and interstate crosscheck took WAY more people off the rolls than that AND way more democrats voted Trump than Green (though FAR less than voted McCain in 2008). If Bernie can get through the primary in 2020, I'll almost certainly still vote for him despite the DNC being intolerable. It would be a great position to reshape the party from and clean house.
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  2204.  @Trashboat221  look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists and he was specifically calling neonazis "very fine people"
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  2205. Another option (potentially after downcycling plastics into products that can use lower-grade materials) would be to liquify them (or suspend them in a liquid) and pump them down old wells as a form of carbon (re)sequestration. It's a lot easier to sequester carbon when it's not in CO2 already, all other options feed the carbon in the plastics into the carbon cycle, and the problems we're facing largely stem from how we've pulled the carbon the Earth spent eons naturally sequestering, so putting thay carbon right back where it came from seems a sensible solution. Also, once we're making more of our plastics from plants than fossil fuels, as long as we have good filtration and can keep it out of waterways, we can just then make, use, and burn all the plastics we need. Just have one recycle bin for all plastics. Every kind goes in, and it all goes right to be burned. No complicated sorting needed at any stage past seperating plastic from non-plastic. Or we can continue to use burying plastic waste as a form of carbon sequestration to continue to drop CO2 levels. If we can just stop adding carbon to the carbon cycle asap and keep the plastics out of the oceans we'll start to have a handle on this mess.
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  2206. He needs to even stop calling them centrists. They're center right. Call a spade a spade (also, "establishment left" is an oxymoron because leftism is opposition to entrenched power)
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  2207. This is actually why it's so important to be using the correct definition of right vs left, which is hierarchy and consolidation of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. Top-down power structures are ALL right wing, no matter what aesthetics and justifications they wrap themselves in. Taking up nominally left wing positions on some issues while keeping a right-wing, superiority-driven mindset is really easy to fall into because it takes more work to actually deconstruct those right wing modes of thought. The real left and tankies share nothing but aesthetics in common. Even on economic issues where the political compass puts them on the same position on that axis, they take completely different stances on how an economy should be organized with the real left centering economic democracy and tankies promoting what's called "state capitalism". That's part of the problem with the political compass. It treats people that want everything to be worker coops as having the same economic positions as people who want the economy managed by a dictator, which is obviously absurd.
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  2208. And ends with -enocide And it has been the plan since day 1.
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  2209. Well, right-wing politics is inherently about moving power from many people to concentrate and entrench it in the hands of a few, so that is exactly what we should expect to see.
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  2210. Even just the property damage of breaking their way through windows and doors.
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  2211. Never forget. Never forgive. They will never stop hating us so make sure the sentiment is returned.
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  2212. Doktor McNasty bits are bits and volume is volume reguardless of source. Slowing one site while leaving the rest of the internet faster is inexcusable.
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  2213. To evil men, religion is simply a tool to hide their actions and intentions behind the reputations of saints. Make no mistake, if you are known as a virtuous believer, evil men are cloaking their deeds in your good reputation. Until either there is no evil in the world or religion and morality are no longer conflated, this will continue.
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  2214. Seriously! I thought this was already confirmed.
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  2215.  @morninboy  you thing the "me generation" is going to mostly leave large inheritances? You sweet summer child.
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  2216. That would be the job of the Corporate Newspeak Network, yes
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  2217. Could, but he's a better diplomat than a president. Should totally be more active in that roll though.
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  2218. They don't care if what they're saying has any relation to the truth at all. Only if it is useful.
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  2219. Even if there isn't (though I expect at least a soft limit), the idea that we would see constant expansion is questionable at best. Already we see an increasing and global trend towards urbanization and a leveling off of population growth. In other words, already we are seeing evidence that we aren't going to expand into some galaxy-spanning empire and that's before we get our fill of space colonization trying to expand to fill the solar system. We look to our past behavior and assume that means we're going to put Dyson spheres around every star we can get our grubby little hands on as we continue having exponential population growth when really we get an entirely different picture if we extrapolate current trends foward. Maybe the thing we want as a social species is NOT to be as far away from each other as humanly possible. On the subject, it seems notable that pretty much ALL our fiction seems to view a war between Earth and a Mars colony as inevitable. Maybe our future is to bloody our own nose one last time and finally recognize how short-sighted our history of colonization always was. Far more likely, I think, is that we will stay around our own star as long as we can and move to another star (singular) only when our current one is reaching the end of its life. Of course, such modest and nomadic civilizations would be far harder to detect than galaxy-spanning empires, so it would make sense that we haven't detected them yet.
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  2220. @jake canebrake so, by your logic any product that only adults are allowed to buy should be exempt from truth in advertising laws, or is this just special pleading for your manchild daddy?
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  2221. Optimus Fine it's to deny them to progressives. That's the job they're paid to do and if they allow the progressive movement to gain traction in actual policy, they know that we'll tear down the system of bribery they get rich on and that the people will never go back to voting for right-wing hacks like them again. If they loose to Republicans, then they still get paid at least some, and know that they'll get their turn in eventually when people get sick of the GOP and the pendulum swings back (but only if they set themselves up as the alternative by denying other political voices). To the DNC, WE are the primary threat. It's about time we responded to them in kind.
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  2222.  @BenSalernoMedia  which is a near total overlap with "libertarians" going "look, if we just allow unchecked accumulation of private economic power, that will maximize freedom" The "best" part is both libertarians and tankies can see the obviously contradiction in the other's ideology but can't see that they have the exact same one in theirs.
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  2223. Can we just take a minute to appreciate that a woman Fox panalist just schooled him so hard he had to run from her point? It's not like Fox tends to hire women who are overbearing over conservative men and still he had to just tuck tail and run to a break. That was glorious to watch.
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  2224. Properly organized collective decision-making tends to outperform vesting all decision making in a single authority.
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  2225.  @taylorrabbitt4382  because down ballot elections matter and bumping up the Green party's numbers puts us in a much better position in the future (especially if we can get them over 5%) Do try to listen when other people are talking.
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  2226. Some perspective: https://i.imgur.com/N2IIq_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium (1932 political cartoon)
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  2227. Ever heard the saying "It's not what you know; it's who you know"? That acknowledgement that our society entirely runs on nepotism is so ubiquitous that we turned it into a saying and then forgot what it actually means.
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  2228. Well...the alt-right is a term thought up by neo-nazis to rebrand themselves with (look it up), so that shouldn't be surprising...
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  2229.  @NuketownG  they don't. You're making unfounded claims.
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  2230. No, seals are water dogs. Maybe water wolves?
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  2231.  @Steven9567  what policy/policies of the EU are so tyrannical? What do you want so bad that the EU won't let you have? If it's so obvious, enlighten me by all means.
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  2232. Zionism is desiring the establishment of the whole of Israel as a Jewish state. There are absolutely Christian Zionists who want that because either they're ok with Jews in a "not in my backyard" kind of way or (perhaps even more likely) it would fulfill the prophacies leading up the end times where they believe they'll get Raptured up to Heaven while the Jews get slaughtered and Armageddon falls on the Earth. He's probably a Zionist, as the more theocratic someone is, the more likely they are to be a Christian Zionist, but the theocracy is more relevant to the topic at hand so calling him a theocrat is more on point and is self evident from this little exchange.
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  2233.  @jxsilicon9  that's the perception, but it's wrong because it's based on outdated economic models. Please look up Debt: the First 5000 Years to get an accurate understanding of currency and you'll realize every potential problem you're worried about is either not real, or easily solvable. The very notion of a nation with sovereign control of its own currency paying interest on its own currency is absurd to begin with.
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  2234. Am I missing something? I was under the impression you had to be a certain age to legally take om debt in the first place. Am I understanding it right that they are allowing kindergarteners (not their parents) to accumulate legally binding (as opposed to informal) debt of any amount? 'Cause that shouldn't even be legal.
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  2235. Let's not forget, more Hillary voters voted for McCain over Obama than Bernie voters voted for Trump over Hillary (and most of THEM weren't democrats to begin with) To make it worse, Obama and Hillary were FAR closer on policy than Bernie and Trump and the 2008 primary wasn't rigged, AND Obama wasn't sneering at Hillary voters after the primary and acting entitled to the office....so yeah, they consider defeating progressives more important than defeating republicans, full stop.
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  2236.  @David-qv9yy  cryptocurrencies are nonsense bubbles waiting to burst which only exist because people don't understand money or economics enough to recognize that they are basically pyramid schemes.
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  2237.  @derskalde4973  "The small grains of platinum were mixed with a little gold dust and small portions placed upon a piece of wet charcoal; when the gold runs it will coat the grains of platinum with gold . . . the grains are simply ‘soldered together’. If the piece is now further heated by means of the blowpipe, . . . a portion of the fused gold permeates the platinum and simultaneously a little of the latter is dissolved in the molten gold. This mixture of gold and platinum can now withstand a light blow of the hammer, especially when hot; by alternately forging and heating it is possible gradually to build up an homogeneous mixture. All the specimens found are small, which is natural, since they cannot be larger if they are to be exposed to the maximum degree of heat that can be produced from a bit of charcoal and a blowpipe.” https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/24/2/70-79/ (The powder was naturally occuring much like the flecks of gold found when panning) See also: sintering
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  2238.  @derskalde4973  np, you perked my curiosity and figgured I'd share. Low tech metallurgy is an interesting subject analyzing with modern understanding the creative solutions people were coming up with when they didn't understand the elements they were working with and often weren't even able to produce temperatures high enough to melt the metals they were working with. I'm normally learning about it through the metallurgy for weapons (steel and bronze), so I didn't know this one either, but found it no less interesting.
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  2239. Pulling down statues to warriors and leaders of a conquored nation is an extremely common symbolic act throughout the world and history. As mentioned, Sadam's statues were pulled down in a similar manner and dragged through the streets when he was deposed. The fact that statues of those involved in treason against the US were allowed to be up for nearly a century is completely absurd. Removing a statue glorifying treason from in front of a courthouse =/= the history erasing from ISIS.
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  2240.  @joearnold6881  I mean, busses are nice for noise pollution and getting people closer to their destination so a mixed transit system is a nice way to get benefits of both.
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  2241. +
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  2242. Strictly speaking, they don't have to understand the nutrition for it to be why those foods are combined. All else being equal, if 2 cultures are competing, the one with the food culture that combines foods in a more healthy way is going to have an advantage and (though one of many means) be more likely to survive and have its food culture spread. Understanding is not required for the selection process to take place anymore than it is with genetic evolution. They are healthy to eat in combination can flow right into a causal relation to the frequency in which they are combined. Even down to a smaller level, a family with healthier family recipes is more likely to produce more children who are able to grow into healthy adults who are able to have healthy kids of their own. Likewise, if a family is doing well, others are more likely to emulate things they are doing, even without any understanding of if or why those things would confer an advantage. "What are you feeding them?" is, afterall, something said to a parent who's children are growing up bigger and stronger than average. Whether you want to call it memetics or dual inheritance theory or something else, the fundamentals of evolution (selection+reproduction with random variation) apply to ideas and culture, not just biology.
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  2243.  @indymarrow8050  a: I know what socialism is b: I'm not a socialist c: I just haven't been indoctrinated into the "free market" faith, so actually am able to look at things objectively d: you say I don't understand, but you haven't refuted one point I've made You're just plugging your ears and saying "no, you're wrong" like someone who believes the world is 6000 years old when someone tries to explain evolution.
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  2244. it really helps that fascists tend to think they are way smarter than they actually are while simultaneously being rather anti-intellectual.
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  2245. You're forgetting a huge issue: Musk's insane contempt for people who actually work for a living and mass transit would mean sharing a vehicle with us, so he'll pull out any option that doesn't involve that. If you just understand that Musk's vision of futurism is less Star Trek and more cyberpunk distopia, his general behavior and even aestetic choices will make a lot more sense.
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  2246. Technically she already did twice, once with the massacre and again with the illegal occupation. She just needs to work on making those attacks stick and not be thrown off by the disgusting willful ignorance of the monsters we have here in the US.
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  2247. VitalVampyr and once you have military control of space you can easily set up a orbital WMD system (or at least a Rods from God system to start) along with a missile defense system and claim global dominion, which means that the other powers would have to prevent space superiority with their own programs, which means you have restarted the cold war again. The military industrial complex gets even richer and the world gets fucked (and possibly triggers WW3). This is not a small issue.
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  2248.  @OfficialSeth  I mean Benny Boy DID do that once dispite how long ago it was released.
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  2249. Greed is a hell of a drug.
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  2250.  @6789uiop  absolutely. All the corporatists just realized after getting heat on Iraq after the public wised up that they wanted a way to blame it all on the President and maintain plausible deniability for the action. That's part of why they did this via committee too, rather than a full vote. Fewer "people" would have to catch the fallout.
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  2251. Respectfully, while I agree we should absolutely be calling and mailing our representatives, I think you are being a little naive. Republican politicians do not care about getting reelected. They care about remaining in power. In a situation where they are being offered the end to democracy, we need to be very clear that those are NOT the same thing.
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  2252.  @mrgaudy1954  yup, this is what the right is all about. Remember, right wing politics traces its origins back to royalists opposing democratic government and enlightenment values.
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  2253.  @johnmc3  violence occupies every point of the political spectrum. Every law and border is enforced with at least the threat of violence. You understand neither the basics of politics nor what terrorism is.
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  2254. It's true. They're commonly called psychopaths, but the clinical term is "antisocial personality disorder" because they are destructive to societies. 1 in 5 CEOs test as at least borderline for this mental disorder (which is only about 1% of the general population), and we should expect the same to be true for their dirrect servants in government. Add to this that part of the harm they do is creating social norms and systems that drive others to act similarly to how they do (see psychology experiments like the Stanford Prison Experiment for the mechanisms of how that can work) and you have a recipe for disaster. Our current social systems are amazing in how efficiently they funnel people who should never be trusted with power into positions of authority.
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  2255. The word of the day is "complicit"
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  2256. "Only if Iran did this, the neocons would have war within the day." Fixed it for you
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  2257. Anyone with enough money and few scruples gets special privilege. That's how oligharchy works.
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  2258. Both of those would be less toxic than CNN.
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  2259. MorganWight I don't know how the guy didn't blow up in his face at the casual admissions there...I would have been yelling 2 inches from his face because trying to hold in the rage I felt at just hearing that would have meant punching the America hating POS in the face
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  2260. Now we have them done by "news" corporations who rely on advertising dollars from (for example) health insurance companies for their bottom line. Bit of a perverse incentive there isn't it. Never forget these are for-profit corporations and you are not their customer.
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  2261. So to you the best part was the cop using excessive force. Not something to brag about there, bucko....
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  2262. ​ @shaydorahl6740 the only reason we don't have a solid explanation for abiogenesis is that there's too many ways it could have happened to be certain which it was. You could look things up and learn more, but you've clearly started assuming the conclusion and are working from an argument of incredulity.
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  2263. Or, and hear me out, we just nationalize the healthcare industry
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  2264.  @mlopez1007  I know that. I'm just wondering when my country is going to finally get the nerve up to admit it.
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  2265. At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to defend Faux News (which couldn't be further from the truth), what did she expect when she took the job?
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  2266. Centrism: the golden mean logical fallacy made into a political ideology Conservativism: the appeal to tradition logical fallacy made into a political ideology Of course these ideologies (and I'm using that term loosely) are disasters.
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  2267. Aven intentionally
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  2268.  @pugnuspopuli1311  well, duh, the Saudis aren't dumb enough to launch the attacks from their own country on the US. They know how to use proxies, patsies, and allies for "plausible" deniability. (Hell, they probably learned that from the US)
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  2269. Being the land of the free is part of the American Dream. If you want to believe it, go back to sleep.
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  2270. Isn't it sad that the average level of hypocrisy from those with power is so high that you're the only one I see pointing that out?
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  2271.  @inquisitorsteele8397  attacks on military targets are never terrorism, by definition, no matter what Russia says
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  2272.  @haroonsadiq4319  "anti-Liberal" is probably the most accurate description of whatever politics he has that extend beyond narcissism and self-interest
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  2273. There are exit polls. Keep voting. Eventually if we can get things to the point when the election rigging is undeniable, something will happen. How peaceful it will be is up to them though.
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  2274. That's a very long way to say everyone should use Ting mobile. I see what you did there!
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  2275. Funny how Law and Order™ tends to be the exact opposite of actual law and order, huh?
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  2276.  @Miranox2  the data is overwhelmingly clear on this. People voted for Biden because they were tricked into thinking he was more electable. That's it. Bernie is incredibly well-liked, and his policies are popular even in states where Biden won in the exit polls from those primaries.
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  2277. They're downright fascistic.
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  2278. It's just been getting worse for decades. "Democrats" or Republicans, this country will keep sliding to the right until we get a real progressive government in. Right-wing governments tend toward dictatorship/fascism over time by their nature.
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  2279. Wynn Gwynn basic respect is both to break down the sense of entitlement and legalize prostitution. Putting restrictions on when someone is allowed to consent to sex is BS. Not only that (and the fact that many patrons of prostitutes go there for more than just sex), but if you want the dating scene to be less predatory, making it illegal for those who really want just the sex/money to have that option makes no sense.
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  2280. The most accurate terms would probably be "reeducation camps" and "cultural genocide"
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  2281. I have issues with Tulsi's politics, but she has remained quite a loyal friend to Bernie and he's going to need those in his administration. Yang lies about his healthcare plan and gives UBI a bad name.
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  2282. Embracing theocracy to whitewash evil and collect a paycheck. It's an ancient tradition.
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  2283. Of course they have. Right wing ideology is all about power hierarchies, and you have to divide people to build those. Divisiveness is core to all right wing ideology. Always has been Always will be
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  2284.  K.O. Derf  wow, stripped your argument down to raw projection that easily? Lol 😆
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  2285. Is it immature if it's exactly the amount of respect they deserve?
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  2286. It's not overreach. The child cannot consent and without clear, substantial benefits, that must be preserved. Overreach would be banning adults from getting the procedure.
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  2287. Religion has historically been a useful tool to control the masses. That's why every authoritarian regime either uses a religion willing to play along and/or creates a cult of personality to function as a defacto religion.
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  2288.  @slitherdown8556  when did that happen? Musta missed that by not living in your fantasy land
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  2289. ​ @gregrobinette8620 yes, 16 year old are children.
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  2290. Wow, a video about AoC brought out all the regular trolls to this video in a big way. She "triggers" the fascists so much!
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  2291.  @davidallison5529  maturity has never been a strong point for fascists so with only a username to go on it can be nearly impossible to tell the difference between the absolute worst kind of 14 year old and someone who is 60 but has remained or regressed to the same state.
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  2292. We need to call a spade a spade here. Greene is a Nazi.
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  2293. Legally or extralegally?
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  2294. Abrahamic fascism is much alike Abrahamic fascism.
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  2295.    unless they had been categorized as such, they would just be a GMO product, and not subject to any such restrictions. Also, the entire park was kinda "extralegal" so...
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  2296.  JR 14  so you're one of those idiots that thing the definition of right wing is a smaller government?
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  2297. They love hate and hate love.
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  2298. The GOP voting against a Drain the Swamp bill will help that in a small way, and any dems that go with them will be hurt a lot too.
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  2299.  @toarrestsomeoneistoviolate2643  oh look, an actual Nazi trying to hijack leftist anger against capitalism. Oy vey, we don't know how that turns out. /s
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  2300. I don't get why it is so hard for some people who aren't ethnonationalists to just categorically denounce ethnonationalists and include people like Benny boy and Netanyahu in with Richard Spencer and his ilk.
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  2301. At the bare minimum (and probably half-that for software given how quickly that industry moves. There's even a strong case for total copyright abolition. The current system is absolute madness and does not facilitate innovation as was the origional intent. It must end.
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  2302. Guys, GWS is a troll. Ignore
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  2303. Most Americans want universal healthcare dispite it being constantly vilified over here. We just live in an oligarchy, so what we want is pretty irrelevant.
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  2304. Faux News, Corporate Newspeak Network, MSDNC: all corporatist propaganda outlets
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  2305.  @allangibson2408  physics disagrees. ANYTHING can be crushed with sufficient pressure.* *may involve punching a hole in the fabric of spacetime.
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  2306. When those with the power of the state think that means they can just dismiss the pleas from scientists do do the right thing, tragedy is unfortunately the normal result, but those with power they don't deserve trying to "prove" they don't need to listen to others is an unfortunately and disastrously common human failing at every imaginable scale.
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  2307.  @browngirlinaclownworld2077  given time, without a change of course, we'll get there before you know it (with actual Nazisb since we have so many of them laying around). Luckily many of us are already fighting to change that course.
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  2308. He is wrong about it because he misrepresents it about being about monogamous heterosexual couples rather than just having more than 1 partent, though, so Ben can't even get that right.
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  2309.  @ArizonaTengu  Defend Numbers 31:17-18 (which means exactly what it sounds like it means) or admit that your "holy" book is evil. I'll wait.
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  2310. More likely a proxy war as disastrous as Vietnam. The US can't successfully take Iran. It would be a futile bloodbath.
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  2311.  @cnow82  I mean, it is if you let go of the idea that the "Democrats" actually want to win.
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  2312.  @petersaint5581  yes really. I'm no fan of how Cuba is run, but you have to be incredibly ignorant of the history of US imperialism to our south. Pinochet's attrocities are just the tip of the iceberg.
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  2313.  @arthurdefreitaseprecht2648  communism absolutely is an extreme. It is the leftmost point of the political spectrum as the most egalitarian position possible to take. Stalin was just pretending to be communist, while cracking down on all the real communists who were to his left. It's just that all extremes are not equal.
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  2314. As an American I can assure you that this is a good thing. You do not want people like this in your party. That's how our labor party equivalent came to turn on working people.
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  2315. They just don't give a shit, sadly.
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  2316. Kinda proving the "isn't right wing populism basically fascism" point. Intentional?
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  2317.  @danielvincent4292  oh look, someone that doesn't know basic political terminology. 2 people actually.
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  2318. I mean, that's just skimming the surface of his problems, but yeah. He's also pretty obviously a fascist and had seeing Hitler's vacation home on his bucket list. In all likelihood, he's just a straight-up Nazi kinda like Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers'
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  2319. And because they don't think Faux News will be as effective at undermining him...which, frankly, they would be right about.
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  2320. We cannot have anything even close to a just world until "but I had a fiduciary responsibility" means as much as "but I was just following orders"
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  2321. This needs repeated endlessly.
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  2322. $12 something if kept up with inflation $15 something if kept up with cost of living $21 something if kept up with productivity
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  2323. tweetS (plural) As I understand she made like 10 but got ratioed into oblivion and kept deleting them and trying to rephrase them in a less obviously racist way but still ended up exposing her racism in the one she kept.
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  2324. Considering that this is a crime against humanity driven in no small part by ageism, yes, that would be warranted.
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  2325. ​ @memyselfandi8544 you wanna translate that for us, fascist?
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  2326.  @stalemateib3600  without getting into the real definitions for anarchy or the right vs left (not that I couldn't, or that it wouldn't prove it to be an oxymoron), the simplest way to put it is that there is a contradiction between trying to shrink government for liberty while allowing the unchecked accumulation of private power/wealth (same thing). Or as FDR put it, “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” Anarchocapitalism is not uncommonly believed lie pushed by people wanting more power for themselves and less for you, I'm sorry to say.
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  2327. To be fair, CNN and eLIESabeth both shot themselves in the foot more than once and the polls are indicating Bernie going up. There's a good argument to be made for the "so bad it's good" position.
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  2328.  @yarweiss  he's just a troll. Ignore him.
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  2329.  @kugansivasakthy2091  step by step then: Al-Quaida attacks the US (with Saudi funding and terrorists) USA starts the "War on Terror" making Al-Quaida an official state enemy Saudi Arabia pays US politicians US politicians give Saudi Arabia US weapons, knowing the Saudis are giving them to Al-Quaida (dispite restrictions on doing so) "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." then arguably applies to most of Congress and at least the last 2 Presidents (at least enough that there should be trials).
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  2330. ShamockParticle the fuck does that have to do with being gay? Even 100% straight people catch HIV too.
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  2331.  @snoopy_peanuts_77  one of my faves: ". . . free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." (The omitted first part is "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, ")
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  2332. Not just a lot. Nearly all of it (and the remainder is complaning about positive change).
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  2333. ​ @cjohnson3836 he's absolutely a fascist. He fits multiple definitions to a T.
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  2334. Things are going to get really bad. It's not as bleak as it could be as decarbonization is entirely within our means. The problem is the political will to do it and the fact that we've already waited too long. There are areas of the Earth which will be rendered uninhabitable already. It's just a question of how MUCH of the planet we're going to loose access to.
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  2335. And by "workarounds" we mean going to human traffickers.
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  2336.  @SadisticSenpai61  he's surely benefiting from social distancing 😆
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  2337. Likewise Humanist Report and Rational National
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  2338. Not a hunter here at all, but sustainable hunting (like is used to control deer populations in much of the world), done correctly, is pretty easily the most ethical source of animal protein I can think of, especially by edible weight. The eggs and probably milk in my fridge are, frankly, significantly more ethically suspect compared to what's brought home in hunting season. Keep doing your thing and may your aim be ever true.
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  2339. Bill Maher OBVIOUSLY cares about the younger generations. ...at least in so far as he views us with overt hatred.
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  2340. It didn't have to be but Dems were more concerned with stopping progressives than stopping this, and we're all dealing with the consequences of that choice.
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  2341. Finally someone else that gets it.
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  2342. In one word: power In 2: global hegemony
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  2343. It's not an addiction to money. It's an addiction to power. Money is just one form of it. That's why there's a lot of BS we have to put up with that doesn't have anything to do with the owners getting any richer.
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  2344. I mean, he basically wants the same thing sans the antisemitism this time...
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  2345.  @Omega-fb9ji  hahahaha that's funny
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  2346.  @Equinox1.5  that'll happen when you let privately-owned, for-profit megacorps who's customers are othet privately-owned, for-profit megacorps (like, idk, health insurance companies) host your political debates. Basic conflict of interest problem.
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  2347. What do they teach at Harvard? Let's look at some of their funding sources: Rich parents Rich alumni donations (read: alumni who have succeded under our current economic system who approve enough of the current curriculum to donate) And (indirrectly) the banks who hand out loans and later corporations who pay people with the right diplomas enough to pay back those loans What would they want taught? Food for thought.
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  2348. Believes in a god who condoned conquest rape Supports a president with numerous sexual assault accusations against him Thrilled to see someone be appointed to the Supreme Court in spite of perjury and a fairly credible rape accusation I'm seeing a pattern. Just sayin'
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  2349. How much do all these for profit corporations hosting these debates make off of heath insurance advertising? Let's start asking this question loudly and publically.
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  2350.  @Hirnlego999  yup! That's how dumb Trump is, but people will still act like he's playing 4d chess
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  2351. On the subject of Congress refusing to do a constitutionally mandated task when it was a politically inconvenient time for Republicans....that's how they packed the Supreme Court in the first place. Food for thought.
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  2352. As Timur mentioned, we know because we can see it in their bones from evidence of disease to stunted growth. Fact is that, for all the flaws of the modern diet, most of us eat far, far better than people in medieval times. This whole thing where we have generations that don't understand what it means for there to not be enough food to go around and it to be totally out of anyone's control dispite their best efforts is remarkably new. On a good year, sure, great food, but between frequent bad years and a lack of understanding of nutrition, consistently maintaining that good diet long enough to reach the full potential of your adult peak would be difficult. Is it overblown in a lot of depictions? Absolutely, but yes, they were generally sub-optimally fed.
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  2353.  11 bangbang  troll, no one here is mad at you. Everyone is laughing at you and mocking you. You have failed spectacularly.
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  2354. As someone who, even as a teen was like "um, no, most likely just going to die slowly and painfully even if it works. I'm gonna stand up and take it" I'm with your dad on this one. No need to deal with fallout (literal or metaphorical) just becase the assholes at the top want to play the odds that a fraction of the people might be useful to them afterwards.
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  2355. ​ @TravisHRF16CC YouTube deletes most of my comments answering questions like yours but it involves the fact that free speech doesn't cover conspiracy.
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  2356. emil engen is an example of a real NPC glitching because the conversation he stumbled into didn't fit one of this pre-programmrd scripts.
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  2357. Really, we're talking about the democracy of a country with 1 party and totalitarian systems that surpass what was in 1984? Are you that stupid, or that dishonest?
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  2358. The first right laid out in the first amendment to the constitution is freedom FROM religion.
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  2359. Nun Ya "leftists" The establishment dems aren't left
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  2360. And how many people will literally not survive that?
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  2361. It's not the only reason we're there. There're also rare Earth metals and the Military contractors like getting paid.
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  2362. Secular Guy well, I will give him credit for being better than the last one, but considering the last one was a Nazi (or at least Nazi sympathizer) who told people in Africa that condoms spread AIDS...well that might be the very definition of damning with faint praise. Oh, and the council of cardinals right below him is still the same group of completely evil shits using him as a PR guy to stop the collapse of their religion.
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  2363. RyoHazuki224 while that's true, drug prohibition is kind of an exploited legal loophole about commerse used to try and criminalize use (which the government doesn't actually have the power to do). So the whole organization is built on dubious constitutionality, to criminalize something where prohibition only makes the problem worse, and was founded to sway elections by targeting liberals and minorities. I have zero sympathy for anyone at the DEA.
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  2364. Not to get to grim, but we just have to make them so repulsive to new followers that we can just wait for the old ones to die
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  2365. Actually a monarchic Communist (he was big on both kings and paying your taxes). She'd also keep her religion in her closet.
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  2366. Just give everyone a UBI and structure the income tax to get the money back from the rich. It's simpler and no one falls through the cracks.
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  2367. Nevermind that you can be working full time and still be on foodstamps because productivity and pay were decoupled about half a century ago.
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  2368. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  2369. Yeah, I thought the War on Christmas scaremongering was helarious untill I looked into where it came from. I'd recommend you do as well. (Content warning though, antisemitism and Nazis, and no, I'm not joking or exaggurating)
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  2370. Not a high bar there, tbh.
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  2371. Seriously, 10 years ago this would have been an Onion article.
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  2372. In many other countries, drug companies aren't allowed to advertise on TV at all Just a reminder.
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  2373.  @immunetowesternlies8697  wasting munitions leveling residential blocks isn't winning a war. It's throwing a temper-tantrum on the scale of a warcrime. This is a universal problem with fascists. Your ideological opposition to reason makes you weak in the head.
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  2374.  @filonin2  you think you made a good point there, but that was such a stupid missing of the point that it actually made my head hurt...
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  2375. Especially for reasons like "it looks better"
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  2376. You think they care what's in the Constitution? They don't.
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  2377. Funny thing when you turn your back on what you promiced to do, passed a policy proposal from the other party, and called it a victory...your voter turnout goes to shit. Sure it may at times be a counter productive behavior on the part of voters, but with it being such a predictable part of human nature, the blame does partly fall on the "Democratic" politicians too.
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  2378.  @LDrosophila  ikr So getting a good wage working for a private company paid by federal tax dollars is slavery, but let's abolish the minimum wage and worker protections so desperate people can be forced to work in horrible conditions for starvation wages because that would just be a voluntary exchange in the market and thus the furthest thing from slavery? These people would be a fucking joke if they weren't causing so much death and suffering.
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  2379. No disrespect to him, but it's honestly not that hard. Anyone who is both informed and has good public speaking skills should be able to school The View. They're not selected for exceptional understanding of politics. In fact, understanding politics too well would likely disqualify you in the hiring process.
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  2380. Not to let Trump off the hook, but it gets even worse. Durring the Obama years, we flat out gave the Saudis weapons knowing they were funneling them to Al-Qaida. As that seems to fall under providing aid and comfort to an enemy of the USA, everyone supporting either Obama's gift or Trump's sale (including the men themselves) should be put on trial for treason.
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  2381. Act like a serf and you'll be treated like one dumbass
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  2382. It is legitimately stunning. The only detail he got wrong is that the US is roughly in the middle of the spectrum, but everything else is dead on and almost exactly how I would have phrased it. Give the man some applause and hope he doesn't get fired for pissing off the advertisers
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  2383.  @Eltrio2  wecome to neoconservativism
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  2384. Use #citationneeded ?
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  2385.  @zoro115-s6b  come back next week for another lesson of "Why Your Paladin Should be Carrying Incendiaries" where we will be discussing the necklace of fireballs and how to use it.
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  2386.  @Raphael4722  Trump won with a minority of the votes and the Republican party is already making elections even more unfair with the systemic voter disenfranchisement of "Interstate Cross-Check" and other means, legal and illegal. On top of that the "Democratic" party rigged its own primary to go further right wing, has a bunch of members who pretend to be against the Republicans but vote with them the overwhelming majority of the time, is supported by largely the same oligharchs as the GOP, and would clearly rather see Trump in power than see even a total moderate like Bernie win. That's how fascism usually happens btw; a less-extreme government fails to produce results that satisfy the people and has to choose between conceding power to the left and holding onto it via scapegoating and throwing in with fascists (and they usually choose the latter, btw) We're a lot closer to that 33% "win" than anyone should be comfortable with.
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  2387.  @jeffbrown-hill7739  did a quick double check, and it seems they get to buy into the plan they had while seated after they retire, so yes and no.
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  2388.  @poltike-celeb6552  that is not what economically left wing means, and isn't true either. Some industries were nationalized, but some government services were privatized. Please don't hide behind "American definitions" as an excuse for not knowing what you're talking about.
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  2389. We cannot have anything even close to a just world until "but I had a fiduciary responsibility" means as much as "but I was just following orders"
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  2390.  @peggypennington3270  because like so many of those people he fits in with he belongs behind bars in the Hague awaiting trial. Same principle as just because there's a lot of litter beside a road doesn't mean any piece of it belongs there.
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  2391. The top marginal tax rate should be open ended so that the percentage increases the higher over it you are, approaching 100% as your income approaches infinite. Ex: (using a $5million top bracket starting at 70%) [Top marginal rate]=70%+30%((Income-$5)/(Income)) Using that formula the top marginal tax would be $6million: 75% ($250,000 from top bracket remaining) $10million: 85% ($750,000 from top bracket remaining) $15million: 90% ($1,000,000 from top bracket remaining) $100million: 98.5% ($1,425,000 from top bracket remaining) $1billion: 99.85% ($1,492,500 from top bracket remaining) Etc (Picked those numbers semi-randomly just to demonstrate the idea of how the tax percentage always goes up, but never reaches 100%. I'm not saying they're good or bad numbers, so replace with your own as you see fit.)
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  2392. Ben thought people would just sell their houses and move to avoid rising sea levels without thinking about who would buy them.
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  2393. What happened is we have a court system that simply doesn't care what the Constitution says on ANY issue. We're not citizens. We're subjects.
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  2394. It's almost cute you think this has anything to do with rational debate. ...almost
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  2395.  @googleplaystore4242  "liberal left extremist" Way to prove that you don't know what words mean.
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  2396. Exactly. They are a business providing a service to other huge, amoral (at best) corporations. They aren't going to stop pushing war because that's what their real customers demand of them.
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  2397.  No Dogma Mama  Imagine if Donald Trump tried to peel off black voters with an ad using the kind of terrible rap white, middle-class suburbanites listen to. This is that, except generational instead of racial.
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  2398. If a company goes bankrupt, the last ones to get anything from it should be management. Since bankruptcy means a company cannot pay all its debts, upper management should get nothing because anything else amounts to theft even when the company isn't intentionally destroyed by vulture capitalists like SEARS was. Even from a totally capitalist perspective CEOs are employed by the shareholders to manage their company. If a CEO fails to do their job, they don't get paid. Period.
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  2399. In some states there is NO minimum age at all. No surprise of the party affiliation of most of them.
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  2400.  @nabilmiah4428  oh yes, his supporters honestly giving a fuck about the rule of law is why Bernie lost, not the entire process being rigged from top to bottom just like it was in 2016. /s
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  2401. The very concept of elections is to have voters choose politicians. The notion of politicians stopping any adult citizen from voting for any reason undermines the very foundations of our entire form of government. That's how you get things like the war on drugs and Jim Crow. Voting must be an inalienable right for the system to function at all. Just like gerrymandering, politicians cannot be allowed to choose voters or the whole system collapses (just with even more collateral damage when disenfranchisement is done through incarceration).
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  2402. Have you seriously never looked at a framed painting before? They have eyes. They can SEE if there is glass there!
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  2403.  @hundejahre  good man! 👍 Remember the origins of the term "sabotage" comes from a type of wooden shoe that just "accidentally" kept finding its way into the machinery of factories with poorly treated workers. Strikes are really a lot better for everyone than many other methods of resistance workers have used in the past, so employers should really be careful how much they incentivise their workers to dust off old and less legal playbooks.
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  2404. Republicans: create the war on drugs to hurt the ability of the antiwar left and black communities to affect political change. "Democrats": defend it.
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  2405. Same. I'm also fine with allowing executions and fuck, someone who's lost loved ones due to said warcrimes or been one of the victims of our torture programs can pull the lever to their platform. We can make compromises if the modern ICC court procedures are a bit soft for their liking. They're more than welcome to justice (or even vengeance that doesn't harm innocents). It would be dangerously hypocritical for the US to deny the death penalty for our worst criminals while still keeping it on the books for comparably trivial civilian crimes, and I don't much care by who's hand the sentence is carried out. I just want it done in a full international court for the added appearance of legitimacy, even though every thinking person in the world knows they're guilty. (Though I think hanging them on the same ground we hung Nazi war criminals would be a nice touch) And by all means, don't stop at Trump and his warcrimes. Clearing our government of every war criminal along with everyone who's committed crimes against peace and crimes againsy humanity would be doing our country a huge favor. ....unfortunately, the number of people in our government who would hang in such a case means they will never allow such a precedent to be established, because the large majority of the federal-level politicians for decades have skin in that game. We're only ever going to be able to get Trump on something they aren't effectively guilty of, and considering all they are guilty of, that is difficult. Still, don't threaten me with a good time!
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  2406. It's a Freudian slip, but the fact that it is a common one tbere is very telling...not thst we didn't know what it says about them, but still.
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  2407.  @7PlayingWithFire7  it's really not.
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  2408. Also consider how the polling is typically done. The vast majority of people who like her are supporting Bernie as their first choice, so if the poll is asking who people would vote for in a non-ranked choice system, her numbers are going to come up low.
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  2409. Tina Smith there are plenty, we've just accepted that until we change our government to one that represents us, there's nothing we can do. ....or did you mean in government?
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  2410. "Are you not entertained?" This movie summed up in one of its own lines (the answer is "yes, I am" though) ...actually, a list of movies summed up with a single line from their script could be entertaining
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  2411. Nah, it'll be a while, unfortunately, but gen Z will be able to buy houses, if for no other reason than once boomers really start dieing off, the demographic weight being wanting to completely change the system will be overwhelming. Millennials and younger gen x are all completely sick of this BS too. Once our politics is no longer dominated by those ageist against the younger generations, things are going to start changing significantly.
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  2412.  @fcdl61  ok, elementary level english: What tense is the word "is" again?
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  2413. Until Americans have taken back our government from being a defacto oligharchy, please don't trust our government. We the people are your friends (most of us anyways) but our government does not reflect that as it is being run by usurpers. Frankly, you shouldn't even view the US government as legitimate.
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  2414. The problem isn't that Ben is an idiot. The problem is Ben does not care about truth.
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  2415. Mix any 2 of the following: politics, religion, and profit and you're assured a disaster.
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  2416. Meanwhile, he's using "intersectionality" while being a sexist, classist black man. Wtf do you even say to that?
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  2417. Well, means that half of what they deliver to me or more will be thrown out due to dietary issues, I'll be delivered a bunch of shit I'd never buy, and never be delivered things in the amounts I use them in, leading to a LOT of food waste, all taken from the tables of poor people. All this to punnish poor people and to let food mega corps have another thing to bribe politicians over (being what gets put in the shipments). This isn't about the budget either. A possible (and doubtful) reduction of the costs of SNAP, is a tiny part of the budget, and we could knock far more off the program's costs by raising the wages of the working poor than this anyway.
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  2418. The right cares about heirarchy and consolidating power. Everyone being held to the same standards isn't in their game plan.
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  2419. jewperbro communism is an extermist solution that has a poor track record and some serious problems. What should boggle your mind are people that are so afraid of communism that they start claiming very moderate positions (even those closer to pure capitalism than pure communism) are all Marxist, or start calling ideologies that have very little to do with economics at all as Marxist.
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  2420. Let's be specific; the NYT wants a policy of appeasement towards fascists.
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  2421. The US doesn't endorse all sorts of rules of war, even including ones we pushed for.
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  2422. Most of this isn't even stuff that has much at all to do with profit. This is about the NYT wanting a policy of appeasement towards fascists in the face of all of us knowing how well that worked out last century.
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  2423. The left does. The DNC doesn't. Big difference. Right vs left is about entrenched power vs populist power because the origins of the word trace back to debating democratic vs monarchic government. If a politician is establishment, they're right wing by definition because "establishment left" is a contradiction of terms.
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  2424. Ah yeah, I remember that one. The indoctrination pushed in the Texas school system boggles the mind.
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  2425.  Scott Bowyer  the fact that it looked lawless to you speaks only of the "news" sources you look to and your willingness to believe a cult leader. Time to do a purge of all your YouTube subscriptions that were feeding you that BS.
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  2426.  @frbe0101  I notice you completely dodged my question
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  2427. What's scary is that what they did is nothing to them. This is still gloves on time. If you really want to see a glimpse of what we're up against check out Confessions of an Economic Hitman https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  2428. Seriously, if his real concern was for the instrument he would be talking about how she should be standing on foam or something in case it fell. But we all know his real problem was that SHE was playing it.
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  2429. I mean, we COULD. We're just choosing to do the opposite.
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  2430. Yup, Vlad keeps pulling a "just keep sending missiles into London" move like he's never read about 20th century history.
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  2431. We don't need lower taxes. We need to get things back for our taxes.
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  2432. They don't believe the government should ever do anything to help people. Hurting people lower in the social heirarchy is always on the table for them. Not joking or exaggerating, btw
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  2433. if it was government run, it would be by definition....just sayin'
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  2434.  @ocandro  at the very least, they prefer Trump to Bernie.
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  2435. Did you notice his response at the beginning? All he knows is 27 years old, leaning Bernie but willing to change mind, and studying synthetic biology and Biden's response "I don't think [I can change his mind]" Can we talk about how telling that is?
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  2436.  @fpm8338  being passionate doesn't make someone a snowflake, so stop complaining over nothing, snowflake. You're just talking your feels by your own admission.
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  2437.  @fpm8338  and yet more projection. The only one "triggered" is you, bucko.
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  2438.  @C-man553  you're just whining about your ideology being named.
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  2439. Factually untrue: https://youtu.be/ZuXzvjBYW8A It is the fault of boomers. Deal with it.
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  2440. Extraordinarily average you do realize that giving free access to birth control LOWERS total healthcare costs, right?
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  2441. HammerheadGuitar the point is that we have buisness owners trying to tell insurance companies NOT to cover birth control medications.
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  2442.  @paulaagam5071  you're right, and you know what happens with that? They are no longer incentivised to rip all the wealth out of a country for short term personal gain, instead pushing those profits toward stability of the company and economy, wages for their workers, and charities. You want diminishing returns on personal gains for a healthy economy.
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  2443. I couldn't take it seriously when they were talking about how our greatest weapon is freedom while flashing shots of expensive military hardware. It's "almost" like they're using a "creative" definition of freedom.
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  2444. Voting for the lesser of 2 evils is how we got here in the first place, and as long as the establishment can count on us doing that, our options will continue to get worse. Always vote for someone you actually want to see win. All that reasonable people voting for unreasonable candidates does is slow the decline enough for some people to ignore it, and discourage hope of real change. Drive 3rd party candidate numbers up as high as you can get them in protest. Just imagine the discussions that would come from neither the D nor R candidate getting 50% of the vote.
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  2445. Yes please! The nagamaki is my favorite Japanese weapon and there's not that much out there about it.
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  2446. James Powers I do have to thank you for proving my point about how to notice those predisposed to the Dunning–Kruger effect.
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  2447. martinteel no, I've known several people with aspergers of varrying levels of intelligence. This is very obviously not that to those that have seen it. He might have ADD, but not the hyperactive ADHD, and even that would be entirely 2ndary to his main problems. He's somewhere significant in the anti-social personality disorder spectrum, of below-average intelligence, and has some form of mental deterioration as (while he wasn't ever a smart man beyond a couple talents) he used to speak much more coherently. I can't say for sure the specifics of those, but that mix is what we're dealing with.
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  2448. Once you control for the Caucus vs non-caucus variable, Bernie does consistently better with more turnout. Conclusion: Hillary voters are mostly people that just vote mainstream democrat every election without really looking at the issues. When real people have real conversations about the issues instead of being fed a point of view by people Hillary pays, they prefer Bernie. Speaking of which, done wasting my time keeping up with the endless string of fallacies and contradictions here so you can earn your paycheck. Bye, locking thread.
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  2449. Don't forget the lighting and acoustics too. (both internal echo and soundproofing the room) If this place wasn't designed as a studio, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to rip it out to the studs and rebuild the entire thing at a minimum. Remodeling involves 100 little things, and can add up really, really fast, and doing something more involved like a studio doesn't add to that; it multiplies that. http://www.recordingconnection.com/reference-library/recording-entrepreneurs/how-much-does-a-music-studio-cost-2-0611/ https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-set-up-a-music-recording-studio
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  2450. Well, that and about a dozen other bs reasons. They never fuck the country over just one way when they can help it.
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  2451. Gordon Byron it is obviously not, but like many other violations, our government has no fucks to give about the constitution.
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  2452.  @TRUTHandLIGHT4809  wrong. Socialism is worker control of the means of production. There are plenty of socialists who are against even a democratic state controling the entire economy. For example, George Orwell...you know, that guy who wrote not just 1984, but also Animal Farm which was a satire of how using a totalitarian government to try and achieve socialism was a project doomed to fail and become indistinguishable to the population from capitalism. That's why the USSR model is more correctly referred to as "state capitalism" because it replaces the capitalist with the state while leaving much of the system fundamentally the same, including the workers not having control of the means of production.
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  2453. Yah, I've mostly northern european genes, and 1st hand experience quickly teaches you that "children of the sun", we're not. Forget cancer, we turn the color of cooked lobster and our skin starts peeking away after just a few hours, so most of us figure this out before middle-school, but these idiots are a special kind of crazy.
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  2454. +Lord Cryer and voter suppression, and e-voting machines, and first past the post elections, and legalized bribery.
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  2455. I'm not exactly sure what part of "we're pissed off" the establishment didn't understand, but it's too late for them to pretend now.
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  2456. Running water is also less susceptible to diseases. If you look at common wards against evil and undead (such as garlic, silver, and salt) you'll find at least minor antimicrobial properties to be common. There's even some symbolism packed into the exemptions to his restrictions (exact sunrise, noon, and sunset marking the moments when he can shapechange and the high and slack of the tide allowing him to cross water) as the moment in between periods of time giving him power mirrors being trapped in the moment in between life and death.
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  2457. Is anyone surprised that it was in Arizona that this happened?
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  2458. "The Commission on the Status of Women’s main mission is to assess the challenges to reaching gender INequality, according to the U.N. website." 0:34 Typo? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, that was well put in that article.
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  2459. Problem is that it's a repeat of the BP incident: they're trying to find a way to stop the leak while leaving it a functional well. F that! Apparently we need a division of the epa that goes in to fix these things because the companies can't be responsible about it and worry about the cost of re-opening the wells later. It's that or we just charge them 1000x times the market price of whatever's leaked until it's stopped on top of any other damages they have to pay to encourage them to put stopping the leak ASAP at the top of their priority list.
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  2460. Yet they live in a desert...logic
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  2461. It's creepy because you haven't drunk enough "koolaid" to suppress countless generations of evolution telling you "this person is lying and is working against my interests" It's a natural defense mechanism you shouldn't ignore.
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  2462. They talk about honor like they had a clue what it is. The pressure to settle out of court is disgusting. Someone does that to someone I love and they tell me to settle out of court and the response would be "no, you want to settle this in court: courts have mercy"
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  2463. One of the (many) fundamental problems with current versions of capitalism is that employer-employee relationships inherently have a grossly unbalanced power dynamic that invites abuse (which over time becomes almost inevitable in any given organization). UBI would actually allow both parties to negotiate wages on a more equal footing where both can afford to walk away from the deal if they don't think it's fair. UBI would be able to replace minimum wage, most to all social safety nets, a wide selection of workplace fairness laws (ex: mandating overtime pay is unnecessary when the employee is freely able to walk away if they don't think they're being sufficiently compensated), and even arguably unions (depending on workplace safety laws&enforcement). As for people no longer working, both the small experiments that have happened so far and the amount of effort people put into advancing their careers pretty well confirm that as a non-issue to me.
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  2464. This isn't a site for swingers or people with open relationships; it's explicitly for cheaters. I got no sympathy here.
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  2465. What's more dangerous to a child's wellbeing than having their mother use medicinal pot? Living in Ohio apparently. Well, the obvious question must be asked: How long do parents in Ohio have to move out of the state before they have their children taken away for trying to raise them in Ohio?
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  2466. fattony638 an erraric simpleton in the Whitehouse provides excellent cover for the GOP to do what they really want while deflecting the blame. Just like the Bush years, only worse.
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  2467. So, there's a company that says they're going to lower your bill, but then raises it while lowering the quality of the service they provide to unusable, and is threatening late fees?
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  2468. +MystBunnyGaming +Peace, Love, and Positivity He may be more subtle than others but he's a, prolific troll in the secular talk comment section. No amount of arguing with him is productive; just ignore him. We could go on about the issues you brought up endlessly and even expand on them (such as people moving in mass to wifi is impossible because total bandwidth is finite and already near capacity), force him to address issues he's deliberately sidestepping (like the fact that your own personal choice means little once ISPs can strong-arm websites that I brought up and he "conveniently ignored"), refute his claims (such as me and others NOT having DSL available), or even bring up new ones. It won't matter. You'll still go around in endless circles with him rehashing the same points, because again, troll. Don't feed it.
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  2469. Microsoft has been completely out of touch with the people using their products for at least a decade now. This doesn't surprise me at all!
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  2470. Sjoerd Tiecken Good luck getting more info from that source -.-
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  2471. Did anyone really thing she cared about democracy after she rigged the primary? Really?
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  2472. +Vapesquad Who would take a jail job for only $10/hr? Answer that question and everything makes sense.
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  2473. There's no "might" about it: As long as we continue to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, this will continue to get worse every election.
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  2474. Last First We do have closed primaries, which I hate (it's the only reason I'm registered as a Democrat, actually), but the thing that confuses me is that the more liberal areas with (presumably) a higher number of younger adults voted for Hillary while areas that are more conservative voted for Bernie. It's not as much that the state didn't go as much for Bernie as I'd hoped (we have a track record of voting for some pretty terrible politicians from time to time) but more that which counties went to which candidate seems exactly opposite of what one would expect. I'm going off of general election voting results since it's what I have, sure, but it seems really strange for the normally progressive cities to go for the more conservative candidate while the normally conservative rural areas to go for the liberal one. How did the voting break down by region in your state?
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  2475. +Foghorn Leghorn if the shoe fits...just look at all the Bush policies he continued (and he was, at the time, considered and exceptionally bad republican)
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  2476. Spending money on hate? ...and how much did the weapons and ammo to take over a federal building cost? Try them out; maybe you'll find love (or at least a little human warmth)
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  2477. Corporate Dems are, at their core, neo-cons. They love the idea of normalizing Bush enough that they can publicly adopt his platform. Look at Obama. He expanded much of Bush's policies instead of rolling them back. The further right they shift the political discourse, the less they have to fake and the easier it is to paint reasonable people as radical leftist extremists.
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  2478. Common sense says there's a big difference between cooling a limb to reduce swelling and trying to cool the entire body at the same time while breathing air far colder than you'll find anywhere on the planet. For perspective, at about -50F you start getting weird stuff like if you spit, it'll freeze before it hits the ground, and water vapor in the air going straight from gas to solid and creating glittering ice crystals so fine they hang in the air. In other words, this is further from the coldest winter day most people have ever experienced than the boiling point of water! This is just asking for your body to go into shock. Don't forget, breathing it in means it's going straight to your lungs, blood, and then internal organs.
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  2479. We were still doing most (if not all) of those things under Obama. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24557333 http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/outrage-at-cias-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-8174771.html (1st 3 results for "drone double taps" search)
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  2480. I'd like to remind people that a 90% tax on the top bracket doesn't mean people earning in that bracket have all their income taxed at 90%. That's not how a progressive income tax works. In fact, even without deductions, it's impossible to have to pay a 90% tax rate in that example no matter how much money you make. A super-high top tax rate is actually really good for the economy as it sets up deminishing returns on quick cash grabs and encourages CEOs (and investors) to focus on stability of their high income rather than trying to extract as much wealth from the company, workers, and consumers as quickly as possible (consiquences be damned).
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  2481. Garry Lafferty She says she has doubts about the TPP after getting heat for pushing for it repeatedly and has an extremely long track record of lying and doing whatever her doners want.  If you think she's really against it, you're a fool. Neither should be president.
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  2482. +Honest ABE um, you expect it "from atheists and humanists"? You want to try and defend/clarify that without choking on your foot? Or should I just assume you to be a troll or a bigoted theocrat?
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  2483. We don't rape rapists? Prison rape statistics would like something to say about that. The reality is we expect rape to be common in prisons, could prevent it, but are fine with it happening so choose not to stop it.
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  2484. Lara Aletta Aside from a lot of the punishments, being outragiously disproportionate? (beyond the whole eternal punnoshment for a finite crime thing) I mean, come on, depression means you're going to hell? Dude's wish fulfillment book is largely just stroking a massive hate boner.
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  2485. An establishment politician telling us to behave? And after all the voter disenfranchisement this election? That's funny! Wait, he wasn't joking? Please allow me to laugh harder.
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  2486. +Jimbob Day Wow, every single part of that comment was wrong. Even something as relatively benign as the chair throwing incident was discredited and proven to be a made up smear (almost immediately) to discredit a peaceful protest against gross violation of election procedure by Hillary supporters. http://www.snopes.com/did-sanders-supporters-throw-chairs-at-nevada-democratic-convention/ During, the same state primary as that BS claim, btw, Bernie's office was shot and an apartment where his staffers were staying was ransacked. http://www.inquisitr.com/2696376/bernie-sanders-authorities-reportedly-investigating-possible-assassination-attempt-video/ http://www.weeklystandard.com/sanders-shots-were-fired-into-my-campaign-office-in-nevada/article/2002438 I could go on like this forever from just that one comment, so just let me know where you want to be proven wrong first.
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  2487. Exactly!
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  2488. And the dems have been moving right while snubbing those very demograpics. (Hillary especally) With luck, both parties are doomed.
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  2489. whyamimrpink78 Again, if people have to pay out of pocket for preventative care, they will get less than they should, driving up the amount of emergency care needed. That is both more expensive inherently and has inelastic demand, meaning you're going to get constantly increasing healthcare costs. Employer-provided healthcare is a terrible system, but the rest of your argument is just plain wrong.
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  2490. Irony: If you think this is a reasonable priority, you're either on drugs or need to be.
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  2491. Robert Richardson merely ink on paper
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  2492. I'm actually going to take him at his word that he didn't know....and you know what? That's actually even more damning. If you can shoot someone and not know why, you should never hold anything more dangerous than a flimsy plastic spoon in the mental institution you belong in.
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  2493. She didn't freak out about the black rhetoric, either. She freaked out that he didn't use the pre-approved euphemism to soften the racism and make it more palatable. How's that for fucked up?
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  2494. benmcfee you joke, but it's usually the Satanists stepping in and demanding religious equality to call their bluff that saves us from this kind of blatent violations of thd 1st ammendment. I mean, I wish they'd just follow the constitution or at least not completely dismiss atheists, but still.
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  2495. It's worse...our totalitarianism is showing.
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  2496. -It's more expensive -We kill the wrong people -It's ineffective as a deterrent -It's cruel and unusual punishment to keep someone on death row (and rushing things to allow them time to collect more evidence and appeal) -It condones lethal force against someone who is not a threat as an acceptable punishment in society (which is the mindset of murderers to begin with) -and it throws away a resource for psychologists to study and maybe reduce violent crime if they can understand them just a little better (they have a small enough sample size to begin with) I wish Penn&Teller's bullshit episode was available online for free (as in add supported) so I could just link people to the video and end the debate right there as they masterfully cover every point but my last one.
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  2497. The strategy is the same that the GOP has been using for decades: tell so many lies in such quick succession that they can't all be debunked quick enough.
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  2498.  @koolaidman6251  that almost certainly would count as excessive force in that situation too. The cop was at least as much in the wrong there as she was.
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  2499.  @itiswhatitis1306  someone subbed to Steven Crowder has no business challenging others' maturity or credibility and it's obvious that you don't care about the facts as you've spent months here embarrassing the country by denying objective reality. I'm not playing the game of trying to guess what insane sources you find credible.
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  2500.  @anonymousblank  no, just misspelling MSDNC
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  2501. If only. Sounds a hell of a lot like a cryptofascist to me.
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  2502.  @jonathonrobinson6081  idk, pardoning the confederate traitors didn't seem to make them any less of martyrs.
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  2503. A very masculine guy. Was first a term invented by incels for the guys they thought were getting all the women, then became used ironically to mock them, now is often used half-ironically and half-unironically. If you don't know what it means, that just means you've probably been doing a good job avoiding the more toxic portions of the internet and I somewhat envy you for it.
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  2504. Since when do colleges take into account what you did at 16? Oh right, every time they look at your highschool transcript/records, ask about your extracurriculars, etc. I'm sure he's grown some since then, and probably will continue to do so in the future, but please though, tell me more about how this is a special instance of a college digging into a student's past.
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  2505. Getting recognisable names on is one of the few things they can do that gets viewers to tune in without pissing off their customers (the advertisers). There's also a certain degree of buying into their own BS that inevitably happens in that kind of environment.
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  2506.  @Forestien  they don't. Biden can't.
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  2507.  @JackOKnives  the right has been claiming that the the left pushing for sexual liberation would lead to rape, pedophilia, and bestiality forever including back to when the hotbutton issue was race mixing. Instead, we find that focusing on education and consent (the core of sexual liberation) lowers all those things, while the right wing approach of lying, hiding information, and insisting on an arbitrary set of rules (who's moral foundation is just "because we said so") increases all those things while causing other harm as well. Likewise, they've used the same scaremongering tactics one every single civil rights issue, claiming that breaking down a current unjust heirarchy would cause chaos and all sorts of other things, yet it never happens. There's only one conclusion left: as always it's projection and borrowing tactics from abusers, claiming that their victims must accept the abuse because the alternative would be worse; that they have no choice and must do the horrible things they do. The far-right playbook is incredibly short and the only major update in centuries has been fascism.
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  2508. Mckenzie .Latham except you're wrong. Most Americans want medicare for all, infrastructure spending programs, to raise taxes on the rich, to regulate the banks, and to get us out of the wars (which both parties keep adding to). That puts the center of public opinion to the left of the Democratic Party on the very issues you claimed they agreed with Republicans on. Issue by issue most Americans (including most independents) agree with the platform of Bernie Sanders (who, btw, is also the center when considering the full range of policies and ideologies to pick from). People have just been trained to believe that saying "I see valid points made on both sides" makes them more intelligent and morally grounded. They also have had their perceptions of where the parties stand and the range of positions they could support warped by politicians and the media.
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  2509. Tankies get called "red fascists" for good reason. Totalitarian state capitalism (the technical term for what their ideology ACTUALLY builds) is a far-right system.
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  2510. Trump fits every widely accepted definition of fascism, from Lawrence Britt's to Umberto Eco's to palingenetic ultra-nationalism. He's a fascist. The facts don't care about your feelings.
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  2511.  @paradisearcher9334  🎯
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  2512. Crypto isn't money but a ponzi/pyramid scheme. Those that buy in only make a profit when others do after them. It only doesn't collapse because people were taught mythology instead of history economics class. Money is a quantized, transferable debt relation that gets a stable exchange value from the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, by which those who work outside the market economy (who make your civilization possible) get compensated for their labor. Crypto is "hey, I wasted energy and expensive and environmentally costly computer parts making the digital equivalent of mud pies. Pay me for them and you'll probably be able to sell them at a higher price to rubes that buy in after you." For further understanding of what money actually is, please see Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graber (rip) There's even a free audiobook of it right here on YouTube.
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  2513. We can at least blame organized religion for people listening to Pat Roberson like he has any kind of moral authority. Organized religion has been the go-to way to excuse evil for millennia.
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  2514.  @cdshannon23  any amount of bonuses for executives when their company is going bankrupt is crazy. Do you get a bonus when you utterly fail at your job? Remember: bankruptcy means the company literally cannot pay all their debts. Any amount of a bonus, even $1, is a theft from everyone who isn't getting all the company owes them paid to them, and never should be legal.
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  2515. Because the card says "moops" https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4 And it lets them control the conversation https://youtu.be/CaPgDQkmqqM
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  2516. Everyone involved in politics with 2 brain cells knew that the Bush administration was lying. It was super obvious to anyone paying attention.
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  2517. Yeah, in that kidnapping situation, there's a good chance that shooting random paramilitary guys of unknown affiliation who wouldn't identify themselves while kidnapping someone could hold up in court as justified. I know there's at least 1 case where someone killed several cops who broke into his house in a no-knock raid and got off because he didn't know they were cops so there appears to my lay perspective that there is legal precedent for it.
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  2518. Tychoxi fiat currency isn't based on trust. That way of thinking traces back to some disproven assumptions about how money originated made by Adam Smith. Money as we know it wasn't made as a way to grease the wheels of barter economies (which, btw, never existed), but as a way to pay public servants (originally soldiers , but expanded to other people since). Whether in tokens made out of rare metals (ex: gold coins) or slips of paper, currency is essentially a bunch of IOUs representing the society's debt to those working in the public sector who make their way of life possible, and taxes are both the acknowledgement that said debt has been paid (dirrectly or indirectly) and creates the near universal demand for the currency which gives it its value. No trust involved, or precious metals needed (as we later figured out once we had decent anti-counterfeiting measures). Unless adopted as a national currency, cryptocurrencies have no stable demand to create underlying value and make them a real currency, and no nation in their right mind would adopt them because of their numerous inherent problems (not the least of which is that once you "mine" all of them, you'll hit deflation every time your economy/population grows because you can't expand the currency supply)
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  2519. Oh Jimmy's been talking about how people have been being unsubed from his channel for months. Youtube is also filtering your subscription feed so that you don't get all content from channels you subscribe to, but it's unclear if they're being more biased that just how likely the algorithm thinks you are to watch the video...yet.
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  2520.  @uhohhotdog  so giving people more freedom over their person is forcing things on them to you? Sorry to inform you, but you're a total moron.
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  2521. Ask Rome how well making Christian martyrs worked for them. No, you have to show how they are the evil oppressors.
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  2522. I prefer "republicrat" but same thing.
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  2523. I'd go even further and say we should ban all importation of goods made using slavery, impose massive fines and put a 1-2 import ban on all products from any company caught in violation, and embargo any country exporting goods to us made with slave labor. Not only is slavery up there with murder and rape as things that are just unambiguously ethically wrong in all circumstances, but no worker anywhere should ever be told to compete with forced labor. We have the power to take major steps toward ending slavery worldwide without firing a single bullet, so why shouldn't we?
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  2524. As if there will be any honest person on that debate stage.
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  2525. The richest people in the US pay a lower effective tax rate than the bottom 50% of the country dispite us reaching income inequality levels around those of the era of the pharaohs in Egypt. Fuck off with your corporate boot-licking.
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  2526. Noam Chomsky on the actual definition of "democracy" (and "peace process") the US is using: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc Reading (or technically listening to a free audiobook on YouTube of) Confessions of an Economic Hitman was also an...interesting look into the underbelly of US imperialism.
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  2527. If you think Bernie lost because he was weak, you're a fool. It's called election fraud.
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  2528. Simultaneously portraying their enemy as weak and strong is a symptom of _____
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  2529. ​ @memyselfandi8544 you mean the term where he had unmarked cops shoving protesters into vans?
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  2530.  @JaneFrieman  it's an oldie but a goodie
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  2531. They've never been for small government. They've only been for small democracy.
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  2532. As are their constant appeals to religion and the flag as well as what passes for moral outrage for them.
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  2533. My legit first thought was "when did they stop?"
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  2534. FrozenWolf150 this x1000
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  2535.  @chadraygun5268  bzzzzt wrong! Try again? (Free hint: the real progressives aren't attacking AOC over tactical disagreements while buddying up to fascists and sending the entire movement into infighting kneecapping it's ability to achieve anything at a critical juncture)
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  2536.  Anonymous Bastard  yeah, he made a guy he shot in a "hunting accident" apologise publicly. That's a real thing that happened, and doesn't even make the top 10 most evil things he's done. He's an absolute monster who orchistrated most of the wrongdoing of the Bush administration dirrectly, or more often through his patsy, Bush Jr. Back in the early 2000s, when people talked about impeaching Bush for warcrimes and frequent violations of the Constitution, the response would inevitably be "yeah, but then we'd get Darth Cheney, and nothing would change because Bush is just his puppet" The Iraq war contracted out "civilian" services largely in a no-bid contract to Cheney's old company Haliburtan, don't forget, and he pushed for it heavily.
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  2537.  @AlashiaTuol  yeah, the changes they make to the women in the adaptations are the biggest reason why I stick to the book.
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  2538. Do these people actually believe Trump is devout or are they both just using each other for power? I can't tell anymore.
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  2539. Maher is a tool for the DNC. His job is to dirrect the anger of the left and to define the leftmost position of the overton window so that anyone to his left can be painted as a crazy radical.
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  2540. @UCd7T69NaOHC4C9_DpXlwJoA I kept it brief because I'm saying I made a mistake, it was all on me, and I don't see anything in your comment I disagree with or think I could substantially add to. So yeah, I wasn't going to waste your time with a longer response when I have nothing more productive to say than "I made an oops, my bad, you're right"
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  2541.  Jonathan Edward  nope, I made that comment as a correction to what I (incorrectly) thought the other guy was saying. That statement of fact was correct, but my implication that the comment I was replying to was saying otherwise was all on me, and warranted an apology. As I chew on my own foot I think we're all in agreement with the idea that Pete's low poll numbers are not because of homophobia but that he's using claims that they are as a shield to make people not honestly look at why people dislike him.
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  2542. Funny how similar the patterns are when you let your society be run by psychopathic buisness men, huh? Almost like the system itself pushes the most ruthless to the top and lets them accumulate unlimited power when left to run its course without interference.
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  2543.  @b1bbscraz3y  to clear something up: The AR-15 is being used largely because it is one of the most commonly owned rifles in the US because having interchangeable parts with the actual military weapons that the civilian AR-15 looks like drives down the price. Its use in mass shootings appears to very much be in proportion to its ownership rates. Internally, behind all the plastic bits that make it look like weapons our military uses it's just a lowish power semi-automatic rifle like has been in the civilian market for about a century now.
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  2544. That wouldn't count as news though
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  2545.  @captainvonkleist8323  I'm criticizing the modern incarnation of a political movement. That's not bigotry. Would you like to try again?
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  2546. I want to be clear that I am 100% against the cop here and support anyone saying they have a right to not answer questions. I'd never tell anyone "just answer the questions so you can be on your way" or any variation thereof, but I'm curious why you have found this to be a bad idea in a personal, practical sense. Not a rhetorical question, just a subject my life experience leaves me (and I presume others) lacking on.
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  2547. A rightwinger who rigged an election against them, showed blatent contempt for many of them, and wanted to push through policies that would have devistated their futures (up to and including selling out national sovereignty to a court of international conglomerates which would be vested with the power to sue the US over laws which reduced their profits, turning this country from just a defacto corporatocracy to one on paper)
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  2548.  Teamototo TV  UBI you idiot
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  2549. She's undeniably right-wing. Like it or not, she's one of yours.
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  2550. Or, and hear me out, we treat Nazi groups like Islamic terrorist groups. They're both right wing terrorists who want to destroy our country and way of life.
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  2551. Brinston Fader what makes more sense? Bush successfully pushing that big a conspiracy, or being guilty of gross, willful negligence and then exploiting the situation?
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  2552.  @Arcaryon  fun fact: the black vs white knight imagry comes from medieval classism. Blackened armor is one method of low-cost medieval rust protection, while the polishing needed for a full, white plate harness took a lot of work that was often shifted off onto servants. So yeah, it's about wealth disparity being used as a sign of immorality. Also "villain" traces its entemology back to a word meaning "peasant" and the stigma around that too. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my fantasy stuff and learning history more than most, but RL feudalism is remarkably awful.
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  2553. When even the guy declaring it has admitted that it's not an emergency it's an obvious overreach of executive power.
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  2554. Of course Tucker is antiintelectual. It's one of the 14 characteristics from Umbero Eco's Ur-fascism.
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  2555. Can't disenfranchise people in the primary and expect the same people to turn out for you in the general. Doesn't work that way, and I don't get what's so complicated about that... Or right, agism. If circumstances were different and she'd treated black people the way she's treated millenials, that we'd even be having this conversation? (Much less that the people she rigged the primary against would be shamed for not turning out)
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  2556. Psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population but 25% of CEOs (likely similar or higher numbers for politicians, though I haven't seen data on it) A system that puts profits before ethics and competition over cooperation will always trend toward this result. (And this is in addition to the system promoting psychopathic behavior in normal people and filtering OUT those that would keep this all in check) Best we've come up with so far is to limit the power any one person can have and make those with more power than normal beholden to the masses below them. (This creates a circular, rather than linear, power structure that is less open to gross abuse) Even this, however is proving insufficient (though it's also true that our corporate structures are more analogous to fuedal hairchy than modern political systems abd have taken over said political systems)
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  2557. Lovecraft was a coward, plain and simple. We're talking about a man who's view of a beautiful night sky would be best summed up not as wonder or awe, but horror, and who looks at learning as something dangerous rather than empowering. This permeated every aspect of his live including fear of humans who are slightly different from him. For example, when racism against blacks appears in his work, it's less like "blacks are worthless" and more "blacks are big, strong, and dangerous compared to my frail Caucasian self". Hell, anything that was out of the norm for him was treated as a potential threat. Was he racist, absolutely and I totally understand all those who can't read his work because of it, but I find myself pitying him, as it's just another facit of what appears to have been some form of untreated anxiety disorder beyond his ability to cope which socially crippled him, dispite how channeling those terrors into his writing made for some classic horror.
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  2558. Is that even a real question? Don't forget, the origins of the use of right and left in politics dates back to royalists vs those supporting representative government. The whole right vs left spectrum is about authoritarian vs populist power, so yeah, the right doesn't want protests.
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  2559. Secularism neutered Christianity which was also incompatible with enlightenment values and our modern society. Islam is not special. It's just another Abrihamic religion with decent moderates and barbaric fundamentalist extremes. Hell, the average Muslim that gets through our vetting process is more in line with our cultural values than some Christian denominations that still exist in the US today.
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  2560. How can you not know it? When your education is shit because right-wingers cut the funding. Coincidence?
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  2561. Manufacturing Consent 24 hours a day.
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  2562. Goofy Goober or he's just interpreting the action different than you.
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  2563. Bernie should campaign everywhere, but Ohio is only a lost cause to the corporatist establishment "Democrats" because of their turning their back on the rust belt. The PACs aren't taking that into their analysis as they are counting on beating Bernie in the primary (or rigging it again), as defeating progressives (Not Trump) is their #1 priority, as we will stop their corruption gravy train.
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  2564. You don't have the right to refuse illegal orders. You have the duty to refuse illegal orders, morally and legally.
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  2565. Thousands would have been saved by taking the pandemic more seriously.
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  2566. "Trump wants Iran to have nukes!" Where are you democrats? You should be instantly blasting him with that all over ever news show you can get on.
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  2567. Japan? You mean the place where meal and rice share a word and an overly literal translation of the sentence meaning "Have you eaten yet?" would be "Have you had rice yet?"? I don't think they're eating the rice raw. Side note: sushi means "vinegared rice" and while associated with raw fish, needn't include fish, raw or otherwise.
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  2568.  @miguelzurita3216  we changed it when we gave black people the right to vote. We changed it when we gave women the right to vote. Making changes to make a country more democratic is the opposite of moving towards fascism (a far right political ideology) If you had a clue what fascism was, you wouldn't say anything that embarrassingly stupid.
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  2569.  @thehumanity0  I told YouTube that I wasn't interested in each of the corporate channels, so that's why I don't see them. Not hard from the main page.
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  2570. The corporate media is financially driven to hire either people willing to distort the truth for their job or those who are too dense to realize that the metaphorical water fountain is full of koolaid. It really doesn't matter which an individual host is in the final outcome unless a given host wakes up to the BS and starts telling truth (and then only briefly before they're shown the door either out of the building or into a closet office).
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  2571.  @typacsk  that or they ride them as far as they'll go, which is often even worse.
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  2572.  @kelvyiturralde8111  yup, all bigotry is divide and conquer while the people at the top laugh all the way to the bank. Being the boot that stops down on someone else still means having a foot shoved up your ass.
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  2573. Gonna be real interesting to see which ones decide to support Trump against Bernie.
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  2574. Capital consequences!
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  2575. Comical Hexical I'm not even talking about no training (even though a lot of battlefields contained a bunch of conscripts with very minimal training), but even solidly proficient fighters can be taken out by more experience dispite differences in body. Even when I was younger and actually in practice (with martial arts dealing with medieval weapons no less), there were women and old men who could kick my ass dispite my training for years, and plenty of other guys over 6" taller and 50lbs of muscle heavier than me who I could take down (especially if we were fighting with my preferred weapon). Sure, the form and style matter (there's a reason female samurai were trained in naginata, jujutsu, and daggers as opposed to something like the tetsubo) but most weapons have some degree of an equalizing effect as they shift combat more toward skill as opposed to just physical capability. 2 people in plate bashing each other with warhammers is very much about size and strength, but things like spear (even reasonably armored) and rapier are much less so and can have a much wider range of body types do well with them, even if there are physical characteristics which are advantageous, because a lot of their use is in positioning and the mental game.
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  2576. Usually power and riches. Most times when a place is conquered, assimilation happens the other way around and the locals are lucky to be able to keep their culture (which is good for the conqueror too, as it makes them less rebellious). It's not common that the conqueror assimilates into the conquered culture, and even rarer that a habbit is made of it.
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  2577.  @Amadeus8484  ally yourself with an election rigging warcriminal and you will be justly assumed to be an enemy of the people.
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  2578. Problem: we can build renewables fast enough. We can't build nuclear plants fast enough.
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  2579. "Deep State" is a term that has been in politics well before Trump.
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  2580. "Gott Mit Uns" No, the Christians who proudly proclaim their fear of a supposedly all-loving god (displaying an understanding of love common to those invoved in domestic abuse and/or an understanding of their total moral bankruptcy) are on the side of this that they usually are. There is no surprise here.
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  2581. If the NHS got the kind of funding that goes into the US healthcare system, I bet there would be no lines ever. We pay stupid amounts for healthcare in the US and we still can't match the NHS, but people will still defend the private system because we've bren swimming in a sea of corporatist propaganda since the cold war.
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  2582. Bernie/Tulsi 2020 (both the most viable, and gets him in while we still can) Tulsi/? 2028 (with the boost from the VP position) Don't split the progressive vote.
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  2583. Yes, but he's got a huge uphill battle to get voter turnout up. Trump also has a huge problem with people unwilling to vote for him afterall. It's going to be a huge mess that's going to significantly impact down ballot races, though.
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  2584. And that is why they now get quotation marks around "Democrats"
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  2585.  @Gunslinger832  opposing fascism, obviously.
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  2586. Are we surprised? Far less faschy than him have been cooking numbers like this for decades.
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  2587. Establishment dictionary: Democracy- noun; a country which supports US business interests Don't take my word for it. Here's Noam Chomsky talking about alternative political definitions: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Welcome to our dystopian present.
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  2588.  ATG IMM  you seem to be forgetting it was rigged
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  2589. 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” See also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation. We're not looking at stupidity, per se, but simply fascist rhetoric.
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  2590.  @brianmcintyre6132  no, but not even we're as bad. You know they're using our weapons to commit a genocide and funneling them to groups like Al-Quaida right?
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  2591.  @itsallminor6133  what kids watch these days doesn't leave them with crippling life-long fears and self-hatred. The Bible does.
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  2592.  @nadlax5920  not even close. Hitchens was a bit of a blunt ass at times (arguably justifiably), but that's it. Ben reminds me of the one guy at my school who I was watching in case he snapped and brought in a gun. A bit of arrogance isn't equivalent to whatever pathology is in Bennie boy's head.
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  2593. Reminder: anecdotes are not data.
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  2594. My understanding is the shelling happened last night, not is a current thing, but yeah, that was nearly another disaster....
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  2595.  @dithaingampanmei  "Gott MIT UNS" What do you want me to tell you? You've fallen for rediculous and ahistorical scaremongering pushed by bigots. Atheists make up only a fraction of a percent of prison populations and are less likely to approve of torture. Likewise, religiosity correlates fairly strongly with higher levels of violent crime (and many other negative social metrics), whether we're talking countries or states in the US.
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  2596.  @SandmanJr90  leftover cold war propaganda?
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  2597. Justin Beeper it's not about not going after Republicans, it's that the corporate democrats have put themselves between us and the GOP so we need to deal with them to be ABLE to get to the Republicans.
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  2598. Fred GFY Smith they will clearly prioritize beating real liberals and progressives in the primaries over beating Republicans in the general. Just look at how they're STILL blaming and smearing Bernie and his supporters WHILE HE HELPS them, rather than strongly aligning themselves with the most popular politician in the country. That's just a tame and obvious example of where their priorities really are.
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  2599. Him: "You have toxic poop in your body" Me: "Of course I do, dumbass! The large intestine is for safely holding waste including many things that would be harmful most anywhere else in my body while sucking out useful water untill it's time for me to get rid of it with this secret method I like to call "taking a shit". If I have problems doing that, people have known about laxatives since probably before we figgured out writing! Also, if that poop gets in a place in my body where it would do harm, it means I need rushed to the ER because my large intestine, colon, or appendix has a damn hole in it and your snake oil sure AF isn't going to save me from the internal (and possibly external) bleeding and sepsis!"
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  2600. Even beyond flying the flag of treason, it needs to be repeated that you can be a patriot or a nationalist, but not both. You have to pick one.
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  2601. Why would they get fired? You think their customers (like health insurance companies) want fair moderation?
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  2602. ​ @meghan42 WE (the younger generations) did listen. We've just been denied any political voice by the genocidal older generations.
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  2603.  @GSP-76  maybe the stupidity, but there's no cure for psychopathy
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  2604.  @whysocurious7366  unironically, though, we need a government agency that does nothing but go after corruption of government officials like police officers and special courts to try them in to prevent conflicts of interest.
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  2605. "Give rich people control of how to better society. They'll do much better than what you peasants vote for. Democracy is a terrible way to run a society."
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  2606. America is effectively just another banana republic right now. The country isn't the problem as much as the international corporatocracy which has usurped control of it.
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  2607.  @steveschweichler9047  show me a large corporation that doesn't mismanage funds or deliver services worth less than they charge. You pretend that beurocratic inefficiencies only exist in government programs and that somehow market forces are going to magically protect you from an amoral entity which you don't get to vote in and which is legally obligated to make as much profit as possible from behaving badly. Guess what though. Countries which don't run their healthcare using for-profit death pannels have better outcomes at lower prices, and even in the US with our incredibly corrupt government, our public healthcare programs deliver more care/$ (meaning less skimming and administrative costs) than private insurance companies. Stop treating economics like a fucking religion and making an idol out of the invisible hand. It's disgusting.
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  2608. Citation needed. According to my research over 4 times as many shooters are stopped by unarmed civilians as armed civilians, and having a gun makes you more likely to be shot by the shooter or cops mistaking you for the shooter.
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  2609. Remember: The right has 2 insults: some variation of "dirty commie" and projection. Hillary is center right so...
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  2610.  @SallyBlumCGN  not only is that rediculously untrue (and make me question if you could even define Communisim), but I could dirrect you to even fascists citing it as a prescriptive model....you know, if thet fact that you are subbed to fascist and ethnonationalist "Sargon of Akkad" (aka Carl Benjamin) didn't make me already uneasy about that. Seems like you're engaging in some motivated reasoning there.
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  2611. VengfulDarkness Kyle from Secular Talk was reporting it durring the race too, and he's not right wing.
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  2612. Aurel 'taxes should not exist to begin with" what? Please don't tell me you've bought into that myth of taxation=theft that's been going around lately. Taxation and currency are intrinsically linked, and any notions that they're seperate comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of money that's going on 2 centuries old and been long debunked (though sadly, is still tought as fact in many economics classes).
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  2613. After the bill of rights, ammendments have been passed at a rate of about 1 every 13.5 years, on average. Not only is this too slow (we needed another bill of rights back in FDR's days to make up for lost ground), but we're at nearly 30 years (over 2x the average and the longest gap since the 1870-1913 gap between the 15th and 16th amendments) because, largely, of an unprecedented denial of political power to younger generations. On top of all that, the last one was pathetically weak and we live in an era of extremely rapid change compared to the rest of our country's history. We're at the point where we need at least another 10 to catch up or a complete re-drafting, but we won't be getting that any time soon so we need to fight for absolutely everything we can get. We're already in stagnation. We need to get things moving again and fast.
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  2614.  Long duk dong  I use script blockers on porn sites. Some of them are pretty dirty so I use real protection.
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  2615.  @joshbreidinger2616  some of the 2nd wave feminists are like this and think the only problem with the world is there aren't enough female CEOs. Most of them are also TERFs
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  2616. EgadsNo and even better when we get 4th gen reactors (like MSTFRs), which we should be fast tracking
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  2617.  Cheesie Horde  strictly speaking, only untrue by the technicality that terrorism is the perview of the non-state actor.
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  2618.  @kansasthunderman1  there is no workable alternative to public transit in large enough cities. More roads just lead to more traffic after a certain scale. As usual in the modern US, driven by the consumerism fed to us constantly and lobbiests influencing our politicians, we simply refuse to accept the real solution because it requires change. Frankly, for a country known for its forward-reaching vision for the best parts of our history, this attitude disgust me as a patriot. E Pluribus Unum
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  2619.  @TrevorEMayo  for your reference, in the US, Libertarianism refers to a hyperindividualistic anarchocapitalist politics that basically makes a religion out of laissez-faire capitalism, putting faith in the free market to solve every social and economic problem if only the government would get out of the way. And yes, it completely misses the contradiction between wanting personal freedom and allowing unchecked accumulation of private power, so they're not exactly playing with a full deck.
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  2620. Alex Chaudhari paid family leave is mentioned right on his website. Not to mention all the other things he's proposing that would affect everyone equally reguardless of gender. Am I missing something or do you just want special rights?
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  2621. Correct.
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  2622. Because peaceful protests have such a good track record against monarchies?
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  2623. https://youtu.be/nE7chPseZKY is Essense of Thought's video. I hightly recommend you watch it (and other things from their channel) as it's good both on the specific subject, and as a reminder to not get information from only one source as even the best of us are fallable. It's also a good idea to keep perspective since there are people apparently trying to misrepresent both EoT and RR, which is the current issue, and familiarity with both creators helps make one resistant (though not immune) to that.
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  2624. Unfortunately, pretty sure Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' is the real deal and would be saying the same exact BS with no paycheck.
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  2625.  @gothnerd887  since when is British synonymous with "not an asshole"?
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  2626. Less "confused" and more "industrialized MacGyver engineering"
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  2627.  @wiseratedr9850  so you're just going to ignore how "for example" refers to picking out an instance for illustration out of a pattern of signs so you can put together that flimsy strawman? Lol, is it too much to ask reactionaries that the strawman be stuffed enough that it doesn't fold in half under its own weight before you can start beating it?
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  2628. Welcome to our dystopian present. I've been saying that since the Bush years.
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  2629. The smaller the percentage of the natural equilibrium point, the easier it is for us to affect it with our emissions. My coat weighs less than 1% of my body weight, but you can bet that wearing it's going to make a life or death difference in winter and summer if exposed to the elements for a significant enough period of time.
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  2630. @Britannic hayyomatt it's not just the availability of parts. It's designing for field maintenance and repairs which (on top of the often overtaxed mechanics of the heavier later-period German tanks) German tanks were notorious for neglecting. From the maintenance and repair to trying to fit them on railcarsb US tanks were designed thinking about logistics first. German tanks were designed thinking about tactics first (in the late war period, trying to chase the unachievable dream of a "breakthrough tank"). Logistics wins wars. British tanks were kinda a mixed bag on the logistics front, but British tank design was kinda its own thing (not even using the same categories of tanks as everyone else).
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  2631.  @antediluvianatheist5262  this x100. The elites need to be made to understand that allowing peaceful revolution through democracy is in their best interests.
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  2632.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  good-cop/bad-cop applied on a national scale
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  2633. Randy The Wild Horse cable tv should just disappear. It's an outdated way of watching video content. Internet lets you watch what you want, when you want. Cable TV is obsolete.
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  2634. Ben couldn't even handle an interview that wasn't a fluff piece, much less a debate of any level of formality or informality with an informed adult older than college age with equal access to the mic. He's 100% a feels over facts guy dressing himself up in the aesthetics of intellectualism while being fervently anti-intellectual.
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  2635. Capitalism always trends toward monopolies without strong intervention. That's how the system operates.
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  2636.  Richard G   A-the GOP is even worse on those fronts B-establishment "Democrats" are center right The left starts about where Bernie is on the political spectrum because dispite describing himself as a "democratic socialist" he's just a left-leaning moderate.
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  2637. Greatest generation: "didn't we storm beaches to shoot people like you?"
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  2638.  @grinningchicken  agreed. Establishment politicians don't deserve a font with any dignity
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  2639. Make it clear to your congresspeople: NO APPEASEMENT
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  2640. Gavin Erickson just like daddy Peterson
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  2641. Now that's crazy talk! What next, that they should actually support policies that most of the country wants?
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  2642. More accurate that "I can beat a man in armor with a stick" no, no you can't. The guy in armor will just let you hit him as he walks up and guts you. People wouldn't have made armor and swords if staves were more effective. Mobs using numbers polearms to bring armored soldiers down and finish them with daggers? Yes, that's something the soldiers would need to be concerned about, but not quarterstaves. Not to mention the laughable scene where the guy with that light flail is hitting the guy in armor and he's not even flinching.
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  2643. Would they? Yes. Did they? No, but they did train the group that did it, were grossly negligent in preventing it, covered for the country that funded it, exploited the tragedy for their own gain, and then saw to training and provoking new groups to attack us in the future. Making enemies and provoking them into attacking is often easier than true false flag operations (which are generally saved for time-sensitive situations when all else has failed)
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  2644. He's an architect of the student debt crisis and war in Iraq and to the right of Ronald Reagan on Israel.
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  2645. Good (not worth the cost, but take the silver linings where you can find them)
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  2646. The only real difference between a Nazi and a Neo-Nazi is where they want to set up their ethnostate. Neo-Nazis are Nazis by every substantive distinction.
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  2647. Millennials are far more likely to know how to cook foods from other cultures than their parents. How the generation gets simultaneously stereotyped as not knowing how to cook and self-indulgent foodies is beyond me. It's almost exactly like the millennial-bashing is just BS from boomers trying to project issues they have with themselves onto their childern like they've been doing back when we were kids and they were trying to live vicariously through us.
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  2648. Give them a break. Immitation is the best their dysfunctional brains can manage in creative endeavours.
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  2649. They're a "threat" because they had the radical idea that the natural resources of a country belong to its people and that, therefore, all profits from their sale belong to the people as well. If allowed to succede, that idea would drastically undermine the corporate state, so they will do whatever they need to to ensure it doesn't. Remember, to the rulers, the oligarchs and their interests are the US, not the ideals and people.
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  2650. Depends on if we're talking voters or the establishment. There are lots of voters who will vote for Bernie to defeat Trump, even if he's not their preference, but watching the talking heads is gonna get real interesting.
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  2651. You don't have to register with a party, though we do need to get rid of closed primaries to help that along.
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  2652.  @crab_aesthetics  really? We've invented walls that only work one way? Do you listen to yourself?
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  2653. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  2654. Yeah, continuing to fight for the same number of work hours per week as automation decreases the hours of work needed to produce a decent standard of living is kinda a big problem. Ideally we would want to have universal benefit programs (UBI, healthcare, etc) and move away from a legal distinction between full and part-time workers to let the hours worked per household per week come back down in an egalitarian way. Would do a lot to help, say, families. Removing the stress of the threat of homelessness and giving people more time to spend on their partners, childern, friends, and self-improvement would be a good thing. That said, the debunking of the claim is still valuable.
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  2655. Ignorance is strength Just keep repeating big enough lies often enough to make people believe them -DNC strategy
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  2656. Not just M4A. They even used the "government run healthcare" spooky language to make it sound more like a left wing policy instead of the moderate compromise it is.
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  2657. Showing off is a tried and true evolutionary advantage
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  2658.  @mcdonaldsmaniac  that's not a feminism thing. That was from cultural ignorance sensationalizing foreign cultures and downplaying our own. That misunderstanding predates 3rd wave feminism and was not contained to any particular ideology. Please stop blaming feminism for all the wrongs men inflict on each other. It's not productive for anyone.
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  2659. What art was harmed in this? Answer or delete your grossly misleading comment.
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  2660. AAC Wrath unfortunately, the constitution defines treason absurdly narrowly....yet somehow, when they voted to give Saudi Arabia weapons knowing they were being funneled to Al-Qaeda, they managed to slip within that narrow definition.
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  2661. There are plenty who do. The rarity is those who do and are granted airtime.
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  2662. The 25% supporting some military action is the same 25% that comes up repeatedly as being completely disconnected from reality because they do not care about evidence and rationality. You cannot reasonably expect to reach that block on any issue. The unsure are the ones we need to focus on.
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  2663. Real men like seeing strong women. They don't see it as threatening competition. Ben is an insecure little boy.
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  2664.  @ninjasheep7492  we shouldn't have it at all, and the fact that we make it even worse so we can dress it up as if it were a medical procedure so we can lie to ourselves about how barbaric is it is an unintentional admission of that.
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  2665. And since the establishment "Democrats" are basically Republicans of the style a few decades ago on a lot of issues...
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  2666. Reminder: The leading expert on cults, the creator of the B.I.T.E. model, is calling MAGA groups cults and Trump a steriotypical cult leader.
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  2667. The trick they've found is to not keep track. Just tell so many lies that no sane person can keep track or believe that someone could lie that much without some kind of background in psychology.
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  2668.  @spyder7758  again, more useless magical thinking. That kind of thing doesn't just happen randomly in response to a spot of anger at the government. It takes years or decades of work setting up the conditions to make it possible. If we ever get a general strike it will because of tireless efforts of union organizers and not performative stunts like this naively dreaming about how "this time, no really it'll be this time that a general strike magically forms"
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  2669. You mean "left" (the quotation marks are important)
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  2670.  @voljohe  gotta get Bernie in there quick while we can. Putting one of the others (probably Gabbard this time) as VP then sets them up for a stronger run next time.
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  2671.  @jambott5520  he's a troll. It doesn't matter how logical or true what you say to him is. He's only interested in "triggering the libs" and the fact that he's advocating for something that kills 10s of thousands of people yearly doesn't matter to him because he's a psychopath.
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  2672.  @KOSKentOlaf  he's a fool, but a fool can get far on just a few good tricks. I think we can all agree he's somewhere in the range of antisocial personality disorders (you know, where psychopathy and sociopathy lie) though.
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  2673. This is very similar to the expression by Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse: Dune (1985): "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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  2674.  @ejcarron2283  we know. Denial of reason and evidence is part of your political ideology. We understand.
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  2675.  @alexkowalski8020  because they were sick of the puppet government the US installed via CIA coup
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  2676. Unfortunately it's not that they don't believe it's hard. It's that they believe you deserve it being a miserable, desperate existance.
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  2677.  Michael Shlomo  no, antizionism is not automatically antisemitic you nutter. Also, most Zionism in the US is rooted in antisemitism, so congrats on feeding into that.
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  2678. It's about getting public opinion back under the sway of corporate media...I've been following this closely since the beginning, and all evidence points to it being the TV media conglomerates, corporate advertisers, and (with an unclear amount of coercion/collusion) YouTube working to change the content on the site. I haven't seen anything pointing to involvement outside of that, though I'm sure the CIA approves, despite likely not needing or having any involvement.
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  2679. Patrick Barrett for centuries parents prayed fervently to save their innocent children from things like smallpox, but still they died. Reason and evidence changed that, replacing ineffective words with vaccination. What do reason and evidence say about shootings? That states (both within the US and across nation-states) that are more religious have more violent crime, so if we want to change violent crime, prayer isn't the answer, and at best is actually a harmful distraction.
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  2680. Until we reform our government, remove the psychopathic oligarchs, and put them on trial? Not without expecting our nation to break it if they have any sense.
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  2681. 1-3 pope(s) enter(s), 1-3 pope(s) leave(s)
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  2682. Funny...it's almost like injecting right-wing politics into a left-wing form of government poisons it...
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  2683.  @zxbzxbzxb1  see my link for why that's a terrible argument.
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  2684.  @werewolf4358  while the extremes of FGM are far worse than for males, there are lesser cases with not exactly equal, but more comparable effects (specifically removal of labia instead of the clit) Also, MGM can lead to serious problems for men too (albiet as the exception, rathet than the rule). That all said, taking the stance that it's all wrong outside of consenting adults and medical necessity is the most ethical and practical stance to take IMO. It's all child abuse and unacceptable in a civilzed society. Splitting hairs about what is worse is a distraction.
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  2685.  @druidictroy1157  the key is that we need to have enough people turning out for Bernie that no sane person will be able to ignore if/when they rig it. That puts the establishment in the double-bind of ceding ground in the party to progressives or enraging the population to the point where they will no longer be able to be controlled (which opens up other options). Our task right now, is to crush this primary to make it so it would be a landslide with no rigging, and get out there for election-watch organizations. We're in a fight to retake our democratic republic that was allowed to be usurped by oligharchs. It was always going to get worse before it started getting better, and if we're very lucky and work very hard, that will just mean Trump, but if we allow the establishment "Democrats" to continue shifting the Overton Window to the right it will mean worse than Trump, and I don't think I need to spell that part out.
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  2686. Christian Gerber the theories HAVE been tested across the world, and state-by-state solutions have serious problems with implementation. (Not the least of which being corporations fighting the first states that do it to try and scare the others back in line)
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  2687.  @kinguntouchable4035  what sound does a baby goat make?
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  2688. Not taking corporate PAC money =/= not taking corporate money!
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  2689.  Jing Bot  it's not just about the Trump block. If not for Boomers, we would be on Bernie's 2nd term right now. Every single election cycle without fail the majority of them vote against the futures of the younger generations and they largely don't give a fuck because the overwhelming majority are ageist af.
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  2690.  @fahlur  if that were the dominant force, Earth would be COOLING right now because we're in that part of the cycle. Is intellectual laziness the reason for you insisting on being a useful idiot for the worst crime against humanity in human history or is there a more malicious reason for your genocide-denial-tier BS?
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  2691. Who pays the MSM's bills? Large corporations and PACs. They're just as bought as the politicians. Glad you got out.
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  2692. Last I heard the 2nd largest shareholder in Faux News was a Saudi prince. I'm sure that their choice of "news" network was a coincidence and that this never affected their programming though /s
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  2693.  @sprybug   "changed her ways" right before an election. You're an idiot if you honestly think she won't go right back if she gets the Presidency.
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  2694.  @ScottishRebel  last I checked Thunderf00t was lazily farming content producing basically the same several videos repeatedly for most of his content for easy money, but neither that, nor his tendency to get somewhat obsessive over going after someone doesn't mean his debunking of Musk was incorrect. The hyperloop was a recycled idea that was abandoned due to being impractical and his multistory tunnel systems are just an absurd attempt to get away from the fact that his elitist ass doesn't like what the real answer to traffic congestion is: public transit (perhaps even manditory in the city center)
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  2695.  @luisochoa576  funny how every academic field of study with anything to say on the subject rejects the idea of a sex-equivalent gender binary, but the overwhelming consensus of people who know what they're talking about is religion when you're on the level of reality denial of a young earth creationist and (just like them) are just claiming to have science on your side dispite the opposite being true.
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  2696. An overstatement, but not by much.
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  2697. +
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  2698. @Rank Amateur nice comment, but likely a waste of time. I think I smell cryptofascist in sparrow's choice of words.
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  2699. Styy Hawk it does, I did it to all the major ones back when they started pushing them a couple months after the big apocalypse, and have been periodically blocking their small subsidiaries' channels since. Wft are you talking about?
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  2700. To be fair to the butterflies...a human in summer is basically a walking salt-lick...
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  2701. Yup, Joker absolutely has plans and is lying to Harvey. Hell, if you look closely during the coin flip, he's holding back the hammer of the gun with his finger, creating the illusion that he's letting Harvey's coinflip decide his fate, but not actually taking the risk he appears to be.
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  2702.  @socialdistancewarrior9099  no-one here was commenting on Biden's motives. Quit huffing your own farts.
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  2703.  @socialdistancewarrior9099  A-it's not making things worse. The pipeline would undercut both truck drivers and those working to transition our economy to green energy. B-I would much rather have someone doing the right thing on climate change for the wrong reason at least some of the time than someone doing the wrong thing all of the time for any reason This isn't complicated... at all!
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  2704.  @andreaslahmberg5641  that's absolutely idiotic and completely unworkable...even ignoring the massive problem that we don't even apply our laws consistently in the courtroom
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  2705.  @christianpetersen163  hipsters in Starbucks? What kind of lame shit is that? Starbucks target audience is white collar business workers. Hipsters with any level of self-respect go to local small businesses, the more obsure the better (and good on 'em for it).
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  2706.  @sureshkumar-qw9ny  then surely you have a citation and aren't just taking the corporatist at his word, right?
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  2707. Some modern composites seem to at least be getting close...at least as far as structural integrity goes. The good stuff still costs a pretty penny though, so it's rarely used hence, the bad reputation that composite lumber has.
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  2708.  @candleintheslightestbreeze  I'd go a little further and say that it's conservative oligarchs vs fascist oligarchs. There are differences, but they are united in their contempt for us and democracy. The Dems show they have a spine whenever it comes time to oppose progressives and some are stupid enough to admit they prefer Trump to the left (not that it's cost them anything so far).
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  2709.  @reafras  no, it's not an organization in any way. Saying "antifa activists" is like saying "climate activists" or "civil rights activists" or "anti-war activists" You have no idea what you're talking about
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  2710.  @haroldsullivan2036  you know, Vaush put together a fairly well-cited case and all I've ever heard in counter argument amounts to "nuh-uh, that's dumb lol" by people upset that someone pointed out that the dead guys they let control their thinking said things contrary to what they're currently arguing and vaguely gesturing at theory about. And this whole thing came about because "nuu-uh, read theory" was an overwhelming deflection to the utilitarian argument to vote Biden when all other arguments got debunked by better ones or invalidated by changing conditions over the past year. Your appeals to authority and hollow ad-homs have fallen flat. Quit patting yourself on the back.
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  2711. It's a matter of perspective really. Contrary to popular belief, the kettles were not fed directly by the boilers but integrated into the condensers. Was this a matter of putting waste heat you were already trying to get rid of to excellent use, or was the entire drive system of the ship a means of extracting enough energy from superheated steam to bring it down to proper temperatures for steeping tea that moved the ship as a side-effect? The engineers claim the former but some say that was just a means to secure funding for their increasingly large tea kettles.
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  2712.  @ryuj7693  yeah, but you can't do the realism half-way if that's what you're going for....and they did, so it sucked.
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  2713.  @Odinsday  never trust a neoliberal's posturing to pretend to give a real fuck about bigotry. When push comes to shove they will always side with money and power over justice and what they pretend their goals are.
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  2714. Having "no empathy" for millennials (imaging if he had said that about any othet demographic group) Saying he would veto medicare for all. Trying to take a "moderate" position on climate change.
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  2715. The loss of ability to integrate new people into the empire due to rising xenophobia was a big factor as well.
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  2716. totheark fanMOFOS here's some excellent teachers talking about exactly that subject https://youtu.be/7vqte0QbXnc
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  2717. Let's be real, a lot of the people complaining about getting looks for wearing a MAGA hat want a nation-sized safe space to keep brown people away from them (among several other groups).
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  2718.  @Nutrollio  objectively false.
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  2719.  @Riceball01  off topic but late period European swords are much better against armor than a katana. From inverting to use the hilt as a bludgeon (via the "murder stroke") and grappling aid to the narrower point much better able to be used with half-swording to slip into armor gaps and burst appart (chain)mail rings. The katana is an A-tier cutter, but that's not the only way to use a sword, and (as you allude to) you're not cutting through plate.
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  2720.  @andregon4366  I agree with both points, but rainforests are largely being cleared for livestock and the feed needed for them (which tends to be 10-20x the calories you get from said livestock). Beef is a particurally bad case.
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  2721.  @mckstellar1005  make boats with nets out of the water, get the fish to jump, and catch them in the air. No native fish caught.
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  2722. Sounds like Strasser, huh?
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  2723. Unfortunately, that's what you get when you hold up faith as a virtue.
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  2724. Or, better idea, just search "Ben Shapiro debunked" and see him destroyed on a wide range of issues by a wide range of people.
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  2725. 1:15 it's not about younger people not "believing" you can't ever make a fossile fuel company sustainable. It's us understanding the science that proves you can't.
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  2726. Nevermind the fact that if we use the employee idea, Berine is by far the better choice because he's actually eager to do the job the way we want it done whereas Hillary showed open contempt for her prospective boss, lies throughout her resume and interviews, is shown to take bribes to work against her employeers in past jobs, and those behind her by the end of the primary just wanted to follow their dear leader and support the new dynasty over actual potential job performance.
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  2727. Objection: No, I don't remember when Republicans cared about states' rights. In fact, I'm fairly sure neither party has ever actually cared about states' rights and that they've only ever used it as a justification for whatever they wanted to do, flipping back and forth at deciding issues at the federal or state level as politically convenient at the time. "States' rights" appears to only have ever been a political talking point or legal pretext for at least the last 200ish years.
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  2728.  @wolfremus2521  and how did that work out for them?
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  2729. No, making martyrs of them is counter-productive. Just ask Rome.
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  2730. Orion Stellar exactly. Her lies are so transparent she can't even make people think SHE believes them if they take just 2 moments of honest reflection.
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  2731.  @digimonlover1632  do you have a life outside of (incorrectly) telling people they're wrong on the internet? O.o
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  2732.  @Xpistos510  He's just a psychopath like about 25% of CEOs. This isn't abnormal, he's just too dumb to hide it well. People just as evil as him have been buying our government for decades.
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  2733. I just say "capitalism redistributes wealth" which tends to put the other side in an unwinnable rhetorical position. Skip the superfluous re-.
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  2734. But we will....sadly.
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  2735.  @aishabintabubakr4944  lol, not being able to understand the punchlines of Colbert's jokes was actually the results for one of the studies. Being unable to make jokes which were funny to anyone but themselves was the other. You're just demonstrating my point again! 😆
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  2736.  @Lily-ni5po  "adults"
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  2737.  @bobisconsumed520  I'm sorry, but at this point, the viewers do deserve blame. How many times does the media have to bury a story and pave the way for disaster before people are willing to admit they are not a reliable source of information? And it hasn't even been little this. We're talking like spreading the lies that led us into Iraq (and firing dissenters) even though it was obvious it was BS, going along with the Pied Piper strategy believing Trump had no chance in the 2016 election, ignoring all warnings about the 2008 crash, etc. It's constant, but people keep going back because they refuse to take responsibility over being even halfway decently informed because it's easier to just turn on the TV and believe whatever the talking head said. I've dropped multiple online sources of news when they ceased beinh reliable and am constantly reevaluating how much I can trust my sources on any given topic. There's no excuse for the intellectual and ethical laziness that drives people back to sources that have proven themselves beyond all doubt to be unreliable.
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  2738. When the manners the ruling class shows each other are more important than the harm they do to the common people, that should be a flashing neon warning sign to anyone who thinks we live in a democratic country.
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  2739. You think we have a legal system? No, we have a bunch of right wing judges that determine "the law" to be whatever they wish it to be in the moment.
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  2740. I think there's at least 1 kind that specializes in eating parasitic mites, and just kinda hangs around on beetles using them as giant bait for what it really eats.
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  2741. Brn Trf yup, Iran, while flawed, isn't half as bad as Saudi Arabia, and no, I don't consider them real allies. They're a far bigger threat to the US than other any nation in the middle east (or even the world) other than ISIS (if you count them) and they sponsor them. Smiles, handshakes, and a trade relation doesn't change the fact that Saudi Arabia are our enemies and even worse (if less effective) monsters than our own government.
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  2742.  @MelMelodyWerner  exactly. When Hillary cancelled the last debate in the 2016 primary, Trump offered to debate Bernie, then quickly withdrew his offer once Bernie accepted (presumably after having time to look at his debates) Trump is terrified of Bernie and even he knows he would loose dispite his stupidity and narcissism, so he won't touch a strong progressive with a 10 ft pole.
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  2743. @Xi Jinping how's that genocide going, btw?
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  2744. Talking to pink is a waste of time. He's not interested in actually debating people, just wasting their time, and so will ignore all reasoning and evidence you present. To the main point though, of course liberals are more common than conservatives. Part of being a liberal is being open to new ideas whereas appealing to tradition is a logical fallacy. If you end up with more conservatives graduating college, it's a sign that your education system has completely collapsed.
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  2745.  our hair defies gravity so can we  not asking for pitty. You're arguing in defence of literally psychopathic levels of bigotry. Congrats on that and good luck building any kind of solidarity needed to take on the political establishment that way dipshit.
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  2746. Anyone else getting "you didn't see graphite" vibes from this?
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  2747. Not even a good one, just the bare minimum!
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  2748. The mouse is lucky it was caught in the pasta it was. Seeing as I usually just dump my pasta right from the box into the boiling water, that could have had a rather different ending 😬
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  2749. Thank you for that!
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  2750. ​ @GazB85 it's almost totally random these days, unfortunately.
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  2751. Because glaring from that position is the only way a short manchild like him can look at all scary without a slasher smile or weapon in hand, so he does it when he's all angry too keep from looking rediculous.
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  2752. I mean, he still has the move of only going after college students in an audience favoring him where he has control of the stage and their mic. How much of a handicap does he need?
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  2753.  @erincoco612  that's why we also need to turn out in primaries to help nominate strong progressives instead of appeasement-obsessed "centrists" who will never take strong enough action to deal with the fascist threat we're facing, but at the very least voting for even establishment Dems buy us more time where we can actually HAVE elections that aren't a total farce, so we absolutely need to get out and vote in the general elections too.
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  2754. Why did CNN put a climate change denier in charge of the election just over a decade before we reach a catastrophic tipping point on climate change? Maybe because they take money from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute which "describes its mission as to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." They're not paying to reach people to get them to buy their product over a competitors'. They're buying influence over the narrative just as much as they are buying legislation when they "donate" to politicians. The ads are just another form of bribery. This isn't just bias. Corporate "news" is in the business of corporatist propaganda. Misinformation isn't a mistake; it's their job.
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  2755. Even the contents of a very pro-"free market" highschool textbook will show that monopolies are an inevitable result of unchecked market forces when you add just a little critical thinking. Belief in the "free markets" is a religion with all the contradictions (both internal and to reality) that entails. The "system" is inherently self-destructive. That's the real reason no true anarchocapitalist system has been set up: because even crony capitalism is more stable.
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  2756. The thing is, Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' is actually a Nazi; it's less that she's stupid (though she is) and more that she has contempt for the very idea of truth. 0% joke 0% exaggeration Know thy enemy.
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  2757. "I'll tell you whatever you want to hear to get your votes, except for medicare for all and campaign finance reform"
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  2758. No, that's Faux News citing the Onion as a legitimate source levels of stupid there ...and yes, that's happened...more than once -.-
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  2759.  @ronaldlabelle7274  Canada, for as many problems as you have, is objectively way better than the US in a bunch of ways. We're pretty fucking dystopian.
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  2760. Subsidize consumers, not producers. As a start, give everyone access to a SNAP program that pays for produce. Just with that change (funded in part by ending the corn subsidies) you're working to destigmatize the program (as having a card you can use with your shopping says nothing about income), reduce food deserts (right now a lot of snap $s go to convienance stores stocking only a limited selection of processed food because grocery stores struggle in poor neighborhoods), incentivise healthier eating, and reduce food waste (as only consumer sales of produce, not production, are subsidized)
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  2761.  @BramSLI1  that fact doesn't at all conflict with what I said, though.
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  2762. Shortly afterwards the croud breaks into one of its weirdly random USA chants. Anyone else see footage of the rally and notice how weird that was?
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  2763. Micheal Emmanuel really, no Trump voters were racists? You don't really believe that do you? You can believe that some of his voters were racist and that not all were and that it wasn't what swayed the election. You've either misunderstood the video or your thinking is dangerously black and white.
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  2764. The general election is going to get really interesting.
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  2765. ​ @elbotchk that used to exist. Comments that got downvoted enough were hidden by default unless someone clicked to show them. They removed that feature and the trolls rejoiced.
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  2766. A bit hypocritical for someone displaying psychopathic behavior (which modern psychology classifies as "antisocial personality disorder" because they're actively destructive to societies) to claim others are a burden on society. If I were a society, I'd choose carrying a little deadweight over drinking poison any day. The ultimate irony: he doesn't want people to just carry their weight, but carry his as he leeches off the labor of the working class.
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  2767. Only the neocons and facists (though, white men are way disproportionately represented in such groups). Liberals and progressives agree the past was kinda shit and that we should try to make a better future instead of trying to whitewash the past.
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  2768. Imperialism. As long as we're there, we wield power. (Also in about that long the oil will be gone and the region uninhabitable due to climate change if they get their way) Psychopathy helps, of course.
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  2769. The ven diagram is just concentric circles.
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  2770. Just a reminder, IQ was origionally designed to test education level, and is a pretty shit measure of inherent intelligence.
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  2771.  @michael_c2  I'm imagining the dryness of the Sahara.
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  2772. Trying to educate the willfully ignorant is a waste of time.
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  2773. Yup, that's how the game is played. Glad I'm not the only one who sees that.
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  2774. You'll see this ~25% # show up in polls repeatedly if you pay attention. It's the same people who had a positive opinion of Bush when he left office.
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  2775. Dave Rubin's idea of the plot is just following the path to the easiest money. I haven't really watched TYT in years, but Anna really spelled out all anyone ever needs to know about him after he started his grift show.
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  2776. And now you have just joined the ACA board in misrepresenting things. He was wrong, not stating the obvious. The board overreacted and now you are overreacting to their over reaction. Rational people will correct themselves when presented with evidence which contradicts there previous views/statements, as opposed to closing their minds and doubling down. You have an example happening right now. Please learn from it.
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  2777.  @dozyproductionss  it is absolutely not proven that trans athletes have an advantage. In many cases, they are even at a disadvantage, and you are the one strawmanning and using mental gymnastics to avoid legitimate criticisms of your views. You should try learning from RR's example rather than dogmatically holding to your current views in the face of contradictory evidence.
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  2778. Honestly, if they weren't trash before, it's what I would expect from a company after they retooled to making money off of an MMO that was so known for life-destroying addictive skinner box BS that it was called "World of Warcrack" I know it's been overshadowed by being outdone by lootboxes and pay2win mobile games, but their business model has kinda been at odds with ethics for a while.
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  2779.  @satriakurniawandjaenal9676  Sherman didn't go far enough, clearly.
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  2780. ​ @alexandertkachuk22 this is very simple, can be enacted on the local level, and would even help small businesses. A shame big businesses bought our politicians long ago.
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  2781. My understanding is Nestle is the worst offender, though that may have changed.
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  2782. There are no good cops in large forces at least. They get weeded out or corrupted before they can go getting all their colleagues thrown in jail. Large police departments operate like gangs, commiting at least as much illegal activity. If you cover for those criminals, you're by definition not a good cop. I like my local police department of a whole 3-5 people (no exaggeration) but no way would I just trust the cops in larger forces near me because I'm not an idiot.
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  2783. Vladimir Putin it may be hard on the individual, but it's much better for to have people hit the polling stations already very politically literate at 18. It's about when I got heavily into politics because I realised the adults had no fucking clue what they were doing and that I was going to have to read up quick so I could do my best as soon as I could vote. The insult is a bit juvenile, but he'll mature.
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  2784.  @SkullCandy5671  I'm sticking entirely to verifiable facts, but I know you get "triggered" that reality has a left-leaning bias 😆
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  2785. If the DNC's role is to deny the will of democratic voters, they shouldn't exist. I don't really give a fuck what they want to "allow" because it's not their place to deny the will of the people.
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  2786. Because we have one pro-fascist party and one pro-appeasement party and we've been giving fascists special legal treatment for so long that it's seen as "normal"
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  2787.  @vcp93  it's far from just Trump and his people. Back in 2016 the "Democrats" also illegally stripped people of their voting rights. Of course, I refer to the primary, as this tactic is always pointed at the left (which makes sense when you look up the origins of the left vs right terminology).
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  2788. Look up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and please don't pretend thay China is any more altruistic than the US.
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  2789. Well when he realized his comedy might be perpetuating anti-black racism he stopped his show and reevaluated...but when he gets pushback after learning that lesson for spreading transphobia, he doubles down. It speaks volumes because he does know better and is willing to take a financial hit if it affects people like him.
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  2790.  @taylorrabbitt4382  you have it backwards. Not voting means "whatever you want, I don't care" to those who imagine themselves rulers. Bumping up 3rd party enough could have actual effects other than not just being able to be described as lazy or indifferent (and you should be voting down ballot anyways)
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  2791. "Team blue Republicans" works
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  2792. This might be even more important than Mitch, and it is more likely to happen now that the "Democrats" pushed forward a pro-Trump candidate to try and unseat Mitch
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  2793. If we're going to play this BS game then all these people are antisemites. Sure you want to double down, neolibs?
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  2794.  @Happytravellerkimmy  I think we all can tell he's a Gen X who considers himself "born in the wrong generation" so it still fits.
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  2795. Bonus points for being able to use Chicago as a BS argument against gun reform
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  2796. The capstone problem to the whole thing is we already have other words to describe what he talks about. True is objective truth. There's also "known truth" or "believed truth" to take into account limited knowledge. Useful can be used for what's being called metaphorical truth here. Right can be used to describe what he's calling ethical truth. Using "truth" in all contexts, especally in a philosophic discussion about truth, when we have an extensive vocabulary (which he's clearly not short on himself) is just intentionally obfuscating things to make it hard to argue against him. He's a hack.
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  2797. People in power are not just as likely to commit "disgusting acts". They're MORE likely. Power attracts those with looser morals (see the rate of psychopathy being at least 20x higher in CEOs), people consistently behave less ethically in positions of power, and having power gives you more oppertunity to do such with less chance of being caught.
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  2798. I highly doubt "tank bombardment" was on the list of design criteria, though a lot of the walls are often pretty thick for other reasons.
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  2799. If we ask wiki for a quick working definition we get: "Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy." If we're being charitable, then, sexual non-anarchy would mean "sexual heirarchy" ...if we're not, it would mean rape. And you know what, in what he views as the "good ol' days" before we centered consent in conversations about sex rather than puritanical rules, it absolutely was both.
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  2800.  @DunkeyIsBlack  the point of the quote is to point out that we should be watching out for fascism wrapping itself in the common virtue-signaling of US politics instead of just watching for swastikas. Not that everyone wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross is a fascist
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  2801. Hillary Clinton Nancy Poloci Gotta think a bit deeper than that
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  2802. facepalms my sympathies
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  2803.  @centauri4204  on this channel, the default use of "Republicans"/"Democrats" is to refer to the politicians, not the voters they lie about representing (who, by extension of non-representation, are more like ripped off customers than actual members of the parties) Saying 90% of Repulican voters oppose this is irrelevant because they don't influence policy.
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  2804.  @toxendon  this shift started before the internet
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  2805.  Metal Scar  Trump's a fascist. That's an incredibly low bar. And no, Facebook and Twitter fall under the exact same descriptions I put forward for the corporate news and Hollywood is, again, made up of for-profit private megacorps (and some of the exact same megacorps that own the TV news stations). Laughing and going back to talking heads feeding you disproven propaganda about how much conservatives are getting censored for being conservatives doesn't change that. Want to take an example? Twitter once made an algorithm to flag racist content. They canned the project when they found it flagged more Republicans then "Democrats" because they wanted to play to a false equivolence between a far-right and center-right party even though we all know where the KKK vote goes to.
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  2806. "Either"...?
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  2807. Good, don't succumb to the blatent gaslighting...though why are you getting your news from the TV?
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  2808. Wow, they just flooded you trying to blame the left immediately nice going calling it
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  2809.  @cesspool1676  have you noticed that the same party that wants to control women's bodies, decide who you can marry, increase surveillance, and force their religion on you is the same one trying to strip government regulation of markets away? Why do you think that is? You think that maybe the "small government" rhetoric is just there to trick you into allowing the establishment of a moneyed aristocracy to replace the titled aristocracy of the past. How about you go read what Jefferson had to say about banks doing as they please if you want to go quoting him at me.
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  2810.  @tonydimeo1882  just like making it difficult-to-impossible to completely block seeing someone's comments if you decide they're just a troll or otherwise arguing in bad faith.
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  2811. Study fascism and it will seem less bizarre. We've got one foot over the line and are debating putting our weight on it as we speak. Just look at the line "if I open up the government, you won't do what I want" line. That is incredibly fascistic, and the fact that he won't even talk to center-right politicians if they don't treat him like a dictator only makes it worse. We already shreaded our bill of rights under the Bush administration (and Bush, himself said how things "would be easier if this were a dictatorship, just so long as I were the dictator") and have only been moving further right since then. When people say "Trump is a proto-fascist" there isn't an ounce of hyperbole there, and he's not even the furthest right person in his party (or arguably his administration). If we go any further right, we will hit fascism. This is what bordering on the edge of taking that leap looks like.
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  2812. ​ @EASTSIDESEE "rule of law and defense of democracy is fascism" -you
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  2813. Can we take a moment to talk about how unusual Japan's class heirarchy was, flipping the normal positioning of farmers and merchants? That shit is fascinating!
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  2814. Probably not half as "interesting" as November 5th.
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  2815. Is it a right winger using any other insult than a variation of "dirty commie"? Then, yes, it's projection. It really is that simple.
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  2816.  @David-qv9yy  my criticisms of crypto have nothing to do with liquidity, actually. May want to actually understand a position before you criticise it as uninformed. I suggest starting with looking up "Debt: the First 5000 Years" and then moving on to looking up "sovereign money"
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  2817. I won't pretend to know what way this will go, but this is just the start of the payback.
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  2818. Even just making the plastic slides open to the sterilizing effects of the sun's UVs rather than enclosed opaque tubes would do wonders for the hygiene of them.
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  2819. Hillary, like Trump, is a psychopath. A moral epiphany is impossible there. Accept that the rulers of this country are very often monsters in human form.
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  2820.  @indymarrow8050  let's put this in very simple terms: Money is power One of the uses of power when there is any imbalance in it is to aquire more power Therefore, unregulated markets will always lead to exponentially increasing inequality There's no escaping that truth (and we didn't even get into externalities or the prisoner's dilemma)
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  2821.  @indymarrow8050  "give all the money to the government" wtf does that even mean? Money exists because the government spends it into existence to pay public servants, has universal value because it's what the government accepts as payment for fees and taxes, and exists in between those steps as a representation of debts paid (dirrectly or indirrectly) to those who work in fields outside of normal markets to make a society function. Since the very invention of coinageb "giving all the money to the government" is a concept that makes no sense if you understand what money is. As to wages, do I want government to have total control over them? No, that level of micromanaging doesn't really work. Do I want the government to do some things about income inequality? Yes, because as I've stated and you haven't refuted, people need to organize in some way outside of markets to put a check on the inevitable trends of markets. People organizing to collectively decide on rules for a society to be run by isn't tyranny; it's democracy (representative or otherwise). "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,” -FDR As banks were able to force our government to bail them (instead of the people our government is supposedly by, for, and of) out of a crash they created themselves, by FDR's (and Mussolini's) definition(s) we're already bordering on fascism, and it isn't because of people wanting to limit economic inequality. Sorry to tell you, but you've been fed a line of BS because it was to certain people's advantage to have you spouting off unintelligible nonsense and ignoring sound reasoning against what you've been taught to believe like it was a religion.
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  2822. Is there a group of people other than old, straight, wealthy, white men that Biden doesn't have an atrocious record toward?
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  2823. Even a large majority of NRA members want universal background checks. Only criminals, gun manufacturers, and their stooges don't.
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  2824.  @hoodaticus  that'll happen when the cops aren't really trained on the limits of their powers, and almost never face serious consequences for overreaching them.
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  2825. No, the establishment "Democrats" should go run for the GOP because that's what they are.
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  2826. I mean, you can hear he was going to say "vermin" origionally, but decided he needed to tone it down in the moment.
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  2827. Sometimes population density is a relative thing...generally when food is limited
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  2828. The fact that they prey for mercy and will proudly say they're "god fearing" is pretty good evidence that they don't even believe this "all loving" shit.
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  2829. Religiosity increases in-group/out-group mentality and persecution complexes. They're absolutely religious.
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  2830. Some??? We have like a dozen or so halfway-decent people in office at the federal level. All the rest are different degrees of monsters.
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  2831.  @Eddardstark9308  you really don't see the difference between what we're dealing with now and people getting attached to random dumb things online in the 2000s???
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  2832. Are you asking about REAL communism (a moneyless classless stateless society, aka anarcho-communism) or totalitarian state capitalism? (Eg the USSR and China)
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  2833. How much do all these for profit corporations hosting these debates make off of heath insurance advertising? Let's start asking this question loudly and publically.
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  2834. Because if the Executives that bribe our politicians aren't taken care of, a lot of people in our government will loose their jobs to gasp populism.
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  2835. Zaq Kickasola 21st century America
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  2836.  Jeremy Shaffer  lol that's the best you got? Stay in school kid. Middle school dropouts don't have good prospects.
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  2837.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Saudi Arabia is absolutely worse than us. They just have less power, so their damage is on a smaller scale.
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  2838. Ignar Husky Progressive Maddog I'd argue that there are more people on the right who want the civil war for the sake of the violence itself, rather than impatience in achieving a needed goal (see the "South will Rise Again" people for the most overt example), but as someone who has argued with the same people you're talking about for the need to exhaust all peaceful options first, I don't deny for a second that there are some people on the left itching for a civil war too.
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  2839. Yup, malignant narcissism combigned with arguably the most powerful military ever created is a bad combination that we've had far too much of.
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  2840. Guys, it's obviously a Nazi troll. Telling them to stop lying is a futile effort without a gun pointed at them.
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  2841. Really? No discussion of the destigmatization of getting out of toxic relationships or the insane pressures of the modern economy on younger generations affecting these numbers? The selection bias in these explanations being just things that subtly can be seen as finger pointing doesn't seem strange to you?
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  2842. "4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason." -Umberto Eco
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  2843. Even when we get the "lesser evil" it's all just a good-cop/bad-cop setup, so we still get played. The greater evil is the corporate duopoly itself.
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  2844. What happened to the Boomers? Answer that question and you'll have the answer to yours.
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  2845.  @nickmalachai2227  I mean....you're not wrong
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  2846. GEORGELET4 directly verifiable facts: Global temperatures have increased CO2 concentrations have increased Burning fossil fuels releases CO2 CO2 is more opaque to infrared radiation than normal atmosphere What part of that do you disagree with or do you not understand how the laws of thermodynamics make it so that those facts together mean that burning fossil fuels must increase the temperature of the planet as a basic result of physics?
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  2847. If we go off of studies of CEOs and assume politicians are of comperable psychological makeup, we should expect about 20-25 Senators to be actual psychopaths. Add to that that about 2/3rds of the general population can be pressured into discarding their morality in the right authoritarian context (see Milgram Shock experiments) and the fact that it was 37 against instead of 37 for is a big deal.
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  2848. He's been telling people to commit felonies since before he was elected. No, that doesn't make it better. This is not normal.
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  2849. Not only is it debatable that it's insulting, but as a proud Yankee and firm believer in representative government, I feel I have to say that disrespecting royalty is always acceptable (if not always wise or well timed) on principle (though I don't have any other current issues with the queen). Of course, given the current political climate I feel I need to qualify that with a "fuck Trump" to not make it sound like I'm supporting that idiot who couldn't understand the principles of representative government no matter how many times they were explained to him.
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  2850. It's a bunch of senile white viewers. Those are the demographics.
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  2851. Fae are at their storytelling best when their sense of morality and manners is unnervingly alien. See the troupe blue and orange morality.
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  2852. And non-shit working conditions. Much easier to negotiate when you're as able as your employeer to stand up and say "no deal"
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  2853. @Adam E really, with the forces sterilizations happening in concentration camps under the administration you voted for, you're going to bring up genocide? Or are you just going to jump right to the "great replacement" conspiracy theory?
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  2854. @Adam E as a matter of fact, I do think you care if the BS you're trying to push is exposed as laughably stupid in front of the audience you're trying to influence with your comments and I think that reply is pure cope to cover the fact that you had no reply to recover from embarrassing yourself like that.
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  2855. Debates are about the worst way to get informed about the issues and candidates, but as an aside, the issue you were dealing with there was mostly the format and insanely biased moderation that, being informed enough on the issues to spot before the debates, had me literally screaming at my screen for at least a third of the runtime of most of the debates over how dishonest basically everyone but Bernie and especially the moderation was being. Dispite being the furthest left person in the "Democratic" primaries, he was able to get standing applause from a Faux News town hall, but couldn't avoid getting questions that were framed in a disgustingly dishonest way in debate after debate for 2 primaries from what we keep getting told(gaslit) are leftist channels. It was appalling bias and propaganda from basically all of them.
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  2856.  @lescobrandon9539  proving my point, fascist
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  2857. The lunatics are running the asylum we call our world. That's our reality.
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  2858. The right doesn't understand love. Criticism being seen as incompatible with love, narcissism projected outward, domestic abuse (and societal behavor comperable to it), viewing a gay marriage and seeing sexual perversion, etc.
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  2859. Eat This more if, for example, each peach counts.
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  2860. Oh look a far-right idiot projecting his stupidity and blind allegiance onto others? Must be a day ending in y
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  2861. Every single camp guard or SS member deserved death. The only reason to keep them alive is the potential of getting useful information out of them in the future. Killing them was of no greater moral weight than wasting resources. If I were in a position to make such decisions, I would not only have turned a blind eye, but put out a sizeable bounty on every verifiable SS member to be paid on conclusion of the war to let them spend their last days wondering if their own soldiers would shoot them in the back of the head for the bounty of a war it was obvious they'd lost.
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  2862.  @Miranox2  you're pointing to the same people I'm saying were telling lies about Bernie being unelectable saying that Trump was unelectable as a counterpoint to what I'm saying? Are you even capable of making a coherent argument?
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  2863. Always vote, even if it's 3rd party/write in. They don't hear not voting as a protest. They hear not voting as you being a complacent peasant fine with whatever they choose. That may not be the message you mean to send, and I know how frustrating it can be when it seems like you have no good options, but always vote every chance they let you while we still can.
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  2864.  @hughmiller6389  not only do they tend to defend the current government, but a foreign military threat tends to reliably push a country more right-wing and more totalitarian. Unfortunately the US has wanted to install another puppet government to get them to hand over their oil to our companies since Iran got rid of the last one we installed with a coup so...
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  2865.  @gabrielarcari72  I believe there is supposed to be a comma after "all" Private insurance corporations are for-profit death pannels.
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  2866. You don't deal with cancer by torturing it. You just remove it. To see fascists for the monsters they really are is to render the idea of revenge as nonsensical as the lie of peaceful coexistence/appeasement.
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  2867. That's not how this actually works. Stop whining.
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  2868. Having him represent the rest of the GOP politicians to remind people why they don't like establishment politicians as he forces Trump to use up at least some campaign resources is probably a good thing. The last thing we want is for people to think that if they just go back to Republicans who aren't Trump they'll get a good outcome. If he were effective, he might help split the party from Trump, but him getting so thoroughly obliterated will likely help pin Trump to the rest of the GOP right before the general election, which would work in our favor. So yeah, he's going to get DESTROYED but I'm cautiously optimistic about that.
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  2869.  @patrickholt2270  I mean, if the "Democratic" primary is rigged enough to put Trump against someone like Biden or Beta, sure, there are problems, but if we get a win with Bernie, when he comes out of the primary looking strong it will encourage the GOP to rally around him only to get caught deeper in the metaphorical blast radius when Bernie destroys him even with said boost. Remember, the GOP is already trying to set themselves up to distance themselves from their patsy Trump like they did with Bush, so after the primary we need to make as much of Trump's bad image to stick to them as possible to give the "Blue Dog Democrats" fewer open Republicans to ally with in the new Congress. I know we put policy over politics here, but don't forget to think a few moves ahead to anticipate what is coming down the pike at you next.
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  2870. N V it's more complicated than that. There was a time in history, for example, when the Islamic world was more open and tolerant than the contemporary Christian one. Even today, in the US, Muslims are more tolerant of gays than Christians. It's not about one being better or worse than the other (the worst part of both is the Old Testiment, which all the Abrihamic religions share). It's about context, and the most relevant part of that context is that the rise of humanism, the enlightenment, and secular values in the west has largely declawed Christianity. Remove the religion from that context and it will go right back to being as brutal as fundamentalist Islam, just like it was a few hundred years ago. Take a look at the times that modern society has slipped up keeping Christianity's darker impulses in control, and you get the KKK and Nazis. Look to Africa which has both religions and no western secular humanism to keep either in check and you'll find them acting quite similarly. You can't improve a society by trading one poison for another. You have to introduce the antidote.
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  2871. Yup 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” See also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation.
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  2872. Nailed it
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  2873. Aria I was there on Iraq, but yeah, Syria too
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  2874.  @fancynecrosi1848  I haven't heard anything about that, but I wouldn't put it past her or her supporters.
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  2875. Just had a friend that lives there show us some numbers on how bad the air quality was and the number of fires over there and I knew it was bad but I was still stunned. One shouldn't need a respirator just to live in the US.
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  2876. The "truth" is whatever is convenient to him at a given moment.
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  2877. Idk, "frat boy culture" is pretty fucking toxic.
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  2878. Population growth slows to almost nothing when extreme poverty, lack of education, gender discrimination, and childhood mortality are adequately addressed. Even with no deliberate population controls, global population is expected to top out at 11 billion. (Which is higher than we'd like, but it's not infinite growth)
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  2879. Was he ever on them?
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  2880. "What if we took the entropy, and moved it somewhere else" There would be more than you started with.
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  2881.  @hectorvega621  don't forget starting the war on drugs to keep black people from voting against Republicans because we stupidly trust politicians with the right to determin which adult citizens can vote via a combination of felon disenfranchisement and getting to decide who's a felon. That was a dumb conflict of interest to trust them with.
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  2882.  @FreedomFox1  ....you mean before the CIA existed? No, that was before my time. Ask Pepperidge Farm
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  2883.  @jr31419  ngl, my first functional "aircraft" in KSP was just enough jet engines to do a vertical takeoff as if it were a rocket, 4 control surface winglets to provide dirrection and some lift to help semi-horizontal flight, some landing gear, and some sensor equipment. Outside of the sensors and the shape of the cockpit, the entire thing was radially symmetric, and looked more like a spacecraft than a plane (since I'd basically built a jet-powered rocket) but it did the jobs I needed it to.
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  2884.  @Infamous1892  specifically look up "Jordan Peterson doesn't understand" to see how he's wrong about just about everything he talks about, yes.
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  2885.  @leveljoe  the "silence" is the simple result of the limits of our instruments contrasted against the nearly incomprehensible distances to even the nearest stars. The fraction of even just this galaxy within which we could detect a civilization like our own is so negligible it's effectively 0, and for simple life we can't even rule out all other places in our own solar system. Your problem is that you're vastly underestimating the scale of everything involved.
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  2886.  Mad Jackson  thank you for demonstrating the Dunning-Kreuger effect and what side that level of stupidity is on. Also how much of a keyboard warrior you are.
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  2887. You're just using a phrase used on you and proving you don't understand it.
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  2888. This is your brain on fascism. Don't do fascism kids. Never even once.
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  2889. Very likely the "grand bargin" will be either to privatize it (to disasterous long term ends) or just cut it for people under 45, because boomers nominated an ageist pos as usual.
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  2890. Costing more than they claimed it would is part of the scam. You first make a bid on a government contract that ignores all sorts of costs so you can be the low bid on the contract. Then, once you've spent & pocketed most of the money, you submit a list of expenses you "missed" and put the government in the position where it has to pay up or take the PR hit for having wasted the money on nothing. And of course, since the politicians and contracter CEOs are in bed together, they're not exactly keen on amending contracts in simple ways to prevent this. This happens all the time right down to the local level.
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  2891. @michaelvelez902 it's WAY easier to build space habitats than it is to terraform other planets. Likewise, even if we were to assume infinite population growth (which as mentioned is a big stretch), it would be better to disassemble planets to build O'Neal cylinders out of that material than to try and make the planets Earth-like.
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  2892. To be fair, surgical masks are more designed to limit spread from, rather than to, the person wearing it.
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  2893. That the anti-intellectualism in the US has gotten so bad that the first and (so-far) only nation to land on the moon is experiencing brain-drain because of it? Yeah...that sucks.
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  2894. Really? We're going to talk about her Adams apple and not the fact that everything above her shoulders appears inhumanly stretched (see 1:01 to see her next to other people), or the fact that her ethics and the ways she moves just seem like a mockery of humanity? If I was more paranoid, I'd be pointing to her as evidence of lizard people, but we're going to ignore both substance and all of that to say that she looks manly and make implications that she's trans on a video where she's smearing lgbt people? That makes sense to you?
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  2895.  @coppulor6500  if memory serves, MSG was discovered by a Japanese guy isolating a component of seaweed. Side note: almost all citric acid added to foods is produced in a lab. Once you're drilling down to specific chemicals, however, it's all identical. The water molicules in the clouds retain no memory of if they came from a crystal clear spring, evaporation off of some form of foulness, or a fire. Only physically measurable properties like momentum are retained.
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  2896. Belonging in the same dumpster as the Corporate Newspeek Network, MSDNC, and Faux News.
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  2897.  @Halokon  you know what would also help? Not doing shit like https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 Also not spending more time on training for violence than learning the laws surrounding their job.
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  2898.  thesparitan  Musk does hate public transit and you're a fool if you buy his PR team's post hoc spin, and yes, at least within dense cities, switching entirely to public transit is viable. Cities have already done so in their city centers and seen great results. Let's also not pretend that the shift to EVs was because of Musk more than just becaude of market forces interacting with tech developed by others. Also, btw, sharing rides is good for a society and helps counteract the hyperindividualism bordering on narcissism that will be the death of us.
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  2899.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  you'd be surprised how well a lot of planes work as gliders.
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  2900. Just like every single other accusation they lobbed left, the bit about "erasing history" was projection.
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  2901.  Khashon Haselrig  that makes far too much sense. Disney is surprisingly evil, even for a corporation of their size.
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  2902. _willingly.
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  2903. Patience young grasshopper
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  2904. They didn't get where they are by not having an unquenchable lust for power.
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  2905. Considering it was excessive and unnecessary force, the only reason she would have guessed that he would taze her was if she understood that cops look at laws as guidelines when it comes to their own behavior.
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  2906.  @goofusmaximus1482  missed the most important detail of that: their viewers ranked as less informed than those who consume No news at all! That's why they were called "Faux News" long before the term "fake news" entered the common vernacular.
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  2907. dipojones that place is called reality.
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  2908.  @collectiveconsciousness5314  oh look, a Nazi. You know what the "Greatest Generation" earned their title for doing, right?
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  2909.  @MaySpitfire  why? The parts of his fantasy that enable him to support Trump make it so that others won't be able to live in reality, because, you know, they'll die Whether or not his mind can be changed at this point is one question, but fuck respecting fantasies that have real-world costs.
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  2910. +
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  2911. I've read that purple is the best color choice for the birds, but yes, it seems that not painting them the color of clouds makes them more noticable to birds. It seems obvious in hindsight, really.
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  2912. Mr. Seemingly Expected yup, and then there's the forced prison labor and the fact that those convicted are often denied voting rights permanently Hell, Nixon's aid even noted that they were even making sure to target community leaders whenever they could. Then, with said communities disrupted by absent leaders and absent fathers, they vilify them more and use that for even harser crackdowns. Is it as bad as Jim Crow? No. Is it comparable? Absolutely!
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  2913.  @cezarcatalin1406  🎯
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  2914. Very "let them eat cake" vibes going on here.
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  2915. They've been building luxury bunkers (often out of old missile silos) for at least a decade or 2. That's not even new or really secret
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  2916. Resembles?
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  2917. Depends. How hard am I allowed to touch that war criminal with a 10ft pole?
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  2918.  @JamesBond-ns8di  _you are getting what you deserve for playing Venice. (Also, I denounce you)
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  2919. The constitution doesn't. Hopefully the supreme court wouldn't pretend they can't read if the issue came before them.
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  2920. Are we counting Occupy Wallstreet? If so, a lot, but they were all unconstitutional.
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  2921. Brazil....really? The country that recently had a genuine fascist get elected (likely with CIA help)? You're going to cite them as a credible source of aid? Are you actually that dumb, or just incredibly dishonest?
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  2922. Could be aluminum
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  2923. Manufacturing Consent
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  2924.  @HealzHS  hey, trollbot. Quick 2 questions: 1-how much are you getting paid and 2-what got your last account banned?
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  2925. Yup
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  2926.  @rynegreen7902  I mean, it's not genetic, so he might be able to slip by as long as he was able to prove useful to the party, but with fascism constantly narrowing what's considered the "in group" no-one is really safe. It's just sorting society into the order of the line headed into the gas chambers, but everyone is the line, ultimately, being pushed ahead by the people behind them and no-one is really safe. The only way it doesn't end up killing everyone is if it collapses under it's own inability to run a country before it can. As long as there are 2 people left, it's going to be trying to kill one of them because it's a suicide/death cult. There is no actual endgame. If it runs out of enemies to kill, it just creates new divisions because it needs enemies to fight. Get rid of all non-white people, and they'll move onto hair and eye color and any other difference they can find. There isn't actually any endgame beyond violence for as long as there are targets.
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  2927. I do believe that was France's response to the invasion of Poland, though, and we all saw how well that worked for them.
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  2928. Amy Coney Barret was asked to list of the rights protected in the first amendment. She couldn't. So no, they were not given the same treatment. They were not held to ANY minimum standard beyond perceived loyalty to the party. The Republicans appointed her anyway because they are opposed to the rule of law and human rights as a concept.
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  2929. It's good cop/bad cop Once you accept that one is only pretending to be on your side, this will all make so much more sense.
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  2930. HeroBix Gaming depending on the scale of the fallout, being in the northern hemisphere may be a bad move reguardless
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  2931. Crypto currencies are pyramid schemes that hurt the environment.
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  2932. Conservative: traditionalist, resistant to change "Progressive Conservative" is a contradiction of terms but somehow they label their party that with a straight face. No kidding they're a joke.
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  2933. Oligarchy
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  2934. We never fixed the causes of the 2008 crash, and Trump has only exacerbated the problems. Another crash IS coming. It's just a question of when. I'd prefer it sooner, rather than later
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  2935. To answer the question, it comes from the fact that a lot of the early voting states where Bernie did poorly, due to not having any name recognition by that time, had large black populations. There's also the fact that at the beginning of the primary, Hillary was coasting on some manufactured illustration that the Clintons were good to black people and some twisting of some things Bernie said. Given time, however, Bernie showed he was willing to respectfully listen (even when he could have been excused if he didn't), his history of marching with MLK became public knowledge, people came to understand what he was saying better, and Hillary's "superpreditors" quote came to light and she showed complete disdain for those that challenged her on it (in complete contrast to how Bernie handled black people that challenged him on racial issues). After that, one after another, black community leaders came out in support of Bernie, but many of the votes had already been cast, and the great spin machine took that and went to work.
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  2936. "The South will rise again" They're flat out admitting it.
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  2937.  donvitocoreleone7666  unconscious is unconscious. You know that just as well as I do. You just like that he was killed.
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  2938. Mostly east to PA, get dumped by the rain, and then probably mostly flow into the Ohio river watershed, so then right back to a different part of Ohio.
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  2939. If you want to understand the coverage, you need to look no further than their advertisers, aka, customers
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  2940. Intentionally to distract from the scandal involving those guilty pleas. President dumbass only has about 5 tricks, tops, and making a mess too big to ignore to distract from a scandal which could damage him (and which his normal strategy of attacking the accuser won't work on) is one of them.
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  2941. Nah, just paid off by many of the same people.
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  2942. Squatting is not theft. Ownership is defined by the law. Get over it.
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  2943. When the oligarchs are removed from power, they're tried for treason, and the entire election system is redesigned from the ground up. It won't be easy or quick, but it's a fight we must win for the sake of our nation and the world.
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  2944. Bill Maher is an establishment tool with the jobs of defining the leftmost position of the Overton Window and directing the anger of progressives to where the establishment "Democrats" want.
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  2945.  @iceman1833  no quotes. Laws were broken and pled guilty to. For just one example: https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/new-york-city-purged-voters-2016-it-wasnt-mistake.html No functional democratic country would have kept the results. The election was fraudulent. It's an undisputed fact.
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  2946.  @tinasmith1391  I was elaborating, not disagreeing.
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  2947.  @gaylemuir1634  we don't and value every one of you that wasn't brainwashed. Hell, we want Bernie over younger candidates. That said, yes, it's frustrating when we're constantly blamed for problems we didn't create, labeled by projection of older generations, and the most progressive position in a fairly progressive family you can find under 40 is being completely blinded by Russiagate hysteria and anger at Trump to see anything else. Just remember: if we couldn't see past age, we wouldn't be supporting Bernie but we are.
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  2948. 2 prongs of the same skewer trying to move the people to the grill for the rich to eat.
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  2949. "Gatekeeper" is a term for people who decide what information does and does not get presented to the people. It's mainly been used, historically, to describe people like Tucker himself and his bosses in what today is (when people are being polite) called "legacy media" which often entirely decided what picture of the world people got to see. So yeah, it's yet again, raw projection because the only thing approaching"gatekeeping" twitter does is to remove people who violate their very lax TOS. What things does Tucker want to say on twitter that he's not allowed to? Tell us Tucker.
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  2950.  Black Guy Reacts to lame whiteboy music  yeah, that's why Bernie has a long history of fighting for demographics other than straight white men of his generation upto and including getting himself arrested for black civil rights. Holy fuck dude, can't even tell your allies from your enemies
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  2951. Does anyone doubt that is what's actually going on his head? Anyone?
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  2952. Yeah, it sounds like the perfect case for a witness protection deal, so there's probably a story just in that.
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  2953. If we're going to have Columbus day, I propose it be a holiday where we mock and insult him.
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  2954.  @TheHesseJames  you're expecting any of the corporate news to change? Ever?
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  2955.  @rishabhanand4973  yeah, just accept that there is no bottom to the barrel.
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  2956. Bonus points to anyone who can point out how Land Grabber accidentally outed himself as a facist (no, the name doesn't count this time)
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  2957.  @StoveToTheFace  pink is a troll and immune to facts
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  2958. Unfortunately, the McResistance went with the charge they were never going to get to stick because they're too committed to the RussiaGate narrative they used to distract from the DNC leaks and because they'd also be implicated with the more substantial charges. The problems you face when you don't actually have any major parties that aren't right wing authoritarians.
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  2959. Nancy Mesek ask for that in the US and suddenly you're a radical commie trying to steal from the working class so you can mooch from your couch...
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  2960.  @AnthonyRizzuti  being someone who prefers quality olive oil and some herbs atop my pasta, I'm aware that the red sause thing is disproportionately a US thing, but it still leaves me curious about the history and other things it may have displaced.
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  2961. It's not that they don't get it. It's that they don't care because it's not going to be them paying the price. "Don't Look Up" is a poor comparison because it's not going to hit everyone indiscriminately. The debate isn't actually about the facts or how much damage it's likely to do. They'll pretend it's about stuff like that and principled disagreement with the means of protest, but that's to avoid admitting the real disagreement is that they should have to put up with any inconvenience to solve a problem that's just going to affect us and not them. "Sure, but I care more about you bothering me about the issue than what's being done to you, so by bringing it up, YOU are the problem" is the real sentiment being pushed. They'll do it across racial lines. They'll do it across gender lines. They'll do it across generational lines. Discussions around systemic racism are actually closer to the mark than "Don't Look Up" because it's really just pretending not to see as plausible deniability for not caring.
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  2962. Even worse, the guy making the white nationalist comparison is, himself, supporting an ethnostate. Wtf?!
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  2963.  @sergeytaranovich2368  Russia is very unlikely to use nukes unless it is invaded. Keep in mind also, that redrawing borders because of this invasion is likely to lead to further conflict down the line. One way or another, Putin won't be in power forever, and adding to seperatist violence by giving him land as an appeasement gesture isn't going to help with that. We do need to be sober, I agree. Not pushing back so hard that they get used in a panic is important, but there are other grim realities we need to be sober about for the future as well.
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  2964.  @why-even-try-brotendo  according to Ana (who I'm inclined to believe on this) not only is he only in it for the money, but he wants to get it with the least effort possible.
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  2965. It seems to me the obvious answer would be "depends on the contex-I mean harness" Idk why we'd assume a binary answer here.
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  2966. The laws of physics do not compromise. "The middle ground" on climate change means (at best) taking out a loan against the futures of younger generations against their objections to be paid back in money and blood at loan shark interest rates and calling it "profits" Unsustainable economies make no profits. They simply steal from the future just as slave owners stole from those they enslaved. We must make the distinction between wealth creation and wealth acquisition!
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  2967. Corporatism is right wing. Hillary is right wing. Capitalism naturally concentrates (aka redistrubutes) wealth because capitalism is a system where the economy functions in accordance with the choices of people based on how much capital (aka wealth) they have, meaning the system is going to inherently preferentially serve those who are rich, making them more rich. Also, you don't need more than a highschool econ textbook and 3 brain cells to see how market forces in anything close to a free-market capitalist system will constantly destroy competition if you just stop treating economics like a religion with an invisible savior to have faith in. Talking to libertarians is like talking to a brick wall.
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  2968.  J Leicht  cite it. Show me statistics that show that all Republicans support Trump. You can't, because no such statistics exist.
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  2969.  @Truth_In_Victory  tell you what, type in "jordan peterson doesn't understand" in the search bar up there, start watching what turns up, and get back to us with how credible you still think he is.
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  2970. This is also how you can tell that establishment Dems are just full-blown Republicans with a D next to their name.
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  2971. The rate of psychopathy in CEOs is something close to 25x the rate in the general population, and those are the people selecting which politicians we're allowed to vote on so...
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  2972.  @supernova783  how about we keep the government out from between doctors and children and let kids get the medical treatment in line with the medical consensus that neither you nor these bigoted politicians care to understand? Oh right, all that BS about small government not getting in between you and your doctor was just lies because you're a bunch of authoritarians licking the boots of the for-profit death pannels we call health insurance companies.
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  2973. arkila enilo not one you'll find in a dictionary. Mis-sex-ing would, by the parts and context mean he's complaining about them making King Arthur the wrong sex in his oppinion. It's generally better to think of the English vocabulary as root words modified by prefixes and suffixes to make a huge array of new possible words. Like our spelling, however, there are exceptions.
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  2974. He did a video on it
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  2975. The same company that's using its media arms to scare advertisers away from youtube because it competes with their cable channels? Yes, that one
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  2976. Cipryhx we can detect differences in trans people in brain scans, so reguardless of the cause, it's absolutely a real thing. (Also, like homosexuality, no amount of treatment has been shown to "cure" it with acceptance being the only strategy that produces positive mental health outcomes)
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  2977. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time." -Frank Wilhoit
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  2978. Do we though? We're assuming baldness, but it could be hiding a head injury that would explain a lot.
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  2979. Gargie396 last president to want to take down the CIA was Kennedy...just sayin'
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  2980. I'm not at all religious, but even I am disgusted by how many Christians have turned that bronze bull on Wallstreet into a golden calf religion. Seriously, wtf?
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  2981.  @latayantheazran  yeah, even for the same individual it's kinda random and contextual. Sometimes, the brain rolls with it and can process it. Other times, the memory gets kinda stuck, and causes long-term problems (clinically known as PTSD) because it never fully processes, kinda like a computer program that freezes and just continues hogging system resources and refuses to completely close. Duration of the trauma and heightened stress around the incident before and after tend to increase the chance for things going wrong, as does just bottling up the feelings created by the incident.
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  2982. Let's learn about [taste in a food we like]. It comes from [chemical] which the [plant] uses as a defense mechanism. This seems like at least 80% of the time.
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  2983. Lol
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  2984. The fact that people think "right wing" means in favor of small government and individual freedom is proof of that. Right vs Left started as describing royalists vs those favoring representative government, respectively, and since has broadened to, by extension, mean those favoring entrenched power vs populism. One can't be "establishment left" because that's a contradiction of terms. (Btw, the "sjws" that are actually misandrists and want to reverse the oppression on cis-het-white men are, by definition an alternative right wing) Extreme right=totalitarians Far right=facists/royalists/etc Moderate right=oligarchs/aristocrats/etc Moderate left=representative democracy Far left=direct democracy Extreme left=anarchy
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  2985. Biden telling the Latino community to fall in line is not at all strange. That is is altitude towards all of us peasants who might dissent.
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  2986. ​ @meetontheledge1380 Cheney is a monster, but I'm going to need a citation on that one.
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  2987. If we wait 'till the oil depletes the world is fucked. We need to get off oil before that.
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  2988. Let's call a spade a spade here: they're demanding extra respect and special treatment from a different demographic group entirely because of the demographic group they're in. That's just as bigoted across a generational divide as it is across a racial divide. Call it what it is: flagrant ageism.
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  2989.  @SeanUCF  Trump is a terrible, horrible SYMPTOM. Biden will pave the way for a worse, less-stupid Trump 2.0. Remember when it seemed like Bush was uniquely bad? Then we got Obama who was one step forward and one step back on basically every issue while pretending to be progressive on every issue and that lead to Trump. If Biden wins, we're looking at a repeat of that, leading to us going from protofascism (realistically only held back by Trump's incompetence) while we sail right past the deadline on climate change. Trump and Biden are both victories for fascism because the choice is effectively between a wannabe fascist and an appeaser (in the sense of those who make concessions to fascists instead of fighting them) Please look up the term "pyrrhic victory" and then start thinking of an acting on a plan to win by 2024, because failing that, you should make sure to get a gun or a passport, because things will be getting very ugly even by today's violent standards. Personally, I think we need to get the green party to 5% and then start building grassroot oorganisations like crazy.
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  2990. Chapter 1: start rich from your parents' unethical business practices.
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  2991. It's not. It's a pyramid scheme.
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  2992. Millennials were the first generation in US history to enter the workforce with less economic prospects than their parents. That has fuckall to do with personal spending habits, so already a fail. 2nd, even dispite furthering their own comfort and prosperity by selling out their children's futures, boomers saw the rise to dominance of the personal credit card and ballooning of personal debt. Meanwhile in contrast, millennials' debt is overwhelming dominated by student loan debt (which we were encouraged to take out by boomers as they were setting up the next economic collapse to doom all those who took it) despite entering the workforce with abysmal job prospects (fewer jobs and having to compete with the retired reentering the workforce thanks to retirements being largely based in the stock market) and wages (degree seeking jobs were flooded with applicants leading to lagging or falling wages, and blue collar jobs are paying poor as unions collapse and the minimum wage falls further behind inflation and rising costs of living)
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  2993. Christian ethics at work.
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  2994. "a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views" could just as easily have described segregation or countless other civil rights issues. It's utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand. Sometimes, even often, when people disagree on a moral issue, one side is simply in the wrong (as the right has been on EVERY civil rights issue in history).
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  2995. ​ @ratking93 that's a good thing. When the internet tells you NOT to look something up, believe it.
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  2996.  chocobonita  the texts of all Abrihamic religions are like that. Read your Bible. It condones conquest rape and treats other rape like a property crime. It's no surprise as their core is the same barbaric book.
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  2997. 2:00
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  2998.  @jesseg8298  way to prove you don't understand or care about consent or personhood. Remind me again which party is defending child marriage?
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  2999. Conspicuously absent
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  3000.  @scottvelez3154  because today's conservatives in the US are increasingly fascistic
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  3001.  @robertjenkins6132  yeah I did, and those were some pretty racist caricatures in hindsight. Wtf do you expect from a guy who lived when he did and got his start drawing dehumanizing war propaganda durring WW2...you know, the one where we put Japanese people in "internment" camps (to go with the euphemism). That all his work would age well???
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  3002.  @ItsOgre  yup, the illusion must be maintained for the ponzi scheme to continue
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  3003. I don't even understand the point of that lie. It just makes you look incompetent.
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  3004. Tolkien: Balrogs: basically fallen angels turned into demons by a dark god/Satan in an attempt to make them more powerful Dragons: living weapons designed by said dark god/Satan to be able to fight angels Spiders: descendants of a horrible creature of origin unknown to even the heighest beings that crawled into reality through the cracks seperating it from the abyss beyond and collaborated with said dark god/Satan (arguably as an equal) in a plan to consume the sources of light in the world which succeeded and plunged the entire world into darkness. The sun, moon, and stars are set so high in the sky to prevent such a thing from REoccuring because putting it in what amounted to the garden of eden and guarded by the equivalent to angels and elves on par with high-to-epic level D&D characters wasn't enough protection from the eldritch abominations that don't belong in reality (but none-the less have infested it) called spiders, of which Shelob was to the origional one what your house spider would be to Shelob. Yeah...don't be afraid to write your phobia into your fantasy story.
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  3005. The right wingers you can reach want 3 things: populism, integrity, and strength and they are primed to thing that dems are slimy elitists ready to change their position to whatever is convenient at the time. If you appear to shy away from a populist position for political convenience, you've just lost their trust and respect which are everything. That's why Bernie (a self-described socialist) is way more popular with republican voters than republicrats like Hillary and Pelosi.
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  3006.  @snkybrki  I love my dairy, drink typically multiple glasses daily, love butter, and have all the mutant genetics to drink as much milk as I want without ever getting an upset stomach, but I'll still let you know that the "bones need milk" thing came 100% from the dairy industry "lobbying" the FDA to try to get people to consume more dairy so they can sell more, backing that up with ads of their own (and getting subsidies on top of their increased sales figgures). Pretty standard US, corruption, really. It's 100% unnecessary for a healthy diet and we only evolved the ability to consume it to increase avalible calories (especially in northern climates with long winters in areas that grew wheet as a staple crop) especially in the form of fat and protein.
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  3007. Also backwards for some reason...not that it couldn't be done, but an odd choice to say the least.
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  3008.  @ChristianMission  no, "ok Boomer" is like saying "ok white boy" Boomers are about as ageist as whites were racist in the 1980s and can't take a few percent of what they give thrown back at them by people tired of their bigoted BS.
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  3009. We should really just abolish sales tax and raise corporate taxes (especially through closing loopholes) to make up the revenue. It's a regressive tax and takes far too much bookkeeping and paperwork to keep track of. Also, if you have the corporate tax based on where the money was made, rather than where the company is based, you do away with a lot of tax dodging schemes and can then easily have states get the income from their own corporate taxes without chasing businesses away.
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  3010.  @sahirkhan6672  the fact that there's even a comparison to be made speaks volumes about both.
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  3011. He's not just woefully uninformed; he's willfully uninformed. Can't let go of that martyr self-image...
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  3012.  @Abo3abed1101  they're committing a genocide in Yemen (where the group that claimed credit for this attack is from), funneling money and weapons (including US weapons to Al-Quaida), have one of the worst human rights records in the world atm, etc etc
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  3013.  @MayanScientist  more than the thugs, actually.
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  3014.  M. M.  They've been being called "Faux News" for at least 2 decades for that reason
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  3015. Why would Faux News care. There are plenty of right-wing demogogues out there willing to lie for a fraction of his salary.
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  3016.  @ambroseburnside5764  I honestly think he's just not that bright, falling more into the useful idiot category, dispite trying to be progressive.
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  3017. Term limits are a distraction. The most corrupt governor my state has ever had got elected with the intent of only being a 1 term politician, meanwhile one of the least corrupt politicians I've ever voted for (Bernie Sanders) has an incredibly long tenure. I used to think term limits were a solution to corruption, but all they really do is rush corrupt politicians toward their kickbacks, remove the ability of the public to judge a politician by an extensive voting record, and remove the rare politician who is resistant to corruption from voters' list of options. That's why they implimented them for Presidents after FDR, and why right wing trolls like pink want the idea to spread. People willing to become a corrupt politician are easily replaceable, but putting in term limits would stop voters from choosing to stick with a proven politician like Bernie (without whom the progressive movement to retake our country from the oligharchs would still not have gotten off the ground). Legalized bribery and low election integrity are the problem, not term lengths. Stay focused on the real problem.
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  3018. They have the tools but not the willingness to use them. We need to be honest with ourselves about why.
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  3019. TBH, I expect youtube will have to collapse by people getting sick of it and just stopping watching (or it going bankrupt) before new platforms can truly grow. I'm very close to saying that we all need to bite the bullet and adblock while heavily supporting content creators through patreon if we want them to survive the collapse sheltering on other platforms. We didn't get the rise of mammals until the dinosaurs went extinct and made room for them, and I fear it's often the same way with companies that get too big (and that the transition is never pretty, even when needed).
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  3020.  @justinlegrande1630  talking about who they were misses the point. By letting them say their piece dispite them being rude and not knowing who they were, Bernie proved to the entire black population that he was interested in listening to their concerns and seriously representing them, rather than just leading them to his own ends. To a community that has been being ignored except for when politicians need to trot them out as pawns in a political maneuvering, that was fucking huge, and opened them up to listening to (and learning about) him. The results: Bernie's approval among African Americans went from fairly low in the beginning of the primary (where the prevailing attitude was "oh look, another old white guy I've never heard about talking about 'working class' issues like so many that have only meant the white ones") to being higher than among any other ethnic demographic. This is really easy to understand for those with more than 3 brain cells who want to understand it, so why don't you two?
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  3021.  @32tray  you're right, you could also be an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about. Pretty sure I said that and explained how the move helped him in detail 2 different ways, but you're still trying to be angry that he didn't tell off a couple of rude black women. That reflects on you more than anyone else, to be blunt about it
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  3022. Ooh, the trolls really don't like that idea :)
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  3023.  @terrencelockett4072  yeah, friends don't want to strip each other of basic human rights.
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  3024. It won't in our lifetime. Too much of a mess made in the last 50ish years for that to happen. Moves towards sanity would be nice, though.
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  3025. Frankly, amphibious tanks are terrible due to incompatible design considerations and still the "AmTanks" of the US would utterly wreck a lot of contemporary Japanese NON-amphibious tanks (to say nothing of their deathtraps of amphibious tanks)
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  3026. @Robert Johnson inadequate food? ✔ Forced labor? ✔ Torture? ✔✔✔ Sexual assault?✔ Deliberate dehumanization?✔ Etc etc
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  3027. Yeah, and frankly, without wolverine's regeneration, making our bones stronger means little because of how much weaker the rest of our bodies are than bone to begin with. I'd take the same strength for less weight so moving would feel like it did when I was younger, but short of that, come back when you have indestructible cartledge.
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  3028. Normally I agree, but if the Whitehouse is tapping him in this way, it's a real issue
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  3029. ​ @josephversleys because teaching children sex ed helps protect them from rape.
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  3030.  @davidcrago510  you don't even need to go into conspiracy stuff. The same corporations who bribe donate bribe politicians are the same ones that the MSM is reliant on for advertising dollars. For just one obvious example the American Petroleum Institute (a trade association which describes its mission as "to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." ) isn't trying to get people to buy their gas from a particular company when they advertise. They're paying for influence over narrative using the guise of advertising to make it seem legit (much like when Saudi royals pay huge sums when they stay at a Trump hotel). That's not even getting into partent companies' (like Comcast and General Electric) conflicts of interest or how they are all conglmomerates formed through deregulation allowing competition-killing mergers or how only those with huge amounts of capital can afford to advertise there or how they are all in competition with new media and wish to preserve their oligopoly or the access issue The problems are extremely systemic to the point where even if what you say is true (and I'm not saying it isn't, to be clear) it would be nearly impossible to tell if there is any real effect of it.
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  3031. I see only one issue with your otherwise completely sound theory. If the shields are being held as 6:22 then how don't all the undead have broken wrists from the first time someone hit the shield?
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  3032.  @sapienssapiens35  no, that's not what that means.
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  3033. See the rich assholes don't just have public and private positions, but public and private predictions. It's all about when honesty or lies will help their bank accounts.
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  3034.  @Soundofsilver2007  there's a left-wing politician in Florida?
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  3035.  @sebastianwei7721  eh, idk. His "self-help" book is kinda fucked up (and some chapters depict a worrying attitude toward his unfortunate clients) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgW8bgP5lDGDpX5Z1dfQiMbzv5vDjJr3
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  3036. Wolffgang Amityville not only would that go against the separation of church and state, but banning it doesn't work. Just ask the Romans.
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  3037.  @asdf1991asdf  wtf are you talking about? Christianity suppressed Greco-Roman philosophy, fought it's return tooth and nail every step of the way, degraded the individual, and promoted multiple forms of discrimination from the feudal caste system and sexism to chattel slavery. The egalitarian/humanist values that rose in the enlightenment (and which we have been struggling to enact for the following centuries) came about as a rejection of the cultural influence of Christianity's utter contempt for the worth and dignity of the individual. The only reason that most Christians support equality today (at least on paper) is due to them largely being culturally secular and projecting those values onto their religion, not those values being derived from their religion.
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  3038.  @StartContaversy1  Ghandi, like MLK had another more militant group in the wings of the political situation in India that meant that too much of a violent crackdown on him and his group would drive people towards that violent group. Peaceful revolution is preferable to violent revolution, but that choice is made by the people in power, not the revolutionaries. You see the same thing with strikers btw. Look up to see what happened to unions in the past without the threat of violence by police support or the unions being willing to carry out that violence themselves.
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  3039. Conservatism, by definition, resists progress. and then there's neoconservatism that wants to "return" to a fictional version of the past where everything was "so great", which is what we're fighting now, which is even worse.
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  3040. That's a rather oblique way to say fascists
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  3041. It's generally frowned upon for adults to punch children.
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  3042. Well, that would be a start, but it will take more than that to clean up our mess.
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  3043. @CosmicDamian we do not need to expand oil production to get off fossile fuels. That's absurd. Unless you want to start talking about nationalizing energy production (which I'm game to talk about) increasing oil prices (due to less investment going to increasing oil production) will cause the market to drive resources towards renewable energy. Btw, those funds that exclude fossile fuels tend to invest strongly in renewable energy which will drive our current energy production from oil extraction toward green energy production.
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  3044.  @bulletproofman323  not just that, look at the banana republic governments that existed before the revolutions and realize that is what they want the government to be like.
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  3045. That's why they want the wall. It will keep more illegals here longer for their doners to exploit.
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  3046. Noam Chomsky going over it here: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  3047. The Hispanic vote that went for Trump are immagtants and the descendants of immagrants who were the upper class from places like Cuba where they preferred the days of the banana republics. That portion of that voting block will always be voting for the most fascistic candidate right up until they start getting shipped off to camps or being deported.
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  3048. Anything to keep us from addressing the realy problems. ANYTHING
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  3049. There's lots of things he didn't mention. Her hair Her choice in makeup All sorts of things he didn't mention because they didn't matter to him
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  3050. Seven Proxies my point was that in the field of seduction-based reconnaissance you would assign tasks based on gender due to preferences of the target. Also, if you're dealing with sexist opponents, it helps to use those baises against them.
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  3051. More than any other Dem combined
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  3052. ​ @cmbells7736 it's ALWAYS true of right-wingers.
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  3053. The USA has 1 right-wing party with 2 wings pretending to be independent parties
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  3054.  @jocksharerock7318  watch this and tell me who's the worst https://youtu.be/r8z3qTGL7R0 (Spoilers: it wasn't Bernie supporters in 2016 and it isn't now even though we have far more reason to be)
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  3055.  Rollin Lachance  crack damages the brain less than fascism and kills fewer people.
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  3056.  @dukekenny9340  lol I love how "triggered" calling a spade a spade made you
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  3057.  @jameshumphrey9939  election integrity is non-negotiable serf. 1776 was a long time ago. Get with the program
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  3058.  @danielallan8061  it's way worse then the norm or even what recruiting standards alone would suggest. The ideology and propaganda pushing for the war has really pushed the warcrimes to another level alongside the behavior, attitudes, and orders of the commanding officers.
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  3059. blacksheep837 think you're forgetting how insanely huge this event is energy wise. Pluto is a dark ball of ice and rock. This is one of the most energetic events in the universe. If that happened at the distance of pluto, we wouldn't be able to study is because we'd all be dead. Hell, if that happened by Alpha Centauri we'd probably all die too (or at least have a mass extinction event). These kinds of explosions are almost incomprehensibly huge and detectable at distances far far beyond where the stars themselves are no longer detectable.
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  3060. So are people, but these "people" have their heads so far up their own asses that they've forgotten the first part of bread and circuses. That's not a very good way for authoritarians to keep on living, historically speaking.
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  3061. He sounds like what he is.
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  3062. It's the 2nd one
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  3063. The entire notion of protest kneeling was the idea of a veteran when asked for a respectful way to protest during the anthem. The entire notion of kneeling (a sign of strong respect and devotion) being offensive is patently absurd and cooked up by right wing snowflakes as an excuse to silence the message. That's what this boils down to. Fuck any and all racist/authoritarian apologetics claiming otherwise.
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  3064. Still turn out and vote. Even if you're just trying to bump the green party up toward the 5% threshold and voting down ballot, that still helps a lot.
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  3065.  Tucson Jim  oh, I'm sure there are ones out there that aren't stripey, but there's no good excuse for even the cheap models to be so at this point. There's no good excuse for vertical stripes with horizontally run heating elements, and I think we both know price isn't a reliable judge of quality at this point. I can understand having the done sensor being a thermal sensor pointed at the toast costing a bit, but properly run heating elements should be standard at even low price points.
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  3066.  @donHooligan  no, when you don't vote, all the elites hear is "do whatever you want" If you want to protest the system for a BS choice, you vote 3rd party, because the people at the top would be quite happy if they were the only ones who even got to vote. A complacent public is one they like to see.
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  3067.  @donHooligan  I'm quite certain that my perception of "if Bernie doesn't win, every progressive should vote Green" isn't the perception the empire wants pushed out there.
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  3068. Only 100? Leaving money on the table there
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  3069. K1naku5ana3R1ka they're not even anti-abortion oftentimes, because they oppose things like comprehensive sex ed and universal access to birth control. They're just pro-pregnancy, as is the norm for expansionist religions. As George Carlin put it: they want live babies so they can grow up to be dead soldiers.
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  3070.  @sethobannion3149  I'll agree with that. The humiliation of seeing all their crimes laid out before the world while they sit in a jumpsuit, only to be sent back to bars after their lawyer fails to provide an adequate defense, only to have to do it again the next day for another crime as one thing after another is proved and their guilt becomes insurmountable and their inevitable conviction undeniable. Basically, being completely dressed down like a child for what they've done in front of the entire world, made to stand in the corner, and come back and do it again the next day. It's also part of why I like the idea of the victims getting to pull the lever. There's a bit of return of agency to the victim, yes, but it also means at the end, it's someone that to them, was far below even being considered as human who stands with the power over them at the very end. Normally, victim as executioner causes serious problems, but I'd be ok with it in this kind of situation. And yeah. No funeral. No burial. No gravestone. When we're done with the body, it gets disposed of in an undisclosed location without honors like dumping the contents of the tank under a ship's toilet into the sea.
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  3071. Tamilla Igidova unfortunately, our older generations are, on average, completely unconcerned with the integrity of anything core to our form of government. The only thing I've seen any serious defense of by any significant number of them is gun rights. I watched our Constitution be shreaded in full view of the public before I was old enough to vote and there was hardly a peep from any of them.
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  3072.  @Counter-Intuitive  anyone remember that time a bald eagle nearly shreaded Trump? Good times.
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  3073.  @jmseipp  yeah, Bernie, one of the most humble politicians we have, who has a history of handing some of his most important legislation to other politicians to get their names on so it would have a better chance of passing....the guy who only ran after Warren said no to him begging her to run against Hillary....yeah, his ego is too big. /S Dude you are completely disconnected from reality on that and a bunch of other points. Pull your head out of CNN's ass.
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  3074.  @joshbreidinger2616  not only that, but even implementing an NHS style system wouldn't make his wife a slave as her employment would be just as voluntary as before. Does he belive all government employees are slaves? I'd pay to see him tell a black cop he's a slave to his face because he gets a government check and see how that goes down.
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  3075. Oof!
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  3076.  @feelgood1980  *world
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  3077.  @sparkyjones560  what does he want? Listen again. He wants to be able to rush trials to the death penalty. Why is the question. We know he's been at least sympathetic to Nazis in the past so it's not moral outrage. Why would an authoritarian strongman want to abridge due process and jump to rushed death penalties? I have my own grim answers, but what are all of yours?
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  3078. I'd like to remind people that Iran had a pretty secular, social-democratic government before a US orchestrated coup overthrew it. Their current government is a reaction to that and only has remained as theocratic as it has because of the people (correctly) seeing US imperialism as the bigger threat to their well-being.
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  3079. Considering the majority of the population believes the news will be largely accurate, I'd argue that number is too low. The media seems to understand the majority of people quite well.
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  3080. Think you missed a "don't" in that sentence
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  3081. Except violating the constitution to do it?
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  3082.  Michael ARMIJO  no, Pete declared victory when no results were out and Bernie released his internal polling later when the media started to run with Pete's lies. Where tf are you getting your news?
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  3083. You're asking how declaring a state of emergency for what is so obviously a non-emergency that the man doing it admitted that it wasn't an emergency is unconstitutional? You have the mind of a fucking serf, don't you?
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  3084. No billionaire is self-made. Full stop.
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  3085.  @presentedbyconormctappersp4565  possible also, that at least a bit of the Christian supremacism is genuine and he knows that if they don't back off the bigotry, they're just going to be creating more athiests and leading people from worshiping god to worshiping that gold statue of Trump. ...or just that he's going to loose viewers if he doesn't back off hating on people who may be his audience's grandchildren or great grandchildren.
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  3086. Well, if they don't destroy Venezuela, the example they've made will contribute to the fall of international oligharchy.
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  3087. The irony is I would have posted this, but you got to it first because I was literally sleeping 😅
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  3088.  @esteban9882  by that logic any country that taxes anyone is the same as the USSR or Mao's China. You realize how stupid that sounds?
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  3089.  @pieppy6058  well, a LOT of transphobia, to be fair, but I assume that was a deliberate understatement.
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  3090. I only laughed once, so I can't say I found it funny, but it's all super accurate.
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  3091. ​ @bonsummers2657 not after he passed out!
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  3092. ...look, I knew 2021 was still gonna suck and that bruch was still cancelled, but fuck you for that. I'm determined to get to 2026 instead of 2020(6) at the worst.
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  3093. @nauticadon Trump backs out of debate with Bernie https://youtu.be/tqLbpLCw4Vw Trump secretly scared of Bernie https://youtu.be/aGpip7D0yvs I'm just laying out facts. You're the one spewing bias.
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  3094. @nauticadon way to both prove you refuse to look at any new information by showing that you don't know that Trump agreed to the debate with Bernie before he ran from it (which you would have known if you had watched the video) Also, the not actually replying to people so they don't get a notification that you're appearing to reply to them with a like is pathetic. I just want everyone passing by to recognize that's what you're doing so they can see you as an example of how to spot a cowardly liar.
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  3095. Dirrecting anger towards socDems actively pushing people left and encouraging people to question the foundations of the system from a socialist perspective for not going as far as you want is not good praxis. Cut the larpy nonsense that trades political effectiveness for making you feel good.
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  3096. Cash assistance is often put on the same card, but a different account, as SNAP benefits. You absolutely cannot withdraw cash from a SNAP account. You can't even buy toilet paper with it where I live. Also, cash assistance is extremely temporary and only given in rather extreme cases, so you shouldn't even be getting on people for that.
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  3097. We already know this for a fact. To pluck just one example of many from history, the Irish used to not be considered "white". As long as you can tell 2 people appart in any way, they will try to put one beneath another's heel, because the point IS the brutal heirarchy.
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  3098. Note, you can legally file for an extension on your taxes that will give you until mid October to file them. Use this right and encourage others to as well.
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  3099. All of the same reasons people tried appeasement in the 20th century when fascism was having a massive upswing then. Mostly spinelessness, obsessive and delusional holding to decorum as if that would make things go back to normal, and being more closely aligned with the fascists than left-of-center politics (center-right politics being closer to the extreme right than anything on the left). Don't mistake me, we still NEED to vote blue to deny seats to fascists while we can still vote, but the establishment "Democrats" will NOT take decisive enough action to deal with this problem on their own. WE have to take the lead on this.
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  3100.  EpiDemic117  nice strawman. Muted (dumbass)
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  3101. If you're looking to actually minimize consolidation of power, the ideology for that is called "anarchism"
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  3102. And she's still improving by the month!
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  3103. Of course corporatists prefer a protofascist to a social democrat. Turning to fascism to deal with public discontent at their failures (because scapegoating allows them to avoid addressing the roots of the problem which would cut into their bank accounts) is historically what they do (so repeatedly it is one of the defining characteristics of fascism).
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  3104.  @publicguy1664  it would be a boon for the economy, but it would move power in the economy from large corporations to small businesses, which is not what they want.
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  3105. More accurately "Ok Boomer" is the equivalent of "Ok white boy" because it comes out of just being fed up with dealing with daily discrimination from most boomers while nearly all of the remainer are prefectly happy to sit quietly as it happens. Boomers are about as ageist as white people in the 1980s were racist so have no room to complain.
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  3106. Nothing wrong with some ethical hedonism. 😉
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  3107. How about just the real left. Leftism is, by definition, populism and against established power (especially of dynastic and undemocratic varieties) as it derived from the opposition to the royalists, so the establishment Democrats are, by definition, not leftists.
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  3108. Don't lower yourself to Trump's level by believing in easily debunked BS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK The Bush Administration was guilty of criminal negligence, nothing more and it was absolutely NOT a controlled demolition. Do the research or admit you don't know what you're talking about and drop the topic.
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  3109. Baron von Quiply lol XD (possibly true too)
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  3110. It's going to take a lot of work to earn trust after involvement in the Bush administration, but he's welcome to do the work to prove himself, and that's gonna have to come through actions, not words.
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  3111. Einheriar mentally exhausting to try and maintain one's sanity as best they can and not either loose one's mind or get convinced that you are the crazy one. Also the constant anxiety about the danger posed by the people you're surrounded with is really unhealthy too (fascination with Zombie apocalypse media is part of the coping mechanism for that as an expression of and cathartic outlet for that constant daily threat) Is that enlightening at all? (Please send help to anyone trying to hold the frontlines called the USA to hold back the spread of this kind of insanity from the rest of the world. Even simple encouraging messages and small care packages can do wonders for morale)
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  3112. Their stuff's shit that falls appart way too quick for the price anyway.
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  3113. The military is only at most 3rd on your list of coup dangers with banking and intelligence being far more dangerous. Like keep me up at night dangerous.
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  3114. We need to force things to the point where they can no longer maintain plausible deniability of election results and get people mad enough to take to the streets. Once we exhaust the last few options for peaceful revolution, it will be on them to decide how this goes down.
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  3115. That's true, you can look up statistics on CEO psychopaths and the results are between 20-25% and that is not even close to the general population. Look up systems and you'll find much of that list an advantage in the corporate world. There is absolutely a selection bias as well as a bubble effect. That said, Musk is just an out of touch prick with an over-inflated ego. I don't think he's a psychopath. Zuckerberg could well be though.
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  3116. Anyone suggesting to vote for Trump is either a dumbass or a MAGAtard hoping to draw in votes from angry progressives. Bumping up Trump's numbers does the opposite of helping us.
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  3117. ​ @Catfluff521 remind him that the alternative is the 2nd A and ask if that's REALLY what he wants.
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  3118.  @iamdanyboy1  they're both psychopathic, intensely bigoted, rapist, far-right warcriminals in obvious cognitive decline. One may be slightly worse than the other, but let's not downplay how horrible Biden is. If either were sentenced for even a few percent of their crimes, they would be executed.
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  3119.  @SR-lh4rm  term limits are naive and antidemocratic. Politics is about power. Term limits remove power of choice from voters and be sure when you do that, it's going to end up somewhere else. All you accomplish is moving to unelected positions like party establishment and those who want to pay politicians for selling out, not to mention that you've just ended the main incentive for the politician on their last term to give a fuck what the voters want. As the saying goes: for every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong. For more, here's a freaking anarchist talking about how term limits don't solve the corruption problem at allb and would likely make it worse: https://youtu.be/ctSN4wXDwgM
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  3120. And this has what to do with workers controling the means of production? These words do have real definitions dumbass.
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  3121. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  3122. "Don't try to fulfill your insufficient campaign promice to return things to the status quo. We want you to appease the fascists more." -NYT
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  3123.  @yeiou1  well, they know how to undermine it, so they're just applying that knowledge abroad.
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  3124. That's a huge stretch. She's making standard establishment Dem mistakes, yes, but Hillary was WAY worse than this. I think you've forgotten how bad the 2016 campaign was.
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  3125. Ok, HOW do they spend that much?! For perspective, that's the cost of 173-912 troops deployed half-way around the world with all the logistics that entails.
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  3126. +Belz Zebuth Pretty much. Don't think I've ever heard a cop that wasn't a coward say that. The real professionals just stick to the facts and let them speak for themselves, not how they felt about them. If it's a clear enough threat that you need to draw your weapon, you only need to say what happened, and it'll speak for itself. It simply falls into "If you need to say you're _, then you're not _."
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  3127. The reasons for the current norms in terms of this topic come down to externalizing of costs. Setting aside the exploitation of the peoples in developing countries and just looking at the manufacturing itself: Companies achieve the low prices they charge because they don't have to pay for much, if any, of the environmental impact they cause. Once you move to a more environmentally conscious model where the full cost of things is born out in the final price tag, rather than much of it being just dumped on the poor and future generations, then the economics of it changes drastically from what we're used to.
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  3128. Most democrats are corporate tools paid to defeat real liberals in primaries and then pretend to be weak liberals while they quietly help the GOP enact neo-conservative (aka: fascism lite) policies on behalf of the donors that run this oligarchy. In short, it's good cop/bad cop.
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  3129. MAGIK MANN Yah, well, some people can't handle shades of grey, sadly, even if they're very light ones.
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  3130. Ragnar Lothbrok If Hillary gets in, she will get 2 terms. It's too much "the way things are done" for it to go differently.
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  3131. Abhishek Mahendru I'd say we started loosing democracy when Reagan came to power, but otherwise, that's about accurate, really.
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  3132. Trickle-down economics is the rich saying "We're all too poor to invest and there's no one giving loans" Stop believing the obvious lie! Supply-side economics was debunked way back in the 1930s. Demand and infrastructure drive economic growth. (and cutting budgets reduces both).
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  3133. +vanhouten64 Tell him to ask his doctor how much time they waste having to deal with juggling insurance companies and their red tape. I guarantee you his doctor will tell him it's more complicated and inefficient that way. That's not even getting into how complicated and asinine getting insurance through an employer is for everyone (including the employer).
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  3134. I recommend the dramatic reading on libravox (don't worry, it's free)
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  3135. Bernie is apologetically liberal and the most liked politician in the country, and polls especially well with independents and even moderate Republicans. Issue by issue polling shows the country to be overwhelmingly liberal. None of the policies in the JD platform can be reasonably opposed when argued by a strong candidate that believes in them. https://justicedemocrats.com/platform There's nothing wrong with a strongly progressive platform or even making candidates pledge not to take corporate money. This country can't survive having 2 corrupt, right-wing parties any longer.
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  3136. Miles Dixon "Faux News" 'nuff said.
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  3137. Yup, sorry, I'm quite familiar with anxiety and depression (1st hand and in people close to me). If you can't handle a test, you're not able to be a nurse. Maybe you can get better with treatment and try again, but no, right now we can't put someone's life in your hands. Contrary to the sweet lies they tell us when we're younger, you can't always do something just by trying hard enough. Sometimes it's because of things unrelated to you. Sometimes it's your limits or mistakes. Sometimes lots of other people can and you can't (welcome to mental issues, glad you could join us). It always sucks, but sometimes you have to set your dreams aside, give up on them, and move on. Welcome to the real world, it's often an unfair and unforgiving bitch. (and please people, stop trying to hide that from kids until you drop then into the real world as adults and say "you're on your own now"; you're not doing anyone any favors)
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  3138. +Eltrio2 you forgot voter suppression, a "two" party system, media collusion, terrible education, and still feeling the effects of some really intense cold-war propaganda
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  3139. Ryan Johnson hell, just lack of insurance coverage killed more Americans than terrorists did durring the same month as 9-11. Let that one sink in.
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  3140. Yeah, I'm disappointed that Kyle dropped the ball on that since we have the leaks proving it!
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  3141. "Trump care"? Oxymoron much?
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  3142. Worse than that: they'll be able to sue over losses for laws that DON'T say they'll be compensated. Minimum wage? Safety laws? Consumer/environmental protections? Lost profits, I'm suing! ...and by the way, children's tiny fingers would make production more efficient, you might want to get on that before we finish those lawsuits and my lawyers have time on their hands again.
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  3143. C.J. Johnson well we can, um, have all the dairy we want (lactose tolerance basically spread from Europe and lactose intolerance is an unusual thing for us rather than the norm for most humans throughout our species' existence) and deal with long periods of little-to-no sunlight because we can make vitamin D easier. Also, long hair and big beards are nice when it's really cold So we're good with darkness, winters, cows, and goats, and while those are nice advantages (especally with some clothing and hats to block the sun) "children of the winter cow" doesn't have the same ring to it. lol
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  3144. +the op kingdom exactly! She's a progressive at heart, but she's in the process of being infected by the establishment machine. She'll never have the will she once did, but insulate her from the source of the problem and she isn't totally lost yet. It's what happens a lot to good people that actually get into the system. They start with principles and goals but eventually start sacrificing them one at a time to help to achieve the others. It looks good on paper, but eventually, you sell out all of them (including the last one just for empty "winning"). You see this incremental road to evil within in some pretty famous psychology studies. (See Stanford prison and Milgram shock experiments) She's about half-way through that process atm. People that can resist bending to that for decades are rare and almost always are forced out by the system for "not playing ball". She's had a good run, but her ability to serve the people is fading (which started somewhere in the 2010-2013 range)
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  3145. _on paper. In practice, firing someone can send a pretty clear message to the rest of the team and get things stopped pretty quickly.
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  3146. Sad thing is, many if not most, would just agree with the bankers now.
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  3147. You need professional help if you see someone being assaulted and think they're the violent one. I'm not being hyperbolic there, seriously, get mental help!
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  3148. Side note, male circumcision has no significantly appricable hygienic benefit in the modern age (and debatable benefit in earlier times too). It's main purpose is to reduce masturbation (with the goal of adjusting sexual habits to produce more children).
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  3149. +Jp Delapaz They're also nearly unanimous when it comes to screwing the rest of us. Voice votes are Supposed to be just confirming if support is so overwhelming that counting would be a waste of time. Ex: asking average Americans if they trust congress
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  3150. Should check the original versions of some fairytales if you think there's much difference. Many of them were in the vein of 'terrify the kiddies into doing what we want'
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  3151. Hmmm, a violent criminal record banning ownership of large dogs...that's actually an interesting idea.
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  3152. Anything, or anything effective? Different answers there
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  3153. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
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  3154. +bigdrew2008 It depends on how the law is written. Saying that you're criminally responsible for whatever happens with your gun, no matter what would be unconstitutional, yes, obviously. Having people able to cover civil damages should something happen through neglect or accident (be it carelessness with measures to prevent misfire, theft, etc) by having insurance is much like car insurance, instead of making you responsible for any other person's actions. Don't forget that the insurance company would operate by having a team of specialized lawyers there to argue that it wasn't your fault so they don't have to pay the damages. They'll also offer more responsible gun owners lower rates, encourage/offer safety classes, etc and so generally promote responsible gun ownership. It's actually a pretty reasonable way of handling things if we set it up like some forms of car insurance.
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  3155. +Tychoxi He has, more than once. We just have a new set of numbers and it deserves being repeated regurally.
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  3156. The military arresting people is a bad idea, however.... Right in the middle of the politicians thumping their chests in an election and pretending to be better on national security, to have the military stand up and say "No, you're all terrible on it! We've been asking you all to strengthen the economy, free our country from foreign oil, and fight global warming instead of wasting the public's tax dollars on new weapons that we keep telling you we don't want, but you refuse to do it because you'd rather get your donors lucrative, no-bid contracts than actually protect the country." would be amazing in so many ways. If they ran that like they do recruiting ads for a couple months they could destroy all these warmongers' political careers forever.
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  3157. Yah, so he's done something like 0.001% (I wish I was exaggerating there, but I'm probably underestimating that) of what he should have done, and done it this late when he could have done it at any time.
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  3158. Really nice to see some good news!
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  3159. +Havoc Blitzkrieg No, that's a perfectly sound strategy. The infantry tanks were designed to stick with the infantry and protect them from heavy armor. They were also the ones supposed to clear the heavy tanks of the enemy from an area and start the punch-through of an enemy line, assisted by the infantry (who would provide the extra machine-gun fire). Since this job didn't require much mobility, they could also afford heavier guns and armor using the same engine, which left most of them at a pretty slow 15mph. Cruiser tanks were then supposed to rush through the hole they created and destroy the relatively soft and squishy rear lines, cutting off logistic support to the main line. For that kind of job, a smaller gun with a higher rate of fire is better. They also save weight on the gun (and the armor) which helps add to their speed. Of course, since they're now moving way too fast for the infantry to keep up with, throwing an extra machine gun or 2 on them makes a lot of sense. Also, once they switched over to the 6lber gun, they were more than capable of taking out medium tanks they were put up against, and could take out heavy tanks as long as they weren't facing them head on. It's not the best anti-tank gun, but it's fit for purpose and slower reload times on larger guns can easily be fatal with light armor.
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  3160. People have been using that term to refer to a mostly male congress for well over a decade at least. Just because the establishment's choice this time is a woman, doesn't suddenly make it sexist to continue treating her the same way we've been treating the rest of them. Actually, to use special language because she's involved would be sexist.
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  3161. 1-nationalize the banks so that lending practices can be whatever is good for the economy without regard for profitability. 2-money enters the economy through government spending (ideally on services, research, and infrastructure) 3-control inflation and create demand (and therefore value) for the currency via taxes Basically, the government gives people money to do certain types of work, and that money has value because the government demands it as the only acceptable payment for taxes and fees from citizens. Those who aren't employed by the government will then need to produce goods and services of their own to earn that money. The government has full control of the money supply, stops worrying about the budget (beyond what effect it has on inflation), and never borrows money at interest so is never in debt (at least to any domestic entities). (the whole notion that the government gives the power to create money to banks and then borrows from those banks at interest is beyond insane)
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  3162. Not to mention with disapproval ratings significantly over 50% for both candidates, the self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking 3rd parties can't win is the only thing standing in their way at this point.
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  3163. Any let's not forget a super-important part: Why would a private prison want to rehabilitate at all when recidivism makes them money?
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  3164. Anyone else so sick of hearing Pat talk that they skipped ahead in the video?
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  3165. They're both corporate pigs. Neither is acceptable.
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  3166. They're missing the perfect chance to call it 50-50 while being objective: both are constantly lying and grossly unfit for office.
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  3167. +DennisJ (The Last Methbender) "Huh? But Republicans 35+yr old children said that the media is Liberal controlled!" Fixed it for you
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  3168. As much as I agree, can we talk about the even bigger issue: Not being adamantly in favor of due process means he's utterly unqualified to be a judge at all!
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  3169. All the more reason a conservative republicrat like Hillary is unacceptable.
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  3170. That wasn't his point; watch it again. He was talking about adding training for noticing when it's not this.
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  3171. +killerbee256 Given context, most likely south Asian. India has some pretty bad corruption problems they're trying to fix
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  3172. To steal a friend's metaphore: balls so big they had to put them on her chest.
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  3173. It's easy to make someone extremely defensive when they're religiously supporting a candidate who is so obviously bought.
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  3174. followed by "war is a fundamentally unpredictable phenomenon." um, you CHOSE to be involved in a land war in Asia. It's the exact opposite of an "unpredictable phenomenon": a choice with entirely predictable results.
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  3175. +Freewheelin' Franklin Not to mention calling for his personal religious beliefs to be enforced by law.
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  3176. Titus Lucretius Carus because reality is now so insane the don't have much room to work with anymore.
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  3177. Sorry, stupid, evil bitches aren't attractive to me, no matter what kind of body and face they have.
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  3178. LAUGHINGMANWILL Maher is, and has always been, an establishment tool to defign the left-most position of the Overton window and to keep the left's anger dirrected at the Republicans. This was cathartic and at least somewhat useful under Bush, but he became a problem long ago.
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  3179. Simplest answer... But they still haven't been able to give a good answer to the little "whence cometh evil?" question for something like 2330years and counting, and don't want to accept that.
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  3180. Exactly! Denmark is ruled by Danish, not Shiria, law. You move to a secular country, you accept that your religion will have no part of the laws there. Don't like that, stay in/move back to whatever theocratic cesspool you came from. You want to come to a free country but hate freedom? Well then you're gonna love this jail cell we have for you while we figure out whatever we want to do to your punk ass! We built the modern world by plowing over the same western theocrats that your theocratic ancestors couldn't depose with their massive caliphates no matter how many Jihads they called. Your little fractured remnants of that civilization are like a little kid kicking our shins, nothing more. While we're happy to take in those that truly want to get away from your little temper-tantrum, the rest of you can keep destroying yourselves in that sandbox until you get sick of it and decide you want to join even the 20th century, or kill each other to the last. I honestly don't care which.
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  3181. Garry Lafferty You think you're going to get justices that will uphold the constitution from an election-rigging war-criminal that wants to hand over our sovereignty to multinational corporations? It can't be lost to Hillary either, and voting for the lesser of 2 evils election after election is what got us in this mess in the first place.
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  3182. You mean everyone who's not white, old, AND conservative, right?
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  3183. That condescending smile is toxic AF too!
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  3184. This whole map made me glad I don't get out of my state much. I mean, we're not great, but wow a lot of the country should be ashamed. (btw, when leaving SC, try to drive AROUND NC or at least avoid peak drunk hours)
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  3185. "I'm, not questioning your honor. I'm denying its existence" -Tyrion Lannister & every real progressive
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  3186. You're playing with fire; when people can't afford to feed their kids, that's when they kill you, especially if there is enough food to go around. (want details on that, go ask the French royalty...oh wait...)
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  3187. Robert Messersmith I don't deny at all that there are animals that there aren't any realistic ways to keep in captivity with any degree of humanity. I'd argue that intelligence isn't the primary factor in that, but it does have a significant role, certainly. Other animals, however, handle it just fine and don't take that much to keep happy.  The extremes are obvious, but the lines between them are blurred at best, unfortunately.
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  3188. darthsadic makes sense. Many Latin American countries has their governments designed by the CIA to fit the wants of the same companies that now completely own the US too. ...It was only a matter of time, really.
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  3189. Emphasis on "honest"?
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  3190. The Dynast Queen and let's not forget this stud he wants to bend over for is a violent, short-tempered, insecure man-child. ...really? That's studly now?
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  3191. Mark domestically, right wing terrorism is a larger threat https://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html (this is backed by FBI statistics btw)
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  3192. Angel Rodarte Jr. as long as he can keep the cash flowing until he dies, he probably doesn't give a fuck.
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  3193. Yes, by far. Corporate financed elections where we vote for the lesser evil is how we got there, one election at a time.
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  3194. +labtide You do realize that this is headed in the direction of unisex restrooms with more private stalls right? That would mean that a father could go into the same restroom as his daughter, actually making her safer! Win for trans & intersexed people, children, businesses (easier to meet bathroom requirements) Other than trans-phobes and men who are so insecure that they can't deal with sitting down to pee, pedophiles are actually the only group of people this is bad for..."idiot"
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  3195. Can we please stop pretending that every little thing can be a weapon? 9/11 isn't going to happen again for 2 reasons: 1-we have reinforced cockpit doors 2-anytime someone tries to pull something, the entire plane jumps them because they're not thinking "oh, they're gonna take me hostage for ransom" they're thinking "they're gonna crash this plane into something, I've got nothing to loose" but we keep pretending that someone's going to take down a few hundred people at once and break down a security door with the nail file on some clippers?
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  3196. conor smith We need ranked-choice voting so bad...not 100% related to Warren, but still, it would help not just our elections, but how we think about voting.
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  3197. fishlove69 there's a free speech zone 5 miles down the road from them. I like to call it America.
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  3198. Not to mention that people abroad are more likely to get their news from somewhere other than the MSM propaganda engine.
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  3199. You missed one irony-meter-breaking detail: Highmark, the company suing for "lost profits", is officially registered as a NON-PROFIT company! Let that one sink in for a minute.
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  3200. Nailed it. Not really sure what happened to make such a large chunk of our country such cowards, just glad that the trend seems to be slowly diminishing.
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  3201. You're never going to get enough people to go vegan to make an impact. Encouraging people to eat less meat is doable, however, but is more similar in tone to telling people to conserve water/conserve power/recycle and so can reach a wider audience. All you have to do is reframe meat as a small indulgence rather than something that makes a meal, and things like watching portion sizes and reducing the number of meals including meat follow naturally. This allows incremental improvement without judgement, and enables people to feel good for not choosing to eat meat rather than bad about not being able to have something they want. Just changing my mental framing dropped my meat consumption to 3-4 servings/week rather than a normal american's ~14+, and, most importantly (considering the general population), took no willpower or social changes (or even significant dietary changes). Outside of that and boycotting the worst offenders, we need to stop externalizing the costs.
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  3202. Just remember, establishment political parties aren't eternal. Don't see many Whig Party candidates these days do you? We've got the 2 most disliked candidates in history running against each other. Couldn't ask for a better chance for a 3rd party upset in the current system than that!
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  3203. Yup, welcome to our dystopian present.
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  3204. Yeah, that was an amazingly accurate way to put it.
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  3205. +Lady Potatas What kind of weapons are you using that the core can punch through like that?
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  3206. +Lady Potatas Ah, so it's the fold-over that makes the sharp point? I suppose it would make sense why that wouldn't be an issue with SCA combat as that's not really going to happen the same with tubes >1" that are used there.
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  3207. The news is that the EPA finally admits it...
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  3208. Hope exists as long as the will to sustain it does. Even if the worst case happens and Trump wins, there is hope if for no other reason than it'll be enough of a shock to make people less complacent. We can use that in the next election. The strongest hope isn't the biggest, loudest kind. We saw plenty of that with the hippies, but eventually that fizzles out & sure enough the same generation that created that movement gave us this mess because too many of them turned to the vices they were opposing. The strongest hope is the one that is unwavering in the goal & looks around asking "alright, what do I have to work with today?". It looks at problems too big to solve in 1 lifetime & says "well, all the more reason we need to get to work, then" knowing that handing off an incomplete task is better than one not begun. It looks at a grim future & says "sometimes things have to get worse before they get better" & starts planning ahead. Win or loose, steel yourself for a long fight.
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  3209. Of course. They need to intimidate the public to keep them from doing anything about the crime being committed in front of them by the police. You know, that public that they're supposed to be serving but have instead set themselves up as the oppressors of.
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  3210. Where I live, the only real options are Comcast and Verison. (at&t doesn't even offer DSL here like they do the rest of the country) My last bill was >$96 Low competition SUCKS. (further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly )
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  3211. Disappointed that we got the myth of the barter economy being the precursor of money. I know it's still prevalent, but it's been pretty thoroughly disproven a while ago, and pretty thoroughly, by the fact that when we look at the remaining examples of hunter-gatherer societies, we don't actually find those kinds of economies.
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  3212. "The right people to give weapons to" are all dead or are now refugees. We waited for the moderate factions to get slaughtered by Syrian forces and overtaken by the extremists before we started distributing weapons at random (at best....more likely deliberately to extremist groups). This ensures a long, bloody conflict resulting in a new dictatorship no matter who wins, and therefore, more wars to come. This results in a long-term demand for weapons to be sent to Syria, and large profits for the manufacturers. Further, it is a stage for the US and Russia to have a big, international dick-waving competition on. There's your "3-dimentional chess"... Can we please stop pretending that this isn't all going exactly according to plan.
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  3213. +Cavouku the rhomphaia is a Roman derivation of the ancient falx (particularly the 2-handed variety) that the Byzantines carried over into the middle ages. It wasn't one of their main weapons, so there isn't as much evidence of it compared to their swords and spears, but I haven't seen anything to make me question it's use (at least in the skirmishing units) in the early period. That said, by the high middle ages, I expect it had fallen out of use (though that's speculation on my part).
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  3214. +hmpeter SCA, while US originated, is international, having groups in many countries (US, Canada, Australia, Japan, most of Europe, and others). The fighting is largely using rattan (basically solid bamboo) though also using fiberglass shafts for spears, though there are steel weapons (blunt of course) used for fencing, and boffer weapons (not unlike many larp groups) used in the youth program. All 3 sections have both weapons and armor inspections (yes, armor is required for safety reasons). As a side note, less than a decade ago, the youth program switched from PVC core weapons to shaved-rattan core weapons over safety concerns (despite no actual injuries I'm aware of). Rattan doesn't break into sharp points like other woods, instead breaking into a bunch of flexible fibers. I'm not involved in the SCA any longer, but other than the slightly increased cost and decreased availability of this material (pvc is cheap and abundant afterall) there has been no issues with this core material what-so-ever. Actually, most weapons I've seen made from it are even lighter than those made with schedule 40 PVC.
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  3215. +404040c I think there's a hellhound in gen 2 if I remember right
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  3216. +Juszl Z "gracefully"
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  3217. Good. If I wasn't in a closed primary state I would have unregistered as a democrat years ago.
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  3218. I always keep orange blossom water on hand. Used in small amounts, it can be a great way to add and interesting, but hard to place, background aromatic in my cooking. With floral elements to your cooking, the key is not overdoing it as they can go from unnoticeable to unpleasant and overpowering very quickly, but the middle ground can be amazing.
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  3219. Always be explicit with sarcasm on youtube. Here in youtube comments, no matter what you think to say, there's always someone stupid enough to say it sincerely.
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  3220. Apply for a job as a neurosurgeon. Apparently a degree in one qualifies you for the other.
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  3221. Better yet: vote independent
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  3222. B. Chan He's a Pennsylvania politician. Terrible is the default here. Santorum used to be from PA, for an example. Hell, if you remember the Sandusky abuse scandal, when that came to light, the governor at the time was on the school's board when the original concerns were brought forward and ignored. Also a detective investigating that link died under mysterious circumstances that were labeled a suicide and brushed under the rug quickly. ...I like my state, but don't trust our politicians or our drivers for a second.
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  3223. Oh it is, it's just refusing treatment and alternating between being proud of it and trying to prey it away.
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  3224. Even in that case, you have a disaster. (even if it's programmed to operate within the law and not hack, make more machines, etc) It has been given a year timeframe, a bank account, internet access, and just shy of precognition. You can get almost anything in the world with enough money, so the most straightforward way to acquire all the stamps is to buy them. So the first step is to hijack the world economy and acquire as much money as possible in 6-8 months without regards to ethics. Second, create an economic bubble for stamps to help lift collections out of obscurity. Third, manipulate the economy in such a way as to pressure people to sell. (debt, no savings/retirement, high prices on essentials) Fourth, buy up all the rarest stamps. Fifth, pop the bubble. Sixth, buy up all the less rare stamps as the price comes plummeting down. Congratulations, you have the best stamp collection in history at the price of the biggest economic disaster in history. (And that's just what pops into my pathetic human brain)
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  3225. The entire energy industry should be nationalized as infrastructure, and there should be massive taxes put on the rich (with threats of embargoes on any country that tries to act as a haven for their money using a loophole) to fund a WW2 level mobilization to deal with the threat of climate change. This is both an existential threat to our/all civilization and if we allow it to go unanswered billions will die. We had the option of a smooth transition decades ago, but we sat on our hands so now we need to do it the hard way, and that includes all those who have gotten rich off destroying the environment surrendering the riches they aquired doing so.
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  3226. Corporatist Bloomberg trying to prop up state capitalist China isn't really that strange outside of him being more honest than expected about how close the ideologies are. Just look at what he said about moving the coal plants away from the cities. A-doesn't effect carbon emissions B-doesn't have anything to do with public oppinion, only practical necessity and worker productivity Also, trying to make a totalitarian state that would shock George Orwell with the amount of control they wield over their people is pretty out there.
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  3227. First I was going to talk about how everyone working without pay should greet everyone the meet on the job with "hello, I'm working without pay today due to the government shutdown" Then I was going to talk about how the rich can't tell the difference when the working class are being paid or made to work like slaves. ...but right at the end a really important thing was brought up. Can we talk about how the banks are profiting from this? If most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, that means that the banks will be making interest off of the living expenses of almost every single public employee not being paid because of this for as long as it goes on.
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  3228.  @haroldfiedler6549  The USSR's non-aggression pact/alliance between Nazi Germany and cooperation in invading and dividing Poland between them is widely taught and acknowledged. What world do you live in? It is talked about and condemned everywhere from US history books to Mikhail Gorbachev. It's just not often in discussions because basically everyone agrees it happened so there's rarely any point bringing it up.
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  3229. And then realize that that's an understatement because the US doesn't have a living equivalent. You have to look back to Generals like Patton, Grant, and Washington to make a comparison.
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  3230.  @7lllll  I wish you were right, I really do, but we're talking about people who sneer at logic and facts, perferring tribalism and adamant anti-intellectualism. You may be able to stop the limited strike 19% from becoming the declare war 5% if you're careful and know what you're doing, but unless you're very good at dealing with reactionaries and how they are still operating in a pre-Enlightenment mindset, you should just stick to the unsure 19% and make sure you persuade them before the right-wing extremists get to them.
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  3231. Wars of aggression are crimes against peace. Defensive wars are legal. Likewise warcrimes consist largely of actions so appalling that they make difficult to impossible that terms could be come to for a future peace. Instead, things that are warcrimes almost guarantee that the war will devolve into an endless cycle of vengeance. You should look more into what, specifically, warcrimes are and why each of those things are warcrimes.
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  3232. truth hurts Ballard if voting did nothing, the establishment wouldn't be freaking the fuck out that Bernie nearly won dispite how much they rigged the primary. The system is rigged, but not unbeatable, and once we get a solid enough win to really get in there, we can tear it down.
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  3233.  @LeTrashPanda  friendly, if off-topic, constructive criticism: it's harder to make out what your profile pic is when the top white stripe is on a white background. Swapping the background color to something with more contrast (maybe the dark grey of YouTube's dark mode?) would make it easier to make out quickly. Agreed on the sentiment, though. The whole world (including the Russian people) would be better off without the current Russian government that flag stands for.
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  3234. Mckenzie .Latham many polls and studies have shown exactly what I said. Your anecdotal experience and feelings mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. You're in the minority opinion in the nation and are either in a bubble you can't see out of or haven't correctly assessed the opinions of those around you. You're free to challenge those studies, or climate change, or the spherical Earth model, but you'd simply be wrong in all cases. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=medicare+for+all+poll&atb=v120-6__&t=cros&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=infrastructure+poll&atb=v120-6__&t=cros&ia=news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tax+the+rich+poll&atb=v120-6__&t=cros https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regulate+banks+poll&atb=v120-6__&t=cros&ia=web https://www.thenation.com/article/new-poll-shows-public-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-endless-us-military-interventions/
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  3235. Nah, they can always take more...funny though, they keep trying to take away everything but the guns...I can't see any wisdom in that. Constantly making more enemies while making sure as many are armed as possible just sounds like a really elaborate method of suicide to me.
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  3236. Foolish isn't spelled h-a-r-d
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  3237. Because they're very solidly on the right and thinking in neo-feudalistic terms. The idea that this actually came from the bottom up, with Bernie as the representative serving the movement, rather than it being 'his' movement with us all following him isn't something they can understand because it doesn't fit into a right-wing worldview (due to not being about heirarchy)
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  3238.  @matrixman8582  because electing the person most committed to raising the living standards of the working class would do nothing to increase their income for the low cost of a vote? Lol who's paying you to post this embarrassing cringe?
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  3239. It doesn't get much more "resort" than a luxury climate-controlled O'Neal cylinder, though.
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  3240. As long as you can make sure they hate the other more than anything you've done, the tribalism you need to remain in power will remain. Politics 101
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  3241. If course she's useless against the right. She is center right.
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  3242. @JS 09 like an open nuclear reactor spreading its poison over a continent.
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  3243. GamingTV not even that. Religion was a tool to control people long before most of those things were a significant problem, and humans actually perform worse on many metrics of morality WITH religion than without. It's just there to produce subservience and let people justify things that people would normally find abhorrent.
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  3244. A great illustration of why supporting whoever has a D next to their name is stupid.
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  3245. or rigging their primary? or taking a condescending attitude to their own base? or opposing the will of both the majority of democrats AND the general population at the same time? or displaying a sense of feeling entitled to the office? or smearing your own base as racist misogynists? or overtly lying to the public on what positions you hold? ...cause the establishment dems would never do a single one of those things due to the risk of jeopardizing their chances against republicans /s
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  3246. fl333r UBI should pretty obviously not start at a middle-class income, but a lot of jobs are pretty superfluous and/or about to be replaced by robots already. Waiting to 50% unemployment to institute this would be disastrous.
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  3247.  @SmashtheCmachine  so, edgelord, when are you actually going to get a point? You're about as useful as a pizza cutter in a chinese restaurant, but you keep crying out for attention like a spoiled child.
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  3248. The 1st debates pretty clearly showed, to anyone able to read between the lines and notice favorable treatment, that Warren is the establishment's real intended candidate in this race. Biden and the other chaff are just the opener. They want another faux progressive to defeat Bernie and either loose to Trump ("proving" that progressivism can't defeat Trump and his reactionary ilk) or win and become an Obama 2.0, "fighting" the GOP and just "having to compromise" all the way to their position on most issues while they slide further right. Warren herself has only shown a real interest in change in-so-far as it keeps the current status-quo from destroying itself. Dispite her rhetoric, that doesn't make her a progressive. That makes her a liberal conservative, and mildly right wing. How well did Obama work out last time? Normalizing most of the bad things from the previous administration, dirrecting the energy of the left down dead-end alleys to stab us in the back, and give us a bad name, paving the way for a yet more extreme right wing demogogue than the one he replaced. #HindsightIs2020 #Bernie2020
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  3249. At that age it's often just trying to get them not to be overtly bigoted, sadly. There are reasons political change is often generational.
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  3250.  @blank003  as I said, go research the history. Even something as "objective" as a literacy test can be abused. Besides, the people who just randomly vote cancel each other out. Better education is a good thing. Ending money in politics to limit the spread of disinformation is a good thing. Creating a system of disenfranchisement that will, no matter how hard you try to prevent it, be abused is a bad thing. I know it sounds intuitive, but by no means or justification should the government be allowed to deny adult citizens the right to vote. The right needs to be inalienable for the proper functioning of a democratic system.
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  3251. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." How does "unlawful speech" sound? "Unlawful press"? "Unlawful religion"? "Unlawful petition"? All pretty totalitarian huh? The constitution puts peaceful assembly under the same protections. Using "unlawful assembly" as an excuse to arrest a member of the press documenting a peaceful assembly petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is beyond unconstitutional even if she we're assembling with said protest (which is highly debatable).
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  3252. David Brown don't fool yourself into thinking there's anywhere safe if the US truely fails.
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  3253. Renewables are the cheapest form of power per kwh. You're just lying.
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  3254. Don't worry, today's younger white adults aren't so inclined to just roll over and adopt the establishment BS as so many of the Hippy generation seem to have been so eager after they'd indulged a little rebellious streak, as hindsight has proven. We're in this for the long haul, and even those that aren't will likely stick with it, as the boomer generation (with individual exceptions of course) seems completely intent on continuing to drive a wedge between the generations with constant contempt and insults, so it's not even like we're being given the opportunity to assimilate into the power establishment. We're well past the idea of reparations into "tear down all barriers to social mobility, and burn the system if needs be".
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  3255.  @johndorian3685  just referring to the "you need a boss or chaos" nonsense, btw, nothing else. Fuck Putin.
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  3256. Ron actually believed the libertarian stuff, for better or worse. Rand sees it as a way to get rich dooping commoners. I've been telling people this for years but people keep acting like Rand doing protest votes when it wouldn't change anything proves me wrong.
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  3257.  @Beafy  shit like this is a good start
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  3258. The hyperloop which was a century old idea discarded for being impractical, or the reinvention of "subways, but worse" so he can avoid the fact that the real solution to traffic is normal public transit (because he's disgusted at sharing a ride with poor people)? Which idiotic stolen idea are we talking about?
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  3259.  @WillowTDog  yup, pink, specifically, hasn't learned a single thing from being corrected for 9 years straight
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  3260. Motives can only be determined with inductive reasoning. Sticking to the hard evidence was a good call for what he wanted to do with the video, but yes, the "shortest route" explanation is currently looking like the one that makes the fewest and smallest assumptions, though 2ndary motives may still apply.
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  3261.  The Headhunter  stop listening to Nazis kid, it's rotting your brain.
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  3262.  @devinheida8694  you need a slow introduction for such things, unfortunately to avoid jarring the market. It'd be pretty simple to tie the $15 number to inflation and have it start changing immediately. Of course, at this rate, by the time it is implimented federally we'd need to compensate for the delayed start too. That all said, the entire idea of raising the minimum wage is just a stop-gap before a UBI anyway, but all dollar amounts in federal bills should be tied to inflation unless specified for some unforseen edge case. Having fixed numbers in an economy with either inflation or deflation means you have an inherently unstable system where the value assigned to everything from minimum wage to fines to tax brackets to department funding to public employees' wages are in constant fluctuation requiring near constant re-litigation.
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  3263.  @dobbynp  the Southern Strategy and party swap happened. Deal with it.
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  3264. ​ @EnlightenedMindset it is going away because the younger voters are moving left and the older ones are going to "age out" of voting.
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  3265. ​ @yobebill1234 don't threaten me with a good time.
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  3266.  @WokeandProud  "/s" is short for ”/sarcasm"
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  3267. Millennial here. We had drills for fire, severe weather, and I think a bit of what was to become active shooter drills under the guise of there being an intruder on the premises (but that was mostly just going to be "stay in place and listen to your teacher and if you do have to leave, go further away than you would for a fire drill) I knew about the duck and cover drills from before, though. As a side note, our severe weather drills were at least as stupid and I had no intention of actually going through with them if it came to it.
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  3268.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  the "alt-right" are typically zionists because "alt-right" is a rebranding of neo-nazi and they want to racially segregate nations, and because the Jews are easier to exterminate if they're all in one place. The leaders all understand this, so they're typically Zionists. Welcome to Nazism aka "the alt-right"
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  3269.  BartJ583  half-true. The polls didn't say Hillary had a 98% chance. The "analysts" "interpreting" the polls said she had an overwhelming chance of victory.
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  3270. "Becoming"?
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  3271.  @GeometryDashKenaz  the evolutionary pressure acting on the virus' random mutations would be caused by any immune response, whether from a vaccine, previous infection, or even the current infection and that would only cover mutations that work around the immunity people had developed. There would still be evolutionary pressures for things like increased transmission rate advantaging any mutations to that effect. Even before getting out of highshool biology into where the varients are coming from or the history of this or previous pandemics, you are embarrassingly wrong. This isn't rocket science and you're still failing so badly to grasp it that you're getting the Dunning-Kreuger effect when discussing gradeschool-level biology. What was that old joke? "Here's your sign"
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  3272.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  antibiotics are not vaccines. Your body isn't producing antibiotics when you have a bacterial infection. Your body does produce antibodies when you have a viral infection. Vaccines just get your body producing them sooner (you know, before the virus has had time to replicate quite so extensively in your system, building up mutations for the inevitable antibodies you would still have produced to select against) The fact that you would even make that comparison shows your total lack of understanding on the subject.
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  3273. Anyone can indeed wear a Guy Fawkes mask, but is anyone really surprised that a "group" that borders on anarchism in ideology would be strongly opposed to strict border controls? Agree or not, this is well within their norms.
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  3274. Cute, no, it means when you try to correct people spewing establishment BS you'll be flagged for removal
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  3275. Might be nice if he survives untill 2024 actually. I'm thinking specifically October.
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  3276. Quit your lying and warmongering and we'll quit calling you out on it. Not that complicated.
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  3277. Yeah, they are FAR right, not center-right.
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  3278. My guess is somewhere around 1/4th, but that's just a guess. It's less than all, but more than one should be comfortable with.
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  3279. We need to call a spade a spade here. It is just ageism.
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  3280.  @commandershepard9920  the center of the country and political spectrum (though not the US Overton window) is about where Bernie's platform is, and those people don't call themselves "centrists" usually.
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  3281. (tm)
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  3282. okyouknowwhatever or some degree of bisexuality is common across many societies that don't heavily stigmatize it with absolutely no connection to collapse and your source is just cherry-picking data (at best)
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  3283.  @graydanerasmussen4071  both is good
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  3284. Exactly
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  3285. It made you uncomfortable and got your attention so you actually listened to the message then? Good, it worked.
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  3286. A functional system shouldn't filter psychopaths into positions of power at over 20x the concentration in the general public in the first place
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  3287. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET dude, you're the one who brought up the death toll thing. Can't give one number without giving the other if you're trying to make a comparison to say one's better. But hey, keep on proving you're only repeating one number without thinking at all and have never even bothered looking up the thing you would need to to actually even begin to make an arguement with it. It's great at showing how little anyone should take anything you have to say seriously. Keep it up.
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  3288.  A Volcel  I misread it while distracted. My bad.
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  3289.  @catholicguy3605  so you hate America. Find another country.
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  3290. *sighs* definition time again: The right vs left dichotomy came about from the conflict between royalists and those advocating representative government (respectively). More broadly speaking it has come to mean those supporting strong established power, and those supporting populist power. The extreme of right wing is fascism/dictatorship, and the extreme of left is anarchism. (Side note: "establishment leftist" is a contradiction of terms) Other definitions that have arisen since then are propaganda tools designed for obfuscation and should not be used. The very idea of anonymous is far left pretty much by definition. That said, the model is very vulnerable to infiltration and possible co-opting, but as I haven't been following them, I don't know any truth about that, but this isn't out of like with their previous actions which Space Kitty correctly describes as "borderline anarchic"
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  3291. There's a lot of competition in the 21st century..but yeah, when you have to be put in the company of the likes of politicians in the US and Saudi Arabia for comparison, you've done fucked up.
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  3292.  @adamon5577  they're pretty extreme omnivores and will absolutely eat human
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  3293. Looked at the pictures and it looked like they were burning new books. Who wants to explain to them what buying new, in print books to burn does to their supply? They also burned a Hello Kitty umbrella....which seemed a bit random...are they really that insecure about idol worship that they need to go after Hello Kitty (which is neither religious nor involves magic)?
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  3294. They already have, they just pretend they have 2 so they can give the illusion of choice
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  3295. Yang trying to pay for his UBI with a regressive tax was all I needed.
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  3296.  @krazymunky88  every dollar and bit of volunteering counts.
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  3297. Let's look at the big picture a moment: BLM: "Defund the police" Biden: 'solve police violence with more funding Obama: after helping Biden win the primary 'don't say "defund the police"' He's trying to do to the movement that helped defeat Trump the same thing he did to the movement that helped him win in 2008: dismantle it as soon as the election is over so they cannot effectively influence policy in the new administration. This is his MO
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  3298. The truth, to the far right, is whatever would serve power at that moment. I wish that were hyperbolic, but it's not. The far right values hierarchy over truth (or just about anything really).
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  3299. The fact that the supposed party of the working class managed to create a distinction between the rust belt and their base IS the problem in the first place.
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  3300. Wow, that explains why I'm having trouble finding commentary over the full debate (I can't stand listening to the constant lies and misrepresentations without some kind of buffer of a voice of sanity "in the room" with me) The manufacturing of consent is genuinely approaching 1984 levels here.
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  3301.  @reeceball  he's just trolling and not interested in learning anything.
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  3302. Sadly relevant: https://youtu.be/HOHthnsuhPw
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  3303. The whole point of the Russia talking point is to distract from what was within the leaks, not to take Trump down. If they didn't do this, no establishment Democrat would win reelection, and the entire party would be replaced in a rage with people unable to deny the reality of what happened. Accept that truth and all the actions make sense.
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  3304. mailill well, the better democratic governments (when not completely corrupt) do a half-decent job of limiting power. Problem is we don't apply those same principles to the private sector and then (in the US and probably other places) let the private sector buy out the government so it does their bidding. Publicly financed elections while placing at least some restrictions on management structures for companies that wish to be approved as corporations would at least put a dent in it. There are movements to democratize the workplace so this isn't without some precedent, and unions are to a degree a half-measure in that direction. Sure, there's no simple answer that will fix everything, but that doesn't mean there aren't things we can do. The problem is that we're not being serious about applying the answers we do have. Thing is, we need to embrace changing our systems and social norms to do that, and one of those changes is recognizing this anarcho-capitalist system we call "free markets" as the golden calf religion it is (if I may borrow a christian term for a moment) We're just too attached to the way things are to have them the way we want them, but that attachment is fading fast.
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  3305. Or election reform, money in politics, net neutrality, etc
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  3306. Well duh, the only insult the right has is projection.
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  3307. Robert Toddford Williams read some history. That is the long standing usage of the terms. Things are only confusing now because the rhetoric of the right wants to try and convince you that taking restrictions off of buisness (which inevitably biases things in favor of established economic interests against startups, consumers, and workers) means they're for personal freedom while they try to control bathroom use, who can marry, what happens in the bedroom (see sodimy laws and Texas's repeated attempts to restrict sex toys), who can vote, etc...to say nothing of what they've done to most of the bill of rights, which they've all but shreaded and flushed down the toilet with the lone exception of the 2nd amendment, which is due to supporting established buisness (cause even most NRA members want a universal background check, but we don't get it) The extreme of this is Facism, which is just right-wing extremism. And before you bring up the so-called "SJW" movement, wanting to replace one discriminatory power structure with a different discriminatory policy doesn't make someone "left" no matter what they may claim. It makes them the definition of an actual alt-right.
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  3308.  @tammyd.970  Because I care about truth and the harm the kind of false equivocation you're pushing (and unwilling to honestly defend) may do, obviously. Twisting facts beyond the breaking point (like you're doing with your claims about "fair and balanced"™ Faux News not portraying themselves as a legitimate news source outside of the courtroom) and selectively ignoring inconvenient facts to push a false equivalence that disproportionately benefits the far right is one of my main issues with CNN. Why tf wouldn't I take issue with you doing the same?
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  3309. Well, duh, the US corporate media's customers are things like health insurance and MIC megacorps. They're gonna do whatever they can to stop Bernie and sort the rest out later.
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  3310.  @PokettoManStar  you're thinking of it in terms of 2 sides shooting. That's not the problem time period. The guy isn't going to out-fight a SWAT team. The problem time is when there is only the murderer and victims. In that situation, you absolutely want obstructed line of sight because it means the victims will have a better idea of where the shooter is than visa-versa, helping to increase their odds of escape.
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  3311. So, big picture, has voting for the lesser evil election after election improved our choice of candidates over time or worsened it?
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  3312. Can we take a moment to appreciate the irony of someone arguing against populism calling themself a democrat?
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  3313.    yup which fits right into the origins of the right vs left terminology being royalists vs those wanting democratic government.
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  3314. Loner Link go bravely and publicly argue for legalizing prostitution in your city council.
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  3315. I already know of large groups that have said that their yearly vacation plans are cancelled. This is already happening.
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  3316. No, early deaths increase overpopulation by driving up birth rates to overcompensate and insure offspring survive. If you want to lower population growth, you want childhood and early adult mortality as low as you can get them.
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  3317. Teenkitsune to have any hope of dealing with US politics and retaining your sanity, you just have to (sadly) accept that ~25% of the country is just solidly disconnected from reality and that you'll never reach them. It's the same % that approved of Bush at the end of his term and show up in poll after poll.
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  3318. No, this is dumb. The anti-establishment right is a trap. People just need to learn what these terms mean. Right vs left is about consolidation of power and heirarchy vs distribution of power and egalitarianism. Understand this, and you see how the establishment is 100% on the right and how following the "anti-establishment right" just leads you to people like Trump (and even worse).
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  3319. White nationalism is a death cult, plain and simple.
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  3320.  @SeanStrife  well it's kinda split at this point, I'd say, but the Trump loyalist portion sure qualifies.
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  3321. The word you're looking for is "appeaser"
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  3322. Btw, the military is scrambling to try and keep our nuclear weapons that we thought to have been removed from the region from falling into Turkey's hands as they advance to genocide the Kurds
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  3323. Side note: can we acknowledge that masterful shade at about 13:22 cause, wow, Red, well done!
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  3324. Brad Hollmann or arrested him for deliberate contempt of court and corruption that he JUST confessed to.
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  3325.  @JSkyGemini  as much as I can't blame you for that sentiment, I'd caution you that the corporatocracy that has usurped the US government from its people is an international thing. The US staying within the US isn't sufficient for global peace. The real enemy must be defeated.
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  3326.  @lordoffrog2354  "i'm on the left" sure you are /s
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  3327.  @tgsachris  apparently not yet...humanity is stupid and needs LOT of repetition to learn anything
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  3328. And they call others NPCs...but then projection is the main source for their insults so what can you expect?
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  3329. Tom Franklin I'm well aware of the weight of rapiers and other swords from first hand experience. They weigh about as much as an arming sword, and many of the stances can be tiring to hold for extended periods of time. It doesn't change the fact that the range of body types that can do well with the weapon is fairly wide. I also acknowledged that women being trained for war wasn't the norm for several reasons, and the one you mention is a big one, but there are people out there saying that an average man should be able to beat a woman of basically any skill level. That is the argument I was refuting as I cautioned not to overstate things. I'm not trying to say that one wouldn't normally put the resources into training large men first, but it did occasionally happen, and the women weren't automatically useless in a fight. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  3330. In other words, it boosts aggro?
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  3331.  @williamriordan1619  it does not follow from "Bernie lost 2 primaries" to "Bernie would have lost the general election to Trump" Look up "non-sequitur" and "Dunning-Kreuger"
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  3332. And what did we get right after Obama? Want Trump 2.0? Then by all means, support Obama 2.0
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  3333. And yet we know that if any black and/or leftist group had pulled this stunt without lethal intent, they would have been gunned down en masse.
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  3334. PragerU advertises on basically all demonitized (even politically-adjacent) channels. Am I missing the point?
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  3335.  @zacg_  ongoing corruption is also driving right off a cliff at this point.
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  3336. The 25% number is those utterly disconnected from reality.
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  3337. Or, and here me out, we could actually respect the constitution.
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  3338. "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
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  3339. More driven by Saudi Arabia behind the scenes I suspect, though Israel certanly contributes.
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  3340. Broadly speaking, you're 100% correct. It would actually cost the government less to give every homeless person a place to live than it spends dealing with the costs of homelessness (such as medical costs and the burdon on our "justice" system). Homelessness exists simply as something to threaten the working class with.
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  3341. Yiṣḥāq David maybe the graveyard of empires should be largely left to it's own devices
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  3342. Him: "You have toxic poop in your body" Me: "Of course I do, dumbass! The large intestine is for safely holding waste including many things that would be harmful most anywhere else in my body while sucking out useful water untill it's time for me to get rid of it with this secret method I like to call "taking a shit". If I have problems doing that, people have known about laxatives since probably before we figgured out writing! Also, if that poop gets in a place in my body where it would do harm, it means I need rushed to the ER because my large intestine, colon, or appendix has a damn hole in it and your snake oil sure AF isn't going to save me from the internal (and possibly external) bleeding and sepsis!"
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  3343.  @veganismisamentalillness7909  look up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and learn how the world really works
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  3344.  @conorredmond6217  the tech is irrelevant. You could make them out of unicorns and pixie dust and it wouldn't change the economics of it.
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  3345. nohints that's been debunked. Seriously, with all the hit pieces made by faking or editing footage you should really be more suspicious by now.
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  3346. There was an FBI report years ago about deliberate infiltration of law enforcement and the military being pervasive enough to constitute a threat to national security. So, I don't have numebers, but it's a lot.
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  3347. She lost because she wasn't to the right enough for the corrupt establishment to support, and too corrupt for progressives to support. It's that simple.
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  3348. Expansionist religions like lots of weapons and high birth rates. Look up "quiverfulls" for the more overt version.
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  3349. No, it's the classic non-apology apology
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  3350.  Professor Liberal Avenger  "only" will before too long become merely "first". The entirety of the MSM is corporatist propaganda of varrying flavors.
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  3351. When in doubt, it's worth reversing the question. Why would a pseudo-intellectual whimp be right-wing? I think the answer to that question is more obvious.
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  3352. It seems more efficient than doing false flags to just make attacks on us inevitable and use those than deal with conspiracies and cover-ups.
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  3353.  Robert C. Christian  how many times do they need to they need to get the same results from the same actions before you stop taking their word that it was a mistake?
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  3354.  @nathangamble125  as opposed to...a feudal monarchy....which is another form of military dictatorship... I mean, sure, didn't exactly go the intended dirrection for a while, but saying it was bad because it installed a military dictatorship kinda misses the point that that's what already existed, doesn't it?
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  3355.  @theresagosnell7645  side note: "indivisible, under God" were added parts.
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  3356. *centuries
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  3357. Yay citations. Also, shipping people food without reguard to what's actually being eaten in what amounts (let's be real: if the FDA can't even put out a decent food pyramid, the menu is going to be determined by lobbying), or any dietary restrictions is going to lead to a LOT of food waste that comes right off of the tables of poor people. As someone with dietary restrictions, I won't be able to use probably half of what they send me, and working around with the other stuff will alwasy leave me short on some things with others piling up in my pantry faster than I can use them. Meanwhile, I expect a lot of the discount grocer chains I use to make my SNAP benefits stretch will have to cut back on their locations (which will raise the costs of what I can get access to and push entire communities into food desert status). This is a disastrous policy for those actually trying to use the program responsibly (and those that want to engage in self destructive behavior will find a way to anyway).
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  3358. Yeah, a year or so ago, when a comment got auto filtered, you could kinda know why. Either someone was saying some incredibly toxic BS that YouTube justifiably doesn't want on their site, or you could usually kinda understand how a non-sentient computer program might misunderstand what you were commenting and think you were saying something you weren't due to keyword density/placement/etc because they don't actually understand language properly and are just guessing based on illiterate statistics. Now, it's pretty random. I gather it happened when they were trying to crack down on propaganda bots around the start of the invasion of Ukraine and that trying to do something about them was necessary to keep the site from being overrun with their then ever increasing numbers, but they totally broke the system when they did it so now it's throwing false positives over nothing like crazy...and still missing a whole lot of the bots, political and otherwise. Just because the intent was honest doesn't mean that the execution wasn't riddled with intense incompetence and a corporation looking to put just enough resources into it that they can say they tried but not wanting to pay the price that an actual solution would cost to implement. It may not be malice in this case, but lazy incompetence sucks too.
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  3359. Depends on what "allies" we're talking about. I can think of a couple we could use some more distance from...of course those are the ones Trump is super friendly with
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  3360. Wow, dispite 11 upvotes before me, you managed to "trigger" the right wing trolls enough to get enough dislikes to push you to the bottom of the comment list for me. Nice going! You probably got every single regular troll in the ST comments to downvote the same comment because of how much you damaged their fragile little egos
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  3361.  @answerman86  you're failing the Turing test right now, Mr NPC
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  3362. Kamil Chara Shapiro principled? No, he's a hypocrite twisting facts to fit what he wants the conclusions to be.
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  3363. Sure, it's not because Mexico has a lot of the same problems (like rampent gang violen e) that we've caused in their countries of origin. /s
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  3364. Polygraphs are especially unreliable when dealing with psychopaths
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  3365.  @martijnstuart95  nice one
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  3366.  @griz063  really, you see one stat for a complex social issue and can only imagine one cause for it that can only be expressed with emotionally-loaded language? Typical right-wing anti-intellectualism
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  3367. (Not that I disagree at all with any of that but) To me, a sword is the most balanced and flexible weapon. You can use a sword as well in offense or defense, and in war or civilian conflicts. It is great against unarmored targets, as well as being able to be used against armored targets. All other arms have much more limited styles and usages based on their traits, but the sword, through balance and the wide range of things you can do with it, leaves how it's used almost entirely up to the one holding it. At the same time each good sword I've ever held has ways it "wants" to move due to nuances in its balance and inertia in different dirrections. This can even make the idea of a sword having a will seem almost reasonable if one sets aside their sensibilities. To top it off, look at when swords were used. They were used in civilian contexts when violent conflict was not expected. They were also used in military contexts when lines were broken and people had to fall back on sidearms to save the day. Times like those are when heroes are born.
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  3368.  @kirknay  kissanime is even worse than a lot of porn sites for malware and shit. If you're gonna watch there at all you should absolutely be using a script blocker.
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  3369.  @robertnicholls9917  "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" aka "equality for me, but not for thee"
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  3370.  @ellamaeloftus3493  same thing.
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  3371. Hell, there are grown women that don't know how women's bodies works because our sex ed is that bad.
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  3372.  Cheesie Horde  nope, here's an anarchist talking about it https://youtu.be/L_EQcqzJvz4
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  3373. Arthur Marcuss their job is to draw away attention. Some are dumb enough not to realize it, but the rest know exactly what they're doing.
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  3374. The problem is that millennials not growing up to be as bad as the average boomer means that them becoming a bigoted cog in a blood-soaked corporate machine was a choice and they can't take that because they need to project to cope with what they have become.
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  3375. Never start or escalate the fight. Just win it if it happens. If you can't make a fool of these manchildren with words, just sit down and let someone else show them up. The truth is these people are just pathetic, and you should be able to beat them in any arena be it with words or, if necessary, violence. They thrive on pretending to be victims so don't feed them.
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  3376. https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo For those unfamiliar with Bannon, please watch.
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  3377.  @65minimom  watch the video in my comment. I've been saying that this charge is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion, but even that is under-selling it.
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  3378. Facts!
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  3379. Corn Pone Flicks I use the term "tumblerites" because it's rather unambiguous. "Regressives" is another good one, and pretty descriptive of what the end results are. Calling them SJWs is like calling neonazi's the "alt-right" and I refuse to use their own more favorable terms rather than more accurate ones.
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  3380. Not to say that there aren't some good changes to the laws we could make that would help, but it's not even the guns that are the main problem. It's the far-right. We can (and probably should) legislate in some effective damage mitigation, but ultimately the source of the problem must be dealt with.
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  3381.  @saltysoldier68  How can I answer where I was when something happened that didn't happen??? (Also, told you already, I'm a leftist, not a liberal. Learn to read please.)
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  3382.  @mistym0rning  Being a cop isn't that dangerous. Not even in the top 10. That's for things like roofers and pizza delivery drivers. The idea that being a cop is particularly dangerous is propaganda that they convinced themselves of.
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  3383. Not extra credits, but too different. Ask and ye shall receive https://youtu.be/3PiyOojCIDQ https://youtu.be/q5majAET5KA
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  3384. Social murder IS murder. If there was any justice at all in the world everyone involved would get life.
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  3385. Tommy O Donovan most likely that you think that your pathetic ad hominem attack is at all relevant. Going after someone's sex life to discredit a political point is the cheapest trick in the book and you should feel ashamed for using it.
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  3386. "Facism isn't right wing" hahahahahaha
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  3387. Depends on the sophistication of such systems being able to filter out false positives. There are systems in the world that can do it, but we're seeing in great detail that sophistication has nothing to do with the Russian military, so they're SOL.
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  3388. The irony is people will die if Rachel doesn't retire her job as an MSDNC propagandist.
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  3389. Could a better military? Possibly. Could their military? No.
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  3390.  @davelocke  "centrist" aka where-ever the center of the Overton Window is atm aka center-right (and sliding further right)
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  3391.  Ricky Spanish  and finally it all makes sense. No, you were propagandized to think that everything a country did that was against American buisness interests was Stalinism, and trained to shoot at whatever you were ordered to. The USSR was already on its way to collapse by that point, so you were a token force for political show and your generation of soldiers was later deployed to fight over oil in the middle east. That frustration of not getting to fight the big bad Soviets and getting involved in a sand trap seems to have done a number on your ego, but sorry to say, I have one more for you: They don't educate army grunts on political or economic theory. It only serves to humanize the enemy. Diplomats and CIA operatives might get some training on what communism is, but you didn't. The politicial stances of army targets doesn't affect your former job at all. Ps: I'm not a communist or socialist either.
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  3392.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  pneumonia is a potentially deadly condition caused by various diseases, not a disease in it of itself, to be clear. Being diagnosed with pneumonia is kinda like being diagnosed with an ear or sinus infection; the problem is clear, but that on its own tells you almost nothing about what's causing the problem, not even what type of pathogens you're dealing with. Not sure if that ambiguous phrasing was from you or whatever journalist you heard from was trying to report on what the doctors were saying, but thought I'd leave this here for clarity in case anyone needs it.
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  3393.  @jeffbalagna9259  counterpoint: Trump's base is quicker to forgive abhorant behavior than Biden's, and Bernie is an existential threat to many of the revenue sources for corporate "news"
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  3394. The best argument for Kamala is she is so obviously not left to even the general public that it will be easy to wash our hands of her. Unfortunately, the party establishment is going to do everything in their power to make the VP president because they hate democracy.
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  3395.  @tracyleay  I mean the Nazis blended Christianity, norse peganism, and other occult elements so that's not really mutually exclusive there.
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  3396. Sandy money is power. Politicians use books like this to skirt bribery laws by having PACs, think tanks, and corporations buy up large number of these books "to give as gifts". (Bonus points that when they do give them out, they're effectively really thick propaganda flyers) This isn't even unusual for politicians if they're sitting on their hands with nothing to do.
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  3397. Royal We well, I'd say it's more backdoor collusion with advertisers and traditional media (not to mention conflicts of interest all around thanks to these thing being massive conglomerates with fingers in a great many pies), than the simple market forces you're alluding to, but since google seems happy to go allong with it, the result is basically the same
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  3398.  @jamestepera3356  the guy who's whining "what will I have left after a few percent wealth tax? Maybe I'll just vote for the protofascist who's agenda will do more damage to the world than all of the philanthropy of my life" Gtfo bootlicker.
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  3399. Perhaps they won't, but the best path is to leave them no option but to allow change or start the violence first.
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  3400.  @SandsBuisle  I don't play much magic anymore, but I prefer to call her "Ms. 'Jewish Space Lasers'" It takes longer to type, but I'm pretty insistent on the "Never Again" thing, so the constant reminder so no-one forgets for a second what she is is worth it. Not being the same acronym as a card game is a side bonus, and even more reason to call her that for fans of the game.
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  3401. Actually "whether or not you vote has little impact. Nowadays, procuring a state-issued ID or driver's license, buying a home, and/or filing tax returns can get you on the list as well. Basically, if you're an active citizen of the United States you can expect to be called someday." -https://lifehacker.com/eight-myths-about-jury-duty-debunked-1538152456
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  3402.  @prodesu8607  no she hasn't. She's just gone back to hiding it less.
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  3403. godwings101 to be fair, the Islamic world was once a becon of science, philosophy, and culture because they were tolorant of other faiths and even non-believers. Then the fundametalists took over and they started the slide to what we see today. State sponsored religion leads to violence with remarkable consistancy.
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  3404. Absolutely not. He has clear hatred for millenials. I will not vote for someone bigoted against me and pushing a platform that would benefit himself at my expense.
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  3405.  @kelliv2995  more like "everyone copy that shit"
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  3406. Alternatively, use all those mirrors to blast away it's atmosphere maybe? Haven't done the math on that, but just heating the upper atmosphere 'till it reaches escape velocity (even if only 1 point at a time like a giant magnifying glass) would theoretically work.
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  3407.  @ave0828  wow, no, we did not have world peace under Trump
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  3408. You're overcomplicating this. Trump needs a distraction to divert from the legal troubles recent guilty pleas have threatened, so he's making one in his normal way of provocation and making a mess too big to ignore. It really is that fucking simple.
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  3409. Yes, very!
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  3410. Yes, she is, and remember who the Vatican allied with in the early to mid 20th century.
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  3411. Melissa H as long as a progressive doesn't get in office, he's done the job he was payed to do. The establishment dems aren't weak/misguided allies. They are the oligarchy's first active line of defense.
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  3412. He got it backwards in the video, so it's worse. She didn't have her staffer clean the comb and ate with it. She ate with the dirty comb (covered in who-knows what hair products) and then had the staffer clean it.
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  3413. And a court martial, dishonerable discharge, and hatecrime conviction.
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  3414.  @crab_aesthetics  for now, yes.
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  3415.  TheEsotericZebra  those kinds of things become possible when people dismiss the idea that it could happen. We already live in a defacto oligarchy with warrantless mass surveillance, rigged elections, constant illegal warfare, media that tows the state line more than actual state media, a President courting actual Nazis for support, regular violations of almost all of our constitutional protections, the rise of far-right nationalism, and a looming economic collapse at minimum It's not happening tomorrow and it's not why they want to build it, but if you think the possibility that they'll use it that way is absurd, this government has a war to sell you to distract you with and you'll fall for it yet again.
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  3416.  Hazzycakes  to be fair to the FBI, they were ordered to. I don't have to tell you by whom, I hope.
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  3417. @Sean Murray wow, so many uninformed idiots insulting you when they don't understand that not all species are equally valuable to the biosphere. Guess what kids? The entire desert ecosystem could disappear and the rest of biosphere wouldn't even notice as the connections are small, few, and weak. If letting them all go extinct could save just one random non-desert species, that's a damn good trade.
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  3418. Liberal: open to change and new ways of doing things &/or pro-freedom They simply don't fit the definition.
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  3419. she's a cop, she withheld evidence as a prosecutor that would have proven someone innocent, and she held people in prison that were due to be released explicitly to get forced labor out of them. In other words, she's a slaver and he's a war criminal. This is who the DNC and Boomers picked to run against Trump.
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  3420.  @kavousniamir2375  I'm not offended, I'm saying that what you're saying is incredibly ignorant. Even ignoring the genocidal white supremacy & antisemitism, the Nazis killed political opponents/dissidents all the time. In fact, the first concentration camps were for political prisoners, not Jews. The Nazis even killed en masse political opponents in their own party. Even Saudi Arabia is more tolerant of political dissent than the Nazis were, and they're horrific.
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  3421. What's wrong with his brainbox? Take another look at the state and take a wild guess. If you guessed fundamentalist Mormonism, you win. "his father became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School" (which he then got his doctorate at)
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  3422. Sounds a lot like the 2010s...and the 1600s
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  3423.  @nitachondria  they do know what they're doing. Defeating the GOP just isn't their goal.
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  3424. You missed the main thing he was lacking to think a table full of McDonald's was something to be excited over: maturity. He did this because he's a manchild. Anyone want to bet he got some of it as a happy meal for the toy?
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  3425. If Biden wins, we're almost guarenteed a (worse) Trump 2.0 after him as we sail right past the deadline on climate change. You want to find "Democrats" who actually want Trump to win though, look no further than the DNC.
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  3426. Yup, any healthcare plan the rich aren't in will be turned into a dumpster fire. We have a "healthcare" system that kills 10s of thousands of deaths every year because the rich are in a tier of the system isolated from that. This is a "let them eat cake" situation, and the rich need to remember that they benefit from democracy because it creates an avenue for change that doesn't involve guillotines and guns. "He who makes peaceful revolution impossible makes violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
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  3427.  @christopherdahle9985  distributing the storage to a bunch of tiny lithium ion batteries each running a small computer to try and figgure out if they should be drawing or sending power uses a lot of extra resources in materials, wear on said batteries, power and bandwidth when you start adding it up. If you're doing on location power storage, a larger battery is going to be superior (and make it easier for someone to set up when they want to sell to or buy from the grid). Also, in larger setups, it opens up other potential options that don't miniaturize as well (such as the really cool liquid metal batteries which have been developed. Seriously, they're not theoretical and they're designed from step 1 for cheap, sustainable grid storage rather than a battery designed for a different application scaled up and shoved into that role), benefiting from economies of scale and leaving the lighter-weight battery materials (like lithium) for devices that need to be readily portable to keep costs lower for that application. I'm in agreement with the general idea especially at the grid-level, don't get me wrong, but there are advantages to not miniaturizating too far, especially when a key tech enters the equation.
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  3428. The point of her tax isn't to redistribute the wealth of all rich people. The point is to siphon off some of the income that comes from just money making money so that people can't just sit on their money without being able to use it wisely and just live in luxury. It's a completely moderate tax that still allows people to make money off of safe investments, but that is there to make it so that out economy isn't managed by idiots who would need to make colossal mistakes to ever loose in the economy. It's won't end there being billionares but it will dampen the exponential concentration of wealth the laws of capitalist economics produce.
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  3429. ​ @IsaiahB57 you're so wrong you're the punchline of jokes.
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  3430. Trolls and cultists offended that their daddy had truth spoken about him
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  3431. Please go look up "Debt the first 5000 years." to dispell the rediculous notions of the origin of money hypothesized by Adam Smith (and debunked by the entire field of anthropology) Real money (including, yes, fiat, which is a misnomer) isn't some magic thing invented to smooth out barter, but instead represents (dirrectly or indirrectly) paid debt to those who work outside the market in some form of public service. It is spent into the economy to pay public servants, and it has value for them to trade in the market economy because the taxes (which are, functionally, a confirmation that you have paid your debt to the people that make your civilization possible) create an effectively universal demand for said currency. The problem with our currency isn't that the government can issue as much of it as they want. The problem is that private, for-profit banks are in control of most of the creation of money in our system (look up "sovereign money" for schools of thought which actually counter those issues) Gold and cryptocurrencies both have the problem of a largely finite supply, meaning that the supply of currency cannot grow to match a growing economy, which means that any growth in the economy not matched by a comperable aquisition of your chosen monitary unit will produce deflation (which is bad for an economy). On top of that, their current price (especially for cryptocurrencies) is only there because new people keep putting real money into the system. In short, cryptocurrencies are impractical on a large scale for multiple reasons and fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme and gold's problems are long documented. Once we dispell the myths about money (and take back control of our government from the moneyed interests) we will be able to fix the problems with our current system fairly easily.
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  3432. Oh they came for progressives LONG before they hit this channel. It's surprising this one got this far without getting hit. But yeah, not corporate content is getting targeted pretty heavily (with some others as a cover story and for 2ndary motives)
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  3433. Not only is taxation not theft, but taxation is what fundamentally gives currency value by creating a universal (or near universal demand for it). This remains true even if the currency is solid gold coins. Money fundamentally is a representation of debt, issued out to public servants who are then served by the private sector in exchange for the currency which the government takes back as evidence that those in the private sector have paid their debt (dirrectly or indirectly) to those who work outside the private sector to help make their society possible. The idea of barter economies being the foundations of markets and inventing currency to make themselves more efficient is a total myth. No example of such a pre-money society has been found. Barter in pre-money cultures is pretty much reserved for going between societies. Money was invented to pay for public servants. The first and prime example of which was the military (without whom our so-called inalianable rights go up in a puff of smoke at the sight of the first tyrant to come along), so yes, you can be forcefully obligated to pay your debts to them (especially if you're well-off enough to pay income tax). If you don't like it, you're free to move to Somalia or anywhere else more to your liking. To borrow an analogy from a well-known libertarian: Taxes are not theft. Benefiting from being a member/citizen of a club/country and not paying your spelled out dues/taxes is theft. You aren't compelled to pay them because you can quit/leave.
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  3434.  @LacusTheDestroyer  not a problem when the government makes sure everyone has ID
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  3435. But back in reality, there wouldn't actually be riots, so this entire train of thought is pointless.
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  3436.  @zachdavis5854  and wasting time talking about expecting result from an action that require a fantastical denial of reality to achieve helps us on that how, exactly?
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  3437.  @spyder7758  a general strike would be great, but not only would them voting down M4A not create it, it's effectively impossible without a stronger union base, so again you're falling back on magical thinking.
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  3438. Oh, hello again, troll. Almost thought you weren't comming back this time.
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  3439. trippplefive truth At least we know she isn't a psychopath, which is more than we can say with certanty about most of congress.
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  3440. Actually, the term is most similar to "gender fluid" with "two spirit" referring to the idea of them having both masculine and feminine spirit in themselves. Considering Canada has a significant portion of native Americans (the originators of the term, which also has religious connotations to them), it's just being respectful to a significant portion of the people he's talking to, nothing more. As for groveling, when someone sincerely wants forgiveness for something they've done, yes the ensuing apology looks a bit like groveling because they are asking something from people they've wronged who don't have to give it. We're just so flooded with empty apologies that we sometimes forget that just saying the words isn't the whole thing.
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  3441. Safe isn't really an option anymore.
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  3442. Shawn Brink  Congress has the constitutional power and responsibility to "provide for the common defense and general welfare" but does not have the explicit power to force people to buy a product from another private entity. So yes, Medicare for all is completely constitutional while the mandate is on shakey grounds at best, much like the government having military/police is constitutional, but requiring individuals to buy into some sort of private security plan would not be. Leave it to the Republicans to come up with the only unconstitutional form of healthcare policy and the corporate "democrats" to enact it.
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  3443.  @Doctor_Straing_Strange  not safe for who exactly? If you mean the protesters, neither have been the unarmed ones thanks to the police we knew white supremacist groups were infiltrating for years and did nothing about it. In fact, groups like this, even if I don't agree with them on every point tend to make governments more hesitant to use excessive violence on peaceful groups for fear of driving those in them toward more militant groups.
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  3444. Let's be real, most of them don't give a shit what happens to the younger generations after they're gone anymore than Europeans gave a shit about Jewish people last century when they pushed for appeasement and denying refugee status to those fleeing the Nazis. We're in this mess in no small part because the older generations are incredibly ageist.
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  3445. People are only really receptive to being radicalized by such things when social/economic conditions are bad, the government isn't responsive, and credible news sources are hard to come by. Unfortunately, that's exactly the situation we have. It's not really the fault of free speech that causes the problem though, as you see similar upticks in even non-political mass shootings under those conditions. To pull an extreme example, Hitler would have gone entirely unnoticed by history if it wasn't for the condition the German people were living in that made them receptive to such extremism. This is part of why FDR argued that economic security was vital to a democratic country. On the flip side, letting the government legislate what counts as truth is a rather dangerous prescient to set and can snowball into totalitarianism rather easily.
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  3446. Bipartisan=/=nonpartisan
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  3447.  @theryumancer9639  if we had gotten Hillary, she would have moved the Overton Window even further right and paved the way for someone even worse than Trump to inevitably follow her.
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  3448. @Ftroll  no, it's not. You just take a normal capitalist business structure and replace the owner with the government. There also ABSOLUTELY were classes in the USSR. Learn what words mean.
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  3449. They're paid to defeat progressives. The elections after that are like a friendly game of golf after work as long as a (real or fake) populist doesn't break into the race and Tiger Woods up their country club.
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  3450. We need to start holding criminal politicians accountable somewhere. At this point they're intentionally picking VPs even worse than themselves as insurance against impeachment. Bush & Cheney, McCain & Palin, Trump & Pence If you cave to the threat rule of law dies.
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  3451. That only makes sense if M4A only provided coverage equivalent to the current average, but it doesn't; it provides better coverage than any insurance plan I've ever seen. Sorry, but the blatently false presuppositions in that point make it completely idiotic. Did you get that BS from Ben Shapiro or something?
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  3452.  @tohtorrent  every other developed country manages to treat every AIDS patient who seeks treatment. Are you saying the US is just inherently incompetent and can never do the things other countries do for about half the cost? Maybe if doctors weren't spending so much time juggling the different paperwork for countless insurance coverage plans they would have more time to actually do their jobs. Ever consider that?
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  3453. Been boycotting them for years and will continue to do so even if they start paying a living wage as their shitty wages are only a tiny fraction of the problems with them. My sympathies to anyone who has no other choice, but I encourage everyone else to just always boycott Walmart until it either disappears or becomes unrecognizable.
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  3454.  @Music10161  then why was most of Biden's support from older generations?
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  3455. Some people have been using mail in ballots to avoid the hackable voting machines or for when they cannot actually vote for some reason.
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  3456.  @Jane-oz7pp  the algorithm is stupid and can't actually read. It targets keywords associated with hate speech mostly for the autodeleting process. Annoying, but hopefully that can help you get around it easier.
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  3457.  @natashamiah5261  yeah...how we do the whole 'getting seafood' thing needs such a massive overhaul, top to bottom.
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  3458. Yemen is also where the Houthi group that claimed credit for the attack is from. Funny how they left that detail out, huh?
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  3459. Metaphoically speaking, we've spent something like 50 years cutting down a small forest of those trees to build shoody gazebos with "no kids allowed" signs on them. We would have never gotten to this point without the unprecedented ageism of the boomer generation.
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  3460.  @PathfinderHistory  we curtail the structuring of businesses in many ways so you're just using special pleading to say we couldn't make illegal non-co-op business models, and no-one is saying that co-ops would solve all inequality problems, so that's a strawman (which you dressed up in cliche ad-homs), and you're denying the barriers to setting up co-ops that currently exist. Maybe stop watching PragerU and you'll start to be able to form arguments that don't embarrass you. A far right propaganda network that is dishonest with nearly every sentence (just look up "PragerU debunked" and start watching to see that proven), provides cover for white supremacists, and is even denying evolution is going to rot your brain.
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  3461. John Dally a municipal service would be required to serve your entire area, not just where it was most profitable.
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  3462. Yeah, the modern conception of the corporation is a horrible abomination.
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  3463.  @joshpatton757  and those are just the confirmed ones. Didn't know that the tank one had died. There hadn't been confirmation when I had heard about that last, but I was pretty sure that at least he was going to loose his legs from what I saw on his way to get treatment just from the way the cloth over his body was laying. Oh, you made a typo on the date for #2 but good research work, though! 👍
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  3464. Cruel, capricious, constantly self-contradictory, always needing more praise than is recieving, bigoted, constantly throwing around guilt by association, valuing obedience in others over all traits, constantly needing money from others dispite having a lot of it (and other forms of power), condoning genocide, etc... Yeah, not without similarities to the character Yahweh
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  3465.  @presterjohn1697  that's not at all how vaccinations work. The more people we get vaccinated, the slower the mutation rate will be because it will be infecting fewer people. This isn't like antibiotic resistance.
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  3466. Chris L only for now. The system will fall if we are committed to that goal, and more and more, we are becoming just that.
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  3467. And that's not even getting into the fact that missing the deadlines for climate change will amount to a generational genocide. We need to get off fossile fuels asap.
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  3468. It doesn't just enable racism, but all forms of bigotry.
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  3469. Flip that on it's head for a second; why would it be good for a party to exclude people from their primary who will be critical votes in the general? In practice, closed primaries serve to conserve the status quo and current power structure, making it the conservative (not even liberal) position, and puts more power in the hands of the parties and those who decide when you can register than the voters, making it mildly anti-democratic. The progressive position is something like ranked-choice voting, but open primaries are at least closer to that. You make claims about your political stance, but here you are protecting a right-wing system that produces right-wing results more often than not. You've gotta do something about that contradiction in your ideology.
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  3470. Got a source for that? Good news is rare these days so I'd like to learn more.
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  3471.  @Eric6761  technically true. Also true to phrase that as "Loki sent his daughter the best man in Asgard to sit beside her and set him up to later co-rule over a new and better world"
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  3472. I'm not convinced he's not a vampire
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  3473. “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman (Nixon’s chief domestic advisor)
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  3474. In essence, yes. If a shooter decides to surrender to the police (a minority of cases) they are still the shooter, but no longer actively shooting.
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  3475. Link to overview of said wargame: https://youtu.be/g9b1DG86a4k
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  3476.  @zxbzxbzxb1  stronger now that it's been stretched over how many active warzones and been expending huge amounts of resources? No, and the fundamental flaws and approach are still there.
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  3477.  @reecedrystek2992  yeah, when the alternative is people going hungry, food lines are great.
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  3478. To be fair, the team sponsor is prince of the afterlife and the team was owed one wish for winning.
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  3479. I'd say a contributing factor is the strict role design of a lot of games out there into roughly the same set of combat roles and then encouraging players to hyperfixate on maximizing their ability to do just that one thing. It is rare that game roles are given multiple things to manage except like 2ndary objectives needed to continue doing the main task. For example, the tank's role in a party is to draw aggro, and yes, they have to work on keeping themselves alive, but only so they can draw aggro. Someone playing a DPS build's job is to deal damage, and sure, they need to be careful about positioning and not drawing so much attention that they pull enemy aggro off of the tanks, but that's just so they can keep dealing damage. Rarely are you evaluating the state of what you're up against and going "nope, this situation calls for me taking a different role in this battle than I was in the last one and using an entirely different skillset" or rewarded for diversifying your character's skillset at the cost of your main function unless you're playing something single player. Even just on the keyboard side of things, this and the lack of understanding of the tactical/strategic distinction leads to really boring gameplay with frustratingly irrational players on your team who are too busy being monofocused on what they're doing that they stop paying attention to how that fits into the bigger picture (leading to things like loosing an objective to get just 1-2 more kills).
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  3480. Correct
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  3481.  @reggveg  we know CO2 increases are driving it and we know both because of knowing we're adding CO2 to the atmosphere and being able to measure changes in carbon isotopes that mean the atmospheric carbon has to be coming from fossile fuels. Choke on your antiintelectualism
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  3482.  @zone6484  not per-capita and much of that is being released to make disposable consumer goods for us AND they're beating us in many metrics of fighting climate change from implimentation and development of green energy to massive tree planting programs. So no, your whataboutism is just raw deflection and xenophobia considering we should be leading on this not falling behind a borderline developing country.
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  3483.  @MsScarletwings  by "scary black accessories" he's not talking about bump stocks. He's talking about the plastic bits that make the civilian model guns called AR-15 look like military weapons. Those don't really increase the rate of fire. The AR-15 is about as deadly as any other low-to-intermediate power semi-auto rifle that has been on the civilian market for the last century.
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  3484. Well said, unfortunately many here are demonstrating that, currently, the answer to that question is "no"
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  3485. "The generation we leave behind" as widows because you married someone young enough to be your daughter right out of highschool. Let's be real, they don't believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. They want marriage to be between one man and one girl (plus whoever he, but not she, wants on the side)
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  3486. We can't be the land of the free unless we are the home of the brave, and we haven't been THAT in a long time if ever.
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  3487.  @ExplosiveBurka  a-we've already lost alliances under Trump b-"is" or "was"? Do you understand that the point being made is that TPP was horrible while the US was involved and got better once we pulled out?
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  3488.  @Perfidion  who was it again that talked about what happens if you repeat a lie often enough Oh right, Joseph Goebbels
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  3489. Donnell Allan problem is that cops view their guns as tools to enforce their authority rather than an ugly tool sometimes needed as a last resort to save lives. If you can't AT LEAST give a clear and specific answer to "Who am I protecting?" it should never be drawn. There's no excuse for shooting someone in the back like that.
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  3490. *MSDNC
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  3491. The pattern of invasions of freedom this century is to start with an obviously objectionable target, then move to people criticizing them to appear balanced, followed by moving in on their real target of those speaking against the corporate establishment. There are some variations for specific cases, but the general pattern holds as people keep falling for it.
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  3492. Well...I've been saying we're living in the world of the onion now for years due to stories like this, so laughing is appropriate I suppose
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  3493. Just apply Occum's Razor and....
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  3494. Define "work with Democrats" please. I personally believe that attacking the establishment "Democrats" in a 2-pronged attack from within the party and without is the best way to box them into a no-win situation, but there's a big gap between always voting blue and thinking the establishment dems will come around and never voting for anyone on the dem ticket ever again, so idk what you even mean.
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  3495. MrJc9600 well, I wouldn't call massive voter suppression like we got with "interstate crosscheck" fair, but since she basically pulled the same shit on younger voters in the primary, she doesn't get to complain on that.
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  3496. Why do we need Warren in that mix, exactly? Is there anything she brings to the table that others don't?
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  3497. Yup, deliberate escalation to try and make the protesters look bad.
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  3498. Religion and tradition are never acceptable justifications for ANY violations of human rights. Slavery is also endorsed by the texts of all Abrahamic religions but forbidden by all civilized societies. We're all held to the same baseline ethical standards regardless of our beliefs.
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  3499. Bluebelle51 ugly but true, though it is also still about the petrodollar as people are still buying Saudi oil in dollars
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  3500.  @pheonixsheppard9012  or maybe it's your perception that is skewed. Ever consider that?
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  3501.  @GlobalWave1  post colonialism is a bit broad of a thing to pin down as any particular point within the left, and leftists are generally less concerned about someone being "too far" left. Ineffective/counterproductive leftists? Yes, they can be a problem. Fake leftists are absolutely a problem. There isn't actually an equivalent with the way going too far right just automatically means evil, dispite how much propaganda there is to the contrary (because even when I think the ultimate goal someone wants is unachievable, the ideals aren't intrinsically bad) So yeah, socDems can sit down with anarchocommunists and get along just fine (as long as neither is just an asshole) while being open with their politics in a way that, for example, liberals and fascists rarely do (except behind a poisonous veil of decorum and dogwhistles)
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  3502. Jesse W any museum that wants them can have them, but just as a statue is a symbol, so is toppling one, and I have no problem with that. We're not taking them out of history books. We're removing statues that were put up to whitewash history in the first place.
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  3503.  @priyanshujanrao7710  it's about how everyone simply persuing their own self interest can produce worse outcomes for everyone. Swap out rush hour commute times for prison sentences and you've got the same dynamic. The more people drive, the longer everyone else's commute takes because it increases traffic. An urban area where everyone (or nearly everyone) uses public transit will have the lowest commute times. If you want to make things better for future generations, you invest in mass transit.
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  3504. If it had kept up with increasing productivity it'd be about $21. We have the wealth, the rich just don't want to let workers share in what they've made with their own hands. We can absolutely afford $15/hr min.
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  3505. donHooligan and without Gandhi drawing in popular support, Bhagat Singh could have been marginalized and crushed like countless other violent dissonant groups. Scorning peaceful protests just means you'll be outnumbered when shit hits the fan. You need both willingness to use force (of at least some form) and restraint to know when not to to succeed.
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  3506.  @klip8726  Kyle is excellent at thrashing conservatives like Maher though. He may not be as left as he could be, but he would make for excellent optics
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  3507.  @jonessii  so your issue is that 9 months ago, one stream where he overviewed drama that was going around at that time, he didn't address one issue he did address in a more comprehensive video here https://youtu.be/vfvvWw63Yh0?t=623 and in a pinned comment here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slirSgbYBAA saying "In this video, I drop an n-bomb. Biiiig one; hard 'R'. I did this to show my interlocutors that their language doesn't impress me, that their slurs don't frighten or disarm me. You can see from their reactions that it worked - they were clearly taken aback. It was a power move which I am entirely unashamed of, but I understand how that language might have upset some of you. This is an example of what I would call an 'invocation of a slur's power for good', but that's a subjective judgement. I invite you all to discuss this in the comments, critically or otherwise!" That's your big issue? Oh, and btw, if you reply, please tell us how many people you've pulled out of the alt-right pipeline. That's what I care about, and why I made the comparison to Contra.
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  3508. Welcome to the real face of #Unity It's just NewSpeak for "fall in line peasants"
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  3509. The only one who I've found to EVER stand on principle is Kyle Kulinsky. No surprise, he's a progressive.
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  3510. Why electronic voting is a bad idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs No digital program should be counting a single thing in an election. Also ranked-choice voting.
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  3511. @Walter Mennekens ...I mean...I remember some story about someone talking about teaching "both sides" of the holocaust already so...
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  3512. His disgust at public transit as he frantically tries to find a way to solve traffic without ever having to share a ride with poor people isn't the most eco-friendly course of action.
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  3513.  @sersastark  even more to the point the obscene corporate consolidation that came from that put the forces described in Manufacturing Consent into overdrive. Megacorps who need access to politicians for their business model of attending to their real customers (other megacorps) are inherently untrustworthy. None of them want the real answers to the problems to happen, so they allow the further right wing radicalization to continue with no effective response.
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  3514. ​ @Majorwindy that or just dig into it and live under the surface. The whole point of going there is mining the abundant resources that we wouldn't need to haul up Earth's gravity well. If we just need living room, nothing (except maybe Earth) is going to beat a good O'Neal cylinder.
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  3515. Well she IS a neocon, so that goes without saying
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  3516. ​ @No_co_OK is a systemic solution to a systemic problem too much to ask?
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  3517.  Siddesh Gannu  I mean, some people's taxes were cut...you know, the only ones the GOP kinda sorta treats as people.
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  3518. HunkMine not facebook, fuck facebook, facebook is worse than google by a mile, and google is a big problem
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  3519.  @bluechili7036  that's a myth, actually. The style of one-handed sword most people (incorrectly) call longswords average at about 2.4 lbs. Actual longswords (which were at designed with at least the potential to be used 2-handed, if not being dedicated 2-handed weapons) were generally under 4 lbs. The biggest, heaviest greatswords topped out just over 7 lbs. For reference, a gallon of milk (which doesn't have a handle designed for you to put 2 hands on and swing it around) weighs 8.6 lbs and a 2 liter bottle of pop weighs 4.4 lbs.
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  3520.  Glyn  they're objectively not.
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  3521.  @andregon4366  so you saw a single anecdote that may have been growing it for animal feed? What's your point?
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  3522.  @andregon4366  did it talk about how much/most soy farming in the area is soy farmers buying up used up pasture land and then selling the soy as feed to the cattle industry or just imply that all/most of the soy was for dirrect human consumption?
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  3523.  @andregon4366  yes, I do think they are accounted for. The illegal farming is fairly well documented as are the markets for soybeans (being bought for both animal feed and dirrect human consumption). The amount of soy used as animal feed and how many pounds of feed are needed to make a pound of meat means that as meat-eaters, we are both involved in this whether we dirrectly consume soy or not (and that's even ignoring the deforestation done by ranchers which appears to be the large majority of it and that the deforestation affects, and therefor should concern, every human on Earth). If the documentary you watched didn't touch on any of this, I have to assume it was heavily-biased propaganda giving only half-truths.
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  3524.  @andregon4366  no, IF what you watched was so hyper-focused on a small component of a large complex problem that it gave the impression that it was the vast majority or entirety of it by completely ignoring multiple other hugely influential factors THEN you should be concerned because it is at least bordering on lying to you by omission. What I've said so far has been incredibly banal, measured, and moderate (leaning almost as apolicial as possible for the subject matter). Your acting defensively to that should also be a red flag that the things you have been watching are more about emotional manipulation than informing you. Note: I have not in any way said that simply having a different view to mine is inherently biased, nor denied that some portion of the land on cleared forests is going right to soy production before use for herding cattle or denied that some of that soy production is being used for dirrect human consumption (as opposed to indirrect via eating animals fed soybeans).
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  3525.  @andregon4366  the only one dismissing information that doesn't fit their narrative is you, and it's clear your unwilling to do any listening or reflection on either yourself or the information you've seen so there's not really any point talking to you is there?
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  3526.  @andyshepard4309  so we're not talking about Biden's age but Bernie needs to pledge that he wouldn't run for a 2nd term because of his age before we can elect him to a first term? How does that make sense to you?
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  3527. "we only took away the fundamental human rights for some of the country, so why are you complaining?" If you hate the idea that EVERYONE has "certain inalienable rights" you hate the very ideals this country was founded on. LEAVE.
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  3528. There is a difference between being a corporatist and being a fascist, but Greenspan does a good job showing how blurred that distinction is. https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs
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  3529. We gonna need to terraform Earth just to reclaim the regions climate change will render uninhabitable. Whether we should remove deserts on top of that is a whole other conversation.
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  3530. If you had that amount of publicity, you absolutely could. Sketchbooks, diaries, notebooks, etc all move pretty large volumes.
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  3531. Last I heard, Ukraine was offering quite a bit to willing defectors. They might not even have to go back to Russia.
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  3532. Yup, Bernie was the only real democrat on that stage and they all went mask off to prove it. Funny how that got clipped out of the final upload huh? https://youtu.be/oOy_FohuoYY
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  3533.  @AelaGrows  2016? So when the primary was rigged against Bernie and then after Hillary lost to Trump, the establishment "Democrats" (including Pete and Warren) kept talking about how unfair the electoral college was and how the person "who gets the most votes should win an election"?
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  3534. For the life of me I cannot understand the mindset that leads people to not trust the MSM, but then not do their own research and just vote for the incumbent the same media they don't trust is obviously pushing. Seriously people. This is the age of the internet. Have some damn agency, look up the candidates that will be on the ballot on your own, and make your own decisions instead of letting someone else think for you...or at the very least, if things suck, vote against the incumbent by default.
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  3535.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  if you didn't say it, I would have.
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  3536. I'd ask why we're not teaching teens about healthy relationships and how to spot abusive behavior, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that right now...
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  3537. Well, if hitting is now a teaching tool, I'm sure it would be appropriate to teach any adult who strikes a child how that is wrong, right?
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  3538.  @snuffeldjuret  no, there is nothing the right is correct on that the left is not more correct on. Your idology is garbage. Deal with it.
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  3539. An intersting, but ahistorical telling I've heard of the myth reguarding Odin and the 3 pools results in humans being freed from the bonds of fate, able to avoid them with wisdom and knowledge, but the gods being intrinsically bound to fate no matter what they do.
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  3540. That is not at all proof of orders being given from a single source.
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  3541. Correction: it made the poor less poor at the expence of the rich I'd be surprised if it made anyone what the 1% consider rich.
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  3542. Lmao
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  3543.  @Leeds71  yeah, corporatists tend to side with fascists to crush left wing ideas that would cut into their position of power. That's how it works.
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  3544. @Deetrain stop looking for the traits of rulers when voting for representatives.
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  3545. Joshua d'Estoville that word you're using. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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  3546. If you've been working at a minimum wage job for a year you're lucky to get a 15¢ raise, not one to $15
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  3547. Those are HUGE bombings. Usually with a terrorist bombing you're looking at around 10 deaths because bodies of victims shield those further out. To kill about 150 with a single explosion takes an insanely huge bomb, that was probably taking up most of the space in the truck. Anyone with the nerves to handle it should watch the video clip in the link if they want to get a true sense of the scale that this was. For those that don't, we're looking at something like the Oklahoma City bombing, but instead of targeting a government building, targeting a crouded intersection. 160 of the bodies couldn't even be identified. This isn't just another bombing.
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  3548. "Work makes you free"
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  3549. Bernie isn't a firebrand. He's a stable, reliable rock to build a movement around, but he doesn't attack the same way, and we shouldn't expect him to, but we can support him with people like Tulsi, and then replace him with them once he retires/dies.
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  3550. Conservatism was intended to create this from day 1. Neofeudalism and undermining democratic government has always been the goal. https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
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  3551. Diabeetus no, we don't hold "Christian values", most Christians hold secular values. Christianity through most of its existence has violently suppressed dissent, for example. A great many "Christian values" had to be abandoned to pave the way for modern society.
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  3552. The cast system is as core to Hinduism as the concept of origional sin is to Christianity, and has been what's been maintaining that institution on behalf of the elite for millenia. Religions are used to control the general public and keep them complaint in oppression by the ruling class. That's not an oddity. Pick up a history book and you'll find it's the overwhelming norm. No, removing Hinduism wouldn't instantly end the cast system, but would removing the institution holding it up and on which all justifications are based help to quicken its end? Obviously, yes.
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  3553. MDK22420 if we manage to take them down, it'll make a great insult to throw at pseudo-science at least
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  3554. No, the older voters in the "Democratic" party are the ones who have shut off all other parts of their brain except "just beat Trump". It's the demographics that the DNC has been fucking for decades (the yound, rust belt, and independents) that needed to be won over to beat Trump, and Biden looses all of them.
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  3555. Or better yet the standdown order
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  3556.  @Пень1Бук1  the Pentagon isn't giving orders to the armies there, bot.
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  3557.  @jeremygregorio7472  not even close. No, center right. Bernie's platform was barely (and debatably) left of center. To be center left, you need to be significantly left of that
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  3558. Yeah, if people were able to wrap their brains around the numbers involved, there would be pitchforks and guillotines tomorrow.
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  3559.  @gs7828  Venezuela's elections have been internationally determined to be more sound and democratic than ours. You have no argument shillbot.
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  3560. The whole mass extermination thing is lunacy. Fewer workers would increase their bargaining power for higher wages, for one. An abundant supply of easily exploitable labor is GOOD for those in power. Conspiracies exist, but can we at least stay away from the nonsensical cartoony evil stuff, please?
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  3561.  @chesterlestrange7725  everyone there but him DOES have a juvenile understanding of politics and presenting them like the country should give a shit what they have to say (even when they're not being overtly condescending on top of that) is an insult to the country. So YES!
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  3562.  @dekumutant  destroying the ability to rationally engage with reality is one of the goals of fascism and a prerequisite for it taking full form.
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  3563.  @sirtheodorefranciswindsor  once again a tankie is quick to come to the defense of fascists. Curious.
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  3564. Because it was.
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  3565. The dose makes the poison as the saying goes, but yeah, it might not be the best time to go hiking or do other extensive outdoor activities if you don't have to kinda like is recommended for bad air quality days. Not that people are spending a lot of time outside this time of year normally.
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  3566. It started durring the Red Scare when we went to extremes to differentiate ourselves from the Soviets. They did away with religion to not interfere with their form of totalitarianism, so we went and broke down the seperation between church and state. You can even see this with the changing of our national motto "e pluribus unum" (from many, one) to "in god we trust" which we started stamping on all our money. Asside from the military tension and overspending, the cold war can be viewed as the 2 nations taking shots of extremist cultural poison in a drinking context. We weren't the one's to collapse but we have never been right since in many, many ways.
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  3567.  @jirkazalabak1514  that's actually a principle that often gets you a knife in the back...like how the "Democrats" turned on the working class because we let in the corporatists.
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  3568.  @a.sydney5036  hey, is Computing Forever still so far right he thinks Sargon is a Marxist? (and why are you subbed to such an insane moron?)
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  3569. If you're pushing a button, you can't trust your vote. Go vote anyway, but electronic voting is no more reliable than mail in even if you check things at the end.
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  3570.  @steamnamebbderinvade__  welcome to the one you likely live in.
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  3571.  @bigchedds8389  you're projecting.
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  3572.  @bigchedds8389  will YouTube even let me say "citation needed" without deleting my comment? Let's see.
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  3573.  @bigchedds8389  where have I ever said anything about this being a free market?
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  3574.  @bigchedds8389  you will never find me claiming we have a free market anywhere on the internet. You completely made that up.
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  3575. All of right wing politics is about building heirarchies. We have a center-right party and a far-right party. Not only do the rich not want equality, but they've got a lot of people helping them fight against it by giving them a target to kick down to as a way to get them to accept being put under the heel themselves.
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  3576. Um, no, that's not what the data shows, sorry. Please stop listening to supply-side economics as it's nonsense in any modern system. Jobs are created by demand, not charity by the rich. They didn't get that way by giving more than they get in return.
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  3577. Can a union that will never even threaten to strike really be called a union?
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  3578.  @iceman1833  an imperfect criminal justice system (which any one created by human will be) with the death penalty means the execution of innocents. ALL your arguements are invalid.
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  3579.  @iceman1833  a-strawman: I never said they were all innocent b-there isn't any greater deterrent effect to the death penalty than life in prison (in fact, there might be less of one) If you really cared about this issue you'd know that, but you've never thought to research a damn think before calling for blood even when some innocents will be killed because you're a POS.
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  3580. I imagine a less firm fit in hotel lamps results in a lot less broken lamps...doesn't excuse cheap ones in apparentment walls, but still.
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  3581. I think you mean wizard
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  3582. This strategy of doing something that gets people riled up to distract and change the subject from the more horrible stuff they're trying to do quietly is something the Republicans have been using since at least the Bush era (and judging by how practiced they were at it then, long before that) and the media has been falling for it the whole time. At this point, anyone in the media who seems unable to see the game being played is either a complete moron, or complicit.
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  3583. It was also kept as grain because it keeps far better than flour.
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  3584. Forget the tit-for-tat nonsense. All conspirators in a criminal conspiracy are guilty of all of the crimes of that conspiracy as if they had committed them personally. If someone dies in a bank robbery, the getaway driver gets life. Lock. Them. All. Up. And if the national guard needs to get involved to do it, so be it.
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  3585.  Trump 2020  one of the biggest burdons on small businesses is healthcare. Bernie will remove that problem holding them back.
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  3586. Fucking death cult.
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  3587. Truth
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  3588. You know, an 8 hour debunking of a state of the union address sounds like exactly what this nation needs. Just a solid 8 hours of "here's Trump talking and proof he's lying to you every time he opens his mouth"...why MSNBC doesn't do that instead of the Russiagate hysteria I don't know. Oh wait, yes I do
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  3589.  @J0einOK  gangsters with badges
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  3590. In this case they were ordered to stand down. Even the cops that would have been there on the ground have complained that they weren't allowed to separate the protesters.
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  3591. A movie defining a generation. How most of the generation of the hippies became the oligharch-ass-kissing tools that is normal (though thankfully not universal) for a boomer today is something hard to comprehend.
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  3592. No gun for me, but I've got a solid stick within reach and the skills to make it dangerous engrained into muscle memory. Takes more time and effort, but the end result is the same and no risk of overpenetration.
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  3593.  @KevinCrouch0  I was using the casual not medical definition, yes, but for the serious one as the current had to pass through my upper torso to go from one hand to the other (it was grounding itself to the tool in my other hand, not through my feet), it could easily have stopped my heart and ended my life. No serious damage thankfully, but I simply got lucky that the randomness of electricity worked in my favor that time. The general path the current had to take and the amount flowing through me were not trivial. It's only by chance that my shaking eventually broke contact with the circuit and only a slightly different path would have been needed to send it right through my heart. The other times were more of a shock, yes.
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  3594.  @vladspellbinder  I was wondering if anyone would even get that reference considering how old it was!
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  3595. Yup, we need to not support their false framing. "Corporatist" "Conservative" "Right-wing" This is how we must describe them.
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  3596. Are we talking literally or figuratively....because if the 2nd....
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  3597. First I was going to talk about how everyone working without pay should greet everyone the meet on the job with "hello, I'm working without pay today due to the government shutdown" Then I was going to talk about how the rich can't tell the difference when the working class are being paid or made to work like slaves. ...but right at the end a really important thing was brought up. Can we talk about how the banks are profiting from this? If most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, that means that the banks will be making interest off of the living expenses of almost every single public employee not being paid because of this for as long as it goes on.
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  3598.  @Predestinated1  those people are morons. Why would we take advice from them?
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  3599.  @vooteimer1234  the GOP doesn't come around small government though and you know that.
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  3600.  @1qtaz  I mean, the global resurgance of fascism has Steve Bannon written all over it. https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo
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  3601. Pink's a troll, don't feed
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  3602. Of course the guy should go to jail...oh, wait, you weren't talking about the cop were you?
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  3603.  @ProudlyShadowBanned  jeez, couldn't even hide your power level for 3 comments could you fascist?
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  3604.  @Ssen0nesS  <- Nazi
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  3605.  @TSARMOTAF  I don't think she will. Warren will be center-right by then though
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  3606. ​ @ayoutubechannelname what materials buildings end up getting built out of is absolutely political both in terms of regulations and the economics promoted by the government.
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  3607. Phillip Fry thank you sir, we need all the help we can get. (Incidentally, very similar reasoning to why I choose not to leave dispite likely being better off elsewhere)
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  3608. For the CEOs of mid-sized and small companies it works out very well for them. The largest companies, however, get better rates on insurance plans they offer as part of the employee compensation package, meaning they are able to provide the same level of compensation as smaller companies for a lower cost just due to their size, meaning the market is unfairly tilted in their favor and they want to keep it that way. Once you're looking at the highest levels of our society, absolute wealth matters less than relative power to the people involved.
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  3609. The far left believes in the destruction of class. Having 2nd class citizens based on race is incompatible with that position. And yes, that means Stalin wasn't a real socalist by definition (which shouldn't surprise anyone when you consider he had a rich ruling class)
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  3610. And is committing a genocide against Yemen And that a Yemeni group already claimed credit for the attack
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  3611.  @ahwasright1364  it's really interesting to look at which comments you try to disrupt the conversation on, troll. Really telling of what you don't want people talking about.
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  3612. Btw, those regulations they wanted to avoid included requirements to winterize equipment. They can't draw power from neighboring states because they wanted to avoid the regulations designed to prevent this exact scenerio.
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  3613. Remember when Vaush utterly obliterated you in that debate and you admitted to being a white nationalist who was (and I'm being generous) undecided about democratic government? It was almost as helarious as when you almost single-handedly destroyed a polical party with how much of a dumbfuck you are?
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  3614. AND the wind turbines are experiencing a lower failure rate than the traditional power plants.
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  3615. Establishment dictionary: Democracy- noun; a country which supports US business interests Don't take my word for it. Here's Noam Chomsky talking about alternative political definitions: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Welcome to our dystopian present.
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  3616. Every living President, and the large majority of the people who have been through Congress as well. Unfortunately, that's why it won't happen, but it's all the more reason why it should. If he was the precedent that took down most of our federal-level politicians, he would, ironically and unintentionally, fulfill that "drain the swamp" promice and finally opened the path to "make America great" It'll never happen, but if I had my say they'd all be shipped off to the Hague (reason #I'veLostCount of why I would be assassinated almost immediately if I was ever made President)
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  3617. @GamingTV not even close to as bad. I hate even being downwind from a cigarette, but don't really mind even being in the same room as an e-cig
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  3618. See, they equate success with morality in their worldview.
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  3619.  @shmyules8711  I mean, without knowing, you actually have, because every movie villian is Donald Trump https://youtu.be/b7XXs3hzAMs (The hyperbole in that statement is much less than you'd expect, btw)
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  3620.  @OrbObserver  not disagreeing, but for the record the brand on my shelf atm is Domino, so not exactly some random store/small brand. Idk if it's a regional thing or what, though. I just have always known it to have corn starch in brands big and small. It wouldn't be the first time a product was extremely commonly called something that wasn't technically correct, though.
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  3621. Doomm Slayer well, considering our recent run of not getting better than borderline psychopaths (or at best those so classist that they can't see common folk as real people) in office, you're not exactly wrong. The ones better at playing the part have it memorized though, I bet, but Trump's just not bright enough to have more than a few bullying tricks committed to memory (much less make sure the cheat card wasn't facing outwards).
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  3622. chetzmom 4 and they say we don't export things anymore /s
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  3623. ​ Silencedfixer then they are, at best, making a moral compromise because of how we don't provide sufficiently for a guaranteed retirement in this country and should be treading with great care and humility not to overstep what is absolutely needed for their own survival....and should probably will the home to whoever is paying rent for it.
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  3624.  Silencedfixer  did I stutter? I don't know Sam's situation or how well he is navigating it morally speaking, nor would it change what I said. Everyone here knows that that fallacious comment is an admission you have no real counter argument.
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  3625. legionary illuminati the constitution is the highest law of the land and most cops don't seem to even know what it says, so they fail just as bad by that metric.
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  3626. The required duration and magnitude of hormone replacement therapy erases basically every advantage from muscle mass to bone density to ability to transport oxygen that a male puberty can give, often leaving transwomen at a disadvantage to ciswomen due to (in part) even lower testosterone levels. The number of changes that come with HRT is surprisingly large.
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  3627. Most of the people calling it hyperbole are being flagrantly dishonest. Ignore them.
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  3628.  @porkch0mp538  that's still not terrorism. That's just trying to break enemy morale, which is part of even completely conventional military operations.
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  3629. https://youtu.be/nE7chPseZKY
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  3630. We really need to legislate exceptions to NDAs, so that there are more times when people can speak reguardless of what the contract says. They're really only supposed to be there to limit corporate espionage, not protect unethical practices.
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  3631. Tonya Simons organizations like PACs, think tanks, and corporations buy large numbers of the books to "give as gifts" as a way to skirt bribery laws. Then they hand them out as basically thick propaganda leaflets.
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  3632. Justin Mooney actually, there's a means to effectively end the electoral college at the state level. A number of states have already signed an agreement that would make it so that their delegates would be required to vote for whoever won the national popular vote with the agreement to take effect as soon as enough states have signed on to make it to have the majority of electoral college votes. I'm highly sceptical of blockchain voting, as it still falls into e-voting, and therefor is almost certanly less secure than paper ballots if you want to preserve anonymity, but yes, election integrity is the most important issue in a democratic country, and we need to put it front and center.
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  3633.  @timwcronin  Nixon? The crimial who started the war on drugs so he could lock up black & leftist community leaders to destabilize their communites and stop them from voting with the goal of swaying elections in favor of Republicans, which helped pave the way to today's politics? Fuck no! Piss on his grave!
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  3634. It's not stupidity. It's gaslighting.
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  3635. By their own "logic" if the chief of staff is willing to work for $80k, that's the market value for that position, and anyone who is not significantly more skilled at the job in the rest of the Congressional staff is being overpaid. Notice how the "logic" is never applied in that dirrection?
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  3636.  Andrea MENDENHALL  the data absolutely supports the analogy.
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  3637.  Andrea MENDENHALL  oh look, YouTube deleted my comment too, because it hates facts. Let's try again.
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  3638.  Andrea MENDENHALL  3/3 and then look up: theintercept chicago police misconduct social network So yeah, the data absolutely supports the true bad apple comparison. And that's not even getting into how forming the thin blue line to cover for criminal cops makes everyone involved a bad cop by definition or anything else. Just raw data. Deal
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  3639.  Andrea MENDENHALL  let's take a look at how willing you are to be dishonest here. I mentioned YouTube deleting posts, numbered my posts. #2/3 is clearly missing, but I'm the one looking at just one factor (which even the study of the comment I showed was dealing with an in depth analysis of multiple things), one of my other comments leading you to a different study was clearly eaten by YouTube, and you're looking at out of context stats so you can motte and bailey this convo. Yeah, maybe cut down the projection by a factor of 1000 if you want to be able to have a conversation based in reality?
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  3640. Fate/ZERO? Did I miss something or did you get your grail wars mixed up? O.o
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  3641. Which they're testing because the prelude to a US invasion tends to be encircling a nation with US aircraft carriers. It's exacly the defensive move I would make in their situation and utterly transparent for what it is to anyone who has a clue how these things work. Anyone claiming this is aggression is either lying about that or that they have any clue what they're talking about. There is no 3rd possibility.
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  3642.  @snapdragon9300  people don't get desperate instantly, but give them a couple more months and we may see where their breaking point is.
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  3643. Headline says it was Iran. Previously a Houthi group in Yemen (the place Saudi Arabia is committing a genocide in): it was us. Funny, huh?
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  3644. Anil Singh to be fair, we should be doing that anyway.
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  3645.  @anthonybrowne3942  Obama expanded 2 wars to 7, compromised to the right of a Heritage Foundation healthcare plan, made sure almost all the economic recovery went to the rich, failed to put in anywhere close to sufficient regulation to stop the next financial crash, let the GOP pack the courts, normalized (and in many cases expanded) Bush's violations of the constitution and international law, made most of Bush's tax cuts permanent, disbanded his progressive movement right after getting elected, abandoned crisis like Flint (while pretending to drink the water and telling people it was safe), paved the way for Trump, and expanded executive power on the way out the door after Trump was elected. But please, tell me more about how great center-right President Obama was. Speek up though, it's hard to hear over all the harm he's done including the easily 6 figgure death toll.
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  3646.  @gr1mrea9er82  nono, golf courses are a lot of where the elites make the behind the scenes deals. Gets them far away from ears that may leak things.
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  3647.  @bonchidude  who do you think they'll be playing golf with?
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  3648. Which is why the idea of the kneeling protest came from a veteran in the first place. They won't tell you that part because it's inconvenient.
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  3649. I believe that's rolled into "quality of the environment" to be more language-neutral. The most obvious omission to me is election/campaign-finance reform, 'cause without that, the public option on all these other issues means nothing.
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  3650.  @16driver16  tbf, they did put "left" in quotation marks, so I don't think that was the implication.
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  3651. Authoritarians talking about protesting is bound to be BS from the start
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  3652. Speaking of Jimmy and blocking the nominations: https://youtu.be/wHHxaHTn_w8 Btw: we were already in decline and it was always going to hurt when we switched from slowing the decline to fighting the cause, and the longer we waited to make that switch the more it would hurt and the worse shape we'd be in to take the blow, or did you think the trend of getting a worse choice of evils every election cycle was going to somehow magically change if Hillary got in? Don't kid yourself. Sure the Supreme Court may well be fucked for a generation, but fixing the mess the boomers left us was already going to take the rest of our lives. This cleanup job is a marathon and likely one we won't get to see the fruits of. Just accept that fact, steel yourself for the task, and stop pretending there's and way the whole of the work will be completed quickly. That's how so many boomers got disillusioned, burned out, and ended up becoming exactly what they had fought against. There's simply too much that needs done to finish all of it before anyone reading this is dead. Take pride and joy in progress and every victory and just keep fighting.
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  3653. More information and Red's excellent sense of humor. But yes, very impressive Red.
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  3654. Pink's a troll, ignore. And of course they're scared. Extremists are threatened by moderates.
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  3655. Too broad. Would need to narrow by culture and time period to even do a generalization (& to make it worse, most of Europe didn't have formal written war doctrine) Interesting subject, but would be hard to cover as even a single college course
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  3656.  @chrismullaney8369  I'm using the stricter definition where that is only an aspect and still saying that Ben is pretty fucking fascistic.
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  3657.  @Hattori604  I see your strawmanning article and raise you "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  3658. You're missing the even bigger picture. Corporate advertising has been twisting our news coverage for decades. We need them to make them afraid of directly supporting any news agency and chase them behind the plausible deniability of "a bot put our ads there" as as long as they are making a dirrect choice to advertise with a specific outlet they are going to be exerting influence on that outlet's content. That is unavoidable in the old model of advertising, and is utterly toxic to our nation. Hell, like some of the military ads on cable "news" a lot of the ads aren't even there to sell anything. Their main purpose is to buy influence over content.
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  3659. You expect a psychopath to not be a hypocrite at every turn?
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  3660. Stop feeding the troll
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  3661. Seriously? Was that a trespassing charge or something?
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  3662. The UN inspectors were panicked telling our government to wait. Our government said "no, get out for your own safety because we're going to invade before you can finish"
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  3663.  @dalmarahmed8499  "anarchotyranny" Rotflmfao holy shit that single word is the dumbest thing I've read in months.
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  3664. He says they nationalized the financial sector. We didn't, but that would be preferable to what we have.
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  3665. The thing Kyle is forgetting to pount out is that the Chinese torture manual we adopted was designed to elicit false confessions for propaganda purposes. The Bush administration used what was said under torture to lie us into wars and make the public complacent as they shreaded the bill of rights. They got exactly what they wanted out of it.
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  3666. Depends. Are we talking highly regulated capitalism as a part of a strongly mixed-market economy, or "free market" capitalism? If the latter, because people have made a religion out of it (complete with and invisible benefactor).
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  3667. It's a weak defense as lack of knowledge and involvement put her in more danger, not less. Understandable, in an emotions overriding reason kind of way, but still a dumb idea.
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  3668. It's an example that does a very good job of illustrating the situation with a single fact.
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  3669.  @chezeus1672  I mean, there's a good chance someone'll shoot him before he can, but he would.
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  3670. There are moneyed interests on both sides of this issue because the repeal of NN allows ISPs like Comcast to extort money from companies that do business on the internet. Plenty of rich people could, and do, want internet to be cheaper for entirely selfish economic reasons. Why are you making this about which rich guy falls on which side of the issue rather than looking at what is good for the people and trying to paint it like NN is actually going to raise internet prices for the people with no evidence? Are your corporate masters at least paying you, or are you just a useful idiot?
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  3671.  @drinkskhalifa7153  oh please, acting like a country where any seriously political opposition to the guy who's been the head of state for decades "has democracy"??? You're just walking self-satire.
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  3672.  @aaroncarson1770  no, that checks out. Disney is quite evil.
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  3673. Depends on the apocalypse. If it starts with getting hit by a powerful CME or EMP-producing high-altitude nuclear detonations then none of our shit is going to be working.
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  3674. Obama...nuff said
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  3675. Relevant: https://youtu.be/GDE5X5Sf8I4
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  3676.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  if you boil the question of (as you put it) "evil" down to just end numbers without reguard to intent, method, or circumstances you end up with nonsensical conclusions like an engineer who made a mistake that got 50 people killed being more evil than most serial killers just because they were in a position of more power. That's not a rational, adult way to view the world.
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  3677. Reagan was largely to the left of Obama. Just let that sink in a while.
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  3678.  @elizataylor1726  there are not 2 spectrums. There are many spectrums. Just gotta clarify that point. The grid putting social on one axis and economic on another is BS too in a bunch of ways. The problem is people who don't understand things trying to achieve ends through counterproductive means. You don't solve sexual violence with repression like you don't solve racial violence with segregation. People think they're woke when they've just bought into another line of BS and go about working against their desired ends all the time.
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  3679. Have you seen Project Mouthwash's UBW Abridged yet?
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  3680. Not entirely true. The 3rd option is a cyberpunk dystopia.
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  3681. Trump's cult of personality is a shadow of what it once was. You're even contradicting yourself on that point.
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  3682. Fire? Are we talking about Steve Bannon now? https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo
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  3683.  @philosophpascal  no, that's not what "oligharch" means. Pick a dictionary, any dictionary.
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  3684.  @evensgrey  I mean, if you've got a dense enough power supply (ultracapacitors or some kind of high-density chemical fuel either traditionally combusted or run through a fuel cell) you could get enough power for a short-range craft. You could help the miniaturization by replacing the pilot with a computer. At that point, though, you're probably just better off making a better target-seeking torpedo than an underwater fighter as you only need to get it enough power for a 1 way trip with 1 weapon and don't need to worry about how the parts will hold up to repeated use. It's not that it's impossible to design small underwater combat craft. It's that it's hard to design ones that outperform a torpedo for a given effective range (especially if you're wanting the pilots back). Probably better that way, though, if less cool
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  3685. I'm not going to begrudge you your dark humor and schadenfreude, but do keep in mind that this circus is nuclear-armed and has the largest military on the planet. You have a big stake in which side wins.
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  3686. He was also helping is fight al-Quaida in Iraq until Bush labeled his country as part of an "axis of evil"
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  3687.  @37VQV  he's trying to make other people's ideas a reality by throwing heaps of money at it and often goes after completely unworkable ones becuase he's not smart enough to tell the good ones from the bad. He's not a complete moron, but tallent, that ain't.
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  3688. He got orders to switch from mostly dirrecting the anger of progressives toward the GOP as a distraction to trying to portray completely moderate politics as radical leftism. He's always been a shill and will do whatever is needed at the time to stop effective resistance against the establishment.
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  3689. Rixton you're not under attack you lunatic, especially from liberals. Get yourself professional help. Not joking.
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  3690. Trump is, unironically, Walder Frey.
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  3691.  @jenkem4464  atheism just means not believing in any god or gods. Being opposed to belief in gods is antitheism. Not all atheists are antitheists (or skeptics or even nonreligious for that matter).
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  3692. mikezeitgeist2 we should always watch, of course, but carefully vetting donations above a threshold is a viable option in the short term. I, of course, want money out of politics entirely, but I haven't seen anything from our revolution yet which has led me to believe that they're being at all corrupted by said money at this stage. As a hypothetical, imagine a tech company that wanted to donate because net neutrality was in their buisness interests, or a green energy company who wanted to remove the unfair advantage fossile fuel companies have in the market. It's playing with fire to be sure, but as long as the donations are coming to support populist positions, there's not always a conflict of interest, so a vetting process can ensure good candidates dispite the money as long as the integrity of the vetting process remains strong.
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  3693.  @girthbrooks7645  are both hierarchal megacorps with an authoritarian internal power structure working to increase wealth inequality and preserve the current power stratification in society as they cater to politician and the other large corporations who they depend on for advertising, leading to them frequently blocking even moderate leftwing content. What's your point again?
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  3694. Yup, and what style of government/politics equates dissent with treason?
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  3695. Why would the corporatists want to control just one party when they could control 2?
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  3696. "Don't try to fulfill your insufficient campaign promice to return things to the status quo. We want you to appease the fascists more." -NYT
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  3697. Depends....creating a site that can overtake it in it's current form...difficult. But if too much content is almost entirely Patreon supported, people are going to just start ad-blocking the site again just to spite YouTube. It was content creators' pleas that got people to turn adblock off in the first place, and if they're getting too hurt, and enough people REALLY want to see YouTube collapse, they'll go right ahead and turn it back on. It's not quite to the point where hurting YouTube would be worth the harm to content creators (ideally it'd be through a formal boycott, after alternatives are better off, and content creators are even more Patreon supported) so I don't do it or recommend it....YET.
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  3698.  @juliancrooks3031  but then the right would only have one try to defeat progressives instead of 2. That's what this is about.
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  3699.  @AndytheWhite  that the most extreme work ethic won't prevent you from being disposable?
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  3700. We know we're still running the beta version of this form of government, but it's no small task to convince a political dualopoly to let in other voices.
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  3701. The people here are aware, but friendly reminder: if the US completely falls to fascism, I guarentee you're fucked too, and I don't even know where you're living.
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  3702. ​ @techterror1282 reported for misinformation.
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  3703. Not this channel's audience. You're not watching MSNBC here.
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  3704. Once they shot first that option was off the table. The problem is we didn't break "Dixie pride" like we did with Germany and Japan. Sherman didn't go far enough, and neither did the terms of surrender.
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  3705.  @gsin311  30% to policing? Really? That seems impossibly high.
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  3706.  @Miranox2  policy for policy nearly straight down the line, the majority of the population agrees with Bernie's platform. The idea that most people are in between the center-right "Democrats" and far-right GOP is a lie. A lie designed to create the illusion of electability for establishment "Democrats" that cost us the general in 2016, primary in 2020, and nearly the general again in 2020.
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  3707.  @Miranox2  sorry, no, if you want to make claims that the behavior across the isle and the way the unelectability claims were made, you need to support that, but you can't. There isn't any cherry picking polls going on. The polls form an overwhelming consensus that dem primary voters were voting on perceived electability. You keep trying to deflect from that reality because you have no real counterargument. Get over it. People just aren't that into your guy.
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  3708.  @Miranox2  "the behavior across the isle is identical" sorry, oops, a simple gramatical mistake again from deflecting from how I did cite the exit polls. You have nothing on your side at all. Meanwhile I have lots of polls to point to and down ballot results where progressives won and "moderates" lost. All you have is supposition, the oppinions of the same people who were saying Trump couldn't get elected, and a MAGA supporter in this comment thread and want way more proof from me when you have none The unwarrented ego on people like you is astounding.
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  3709.  @ianwells7916  had a similar personality conflict with one of my parents. We were very effective when working in combination on a problem because of those differences, but it was often not a smooth process and our relationship improved markedly once we got some space from each other.
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  3710. ​ @ExtremeSquared actually there is. Pencil "lead" is a mixture of graphite and clay (silica) the ratio of which is where the different harnesses comes from.
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  3711. "Fuck it, I'll be dead by then, so what do I care?" -their actual position.
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  3712.  @rh81454  yes, Saagar's authoritarian bootlicking and dishonesty about the protests was at best fascistic.
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  3713. The Titanic tried going just slightly left of its opponent. How did it work then?
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  3714. The program will explicitly not include fresh foods. Also, shipping a specific set of food without reguards to what's being actually eaten leads to a lot of waste. That's not even taking into account those needing special diets (like anyone with any remotely common food allergy) who would be totally fucked by the government basically saying "Here, I've spent some of your food money on shit you can't eat. Thank me later.". As mentioned here, the idea that it's going to save money with a delivery system is dubious at best. Also, if you think this is going to be about selecting best nutrition vs cost you're incredibly naive. This is just going to turn into another thing to bribe politicians over. The FDA can't even put out a decent neutritional guideline or food pyramid, so don't expect anything but greased palms here. On top of that, it'll expand food deserts even further by cutting buisness to what discount grocers exist (Like Aldis). If people insist on being self destructive, you're not going to be able to stop them, and trying to do so at the cost of those that genuinely want and need help is a terrible policy.
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  3715. Side note to all the good points made: Military aircraft get MUCH more maintenance per flight than civilian aircraft. Manufacturing defects are much more likely to be noticed so they put more care into making the military aircraft.
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  3716.  @patrickodonnell9388  even by the strictest definitions of the terms, we are a constitutional federal DEMOCRATIC-republic. That means democracy is part of our system by even definitions strict enough to seperate democracy and republics and ignoring the fact that a democratic republic and a representative democracy are synonyms. This talking point is stupid. Don't be both pedantic and wrong at the same time... -.-
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  3717. Right-wing populism Left-wing establishment ...it's kinda like those things are always fake
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  3718.  @talayafrancois652  I mean...that's not really uncommon for so-called right-wing populists either
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  3719.  @jaredharmer7047  I disagree on your assessment of Rogan (I think you're overselling his neutrality and turning a blind eye to some problems to be specific), but I expect whatever corporate talking head we get will also be awful (and probably even worse) so...meh?
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  3720.  @stephenbailey9969  as you see it is biased because you don't see Palestinians as fully human or take a pro-humanity stance like I do. That's WHY you engage in this reality denial.
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  3721. +
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  3722.  @nathanieldravis1511  nice deflection from the facts, but I'm not biting.
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  3723. "Here's the deal...don't pay attention to what side of the deck if comes from or ask for a new one." -Biden, in a nutshell
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  3724.  @FrozEnbyWolf150  that too
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  3725.  @JB-bc2ry  also true, but that's something we should expect as just the state of affairs and try to overwhelm with turnout
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  3726. And from Saudi Arabia and Israel. I'm against nuclear proliferation so I supported the deal Trump ripped us out of, but they're not making them to attack with and every sane person knows it.
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  3727. No. Congress even keeps approving military spending the Pentagon says it doesn't want (and that's before we get into the unnecessary wars). We spend that much because the companies who profit from it pay off the politicians and media in the form of "campaign donations" and advertising, respectively, and make sure there's manufacturing of military equipment in every state so if ever anyone bucks the status quo, they can run a hawkish candidate against them who will talk about the jobs lost by the proposed cuts.
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  3728.  @ayuhamasaki2059  how about we look at the study that ranked the UK's nationalized NHS as the best healthcare system, or does that not fit your narrative enough?
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  3729.  K.O. Derf  dude, no-one but fascists and modern Americans think liberals are on the left. If you want to talk about what he actually said for clarity of what he meant how about "you can’t have capitalism without racism.”
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  3730. New?
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  3731.  @Toad2943  he's a troll and almost certainly a Republican (probably even outright cryptofascist)
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  3732.  @French-Dutch-English-blooded  thanks for displaying even more how all the Bernie Bro narrative was projection.
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  3733.  @christianjohnson1333  it's not hyperbolic. It's an accurate description of an issue you haven't done enough research on. You just don't think it's extreme because you haven't done your homework on it. How about you start by looking up how many of those botched ones result in death? Here, I'll even give you a link to a web search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=circumcision+deaths+each+year&t=fpas&ia=web And that's just the most extreme harm that can come.
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  3734.  @christianjohnson1333  tripple digit baby deaths every year (on top of other harm) for an entirely unnecessary procedure and you think the government outlawing the practice being forced on childern is a bad thing? Sorry, but you have no morality.
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  3735. They're pathetic men who need to externalise their self-hatred. ...sadly, no hyperbole there. That's just the raw truth of it.
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  3736. Andrew Price don't engage pink. It's a troll.
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  3737.  @americantopteam135s-t7  probably because, as a trouble-maker (as admitted) the teacher and parents were in communication.
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  3738.  John Adams  right vs left is top vs bottom
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  3739. Or the 100s of thousands he abandoned to death because he refused to actually fight for anything left of Romneycare
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  3740. Tbf, he also said if he ever told us to vote for someone not to listen to him.
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  3741.  @johnbuckner2828  ugh no. Just a dose of humanism. Don't push the philosophical equivalent of homeopathy or worse, Jordan Peterson.
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  3742. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”⁣ -Nelson Mandela⁣ 'Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain Whether someone thinks this was the best way they could protest or not, those claiming it wasn't brave show that the concept of moral courage is foreign to them.
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  3743. reversecourse Hillary and Obama didn't lead me anywhere, thank you. I form my own opinions on issues out of election cycles and then assess which candidate available will do the best job and bringing us closer to that. Also, Hillary has never lead anyone to the left in her life. The closest she's come is pushing people left of her further left when they realized how corrupt she was. He goal is to drag progressives to the right.
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  3744. She won't live long enough to matter and say's "I have grandkids" like a racist says "I have black friends"
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  3745. "his father became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School" (which he then got his doctorate at) If you guessed religous fundamentalists, or more specifically Mormons, you get an internet cookie.
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  3746. Guys, pink's a troll. Don't bother using little things like facts and logic with him. Just ignore him
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  3747. Because if they had all their facts right they couldn't shit on medicare for all. It's like asking why young earth creationists never understand evolution or geology.
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  3748. I mean...is it not effectively exactly what you described?
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  3749. Don't be disappointed. This group isn't representative of voters, Democrat or otherwise. Bernie gets only 1/3rd of the voters dispite being the most popular politician in the country with about 2/3rds support, and both of his supporters are men and appear to be the oldest on the pannel dispite Bernie being most popular with young people and women. Then they throw on only women who, statistically, don't represent the views of most women. This is a pannel curated by CNN to push an agenda, not a real reflection of voters. Standard Corporate News Network fare.
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  3750. What do they teach at Harvard? Let's look at some of their funding sources: Rich parents Rich alumni donations (read: alumni who have succeded under our current economic system who approve enough of the current curriculum to donate) And (indirrectly) the banks who hand out loans and later corporations who pay people with the right diplomas enough to pay back those loans What would they want taught? Food for thought.
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  3751. Ministry of Truth well, there was the middle ages where kings ruled by divine right with endorsement from the Catholic Church
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  3752.  @therealbahamut  also, if competant leaders were put in management (and not prevented from being effective) they would become a threat to current management.
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  3753. Agree to disagree there, but it's much more Roman.
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  3754.  @moonman1717  I agree that self-described conservatives will absolutely prefer Bernie to Kamala. My point of disagreement with you is the notion that Fox "News" will treat all the candidates equally (to say nothing of the potential of outright ignoring issues like climate change). We should expect that they would hit progressives harder than they hit establishment candidates because it is in their interests to do so. Whether that or the bias on the stations they're likely to use would be worse for winning more conservative "Democrats" in closed-primary states (the demographic we really need to nail, as independents and Republican voters swing Bernie by a wide margin) is a good question I don't have an answer to, but we shouldn't expect Faux News to play into our hands.
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  3755. Back to the point, cops need to get it through their thick skulls that it's not their job to teach anyone a lesson. They're there to "protect and serve" only. Punitive measures are the purview of the judicial branch.
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  3756. Can we start by acknowledging that those trying to block the transition to a green economy are engaging in crimes against humanity?
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  3757. ​ @jayzillawashere wrong
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  3758.  @NotALizardPerson81   the sports analogy is a good one. I'm just trying to ask people to pay attention to how the context shapes how things come across. There aren't a lot of closeted post-op-trans, trans-phobes out there so it's a bit harder to pull the "protesting a bit much there, aren't you?" joke angle for humor like it is to do with the homoeroticism in sports. (And the slightly more serious context than jokes used about the homoeroticism in sports are usually used in isn't doing you any favors) Not saying a talented comedian couldn't make it work somehow, just be careful because it's easy to come across as cringy or worse with this one. That all said, I get wanting to go after her appearance, because she's a walking uncanny valley when you combine her odd proportions with the fact that she's a psychopath trying (and failing) to mimic normal human mannerisms. *shudders* freaks me the fuck out every time I see her How she got on Fox with their rather strict standards for the appearances of their female journalists talking heads, I'm not sure I'll ever understand.
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  3759. For those who don't understand, I would like to recommend one of CGP Grey's multiple videos on Brexit (though the others are informative as well) https://youtu.be/J1Yv24cM2os
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  3760.  @ascendedbro1828  socialism is just an attempt to fulfill the goals of the enlightenment and the libertarian/anarchist left is doing a lot better than the idiotic tankies these days.
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  3761.  @bertthompson4748  shall we go into the withholding of evidence that would have proven someone's innocence next? We all agree she's not Trump, but her record has some really big issues.
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  3762.  @Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence  Look at the comment again. Putting "fiscal conservatives" in quotes is a way of saying that they're not actually fiscal conservatives. Much like if I wrote: Congressional "lefties" keep catering to big buisness. I'm simultaneously saying "dems keep catering to big buisness" and "dems are not actually lefties" but not "lefties don't exist"
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  3763.  @pennyforyourthots  because then it wouldn't be something to threaten the working class with.
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  3764. The corporate money is the point for them. Accept that truth and the rest will make sense
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  3765.  @jwhite-1471  check the video links I posted. A whole lot of independent artists already effectively work without copyright protection because they're producing works that aren't expensive enough to be worth the legal services to defend. They monetize based on donations and/or a pay for creation instead of a pay for distribution system.
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  3766. "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ☝️same energy.
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  3767. In a civilized country, this would already cause an invalidation of the election, forcing its postponement, and those involved would be facing severe charges including, ideally, treason Just a reminder to keep perspective.
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  3768.  @anonymousfellow8879  yeah, that's a "cannot block fast enough" type of situation there! Edit: also, I wouldn't be exactly hesitant to at least let the police know what is going on if you feel it warranted. But yeah, even just the pedigree thing seems super-wierd outside of whatever subculture where that is normal and throws up red flags for me before we even get to the more overt problems.
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  3769. Can we at least agree on universal background checks to make it harder for the people who aren't allowed to have guns to get them? We keep debating the things we disagree about when there's something that almost everyone (including most NRA members) agrees on that our politicians won't sign into law.
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  3770.  @LowerClassClique  I assure you I've listened to multiple sides with detailed and nuanced arguments and have my own informed oppinions that don't fall into either steriotypical camp. I just want us to actually start with pushing for what we actually can agree on, because until we can actually do that and win, this endless arguing with both sides having really bad ideas is pointless.
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  3771.  @andygreg293  he's setting up a 3rd party run because he's hoping that will throw the election to Trump. As has been said on the show before, capital breaks fascist.
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  3772. ​ @CristianmrWuno suffocation is the least of your concerns with hypergolic rocket fuels. They're pretty much all on par with primitive chemical weapons.
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  3773. If we had free and fair elections, President Sanders would be the incumbent right now and there would be a whole lot fewer people dying.
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  3774. Not only that, but tests of simulated shooting events consistently find that just giving people guns doesn't actually help them stop shootings. It really just increases their chances of getting shot. This is born out by real world statistics where more active shooter situations are stopped by civilians without guns than civilians with guns. The thing that stops a bad guy with a gun isn't a good guy with a gun, but a good guy with initiative, courage, and opportunity and you can't just buy those, or even know you have any of them for sure until you're in the moment.
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  3775. I believe you, but link please?
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  3776. They didn't complain about the last Pope because he was a far-right nut who served power. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca "The Pope isn't doing his job right." -Faux News (paraphrased)
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  3777. None of this is secret knowledge. Every bit of information he's putting online is stuff they already have access to.
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  3778. Except she doesn't think that. She thinks she's going to cash in political favors and end his career over this because she's that disconnected from real people.
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  3779. Didn't even say anything about the non-existence of any diety. Just argued for the separation of church and state and the child couldn't handle even that.
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  3780.  @hunterjames7786  being inside an unused cannon seems like a really safe space for a cat in a battle come to think of it. This is more applicable to age of sail ships, of course, but still a nice place to hide for one that can fit in them.
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  3781. Shelly seymore yes, because flying in an often unreliable tin can through flak and often outside the range of fighter escort was so safe /s Fuck off Nazi sympathizer. https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-dangerous-military-service-in-WW2-the-Army-the-Navy-or-the-Air-Force
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  3782. Bipartisan ≠ non-partisan That said, the degree of stupid and evil in the parties today is drastically different.
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  3783. It was excessive. You people are just so used to living in a police state and accepting cops stepping over the line that you don't know what appropriate force is anymore. One of you doesn't even know what the terms you're using actually mean.
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  3784. Some of us still want everyone who voted for the war tried at the Hague.
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  3785.  @Wanderer25  considering the track record for voting eligibility tests, we can't really trust a government (or probably anyone else) to decide which adult citizens are allowed to vote. Too much conflict of interest to have the people being voted on select the people to do the voting, so it always gets abused (hell, wanting to abuse such a test is almost, if not always, why it gets put in place in the first place)
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  3786. Exactly
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  3787.  Amy Sternheim  frankly, with his complete inability to not sound like he was proud about that lie, even if his doctor came out and corroborated his story I would assume bribery was involved.
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  3788. Elon Musk is someone who's goal in life is to become the big villain in a cyberpunk dystopia.
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  3789.  @adrianshantz768  I think we'd all like to hear more from him.
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  3790.  @petersaint5581  are you so stupid that I need to explain to you what the idiom "tip of the iceberg" means or are you just incredibly dishonest?
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  3791.  @petersaint5581  I'll take that as "both" Thanks for clearing it up :)
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  3792.  @waltergrace565  just more posturing and whining but no actual arguments from you.
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  3793.  the business handler  colleges look at more than just your grades, or have you never applied to one?
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  3794.  @live2groove  Donald Trump isn't a full fascist, no, but he's an authoritarian, bigotted, oligarch with sympathies towards fascism and Nazi supporters (or as others have put it: a proto-fascist) That all said, I wasn't talking about Trump exactly. I was talking about the rise of fascist political movements domestically and globally. (That said, Mussolini and FDR both had definitions of fascism that were pretty close to oligharchy as the merger of buisness and state and the growth of private power such that it becomes more powerful than the democratic state, so that should tell you how close we are) As to your other question that is a false dichotomy, but of course I'll be watching and voting on the whole ballot as well.
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  3795. *conservatives In the US that mostly means white men, but the ideology is the more important factor than the susceptibility to sunburn.
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  3796. IMO, if it can be shown that you've deliberately destroyed evidence the burdon of proof should be downgraded from "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "probably" The amount of destruction of evidence that goes on in this country is disgusting.
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  3797. Correct, though if you want a chance of him seeing it you need to use twitter.
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  3798. A German Viewpoint true, but censorship and fashion police is not how to move forward. It's how to move backward. Rome persecuted the fuck out of the Abrihamic religions and it only strengthened them.
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  3799. They openly want Trump back.
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  3800.  @Visitormassacre  also, they were armed.
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  3801. That's how oligharchy works. This is about the bankruptcy court deciding that bonuses to rich executives that failed (deliberately) to manage the company for the shareholders (aka: failed to do their jobs) is more important than other debts the company acquired. Bankruptcy means that the company cannot pay all its debts, so that $25 million in bonuses to executives was taken from people and/or companies SEARS owed money to (and we know that it's going to come from debts those with little power are supposed to just forget, not those with power). Any reasonable capitalist system would say that if a company goes bankrupt, all other debts legally need to be paid first (meaning the executives who's job it was to manage the company get nothing). Anything less is just corruption, but any but the most stringently and actively regulated capitalist system will tend toward oligarchy and kleptocracy. Let's not mince words: this is class warfare on the poor and legalized theft.
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  3802. Nope, no bonus damage. The bless weapon spell helps bypass damage resistance (and incorporealness) for evil creatures and makes critical hits more likely. It doesn't tranfer tranfer from ranged weapon to ammo though, so what they're doing is useless. They need to be blessing their bullets.
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  3803. Hard to convince people he's said he has "no empathy" for that he'll fight for them.
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  3804.  @stephen0793  strictly speaking, it's a sentiment that's been phrased in multiple similar ways by many people including some anonymous ones before even Hearst. Hearst is the name credited with the earliest version we can pin down. Orwell with the version I used So you're not wrong in a sense, but crediting newer versions unspoken by Hearst to others is also legitimate.
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  3805. I highly recommend looking up Innuendo Studios (most relevantly his video in "white fascism", but the entire main playlist is really good insight into the mindset we're looking at here). See also Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics (and if you want to stick to videos instead of reading, if for no other reason than so you can listen while doing other things, Philosophy Tube's videos on Steve Bannon and the philosophy of antifascism also provide good insight). Cults work by incrementally replacing someone's real personality with an artificial one useful to the cult. To understand them, you have to be able to discard normal intuitions about how the human mind works and stop assuming that they share positive qualities we usually take for granted as being at least nearly universal. For what we are dealing with, this behavior is unfortunately the norm, so understanding where it is coming from (as monstrous as that place is) is key.
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  3806.  @draxiss1577  electronic voting machines are a disastrous weakpoint in a democratic system which need to be done aways with. Here's a quick overview as to why: https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI (And yes, electronic voting may very well have already swung multiple national elections in the US, but dispite circumstantial evidence, because of how it works, it's impossible to even know if the votes have been changed)
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  3807. Alt-right is a term (neo)Nazis thought up to rebrand themselves. They are Nazis.
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  3808. Humanist report and rational national are also good.
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  3809. If we take JP's position and judge people's intent by their actions and effects, peddling bullshit to those who need help for profit just makes him an opportunistic charlatan, sorry.
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  3810.  @atrociousconsequences4432  are you trying to imply that Bernie will get fair treatment on any TV news channel?
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  3811.  @markterzi857  that phrase used that way means "shut up and deal with it". Learn to read subtext.
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  3812. "I know what I need to do, I just need to sit down for like 6 hours and just do it" sounds like my job...only for longer and without sitting. On the upside, I'm allowed headphones and wifi. 😜
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  3813. The union rep was like "no way a rational person could say they could process that and their muscle reaction would be less than 1 second" MFer, yes I can. A slow human reaction time is 0.5s. A martial artists' will be in the 0.2-0.3 range especially within their field of training. If you need more than a second to see someone raising their hands isn't holding a gun, you're unqualified to be a cop on reaction time alone.
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  3814. @Elias Håkansson actually, I have months worth of pay in my bank account, a well-stocked pantry, and no outstanding debt, so I'd be fine. Nice ad-hominem though. Shame your logic doesn't really apply in the grit of the real world 98% of the time like you claim because of reasons others have pointed out that you don't want to listen to. If you don't realize how idealistic your perception of things is and how naive what your saying is, you have no buisness lecturing others about practical ways to deal with life problems.
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  3815.  @ericjohnson6665  that is what every Walmart smells like
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  3816. If you didn't post this, I would have
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  3817. Fascism
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  3818. Wow, you made a lot of people mad to get a comment with that many upvotes pushed down this far in the comment section, and considering who those downvotes came from, well done!
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  3819. ...now that you mention it...
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  3820.  TJ B  I mean, a fair number actually are ....and that's before we get into what fascism does to someone's cognitive functioning.
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  3821. This isn't about trying to get people to support action on climate change. It's definitely not about trying to move those over who oppose it. What it IS is an attempt to shock the (white) moderates out of their complacency and try and move people from indifference and tepid support to "this issue is NON-negotiable" and treating anything but the most aggressive programs to combat climate change with at least the moral outrage that they would have at defacing a priceless work of art. To borrow a phrasing from MLK "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." I don't know if this was the best way to go about this, but the amount of people even nominally progressive people on this channel who have decided to be more outraged by the form of protest than the thing being protested against proves how important sending the message they are trying to send is. If you prefer "a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for" future generations' salvation, then you are part of the problem. Don't be the "white moderate" MLK spoke of. Not on racial justice. Not on climate justice. Not on anything. Complacency KILLS And as a side note...the number of people who don't understand such a simple protest AFTER THE ONES WHO DID IT SPELLED IT OUT is incredibly depressing. In a better world, this would have been a great form of protest. Unfortunately, people are idiots.
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  3822. ​ @bonsummers2657 not after he passed out he wasn't.
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  3823. ​ donvitocoreleone7666 and yet everyone knows exactly what they are doing if they keep choking an unconscious person.
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  3824. Turnabout is always fair-play.
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  3825.  @saulo4302  in Asian countries with high population density like Japan, it's seen as extremely rude to not wear a mask if you're sick with even a cold. This makes sense. This is a social custom we should adopt.
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  3826. Agreed, though any and all officers captured should be tried for warcrimes and sentenced as harshly as possible both because of ethics and justice and because it will drive a wedge of division and mistrust between the officers and their soldiers.
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  3827. And what to we say to the god of entropy? Not today
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  3828. They will try to. I will be volunteering for a group that watches for election fraud next primary.
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  3829. Who continue to supply said arms to Al-Quaida, the organization that carried out the attack and an official enemy of the attack. That sound like giving aid to an enemy of the United States to you too?
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  3830. Very simple, appealing to tradition is a logical fallacy
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  3831.  @iang7244  tbf, YouTube's demonitization policy cut the advertising costs for propaganda outlets like PragerU so they could more easily afford to mass buy ads and funnel people toward right-wing extremism faster while quieting voices that could effectively counter them and provide people dissatisfied with the lieing establishment outlets a non-hateful alternative. YouTube only really deplatforms when they stop being crypto so hard that they loose plausible deniability.
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  3832. ​ @joshmich873 if you need to get permission in advance to do something, you don't have a right to it. The first amendment is VERY clear on this.
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  3833. ChristianMission fuck off to some other country theocrat. We were founded as an explicitly secular nation (and arguably the first). You know nothing of our roots.
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  3834.  @cotus2408  and yet when the Torah was being edited down into the Old Testament, that verse made it through multiple revisions because the people doing the job who's word you are taking as literal gospel were evil men, not men guided by a loving god.
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  3835.  @unavailable.mp4  you think a business channel could possibly be a-political Lol, you're joking, right?
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  3836. Leo T it's a shame that we've forgotten that taking the best ideas from everywhere we could is how we built this country in the first place. Throughout all of history, that strategy leads consistently to the rise of great nations, and we turn our back on it at our peril.
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  3837. +
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  3838. distressed3 that isn't an argument against efficacy. At best that argument amounts to "Americans will never accept a more effective system that costs them less money in the end because they're bigotted shitlords" which is an argument against popularity. Sorry to break it to you, but not only does that not hold up to the data as medicare for all is very popular, but it reeks of projection.
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  3839. No, the fork was not invented in 13th century Italy. Cooking and serving versions were ancient, but the table fork was invented by the Eastern Roman empire (aka Byzantium) somewhere around the 4th century and was both common through the middle east and introduced to Italy by the 10th century. I don't know where she got that date since we have names and dates of people introducing the fork to central and western Europe centuries before she mentioned.
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  3840. @Pat Orsban the only people who think the US "Democratic" party are left are Americans and fascists. The US's Overton Window is incerdibly far to the right.
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  3841.  @danieljensen6154  nice strawman. Now try engaging with what I ACTUALLY said.
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  3842. @AirandThoughts we don't have enough nukes to wipe out life on earth if we tried. The biosphere has a remarkable ability to recover. Apex species on the other hand...
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  3843.  Charlotte D. Katakuri  ty for proving my point by displaying a lack of understanding of the different roles in service of the rule of law. You can go back to 4chan now.
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  3844. So, conservative vs conservative that drank his own koolaid vs some of the least intelligent representations for our positions...the fact that I can't tell if that or another conservative vs fascist debate sounds more painful to listen to is depressing....
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  3845. @Land Grabber oh semantics? i can do that better than you. We're (on paper) a Federal Constitutional Democratic Republic. Democracy is an aspect of our governing system, and restoring that aspect was what I was referring to, not claiming that our nation was a dirrect democracy. Get on my level, troll.
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  3846. ​ @who_ever learn what words mean before you go lecturing others.
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  3847. Let's not mince words here. Bolsonaro is a US-installed fascist burning the lungs of the world for corporate profits. Brazil needs to remove him ASAP.
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  3848. I haven't been watching much secular talk lately, so can someone please tell me why the obvious Nazi is getting upvotes?
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  3849.  @michaelarmijo4112  ah yes, prove how unlike the Nazis you are by denying the academic consensus on the LGBTQ+ community so you can display your bigotry for them. Btw, that was one of the groups sent to the camps and academic literature on gender and sexuality was one of the categories of books they burned. Very well done. Even threw in lots of misspellings and random letters to show how you were totally not fuming about me pointing out the blatent antisemitism and wanting to teach "both sides" of the holocaust for what it obviously was. Mmhmm, you're so convincing big boy, well done.
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  3850.  @veranicus6696  Royal Zac is literally whining that it's not socially acceptable to victim blame Jewish victims of the holocaust, and that comment got double digit upvotes. Wtf happened here?
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  3851.  @veranicus6696  Christian fundamentalism and logic don't really get along. Fascism and logic either, for that matter
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  3852. ​ @LilFeralGangrel yeah, I accepted that truth partway through the pandemic. Unfortunately my mental health isn't doing the greatest since...
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  3853. That'll happen when you start electing Republicans calling themselves "Democrats"
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  3854.  @BoxLaneProductions  they are, and from what I hear (so far at least) releasing them as soon as they ask for a lawyer. This is an attempt to terrorize the population and normalize the snatching of people off the street for what comes next.
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  3855. It's not even just racial. The youth are tokenized. The lgbtq+ community is tokenized. Lots of crocodile tears over how bad they get treated, nice pedestals when they find ones willing to tow the line, but when it comes to policies that would actually help people? "Well, the thing is...."
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  3856. Austin Zappas what they call the far left IS the center
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  3857. Everyone (including Kyle) is missing that the poll was measuring what voters thought the 2020 general election chances were with/without Bernie. All they proved is that 56% of their polled audience has been so thoroughly propagandized that, even after the disaster that was Hillary's campaign, they think that corporatist candidates stand a better chance in a matchup against Trump than the guy who has won every hypothetical matchup poll against Trump. You have to be as disinformed as the average Faux News viewer to believe that....meaning CNN just did a poll to prove that they are fake news. That's impressive!
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  3858. @Black Manta and the contradiction/hypocrisy in that kind of action is why no-one can maintain it and always start changing into a corporate tool. When I said "it makes sense" I meant in a "it seemed like a good idea at the time" kind of way.
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  3859. Private companies sell bigotry: GOP defends their "free speech" Private companies stop selling bigotry: GOP attacks their actual free speech It's almost like they never gave a fuck about free speech, they just liked pushing bigorty to divide the working class so they could laugh all the way to the bank (and that's the charitable interpretation!)
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  3860.  @SheriffSparky200  "zombie personality defect" dude, what is your malfunction?!
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  3861. Wait, armored rapier duels? Was that even a thing? (Legit question, there were some wierd dueling customs, so I can't rule it out, but that strikes me as very weird at best)
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  3862. The right has its origins in opposing elections in the first place. No surprise to anyone with basic political literacy.
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  3863.  @kyle1235  not really, and you're straying further off topic. 😑
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  3864. She should go pick up a bear cub in front of their mom. It'll be a great photo op.
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  3865. ​ @britishrocklovingyank3491 who's enforcing law anymore? They're just enforcing a dictator's will, not the actual law.
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  3866.  @robertprice9052  your generation objectively had it easier than any before or since. This isn't a matter of oppinion. You were the most privilaged generation in history and sold out the futures of every generation after you because it wasn't enough for the "ME Generation" and then blamed us for all the ways you'd fucked up the world as you drive us toward a climate crisis likely to eclipse all of the genocides of the 20th century (probably combined at this rate) in death and suffering because of genocidal levels of ageism.
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  3867. And you think that's going to accomplish anything? They don't care about public opinion anymore!
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  3868. Frankly, I think she's just the rare moderate right-winger who thinks if we just sensibly regulate finance and a couple other things, most of the rest of the system can remain intact. Better than the average establishment "Democrat" who is center-right, but I don't thing she actually wants change and is actually a bit right wing. She only looks progressive when put in the US Overton Window.
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  3869. Journalist? Lmao!
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  3870. While perfectly logical in a literal sense (how early you die doesn't change your funeral costs), that one does hit hard and make people pause which is good.
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  3871. calemr tbh, believing in fairies is more consistent with reality than fundamentalists of the Abrihamic religions
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  3872.  @lapizza7175  people aren't trained to not fear death. They can be trained to do certain things in spite of that fear, but boot camp doesn't erase the fear of death. That's absolutely absurd.
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  3873.  @lisanavarro2641  you say "evolved as far as political affiliation" I say "infiltrated the workers' party"
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  3874.  @kayellee7202  on the contrary, a huge amount of doctors' time is wasted dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare that is our web of insurance providers, the soul-crushing reality of dealing with what amounts to for-profit death pannels causes a fair amount of dropout from the profession, and the shortage is likewise linked to how we don't treat it like a public good which leaves us not incentivising training more doctors or otherwise developing the capacity to handle the entire population. You're talking about real problems, but they're just more reasons we need to move OFF the current system, not reasons we can't. Waiting for the current system to fix these problems (which I only gave a quick overview of) will leave you waiting forever because they're intrinsic to the system.
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  3875.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  most likely being a propaganda bot. Wonder what it pays...not because I want to sell out, but because I'm curious how cheap his integrity went for.
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  3876. You're forgetting one key thing: the advertisers are the real customers, so the MSM content reflects what they want the public to hear. It is corporate propaganda.
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  3877.  @avinashtyagi2  there was no good policy on Brexit. He could have handled the rhetoric better, for sure, but Brexit is a loose-loose-loose situation. As soon as that referendum came through, Britian was fucked.
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  3878. (Non-Islamic) Right wing terrorists have committed more attacks within the US than even Islamic terrorists in this millennia. All other terrorism combined from ecoterrorism to Antifa to black nationalists doesn't even come close. There is no equivalency in hate or unreasonableness when the worst the worst the left has is antifa sometimes falling into the "he who fights monsters" problem by using facist tactics, and the right has actual NAZIS! I'm getting really tired of making the distinction between Nazis and those spreading propaganda/providing cover for them due to money/lolz (rather than ideologic agreement) only to be called unreasonable by those same people.
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  3879. A bit reductive, but I'll bite. Liberal Democratic Republican Liberal: 1-open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of personal liberties 3-generous Democratic republican: someone who believes in representative government with a strongly democratic selection process, and possibly other democratic elements. I'd also describe myself as a solid leftist (with left-vs-right referring to the true definition of populist vs established power). I'd even consider describing myself as a technocrat (as in I weigh politices primarily on evidence and effectiveness after constitutional concerns and am a bit of a fututist), but that isn't how that word is used these days (with the common usage meaning considering all policy through the lense of political utility) so I avoid that one as it's almost useless in conveying the meaning I intend right now in any circle. That leaves out a hell of a lot, like how I believe that anarcho-capitialism (what is euphemised as "free markets"), anarcho-communism, or the planned economics many think of when people hear the term "communism" are all completely unworkable and that stongly mixed economies (often referred to as democratic socialism or social democracy) are by far the best we've got, but that we need a whole new paradigm of economic thought to properly deal with a 21st century economy (much less what comes after). It also doesn't touch on my thoughts on election reform or insistence that the government abide by the constitution. We have so many labels because trying to boil anything down into clear categories or even that overhyped 2-axis chart that's recently become popular is too reductive.
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  3880. Obvious troll is obvious people -.-
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  3881.  @davers1953  people know that it was Bush misquoting a real saying. That's why it's funny.
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  3882.  @davers1953  no problem. Accidentally explaining a joke has nothing on Trump being dumber than Bush https://youtu.be/37150WDTI6c
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  3883. The key to understanding it is to realize that right wing ideology is about concentrated/heirarchal power. By the time someone is far right like Ben, they are long past where they care more about power than truth.
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  3884. Stop saying "please". It's well past time to be polite. Medicare for all or GTFO. Politicians report to you in the end, so take back that power. If an employee refuses to follow directions, you fire them.
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  3885. GravianS pretty much dead on there, so just one quick clerification: While she's in the same range of Regan, she's actually to the right of him (Obama is too, actually, and Hillary's to the right of him).
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  3886.  @matthewbadley5063  excuse me for stepping a bit low on this, but I'm not exactly convinced Trump has an iron sphincter, especially at his age.
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  3887. Purebred0Chaos please stop beinging up the Chicago example when they can just drive out of the city, buy the guns, and be back in no time Also, the statistics don't really back that intuition up.
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  3888.  @bluegleam8168  look up "Umberto Eco 14 characteristic" and you'll have an answer.
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  3889. Barry Nichols we've been violating a lot more than the 4th and 8th since 2001. Truth, but understated truth
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  3890. Kiluad male circumcision is a barbaric practice that should be banned for minors, but it's nothing compared to female genetal mutilation. Male circumcision (which, while also being a form of genetal mutilation) almost never leaves the man unable to orgasm, but that's kinda the point for FGM, so even though it's a serious problem that I feel strongly about, please don't equate them beyond "religions need to keep their hands off of children's privates" because one is clearly worse. To your main point though, anything that divides is a tool for the powerful, as divide and conquer is the only way the few can win against the many. All forms of discrimination fall into that umbrella, and misandry is one, yes. (I try to avoid "feminism" as a term as it means so many different things to different people that it's become useless in conversation dispite a clear dictionary definition)
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  3891. I don't advocate it, but the fact that no one has assassinated a politician or an insurance CEO for the death of their loved one (or defacto death sentence for themselves) yet is stunning to me. If I imagine myself in the place of what some people have gone through, I can't say for sure I wouldn't turn to violence just out of revenge.
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  3892.  @Sweatyleftist  it falls into the same category of scams as nfts and stocks that give no voting rights or dividends: their value is created entirely on people exchanging currency for them. When more people buy in, the value goes up. When people cash out, the value goes down. When the only way the people who buy in make a profit is others buying in after them, that's called a pyramid scheme. It can be dressed up and hidden behind the public being taught myths instead of realities about money, but it remains exactly what it is.
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  3893.  @Sweatyleftist  so you say there are exceptions and then you suggest pegging national currencies to onw that is a wildly fluctuating pyramid scheme like that will stabilize things? Sorry, but you don't understand money. (Also, the entire notion of a reserve currency, be it USD or bars of precious metals, is unnecessary. Proper monetary policy and the power to enforce taxes are all that is needed.)
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  3894.  @Sweatyleftist  ...you expect me to believe you're even arguing in good faith at all while you pretend you're not oscillating back and forth between Bitcoin and systems you want to paint as so very different like I wouldn't notice. Fact: you just proposed using Bitcoin as an international reserve currency. All your claims about other cryptocurrencies are irrelevant in that context and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. No matter what vague language you employ to distract from that.
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  3895.  @Sweatyleftist  ooh, calling you on your blatent dishonesty seems to have hit a nerve, huh? But yeah, I'll keep telling the truth and you'll keep telling people things that will drive up the value of your investment and their expense. I get it.
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  3896. 1 set of paperwork under medicare for all. 2 government sets + 1 times the number of insurance providers in the country + worrying about uninsured people + worrying about underinsured people in the current system. Which one has more paperwork? No government doesn't mean no beurocracy you moron, or even no inefficient beurocracy (because if you want inefficient beurocracy, look no further than private insurance companies with teams of lawyers trying to make the paperwork as complicated as possible to avoid paying out)
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  3897. If you're not mad, you haven't been paying attention.
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  3898.  @matthewmuir8884  #justfaethings ?
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  3899.  Benjamin Muller  the catch-22 there is that this has gone so far that the ability to politically organize and have elections with even the pretense of legitimacy is at risk. Fuck everyone who helped put us in this position including everyone who voted against Bernie in the last couple primaries.
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  3900.  @kk8490  If I may paraphrase Tywin Lannister, you think holding an office makes him the most powerful man in the world?
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  3901. Yeah, this has the potential to go very badly for absolutely everyone, but the powers that be insist on playing brinksmanship on this and it's really dangerous.
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  3902. +
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  3903. Antifa airlines? You mean B52 bombers?
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  3904. Conservatism is about preserving the status quo. Of course those with power will be inclined in that dirrection.
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  3905. They don't carry sole blame, but they are the worst offender (other than maybe Facebook at this point, depending on how you wanted to argue that)
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  3906. Elise M not for rich white people protected by the most powerful military in human history.
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  3907. I flatly do not see a professional stage actor bringing theatrical techniques into his work to help him make certain points as ego-driven. It's fine if the aestetic is not to your taste (everyone is certainly entitled to their own aestetic preferences), but calling it getting lost in ego and trying to imitate contra sounds as rediculous to me as saying Tom is hurting is presentation by trying to take from Olly's earlier style (which according to Olly, was him being stiffled at least in part by the abusive relationship he was in before). I don't mean to sound harsh with that, please understand, just to clearly state a perspective you might not have considered. Hope you have a nice day. :)
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  3908. Frankly, even calling Russia's attacks on cities "retaliations" is giving them too much credit.
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  3909.  @jimkirby6626  it's all of the above. -Protect the Seuss brand by ditching some books that people weren't buying anyway (because they had some cringy BS in them). -Let parents know that the company cares what it's putting in front of kids to earn trust -One final marketing push to unload backstock onto racists in a way that doesn't come across as an endorsement A person rarely makes a decision for a singular reason. A group almost never does, especially a committee or board. What you call a "stunt" is just how people actually act: usually with a mix of altruistic and self-centered motives, and in this case, the result was a financially and ethically sound decision.
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  3910. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012
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  3911. No, please keep being defensive and showing what a frightened hack you are.
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  3912. Rajen Panikkar I keep telling people not to look for leaders in elections. Serfs look for leaders. Citizens look for representatives. As long as we have a population going into elections looking to find someone to follow, rather than going into elections with things they want and trying to find the best person to do the job THEY want done, we will continue to be treated like serfs. Nonetheless, every election, pundits and TV "journalists" keep salivating over "leadership qualities" like they're the most important thing. It tells you all you need to know about the politics of anyone that spouts that BS that you need to know.
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  3913. Or that way back in the Bush years we set up missile defense systems in Eastern Europe in gross violation of the treaties that helped end the cold war by protecting the principal of mutual assured destruction which is the main thing standing between us and global thermonuclear war.
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  3914. You might want to look back at the exit polling to see which generations voted for this repeatedly.
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  3915. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  3916.  @thedadvocate6724  if following the law is so easy why don't cops?
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  3917. D&D fans, see also the bebilith. Something like a spider crossed with in inverted scorpion that is strong enough to infest one of the lower layers of the abyss and subsist on hunting demons and big enough that you could just about walk under it (if it cooperated instead of killing you, of course)
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  3918. Yeah, when you look into the cumulative costs to mental health, physical health, and non-health related matters (from productivity to energy use) that hour shift costs quite a bit.
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  3919. See: RWA score.
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  3920. No, it smells like gaslighting
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  3921.  @blackalien6873  the elites vs everyone else is right vs left because it is about concentration vs distribution of power.
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  3922. For profit healthcare, bringing poor people medical conditions like those from century-old field hospitals suffering from supply shortages. Praise capitalism for this generous gift
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  3923. AOC is doing important work moving things left but diversity of tactics is vital. Now that AOC has helped us get out foot in the door, we need to follow up with firebrands like Nina.
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  3924. That's the thing though. We literally can't wait!
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  3925.  @micheledebenedictis718  um, you absolutely can pick and choose the issues you want to use force in. What are you talking about? Basically everyone does. Not saying forceful desegregation of communities is a good thing, but that claim is nonsense.
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  3926. Let's be honest, he would just be an open and registered Nazi instead of a closeted one.
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  3927. Because someone probably pulled him aside and explained that the main reason for the economy destroying sanctions is to use them as an example to scare people away from democratic socialism.
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  3928. Always has been
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  3929.  @jackschueth  I. Do. Not. Care. How you or the NY times played with your numbers. Your conclusions contradict the very well established macro-picture data on the performance of different systems, so it is irrelevant
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  3930.  @verycoolnot8145  not at all. They are a military liability (to put it lightly) and seeing as we are a net exporter of fossile fuels, we could cut all ties and handle our own energy needs while we transitioned off of fossile fuels.
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  3931. Outside the US, "Liberals" are on the right and seen as basically moderate conservatives.
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  3932. Bo Hica the USA was the most prosperous it ever was when it was the most socialist it ever was. Strongly mixed economies (such as Nordic "democratic-socialism") beat the pants off of both anarcho-capitialism (what we call "free markets) and "communist" command economies regurally. Face it: both extremes fail.
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  3933. If I may paraphrase from R5 jj, it doesn't matter. They already have one that is both.
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  3934. @AL CAPPS you honestly don't understand the difference between the government owning and running an entire industry and the government being the single customer for any number of private companies in the form of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies? Really?
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  3935.  @codeecomah5920  yeah, we all know you're a feels over facts guy seeking out arguments to try and justify your oppinion rather than using evidence to form an oppinion. That was what I was saying. Thanks for helping to further demonstrate my point (and yes, I do have a pretty good idea of your overall politics, and they're really not that special)
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  3936.  @Kitajima2  I believe Saagar still does, privately. Krystal seems to be a Liberal grifter. Saagar is (at best) fascistic.
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  3937. Noam Chomsky on the "definitions" of political terms: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  3938. A UBI is a safety net without the holes and with much less bureaucracy.
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  3939.  @ihavenoname2569  or it's the other way around. No in between
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  3940. Appeasers are ALL complicit.
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  3941. No, the best way to deal with Iran is to let them have stability, not give the radicals ammunition, and to let the generational secularizing of the nation run its course.
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  3942. Healthcare is infrastructure. For profit infrastructure is always disastrous
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  3943. I still can't get past how people thought charity from churches was ever sufficient. Poverty isn't some modern problem that only exists in secular countries.
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  3944. Also birds don't have molars so are much more likely to swallow the seeds intact.
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  3945. Poe's law. Look it up and start using "/s"
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  3946. Yup, right wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  3947. Because Ben Shapiro isn't even a conservative; he's a reactionary. Conservatives fear change and want to preserve the status quo. Reactionaries fear both change, and the status quo, so seek to "return" to a version of the past that never actually existed. If that sounds familiar in an alarming way (especially when put beside his ethnonationalism), it should.
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  3948. Unfortunately some companies on Wallstreet base their hiring on wether you belonged to the right fraternity. Those companies largely run the US government, which largely runs the world. Let that chill run up your spine. (Also, they're largely associated with the huge amount of rapes and sexual assaults that happen in US colleges)
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  3949. See also: Sekanjabin Oxymel Shrub (drink) Switchel Vinegary drinks were actually pretty common through history.
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  3950.  @Alejandro-te2nt  Grimgar?
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  3951. Fuck that crazy hack. You familiar with the pigeon chess analogy? That's how that'd go.
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  3952. Michael Hartman good one...
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  3953.  @halasimov1362  he has a track record of voting against the party when the vote isn't close. Those votes don't prove much.
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  3954. ​ @Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson if the smoke break is the least hazardous part of a job, there better be hazard pay!
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  3955.  @gypsylips1950  seperation of church ans state means religious justifications for laws are invalid. This isn't that hard to understand.
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  3956. IMO, the best way to start to understand US politics is to learn about the psychology of domestic abuse.
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  3957. I mean, by that logic all the pre-metal aircraft were stealth aircraft. If I were to award that title, it'd probably go to the Night Witches. They were a group of Russian women pilots who were only given biplanes. They would fly up to altitude at night, cut their engines and then glide to their targets before diving low enough to drop bombs right in trenches, restart their engines and tear away at high speed and low altitude before they could be shot down.
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  3958.  @amolkhobaragade  wrong. Just 100% wrong. As already mentioned more of Venezuela's economy is in the private sector than Nordic countries.
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  3959.  @Kevin_2435  ...that is bizarre behavior.
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  3960. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK There is plenty of proof of culpability for the Bush administration in many facits of the event. Watch here for the truth
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  3961. No, you don't get notified. That would defeat the point. They don't want honest elections and haven't for longer than anyone has been alive.
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  3962. "A scientist never returns empty handed; there's always data."
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  3963. The upswing started in 2014. It's legitimately Obama's fault. Hillary made it worse, but she makes everything worse, so no surprise there.
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  3964. von Wabbit when people can't eat, that's historically when heads tend to roll, but the narcissism and psychopathy are so strong they can't even see the danger they're putting themselves in.
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  3965. +
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  3966.  @ianbenjiman  except when he's bombing people and mongering war. Funny how that works...it's almost exactly like it's a con being run on the public.
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  3967.  @letsomethingshine  except all they have to do is not re-up funding for this. They don't actually have to make the Senate do anything. Just like they didn't have to keep reauthorizing the Patriot Act or expand Trump's domestic spying powers, or vote to give him more of an increase in the military budget than even he asked for. Face facts: the establishment "Democrats" are complict in this. Btw, let's not forget that Trump came to power because Hillary colluded with the MSM to push him in the GOP primary while rigging the "Democratic" primary.
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  3968. Fake news
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  3969. Matthew Smith it was a slow process, but it started happening way back when they had all those issues with their funding.
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  3970. Now? Dude they were already habitually rewriting history by the start of this century. They've been called Faux News and compared to the Ministry of Truth from 1984 for a long time now and with good reason.
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  3971.  @clairduffy60  better question: since the cooks weren't working. why didn't he order something better than McDonald's. Could have even ordered Bob Evans and no one would have said anything given the circumstances. Answer: he's still a child that gets excited by McDonalds.
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  3972. @Oh yeah uneducated to the point that they don't know that clean coal is a myth? Apparently
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  3973. If you only have one employee actually doing their job rather than stealing from the company, damn right the boss loves them.
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  3974. It's easier to list all the times this didn't result in disaster.
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  3975. The left will be united once we run the center-right establishment hacks out of our party and back to the GOP where they belong.
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  3976.  @bolee3339  verbally he only said that he'd been told that they had, not that they had. Getting a written statement that he actually had is 2 levels up from that as he needs to say that he had and by giving him time which reduces room for him to say that he said what he believed to be true at the time. Just tightening that screw on him
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  3977.  @boughtbot2639  nah, but I do appreciate good wordsmithing and try to attribute it when I can.
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  3978. It's in a state where they've tried to outright ban sex toys more than once and still regulate them as heavily as the Supreme Court (which overturned said bans) will let them.
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  3979. @Silence Do Good aw, boo hoo, I'm being mean to fascists by exposing them for what they are. Let me pull out the worlds smallest violin to play a sad, sad tune for them. Or, you know, we could all go back to at least pretending hating fascists and calling them out wasn't a contentious political take.
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  3980. Or even more on point, thinking people that can manage to cross a desert can't deal with a wall?
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  3981. He leaves you in a fog because he sounds like he's starting with reason and evidence, but is actually starting with a conclusion and twisting logic and even language itself to support it. If you approach his arguments the same way you would those of an intelligent and articulate theocrat, it becomes much easier to see the logical fallacies.
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  3982. Can someone explain to me why so few people seem willing to accept a 2-pronged strategy of fighting to take over the party and fighting for 3rd parties in the instances where that fails?
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  3983. Not yet. Just waiting for automation to slot the last piece into place.
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  3984.  thewanderandhiscomp  that is how economics works. MMT is flawed because it buys into the same BS ideas about what money is that have been disproven (see Debt: the first 5000 years). The tl;dr version is that you could pay for it by printing money (and arguably that is what we should have done a couple times already this century, especially when we had deflation), but doing so is a defacto tax on monetary savings. We've set up all sorts of systems that make it complicated and often delay effects from their causes, but the value of money is determined by supply and demand, being when it's "created" (through spending, ideally) and "destroyed" (through taxes)
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  3985.  @BassBouncers  people have already told you that those countries are already making their own moves. Why are you still repeating this talking point like a hack. Are you getting paid?
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  3986.  @lexort4204  I expect Dragon is crypto, but it would be good for everyone else to watch it.
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  3987.  @sethtedder3173  I'm sorry, is my username Hillary Clinton or DNC? No? Didn't think so.
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  3988. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK There is plenty of proof of culpability for the Bush administration in many facits of the event. Watch here for the truth
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  3989. No, but a Sanders/Gabbard ticket might shake things up depending on how the primary goes
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  3990. "The script update is complete. I confirm that we're calling lefties "NPCs" now." -people with no self-awareness
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  3991. Bernie tepidly supported Clinton mainly because he promiced to stand with the nominee, and he's nothing if not a man of his word.
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  3992. I like Kyle, but be cautious as he's showing some of the same signs that TYT did before they let their credibility slip right into the trash can. He's not guaranteed the same fate, of course, but you should always get your news from multiple sources and check their sources periodically. Many mentioned are also good, and I'd like to add The Rational National to the list. He's Canadian, but covers a lot of US news too and an honest, credible outside perspective is good too.
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  3993. s3rp I give us a coinflip odds, but it won't be quick. I will warn you that the US has been really good at dragging the rest of the world into our problems, so I'm not sure if there's any way to be safe anywhere if/when the US goes down. (And be really afraid if it looks like we're going to fracture. Can you imagine our more extremist states breaking off and going rogue with their nukes? Imagine dropping 5 Nuclear armed pseudo-North Koreas dropped on the same part of the world, likely in the middle of or just coming out of a civil war.)
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  3994. CNN: Breaking! Political discourse no longer controlled by rich executives acting on behalf of their megacorp advertisers! What will happen to democracy?
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  3995. We can be disappointed all we want in the youth turnout all we want, and should discuss why it went that way, but here's the more important conversation: A candidate who can't appeal to young voters and independents, can't expect to get the turnout in the general and no amount of "blue no matter who" support will change that. Biden's open ageism in policy and statement make him unelectable. This is doubly true if he gets the nomination without a plurality, but nominating anyone who is only liked by the demographics that can be counted on to turn out and vote against Trump no matter who gets nominated is a disastrous outcome. (And we're not even getting into how another neoliberal would just pave the way for a second Trump, especially with the looming economic collapse)
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  3996.  Bubbles McGee  found the cryptofascist. That didn't take long. It's amazing how you think your being clever when you're so utterly predictable, but that's just the Dunning-Krueger effect at work.
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  3997.  @wek33  worst than the worst of both worlds.
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  3998. Trying to have young candidates to get out the youth vote is both patronizing as fuck (with will turn off said demographic) and takes emphasis off of 100 more important factors (which again, will turn off said demographic). Your argument is invalid.
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  3999. Jack Grimaldi he was before he ran.
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  4000. Proto Man think you mistyped that
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  4001. The most reliable way I've found to predict what the GOP is doing behind the scenes is to take all the accusations they make about others, discount accusations of communism, and assume that everything left is projection and look for evidence of them doing something at least highly similar to what they are claiming the left is doing. Btw, this also works for far-right "democrats" like Hillary (though again, towards the left)
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  4002. Should go without saying.... should
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  4003.  @dukekenny9340  really interesting how much energy you're putting into trying to keep people from talking about how Biden is a Republican trying to make the left look bad. Really interesting that someone who is big on the Great Replacement (Nazi) conspiracy theory things that stopping that particular conversation is so important.
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  4004.  @fredricknoe3114  taxes are not theft, success doesn't happen in a vacuum, wealth naturally accumulates when left unchecked, and charity is almost never in proportion to what is needed Sorry, but your understanding of economics is a lie you've been fed. If you need to hear it from someone that isn't a socialist, I'd be happy to explain a point of the above you don't understand.
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  4005. The distinction between the 2 has always been blurred. Neoliberalism is just neoconservativism wifh different branding. To Maher, specifically, he is, and has always been, a tool for establishment Democrats to control their base by dirrecting their anger and defining the left-most position of the Overton window. As cathartic as his bashing of Bush may have been, he's never been, and will never be, anything else.
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  4006. They can only push those methods so many percentage points before they make it too obvious what they're doing and loose all plausible deniability. New options open up if the entire population can no longer pretend the election was legitimate. We need to push hard enough to force them into the no-win situation of either allowing Bernie to win, or shattering the illusion of democracy.
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  4007.  @tadferd4340  considering we can't even get different countries' navies to agree on what a frigate is that one's probably a lost cause.
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  4008. ​ @rockprime1136 flat-out taxing carbon WOULD affect the Earth's climate.
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  4009. Socialism, UBI driven mixed-market (aka social democracy w. UBI), or cyberpunk dystopia are what technology will narrow our choices to in the very near future. If you want anything resembling capitalism that isn't a dystopian hellscape, you need to get over your anxieties and support a UBI, because that's the only way it works in the face of automation (bonus point: it finally levels the playing field a bit between employer and employee so the 2 can actually approach the negotiating table with something close to a balance of power rather than the employer holding a massively advantageous bargaining position)
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  4010. HammerheadGuitar ignoring the BS double standard there (AND that giving out birth control lowers healthcare costs) you do realize that there are plenty of people that use the birth control for reasons other than preventing pregnancy, and those that can get pregnant but have conditions that mean they need to avoid doing so right? It's also all irrelevant. Health insurance is part of the employee's pay, so if you want to say that they can say whether that can be used to get birth control, you have to also say that they can say that you're not allowed to buy birth control with your wages too (which I hope you agree is utter BS).
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  4011. @Carsen Burgess possibly inevitable at this point, but it didn't have to be...which is just incredibly infuriating.
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  4012.  @dramabeansk  the GOP has come to understand that the only way they can maintain the extreme inequality in our society is to keep people increasinly kicking down at minority groups they scapegoat. They hold onto power with blood-soaked hands.
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  4013.  @rust44  not a problem if you're a white, cis, het, far-right winger or willing to be an uncle tom for them
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  4014. And the DNC strategy to stop progressives like Bernie.
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  4015. And would be if we had a fair election system. We need to work on that.
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  4016. See, there's that word "think" in that question....
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  4017. Autumn Potato truth. Controled exposure is the best way to fend off toxic ideologies.
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  4018.  @PADOYLE  you, ironically, just proved you don't understand how averages work.
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  4019. Ow, that burn is keeping me warm and I'm many states away!
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  4020. That sounds entirely plausible with what we've seen so far, but do you happen to have a source on that one on hand?
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  4021.  @PropagandasaurusRex  I'm not in favor of the death penalty for normal crimes (it's shit as a deterrent, we kill innocents, and trusting one government with the power to kill someone who's not a threat anymore isn't a standard I'm thrilled with). For major crimes by people in positions of power everyone saw them commit in public view in front of an international court, though, yeah, I'm good with that. There's a martyrdom vs dangerous to be left alive debate that's reasonable for big figgures and I can see good arguments on both sides for, but at the very least, as long as we have the death penalty, as long as we're going to shield our politicians from it even when they commit the worst category of crimes in the world, we can't be hypocrites on that or our apologies for what they did mean absolutely nothing. A country that takes a principled, absolute stance opposing the death penalty might be able to keep face while refusing to allow it for their politicians, but we can't. If we say a mass murderer who's killed 20 people can deserve the death penalty, we have to be willing to apply it to war criminals who kill so many we can't count them or we're just saying that "your people's lives and suffering just aren't that important" and that makes anything we can say after a fake apology. If we really want to restore our reputation (which we desperately need to), we can't afford to be hypocrites on this. We have to be pro-death penalty for war criminals. Anything else will result in more deaths by keeping conflict-fueling tensions high. In a strictly utilitarian sense, I must support the death-penalty for war-criminal for the same reason I oppose it for normal civilian crimes: pragmatism and concern for innocent lives. Maybe in a better future, I would call it barbaric, but right now, it is the lesser evil, and if it sooths tensions, the most victimized survivors can choose any willing hand to carry it out. I don't think revenge is justice, but we're so far beyond actual justice even being a possibility, they're welcome to revenge as a consolation as long as it's not torture (which I must categorically oppose for their sake as well) or harming innocents if they want it. Hell, plenty of Americans deserve it too, but we're not the most harmed, so other than keeping certain rails on the process it's not what we deserve that should take precedence.
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  4022.  @zyrrhos  we, the people, progressives voting in primaries. Also, while it is not enough of a difference, there is a difference between the center-right "Democrats" and far-right (increasingly fascist) GOP and you sound rediculous when you claim otherwise.
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  4023.  @rayamat01  to say nothing of being hauled into a room, strapped to a table/chair and unable to move as they swab your arm in a twisted mockery of a medical procedure and prepare to inject you with actual poison as you hope they got the dosage right so that you won't die in executing pain while unable to scream. I don't have a phobia of needles or doctors and that's still the stuff of nightmares there. I'd take bleeding out from a bullet hole in by chest over that any day, even if it ended up being more painful. Less terrifying and I can at least face it on my feet.
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  4024. The fact that they're not as close as they looked may have had something to do with it.
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  4025. This doesn't create confusion in kids. Just the opposite. It's when you've been told your whole life you should be a certain way that is against your nature that creates identity confusion (and that doesn't just apply to gender). Left to their own devices, kids naturally try out different things until they find what they're comfortable with. You're projecting your confusion onto the kids. Btw, the strongly gender segregated roles for boys and girls is a more modern invention than you probably think. https://jordan32lim.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/why-is-president-franklin-d-roosevelt-wearing-a-dress/
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  4026. Shame paralyzes action. Anger motivates action. Take shame only in things you have done yourself that you wish to not do again.
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  4027. I mean, I wouldn't trust MS13 with those human rights violators considering the US trained them and deployed them to South America to mess things up down there, so there's a chance they're still acting as a CIA proxy. If we're gonna dream though, a summer trip to Nuremberg could be nice. There's just so much to do with the warcrimes, treason, and crimes against humanity that we'll just have to make a big trip out of it and bring the last few administrations and their Congresses too.
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  4028.  @jon9428  you would prefer concentration camps to seeing corrupt politicians meet a poetically ironic end and you think you have room to talk about optics? Yeah, I'll take my optics over yours every day.
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  4029. HA!
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  4030. Welcome to the United States. We have a far right political party (called the Republican Party) moving towards our recently emboldened facist demographic, and a center right party (called the Democratic Party) that, while not overtly bigoted, doesn't actually do anything good for minority groups until forced to. The two work together to play good-cop/bad-cop on the people to ensure people keep voting against their interests, resulting in a government who's policies have zero statistical correlation to public opinion, and which constantly slides to the right every election cycle as they laugh all the way to the bank with the bribes they take from the largely same business interests. It's not hopeless, but we can use all the help we can get. Glad you found one of the good places to get introduced to US politics in this channel. If you have other questions, I can try to answer them and/or point you towards decent information.
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  4031. Seriously, though, can we please talk about the interanlized ageism here?
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  4032. I try to make a point to differentiate between a personal beliefs (which tend to be mostly harmless to others, though exceptions certantly occur), and organized religions (which are, even in their most tame forms, a strongly negative influence in people and society as a whole).
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  4033. It's not about the MIC this time (we have a-whole-nother hemisphere for them to play with). They're a "threat" because they had the radical idea that the natural resources of a country belong to its people and that, therefore, all profits from their sale belong to the people as well. If allowed to succede, that idea would drastically undermine the corporate state, so they will do whatever they need to to ensure it doesn't. Remember, to the rulers, the oligarchs and their interests are the US, not the ideals and people.
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  4034. Saagar is a crypofascist, light on the crypto.
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  4035.  @Julian-rp4gc  it's not human nature. Don't pretend everyone is like you just to excuse your own nad behavior like an angsty tween
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  4036.  @thenightingale7405  let me put it this way: I'm only a center left social democrat and I look to my right to find basically every one of Bernie's positions because his platform is that of a left-leaning moderate as any non-extremist in pretty much any European country will tell you.
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  4037.  @michaelt.5672  Also, it leaves a Tulsi presidency open for 2028, so we can have both.
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  4038.  @drownedhill3829  if you leaned your head back as you laugh, you might see the actual point sailing over your head.
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  4039. Hewlett Craphard that's why I included the dumbed down translation
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  4040. @TheNonArtist to externalize the self-hate
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  4041. ​ @Temooreview argument from incredulity is a logical fallacy. Clearly not living up to your username.
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  4042. PapaMagnum you mean that they weren't doing this a decade ago? Yeah, actually, this being news is a shock.
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  4043. We'd need to eventually move systems when our sun goes red giant, but in the short term I agree. We're already seeing an increasing trend toward urbanization on Earth as the advantages to living close together continue to outweigh the advantages to living spread out, and as we head deeper into the information age, that's only going to be more and more true. We're also seeing our population growth level off, so it's not like we're going to need a galaxy worth of space for humans to live in. O'Neill cylinders are also WAY more practical than terraforming. And that's all without figuring out true VR. Sure, I'd be excited to get photos from planets around other star systems, but there's just WAY too much to miss out on by actually going there unless everyone else was coming too.
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  4044.  @iceman1833  "trying to understand people like you" lie
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  4045.  @catholicguy3605  fake news
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  4046. Metatron, I love your analysis but (like many others) you skipped one very important detail: farming. A medieval society is mostly farming supporting a tiny percentage of the population living in cities, and that farming needs to continue to keep the cities fed, so the entire population (even most of the population) can't hold up behind city walls without running out of provisions.
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  4047. Christian Terada considering they obviously failed kindergarten, it makes all the sense in the world.
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  4048. I mean, it's literally stimulating a sense they have that we don't in a way that evolution never prepared them for in more time that most species have existed. It would be weird if there was a good comparison.
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  4049. We actually could if we weren't at historic lows for effective tax rates.
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  4050. It won't be the last time. There's an election comming up.
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  4051.  @delmerwilson7890  Flateartherism has no value. Young earth creationism has no value. Conservatism has no value. Fascism has no value. Neoliberalism has no value. Ideologies can be totally worthless BS. Appealing to the golden mean is a logical fallacy and trying to pretend that 2 sides of an issue are equally legitimate and need to be given equal respect is dishonest CNN BS. All right wing ideologies trace their roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place and constantly undermine democracy itself.
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  4052. If you expect these people to have consistent standards between themselves and others, you don't understand who you're dealing with. Good news, though, flip that 36% out of the party, and the rest become irrelevant.
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  4053.  @lapland123  if you look up US Congress's approval numbers you'll see how the American people actually feel about their government without the propaganda and tribalism of the Presidency to skew the numbers. Short answer though: We're not ok with this. Many have just lost hope in things being able to be better.
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  4054. It's not that they don't learn. It's that they actively PREFER this outcome to winning with progressives.
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  4055. Coinflips like this: https://youtu.be/am2A30IsVVI The more you watch it the worse it is.
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  4056. And project all their own failings on millennials.
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  4057.  @crait  sure, if they open up their financial records and show they're non-profit.
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  4058. With the exception of a short period in history in Islam's golden age (when they developed things like algebra) where they allowed intellectuals of all faiths, including "doubters", into their courts...only for the boom in science in that region to come to an abrupt end when the theocrats decided to censure non-Orthodox thought. People mistakenly attribute the halt in that science boom to the Mongols sacking of Baghdad, but that happened significantly later.
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  4059. IMO, patents on drugs are unethical. Instead of awarding patents for medical breakthroughs, we should give prize money to retain the incentive and then make those discoveries avalable for all of us to use as our rights as citizens. Full incentives for innovation, without an exploitive monoploy situation.
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  4060. Because appeasers
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  4061. Humans can't even manage to organize a properly functioning confederacy, much less actual anarchy. So called "free market capitalism" (more accurately called "anarchocapitalism") is the perfect example for how anarchies work: The most ruthless and powrr hungry exploit any small differences in power dynamics to accumulate more and more power until your pretty horizontal organization turns into a totalitarian power structure. History bears this out as well with tribes being largely anarchic in structure, as humans have instincts to naturally organize stable societies in such ways (which explains the persistent appeal of anarchy dispite being millennia removed from it) up to about 250 max (though pushing it over that for temporary groups organized around an objective). However once we started gathering in groups larger than that we soon saw "god-kings" everywhere. The answer to oppression isn't large horizontal power structures, but rugged cyclical ones. The most basic example of this is the people listen to the police, which listen to the government, which listens to the people.
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  4062. The corporate press is owned by the comfortable and its job is to sell advertising space to the comfortable, and the customer (read: corporation) is always right. Why would we expect any different? We designed a system that produces predictable outcomes and expect it to do anything but what it was designed to do?
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  4063. Get your own messes sorted and stop the flow of right-wing extremist ideology from the US to Europe. We may need you to send help (ideally through Canada) if we can't fix this mess peacefully, and we need your nations in good shape to be able to send it.
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  4064. And still is
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  4065.  @graceousley6010  oh please, I'm significantly left of Bernie and, strictly speaking, am still not even a real socialist. He picks up the label people use to smear him and wears it like armor, but he's just a left-leaning moderate social democrat. Only someone still indoctrinated by the Cold War propaganda still stewing in our society or a fascist could think he's actually a communist.
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  4066. I can answer the last one pretty simply: because Russia's commiting warcrimes at a rate faster than the media cycle and public attention span can keep up with.
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  4067. She's already done that.
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  4068. Monsters and Mazes...wait, that one was done before!
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  4069. The entire notion of protest kneeling was the idea of a veteran when asked for a respectful way to protest during the anthem. The entire notion of kneeling (a sign of strong respect and devotion) being offensive is patently absurd and cooked up by right wing snowflakes as an excuse to silence the message. That's what this boils down to. Fuck any and all racist/authoritarian apologetics claiming otherwise.
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  4070. Very late and I don't have all the answers for you, but damage to one of the genes that made for strong jaw muscles kept our skull from fusing early in childhood from the pressure, allowing our skulls and brains to grow significantly before reaching their final size.
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  4071. The sad thing is, we're not. What we're doing now is much worse.
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  4072. In a word, anti-intellectualism
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  4073. Tyler Johns this is exactly the reason why militaristic religions ban birth control and push women into trying to have as many kids as they can. These days many of those following may not understand the motivation is to make "more of 'us' to fight the 'other' " but that's exactly where this comes from. Look up "quiverfull movement" to see this in its pure form.
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  4074. Keep in mind that about 25% of the country is totally disconnected from reality across most polls. Getting any false belief down to 30% is doing quite good for us.
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  4075. No Media be like: "Bernie is just like Trump but Biden will be the one who appeals to moderate Republicans." Because, you know, they can't even have their narrative congruent with itself, much less reality.
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  4076.  ToldYouSo  yeah, and you think cartels aren't in the business of human trafficking? Congrats, spend money to make it so that every illegal immigrant coming across the border has connections (and likely debt) to the cartels. Bigly smart there.
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  4077.  @MaynardCrow  then they switched parties and showed their true colors at Charletsville.
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  4078. Welcome to the real face of #Unity It's just NewSpeak for "fall in line peasants"
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  4079. You mean how he speaks in dogwhistles to facists?
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  4080. I sure as hell don't like my employer healthcare. It's too expensive for me to afford with the salary I'm paid at said company (it's too expensive for my boss to afford, even), has absurdly high deductibles, and a scam of a savings plan where they lure you in by saying that they'll match what you put in as they hope you don't read that they take anything you haven't used out as their profit at the end of the year. I really couldn't give a fuck about the whining of people "who like the health insurance they get from their employer" since they'd either be better off with MfA or are so well off with some kind of luxury healthcare plan covering cosmetics or whatever wouldn't be covered by MfA that they could afford to pay for it out of pocket or get a supplimental plan. Really though, it's a largely fictional character thought up to protect the for-profit death panels we call health insurance corporations, and help big companies use the threat of loosing health insurance to control their employees more.
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  4081. Real libertarians and real progressives share values, we just disagree about means. It's hard to have a debate with someone about policy when they want such different ends where desiring prosperity for all isn't a shared value. The fact that our overton window is made up of oligarchs, theocrats, and racists is madness.
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  4082.  @Odinsday  let's be real, most rational people don't consider it even entertaining.
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  4083. He never was a progressive. He's nothing more than a tool for the DNC to get the left's anger dirrected where they want. Durring the Bush years this was largely positive in effect, but he's never actually been on our side beyond an "enemy of my enemy" convenience. As soon as progressives became more of a threat to the DNC, he was always going to turn to attack us.
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  4084.  @No_co_OK  did we not go over you sticking to actual arguments instead of baseless ad-homs under a different comment? How often do you need reminded of this?
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  4085.  @jewelsouth  really? Telling poor people in poor communities to blame themselves for being poor? How about blaming the people and system that keeps poor people trapped in poverty in the first place?
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  4086.  @kathyjones274  it won't, but it will stall for desperately needed TIME for us to actually get solutions implimented, so we still need to do it.
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  4087. Yahweh isn't too keen on graven images in prayers either, especially not to him....just saying.
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  4088. There is no good outcome in November. We needed the luck during the primaries and we didn't get it. Simple as that. Now is the time for doing everything we can to mobilize for 2024.
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  4089.  @paddybrennan3644  so you're expecting to beat Trump while running an ageist candidate who has "no empathy" for millennials, who is opposed to basically everything they want, and who would basically guarentee a Trump 2.0 if he won? Not going to happen. You need a candidate that can appeal to young/independent/infrequent voters who are notoriously hard to turn out, who has an energized ground game, and who can actually attack Trump without looking like a hypocrite or someone in need of assisted living. Biden's chances against Trump are in the single-digits.
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  4090.  @Xiaotian88  yeah, no sink in the game for this one either, myself, just pointing out there are options out there if people are feeling stuck between enjoying what they like and not supporting bad people.
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  4091. Ruben Garcia he checks his twitter though, so if you can stand to use twitter, you have a small chance of getting him to see something there
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  4092. And only gets dumber in areas that aren't as wet as England and need more than the occasional trim to be maintained.
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  4093. The only way to curb them is to defeat the source: right-wing extremism and the socioeconomic conditions causing its current rise.
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  4094. Partial demonitization of all content that isn't "advertiser friendly" massively reduces the price of ad space on political content, enabling propaganda mills like PragerU to mass buy ads on a massive discount. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of them will immediately be skipped by leftists, resulting in no cost for the ad play at all. What do they get in return? -Getting their foot in the door with countermessaging to anyone new to political content without a firm enough sense of politics to resist it. -Emboldening trolls to know someone else has their back to keep up their activities -Dissemination of talking points to their trolls -Taking up an avertising slot likely to produce no revenue on channels that already get almost no money from advertising and don't have megacorps happy to fund them at a loss just to get a far-right narrative out there -Teaching the algorithm that the channel's audience is one that is even less likely than average to watch/click ads, further impacting at least how much other advertisements that slip through will pay for advertising space there (and probably wherever the audience members go as well) I'll leave the intent vs incompetence determination up to you, though.
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  4095.  @berdyderg900  less progressive than Trump? Dude, this is your reality check. Biden is a bigot, but Trump is way worse.
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  4096. When your goals generally run contrary to the people and you look at everything as a zero-sum game, that's not an option, sadly.
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  4097.  @marcosa2000  in a communist system there is, definitionally, no state...I'm not a communist, but please learn what these words mean. You're describing "state capitalism"
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  4098.  @marcosa2000  I mean, if we can agree that that system is bad, why would we want to support their lie about what they called themselves? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
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  4099. You missed 6: they "adjust" the exit poll numbers to match the voting machines and the media then reports the "adjusted" exit polls as if they weren't fabricated numbers
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  4100.  @howie6992  even more specifically, the right were royalists and the left were those favoring representative government. Once the political landscape had changed from debating monarchic vs democratic government, the terms were abstracted to what amounts to right=favoring entrenched (and concentrated) power, left=populist power. (Note: this is why "establishment left" is a contradiction of terms)
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  4101. CPG Grey is good too
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  4102.  @ScoopMeisterGeneral  yeah, that's not a question. Biden is in the block that deserves a 1 way trip to the Hague to be tried for warcrimes and still that's only a part of what he's guilty of.
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  4103. +Carlos Pellecier Jr Overtime is usually "time & a half" so 1.5x pay. Even using the more common extreme of "double time" that still leaves you with the cost of 87-456 troops deployed half-way around the world with all the logistics that entails. That's still ridiculous! Remember, this is $1million/day. To use a police force as reference, Pittsburgh uses 1/5th of that to police an entire city! Sure, they're more efficient than the NYPD by a lot, but that's still an entire city. Going with NYPD numbers and some quick math (NYPD costs/officer into $1mil) and I'm coming up with 3768 officers for that cost, so 4 shifts of 942 officers. $1mil/day is insane any way you count it up, overtime or not!
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  4104. +Roxasthesupersaiyan The ugly truth is that a lot more things become acceptable once someone's ability to get access to necessities like food and water is cut off, because that's when "just put up with it for a while" becomes "just die." Tribes generally aren't people with the resources to sidestep the problem in ways you'd have access to (like paying for food and water to be brought in or moving somewhere else). People have the right to protect their own lives. In such situations, causing the least amount of harm to others and directing any harm that is unavoidable as much toward those responsible as is reasonable....that's really all it's fair to ask of people.
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  4105. Mrcharrio As my comment was saying, once you make companies pay for the full costs of production rather than externalizing it to others, then they will be paying for it themselves.
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  4106. You don't even need to read anything about socialism or communism. Just read a high-school level economics textbook (even a 100% capitalist one) and apply critical thinking. About half of the fundamental premises the entire economic system is built on are just plain wrong when you apply an ounce of critical thinking to them, and people are surprised when they whole system fails to work as advertised (and keeps acting in the same manner it has throughout its historical use).
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  4107. FUCK NO! Mecca is in Saudi Arabia. Take a moment to think about what the reaction would be across the Islamic world if we did that! O.O Instead, get off oil, spread green energy worldwide (cutting off their income and power) and let them crumble into dust to be swept up into a footnote in history.
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  4108. Btw, this means we're handing welfare money straight to the banks. Tell me how a profitable corporation is eligible for welfare? And they talk about single parents exploiting the welfare system. . . Hey, here's an idea; until we stop handing tax dollars out to profitable corporations for no reason, how 'bout we stop talking about welfare fraud. We already knowingly give huge sums of money to a few people (corporations are people after-all >.>) for no reason; it isn't an incentive, or a helping hand to those that need it, it's a hand out to some of the richest "people" in the world. Even abusing the system that much isn't enough though, so they use backdoor bs like this to get more. We can hand out billions to those that don't need it, but we can't actually help people.
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  4109. Hell, Bernie plays a little too safe in my book, so those that couldn't even endorse him are playing way too safe at best.
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  4110. Bookmark it for your midterms
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  4111. I know, peeping tom is now a legitimate career choice? Oh, but prostitution is illegal. Can I throw the book at the judge now? (specifically a dictionary opened to "consent")
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  4112. +Mankind Global Media Network well yah, when demand is inelastic (as in "does not reduce as price increases") and people will pay whatever it takes, then prices increase exponentially. If you look at healthcare costs in the US, the evidence bears that out. Allowing the markets to charge whatever the sick and injured will pay is wrong for all the same reasons that doing the same to victims of disasters is. It's called price gouging or profiteering when done outside healthcare. Whenever there isn't a balanced power dynamic between people in a transaction, free markets will inevitably create exploitation.
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  4113. Where are the responsible gun owners? Apparently living in states not run by republicans. That makes sense really; when was the last time a republican-run administration could be called responsible? You want to protect your family? Step 1: don't live in a state where the politicians want the criminals and violently insane to have guns too.
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  4114. 1st amendment means we don't have to be respectful. They need to get that through their head.
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  4115. And the rest of us feel like we're living in the twilight zone....
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  4116. Quick gauge for someone's tendency toward the Dunning–Kruger effect: Watch their reaction to failure, their own ignorance of something, or generally someone smarter than them (in some way or another that they're aware of). Those that see such things as threats are much less accurate at self-assessment because of their defensive emotional reaction. Those that see such as opportunities for self-improvement, are much more able to honestly assess their own short comings because they view such things as obstacles to be overcome rather than limitations. Never trust anyone's ability in any field from high academics to base physical performance if they reflexively avoid challenge in that field.
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  4117. Welcome to the club. I wish I could say I was supprised, but they lost the last shreds of my trust well before this. I don't mean that dismissively. I'm glad we're all coming to the same conclusion. I just mention it to let you know you're far from alone.
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  4118. ***** It's technically a form of cultural imperialism, albeit an exceedingly benevolent one. 4x strategy games call this kind of thing a "cultural victory"
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  4119. hood sam You are either delusional or uneducated about your own religion. Forget one, how about we start with 7? http://www.beholdthebeast.com/contradictions_in_the_koran.htm Finding contradictions in religions is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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  4120. +Birch Weber Following endorsements are a shortcut for lazy, uninformed voters. Responsible citizens in an informed democracy make their own minds up about the issues before the election, and then on the candidates during the election all on their own. If you're sitting back waiting for others to tell you who you should support, you're not acting like a citizen. You're acting like a serf and should expect to be treated like one.
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  4121. +Anonymous11243 like marijuana possession.
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  4122. +David Westernall not true, she's smarter than Bush. Nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is, but still smarter than Bush. She's more like a female Cheney. I think of her like Cersei Lannister, personally.
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  4123. duo1666 True, if drugs were involved, that would change things. (though most people on drugs that strong need some form of psychiatric care beyond just getting them off the drugs...but instead we lock them in prison) In that case I'd say lock him in a psychiatric ward for the duration of the prison sentence he'd get for the non-drug crimes (can be close enough to prison anyway, and prevents it from conflicting with treatment) and then transition to standard rehab after that. ...but as you say, due to our insane farce, that won't happen.
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  4124. There's a huge difference between wanting ex-cons to be able to get jobs and this. This person was convicted of stealing from an organization, only to be allowed to go right back into the position he used to commit the crime and in the same organization he stole from. Some jobs involve being in positions of trust. Being barred from working in one narrow field still leaves the vast majority of the job market open. There's no contradiction there. He can go be successful (or fail) at any of 100s of careers but you don't put someone like this in charge of a large organization's finances like you don't let a pedophile alone with children. It doesn't mean that either of them couldn't be a perfectly good programmer, engineer, graphics artist, architect, mechanic, pilot, chef, welder, etc, etc, but to put them back in the exact same job that enabled their crime before is rediculous.
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  4125. Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't take a genius to figure this out. It just takes a steady enough nerve to look at the facts as they are rather than how we wish they were. Trump is just as much a result of the system as Hillary.
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  4126. American "conservatism" is neoconservatism. Neoconservatism is fascism-lite. Both push an ideology that advocates using authoritarian means to try to turn back time to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed. The only difference is a matter of degrees.
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  4127. Irony: Bernie may well have been the DNC's last chance to not get tossed out with the GOP when the time comes.
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  4128. Yah, that "need the money" part can lead to some abhorrent abuses of power surprisingly easily. Anytime you have a 1-sided power dynamic, it's just a matter of time before it leads to abuse (and then worse and worse abuse).
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  4129. +Domus deBellum now now, it's just the CIA that actually does that. If we just got rid of the CIA both that and the torture programs could be brought to a close. Let's see, well known public figures that wanted to disband the CIA? Hmm, there was Kennedy... well, shit....
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  4130. Solution: dismantle the dept (firing 90+%) put the honest cop as the head of the dept and fill the ranks with police academy graduates while giving them support of federal detectives 'till they get on their feet. Make that the standard response and see how long this bs lasts.
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  4131. My guess: he honestly thought it was at the time, panicked, and is keeping quiet out of embarrassment now that he realized it's not. No big deal, shit happens.
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  4132. "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
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  4133. Probably not making any friends on either side of this discussion with this, but here goes... The primary WAS rigged for Hillary through what Kyle says & systematic voter suppression & hacking voting BUT due to voting machines not ALL being hacked, not all areas using electronic voting machines, and the way common types of voting works (fractional votes) it is still possible to overwhelm the system with sufficient numbers. We should BOTH support Justice Dems and take very seriously all forms of election fraud. The attitude of thinking things can't be that bad is how they get away with it. The fact that we can't verify the results of our elections is absurd, and what little evidence we have of a crime that would leave almost no evidence points to likely foul play.
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  4134. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html Plenty of stories like this about the NSA collecting info on porn viewing.
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  4135. You honestly believe the catholic church is non-profit??
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  4136. "Go over all the micro-expessions? Aint no-one got time for that!"
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  4137. At least 3rd, but right now, at least it's something.
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  4138. I don't disagree, but I think we should try to use that term more accurately in this country (especially with how much we throw it around like a good thing). How about "invasions" and "occupations"? I mean "undeclared wars" would work too, but it's a bit more cumbersome for normal use.
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  4139. +Brian Way When your hypocrisy affects government policy, yes.
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  4140. It's not a "turn" because "turn" means a change in direction. "Mainstream Media Continues it's Decades-Long, Right-Wing Shift" would be correct.
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  4141. Much as I think religion is largely negative, secularizing a population is a gradual process and has to start with getting rid of the radicals. The golden age of the Islamic world was actually back when they were most secular and accepting of skeptics and those of other faiths, so it's not incompatible with an open and tolerant society. Europe didn't go from witchhunts to largely non-religious overnight. It's a process.
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  4142. To the democrats, public opinion is something to be manipulated to get in power and push the agenda of their corporate masters. Nothing more.
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  4143. Well, when you've anti-intellectual rhetoric, are constantly cutting education funding, reject global warming, want to break up their unions, blame them for problems they are helping to solve (if they are involved at all)etc you expect to have professors supporting your party? If so, I've bad news for you: you're an idiot (and/or insane)? btw, if your ideas are constantly at odds with evidence, there's a very good chance you're wrong. ....them reading history and seeing conservatives generally loosing and being proven wrong for so long isn't helping either, but there I go bringing up facts again
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  4144. Not soon enough....can we send him pretzels, or do you think the secret service is still touchy about that little incident?
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  4145. Sure but substance over style any day of the week.
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  4146. Polls here http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/ballot-measures/maine/ Winning atm 52.7% to 47.3% at 5.9% reporting but still 43,486 morons voting against democracy....
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  4147. +Osama Rana lol, thank you! XD Would have ended the video early and missed that
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  4148. +ZodK Genetic engineering and advanced medical treatment coordinated by quantum computers is the alternative in the long run. Well it's that, benevolent tyranny (which history shows us incapable of in the long term), or just letting natural selection and disease bring our population to an equilibrium point on their own (which we may be to far away from to not go extinct from the population whiplash with how far away from it we are). This is why I strongly support transhumanism, despite the dystopian possibilities that open up once we open that pandora's box. The only way to avoid natural selection in the long term is to transcend it entirely. The current age is just a transition period. We still have the choice of "to what" but we can't maintain things as they are. That goes for the narrow scope of about 10 years all the way up to the roughly 500 year period we're smack-dab in the middle of that will be the most change-filled centuries in all of human history. (past or future)
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  4149. Sadly, no, we're there to stoke the flames of war in the middle east to keep they gravy train going for the military contractors and weapons manufacturers as well as keep the nice political tool for the politicians to control the public. Case in point: look at how we've deliberately targeted first responders with drone strikes. I've yet to see even a basic devil's advocate argument for that being anything else other than intentionally creating enemies and prolonging conflict. The disgusting truth is the current state of the middle east is things going according to plan for the Washington establishment. Both the Bush and Obama administrations should be on trial for war crimes and treason.
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  4150. It's not about being lazy, it's more about not liking anything/anyone having control over them. All too often, the people who end up at the top of the chain of command are there for the power-trip, so it should be expected that they're going to push back against any limits that are set on them, no matter how trivial.
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  4151. Therrydicule Are you kidding? Bernie's policy positions line up with what most of the public wants. If the media wasn't biased, he would have won in a landslide. There's loads of evidence showing them being massively biased for her and against Bernie in the primary.
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  4152. This is great, but let's keep this in perspective. This isn't Obama doing the right thing. This is Obama stopping doing the wrong thing years late and in the most lukewarm way possible. He was the reason she was tortured in there for years in the first place. He still demolished the record in suppressing whistleblowers. He oversaw the warcrimes she exposed and did nothing substantial about them. He could have done this years ago. He could have granted a full pardon. He could have pardoned Asange and Snowden too. This very slightly lightens one of the black marks against him, nothing more.
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  4153. +ColdNapalm42 Honestly, I have trouble believing he has any martial arts training, and idea that he has any weapons-based training just makes my head hurt. He's just too awkward in his movements. This looks more like something he saw a bad tutorial of online the day before filming this and then made a mess of trying to teach made up techniques. I know some "dojo" are utter BS and I might be a bit naive on them, but it's hard to imagine someone coming out of any school THIS bad!
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  4154. No, habitable and inhabitable both mean able to be lived in. Welcome to the english language (yes, you're on that side of the rabbit hole)
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  4155. It seems that every decade or so some insecure politicians in some state try to ban sex toys. ...people preferring to use a masturbation aid rather than have sex with you is not good enough reason to ban something, sorry.
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  4156. only if we bow in fear.
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  4157. Bill Maher doesn't have solid principles and he's not even that smart. He just plays a part on TV that's designed to be cathartic to pissed off liberals while staying within the confines of the Dem/corporate establishment. Basically, he's a tool to keep the left's anger directed at the GOP, nothing more. If you want a less polished, but actually not fake version of Maher, look up Jimmy Dore.
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  4158. Bill Maher doesn't have solid principles and he's not even that smart. He just plays a part on TV that's designed to be cathartic to pissed off liberals while staying within the confines of the Dem/corporate establishment. Basically, he's a tool to keep the left's anger directed at the GOP, nothing more. If you want a less polished, but actually not fake version of Maher, look up Jimmy Dore.
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  4159. Nonono, disappearing change uses quantum tunneling to find the nearest couch-like thing to hide in. It's like socks in your dryer, just replacing the parallel universe with a couch in this universe. (Fun fact: the replacement mass that gets created to obey conservation of mass is a possible source of dark matter but they haven't gotten a the lhc to work with socks yet)
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  4160. Sadly that's all "support our troops" here; you know, carry their coffin once they come back and die. The authorities take people that want to defend this country, send them to die for profits and propaganda, let many survivors go homeless &/or without adequate medical care, treat their friends and families like shit while destroying they freedoms they tell the troops they're fighting for. When you look at it, it shows the stunning level of restraint our vets have that these fucks are still alive doesn't it?
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  4161. The real danger is not skynet. The real danger is the corporations making these deciding they don't need governments to supply soldiers anymore.
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  4162. To be fair, this isn't technically a "natural" disaster and our government stopped caring about that state decades ago (except to lie to them every election and go right back to ignoring them after that).
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  4163. "The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War." -Benjamin Franklin Frankly, I'll trust him over the myths we've been telling ourselves for our entire history (especially since our politicians started giving more and more power to the banks and want to pretend that there's nothing wrong with that) Sure, taxes were involved, and make a quick and pithy reason that's easy for people to understand and act on, but let's not just fall back on blaming it all on taxes again.
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  4164. Come on Kyle, do you really think Trump care's more about his signature's integrity than his porn access? This is just people so stupid that they're anti-porn being repeatedly lied to by a compulsive liar and too dumb to realize it.
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  4165. suppressing the vote is helping a republican win in the democrats primary too Seriously though, where I live, I've never seen a line >3x longer than the number of voting machines no matter when I've gone in to vote. Surprise surprise, it's a mostly white suburb. There's really no excuse for lines longer at a voting location than you'd accept from a place of business. Any significant delay means that where you live absolutely has a shortage of democracy. The fact that there are places where voting lines look like ration lines is sickening.
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  4166. Victoria Shi Unfortunately, the rules against using public funds for political promoting probably would get in the way, and the cost-free methods would rely on mass media. Closest thing I can think of that would be legal would be to have 1-3 high-ranking officers with respected service systematically try to appear on as many different media outlets as possible in a short amount of time. It'll end up being mostly new media, and maybe NPR & Stephen Colbert (the big news stations will have no interest in their platforms being used to spread this kind of message), but it'd be something at least, and if we got lucky a clip or 2 would go viral and actually hit the idiots that still get their "news" from TV and print.
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  4167. Alternative title: how to make a bad plan
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  4168. Alright not that familiar with this but I've gotta ask now: So the justice system there puts out information as public, some people put it together into a documentary, and the same system then demands to know where they got that information? Do I have that right??
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  4169. So, basically anyone more than 1 level up the CIA's hierarchy?
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  4170. SJW arguing with a troll, live version.
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  4171. or to put it another way: Rush is unworthy of being called a homo SAPIEN
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  4172. Current nuclear reactors are less dangerous than commonly believed, and many next-gen reactors are: -actually immune to accidental meltdown (even in perfect storm situations like Fukushima) -don't contribute to weapons proliferation (not a problem domestically, but still a plus globally) -and produce very little waste (and some can even burn current nuclear waste as fuel ) Not only that, but all reactors we've had problems with have been actually 1-1.5 generations old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_II_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor Later Gen3 reactors are actually very safe, and Gen4 reactors are very different machines entirely to the crude Gen2 reactors that produce most of our current nuclear power to the point where they're closer to fission in many practical respects (safety, waste, abundance of fuel) and nearly done development already. We should really be fast tracking their development while emphasizing differences between them and old reactors like the fact that they will never melt down.
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  4173. Usamljeny Nitko You still will need: -fuel refining (we'll likely be using a deuterium-tritium mixture that will be need to be electrolized from water, refigned to get the deuterium as opposed to plain hydrogen, and then probably enriched in some fashion to get the less stable tritium) -powerplant construction & maintenance (and likely paying off the investors that will be paying for what will likely be massive and very expensive powerplants) -power grid maintenance Just because the fuel is abundant doesn't mean there are no costs in operation, just that you've eliminated a major one.
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  4174. Yup, planting evidence that "proves" guilt, withholding evidence that proves innocence, etc. If you use a position of authority (police, prosecution, etc) to wrongly convict someone you should get whatever sentence they would have. (wanna take bets on how fast the death penalty would vanish?) Unfortunately, the opposite is true; the situations where you're legally allowed to bring a lawsuit against them for that kind of misconduct are actively limited. Justice department my ass!
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  4175. +Riceball01 Exactly, and it's pretty easy to guess which type of tanks more people had more exposure to. Also, within WW2, tanks would likely be being compared to other vehicles, not infantry when calling them slow. Compared to the utility vehicles (trucks, jeeps, and motorcycles) and armored cars (APCs, self-propelled artillery, & self propelled anti-air) which generally could move at 35-75mph(56-121km/h), with most at about 50mph(80km/h), the 8-16mph (13-26km/h) (on road & significantly slower off road, where they spent more time) top speeds of infantry tanks are quite slow. The fact that larger objects moving at a distance appear to be moving slower than they are only amplifies this effect. Combine this with the fact that even the heavier of the "armored" cars were only resistant to mid-caliber machine gun fire, but were basically made of tin-foil when confronted with even a 20mm autocannon (which are the smallest thing that can be called a cannon, were small enough that they functioned basically like a heavy machine gun, and were a small fraction of the size of most small tank cannons) and things start to come into perspective. Put in context (either WW1 or WW2) tanks as slow, but hard to destroy makes total sense, even if it doesn't apply to modern tanks or even the faster tanks of WW2.
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  4176. +chris Dejesus He has been providing an argument, and quite clearly. The fact is that not everyone reacts to every drug within a class of drugs the same way. Even in cases where it is not a full out allergy, the occurrence of side effects can vary widely from individual to individual. Further, genetic differences can alter how fast these drugs are metabolized, meaning that doctors can maximize the effectiveness of their treatment under the same dose by matching the medication to the patient. The simple fact is that neither these drugs nor individual human bodies are chemically identical, and so can not always be assumed to be universally interchangeable. Just using the morphine vs oxy example you brought up, they don't have the same list of side effects, average rates of occurrence for ones they share, and aren't even entirely the same class of drug (not all opioids are opiates). https://treato.com/Morphine,Oxycodone/?a=s Limiting the use of these drugs on the basis of what sounds good rather than evidence will cause harm while providing no benefit.
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  4177. Chris Grant story of history, sadly
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  4178. When has a debate moderator been truly hard on a candidate? We can make a deal though: no moderator if you let Stein and Johnson in.
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  4179. Zuckerburg must never win ANY political office. Ever.
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  4180. lucidity The (sane) argument against unions is that many become rather corrupt. It's better than the situation before unions, to be sure, but they do tend to slip into the "necessary evil" category often, and don't always work in the interests of all their members. As we see with our 2-party system "I'm all that's standing between you and the other guy" can get corrupt organizations a lot of room to fuck people over.
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  4181. Javed Alam Exactly. There's much less potential for abuse in healthcare, because people aren't inclined to take more than they need. (seriously, does "hm, I feel great, but let's go to the doctor's office and get unnecessary treatment because I can" make sense to anyone?) On top of that, even if they did for some inane reason, having one set of hoops to jump through and get practiced with is still better than having a dozen+ to learn.
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  4182. +KeyofEden7 not to mention practicing cognitive dissonance as a virtue is going to lead to all sorts of problems that could be avoided.
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  4183. +Mass Debator having a horrendously evil VP does seem to be a strategy for job security. Just look at Bush and Chaney.
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  4184. with respect to change: Liberal-open to new ideas and ways of doing things Conservative-opposes change from the current norms Neo-Conservative-seeks to "return" to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed. Neo-Liberal-a neo-con using a paper-thin veneer of social liberalism to trick liberals into voting for them btw, students of history will notice that neo-conservatism (and by extension "neo-liberalism", if you can really call that a thing) is just facism-lite/proto-facism.
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  4185. This kind of thing is why we need to start running bills past the justice dept for a speed read before they become law. We shouldn't need to wait for someone to get together a court case and the lengthy appeal process needed to get to the higher courts for blatantly unconstitutional bills to be ruled as such. Sure it would mean something like half (or more) of the bills from congress that the president (or governor) passes would never become law, but I'm good with that. (And stop only saying part of a law is unconstitutional. Maybe if the whole thing keeps getting struck down because of one part they'll stop making needlessly convoluted laws and sticking 50 unrelated things into 1 bill)
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  4186. Problem is that's why they want it in the first place. Imagine what having a massive database full of blackmail on nearly every citizen can be used for. And sadly, that's not speculation. It's been shown that at least the US government has deliberately archived extremely private data with no possible criminal relevance. (such as nude pictures&video) So, basically, the NSA shredded your rights and used your tax dollars to create what has to be the largest database of illegal amateur porn and blackmail that has ever been created.
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  4187. See this playlist for that: Hello future me writing magic systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNudWoRTw--26J1ObtJbqAOw5TvoY_rOO Edit: also see https://youtu.be/jXAcA_y3l6M and https://youtu.be/Hm7S4g85qPo and https://youtu.be/WKSu1uJFYFs
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  4188. +the Martyrer (reposing this as my comment seems to have vanished yet again) To be clear, I'm talking about individual commenters being able to just block trolls for themselves, personally, effectively muting all their comments, past and future. This is great for the "don't feed the trolls" advice as you never have to remember if someone's a troll, saves clutter of BS in the comment sections for you, and is even a little satisfying each time you do it. I'm not, however, talking about Kyle wasting his time searching through the comments to filter out trolls or just blocking people I disagree with (opposing viewpoints, even incorrect ones=/=trolls)
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  4189. They didn't develop it, they just bought it. It was either created by one guy in his free time, or stolen from the VA by legal trickery.
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  4190. It is true. The "2-party" system has been the dems and gop playing good-cop/bad-cop on the country for decades on behalf of their "donors". Once you realize that a lot of large corporate "donors" give money to BOTH parties in the same election cycle, it starts to become pretty clear what's actually happening.
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  4191. There's also a lot of specific things from this past primary/election cycle that prove it too.
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  4192. David Edwards if America really wanted war durring the crisis, they would have just pointed to the evidence of the missles and called it a preemptive strike and struck immediately. You don't need an elaborate conspiracy for something that simple. The US government has done plenty of fucked up shit, but not everything's a conspiracy.
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  4193. +some “stupidusernamestho” body not sure you understand how angry the public already are or how mad they'll be after 4 years of the unlubed pounding we're about to get. More and more of the country is aware and being backed into a corner where their ONLY choice is radical change from this near-distopian status-quo.
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  4194. "They'll learn and become conservative" No, what we learned is that choosing the lesser of 2 evils only leads to a continually worse choice of evils. We've learned a lot from how the older generations Failed, and no, we won't be repeating those mistakes if for no other reason than we've inherited a situation so bad that we can't Afford to! Destroying the status quo IS the only option left.
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  4195. Technically Bernie's for positive change Hillary's for negative change Trump's for accelerating negative change
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  4196. Larry Summers The Colbert Report was extra-hilarious before politicians figured out it was satire! They'd start the interview nodding and agreeing like they were talking to some pandering nut on Fox news only for the realization to slowly come across their face WAY too late in the interview to do anything about it. Then the next episode, you'd get the same thing happen again with someone new. (presumably because each one was too ashamed to admit what happened to them and just went back to the capitol and kept it as quiet as a drunken night full of regrets) It was Priceless and went on for Months!
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  4197. By my read of it, Bernie's trying to keep the dems strong for 2018, and waiting 'till probably 2019 to see how his health is doing to make any commitments. I'm willing to vote dem in 2020 IF we get Warren or better. (and tbh, Warren's already the compromise vote at this point so don't even waste my time with anyone right of her)
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  4198. Constitution? You mean that thing we haven't been using since 9/11 that both you and Hillary have shown nothing but utter contempt for? Yah, it'd be nice for that to matter again, but any of you establishment hacks complaining about that is a complete joke!
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  4199. EASYTIGER10 Kyle changes titles like that to try and get around automated add blocking.
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  4200. +KorKhan89 Well, that and how firearms do make that kind of amassing of power easier and faster since they take less training than the bow.
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  4201. +MrDoobysm oh please, there's a huge power imbalance between employers and employees that means that workers almost never get a fair wage if they don't organize. For any negotiations to reach a fair outcome, all parties need to be on roughly even footing. Just look at the macro picture with how productivity has been constantly rising while wages have been flatlined for decades to see that your argument is just plain wrong.
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  4202. +Daniel Jr Yah, that's the detail that makes me believe the $85k. Surface damage like scratches or stains is one thing, but to damage the physical structure of a hardwood floor is not easy!
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  4203. +A Skeptical Human That describes quite a few of our founding fathers, actually. If I remember correctly, more than one of them had a personal copy of the bible that they had "edited" by basically ripping huge sections out of because they thought they were BS. ...really could use to have that practice come back actually, come to think of it. Of course, this was all pre-Darwin, and I expect most of them (at least most of the diests) would have been atheists with access to even 1900s-era science to explain a just a couple more of the big questions. (Really, Darwin's work alone would have probably flipped many of them)
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  4204. This looks more like paranoid schizophrenia, which does, by the way, get worse the longer it goes untreated.
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  4205. +Some Person Thank you. Really wish more people would look up the definitions of terms before throwing them around.
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  4206. Other than the obvious populist argument used here (which we can't seem to get used for issues with over 80% support) here's how you take this inch and get a mile: "Why should veterans have to choose between their home state and treatment they need?" "If we're giving it to vets for ptsd, how about for some victims of rape and severe domestic abuse? They can get pretty severe PTSD too, or (for example) has someone who was violently raped by their father for years when they were a child not suffered enough in your eyes? "So we're using it to help these victims of trauma all over the country, with your permission, so how can you say it has no medical use? Remove the schedule 1 classification now." after that, the momentum of the decriminalization of it (and everyone seeing the doomsday rhetoric for the BS it is) should carry through into full legalization. Hey, if lies are a slippery slope, why shouldn't truth be too?
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  4207. Hilary was already more bought than Obama last time. If you think her campaign promises mean anything more than Obama's, you haven't looked at her "positions" enough. Just take a look at her position on healthcare changing from when she was first lady to the 2008 primaries. She's a corporate shill who will say whatever she thinks you want to hear, nothing more!
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  4208. All the media outlets out there lying to promote the hate that caused this, but we're gonna sue the clinic? Logic fail there While we're on the subject of logic fails, isn't the existence of an insanity plea an admission that our prisons are not places of rehabilitation? Slightly off topic to the case mentioned but still....
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  4209. ". . . tell them. . . how hard we must fight to keep our state straight" Not only struggling with his same-sex attraction, but probably not doing a very good job of it. Really starting to get the impression that some of the support of these bathroom bills is certain people wanting to know who the MtF trans people around them are for more "personal" reasons....which is several levels of creepy....
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  4210. If there was ever a time for an "I told you so"...
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  4211. Idea: cops don't get pistols anymore. They get tazers and rifles. Tazers have more stopping power and are far less likely to kill. The few situations where a gun would be better (such as a mass shooting) the rifle's accuracy and power will be preferred over a pistol, and you'll have enough warning to get it out of where you've stashed it in the car. Side benefit: cops might start viewing tazers as "that thing I reach for when I'm in danger" instead of "that thing I reach for when someone's pissed me off and I want to hurt them."
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  4212. Brian Mek that's what happens when your job is to push idiotic BS.
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  4213. I know the feeling...I had to watch Bush get elected twice before I could vote... Hell, I'm 27 and we're still getting the condescending attitude as if our generation is still 16-18, are still children, and don't know how the world works....despite the fact that I understood politics and policy better than them when I was your age This from the generations dumb enough to put Bush in office twice and spineless enough to hand over basically all their rights without much complaint. Thankfully, every year there are fewer of them and more of us. We nearly one this time, we will win in 2020. For now, just do what you can to help your peers be as politically active and informed as possible and endure. (We need as many of you disgusted and angry with the status quo as we can get in 2020) Oh and try to keep them away from tumbler. They've been using the worst parts of tumbler as a strawman-like example of everyone under 30 for so long now...
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  4214. Bernie didn't convince us Hillary was the establishment candidate; she did that herself years ago.
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  4215. Did they really just imply that populism and democracy were in opposition? How stupid are they?
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  4216. I'm still kinda surprised how many people he can find that are savvy enough to have a contracting business but foolish enough to do work for Trump without getting the money upfront.
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  4217. "Balloons and parades" That a euphemism for bubbles and protests?
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  4218. +Nagoragama No, undermining the remaining integrity of our elections (and therefor entire form of government) by supporting someone guilty of election fraud is what's myopic. I hope I don't need to spell out why.
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  4219. +MrBrainFog that's what I get for posting from my phone, fixed
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  4220. Yup, we will keep fighting for these causes as long as it takes to win. Stand for what's right and don't back down or kneel before the oligarchs: those are the only choices. It comes down to dignity in the end. All who believe that America is supposed to be the "land of the free and home of the brave" must accept 1 mantra: "We do not kneel" Oligarchs rig elections? We do not kneel Terrorism demands us turn our backs on our principles for security? We do not kneel Others kneel leaving us the nail that sticks up? Just the same: We do not kneel!
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  4221. ***** We've been largely DEregluating as economic inequality has been increasing. (such as removing Glass-Stegall, as NoNameGibbon mentioned) What I've described is the inevitable trend of unregulated markets. The result is always the same throughout history. The great depression was not complicated and was only unprecedented in terms of its scale, not what caused it: Unregulated banking always leads to economic crashes. Unregulated capitalism always leads to exploitation and massive wealth disparity. (how free are you really when it's put up with anything your employer does or demands, or starve?) If you need evidence of this, just go look at 3rd world factory conditions.
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  4222. Takyr Dai lol obvious troll is obvious. Still, saying the north was the side enslaving people is fucking rich!
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  4223. +Levity Technically, we're a Democratic Republic (Federal, Constitutional, Democratic Republic if you want to be super technical). There's a world of difference between that and non-democratic republics. Of course, that's only on paper these days. Not in practice.
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  4224. Isn't it sad how abuses of the electoral process far worse than what Nixon did are commonplace? I, for one, don't believe for a second that at least half of this isn't intentional.
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  4225. +Wolf von Versweber yup. I'm not a vegetarian, but reducing meat consumption isn't really hard at all. It can be surprising how far "I'll just eat a little less meat than I used to" can take you if you keep that mindset up. "I can go without right now" and "I don't need that big a portion" are a lot easier than going "no meat ever" There are plenty of foods that are delicious that we don't gorge ourselves on for various reasons from "it's too expensive" to "it's not good for me" but still treat ourselves to, and that mindset is much better for limiting consumption than trying to get as many people as possible not to eat them at all. That and/or buy only antibiotic free meat. It's more expensive, but it avoids the problem (and paying more of the real cost will encourage a more realistic relationship with it as a food rather than now where a very large portion of the cost of meat production is externalized in several ways to create artificially low prices)
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  4226. liberty2014 Whoever you're listening to is just flat out lying to you. All of the evidence (of which there are mountains of), as well as basic physics shows man-made climate change. Do some research outside of your right-wing echo chambers, so you can hear more than the propaganda of the oil industry. Even the pentagon has been calling for action on climate change for over a decade.
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  4227. Silver lining: these 4 years may be bad enough to finally slap this country out of it's apathy. We've been like the proverbial frog in the pot getting slowly cooked to death because the temperature is getting turned up slowly, but Trump is turning it up to high and taking away the water, leaving us on a rapidly heating piece of metal.
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  4228. Rabninja Won I guessed it was sarcastic and was amused, but this is why I always try to remember to make a note like /sarcasm This is youtube comments.  No matter how stupid the literal interpretation of what you type is, there's someone somewhere typing something dumber in full sincerity. Remember Einstein: "There are only 2 things that are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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  4229. You're expecting someone using yahoo search for porn to know that? We should be glad he wasn't using an Aol browser from the sounds of it.
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  4230. AustinFan4Life I understand the perspective completely, and am saying that nearly all the time-frames (including the 6-8 months you mentioned) are inexcusable results of the system not living up to the constitution's demands of them, so the system needs overhauled. I'm not saying they're dragging their feet specifically for her. They might be, but I don't have evidence to that and suspect that it is significantly more complex than that. Your time estimates are probably about right for the realities of the system we have, though I don't think her trial is going to have much, if any effect on her and congress working together. I expect it to be about the same as Obama's relations with them both before and after the impeachment. (so basically near-total obstructionism with the exception of more war and fucking over the american people)
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  4231. I think the biggest issue here is actually reading comprehension (or rather the lack thereof) Using the 1st amendment to argue for censorship? Really?
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  4232. Abhishek Mahendru Always vote, even if it's 3rd party or write in as a protest. Sure you're throwing away the vote, but might as well do it in symbolic protest rather than apparent apathy.
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  4233. I'd say that Trump is the bigger threat, but he's also a big enough threat that he might be the wakeup call that finally gets the country back on track, so Hillary might still be "worse" in the long run. Either way, I'm voting independent to help the chances of getting someone who will actually represent us in the next election if nothing else.
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  4234. Charlie Albright Musashi op, needs nerfed
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  4235. They know it's coming too. Look how automatic setting up a perimeter to protect the cops from the public has become. In many places, they've become the enemy of the people and they know it because they've chosen to be.
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  4236. If you don't think ALL of those are indespensible, you're in the wrong damn country! Gtfo
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  4237. ***** Yes, because limiting German immigration worked so well back when they were having their issues with crazies. /Sarcasm However much you dislike it, you have to allow for an outflow of peoples from areas with these kinds of problems, or you're complicit in their atrocities. Being too afraid that some of the wrong ones will slip through isn't "having balls", it's being cowardly to a degree where you become ethically liable for whatever happens.
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  4238. +Tria Maxwell Unfortunately, they shot first, and we couldn't well permit such atrocities as chattel slavery on our doorstep... That said, we would have been much better off without them.
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  4239. again.
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  4240. Short answer: Money is power, and power includes the ability to acquire more power. When people don't constantly fight it, this result is inevitable and exponential in pace.
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  4241. +TheVirtuousVulcan there's plenty of things that could be done. Even just doctors telling people that pain is one of the normal symptoms of coming off these kinds of meds would go a long way to them not taking the meds too long. Anyone with half a brain and a rough understanding of the problem can come up with 1-2 decent ways to address the problem, and these politicians come up with the ONE way that's just flat out stupid.
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  4242. Even in the general population, more religious population have higher rates of violent crime. This goes for states and countries. Atheists do have higher rates of petty things like underage alcohol consumption and illegal drug use, but then one would expect laws that are largely BS to people who's moral code is based more on compassion and reciprocity than obedience. Atheists also have lower rates of divorce in the US, btw, though that's likely largely because of the correlation between conservatism and divorce and atheism and liberalism. Sure, there's pressure to convert in prison, but when same correlations bear out on both sides of those walls, that's pretty obviously not all that's going on. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201103/misinformation-and-facts-about-secularism-and-religion
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  4243. If someone refused to date you because of differences in formal education, income, etc (regardless of which direction the difference they don't like is in) you should thank them. They just saved you the unpleasantness of being in a relationship with them and gave you the chance to keep looking for someone worth your time.
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  4244. Why have we come to the point where reality-based public policy is news? -.-
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  4245. ***** Sadly, tranquilizers that are in safe enough dosages not to kill their target don't work that fast. It takes minutes for the best of those to work (and those you need to still apply medical treatment to keep them from dying), meanwhile, you've just further angered an ape with what amounts to a hostage. The only realistic solution is to try and keep stupid humans out of the animal pens.
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  4246. The God Emperor Maher is, and has always been, an establishment tool to defign the left-most position of the Overton window and to keep the left's anger dirrected at the Republicans. This was cathartic and at least somewhat useful under Bush, but he became a problem long ago.
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  4247. $1.22/min for a phone call? Even if you triple the base costs of $0.04/min, you still have $1.10/min or $66/hr. You could hire people to go over recordings of every phone call twice (which is insane for normal prisoners) at $20/hr and still have $26/hr/call left over. Who's pocketing all that? (Also, we're not supposed to have guilt by association here, so leave the family alone!)
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  4248. Can anyone find information on whether they tested for anything else? This sounds more like it was laced with something at this point, since it doesn't even fall within any range of abnormal reactions to pot that I've ever heard of.
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  4249. RandomGuy7092 don't feed the troll
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  4250. Honestly, the phones aren't the main problem, they're just bringing to the front a problem that was already there (& is getting worse). It's not exactly about manners, or entitlement (though those certainly have something to do with it), but rather about a lack of being able to see things from others' perspectives, how you're inconveniencing others, or themselves in perspective of the situation, rather than their own. It's not that surprising, really. We already had a hyper-individualistic & competitive (as opposed to cooperative) culture, and our social institutions (political & economic) push up to positions of power an unhealthily large percentage of psychopaths & extreme narcissists (plenty of studies on those demographics). Those types of people tend to treat others unfairly, & when combined with the growing income gap despite increased productivity people tend to know that 40hrs a week, they're being treated unfairly. Humans tend to treat others similarly to how they've recently been treated (whether we're talking random acts of kindness, or rudeness) and so they treat each other unfairly as well, creating a feedback loop. It's a lot like how a good portion of bullies in schools are bullies because they are treated poorly at home, & than are taking it out on other children (who often take it out on others again, if they can) It's really just basic displacement-style defense mechanisms to mistreatment applied on a large social scale. btw, the feedback loop will continue until the source of the problem is addressed, the social structure it's reverberating through changes, or it reaches some critical level where it has to find a more drastic outlet than everyone treating everyone else like shit.
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  4251. I think we have reached the point where "siege" is a more accurate term than "blockade."
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  4252. "Should have done something to determine who was going to win" What, like make them vote on hackable electronic voting machines with no paper to verify the result? Yah, that'd be a great way to undermine democratic elections while still tricking them into thinking they were fair.
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  4253. gatesbrown26 Then you've still doubled the chances of there being a witness there or one walking in (which being away from witnesses would be the only reason that being in the bathroom would be more dangerous anyway)
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  4254. ***** "This is about women who don't want men in their restrooms." ...so your solution is to tell someone that was born female but dresses, identifies, and due to transitioning looks entirely like a man to go into the women's restroom? Because that's what these laws would mandate (as opposed to that person walking into the men's room, sitting in a stall, and no one having a clue) "This isn't about men like me." No, this is entirely about men like you and your desire to discriminate, nothing else. as you put it: "that is your issue."
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  4255. "Focus on the injustices in Muslim countries so you don't notice us opening the door for shiria law in this country in our attempts to impose fundamentalist Christian law." -Sean Hannity (paraphrased)
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  4256. No, that response vid was perfect. That shrug at the end of "yah, we all age, big deal, still hot" had me pausing the video to laugh.
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  4257. Well, they've already shown how little they care about content creators with the "where's the fair use" issue recently. I don't want to sound too conspiratorial, but Youtube is owned by the same company that was shown to be altering web search results to grossly favor Hillary. (google) Is it really that much of a stretch that they'd be trying to quiet alternative news media?
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  4258. To top it off, let's keep in mind that including all voters in your primary would make you more likely to win the general election since your primary voters would be more representative of the voters in the general election.
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  4259. Like debating Hitler vs Stalin: It's a moot point. They're both so far away from qualified for the job that discussing the differences is a waste of time.
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  4260. Yoga and meditation have religious origins, yes, but they are fundamentally physical and mental exercises completely separable from where they came from. They're even separable from each other. As a side note, yoga is excellent at fixing muscle imbalances and toning the small, posture-improving muscles that normal exercises miss, and that modern life often lets atrophy. (And so is excellent for things like posture-caused back pain) It may look silly, but it's actually an extremely solid exercise system. (and meditation is at least as sound) Unlike a lot of stuff the "new age" movement likes to fluff up, meditation and yoga are rock solid once you get past the overly flashy presentation.
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  4261. Spring steel is referring to carbon steel of a particular range of carbon content and a heat-treating process that makes it spring back to shape rather than staying bent.
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  4262. It is, but only if you learn from it and try something else. It's the difference between "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." FDR And Einstein's definition of insanity: "doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results" In short "just try something" only works when you don't already know a method will fail (so you're not Hillary or other Republicans)
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  4263. You know what conservatives want? Strength. Having a consistent voting record that matches their plain rhetoric shows that, as does not backing down from labels. Responding to "he's a socialist" with "yes, I'm a democratic socialist, and here's what that means" shows strength too. Bernie polled great among independents and plenty of republicans were planning to flip to vote Bernie way back in the primary if it was Bernie vs Trump in the general. General rules for spineless, corrupt, establishment dems don't really apply to strong, real progressives the same way.
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  4264. If you think you can trigger-warning everything, you don't understand ptsd triggers. They can be anything, so trying to create some kind of "safe space" where all possible triggers are eliminated or even labeled with warnings is BS. You're tilting at windmills and just showing that you have the arrogance to try to champion a problem you haven't taken the time to understand.
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  4265. Wearing a tutu in a bar is "pushing it in someone's face" but attacking that person isn't pushing your bigotry and fists in their face? Just look at the rates of violence against trans people and this victim-blaming gets really ugly. "He was kinda asking for it" is almost NEVER an acceptable comment regardless of the situation and the fact that a lot of people in this country (and even often our laws) can be opposed to assault and then add that "but" is disturbed to say the least. We have freedom of expression in this country. If you don't like it, gtfo.
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  4266. Keep in mind: -This is 90mil in cleanup only (nothing for the damage already inflicted) -We still haven't signed the treaty banning cluster bombs and are still using them
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  4267. Seriously? "Black robe regiment" That's the symbolism you want? I know you're going for something earlier, but right-wing, black-uniformed, revolutionary paramilitary groups has a much more powerful and recent associations. (Hint: Germany & Itally) Hell, Blackshirts was the actual name of a fascist group iconic and successful enough to be a real life trope-namer for a tv-tropes page that starts, "Black Shirts are closet evil minions . . ." . . . and this is the symbolism you're choosing?
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  4268. +brettartie That's a fact, actually, and since the older generations get most of their information from the MSM, it refutes the first point as well.
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  4269. Nuke Busters Ron Paul is honest, and having him in congress is good, but "the real deal" he isn't. Economics doesn't work the way he thinks and his policies in that area would be disastrous to implement. The GOP keeps him around to have a good face to put on the economic anarchism they call "free market capitalism" when they're backed into a corner. That all said, he makes a good face for it because he's honest and nearly always right (or at least decent) about social and foreign policy, so it's not all bad, and we're going to need all the help we can get on those fronts in the next few years.
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  4270. Nuke Busters Most money in existence is, by far, actually created by the banks and the money supply does need to be able to change to deal with changes in the economy (I don't agree that the banks should do that, and the federal government borrowing use of it's own currency from private entities it created is absurd, but that's another discussion). The ugly truth of anarchy (economic or otherwise) is that it leads to continually escalating concentration of and abuses of private power without fail. The only way around that is to make an entity powerful enough to stop that, or at least put a check on it, and make it beholden to the people. We call this democratic government. Strip away the power of that entity, and you'll end up in the same kind of position beholden to a powerful entity, only without democracy involved this time. Capitalism is all about accumulating wealth and if you want it to work for the people by creating wealth rather than just extracting it from those people, you need a government strong enough to enforce rules in the marketplace to make that a reality. Or as FDR put it "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." Is it often inefficient and problematic? Yes, but "free market capitalism" is worse by a longshot, and Ron, for everything he gets right, misses this fundamental truth (as well as other issues with capitalism that need action to avert the worst consequences of, such as desperation and poverty not making good voters)
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  4271. Ronin Dave projecting like Republicans is how I knew the corporate Dems were way past saving.
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  4272. Check the other vids We might actually get ranked voting in Maine which would be a huge victory.
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  4273. Marco Antônio Oh, that I agree with, no question. Just pointing out the difference in the structure of the inner-circle of power (if anything, Trump's is more dangerous)
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  4274. Sad thing is, that's literally true to the extreme with the terrorism that comes from the fundamentalists in the anti-abortion camp. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html?_r=0
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  4275. Because no establishment democrat would win a primary again and corporations wouldn't be able to use as much psychology in ads to manipulate people into buying crappy products. I was lucky enough that I was taught how to recognize BS as an extra curricular via http://agloa.org/propaganda/ (an academic game) but even just incorporating logical fallacies into the reading and writing portions of standardized testing would drastically change education almost overnight. They'll never take that incredibly easy, simple, and obviously right choice because a public with critical thinking is the last thing they want. What they want is to be able to marginalize and control non-mainstream news sources by legislating what is "truth" and the Overton window into a hard rule. That's their goal now, because the real left is a bigger threat to them than Trump.
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  4276. +Drakkar Calethiel That's odd. SCA heavy fighting used fiberglass shafts for spears because they break into fibers rather than sharp points when they break (though unlike broken rattan swords, I haven't personally seen this). They use a simple PVC cap to keep the blunt edge of the pipe from pushing into the foam head, but it's pretty simple construction. Is this kind of thing only an issue with the really narrow fiberglass cores?
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  4277. Scott Estrada I tend to shorten that mindset to "the best poetry tends to have multiple valid interpretations, and origional intent means less than what can be taken from it."
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  4278. 4thHogage when the only thing you understand is violence and hate.... The thin-skinned, bigoted monster switched flavor of conservative extremism and couldn't take being a minority or the social ostracism of his "friends", so, without someone to do violence on his behaf, took matters into his own hands in the only way he understood. Nothing about this is strange.
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  4279. Zeldagigafan don't kind yourself. The GOP will never be ok with Cuba until they open themselves up to the mega-corps that run this country because that's who they really serve.
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  4280. +Arch G If you think Trump was "simply telling them to report the truth" you haven't been paying attention to his very clear track record toward the media.
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  4281. +Ashley Small Well done. Very well done.
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  4282. "Too much anger"...what? You can't possibly be so out of touch that you don't realize the American people are really pissed off, can you?
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  4283. Well, they legalized bribery. This is really only being consistent at this point....
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  4284. Kyle, I really don't think Trump cares what happens after he's dead.
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  4285. scotaloo7 7g7 I know you won't listen, but for public record before I go: "Trump gets tons of death threats, Bernie doesn't and everyone knows Trump is more likely to get assassinated than Bernie." Again, Bernie's had one of his offices shot up. Until bullets start going in Trump's direction we're not even having that conversation.
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  4286. Erika to set an example. That's the harsh truth.
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  4287. Look at it this way: if us decent people left, would you trust these people with the nukes?
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  4288. "Open invitation to sex" "Gang related" Wtf? 1st: Whoever wrote that should be fired on account of sheer stupidity. 2nd: They're likely a pedophile/rapist and so need to be removed from being in a school asap. (Not joking about that: if you see a kid wearing that shirt and think "sexually provocative" there's something wrong in your head)
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  4289. Watch this breakdown of how JP's core arguments are just logical fallacies and realize this is overly kind to him: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcIPV7s4KSBe8iCczxI0GwLhyOa1O2TN
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  4290. Everyone of faith does; it's the only way to deal with the contradictions. What they choose is always telling of their character, however. (Which in this case is hard to tell over the whining that they no longer have a sith as pope)
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  4291. +Alex Cuellar The leaks proved that the Dem establishment was colluding with the MSM to push forward Trump in the primary in the hopes that he was too extreme a candidate to beat Hillary. Just look at him saying "He was the frontrunner right from the start" despite all the MSM being dismissive of Trump's chances innitially. Look at the empty podium incident and all the PROVEN bias against Bernie (that earned them the "Clinton News Network" name) Put all that together and it's pretty clear that it wasn't about any of the BS he said. It was about access to Hillary and her ad money from the very start.
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  4292. How I see this going down as things stand: -Hillary and Trump get nominated -Hillary gets devastated by the FBI investigation -her crimes and Trump being so hated by so much of the country creates an actually viable opening for a 3rd candidate (Jill Stein, Bernie, etc) After that, things get crazy, and Bernie's delegate count may be very important in framing that race.
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  4293. lol That will never happen here; it's entirely to reasonable! XD
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  4294. Hillary and the establishment 1st-colluded with the media to push forward more extreme candidates 2nd-rigged the primary against Bernie (who the people agree with on nearly every issue) in almost every way imaginable up to (and possibly even including) hacking the voting machines 3rd-Snubbed the Bernie wing of the party with almost "let them eat cake" levels of condescension. 4th-Proceeded to loose the election against the most disliked candidate in US history by running the most stupid, corrupt and out of touch campaign imaginable. It's so obviously their fault, and the only reason they're going after Russia now is because their attempt to blame millennials (as if we needed any more fucked over) didn't stick.
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  4295. +Icearchon I was the same, but then they rigged the primary, so there was no point in that anymore & I registered independent.
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  4296. +ZeD I think you're failing to differentiate between ritualized conflict where damage is minimal and the slaughter that happens in "civilized war" where men are commanded to kill each other in droves. Human nature had nothing to do with the horrors of WW1. That was entirely because of the intersection of industrial power and perverse social structures.
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  4297. Was about to post that same question!
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  4298. Firecage I'd say we don't educate people in the right way for them to resist propaganda. There are ways you can teach people to be more resistant to that kind of thing, but we don't usually do it. (I did actually get taught that, but only as a small part of a long-running extracurricular that didn't reach most of the student body, sadly)
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  4299. An easy compromise is to shift your mindset to eating less meat and viewing it more like a treat (especially if you like beef) than something that makes a meal. I only eat about 4 (real, not American) servings of meat per week and that just comes from changing how I look at it from something I need to a treat I enjoy and am thankful for.
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  4300.  @web9529  do you see the knots you have to tie logic into to try and say that the people elected to those positions by the people were hand-picked by the President so you can do appologetics for a far-right military coup? Strange, isn't it?
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  4301. Val 8742 the kicker is the only thing that helps many chronic pain patients even merely reduce their opiate use is weed, and they want to crack down on that and institute drug testing. As someone who also has someone with chronic pain in their life, all I can say to these "people" trying to make merely living a crime is "Fight me face to face rather than hiding behind a fucking desk. This isn't a talking point, this is human lives and suffering."
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  4302. The fact that our torture manual was originally just a Chinese manual for how to get false confessions for political use should tell everyone everything we need to know about "enhanced interrogation".
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  4303. Mr Wizard I'm open to the idea, but unconvinced that term limits are the answer. I'd much rather have career politics with strict financial restrictions (only public funding for elections and not allowed to work for any company that was ever effected by anything they voted on or a hard income cap after leaving office, etc) than term limits. I'm not saying term limits are all bad, but I don't think they would put a dent in the current problems.
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  4304. Mr Wizard oh, no disagreement on Israel. That's why I didn't mention it. I just think trying to speed up the revolving door between politician, lobbiest, and cushy corporate "retirement job" won't change how much they sell out. They usually have sold out before they get to congress, and I've seen plenty local politicians who sell out with their first term. In fact, those are the most dangerous, as they go in with the intent to sell out, and then are utterly brazen about it because they don't even plan on reelection. They just want to make their doners as happy as possible in one term and get paid. Term limits don't lessen corruption. Term limits lessen entrenchment of ideology, but with a tradeoff. The shorter your term limits are, the less of a voting record the public has to judge a politician on. You also are forced to cycle out politicians the public really likes. (Remember that we instituted them after FDR, our most popular and populist president ever, and that it would mean no Bernie Sanders-like personalities in the mix). It also causes problems if you want to greatly limit employment after office to prevent cushy jobs as a reward for corruption (not insurmountable problems, admittedly, but problems) I'm inclined to agree with term limits for presidents, due to the concern over a ruler-like figure and the concern over a tendency towards defacto dictatorship. Congress, however, is a bit of a mixed bag that I'm inclined to do all other needed reforms first, and then see how things operate before instituting them. As to pitchforks, it's not time for that, as those need to happen when all other options are exhausted (both for ethical and practical reasons). That said, we are quickly running out of bloodless moves to make, and that worries me.
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  4305. Ah yes, the Alex Jones legal defense...
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  4306. Eli and Jamie C Don't lie to yourself. It was founded on both, which is why when you look back to it's earlier days, you find all those things you mentioned and much more and all explicitly endorced by the Church. The New Testament (the best source we have for early Christian beliefs) explicitly states that the Old Testiment is still valid. It's modern Christianity that has been largely neutered by secular values that you're referring to, not it's founding. Still, even that does some fucked up shit when it can get away with it (like pastors telling parents to disown their gay kids leading to hundreds of thousands of kids/teens to become homeless just in the US...or when the Pope told people in Africa that condoms would give them AIDS) You might say that your church is truely good and not one of the many hiding it's ugly side. Let's set aside the problems with organized religion and look at history before more secular values took hold. Cathars were and explicitly peaceful version of Christianity. They had true gender equality, and explicitly threw away the entire old testiment, calling it a trick of the devil to focus on just the teachings of Jesus and an almost Buddhist-like philosophy. You know what happened to them? The Catholics murdered them all, and would have been happy to do the same to every less militant denomination since if they'd been given the chance.
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  4307. sprybug yup, except the amount of trolls have been building long before that. We've filtered out the super obvious ones by starving them out, but we haven't done it to the more recent wave yet.
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  4308. I'm not saying he should be killed, but he does have a hand in the deaths of 10s of thousands of Americans every year and want to add to that death toll for personal gain.
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  4309.  Kylem  even Bolivia wasn't socialist. They had a socialist president though so the CIA got involved.
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  4310. Vickers machine gun discouraging as much human settlement as possible hardly counts as 6d chess
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  4311.  @justathought973  such individuals are selected for by corporate culture where, dispite making only ~1% of the general population, ~1 in 4 CEOs test as at least borderline psychopaths. Combine this fact with what we've learned with how humans behave in authority structures where about 2/3rds bend completely (see the Milgram Shock experiments and the infamous Stanford prison study for that) and you have ~75% of CEOs functionally behaving like psychopaths. Since we have a government that functions as an oligarchy, and politicians selected by CEOs, we can extrapolate our government to be in at least a comperable state (and note the 25% containst a lot of room for some pretty dark shades of moral greyness). Also note that the clinical term for psychopathy is currently "antisocial personality disorder" which differs from the casual use of the term (which would actually be called "asocial" by professionalls) in meaning that they are inherently and actively destructive to social groups they are a part of. Let such people aquire power and destruction is the inevitable result. The entire system needs changed top to bottom.
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  4312.  @michaelvanderwal7390  also, all evidence points to the Dayton shooting being because he was an incel, not because he was leftist, while there are constantly far-right shooters explicitly citing their white-supremacist politics as their motivation in their manifestos. As for bombing the camps, not only was there an element of suicide by cop there, but people are being tortured, being sexually assaulted and dying in those concentration camps ...I couldn't care less about some aggressive property destruction in that context.
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  4313. Seriously. They don't view us as real people.
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  4314. BL y actually, they're censoring all non-corporate content (especially anything remotely political) reguardless of ideological leaning. There's a bunch of complicated collusion and conflicts of interests between google, the advertisers, and the corporate "news" stations (the latter 2, are surprisingly often the same conglomerates), but the tl;dr version is that it comes down to money and closed door talks. The ideology stuff is just a smokescreen cover for what's really going on, but too many people are too ideologically entrenched to see it happening across the spectrum, and not all of those that are able to see that, most are too apathetic and ill-informed about politics to put the dots together.
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  4315. HammerheadGuitar not entirely correct. Spartans promoted homosexual love between soldiers (to the point of viewing the only true love as being between fellow soldiers). This is not actually that uncommon in extremely militaristic societies historically, as a unit of soldiers that tightly nit is unlikely to ever retreat once they start talking casualties. (Also makes them complain less about extended campaigns) Athenians on the other hand, had views much like what you mention (which the Spartans ridiculed them on for their preferred age of male partners)...though it should me mentioned that the "deplorable behavior" of Spartan women was just having some degree of autonomy (Athenian society was EXTREMELY sexist).
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  4316. It costs less to provide universal healthcare. It costs less to house the homeless than deal with the societal costs of homelessness. Worker co-ops (which is the main way you would organize a socialist business) show indications of being superior to capitalist businesses in many ways. You want unrealistic promices? Unchecked accumulation of private economic power won't threaten democracy. We can have infinate growth on a finite planet. Capitalism can handle its own negative externalities (including but no-where near limited to climate change) and the coming rise of automation.
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  4317.  @adamsmith8992  the number of people that still think like serfs in a country that has been without royalty for well over 2 centuries is stunning and a big problem
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  4318. And that's not even the whole fucking list.
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  4319.  @GoDanReport  your projection and lack of self-awareness are not my fault.
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  4320.  @nicwelch  "do they have a right to X?" and "does preparing to do X through Y method result in Z outcome?" are not the same question. People have a right to do all sorts of dumb, counter-productive things. Answering "yes" to the former does not mean that the answer to the latter is also "yes". Yes, people have a right to defend themselves with lethal force. No, owning a gun does not make you safer.
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  4321. If they were smart enough to figgure that out, they'd be smart enough to figgure out that sexual repression isn't a solution to sexual violence. Good news, most of them will have grown out of that level of stupidity by the time they graduate. College students being radical in a counterproductive way because they only have started to understand an issue is something that always has and will continue to happen.
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  4322. Hard to say. The far right has a LOT of competition for that title.
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  4323. Funny thing: what do you think happens to Saudi Arabia's economy and global significance if the US gets off oil in the next decade?
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  4324. @Yeah Right we're supposed to be a democratic republic though, and we're not, or hasn't your dumbass noticed that?
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  4325. @Kod Rimble thank you, though I'm far from the first person to describe fascism as a suicide cult. Beyond that specific word choice making the weaponry comparison direct and explicit, I am merely the messenger tonight.
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  4326. Don't get too confident. This is not a good sign at this stage. 10 years ago? Yeah, I'm laughing at this and going "sure bud, your political career's funeral". Now though? Well.... "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) And yeah the "time for argument" passing doesn't end well for anyone
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  4327. Funny thing happens when you have inelastic demand in an unchecked marketplace, huh?
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  4328. Ain't no one got time for that shit. I mean we already know why she lost and what she wants to pretend the answers are.
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  4329. @Shawn Brink nope. The point of an emergency alert system is that it bypasses such things. I can confirm that mine went off loudly to everyone in the room dispite having my headphones in, just like the Amber Alerts I sometimes get.
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  4330.  @matrixman8582  "it only lowers it" which is why the era following the implimentation of the new deal social democratic economics (the most planned the US peacetime economy has ever been and when we put in place things like the minimum wage) saw productivity and wages completely seperate only to then realign after the deregulation by Republicans in the mid 1970s. Oh wait, no every graph on that data https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wage+vs+productivity+graph&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images shows the exact opposite. That's how easy it is to debunk your entire ideology. 4 words in an image search. You're more in denial of reality than a flat earther. Congrats.
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  4331.  @MsBahbii  yours did. How about those who had their jobs outsourced? (To say nothing of how he helped cause the 2008 crash)
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  4332. Yes, and then they can ride off, get a new one, and do it again.
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  4333. "Complicit" is the word you're looking for, Kyle
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  4334. Yeah...kinda skeptical on that "involuntary" bit, gotta say...
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  4335. Megacorps who's customers are other megacorps are always going to push a pro-corporate narrative.
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  4336.  @maythesciencebewithyou  I guarantee you 100% of people believe some kind of bullshit, though if you narrow it down to just supernatural BS you cut that down by <10% (since some of them may still have superstitions about luck or something)
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  4337. Beachdudeca no, leftist and anti-sjw channels were all hit simultaneously. This is about the corporate establishment trying to surpress all other voices and using moral outrage as a smokescreen, nothing more. Turing Youtube into cable TV 2.0 is the end goal, not an accident.
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  4338. Here: https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w
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  4339.  @geneanthony3421  when has the right ever stopped fighting the culture war to keep the working class divided?
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  4340.  @blank003  go look up the history of voting tests in this country and think about the disparate quality of education and ask yourself if that is a good idea. The simple truth is that if you give elected officials the (ass backwards) ability to choose their voters, it will be abused.
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  4341. OMaster Flash i wouldn't let their filthy lying mouths anywhere near my privates. Who knows which slimy politician they just finished blowing?
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  4342. I'd say LONG past time, but yes, better late than never.
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  4343.  @jkishhabi  he just wants to be the only one allowed to have a diamond sword
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  4344.  @whatsittooya303  the thing is, once they're public utilities, they're bound by things like the first amendment.
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  4345. Hey, nothing wrong with a quick jab to the face to make hitting a hard hook easier.
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  4346.  Dr Downtime  a-wrong b-getting some government grants to slap together a pathetic prototype for an idea he can't make work isn't "bringing something to market"
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  4347. Yup, the ones who could be doing nothing else but buying influence over the narrative really expose the whole game being played on us all. Boeing and GE are big MIC companies buying propaganda today.
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  4348. And North Korea says they're a democratic republic Both claims are about as true
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  4349. And the opposition to desegregation and the warcrimes and the open ageism and and and...no, we're going to have to immediately pivot to attacking Biden from the left as hard as possible after the election.
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  4350. Why do a live debate with someone who's only skills are in solipsism?
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  4351. Clock ticking down until we shout as 1 "We fucking told you so!"
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  4352.  The Headhunter  you have at least 1 Nazi in your fucking playlist dipshit. That lie isn't passing here.
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  4353. Shamus Duffy the problem is that 12 step programs are designed to undermine individual agency. There are plenty of studies out there that indicate AA has little to no benefit beyond people just trying to quit on their own (much less other evidence-based treatment programs). The numbers cited in this paper are some of the highest I've seen and they still don't beat secular treatments. This shouldn't be surprising, considering much of the deeply flawed methodology in the program. Here's a psych-major who works as ad addition councilor breaking it down: https://youtu.be/vU335ttBBwQ
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  4354. Hugh Mann a broken clock is right twice a day. Being correct sometimes doesn't really mean anything. To use a notorious example Fox "News" viewers have repeatedly tested as being less informed than those who don't follow any news at all. Just because they sometimes get things right whether by accident or because the truth happens to align with their narrative, doesn't make them a real news source. In fact, those studies prove they're not, having earned being called "Faux News" way over a decade before this "fake news" term started getting thrown around. They're simply a propaganda agency pretending to be a news station, and the rest of the stuff on TV has basically sunk to their level to try and protect the establishment now that people are waking up to the fact that the dems and GOP are basically 2 faces of the same corportaist party. Just because we oppose the government cracking down on the press, doesn't mean we have to pretend the MSM is actually a legitimate source.
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  4355.  @RedXlV  side note, as an excellent case example: the areas Bernie won vs Hillary in PA were the areas she also lost against Trump. In other words, Bernie beat Hillary in the more traditionally conservative districts in PA with Hillary only being able to grab major city districts that always go blue but are desensitized to PA's extremely corrupt neoliberalism. Bernie vs Trump in PA wouldn't even be close. Bernie would absolutely crush him. If anyone doubts that, feel free to look the results for the 2016 primary and general elections up yourself and compare. Also, the same people on the left that were most strongly warning that Trump could win are the same ones most strongly saying that Bernie has the absolute best chances vs Trump. Meanwhile the people that were dismissive of Trump are saying others have better chances against him. Kinda telling huh?
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  4356. To be clear since I got multiple replies on it, yes, what I'm saying is a damning indictment of Russian command and was more speaking in addition to the OP, not in contradiction to it. I'm just pointing out that relying on it is just as bad as not having it at all, if in a different way. As for the deception, that is happening to a degree, but it is happening at a level before the armchair analysts go to work on publicly available information so not much of a concern here. There is a tiny percentage of things that it would probably be better not to mention just to not give them any ideas, but nothing I've seen talked about even comes close to it. The bigger picture all this analysis would most tell them if they are listening is that they have no winning moves to play. They only get to choose which way they want to loose. That doesn't give them a lot to work with.
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  4357. That's why you pin it to inflation
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  4358. I suspect the establishment will try to force someone like Biden on us and abandon $hillary this time around.
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  4359.  @gentleken7864  not implying anything about your politics, but if you're at a loss for words to describe current US politics, I'd like to recommend a video from Beau of the Fifth Column "Let's talk about a message from a small government conservative" where someone who's politics may differ from yours is at a similar loss for words to describe the current GOP is pointed in the dirrection of finding those words. I expect that, reguardless of your politics, if you follow the same advice given, you won't be short on words for very long. (Btw, don't judge by the accent)
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  4360. Especially without mocking Elon!
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  4361.  @SuchDoge4242  the right has always been the biggest snowflakes and pushers of cancel culture. Remember the Satanic Panic? Or the countless other examples. They do it all the time and then whine like babies when they get a fraction of it sent back. Always have. Always will.
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  4362. Look up Umberto Eco's essay on "Ur-fascism". Barely 10 pages later you'll have the answer to that and much more.
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  4363. The laws of physics do not compromise. "The middle ground" on climate change means (at best) taking out a loan against the futures of younger generations against their objections to be paid back in money and blood at loan shark interest rates and calling it "profits" Unsustainable economies make no profits. They simply steal from the future just as slave owners stole from those they enslaved. We must make the distinction between wealth creation and wealth acquisition!
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  4364.  @Junior128100  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-time-history-us-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/ Do some research and learn to read.
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  4365. Ikr! The panic in his voice when he realized that he'd completely lost control of the conversation and that Kyle was going to start drawing away his own audience from the Kool-aid tap was helarious.
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  4366. I disagree with Ron on many positions. His economic views are just buying into the religion of anarcho-capitalism. That said, he's at least consistent, appears sincere, and is willing to frequently and strongly oppose the GOP on many issues. Rand is not his father. He's a sellout just like the rest of them and don't let him trick you into thinking otherwise, because his record doesn't bare it out.
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  4367. Lmao nice
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  4368.  @zallyzally2698  obvious Kremlin troll is obvious
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  4369. "Thank you for being an example of why we need a higher estate tax."
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  4370. I can only speak for my area, but the average white person here wouldn't feel entitled to do that (progress, yay?) but there certainly still are people who would, unfortunately. Hopefully, where you live will change to be less like the 50s too and we can continue to push that behavior into a smaller and smaller population until we consign it to a shameful paragraph in our history books.
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  4371.  @richard3793  you don't understand money, sorry. Even gold coins didn't derive their value from being gold, but from being what the government accepted as taxes. Please look up Debt: the First 5000 Years. We need more people who actually understand money if we want to fix this mess we find ourselves in.
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  4372.  @gabrielclark1425  disgusting, like what they often made the walls out of, but at least something I can expect to not touch in my lifetime or have to wonder if any think I handled thinking it was plastic or bakelite was actually plasticized blood. It's kinda like sausage. Wanting to know it's safe doesn't mean wanting the gorey details of what went into it.
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  4373. Zack NoLastName the problem is you're arguing with dictionaries and equating neoliberalism with liberalism. They are not the same thing (neither are neoconservativism and real conservatism). Let's be clear here. It was conservatism that preserved slavery. Liberals ended monach rule, ended slavery, ended segregation, got women the right to vote, created social security and unemployment, created unions, etc etc The real definition I gave, is the only one not subject to twisting by politicians. Liberalism is a synonym for progressivism, with an emphasis on generosity and personal freedom. It's an ideology that says that we can and should try to change things for the better (as opposed to conservativism, which seems stability through not changing things, and neo-conservatism which seeks to "return" things to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed). Neoliberalism is just neoconservativism dressed in a thin veil of being slightly liberal on some social issues, which is why they try to sound like liberals while usually voting like neocons. Of course, since basically all right-wing ideas have been tried in history, liberals tend almost exclusively to left-wing (aka populist) politics.
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  4374. Catch-22 there?
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  4375. When neoliberalism inevitably fails, corporatists so reliably break fascist throughout history that allying with corporate structures is one of the defining traits of fascism.
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  4376. We're not getting that anytime soon, whoever wins, unfortunately... (Not to imply that one option isn't significantly worse than the other, of course)
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  4377. When is the right not projecting?
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  4378. That did occur to me too.
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  4379.  @mbeecher9921  nice fascism there, but I think we'll just keep the insurance policy that is social security.
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  4380. Wasn't the issue with the fuel injection fixed in later Spitfires, or am I getting that mixed up with a different plane that had problems with negative Gs only with early models?
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  4381. 0sv87d0 considering that she's to the right of most Americans on all the issues mentioned, no she's not. By no standard, except comparison to the radical Republican party are the establishment Democrats anything but right wing.
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  4382. hellomikie92 This entire channel is built on international political discussion, so your attempts to silence voices which may give and/or seek an outside point of view isn't welcome here.
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  4383.  @cageybee7221  yeah, I'm really struggling to think of situations where it might be warrented. I can thing of a couple, but they're pretty extreme, rare, and contrived....and I can't say I'm sure granting the police that power is worth the risks...
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  4384. I love all the songs she sings at the end.
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  4385. Resistance is a broader term which can include partisan activities, as they are a form of resistance.
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  4386.  @samlerf  see also: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" Btw, you can find it free on YouTube.
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  4387. Plenty of homeless are that way because of untreated mental illness or forces beyond their control. The homeless population spiked after the 2008 crash, but it wasn't because people chose to suddenly get lazy. It was because of choices those in government made that caused these people to loose everything. As long as we design systems that can leave people destitute through no fault of their own, we do have a duty to provide a safety net for those our systems fail. There are also more complicated problems with our systems than crashes that result in a certain number of defaults on debts being inevitable as a result of the way the system is designed. I can't fully break it down in a youtube comment, but it's analogous to how if there are only jobs for, say 92% of a population, telling the remaining 8% of the population to try harder to get a job doesn't change the macro picture (even if it is often good individual advice) because all it does is change who the bottom 8% are, without altering how many there are. We have more people than jobs, and more unoccupied homes than homeless. We need to stop treating the problem like we have a labor and housing shortage caused by people being lazy, because that's just not the reality we have, so actions we take from that perspective will always fail to address the problems.
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  4388. Technically we could just pile them up. We have some pretty big deserts so we already do it with tanks. The monsters in power just have an itchy trigger finger and some of the MIC is about providing logistic services rather than just making weapons and they'd stop bribing our politicians if they didn't cut them in too.
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  4389. They read the Constitution about as much as they read their Bible. (Which is to say, not at all unless they're one of the demagogues cherry picking and distorting the work to tell others what to think and feel)
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  4390. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre, speaking of applicable to all fascists of which xAquinasx is clearly one if anyone is remotely familiar with fascists propagandists on YouTube and merely glances at his subscription list.
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  4391. What's more pathetic, Zuckerberg's "metaverse" or the bottom of the barrel of anime fans who thought Elon was going to make Sword Art Online and catgirls real? (I'm not making that up, unfortunately)
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  4392. Because they WANT to lose
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  4393. Kal Phil supposing the analysis of wikileaks' motivations presented in the video are accurate, the most likely motivation for telling Trump not to accept the election results if he lost would be to try and trigger a big fight over US election integrity and blow open our rigged system. Trump would be someone loud and bullheaded enough to actually force the issue to not be swept under the rug. That could have been the trigger needed to get real election reform in the US even if Trump was just a tool to do it. The ideal situation would mean that the results of the election would have to be thrown out and the whole thing done over since the way our electronic voting machines work, the actual results would be unable to be determined. Then, it might be possible to get both election reform and another election with Hillary deemed ineligible by popular oppinion, so Trump vs someone like Bernie or Stein. If you take wikileaks's MO as a series of calculated risks to eventually dismantle the current establishment, it's a plausible plan for them to at least try.
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  4394. Kal Phil I was trying to simply answer your question, but yes, if Trump lost and it could be proven that the vote was seriously tampered with and it was  pressed seriously, yes, we could have had a redo.  Other countries run them all the time even if there's just suspicion of something being afoul...and if the public believed that Hillary has rigged both the primary and general elections, yes, there's a serious chance it would be Trump vs either Bernie (the democratic runner up) or Stein (on a green ticket). Is it a bit of a longshot? Obviously, but the payoff would be high. As for our election system, it's total shit. You really need to look a bit more broadly if you think otherwise. I suggest starting here C.G.P. Grey Explains Elections: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEcHCTVM79BMISVn4AV5EXSglGDzRgwgG And https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI And then consider that we have essentially legalized bribery
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  4395.  John Doe  you mean "capitalism" right? Seriously that word doesn't just mean "thing I don't like"
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  4396. You've never been drunk or afraid for your life have you? He stumbled, simple as that, and TBH, I can't say for sure I would have done any better in that situation. Try to imagine getting contradictory orders shouted at you with a couple drinks in your system, multiple ARs pointed at you, and not being allowed to say anything when you're confused about any of it and tell me how clear your mind would be and how coordinated your limbs would be.
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  4397. They'd also loose a lot more elections without being able to crack down on liberals and minorities for their BS excuses.
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  4398. Oh look, a maga chud didn't switch to his alternate dem account before pretending to be concerned with "Democrats" winning seats 😆
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  4399. My intuition is saying that the best policy the US could take towards Iraq is a slow withdrawal (to not create a power vaccume as your country becomes progressively more autonomous) as we cut military aid to Israel and Saudi Arabia (and begin getting off the oil that is a driver of so much of the conflict in the region). I don't think Trump is smart enough or cares enough to take such a policy, but how does that idea (assuming implimented with honest intention) check against what you're seeing on the ground there?
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  4400.  @stateofopportunity1286  collective ownership of 1 natural resource=/=collective ownership of all means of production The strong majority of their economy is still in the private sector.
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  4401. KermitNinja9er not 100%. The CIA could have destroyed them and then given the other terrorists some US made ones. Depends on how much they wanted to cover their tracks.
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  4402.  @airriontoles43  yeah, so someone that has explicitly stated their agreement with the general principle and simply politely asked someone who brought up personal experiences if they would mind sharing more so their understanding could be expanded, and you bring that kind of tone? Yeah, that's mature, productive, and makes our side look good /s or is white people better understanding the lived experiences of black people something you oppose? If you don't have anything of value to say or a question to ask, you can just move on with your life, you know.
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  4403.  @airriontoles43  you're still talking as if I'm actually arguing against the position instead of looking for specifics to better understand the generalities I already agree with, or are you too stupid to understand the difference and how asking a question is only going to bring up what I already know? I ignored your question because it was irrelevant to the conversation, and actually just a cheap rhetorical trick aimed at a strawman of me. Congrats on earing your mute though, simply be being too stupid to talk to dispite being on the same side of things as me. That takes talent or...something
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  4404. Perhaps more important than the styles for the novel is the headspace of the characters. While it wouldn't hurt to at least learn what the common Hollywood myths about what swordfights look like, I recommend you watch this too. https://youtu.be/7vqte0QbXnc
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  4405.  @millabasset1710  did you just say that stevia is a sugar but HFCS isn't?
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  4406. Magnus largely due to US influence. Your point?
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  4407. While not untrue, they did a lot more than that. Systematic, targeted voter disenfranchisement at best (which is unquestionably proven) with rigging of the vote counts likely given circumstantial evidence.
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  4408. That happened over a decade ago, frankly.
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  4409. It wasn't a heart attack for the record. It was a routine procedure to reduce his chances of a heart attack and increase bloodflow.
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  4410. David Rizzo that's why religions have to start the indoctrination young
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  4411. Derek Watts I believe the best chance at step 1 is a 2-pronged attack both primarying dems and voting 3rd party when that fails (especially if there is any hint of foul play). Others go further saying that the only way to do step 1 is to do step 3. There is precedent for this view too (though I don't think it ideal). When was the last time you saw a Whig candidate?
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  4412. We're dealing with a death cult. I'm no exaggerating. We need to face this fact.
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  4413.  @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat  and/or getting rid of the owners and having companies run "by, for, and of" the workers.
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  4414. Over $300/day/soldier for perdium+bringing them in+equipment maintenance+fuel for vehicles in the parade+transportation costs of said vehicles...etc It adds up quick.
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  4415. Early plate armor still often used a shield, but this period saw the shield shrink from a large kite shield, to a smaller and smaller (& thicker and stronger) heater shield. This was only really needed to help protect from lances and to cover the face (should it be exposed) and weaker parts of the torso from arrow fire. As armor improved, even this was largely phased out to give full use of the left hand. Of course, the shield remained for less well equipped soldiers until the pike and shot era (and if you count the buckler, long after that)
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  4416. "/s" is your friend. Poe's Law is in full effect on this channel
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  4417. It is an excellent and consistent balance of the appropriate seriousness and just the right amount and type of dark humor to help get through it easier without minimizing or mocking the subject matter. With so much of the dark humor these days being, for lack of a better term, incredibly juvenile, it's always nice to see someone who still understands how to do it with skill and tact.
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  4418.  @donHooligan  the fact that they don't pull down even Faux News (instead giving it preferential treatment) when there are studies proving that their viewers are less informed than those who don't watch/listen to any news at all proves all their excuses are BS and that they don't care about truth. I'm not saying the rest of the MSM is good, but with the data we have, Fox "News" is indefensible, and therefor a good litmus test of intent.
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  4419.  @citricdemon  the idea that Congress would need to spell out every single right you have is contrary to the constitution, which you clearly don't care about, meaning your idea of "doing things the right way" is just dishonest garbage.
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  4420. Important question: Does anyone here actually know who would most likely be put up for nomination after her? Or are we just looking for possibly counter-productive posturing without a clue of what happens next?
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  4421.  @annaclarafenyo8185  he's already one of the richest people on the planet with a full-blown cult of personality. Roasting him is PART of dismantling that cult which is part of the power he already does have.
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  4422. Timing is a little sooner than expected, but otherwise I'm completely unsurprised.
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  4423. This isn't a matter of Republicans doing it to "Democrats". It's a matter of the right doing it to the left. As we saw in the 2016 primary, far right "Democrats" like Hillary are perfectly happy to pick up the same election fraud playbook as Republicans to stop real populist candidates from getting nominated. This shouldn't surprise anyone though, as right-wing politics is fundamentally about favoring consolidated, entrenched power (be it buisness, government, or otherwise), and the whole nomenclature of right\left wing originated from royalist vs those favoring representative government. In short, the right has been opposed to the democratic process from the very beginning and as soon as they get past being moderate right-wing, they start actively sabotaging it when they feel threatened.
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  4424. uzimyspecial new influx of trolls Just don't feed them.
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  4425. Can we stop fighting each other for 2 seconds to deal with the actual threat. This isn't coming from one "side". Left wing news outlets were some of the first hit, right with the right wing ones. I should know, as I watch both liberal news channels as well as some other channels the regressive "left" would find objectionable. All the PC bs is just a cover. The reality is that old news media (who was feeling the heat of competition from YouTube news channels who weren't bought off) scoured the site to find one hateful video that had an ad on it which slipped through YouTube's previously existing filter system and jumped on it to try and get YouTube to crack down on content. A selection of large companies (such as Walmart and several predatory banks) joined in step immediately to boycott YouTube. Their motivation is that they were used to their advertising dollars buying bias, and the rise of people turning outside of TV news with said bias was leading to a wave of public opinion that threatens their goals. To give a couple specifics, Walmart really likes their suppliers to outsource their products, so they were hugely in favor of the planned TPP trade deal. While Trump may have latched onto it in his campaign, the original push-back against it came from the internet latching onto something that was supposed to happen quietly and spreading around how terrible it was. The banks, on the other hand, have had a nice long streak from Bill Clinton, to Bush, to Obama, to Hillary/Trump of presidents that would happily play ball and let them continue to screw over people more. Then Bernie (who's campaign was largely driven by the grass roots on the internet) came along and threatened that con-game and they were NOT happy about that. Of course, the mainstream media instantly piled on this, because of their ever shrinking credibly and viewer base. Meanwhile, YouTube works with them to roll out TV news channels, and eventually "YouTube TV" shortly thereafter (at a time-period which suggests they started this plan immediately after the first corporations started the boycott). To top things off, the same "news" corporations are really just huge media conglomerates who make money on non-news content, and so are perfectly happy to see other good content get hit, even if it's not political. To give an example relevant to this channel (beyond just time spent watching YouTube competes with time watching TV), General Electric may have gotten into the game because of MSNBC (which they own) but, among other companies they hold, they also own The "History" channel, which is directly threatened by channels like this that make actually historically accurate content that people want to watch (& for far lower production costs than their BS shows). I could give more specifics if you want, but this is wall of text already long enough.
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  4426. ​ @tarmacsmack1301 you ok bro?
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  4427. Yeah, the techbro worship really needs to stop for a bunch of reasons.
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  4428. Ranked choice voting is one of the most important issues in this country, up there with money in politics. We must fight for it.
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  4429. So that's the secret of the breadbasket called the great planes and why the runoff is killing the gulf
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  4430. Cold as it may sound...if you work for one of the most evil organizations on the planet and expect them to give a shit about your life, I don't know what to tell you...
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  4431.  @rylandrc  yeah...almost like entrusting most of the wealth generated by our economy to those most addicted to greed is a recipe for disaster...just saying...
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  4432. It's hard to sum it up quickly but it comes down to the cold war. It caused the USSR to collapse and us to degrade into...this mess (which may just be a very slow motion collapse).
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  4433. It's called appeasement and it didn't work on the fascists of the 20th century either.
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  4434.  @scottsbarbarossalogic3665  ha! Accurate!
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  4435. Someone can be a good husband and a good man and still be a terrible father (to say nothing of those who are just good at acting the part in front of others). That said, there are plenty of other places that the BS could have come from. It takes a village, after all.
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  4436. X-Files A just because some wanting to silence protest call themselves leftists, doesn't mean they are. North Korea calls itself a Democratic Republic. Does that mean it is? These words have meanings. Don't let politicians redefine them to fit their political whims.
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  4437.  @AdmiralBison  they're all unacceptably bad, yes, but we can determine which are worse, and between the rampant bigotry, pushing literal Nazi conspiracy theories (just with whiteout over the part where they explicitly blame Jewish people), and repeatedly having their viewers test as less informed than those who watch no news at all, Faux News is absolutely worse than CNN (which considering how bad CNN isb is quite the achievement).
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  4438.  @tammyd.970  See my comment
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  4439.  @tammyd.970  So your given example wasn't as bad as the ones in my comment because?
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  4440. The first one isn't patriotism; it's nationalism. Real patriotism is standing up for the ideals your country was founded on....and since those ideals were left-wing, guess where the real patriots are.
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  4441. Sure they are. That level of stupidity is hard to find in someone that can speak in complete sentences.
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  4442. Via gun
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  4443. They killed competition through collusion to create regional monopolies and bribing local governments to raise the already high barriers to entry. They destroyed intenet provacy by bribing congress. And now they're STILL coming after net neutrality dispite loosing the fight repeatedly due to insanely unanimous public outcry. They simply cannot be trusted to exist any longer.  "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group" -FDR
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  4444. FPS maps are designed to make it so people aren't painfully easy to shoot from half-way across the map with no way to get out of the line of fire. That point isn't as smart as it sounds in your head to anyone who understands level design and mass shootings.
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  4445.  @theotormon  there was no other conservative faction there.
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  4446. You don't get credit for helping to fix a problem you created.
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  4447. Don't eat Stuff Posing As Meat, please. It's bad for your body and dignity. ;)
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  4448. I'm curious about how the vaccines work and you seem like the best person to ask. To confirm, you're saying you're already vaccinated, but would have to get 2 more if you got bit? If I'm understanding that correctly, I'd assume it's one baseline vaccine to get the body to have a memory of it and then 2 more after the bite to get antibody production ramped up as quick as possible. Does that baseline one have to be renewed periodically like a tetanus shot? I'm kinda curious about pre-bite vaccinations and a medical professional who needs to be vaccinated for their job seems the best person to ask.
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  4449.  @terminsane  so, you're a "Communist" that rejects the idea of "From each according to his ability. To each according to his needs." to the point where you'll destroy any system that seperates you from your property to save someone with cancer. Or in other words you're a larper or a liar. (Even without getting into how you oppose universal healthcare but defend the police and military) I'm only a social democrat and you're not even to my left.
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  4450. Mnd0vrMnky idk why this isn't used more often.
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  4451. Mnd0vrMnky oh, trying to add up all the deaths from capitalism would be a neigh impossible task and make people's eyes glaze over and brains reject the total as being too big to be real. Best stick to numbers by each policy so people can at least try to wrap their brains around it.
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  4452.  @jakewhite8340  that's kinda the point of them butting in to prevent us from having those conversations
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  4453. As long as you can outthink a fascist (not a high bar) and have courage, you can be effective no matter who you are.
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  4454. Guys, if the bait is obvious, don't take it....come on, that was embarrassing
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  4455. ​ @nish8435 Murdoch "news" is what you're seeing.
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  4456. I think you're forgetting about MTG blaming California wildfires on "jewish space lasers"
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  4457. Acronym - Noun: An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word. -Oxford English Dictionary
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  4458. The authoritarian left and right both try to get people fired for free speech and expression all the time. Difference is if they're real liberals/conservatives or the toxic "neo" varieties.
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  4459. May the Science be with You and we call this projection.
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  4460.  @jackarmstrong5645  there have never been a significant amount of intellectual heavyweights on the right (especially not the far right). What they have is corporate backing supporting propagandists with no scruples. So, Dave is really par for the course.
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  4461. Marc Conveniently ignore deliberately targeting first-responders? Or all the weddings we've bombed... Or (as just one specific example) when we were repeatedly bombing a doctors without borders hospital for hours while they were calling us up to protest and we just kept going... How about the fact that our torture manual was one from China that was designed to elicit FALSE confessions? We had it lying around because we were trying to train our soldiers to have a chance of surviving it, filed the serial numbers off, got a bunch of mostly innocent people rounded up and used it on them so we could have excuses for further military action and crackdowns on civil rights at home. If you think our intentions are good, you haven't been paying attention.
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  4462.  @jdw1114  if it was about votes, they would be legalizing it and pardoning all non-violent drug offenders to give them their voting right back "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman Any "Democrat" who supports the "war on drugs" is complicit in undermining of democracy in the US.
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  4463.  @ColdHardTruthNews  Better question: who is getting thrown in concentration camps next if we do nothing?
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  4464. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK There is plenty of proof of culpability for the Bush administration in many facits of the event. Watch here for the truth
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  4465. It's actually really common but that raise is maybe 10¢. It's enough to say they've done it and for you to no longer count as making minimum wage for their numbers, but not enough to matter that much. If you're very lucky, in 3-5 with the company, you'll be making 25¢ more than the minimum wage. It's a clever and cheap way to fudge the numbers and slightly discourage workers from shifting to a different minimum wage job.
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  4466. You'd think the first job of an ambassador would be to NOT embarrass us...
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  4467. Maher is just a tool for the DNC to dirrect the anger of the left where they want it. He was never on our side. It was always a trick by just another corporate shill.
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  4468.  @TCt83067695  no, "disinform" is a word too, with a slightly different definition than "misinform"
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  4469. I hear you, but counterpoint. If you have that kind of money, your preferred weapon choice is probably "army".
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  4470. Their real problem with socialism is the workplace is the one area where democracy hasn't taken hold. Remember: the roots of the right were opposing representative government in the first place in favor of monarchy. The far end of the right is always some form of dictatorship.
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  4471. Greg Greg the USSR dissolved peacefully (unlikely for the US) and didn't have a large portion of its population rooting for Armageddon/believing they were already in the end times. The situations aren't at all close. Even if it does go peacefully at first (incredibly unlikely), you still end up with a nuclear-armed neo-confederacy made up of our craziest states and at least one of the new states will likely go full Nazi (probably the former slave states). How do you see that ending?
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  4472. or near a missile silo...the locations of which are often top secret, even to those living nearby. Sweet dreams
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  4473.  @lordoffrog2354  lol sure, the current concentration camps are merely uncomfortable instead of sites of rampant torture and sexual abuse and did the Jews get pools too? /s
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  4474. Yup, it's a tragety that, when the wannabe brownshirt tried to run over the man he'd just assaulted with brass knuckles, that no one shot him dead, and that, instead, he only got 1-5 years for what should have been a conviction of attempted murder.
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  4475.  @zeusmasterson4117  Jimmy is a jagoff and an idiot (even by his own admission) flailing around, but Stephen and Joe are actively trying to do harm. Let's make a distinction there.
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  4476. Because they're fascists. May I recommend Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-fascism or Innuendo Studio's "alt-right playbook" as a good starting point?
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  4477.  @matthewschwartz6607  perceived electability fostered by a corporate media biased against Bernie. You can look up polls. They showed that people supported Biden largely because they believed he could beat Trump, not due to agreeing with his politics. The information has been out there for a long time so continuing to lean on your argument from incredulity is, frankly, pathetic.
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  4478.  @stephencody6088  I said "long term", as in after we get them out of power. What did I even imply about voting fascism out? Stop projecting BS onto me.
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  4479. Well done sir, well done
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  4480. Or when barley and oats are cash crops...
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  4481. Why would a rich asshole with a history of contempt for the poor want an armored car with a huge economic collapse on the horizon? Occam's Razor seems to work here.
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  4482. That's not entirely true, they just haven't offered anything new. They're still offering fear, war, and scapegoating minorities. That said, the last time they brought something new to the table it was fascism so maybe it's better they don't.
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  4483. Peter Speight honest question: What "very good points"? About halfway through the video I got so pissed I had to stop watching because Jimmy was playing softball with this guy that only kept bouncing between correct but incredibly weak points, and infuriatingly wrong. I might have missed them if they were in the 2nd half, or missed them due to being so pissed at the guy I was cussing at the screen, but I didn't notice any.
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  4484. @redscope897 YouTube gives special treatment to news (and propaganda) channels all the time. To act like all they deal in is entertainment is a lie.
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  4485. The idea was that neither would push into that area and leave it neutral. The US violated that first and their constant antagonism is what's been driving Russian imperialism in eastern Europe. You should be wanting both to back off or you're in for a nice mess of proxy wars in the near future, 'cause that's already started back up.
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  4486.  @jccgold  HO2 concentrations are relative to temperature, meaning they are a warming multiplier, not the source. This isn't that complicated. You just don't like the answer.
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  4487. This is a pretty blatent attempt to restart the cold war to my eyes
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  4488. To answer the question at the start "Is [insert any bad thing] also a point of projection for Republicans/right-wingers?" Yes. The answer is always yes. It's projection all the way down.
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  4489. therandomusarneim exactly. This entire mess is her fault every step of the way.
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  4490. Power is a hell of a drug.
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  4491. Right vs left is about the concentration vs distribution of power, respectfully. The USSR absolutely used a far right-wing form of government to (at least according to them) achieve far left goals. This created an unsustainable contradiction in their system that eventually caused its collapse. The USSR is absolutely not a more extreme version of what social democrats want. Btw: more accurately than saying ownership by a collective (which could be a collective of aristocrats excluding the workers), it's more accurate to define socialism as ownership of the means of production by the workers. Theoretically, this could be done through democratizing the workplace or by using a democratic state as a proxy for the workers. The USSR however, being a totalitarian state, did not enable the workers to control the government, so even though the government controlled the means of production, it doesn't really qualify. That's why it gets called "state capitalist" sometimes.
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  4492. Years ago, Faux News had already cited articles from The Onion as legitimate sources, and the world has only gotten stranger since. Nowadays, I read real headlines and say "That has to be from The Onion right? Nope, that really happened..." We're way too far down the rabbit hole for just making satire more obvious to work. Heck, see Poe's Law.
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  4493.  @bigbluebuttonman1137  the Nazis were Christian, allied with the Vatican, and Hitler repeatedly used Christianity to justify his attrocities in Mein Kampf, public speaches, and private meetings. Did they pull in elements (especially aestetic elements) of peganism? Sure, but Christians have been doing that for well over a millenia. Just look at Christmas and Easter. Both pegan holidays.
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  4494.  @bcluett1697  most likely just another oligarch. What I'm more concerned about is balkanization, but almost anything is a reasonable possibility (except Putin coming out on top long-term). Violent revolutions, in general, are a big roll of the dice for who comes out on top even if the revolutionaries "win" as it generally is a coalition of many different groups who have very different ideas of what they want the country to look like post-revolution. (Though, as a general rule, the longer and messier it is, the more the odds that the wrong people will end up in power)
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  4495.  No Dogma Mama  you think you're so different to Trump, but you find election integrity negotiable as long as your team does it, and blind support of center-right "Democrats" is how we got to Hillary vs Trump in the first place. What do you think we would have gotten if we had let the establishment "Democrats" shift the Overton window further right and further normalize the undermining of legitimate elections? What's to the right of protofascism again? I can't quite remember... Please, though, tell me again who is responsible for helping people destroy the country. I'm sure you have such an objective, wide view of the situation that you could provide insight that the rest of us are too proud and myopic to see. /s
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  4496. There is a difference between being a corporatist and being a fascist, but Greenspan does a good job showing how blurred that distinction is. https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs
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  4497. I'd demand the order in writing, then shoot my CO.
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  4498.  JR 1986  why do we care that a statue of a traitor who explicitly did NOT want statues of himself put up were put up in the Jim Crow era specifically to intimidate black people and remind them who was still in charge have not been torn down? Do you really need that explained to you, boy?
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  4499. Even "significantly" is debatable.
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  4500. Stop Hillary apologetics
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  4501. Not all of them. Some of them are "just" malignant narcissists. ...really hard to tell the 2 apart at a distance though, especially once they've been given power.
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  4502. Yup, crypto isn't money but a ponzi/pyramid scheme. Those that buy in only make a profit when others do after them. It only doesn't collapse because people were taught mythology instead of history economics class. Money is a quantized, transferable debt relation that gets a stable exchange value from the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, by which those who work outside the market economy (who make your civilization possible) get compensated for their labor. Crypto is "hey, I wasted energy and expensive and environmentally costly computer parts making the digital equivalent of mud pies. Pay me for them and you'll probably be able to sell them at a higher price to rubes that buy in after you." For further understanding of what money actually is, please see Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graber (rip) There's even a free audiobook of it right here on YouTube.
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  4503.  @Mike-mc3sh  _said everyone defending the MLM they're a part of. Sorry buddy, I understand it way better than you.
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  4504. It's not addiction to loosing, it that they're paid to loose. 9:43 The job they're bribed to do is to preserve the system. As long as they defeat progressives in the primaries and don't upset the status quo, they still get paid, even if they loose to Republicans. Winning the general election is simply not their highest priority. It's more like their 5th, because the GOP isn't their real opponent. We all are.
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  4505.  @geoffwilliams4478  modern GQP is fascist, which means disagreement is treason, facts and logic be damned.
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  4506. No, see, porn isn't the new thing to blame, but the thing they blame in between everything else. It's like a deflection pallet-cleanser.
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  4507. Aw, look at the widdle bwaindead fascists unable to fink beyond red vs bwue and maybwe finking their fascist manchwild daddy is actuawy an outsider.
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  4508. ​ @Haley_Halo "adults"
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  4509. Depends on what and where we're talking about. You can't just drop as many small wells as you need in the same area and woodburning's practicality is very different between urban and rural situations. More solar panels is probably good everywhere, though.
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  4510. That one honestly surprised me considering how automated I understood the factories to be.
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  4511. It's almost like trying to return to an idealized version of your past while discarding openness and kindness is always a failure.
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  4512. False equivocation. Do you mean to be pushing Nazi propaganda or are you a useful idiot?
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  4513. SainterSan no shit the part of the protests is to get arrested you agist fuck. If you don't see the difference between that and surrounding protesters so they can't get out (something that, durring real unrest doesn't happen) then starting with arresting the camera men, followed by the reporters, followed by the actuall protesters...well you, personally, are part of the reason this country slipped into decline under your generation's watch. Sorry for not cleaning up your mess in a way you approve of.
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  4514. As I mentioned, this isn't standard police practice for a law breaking protest. Standard practice would be to demand they leave, then (if they don't) move in (leaving an escape path to minimize escalation risks), and arrest people starting with the leaders. If you can't see that surrounding people and arresting the camera men, followed by the reporters first is problematic then you're the one that's been "indoctrinated". And yes, ageist. The fact that, in your arrogance, you feel entitled to demand that you be treated like you know it all due to your age while calling the most diverse generations in US history (and those most likely to be registered as independents) "regimented" proves it. Thank you for proving, through predictable insults and projection that you, personally are part of the reason the momentum from early successes of your generation quickly devolved into standing by while the Bill of Rights, New Deal regulations, and our national government having ANY statistical correlation to public opinion were all shredded (among many other problems). This isn't you giving it back to us. This is you and people like you, taking failing your own generation out on us, and you not being able to take it when you're called out on it. (edited for grammar only)
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  4515. Because she is, at heart, a neoliberal who wants market solutions for as much as possible. She's just a neoliberal who is somewhat progressive on finance. I think she believes that poorly regulated banking is why capitalism doesn't just work...and she's half right about that, to be fair, but doesn't want to see how big the problem really is. That's just my oppinion, but the assessment seems to fit.
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  4516. Now now, let's be reasonable... We should take the money from what we're giving to Saudi Arabia too.
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  4517.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  it's not a fake form. It's the extremist, apocalyptic form wanting to bring about the end times so they can go to heaven and watch the world (including nearly all the Jews) get destroyed sometime after all of the promiced land is under the control of Israel as a Jewish state.
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  4518.  @zhangjao6328  that's why she got questions leaked to her and canceled debates, sure /s Lol you are such an idiot
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  4519.  @kevin6293  actually, no. If the goal was to kill as many people as possible, they wouldn't have hit the Pentagon. They would have hit another large tower. They picked targets that were symbols and centers of US imperialism. We don't need to defend the attacks to be honest about what they were doing.
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  4520. I'm sorry, were you expecting media comprehension from the far-right? They objectively suck at it and the evidence is everywhere from studies on political differences with respect to comedy to fascists leaving comments under V for Vendetta clips talking about how the over-the-top fascist government is "leftist" or any of countless alt-right YouTubers failing at trying to analyze any piece media or the fact that the only times the artistic fields haven't been dominated by liberals and leftists is when violent surpression was imposed (or the number of their demogogues throughout history who was bitter failed screenwriters/comedians/painters/etc) Even just saying someone's an artist brings up a mental image and it's not of someone far-right.
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  4521.  @madworldisrael7584  Nope, try again. Fascism is more specific than that.
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  4522. Never let it be said he never accomplished anything of worth....if only to be so overtly bad as to finally start waking the people up.
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  4523. There's always the next crop and truckload of rare earth metals
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  4524. Neightrix Prime I disagree. We should always be working towards stop the 45,000 deaths per year due to lack of coverage. Forcing politicians to take sides on it helps the voters be clear on who stands with them, and who stands against them, bringing that policy closer to reality. It's also good at showing who is beyond hopelessly corrupt and needs to be removed, because if you're willing to see your fellow citizens die for your personal profit, you have no buisness being anywhere near power
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  4525. Not him, us It's up to us
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  4526. GamingByteTv why are you off your meds?
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  4527. TheEnvisager they may try, but unlike Pai, they probably can't survive a 98.5% disapproval rating.
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  4528. When have they not been?
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  4529. Flynn O Flenniken because if we broke down and used gas chambers rather than trying to make it look like a medical procedure, we'd have to face the reality of what we're doing.
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  4530. The entire country is built on ethnic cleansing. It has no right to exist.
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  4531.  @Texzyns  that's a problem with wages, not tax structure.
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  4532.  Liberty Prime C.F P.N  you have issues. Bring them to a therapist, not the comment section please and thank you.
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  4533. None of the 3 large powers winning is good.
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  4534. Herman Cain was a war criminal. If international law was upheld, he would be executed for that even ignoring his other crimes against humanity because he has the blood of hundreds of thousands (minimum) on his hands. If a serial killer dies because they were speeding and crashed into a telephone pole, it's not a tragedy no matter how nice they were to people in their personal lives. Same thing here. A monster is dead and the future will be slightly less shitty for it. I'll save my sympathy for his victims.
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  4535. If you look into the origins of the "War on Christmas" scaremongering, it will become pretty clear what they actually care about (content warning though, antisemitism and Nazis, and no, I'm not joking or exaggurating)
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  4536. The "double taps" targeting first responders proves this is the intent without a doubt.
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  4537. SkyTech RTS and more terrorist attacks on US soil this millennia have been carried out by non-Islamic right-wing extremists than jihadists....but we'll cut the oversight to that growing problem and focus on Mexicans (when we could immediately start to stabilize Mexico by just ending the war on drugs)
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  4538. Borsalino Kizaru it's not that they like to, it's that they're paid to. Well, to be specific they're paid to defeat real progressives, liberals, and leftists in the primaries, reguardless of if it costs them the general, and then buckle to the GOP if they do happen to win.
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  4539.  @Clusterboy  still happens. The murder weapon has just changed. In other countries they're called "honor killings" but when Americans do it, it's called a "crime of passion" or "intimate partner violence" even when it's the exact same thing.
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  4540.  @Chandra_Moon13  same target audience (baring the religion) as JP and Nazis, huh, almost like they are targeting the vulnerable and exploiting them.
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  4541.  Cheesie Horde  violence for political gain as a definition is useless because all politics contains violence for political gain, so everything supporting any form of politics would be supporting terrorism. Definitions have to be narrow enough to not encompass everything or they're useless. If you have one with more utility in describing reality you're welcome to give a counter example but "no, that one's bad because I don't like it" doesn't cut it.
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  4542. While morally excusable in a country that doesn't actually have a real retirement plan for its citizens, much of the same class dynamics and incentives exist for both, so sometimes it IS appropriate to lump them together depending on what is being said. Landlording is always a moral compromise at best.
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  4543. Corn Pone Flicks I generally read it as sarcastic too, and understood your meaning, though since some do wear it with pride and the literal reading is favorable to them (which can create some misunderstanding as we saw in this thread), I perfer to avoid it or at least put it in quotation marks. Just a suggestion on how to communicate what you mean more effectively through the limitations of text.
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  4544. End qualified immunity End drug prohibition Maybe cops will start having to find something productive to do with their time instead of harassing people over BS.
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  4545. Manny Santiago bigotry comes from hierarchical worldviews. If you don't have a collaborative mindset towards adult interactions, you'll act like a schoolyard bully and pick any difference (good, bad, or indifferent) as a means to discriminate because your worth in your mind is based on how many people are "below" you. Authoritarianism (even just the everyday variety) causes it, and Hinduism (with a cast system being a core tenant) codifies and enforces it.
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  4546.  @iododendron3416  tic tacs label: Calories: 0 Serving size: 0.5g 1st ingredient: Sugar Yup, and today we learn why tic tacs are the size they are.
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  4547. ​@teotronia😂
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  4548. Anyone happen to know any other sources for 9:05 - 9:10 by chance?
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  4549.  @50jakecs  true. If you are in a closed primary state, please register "Democrat" so you can participate in the primaries which is the most important time for leftists to vote.
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  4550. @Hitchslap sad thing is, it's not beyond reason how we got here. If you walked into a shady used car lot and said "show me your best 2 cars, because I'm not leaving this lot without buying a car" you instinctively know you'd be ripped off of because any negotiation where you're not willing to say "no deal" and walk away is one you should expect to be taken advantage of in. When it comes to politics, though, this nation's people have allowed themselves to be trained to ignore this fact, and so we keep voting for the lesser of 2 evils insuring a worse choice of evils next election cycle, and even refusing to do the work to fix the system that gives us such. Hell, we let politicians rig elections, undermining the very thing that seperates citizens from subjects, and vote for them anyway. This is exactly the result we would expect from that.
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  4551. He's done so in the past.
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  4552. Strictly speaking, she's pretending to be a progressive, so she's Obama 2.0...you know, how the last section of the road to Trump was paved.
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  4553.  @ihl0700677525  this isn't a no-true-scottsman. These words have definitions we can check if things fit or not. Socialism is (democratic) worker control of the means of production (especially when paired with decomodification of necessesities). Communism is a hypothetical moneyless, classless, stateless society where goods and services are distributed from each accoding to their means and to each according to their needs. The USSR had an economy run by an elite class of party insiders in a totalitarian state. It doesn't fit either definition and you are literally falling for Soviet propaganda when you respond to my saying it wasn't socialist like you did. It was about as socialist as North Korea is a democratic republic. George Orwell (the guy who wrote 1984) ended Animal Farm with the animals looking back and forth between the pigs and humans and not being able to tell the difference because he was saying that the USSR wasn't socialist and said so openly on multiple occasions. The real term for the USSR is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism Incidentally, he also said “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it” You're so thoroughly propaganzised that you're citing a socialist in opposition to socialism as if he agrees with you and ridiculing me for holding the same position on a key matter as him. Incidentally, see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity And Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (the one book conveniently omitted from most US school reading of Orwell's work to hide the fact that, like MLK, he was a socialist)
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  4554. Our military personnel swear "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" so where are they?
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  4555. Yup, just in reverse. That's what you get when you have a 2-party system with a center-right party and a far-right party: stagnation followed by decay.
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  4556. Gothead420 percentages, in multiple ways. Look at prison populations or crime rates across states or countries. More religion means more immortality. Hell, even something as benign as divorce rates fall with higher rates of secularism once you're talking about societies where it's accepted. It shouldn't be surprising. Morality based on obedience to authoritary is a juvenile stage of moral development and the core of organized religion. Multiple studies also show that humans consistently behave less ethically in strongly authoritarian situations (reguardless of where they're put in said structure).
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  4557. Those were less "to prove that we can" and more propaganda pieces to reinforce the perception that certain humans were actually gods (or at least close to it) to keep the entire system of government from collapsing under its own weight.
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  4558. America is run by money
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  4559.  @S.Lander  it's tangential, but for the record, no one person creates billions in wealth.
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  4560.  @HetareKing  I'd argue that Bloomberg would be a greater evil and that the others would basically guarantee another Trump to follow them (who would likely be further right-wing and less incompetent)...which would also mean we would shoot right past the climate change deadline if you do the math. Your assessments may be different than mine, but in a consequentalist sense, the lesser evil choice may not be as cut and dry as you think.
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  4561. If I might disagree and re-muddy those distinctions, philosophy (specifically epistemology) is actually really useful here. The most philosophically honest thing we can say about what happens to things that fall into a black hole is "our models of physics break down at the event horizon so we can, at best, only make educated guesses influenced by our own biases with no means to test them against each other". You can't do good physics without solid grounding in philosophy just as you cannot do good physics without solid grounding in math. Science requires an overlap of evidence, math, and philosophy and right now, we don't even have experimental confirmation that Hawking radiation even exists. We assume it does (and I include myself in that "we") but we must not loose track of when we are making assumptions.
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  4562.  @Merennulli  I'll add that the war itself was already a crime against peace by international law, but yes, actively endangering a large swath of Eurasia with this recklessness is just further convincing the world that Putin needs to be dealt with in some manner, as just leaving him to his own device and trying to just wait his regime out is looking less and less appealing to other nearby countries by the day. How they'll end up responding I can't say, but we're seeing increasing opposition to Russia and support for Ukraine and NATO the worse this gets, so it's kinda surprising that the Russian government is acting like this as it doesn't seem to benefit them anything (even without assuming they care about their own citizens).
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  4563. Tulsi doesn't have the status to win, to say nothing of splitting the progressive vote. We need Bernie in and Tulsi as VP/SoS.
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  4564.  @jeffbalagna9259  you're right. Faux News isn't pushing as hard.
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  4565. Ignore the troll. As for embarrassment, I consider being an American like being on the front lines of the civilized world. It's only an embarrassment if you're part of the problem.
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  4566. The other most relevant one is Confessions of an Economic Hitman You need to read that one too. Find an audiobook if you don't have the time to sit down with it because it is to global politics what manufacturing consent is to our corporate media.
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  4567. The world views pretty unanimously views the US as the greatest threat to world peace and our closest allies are Isreal (a far-right ethnonationalist nation carrying out appartide and illegal occupation) and Saudi Arabia (who funds terrorists, pushes the most extreme and violent version of their religion, and is committing a genocide righy now) as we prop up the vast majority of the world's dictatorships and have a president who openly caters to fascists. Yes, we are the baddies and the new Axis of Evil. See Confessions of an Economic Hitman for more.
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  4568. If by "left" you mean the origional term of those favoring democratic republics over dictatorships, then yes, yes it is you facist.
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  4569. Anonymous is even more of an organization. Antifa(scism) is and organization like enviromentalism is an organization.
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  4570. Every accusation, a confession
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  4571. Holy fuck NO! Missile defense systems are an even dumber idea than unilateral disarmament. As soon as a nation thinks they can get away with using nukes scott free because they feel safe, the world goes from unstable, to a ticking time bomb. That's why we banned the development of missile defense systems, which helped end the Cold War. BTW, we've been in violation of said treaties deploying less effective ones near Russia and developing new ones since the early Bush administration
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  4572. I hope so His impeachment proceedings will give us time to vote in better people to select his replacement.
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  4573. To be fair, it ended up producing the best ArthurXGuinevereXLancelot love triangle IMO, with all 3 sympathetic.
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  4574. Grey Matters to someone in full support of the oligarchy, New York is the real capital and the greatest city on Earth that seperates great people from the lazy, stupid, and untalented. If trying to imagine any part of that outlook disgusts you, congratulations, that's a good sign.
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  4575. Paying taxes is paying for services rendered. It should absolutely be mandatory, just like any bill you have.
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  4576. He was trying to hide it but he was super uncomfortable.
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  4577. It's almost cute that you think American standards are anything to judge another developed nation by.
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  4578.  michael piro  as soon as you say "by American standards" your point is invalid. We have a center right and a far right party in the US for our major political parties, not even a centrist party, so "the left" in the US is still right wing.
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  4579.  @bennyballard6219  I'm using the same definition of standard. His ideology putting him in the "Democratic" party proves that he's right wing and the US political spectrum is nonsense.
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  4580.  @bennyballard6219  the extreme left point would be full anarchosocialism. Bernie is right in the middle or just left-leaning to most of the rest of the developed world. The dems are way to the right of him (and the public, for that matter), and the GOP are significantly closer to full Nazis than the actual center of the left-right spectrum.
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  4581. Bill Maher is an establishment tool with the jobs of defining the leftmost position of the Overton Window and directing the anger of progressives to where the establishment "Democrats" want.
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  4582.  @koukkoufos2000  I understand. I'm just explaining why he seems to flip back and forth. His tepid support of Bernie was likely mainly to win favor with progressives to try and draw them toward Hillary later (and to give him some presence of credibility when dismissing more harsh criticisms of Hillary) If you dispense with the idea that he's at all an honest actor, his behavior becomes much easier to analyze.
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  4583. Truth.
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  4584. Setting asside the more conservative statistic of 4% testing as full sociopaths, CEOs test as ~20% as at least borderline psychopaths, which falls into the category of "antisocial personality disorders". Since we're not talking about the casual usage meaning one just avoids socializing (which would be more correctly called being asocial ), but it's clinical definition meaning "destructive to social groups" yes, that's a problem. When you add to that how the power dynamics produce antisocial behavior in normal people (See Stanford Prison Experiment, an experiment on the effect of authority on human behavior that got so out of hand that it was quickly cancelled and never repeated), yes, we have a big problem. I'm not sure I could design a more effective system for moving people to where they absolutely shouldn't be than our current corporate culture.
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  4585. No, because it's clearly illegal
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  4586. Efrain Salgado support the candidates dirrectly.
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  4587.  @michaeldelyjah5696  yeah I do. YouTube, to save money considering the manhours vs the absurd amount of uploaded content, tries to manually review as few videos as possible, relying on algorithms and user reporting to filter potentially objectionable content (and really as much of the site as they possibly can because of the absolutely massive amount of content uploaded and viewed every day) The objectionable content is overtly stated to be about being "advertiser friendly" with disinformation usually handled by providing Wikipedia links on any related video reguardless of stance taken, only entering manual review in extreme cases. Likewise, any information he was citing was coming from what YouTube would consider an "authoritative news source" so not be tripping flags or prompting demonitization because they are news companies advertisers are happy to have their ads run on. This is all fairly public knowledge. You just don't want to acknowledge it for whatever reason.
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  4588.  @apestogetherstrong341  depends on what you're aiming with.
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  4589.  NicKingPapiChulo  let's think that through. What political reasons would he have? Trump does the same kind of shit (only worse than before) that Wikileaks has exposed before, so it's not like we should expect them to align on policy. Well then, what does Wikileaks say their political aims are? Well, they claim to be for radical transparency, and which administration (Trump or Hillary) would have been more open? You might think Hillary, but contrary to his wishes, the Trump administration leaks like a sieve. Agree or disagree as you like with that being a #1 priority, but that checks out as consistent. Besides assuming (and let's be clear, you are assuming) that Wikileaks had comperable info on Trump, what would that have been? That Trump says whatever he thinks is advantageous at the time and that the GOP rigs elections? None of that is secret. Every sane person knows Trump is a rampant liar and that the GOP uses the same election-rigging tactics as Hillary every general election (or, more accurately, Hillary coppied Republican methods). To name just one example, people knew about interstate crosscheck for years and nothing was done. What exactly did you want Wikileaks to put out on the Trump campaign?
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  4590. ​ @arkcliref floating habitats means they're held aloft through buoyancy, not burning fuel. You're thinking of hovering. Not the same thing
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  4591. Jebus no need to insult him because he thinks everyone who's mind can be changed about Pat Robertson has done so
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  4592.  @royalzak2670  let's see, one is an act of terrorism against an imperial power that targeted centers of the forms of that power (the economic imperialism of Wallstreet, the military command center in the Pentagon, and a plane suspected to be headed toward either the White House or Congress) by people in a region subjected to imperialism longer than living memory. Plenty of innocents died, sure, and I can't condone that, but it was a clearly targeted act of retaliation against centers of power responsibile for spreading death and destruction around the world. The other was the systematic extermination of millions of innocents that was only stopped from exterminating at least most humans alive by one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Kinda a fucking difference there.
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  4593. Not much that can be done about billionaires bribing politicians?
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  4594. Well, I'm in one of the states that does completely ban it (note: they're all blue states, no surprise) so yes, the states that aren't controlled by the GQP sure can but it gets worse: "Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 300,000 minors were legally married in the United States.[12] The vast majority of child marriages in the U.S. were between a minor girl and an adult man.[12][13][14] In many cases, minors in the U.S. may be married when they are under the age of sexual consent, which varies from 16 to 18 depending on the state.[15] In some states, minors cannot legally divorce or leave their spouse, and domestic violence shelters typically do not accept minors.[16][17]" -Wikipedia
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  4595. Ignoring that it would be likely to be cut through and/or fly off, what would be the point?
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  4596.  @miguelzurita3216  the trial where people plead guilty is a baseless joke. Mmhm, that checks out /s
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  4597. I'll start by being upfront with a clear: "I don't know", but I had some suspicions with what little I knew and cross referenced them with what I could find from a normal credible medical website (half because your curiosity was contagious) and since no-one has responded I'll share. First, yes, hormones. They'll do all kinds of things including slow or otherwise mess with digestion. Not only are the hormones going to affect your body, but (iirc) they can also leak into your guts and affect the good bacteria there changing how they do their job. This would also give your body more time to suck water out from it making it harder. Lots of fiber, water, and optionally a mild over the counter laxative were the recommendations and seem pretty obvious, cheap, and harmless (and also in line with what you were already doing at least some of!) Likewise, if food cravings are a problem for you, trying to keep that in check and not deviate too much from a normal healthy diet (beyond the increased fiber) may help your guts stay healthy and moving. Lots of processed crap is not going to keep things moving or your gut bacteria happy. Not presuming it's a contributing factor, but thought I'd mention for completeness. In case this is for more than just curiosity, I'll also mention to, of course, talk to your doctor about it and don't treat anything that comes from random people online (including me) as serious medical advice. There are plenty of people who know just enough to sound convincing (even to themselves) while giving dangerously wrong advice/information (and those are still just the sane and well-intentioned ones)
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  4598. The issue is you're thinking about wealth in absolute terms. Money is power and at a certain point, once the ability to afford extreme luxury is well beneath you, how much power you have relative to others becomes the only way you can contextualize it. As a point of reference, the rich these days view $100 million as the start of real wealth and there's somewhere around a comperable difference between that and most of us and the really rich and that. This isn't really about improving their quality of life. It's about fighting over power.
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  4599. Wastingsometimehere lol let's be real, that little shit wouldn't get his hands dirty (but he'd totally try and puppeteer something).
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  4600. Kyle's wrong about one thing though: It is about right vs left, because that spectrum is established power vs everyone else. Hell, the origin of the right was royalists opposing representative government.
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  4601. Almost like giving businesses more ability to intimidate and mistreat undocumented workers was the goal to begin with.
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  4602. Oligharchy
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  4603. We're talking about Ukraine, not Siberia. Also, just look at when the war started: the army suffering widespread frostbite was Russia's, not Ukraine's. No, what's more likely to happen is that Russia will step up it's warcrimes, increasing the already begun targeting of the infrastructure to heat the homes of Ukrainian civilians while the Russian army suffers widespread casualties due to exposure and their already (at best) strained logistics. Who, exactly, is the "everyone" saying that???
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  4604. There's a term for meeting in the middle with fascists. That term is "appeasement". It's not going to work any better this century than last century.
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  4605.  @ZboeC5  that's unnecessarily defeatist. We could take back sovereign control over our currency as soon as we elect a government with the will to do it. We'd have to end a lot more than the federal reserve, though, and end privatized banking entirely. Not that we shouldn't move all banking to the public sector, just that it's not the fed that's making most of the dollars in circulation, but private banking itself. This isn't even a new idea for the country. There was a debate among the founding fathers on if private banking should be legal. Like with a few other issues we've had to fix with the tools they gave us to change laws and the constitution, the wrong side won that debate then, and history proved the side that lost correct.
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  4606. The MSM was caught colluding with the Clinton campaign last election, CNN has been caught photoshoping pictures of Bernie to make him look sick...hell, there was a guilty plea in New York for illegally knocking likely Sanders voters off the rolls among a pile of other BS and you're incredulous about this??? Really?!
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  4607. @Ryan Dulac the problem is we need to beat them hard enough to overwhelm the inevitable cheating. There will almost certainly be illegal voter disenfranchisement at a minimum.
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  4608.  @povelvieregg165  you're missing one detail: pink is a troll and doesn't care about little things like "facts"
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  4609. TheCarin12 yet more evidence that "free markets" don't differentiate between wealth creation and wealth acquisition.
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  4610. Not to discredit the conversation being had here, but the answer to the OP's question is always "the people" because that is always who the election ultimately belongs to, reguardless of their choice. As soon as that choice is taken from the people, by force or fraud, you no longer have a democratic country, at which point the people are no longer citizens, but subjects.
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  4611. Isn't that the undertone she has in every public appearance?
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  4612.  @kavousniamir2375  the Nazi regime killed it's own people all the time What are you talking about?
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  4613. Don't forget the constantly condescending attitude as she totally snubbed her base and ran so far right that she lost the democratic "firewall". (This included blatent smear campaigns against not only Bernie, but voters as well) She had a overt and offputting sense of entitlement to the process. Her avid support of the disastrous TPP wasn't covered up at all by her way late and threadbare lie about being against it. She also put herself in the position of not being able to say anything about voter suppression by using it extensively in the primary. Oh, and let's not forget the big one: they coordinated with the media to push Trump on the primary in the first place. It's ALL her fault in uncountable ways.
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  4614. If the goal was always to keep potential rival states weak and constantly too busy with their own conflicts to rise to power you could call it well done...just sayin incompetence isn't the only explanation here.
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  4615. It can't be a war. Only one side is doing the dieing part. We got a word for a conflict where all the deaths happen on one side?
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  4616. Kyle, just say it. He's trying to dog whistle facists. That line about the violence makes it unmistakable.
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  4617. Literally. Q-anon absolutely qualifies as a cult, even beyond the colloquial sense of the word.
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  4618.  @spanaker  Then (and I don't mean this to sound hostile) please don't say they don't know what they're doing. It make the crimes sound like mistakes.
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  4619.  @trevorlambert4226  I was using the word in the more casual, less technical sense, but it can also mean to be severely injured even by the strict definition. If you're going to be a pedant, don't also be wrong.
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  4620.  @christopherdahle9985  the hypothetical you're describing is exactly what happened to me except it grounded to the object (the tool the cord was to) in my other hand causing the circuit to not be through my hand but from one hand to the other through both arms and my upper torso locking my grip on both objects, as my thumb wasn't touching the ground and apparently through me to the shell of the device was the easiest path to the ground. Only luck caused my shaking to eventually break the connection and spared me from the current stopping my heartbeat. I came away with only some muscle soreness, but it very easily could have ended very differently if I was just slightly less lucky that day.
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  4621. Technically, I'm in that 30% since I saw the change in the economy and stopped going to college before I had to take on any debt (though would love to finish if I had the opportunity). I have thus far, not borrowed any money, so I don't worry about debt, but I'm not well off enough that I could pay it back if I had any. Most of that 30% probably didn't go to college and went right into a trade (living with their parents until they became established enough to scrape by on their own, even if living paycheck to paycheck and renting). Most of the rest, yes, are rich
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  4622.  @nasyrhorace6489  the Saudis are the royal family that controls the country under a barbaric regime ...and incidentally, was where most of the funding for 9/11 came from and are committing a genocide in Yemen (where the Houthi group that claimed credit for this attack came from) in no small part by funneling US weapons to Al-Quaida.
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  4623. Not only is it probably compressed into rock at this point but think of it this way: over geologic timescales dinosaur tracks are constantly being uncovered and then either re-covered or destroyed. If we lived millennia ago or millennia from now, it may have been that a different set of tracks would be the longest exposed, but at any point, SOME set of tracks would be the longest exposed. It just so happens that when we're living, it happens to be that set.
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  4624.  @IsaiahB57  yeah, that's typical for people that deny reality like you. Few admit it so freely, though.
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  4625. Yes, please! Those seem by far the most practical option to me due to longevity, modular deployment, mass manufacturing, low material costs, low maintenance costs, and ease of recycling, but I'd be very interested to see her take on their viability as while I'm far better at identifying pseudoscience than the average person, there are areas of science that I don't have the skills and knowledge to catch more than the most obvious problems with and several of them come up in battery tech.
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  4626. If they don't stop moving the working class to the basement and taking our metaphorical staplers, one day we will burn this building down.
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  4627. I mean, they still were. Getting here has been a process
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  4628. Um, how about "fuck no"? Biden is an ageist, racist, authoritarian pushing policies that will destoy the future of everyone younger and poorer than him for his own personal gain. I have as much concern for treating Biden with civility as he has empathy for millennials. None I'm not interested in playing nice with people who hate me and wish me harm. I'm interested in exposing them for the pieces of shit they are and telling them to go fuck themselves (if I'm being polite. If I'm not, replace "fuck" with a different 4 letter word)
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  4629.  anarchore  you're not fooling anyone. We all know oligarchs turn to NAZIs and other fascists as a counter to socialist movements very reliably throughout history and that the first thing the NAZIs did when they got power was to murder all the socialists in their party in the night of long knives. We all know your playbook of lies already.
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  4630. Because defeating progressives takes priority over defeating republicans. Republicans won't bring their corrupt gravy train to a permanent and abrupt stop.
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  4631. Except for assistance to Ukraine.
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  4632. crippletime both pronunciations are technically correct.
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  4633. They've, for years, been saying their business plan is to appeal more to conservatives.
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  4634. ​ @AuntieMamies MAKE them care.
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  4635. Really. Dude, the most common single graffiti symbol is a swastika and has been for a long time
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  4636.  @tims3712  that's a flat-out strawman. I presented you with the correct definitions. You claimed they were different here. I pointed out how that wasn't true. At least be honest.
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  4637. Not uncommon to hide missile silos far away from high-value locations...just saying, something to consider.
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  4638. I really don't think Joe actually doesn't understand. Joe is actually pretending to be way more moderate than he is and is a bigot himself, which is why he laughs at jokes that exist to push bigotry.
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  4639. The 3.5 reconciliation bill is already the compromise from the moderate position.
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  4640. Actually "whether or not you vote has little impact. Nowadays, procuring a state-issued ID or driver's license, buying a home, and/or filing tax returns can get you on the list as well. Basically, if you're an active citizen of the United States you can expect to be called someday." -https://lifehacker.com/eight-myths-about-jury-duty-debunked-1538152456
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  4641. Totally a spear guy myself, and they had the best, longest run of any weapon type in history...but... To me, a sword is the most balanced and flexible weapon. You can use a sword as well in offense or defense, and in war or civilian conflicts. It is great against unarmored targets, as well as being able to be used against armored targets. All other arms have much more limited styles and usages based on their traits, but the sword, through balance and the wide range of things you can do with it, leaves how it's used almost entirely up to the one holding it. At the same time each good sword I've ever held has ways it "wants" to move due to nuances in its balance and inertia in different dirrections. This can even make the idea of a sword having a will seem almost reasonable if one sets aside their sensibilities. To top it off, look at when swords were used. They were used in civilian contexts when violent conflict was not expected. They were also used in military contexts when lines were broken and people had to fall back on sidearms to save the day. Times like those are when heroes are born.
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  4642. 951 to battle of Hastings, where England was permanently conquered by Normans. Then there's when the French took parts of England in 1216 including London. Sure that was a civil war with parts of England wanting to be under French rule, but France still technically occupied England for a while. (though calling them "invaders" could be debated if you want to get technical) It's a damn good record if you're not counting the Norman rule over England as a constant occupation for that whole length of time, but it's still not flawless, and still short of 1000 (even if you rule out 1216 on technical grounds).
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  4643. . . .in a war his side had no chance to win.
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  4644.  @kennykwong1028  no. 8 years of Sanders/Gabbard, then 8 years of Gabbard/(Cortez?) Get Bernie in there while we still can Then get Tulsi in there with some VP experience under her belt with a strong VP, then maybe even get that VP in there
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  4645. And leave the nutjobs with the most powerful military in history and all the nukes?
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  4646. Burning of fields is all anyone (even if they're barely paying attention) should need to know to understand the extent of the warcrimes Russia is committing against not just Ukraine, but at this point the entire world. If not for the threat of his nukes, Putin would already be dead or on trial. Putin is a fascist dictator. There are NO moral limits whatsoever for what he and his forces will do.
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  4647. You think the dems care about winning? That's cute. No, they're paid to keep progressives away from power by beating them in the primaries and then roll over for the GOP. If you find yourself stuck in a room with one "good cop" and one "bad cop", neither is your friend.
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  4648. The thing you have to understand is that free-market capitalism is a religion to many Americans thanks to cold-war era propaganda (which persists to this day). You're not arguing against a rational worldview, but a dogmatic one.
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  4649.  bigtruck guy  on top of the chronic underfunding they had previously, of course.
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  4650. ​ @RaskusArhaus all religion, but organized is WAY worse on average, yes.
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  4651. I mean, we got what we clicked for though.
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  4652.  @jarvisaddison8560  both the bullies, and the little shits that would have been bullies if only they had a gun to make them feel powerful.
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  4653.  @zackburke5459  true, though it was probably real. You don't need to fake an attack from people you're currently genociding. Just play the victim when they inevitably hit back.
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  4654.  @Lily_of_the_Alley  you were wrong as soon as you said he created them, but even if he did, it wouldn't matter. You conspiracy theorists always cherry pick a crackpot or 2 for widely debunked claims and act like that beats the overwhelming consensus and all the data. It's disgustingly antiintelectual.
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  4655. Except the first part with their fingers crossed behind their backs because they're paid off by the fossile fuel industry and have intense contempt for the younger generations who will pay the price.
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  4656. Don't forget targeting first responders. Couldn't let Afghanistan cool down too much afterall.
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  4657. Why do you think people like him need a target for their projection so bad?
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  4658. For background, please see this CPG Grey video https://youtu.be/KW0eUrUiyxo Then add to that a flagging system of "not being advertiser friendly" (which lumps shows like this with nazi stuff) and you can see how to you get a 2-tier system where you get really dirt cheap ads (like the Prager U shit spammed on every deranked, even-slightly-political channel) and then more expensive ones on other channels. Does that help?
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  4659.  @Ftroll  you seriously don't think the USSR had a ruling class with the actual control of their businesses?
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  4660. “If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” -Thomas Jefferson
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  4661. This trick is older than any of the groups mentioned. It's on page 4 of the authoritarian playbook....and almost certainly older than writing itself.
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  4662. Yeah, I heard "2 guns and 10,000", paused, and was just like "am I the only one seeing the math problem here?"
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  4663.  @MrAlpacabreeder  I really don't think that creating thousands of short circuits in a power station is just going to be a matter of clearing them off and turning everything back on. Most likely, basically everything is fried. The main advantage with that kind of weapon would be that you could detonate it above the station and have the damage to any other nearby buildings be minimal. Considering those stations are often near residential areas, collateral damage is a big concern for any halfway proper military.
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  4664. @cringey kid  The scale of space doesn't scare me, but there's no way I'd actually want to go there. I'm quite happy to admire it from the relative safety of the bottom of this gravity well with lots of atmosphere and a powerful magnetosphere above me. I'm not getting into a tin can to blast off into an irradiated vacuum full of micrometeorites where the lack of gravity will basically cause my body to start eating itself, but I'll happily learn about it from down here.
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  4665. The word you're looking for is "complicit"
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  4666. Jack Barman never make charisma a dump stat. A charismatic orator can move 1-2 thousand swords as easily as a strong swordman can move 1-2. ...also, never make wisdom your dump stat either.
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  4667. I've watched all CPG Grey's videos and still think ranked choice is the best system but it needs to be combined with other elements. There are significant problems with proportional representation too. Further, the systems can be combined, rather than being mutually exclusive, so there's no reason to object to it unless you WANT a spoiler effect to preserve established power.
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  4668. meeg_2005 yeah, it's all gonna depend on how 2018 goes and what position Bernie is in come 2020. Taking things on a case-by-case basis and remain flexible as part of a 2 pronged attack is the best strategy atm. Even if you're trying to ultimately go 3rd party, trying to reform the democratic party and forcing them to overplay their hand and alienate even more voters is probably a good strategy.
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  4669. Coming further left is not just what we want for policy. It's the winning electoral strategy. They're not moving to the right because they need to to win. They're moving to the right because it's who they really are, unfortunately.
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  4670.  @timi3020  Black Boomers (like all other Boomers) overwhelmingly supported the bigoted war-criminal with obvious cognitive decline called Biden. Young black people were all in for Bernie (like the younger generations of every demographic). But sure, spout the data cherrypicked by the corporate msm to fit their propaganda. That totally doesn't make you look like a pathetic tool. /S
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  4671.  @Technics19  all the workers in a coop are rewarded if the business succeeds. Your reply didn't actually answer the question. If the owners can be motivated by more money later to invest in improving the business, why wouldn't the workers (which, btw, real world worker coops have shown they will)? If this isn't special pleading, please explain the difference.
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  4672. The lesson was taught. The problem is Dems really WOULD rather loose to Trump than win with a real progressive.
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  4673. Nah, he kept up with the backhands. No injury sustained...well on anyone that matters at least.
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  4674. TheRyujinLP the thickness achievable with any sane amount or weight for even titanium is not an issue. You need to get into materials like fabric or paper armor before that starts to become an issue.
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  4675. No fixing stupid
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  4676.  @ricardobarahona3939  he's kinda like the left version of Rand Paul. Saw the appeal of his father's ideology and decided he liked the aestetics of it more than the actual thing and just sold out to be a standard corporatist.
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  4677. The "freedom" they care about most is the freedom to oppress others. Always have and always will Far right politics is simply pro-evil and pro-tyranny.
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  4678.  @davidmayberry3190  Bernie's Green New Deal, in not scrimping on the "New Deal" part made sure they were taken care of. If Biden's doesn't end up doing so, we attack him from the left on that. Really, though, the skillsets used in the overwhelming majority of fossile fuel jobs are transferable to some aspect or another of renewable energy. It's going to take a lot of people who know how to move and use dangerous heavy machinery to set up all those windmills and solar pannels and the like, and every one of those will need a foundation. The equipment used for most of that job is often the exact same stuff used to set up things like fracking wells. There is a hell of a lot of blue collar work in the coming green revolution needing the exact same kind of strong hands and skillests used by the fossile fuel industry today. It's not like the jobs we're going to need them to transition to are going to be that different than what they already do. They 100% do not need to "learn to code" or anything drastic like that, so I believe in them.
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  4679. Go look up how thick the needles they need to inject any kind of microchip are to see with just your eyes how rediculous this BS is. No thinking required.
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  4680. You think the establishment dems are "left"?
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  4681. Well, see, the others wouldn't restart the Cold War so...
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  4682. Calm down guys, just a troll
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  4683. sakud1 as nice as that thought is, had he not run in the democratic primary in 2016, he would have just been another Ralph Nader and gone nowhere on the national stage. I disagree with him holding to his promise of not running independent in the general, as I think the BS pulled against him made that promise void in my eyes, but I understand the arguments against it. 2020's a tricky call tbh, as much as I want him to run independent and win, he needs to play things right, and gauge his health, and there's no right call for it...merely calculated risks. Every step on the way to that is going to influence the decision, and I doubt Bernie will even make up his mind until after the 2018 races.
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  4684. donHooligan just keep repeating it. It's frustrating, but we're slowly but surely getting to the point where people can recognize that (in many ways) Obama was to the right of Reagan, and called a commie for it, meaning everyone who did so has no grasp on reality.
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  4685. Radical centrist repeatedly destroys the world? ...yeah, that checks out.
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  4686. Brittany Caron if you don't want to do Patrion, one thing I do from time to time is have my phone at my computer with headphones on both. Then, when I get an ad I can't stand, switch devices and let it play where I can't hear it while I watch the video. I don't have to watch the ad, but they still have to pay kyle like I did
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  4687.  @TheSchaef47  no, I'm bashing him for a proposal that would get people killed and have limited help for small businesses when there are options that don't involve killing small businesses or people for the sake of stock prices. The fact that you people can't string together (or apparently understand) a logically consistent argument is on you, not me.
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  4688. It's not a binary strategy choice is what Jimmy seems to fail to understand. Push the hostile takeover in the primary, then vote 3rd party if they rig the election or force through someone too terrible, and scare the shit out of the corrupt dems who are still in office to keep them straight-ish until it's time to vote them out too. Focusing too much on one strategy makes it really easy to counter no matter what you pick. On the other hand, if you use a multi-pronged attack, any countermove they make plays into your hands.
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  4689. I have no idea because I don't know who the next most likely nominee is, and I'd wager neither does anyone in this comment section.
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  4690. Watch this please: https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w
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  4691. Oh look, someone making sense
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  4692. LateNightGaming the problem is if you listen to him talk about it in other places you can find that it's central to his worldview. Remove religion and his entire personal philosophy falls down because that flawed foundation is what it's built on.
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  4693.  @HArryvajonas  not if we don't deal with climate change, among other problems.
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  4694.  @therealctoo4183  that's not a rational argument for a whole bunch of reasons. Please avoid thought-terminating cliches
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  4695. IMO, join the work against theocracy in your part of the world. There's little to nothing you can do about the US from over there, but you can make your countries better and make the arguments against war easier for those of us working to throw off the oligarchs who usurped the USA and improve things in our hemisphere. Focus on what you can do and stay safe.
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  4696. All politics No economics but they did make a dig at those that would have been offended by it, so I'm ok with it
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  4697.  @Schmidty1  =/= means "does not equal"
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  4698. Supposed to be? A thin "maybe" Have ever been? A solid "no"
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  4699. Let me just put it this way: I don't intend to die alone.
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  4700.  @Bluebelle51  also good, if you know what you're doing, to help avoid tracking if you don't want the cops IDing you for being at the rally.
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  4701. The center is to the left of the Democratic party. Everyone who doesn't understand this needs to get the word "centrist" out of their fascist-appeasing mouths!
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  4702. They won't. They are ideologically opposed to reason. Look up Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics and you will see how in vain that hope is.
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  4703. 3:45 he mentions this
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  4704. If I may answer that question with a question, do you think Faux News's customers (that is to say, their advertisers) lost out with that war, or that it only affected their bottom line positively if it had any effect at all?
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  4705. Didn't it, though? They got a corporate warhawk in the white house like they wanted.
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  4706. From what I understand, he has a private indoor skate park in his mansion so he's probably getting exercise. And yes, you read that correctly.
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  4707. They're just a hate group at this point.
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  4708. That's what happens when the corporate dems send their most sleazy, corrupt, two-faced candidates to run in red districts and call it "centrism". It builds a reputation.
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  4709. A-doesn't change the carbon emissions B-he's doing it to keep worker productivity up, not because he cares about his constituents. This shouldn't need said, but it does.
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  4710. Side note: Red, at 12:24 -12:34 I think you hit the nail on the head because that sounds painfully American...and I say that as an American who has never left the country.
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  4711. Translation: "Gay men need to stop being so hot."
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  4712. Madagascar is pandemic 1 silly
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  4713.  aadarsh  sometimes people just completely loose the plot and stray so far from reality that it's impossible to tell where the fuck their head is anymore.
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  4714. Lol
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  4715.  @ElaineMLove  read the very obvert subtext please: I was saying the entirety of the GOP "treasonous" with my comment, in only the slighest bit of hyperbole, using the flippant pointing out that their comment was essentially tautological as a way of agreeing.
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  4716. They only promote competant people to management when higher management wants to offload things that should be their responsibilities onto them...which means any competent people in management are going to be both overworked and dealing with an incompetent superior preventing them from doing their job well...which produces nearly identical results.
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  4717. "What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we won’t recognise the truth at all. What will we do then?"
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  4718. Idk, is it SSC?
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  4719. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  4720. The Pragmatic Slytherin except it will make illegal immigration worse since more will stay longer since it will be harder to get back in.
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  4721. vick3d drug prohibition is a failure to begin with (unless you're talking being designed to affect elections by targeting specific demographics). It was a bad idea with alcohol and it's a bad idea with other drugs. Even a magical wall that blocked all contraband wouldn't change that.
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  4722.  @MrWeezy312  at the very least, if we can isolate him and his community from the progressive movement he can stop being a liability. Ostracization to limit the scope of the damage he can do has become important, unfortunately.
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  4723.  Agency in Repose  here this took like 10 seconds http://warcriminalswatch.org/index.php/the-culpable/36-the-culprits/54-rice-condoleeza
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  4724. Xyz Same wordy, but accurate. I hope people read it.
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  4725.  @agentc7020  arguably more than enough...and yet 8-chan exists....
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  4726.  @donanders2110  they never grew up, so they don't realize that someone that reminds them of their abusive father or the schoolyard bully is just hiding their own problems behind a veil of aggression and posturing. It's a frighteningly common problem.
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  4727.  @jansamohyl7983  ha!
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  4728. Immigrants are actually net tax payers. Here's Kyle on the very topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmgL1vr2t0
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  4729. I again am left pointing to Innuendo Studio's "The Card Says Moops" video for explanation (spoilers, though, they legitimately don't actually give a fuck if it's true or not)
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  4730. ​ @JohnnyDelco  in every possible way he is a TEXTBOOK fascist.
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  4731.  @mangobalaclava3329  because we're talking about office building and it would be really easy to prove fraud when someone is claiming to live in a bunch of buildings in the same area and they're clearly going unused.
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  4732.  @ferguswatt2884  no, proof of concept was demonstrated in the 50s. Long term practical engineering needed for full deployment has not been entirely worked out.
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  4733. ​ @Puroboi8894 well, evolved to mammals, with our seed-crushing teeth wouldn't eat it, leaving it for the birds. Evolution didn't count on the masochism of humans, though.
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  4734. Reminder: the establishment "Democrats" are center-right, not even close to left.
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  4735. Well half a brain at least. If you look close at our tactics, it's clear that creating more terrorists isn't an accident.
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  4736. If I was merely in charge of the SATs I could improve critical thinking in this country, drastically, with ease: simply put identifying logical fallacies as part of reading comprehension. Curriculums would then change to teach to the test. However, it would piss off politicians, advertisers (let's face it, ads that actually tell you anything useful about a product are rare), and stupid parents who's children would be able to point out how full of shit they are to their faces.
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  4737.  GBomb Engineering  money is power. One use of power is to aquire more power. Putting more power in the hands of those who already have the most is only going to lead to an accelerating concentration of it, meaning less power/money for everyone else. You can see this empirically too, where if you give money to the poorest, it generates more than its value in economic activity, but if you give it to the richest, it generates less than its value in economic activity. Even more broadly you find that a nation's prosperity correlates strongly with how well it is able to prevent wealth from accumulating in a small number of hands. Trickle down economics does not work in any sense.
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  4738.  @scxrl3tk1ng35  um 2000 Presidential election (and once again Florida) for just one election. This happens a lot.
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  4739.  @thomasmendola937  currency, even gold currency, has value in the market because of the universal demand created by taxes. Said taxes serve as an acknowledgement that you have paid your debt, dirrectly or indirrectly, to the people who work outside the market economy (such as firefighters) to make your civilization possible. While massive banking reform is obviously needed, faith and precious metals are both entirely unnecessary, and anyone who says they are important doesn't understand the issue well enough to be worth listening to.
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  4740. David Frigault IDK what country you live in, but Christianity is still king over in the US. Outrage at the religion not being instantly crushed =/= insulting it being encouraged. ...and let's be real, establishment Democrats like Hillary don't actually give a fuck about gays or other social issues that don't dirrectly affect them. They're just bones to throw to the left while they continue to fuck us over and they're more than happy to drag out those fights as long as possible to make it seem like they're really fighting the GOP while they work together on all other issues (like shredding the bill of rights, deregulation, etc). They'd be just as happy to flip on those if the political winds switched dirrection.
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  4741.  @mckenzie.latham91  there are better ways to deal with downtown congestion than encouraging more cars with more parking. In fact, much as people in this country recoil from the idea, cities that have tried it have seen remarkable success banning cars from their city centers.
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  4742. Iggybart05 exactly. If they're being honest, it's a win for everyone. Only the con artists loose in that system.
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  4743.  @michaelk.jensen1611  lol, I was wondering why it didn't work. Guess we know who's brain has rotted
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  4744. Yeah, because it's not like pretending that this is the story worth talking about rather than the crimes committed and policy normalizes and therefore contributes to the real harm being done. That's totally equivalent to complaining about slightly too radical blue-haired college kids. /s When the manners the ruling class shows each other are more important than the harm they do to the common people, that should be a flashing neon warning sign to anyone who thinks we live in a democratic country. Get your head out of your ass.
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  4745. I don't know of a good contact, and there's a chance that it needs to be someone other than you that files it, but that is a good point and worth looking into.
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  4746. Irrelevant. Not everyone has a religion, not all religions are theistic, and not all theistic religions are monotheistic. To top it off, freedom of religion cannot be seperated from freedom from religion.
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  4747. I think Basil the Bulgar Slayer established mass eye-plucking as the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.
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  4748.  @No_co_OK  ah yes, because ANYTHING I've said indicates narcissism. Stop projecting and stick to the actual arguments instead of baseless ad-homs.
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  4749. I'd say things like home and auto insurance are a necessary evil, and while we could do far better at managing them in our society, I don't mind them being private conceptually.
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  4750.  @wurgel1  yup, though even before the tax was repealed, it was on shakey ground as it was stretching a loophole in the government not having the power to require people to purchase something from the private market. It does have the power and responsibility, however, to provide for the general welfare, which all but the most willfully obtuse reading would understand to include medicare for all. Much like police and military protection, the government can provide them, but not force people to buy a substitute from the market. Leave it to the GOP to find an unconstitutional way to do just about anything and the corporate dems to help them.
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  4751. That is helarious on multiple levels
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  4752. I wouldn't call it a first ammendment right, but comparing civil disobedience in the form of very petty property destruction to terrorism is fucking retarded.
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  4753.  Austin Martín Hernández  ok boomer
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  4754. Why do victims of domestic abuse stay with their abusers? Same answer
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  4755.  @okano.638  yeah. I don't play WoT because I find it harder and harder to get interested in game mechanics built around an HP bar as I get older (not that WoT doesn't have good features), but Gaijin lost me years ago too. Early ground forces were best ground forces and I only hear more and more people dropping the game due to changes that make the game sound even worse for me.
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  4756. Bill Anderson more intelligent and stable, which could be good in foreign affairs, but even worse on civil rights...not the same but kinda a tradeoff.
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  4757. 5%+19% is about equal to the 25% of the country which is completely disconnected from reality. You cannot budge that number any lower because logic and evidence do not matter to them.
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  4758. Also, Zuckerberg was always inclined in that dirrection. If you're surprised by this, you've wildly misjudged him.
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  4759. They did the same thing at the end of the Bush admin to pin all the blame on what happened to their patsy.
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  4760.  @Luigi64real  That's the thing, though, they genuinely do not give a single fuck if the words coming out of their mouths are true. If it works to consolidate power on their side is the only consideration.
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  4761. Stop defending people that rig elections. JUST STOP. They all need thrown out or winning means nothing because they're just going to work with the GOP as they continue to divide us with a good-cop/bad-cop routine while they work for the same people with the same agenda that is destroying is right now.
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  4762. We don't even need their oil. We could just dip into our strategic reserves as we start an actual move away from oil (motivated by climate change, domestic security, and national sovereignty). Fuck Saudi oil. Preempt them and embargo that shit while cutting off any of our weapons going to them.
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  4763. Fucking really?
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  4764.  @jasonwalker9471  ^ this is the rational approach. We'll eventually be switching to more nuclear in the future, but right now, it's just about building everything we can to get off fossile fuels asap and linking it together to create a robust grid. The cost of delays now will be more than the costs of optimization later.
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  4765. The ads that started appearing right after people started raising the question of why the average donation and numbers of doners were secrets? Yeah...
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  4766. I used to listen to him (with a large grain of salt) before he went off the deep end when Bernie held to his promise to support the nominee in 2016. Idk how honest vs grifty how he's acting right now is, and frankly, I don't care. He's a liability that needs to be ostracized from progressive circles as thoroughly as we did to Dave Rubin to limit the damage he can do, and it needs to happen asap.
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  4767. But they complain so loudly when we compare them to Nazis. What can I say? The truth hurts. Deal
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  4768. Depends on the type of lock you're talking about. If it's not something that's giving a clear radar reflection (due to, say, being too small), the only "lock" you might have could be a computer tracking the relative angular position of a visual silhouette with no distance measurement. Or in other words, basic camera tracking of some outline distinguishable from a background.
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  4769. Look at the time axis. Upswing started between 2011 and 2014. This was Obama's fault.
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  4770.  @eye2077  full-auto photon blunderbusses
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  4771. They're not pro-life. They're in a death cult.
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  4772. Not NSA, just Google...no, you shouldn't feel much better about that
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  4773. Has anyone told Ben that Trump put him in charge of "urban" because simply because he's black yet?
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  4774.  4 Fake  *sigh* I really prefer not to explain the joke but I'm gonna be charitable and guess the reason that comment made no sense is that you misread my comment and mistook me as making an argument against affirmative action. The implied (half-serious) joke is that Trump went "Where do we stick our token black man?" and immediately associated being black with understanding inner cities without looking at Ben's qualifications for any position.
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  4775.  4 Fake  so I was being too generous and you don't/won't understand the difference between the American people electing a Senator as President, and a President appointing someone to a Secretary (read: specialist) position they have no real qualifications for when they are only known for being a specialist in an entirely different field, "almost" as if chosing what position to put him in had everything to do with his skin color and nothing to do with where he would be best suited. I wonder why you won't acknowledge that? Oh wait, no I don't. Nobody does anymore.
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  4776.  4 Fake  I already said I wasn't talking about affirmative actio- no, forget it. You're too stupid to bother talking to. Mute
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  4777. waterandafter Egypt seemed to do quite well with that, historically.
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  4778. Check the article. It's per year.
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  4779. The thing about loosing a war is you don't always get a choice.
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  4780.  @1SCme  that's plausible given what we've seen so far.
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  4781. "Creeping" No, this is who this country has always been.
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  4782.  @KLm912  still gonna be useful to get into congress if we can get him there, but yeah, plenty of smarter progressive pundits online to look to for news. Let's put him where he's more useful: calling establishment hacks liars to their face on the floor of congress. Even if he misses a few, he's in what's called a target rich environment.
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  4783. come on guys, obvious troll is obvious. Don't feed
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  4784. ​ @lordmrwhatsyourname I wouldn't have thought that would work and would be too afraid of them leaking to try, I must admit.
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  4785. As long as you maintain a 2-party system, you're fucked. It always leads to the majority not being represented. ...also, left vs right is about populism vs establishment power. "Establishment Left" is an oxymoron. To top it off, policy needs to change because times change. Trying to keep things the same only leads to decay. Growth or decay are the only real states of being, and right now we do need "profound or extensive shifts in policy" to correct the slow decay that's eating this country away.
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  4786. Don't forget: owned by comcast
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  4787. Moh Moony it'll only stop when either we get the oligarchs out of power or when it ceases to make them money.
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  4788.  @JohnnySplendid  fascists don't care about things like truth. Words are just tools to consolidate power for their in-group and build heirarchy to them. Fascism, at its core, is a cult rebelling against enlightenment values like reason and humanism. Assuming they share your values is a dangerous mistake.
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  4789. This is the kind of thing the 2nd Amendment was designed to deal with... I hope it doesn't come to that, but we are rapidly running out of alternatives.
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  4790. In principle, I totally agree with your argument. In practice, as I understand it, our vets often show more restraint as cops than our insanely trigger-happy baseline for cops. (can no longer find any sources comparing vets-turned cop to normal cops through internet chaff though, so if anyone else can get sources about that, I'd appreciate it) That's not saying that vets as cops is ideal. It's an indictment of our police system that those who are trained to "shoot first and not ask questions at all" are less quick on the trigger.
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  4791. You can find it for free on YouTube. If you want to understand modern geopolitics, you need to look it up.
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  4792.  @kimmmimemwest1895  it was a rhetorical flurrish referring only to the part of what he said that my comment touched on. I think you may have misread. I agree 100% that structural racism exists. (Perhaps "he's right about one thing:" would have been a better phrasing, though)
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  4793. Perhaps the most succinct summary of the difference between delegating and micromanaging
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  4794.  John Carosi  it's good cop-bad cop. They're not actually in opposition to each other, but working together. The good cop isn't your friend either.
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  4795. Diabeetus a secular state is needed for peaceful religious coexistence precisely because such a thing is not a religious value. It's just the opposite of what you think. Athiests aren't trying to twist logic to justify their values without appeals to religion. The religious are trying to twist their beliefs, actions, and even interpretations of their texts to try and be compatible with real human (read: secular) values. For a stark example, when was the last time someone was stoned to death for working on the sabbath? Religion doesn't create human morality. It merely perverts it. Even if the statistic you pulled out of your ass happened to be true, that'd merely be the expected result of a society with ~90% religious parents, and doesn't support the claim that the younger generations share the same values as their parents (which nearly every poll disproves). Theft of Our Values, while slightly overstated on some minor details, does a pretty good job at utterly debunking any notions that modern, western society is based on religious values. https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ
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  4796. Diabeetus except religion doesn't make people more moral. States (both nation states in the developed world and states within the US) all show a strong connection between rates of religion and things like violent crime. This bares out in individuals too, with athiests making up something like 0.01% of prison populations in the US dispite making up at least several percent of the general population. This is what we should expect as well. Psychology consistently finds humans to behave less ethically in authoritarian contexts. Religious texts are notoriously self contradictory, and can easily be used to cloak almost any evil action in the reputation of saints (whether to justify one's own actions, or to convince otherwise good people to do evil for you). Making 'sins' out of totally arbitrary nonsense that doesn't harm anyone undermines the entire notion of morality (as does telling people they can't be moral without a god telling them what's right). To top it off, the subject of Hell you brought up is eternal torture for a finite crime, which is contrary to all civilized notions of justice because it is completely contrary to the notion of proportional punishment which even the old testiment claims to pay lip service to with the eye for an eye limitation. There are moral believers and immoral athiests, sure, but religion (especially organized religion) makes people less moral. That's not my opinion, that's a fact reguardless of what your "common sense" expectations are.
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  4797. vishu singh to be clear, I don't actually disagree with anything you just said. Not all Christians view original sin the same way. Despite it being a central tenant to the religion with widespread belief, there are still doctrinal differences. Even in its milder forms though, it usually leads to a mindset where guilt can be inherited and collective, which is something we're working against in the west. I chose that analogy very deliberately, though there is some difference with more of an awareness of the concept being a problem in India (though that's normal when it is such a large problem still). I was unaware about the incident being deliberately orchestrated, but it doesn't surprise me. (I doubt it's staged, as it's usually easier and more effective to manipulate people into thinking they're doing it of their own will, but that's probably a semantic distinction you didn't mean, so I don't want to put words in your mouth)
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  4798. Very simple: Nuremberg didn't go far enough.
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  4799. The unfortunate thing is actually that people have been tricked into treading politics like a team sport. Politics is about power: it's relationship between people, forms, structures, the ends it's put to, etc. It is everywhere and usually life and death for someone somewhere. The institutional authority to decide how our energy system is structured: power Where trust is placed for expertise we need to trust (ex: the scientific consensus vs politicians and lobbyists): power How we weigh the comfort of current generations vs the future of younger ones: power All of it politics, and all of it of grave importance. The problem isn't that it's political, the problem is that there's a partisan divide where there is because some positions being taken today are just straight-up evil. There's a reasonable debate to be had in renewables vs nuclear. There is not reasonable discussion to be had if there's even downplaying the severity of the importance of combating climate change and the need to get off fossile fuels.
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  4800.  @garrettb845  fair enough. I read the subjective term "petty" in a different way than you meant it, as I've seen that used in a variety of ways (leading to my, personally, using "partisan" to avoid the ambiguity), but if all I did was elaborate your point in different words, I'm 110% fine with that.
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  4801. They're a "threat" because they had the radical idea that the natural resources of a country belong to its people and that, therefore, all profits from their sale belong to the people as well. If allowed to succede, that idea would drastically undermine the corporate state, so they will do whatever they need to to ensure it doesn't. Remember, to the rulers, the oligarchs and their interests are the US, not the ideals and people.
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  4802. I don't think we'll ever get rid of that distinction or stop needing to be particular about the difference between being a contractor and working as part of a company, but it's an area to be extra careful of, as it's ripe for potential abuse. Your gut revulsion to those with power trying to manipulate that distinction is well-founded and if I ever see a good way to solve the issue forever, it has my full attention.
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  4803. Don't ignore the joke at the end of Hillary's tweet. It's a microcosm of the whole situation. Deny the severity/existence of the issue and then pivot to distract. The entire Russiagate hysteria is a deflection from the contents of the DNC leaks to stop people from talking about the rigging of the primary just as much as the joke is an attempt to deflect from the problems with the prescedent this sets. Same tactic; different scale.
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  4804. ​ @lokiva8540 eh, she's not exactly anti-genocide when it comes to Ukraine. She is better on Palestine, though, yes.
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  4805.  @garetclaborn  no shit I feel threatened. He's building a cult-like following out of neo-nazis and the exact same type of emotionally lost man childern they recruit while drip-feeding them watered down Nazi propaganda. If you don't think he's dangerous you're ignorant, a fool, or a Nazi.
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  4806.  @zerefdragneel2289  side note, another way to look at the Jobs Guarentee, is as a public option for employment. I know that's more of a semantic point than a real arguement, but food for thought.
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  4807.  @Leviathan_Art  JFK didn't think the same thing. He was warning those making peaceful revolution impossible that they were making violent revolution inevitable.
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  4808. Why? To harden Russian resolve? Nah, stick to blowing up actual military targets and then the one inflicting misery on the Russian people is simply Putin.
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  4809. The number of ship designers who struggled with the idea that a muzzle blast is basically a HE round going off at the tip of the barrel and thus leading to limiting the firing arcs so as to not blow apart your own superstructure never ceases to amaze me. How tf do you miss the concept that the giant fireball that appears when the gun fires might be something you need to take into consideration?
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  4810.  @ericvandenavond8748  sounds familiar so probably correct. I'm far from an expert, but the fact that I recognize that name with how limited my mite knowledge is suggests that's the one I was thinking of.
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  4811. A primer for those unconvinced: https://youtu.be/34LGPIXvU5M
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  4812. SHONUFF you're confusing cost of production with value. Fiat just like any government-issued currency does have value. Value, in the economic sense, is created by a near universal demand. Since the government only accepts it's own currency for taxes and fees, there is near univeral demand for said currency, so people trade it. The other important components are it being imperishable, portable, and difficult to counterfeit, which is why precious metals have been favored in the past. However, their prices and supplies fluctuate too, often out of control (including to the point of hyper-inflation) and make expanding the money supply when needed difficult. Sure, an irresponsible government can mismanage a fiat currency, but there are plenty of problems with commodity-backed currency as well. Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are a bit more complicated than I can easily break down in a youtube comment, but they're not entirely without either value or problems of their own.
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  4813.  @ocumstweezers  you are just determined to misunderstand me aren't you? Kinda makes talking to you pointless. Bye.
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  4814. The total lack of capacity to analyze art from the people offended by their choice of form of protest is stunning. They spelled out exactly what they were trying to show with their expression, and STILL people don't get it, which really makes me question if any of them have a single 🤬 to give about actually appreciating art in any form.
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  4815. "The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values." -Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism
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  4816. Yup. Right vs left is about hierarchy and consolidation of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. Stalin was only left wing in the way that North Korea is a "democratic republic"
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  4817. Do they resist change reflexively? Do they prop up established power at the expense of the general public? Guess what, they ARE right-wing conservatives. Part of being a liberal is being open to change and new ideas, and right vs left is at its core about establishment vs populism. Anyone that doesn't meet those basic traits isn't a leftist or a liberal _by definition_. That's not even a "no true Scottsman". It's just being objective about the real definitions of the words.
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  4818. The only thing he got wrong is saying that the US was a roughly evenly balanced mixed economy (that would be a Nordic-style mixed economy). The rest was honesty so accurate that it stunned me to see it on a MSM US TV news show. The US is about as extreme on Capitalism as China is on "communism" with the extremes being countries like Somalia and Cuba, and one of the multiple ways to achieve a balance in the middle being the Nordic countries.
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  4819.  @Cerulerouge827  just a good-natured attempt to try to clear up some confusion, nothing more.
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  4820. If, by this point, people don't understand what it means their ignorance is willful. If you think a simple change in slogan will fix willful ignorance, go talk to a young earth creationist about anything that involves more than 6,000 years worth of time and get back to us on how that goes.
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  4821. Patriarchy is the domination of an older man over all of his human property including his kids (even if they are adults). Fighting it means opposing every part of that, from the misogyny, to the childism, to the infantilization of younger adults. Incidentally, we also cannot tackle global warming without addressing discrimination of the young.
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  4822.  @dav87x  just wait until we start bring out 💰 for Bloomberg 🔥>🐀 🐍 💰
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  4823. MadBrainBox and you ain't in it! . . . By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. RIP George
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  4824. Possibility in the future if guns continue to outclass armor, but just as likely that tanks get made obsolete by that
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  4825.  @mushroomsteve  someone gets it
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  4826. "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
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  4827. Frank Castle yeah, and what we think of as religions all started as full-blown cults before they got watered down. We call them fundamentalists because they ARE going to the core fundamentals of their religion.
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  4828. Excuse my honest ignorance but pigeon breeders? That's a thing??? I had no idea they were being bred in captivity with any regularity currently. Genuinely surprised and asking, not judging.
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  4829. Do yourself a favor and watch YuYuHausho dubbed, even if you normally go for subs. The english cast flat-out does a better job. If you like classic anime, it's a must watch.
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  4830.  @Eric-vh3ur  thank you for admitting you actually don't believe in a meritocracy and oppose social mobility and equality of opportunity.
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  4831. By forcing immagrants to make more use of human traffickers it will increase the ability for gangs to move drugs by increasing their monetary resources and increasing the number of people inside the US who owe them.
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  4832. It won't save you, sorry.
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  4833. ~25% are totally disconnected from reality. If you pay attention over time you will see that number again and again on a question your reason tells you "no one could believe that" That 1/4th of the population is a lost cause. Focus on the remainder.
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  4834. Don't think that a huge country doing this won't change the landscape of the internet for you too
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  4835. How is legalizing drugs insane? Prohibition is a proven failure at stopping drug use and leads to catastrophic effects.
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  4836. Kyle, if they could imagine a better future, they wouldn't be conservative pretty much by definition.
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  4837. I had the same thought
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  4838. Human Ebola is unlikely to ever become pandemic as it's not airborne and therefore really easy to contain. If the airborne simian strain ever jumps species, we may be fucked, but the normal one isn't really that big a concern
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  4839.  @teenkitsune  you're expecting Trump supporters to acknowledge reality or facts?
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  4840. Aurel and you need a structure with the power to force someone to pay to sue anyone in the first place (among other things). We call that structure a state or a government. Reading a bunch of ideologically slanted things doesn't mean you understand anarchy. We may hate the fact, but you need a central power of some sort to organize people into groups of more than about 250. That's just the reality.
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  4841. Pattern recognition
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  4842. Gabriel Drake on a battlefield, that can varry WIDELY. Sometimes the goal is to kill your opponent as quickly as possible. Other times, it's about buying time while holding your opponent's attention. That said 1v1 isn't the norm on a battlefield.
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  4843. The fact that he even has a shot at that dispite Hillary's obvious contempt and rigging an election by systematically disenfranchising millennials really says a lot, but sure, people will voter shame millennials if they refuse to vote for someone overtly bigotted towards them.
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  4844.  @dillchives  no, that's rediculous and never going to happen. Wtf are you smoking?
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  4845. "The poor are there... just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs." - George Carlin Explains all about this you need to know.
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  4846. Martijn yup. Only difference is most of Christianity has been de-clawed by humanism in the west. All the Abrihamic religions share the same fucked up roots.
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  4847. Without election reform, we don't get a say in any issue, so THAT needs to be #1, but is completely absent.
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  4848. More already are than most people realize
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  4849. Very!
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  4850. If you want to get technical, Panzer is short for Panzerkampfwagen (literally "Armored Fighting Vehicle"). In context though, it can be used to designate the 1-4 models (especially the 3 & 4 model medium tanks) which didn't get proper names from the model 5 Panther and the model 6 Tiger heavy tanks. If memory serves the Allies would refer to them as such, so I'll call it legit, even if the nomenclature is a bit odd technically speaking. (It's also really common to use the word in another language for a general type of weapon to refer to a specific sub-type of that weapon used by people who used that word in the general sense. You see this all the time with swords.)
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  4851. Micheal Emmanuel "extrapolated from your point is that they are racist because they voted for Trump" ...um no, I pretty much said the exact opposite in sentence #3. Nice strawman though, but try and re-read my comment without your rage goggles on.
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  4852.  @ryanoak9  👍
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  4853. Nah, wait 'till GoT &/ASoIaF is complete. THEN do war of the roses!
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  4854. Objection: No, I don't remember when Republicans cared about states' rights. In fact, I'm fairly sure neither party has ever actually cared about states' rights and that they've only ever used it as a justification for whatever they wanted to do, flipping back and forth at deciding issues at the federal or state level as politically convenient at the time. "States' rights" appears to only have ever been a political talking point or legal pretext for at least the last 200ish years.
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  4855.  @brandonb.5304  What art was destroyed?
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  4856. Murder MaroSS yeah, we really need to get much stricter with penalties for such deliberate fraud if this kind of thing is going on. Honest mistakes are one thing, but if a major company is going to put this amount of premeditation into knowingly avoiding regulations by a substantial amount on any product, they need to be made an example of in some way.
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  4857.  @davidcadman4468  it's surprising (to me at least) how he filtered it that well so that it didn't make him more dehydrated. I'm really impressed he managed. I immediately thought of those early humans who went adrift and ended up washing ashore and settling new lands far from their homes and how remarkable an achievement that must have been. (There's even some evidence suggesting that the first humans in the Americas came by landing in South America before the ice started to clear)
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  4858. You mean the middle in Washington. By the issues, the middle of the US populace is Bernie Sanders.
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  4859. They do care a lot about money and power...and that's kinda the problem
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  4860. That last line was excellent!
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  4861. Poe's law dude. Always make your sarcasm explicit on the internet.
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  4862.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  he was not genociding his own people and we were ignoring actual genocides to go in AND Trump vetoed a resolution to stop supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia who was using them (and giving them to Al-Quaida) to commit a genocide so don't pretend you give a fuck about genocide. Your whiny bootlicking is pathetic. Give it up.
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  4863. We're deporting asylum seekers illegally for starters, so say nothing of the concentration camps, family seperation, and worse.
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  4864. Decentralize We need to move back towards chatrooms and forums.
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  4865. Russia lost months ago
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  4866. International law means nothing when it can be vetoed.
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  4867. It's impossible to bring both sides together when one side's political aim is to genocide the other. Appeasement will never work.
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  4868. Patricia Leary don't count on that. If they think she can rig another primary, she'll absolutely get the money, even if she can't win the general election.
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  4869. TheUltimateBeing01 never said it was a good education metric either, just that it was unsuited and not even intended to measure intelligence. Killua's reading comprehension is apperently too low to grasp that though...
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  4870.  @1GamersRewind  judging by the deletion of the comment, cowardice may be a factor.
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  4871. Only if you're poor
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  4872. ​ @arckinenso7615 exactly. We're fighting for the innocents, not those who are tfg.
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  4873. Oh look, the cryptos have finally shown up to deflect
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  4874. Theft of our Values by darkmatter really breaks down this whole art and religion thing. https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ Tldw: most art was religious because that was who has the money to commission it and strongly religious societies have shitty art precisely because they're disconnected from the real world. And before you start talking to me about art styles that aren't realistic, all good artists start with learning to draw realism first for a reason.
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  4875. Yup. Even if they are uninformed, their job is to be informed, and this level of negligence is evil. If you caused this much harm by such gross negligence, you'd be locked away. That's the most generous interpretation for them.
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  4876. What's going on is we have a conservative party and a fascist party
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  4877. Yeah, as much as the freedom in the US is often overstated, we're seeing the supposed "strength" of Russia's fascism on full display right now. The pervasive contempt for those beneath them, the substituting of machismo and eagerness for violence in place of real strength, the viewing of thinking as a form of emasculation, the rampant corruption and infighting, the constitutional incapability to accurately judge the strength of their enemies because of constantly shifting between rhetorically portraying them as such a powerful threat to justify horrible actions as "necessary" and potraying them as easily defeated, etc, etc. We're seeing it all play out here. The truth is that fascism isn't some ruthlessly efficient machine. The only reason they did so much damage last century is because of the incompetence, complacency, and (frankly) sympathetic views of a lot of early war leadership among what would become the Allied nations who LET the Axis powers build up an immense amount of momentum. (Which of course, led to them perpetuating the myth of how powerful the Axis powers were to excuse how such a thing could happen on their watch) For more detail, I recommend Umbero Eco's '14 Characteristics of Ur-Fascism' as an excellent overview of fascism as an ideology and worldview.
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  4878. Fun fact: all birds sound like dinosaurs because birds ARE dinosaurs.
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  4879.  @garnet4846  yes, and?
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  4880. Be careful with the main TYT network as they've come to twist facts for their narrative, but also check out the Jimmy Dore show (for cathartic rants), the Humanist Report, and the Rational National. (It's best to not get all your info from any one source afterall) Glad you got to see what real progressivism actually looks like instead of the strawman we're normally portrayed as.
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  4881. Gulag Loving Leftist of course we would expect a country we sanction (one of only like 4) in a region of the world we are constantly meddling in that doesn't have the power to push back against us or corporate powers to do poorly while democratic socialist countries who aren't bullies (like some in Europe) do just fine. That's obvious.
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  4882. macsnafu the ways to make a government responsive to the will of the people is an independent discussion to how "strong" a government is or what economic system it runs. You're partly true about fake leftists getting right behind Hillary's abuses of power (afterall, plenty of people were fine with Obama expanding Bush's abuses of power), but let's not forget that plenty of people still stood on principle and opposed those actions and that Hillary was the 2nd most disliked politician in US history. It's not like the left likes her either.
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  4883. Think that would fall under their literature section more appropriately.
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  4884. I don't think he's trying to be meme funny. He's just mocking all the "peasants" using the Internet. I'm sure his corporate masters found it funny.
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  4885. Yeah, if we're gonna recount, how about we invite in UN election inspectors to watch this whole election. We'll all argee to that in a heartbeat, right?
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  4886. It sits nicely beside their virginity fetish in the set.
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  4887. Was it a day ending in "y"?
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  4888. Yeah, anti-theft devices are few and far between in history (every object being uniquely made means it's harder to walk around the same society with stolen goods and not eventually get noticed) but something like a canoe that may be stored a fair distance from your settlement (supposing you even have a settlement and aren't nomadic) it makes sense to put in the effort if you can come up with something creative like that, especially if it's on the river and just floating it down the river could take it well beyond where you would ever see it again. I'd assume the catch would be trying to make sure the "plug" didn't crack over the winter or trying to remake one the exact same size.
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  4889. The founding fathers seem to have left a fair bit to future generations to figgure out while the work was held together through a mix of forbearance carried forward via gentleman's agreements (which has been destroyed in the last decade overwhelmingly by one party) and the threat of violence "watering the tree of liberty" If we don't fix our systems in a big way stronger than they have ever been, we're gonna be in a really bad way, because we're in untenably precarious situation and I don't see many people trying to fix things beyond just going back to the status quo that gave us this mess in the first place.
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  4890. It's very simple: The court system simply doesn't care what the Constitution says on ANY issue. They believe the law is simply whatever they say it is (and are defacto, correct, unfortunately).
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  4891. Typically, but not always
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  4892. Global Warming Skeptic ah, back again troll?
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  4893.  @TidusplZUO  I think you misspelled Steins;Gate https://youtu.be/GxEmyN8fPSE (Seriously, and no offense to Ghost Trick, even if you don't normally watch anime, watch Steins;Gate.)
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  4894. And what do they loose for trying?
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  4895. It's not even "final" since the system will continue to spit out people who become destitute for some reason or another. He wants the horror to be endless to scare the shit out of those who have low wage jobs so they'll put up with anything
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  4896. And you have just identified yourself as part of the problem they were protesting.
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  4897.  @MetalDetroit  oh look, a right-winger denying history. Must be a day ending in y
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  4898. At least Jimmy Dore openly admits that he's not that smart and is "just a jagoff nightclub comedian" trying to point out the obvious. JP is the exact opposite in that respect.
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  4899. 4:11 "all of you ended up being Hillary voters" this is what we call a selection bias
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  4900. Scott Bennett I expect it's not that it's white only, but that it refused to stop being racist as fuck to the point that the black officers had to make their own to have any voice.
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  4901.  @OsmoZchannel  I'm not going to say absolutely don't buy crypto, but it's a bubble/pyramid scheme. If you buy, you better be sure you're not holding it when (not if) it comes tumbling down. I don't know if it will happen next year or next century, but it will come down.
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  4902. Libertarian Exodus did all they could to limit racial integration, destroyed black communies and families with the war on drugs, then blamed "black culture" (or worse: genetics) for all the problems while further antagonising them with police and trying to keep them trapped in poverty....that's the GOP for you.
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  4903. If I want entertaining politics, I'll watch Game of Thrones or Babylon 5 or something. Seeing it treated like entertainment irl is disgusting. 100s of thousands to millions of lives hang in the balance every election.
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  4904.  Mister Physics  why might the public of the US who still treats the royal family they fought a war to be free of like celebrities keep falling into the trap of political dynasties? Maybe getting rid of the monarchy of just one country could improve the democratic institutions of several because the existence of a royal family is poison to democratic nations.
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  4905. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong."
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  4906.  Evan Koch  are you saying democratic socialist George Orwell was unconcerned with the amount of power held by privately-owned, for-profit corporations? Maybe you don't know his views as well as you think.
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  4907. More than the CIA, and more than terrorism. Anyone who helped send arms to Saudi Arabia, knowing they were sending them to Al-Quaida is guilty of aiding an official state enemy, aka treason. Long game, but useful to keep in mind when trying to predict how tightly they'll circle the wagons, because most of Congress is guilty of crimes that, by our very constitution, should see them executed en masse.
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  4908. ​ @marcpeterson1092 tough shit.
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  4909. Nightingale sorry, think you mistyped "baby boomer"
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  4910. Herbert Camacho want to know the truth about 9-11 by seeing the real evidence? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK
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  4911. If being dense and reactionary is their bread and butter, what's projection? The air they breathe?
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  4912. Javier Fernandez the Bush administration is guilty of gross negligence, but building 7 came down because it was hit by burning debris, nothing more.
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  4913. He has an oppinion on how credit should be used: to make those with less money defacto serfs to those with money. Perpetual debt is no accident
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  4914. burtosis oh, I'm sure some people with aspergers do too, but I think we all know that's not who's been getting elected
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  4915. Fascists really need to stop invoking radical Democratic Socialists like they're on the same side...
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  4916.  @triburst  yeah, but wasn't there a lawsuit about that one?
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  4917.  @vcp93  here's a news story on it https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/new-york-city-purged-voters-2016-it-wasnt-mistake.html It's something that was even pled guilty to and the article does use enough specifics so further digging shouldn't be too hard. And that's just one problem in one state. When you start looking into the 2016 primary you find enough stuff to have gotten the results thrown out many times over in other more functional democratic nations. It's appalling.
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  4918.  @musclinepresentingtransgen8483  and do we care about the complaints of the far right when we're talking about saving tens of thousands of American lives every year while saving money? They take issue with racial equality too.
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  4919. backhair51 tbh, idk why Kyle's even wasting his time on that site...I don't trust them to do a decent top-10 list, much less objective news coverage. IDK, maybe there are a couple halfway decent reporters that haven't found a better outlet or something, but it seems like a waste of time to me.
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  4920. More urban areas is probably good for her changes. Likewise, gerrymandering by the GOP is inclined to pack all the strongest Dem support in as few districts as possible, sacrificing a few seats to be guaranteed blue while having as many other districts with a small but secure GOP over Dem lead. The same mechanisms they use to try and have the vote end up disproportionately Red in final seat count would be inclined to create a district that Nina would have a better shot in. No guarantees, of course, but there is reason to hope.
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  4921. Funny how when there's a shortage of anything else, anyone who didn't sleep through highschool econ goes "well then it's just going to cost more whether you like it or not. That's just the law of supply and demand" and accept that may mean higher prices or lowet profits and that anyone who can't just can't cut it in the free market, but when that "shortage" is labor companies are so reluctant to raise wages. It's almost like there's something else going on.
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  4922. Right-wingers gonna right-wing.
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  4923.  @vinniemcclung693  the thing is that a vote for a bill doomed to fail means nothing more than a cosponsor, and those that won't cosponsor are already our targets in the primary and as vulnerable to attacks based on not supporting M4A as they would be if they had voted against it.
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  4924. The thing about TYT is that they've simply become less and less objective over time. Even if you're correct on the broader issues, willingness to sacrifice the truth to push your narrative is unacceptable in a news show. I unsubbed back during the coverage of police shootings because (despite the issue of police violence being a serious issue) not all the shootings were equally outrageous like they were pretending they were. It was more of a last straw than the main concern, but the fact that they were lumping together justifiable shootings with flat out murders (which should have been obvious from even just the clips they used) showed a willingness to put ideology over truth and pushed that pattern of behavior too far for me to tolerate any longer. I still watch Jimmy Dore and TYT politics from time to time, but I've dropped the main channel entirely because I'd need to do so much fact-checking on them that it's just not worth watching them anymore. To those that hadn't seen the early stuff, it was a lot more like Kyle's content using a multi-host format than what they are today. Especially in the information age, lack of journalistic integrity isn't something anyone should tolerate.
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  4925. Every movie villian is Trump https://youtu.be/b7XXs3hzAMs
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  4926.  @citricdemon  if you need to point to worship of the flag to "prove" your patriotism or devotion to the ideals the country was founded on, they're not things you possess.
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  4927.  @citricdemon  no, it doesn't. It interprets the constitution in a way that says "if the government doesn't spell out your rights you don't have them" which is explicitly written against IN THE DOCUMENT. If we were talking about judicial review being ruled in some way that limits people's rights, you might have an argument, but it's the opposite. I also never said the founding fathers weren't patriots. You're displaying EXACTLY the kind of "convenient misreading" I was talking about and which your side has ALWAYS loved to engage in in your opposition to every single civil rights movement in our country's history.
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  4928.  @The360MlgNoscoper  respectfully, no, Alpha Centauri does.
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  4929. she always was who we saw this election. 2010 was just more mask on.
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  4930. Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each. You don't, for example, need to know the status of Iraq's WMD program to know that when the UN inspectors said "give us more time" and suddenly the reason to attack became something else to know they were just looking for an excuse and when they went back to the WMD narrative several times before the UN inspectors had given a report, it should have been obvious that the excuses were all lies. Every politician and journalist that supported the war is either complicit, or far too stupid to have their job. There is no 3rd option.
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  4931. Not inaccurate
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  4932. +Olivia Stratton Please at least start with skimming a wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States#Housing
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  4933. Glad to have you with us on the sane side of things.
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  4934.  @ChrisMcNellie  nope, she, like many of our politicians, really is that evil.
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  4935.  @ChrisPage68  they might throw him under the bus (where he belongs) at least a little, but they're already under charging and will likely also let him out early.
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  4936.  @NuketownG  the sources posted above if you conveniently ignore the link that debunks your claims
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  4937.  @maximus012  he was a mixed bag. Ever since Bernie held to his word and supported Hillary when she was nominated, he's completely lost the plot and is getting crazier all the time.
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  4938. Astoris "militia men were trying to keep the peace"? We're in agreement about the police not doing their job, and I've opposed Antifa before, but go listen to Cornell West talk about who saved the lives of him and fellow non-violent religious leaders and tell me again who was doing the job of the police.
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  4939. Riddle for you: Why do capitalists knowingly hire undocumented workers while pushing for punitive policies against said workers and a wall (which would increase the number of said workers in the country) instead of not using them and pushing for punitive policies towards the companies that do (which would hurt their competitors)? Answer: Because the more desperate and afraid said workers are, the shittier working conditions and wages they will put up with put of fear of being reported.
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  4940. He's awesome!
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  4941.  @animalia5554  it doesn't categorize neatly because it's a bit of a new experiment (kinda like the US was around its founding) but "a confederacy of countries with limited partial federalization" is a workable categorization for most purposes. As a side note: if it follows the historic norm (though that's not at all guaranteed), we would expect increasing federalization (resulting in decreasing power to member states) alongside increasingly democratic representation of the EU itself. If that happens, the current EU will likely go down in history as merely an extended transition between the Europe of the 20th century with its many countries and a future where most has united into a single country with a federal constitutional democratic republic as its forn of government. For further reading, I suggest the Articles of Confederation and the USA's transition from that (when the phrasing would be "the United States of America ARE. . .") to the federalized, single-country system under the Constitution we're familiar with today (where we now say "The United States of America IS. . ." dispite the plural in the name coming from the time when each of the states really was a sovereign state)
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  4942.  @andydecoy1138  I didn't say "stupid" did I?
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  4943.  @andydecoy1138  you shouldn't need me to explain the difference between sanity and intelligence to you and if you do, you're not worth the time to reply to.
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  4944.  @andydecoy1138  fair enough. Miscommunications happen, especially when using idioms online. All good. 👍
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  4945. Brad Aldridge sorry, but your state has managed to earn a reputation of being even worse than Alabama. My deepest sympathies.
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  4946. The Catholic church takes a step closer to having decent ethical standards....still not there yet. Becoming less of a blight on society isn't worth as much praise as you seem to think. Doesn't change the fact that most Cardinals likely disagree, that the Bible commands it for all sorts of asinine things, that athiests are still less likely to oppose the death penalty, or any of the other fucked up shit in Catholicism. It just means they're less bad, but they're still a negative influence and many of them deserve to be behind bars and would without the Vatican's protection.
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  4947. Yes, 15 ft is actually in the danger range for many people (there are ways we could reduce that, but that's a different topic) HOWEVER They could simply back up and try and sort the situation out. There are ways to deal with danger besides lethal force.
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  4948. William Slaughter something I don't get is why cops stand still. My h2h experience involving weapons taught me real quick that if you have the weapon with more reach (even if it's just a big stick against a knife or smaller stick) you fight moving backwards. Even when they're getting charged by a guy with a knife they usually seem to just stand still and hope they can get enough bullets in him to drop him before they get stabbed. Controling range is one of the fundamentals of combat so I can't understand this at all beyond a culture of "never retreat, no matter what"...which, when you're including fighting while maintaining distance, comes across as more stupid than brave or tough.
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  4949.  @TheSorrel  I mean, been saying for years that we're still running the beta version of this whole democratic republic thing, so I don't exactly disagree.
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  4950. He totally asks for things that require him to read. He just wants them to be no longer than a page. ...how sad is it that I'm not making that up?
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  4951. fourdeck33 45k Americans die every year under the "compromise" plan. That's more than a 9/11 attack every 25 days. No, that's not negotiable in a democratic country when most of the people want it to stop. Oligarchs userping our government to spill our blood for their profit is not on the negotiation table. Politics is also knowing when NOT to compromise, since if your opponents know you will ALWAYS compromise and never say "no deal" you will always be taken advantage of.
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  4952.  Andrea MENDENHALL  1/3: what you're pulling is called a motte-and-bailey fallacy, first off. You can look that one up on Wikipedia
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  4953.  Andrea MENDENHALL  2/3 since YouTube hates actually citing things with links, you'll have to do the web search yourself but there are actual studies (not just "here's a couple datapoints, let's infer without expertise") and here's 1: Look up: pbs nova police misconduct peer effects (Reposted: also, no shit it's a Dem run city. Almost all cities are. The GOP typically controls rural areas which run on a sheriff system, which is different. Also most dems are on the right, so yeah, not going to get much love for them here)
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  4954.  @VXMasterson  she is in the origional Deen adaptation (though I don't recall if she is given a name beyond "caster"). I presume (but do not know) that she's also in the UBW movie, which should cover all the fate/stay night adaptations (+ Carnival Phantasm) Idk past that. Glad to hear I didn't completely blank on an appearance in Zero considering I've seen that one at least twice.
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  4955. Yup, but instead they'll put in place a broad policy and "just follow orders" hmm...
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  4956.  @keithdurant4570  I was expaning on your point to attack those spinning this fact in the other dirrection
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  4957. Not to mention we have plenty of empty houses in this country just being used by banks for speculation.
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  4958. I'm not even a biker and the idea of a lasercut scale leather jacket sounds amazing!
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  4959.  @Martial_Autist  I mean the last one was basically a Nazi who looked like a Sith lord and went around telling people in Africa that condoms caused AIDS. It's a really fucking low bar!
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  4960.  @cesspool1676  yeah, how's that been working in practice?
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  4961.  @MylesdaMullet  good to hear. I'll be getting up 2 hours early to be sure I can vote tomorrow.
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  4962. Are we really surprised by certain types of bad behavior when every time guys take a piss they have a reminder that our society views THEIR consent as irrelevant normally (and a punchline if they end up on the wrong side of the law)? We say 🍇 is bad, but we sure don't act like we believe it as a country. Nor do we think of men and boys as human enough to even bother remembering that hurt people hurt people.
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  4963. ....and now I'm just realizing that re-uh-ter-ate makes more sense for "to say again" (with "utter" as a root word), whereas linguistically, re-ih-ter-ate makes more sense as "to go through the process again" or to put it more simply "to do over" (with "iterate" as the root), but we never say "reiterate" to mean anything but respeaking our words. ...English is wierd!
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  4964.  @kfcfingerlicker9292  yup, 90% of boomers are staggeringly ageist.
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  4965.  @firerocket7343  https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170911_crosstabs_Politico_LIM_v1_AP-1.pdf Morning Consult National Tracking Poll #170911 September 14-17, 2017 "Do you support or oppose . . . A proposal to make four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free" Northeast: support=65% oppose=31% (+34%) Midwest: support=59% oppose=32% (+27%) South: support=63% oppose=26% (+37%) West: support=63% oppose=27% (+36%) Rural: support=58% oppose=33% (+25%) <College: support=64% oppose=25% (+39% note: higher than those with a degree) The only categories where "strongly support" wasn't the plurality were Republicans, conservatives, Protestants, Trump voters, and Romney voters, and even for all but the last two overall support was greater than overall opposition. Even tea party supporters were at +3% supporting Might want to tone back the steriotyping if you care to see reality as it actually is.
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  4966.  @dylanfinucan  so the Bible is in favor of abortion under the justification of something as relatively trivial as infedelity, so you're wrong on that point in a biblical sense. Now, let's talk about how the Christian right in the US has effectively turned that bronze bull on Wallstreet into a golden calf relgion, hm? If anything is heretical, it's that!
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  4967. (Setting aside other reasons that it might be good for a society to encourage marrage) Tax benefits are far from the only right given by marriage. Heres 32 (the tax benefits section is only 2 of it) http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/marriage-rights-benefits-30190.html
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  4968.  @anna_in_aotearoa3166  I think it was largely a stability thing. If the merchants are more segregated from political and social power, their accumulation of economic power is easier to keep in check. Likewise, having your largest demographic block be the lowest rung of a heirachal system is a breeding ground for unrest. While you see a lot of feudal and feudal-like power structures depicted like pyramids, that's actually incredibly unstable as it means that the group with the most to gain by knocking it down is also the largest group. If you want to keep an oppressive system in place, you need to not just segrigate the types of power (so only those at the very top can have all forms in abundance) but make that structure more diamond-shaped. This gives the majority of people someone to feel better than and, by doing to others what you to to them, constantly encourage them to rationalize kicking down as "just the way things are" and to see any anti-heirarchy movements as a threat to their position rather than a possibility for their own liberation. Also, just broadly, getting people to blame those "below" them for their problems keeps the attention away from those at the top. Any such heirachal system will either need to put a certain caste there, or turn to marginalizing ethnic, religious, and/or sexual minorities to fill the scapegoat role if they don't want the people to start realizing that "hey, maybe we don't actually need these rulers above us all the time"
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  4969.  @Fuzzycat16  it wouldn't even be close and this would be the perfect situation to have the political leverage to get M4A through.
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  4970.  @Fuzzycat16  Bernie was the most popular politician in the country and issue for issue most Americans, including often a plurality of GOP voters agreed with his platform. He even had simultaneously more appeal with GOP voters, independants, and the more left-wing "Democratic" voters.
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  4971. So what you're saying it's an alien!?
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  4972. Most do, but not all.
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  4973.  Deplorable Annihilation  there's clearly not...at least not a benevolent one.
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  4974.  @fishinghuntingfool  fun fact: between when Trump "won" the election and when he was sworn in, the Obama administration quietly expanded executive power and did nothing with it. Just leaving it as a housewarming gift for Trump. What does that tell you about how concerned the establishment "Democrats" are about Trump?
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  4975. I guess too much golf-playing can make it confusing who is ahead when not on the green.
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  4976.  @shyamvijay8985  break up all the megacorps for a start. Also stronger internet privacy laws.
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  4977. Militant Anarchist "Kekboi" is probably just some 12yr old pissant. IDK why people keep responding to such a blatent troll. Just stop feeding them the attention they hunger for.
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  4978. Welcome to our dystopian present. Glad you could join us. Here's a menu so you can choose which way you would like to be oppressed.
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  4979. A lot of them are terrified conscripted kids barely over 18 with basically no training....which only greatly decreases the margin of safety for the orders of the madmen higher up the chain of command....
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  4980. punklover99 so space with Hillary is safe
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  4981. They're just a couple steps short (for now) of branding us with schwarzes Dreieck (sorry for the German. YouTube doesn't like honest discussions of history in English). I can't get people around me to take this seriously. Even my anti-Trump mom is adamant that even taking away my meds just won't happen. The amount of denial of the reality of our situation is incredibly dangerous.
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  4982. Always has been. Always will be.
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  4983. David is overly reserved when using the term, even.
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  4984. aazo5 he also didn't want statues venerating him. If you respect the man, get rid of all of them.
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  4985. If she manages to smear the real left and get another establishment candidate nominated in 2020, she'll sure as heck matter, even if it's not her. Right now, the real fight is for the soul of the Democratic party, and that means fighting Hillary. We can't effectively take on Trump until we beat her, the DNC, and the rest of the establishment Democrats.
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  4986. Paint a pentagram on it and watch them disgrace themselves fighting over how to handle it? Entertaining for sure, but probably not worth the penalties if you got caught.
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  4987. Chad Simmons if you have full democratic socialism (as in a completely post capitalist system controled by a democratic government) then by definition then you have economic control distributed to as many people as possible. Being a mixed-market advocate myself, I don't think that's the best way to structure an economy, but it's basically the polar opposite to oligarchy, so you're just factually incorrect equating the 2 as you did. It's like equating facism and hardline anarchism. Just because you disagree with both doesn't mean they're the same thing.
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  4988.  Progressives Against the Regressive Left  the founding fathers used harsher lockdowns in the time of George Washington, and it is constitutional for the states to impliment them. You know nothing of and care nothing for the constitution, fascist.
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  4989. So you're pro free speech AND pro genocide.
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  4990. Heaven forbid your neighbor lapse on his payments, get a fire, and then your rates go up because you're in a "high risk location". We've already tried privatized infrastructure in the past though, so we don't need to do anything to know it's a terrible idea. Hell, can probably find a history book as an audio book so even the illiterate can know this shit.
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  4991. 小さな牛 not surprising. You beat addiction by empowering your personal agency, but 12 step programs start with "we are powerless" The best they can hope for is to replace one addiction with another (or 2) which is why even when it works you often end up with someone resembling a chain-smoking cultist.
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  4992. It's about time the religious right admits that it's not Jesus they like but the psychpathic Yahweh.
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  4993. Because the establishment is center right. Just look at the example Kyle started with. Squint your eyes and it looks like every conservative rebuttal to positive change ever in history. File the names and dates off and they could be talking about segregation or any other issue. The only thing missing at this stage is the claim that they supported it all along, but give them time.
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  4994. Doesn't really matter. Leg wounds are very often fatal anyway as most of the cross section is going through/by major arteries or the bone (which will shatter and pierce the arteries if shot). The notion of leg wounds being less fatal is basically a Hollywood invention.
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  4995. They don't care about the latter, though. Not one bit.
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  4996. @raedaze  it's not even about cynicism. It's about being accurate with how we describe the dynamic we're dealing with. We can't afford to mislead ourselves, even if unintentionally. By all means, call your representatives (they may comply out of habit if nothing else), but let's not kid ourselves into thinking we have types of leverage that we don't, or we'll waste time and energy we cannot afford right now on fruitless efforts. For example, I'm of the opinion that we are well past the point where normal street protests are going to do any good for us (especially with mass media bending the knee preemptively). Conservatism has always been (and was created to be) an enemy of democracy and we need to acknowledge that the oligarchs are being offered a deal where they never have to worry about another election ever again (and that they cared less than we want to pretend they did before this, what with their ability to move into lobbying if they ever lost their seat).
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  4997. @Thedude4777 Mexico rejected it and reaffirmed Ukrainian territorial integrity and borders. The countries that took the pro-Russian stance are just: Belarus, Bolovia, Cuba, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Abkhazia, Artsakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria....out of around 200 countries in the world...and not exactly a stellar list on human rights there either. Even many Russian allies denounced it or tried to abstain from taking any stance. If you can spare a moment from calling others what you are, though, how does Putin's boot taste?
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  4998.  Ethan Steel  to be fair, I can never remember that one. I can remember that a meter is nearly equivalent to a yard though.
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  4999. Please, Bush and Obama had plenty of constitutional crisis incidents bigger than Obama that passed by without anyone significant facing any consequences. The crimes of Nixon are happening with knowledge of the public as our everyday experience.
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  5000. OBJECTION 16:04 "Everyone is onboard to help out as many people as possible" This is demonstrably untrue.
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  5001. Even if they didn't, the possibility that he might not understand them should have crossed their minds.
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  5002. That'll happen when they mean nothing to the speaker too
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  5003. Sauce Boy clearing the way for the TV channels to take over YouTube
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  5004. Wealth addiction is a disease. Time for an intervention.
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  5005.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  everyone is better than trolls who keep getting banned for hate speech.
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  5006.  @Dielonthug  the thought experiment was if Iran was blocking humanitarian aid from going to another country, not them sending us aid.
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  5007. While I don't deny what's meant by "white privilege" exists, I find the framing absolutely horrible. Describing it as white privilege only makes sense if whites are both the only ones to receive it and it can't/shouldn't be extended to everyone. What we have isn't "white privilege" but basic human rights, privilege, and decency which are being denied to portions of our population. That framing is not only more accurate, but generates sympathy instead of defensiveness.
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  5008.  @coocoolefool  you're being distracted by the people you've been told to be afraid of and are missing the bigger question: Can politicians be trusted to tell any adult citizen "you can't vote."? NO! You get shit like disproportionate sentencing and legislating BS to specifically target communities unlikely to vote for them. That's how we got the war on drugs. Just like with gerrymandering and all other forms of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, politicians being allowed to choose their voters completely flips the entire idea of people choosing their government on its head. The right to vote must be inalienable. Period. End of discussion.
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  5009.  @mikecurry6847  nope, stocks in giving dividends and voting rights fall outside the definition
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  5010.  @DarkSideSixOfficial  well, they can't put on Faux News without alienating a portion of their customer base with the overt bigotry, so they put on the next furthest right channel. Pretty standard for a large corporation, really.
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  5011. celvester allison charismatic but gullible Presidents surrounded by psychopathic politicians more clever than them are supremely dangerous as we have seen time and time again. At best, she'd be a disposable puppet to someone like Hillary like Bush was to Chaney. At that point, any possible good intent on her part is irrelevant.
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  5012.  @benoitbvg2888  if we're going with D&D alignments, are you familiar with the Blood War?
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  5013.  @aaroncarson1770  I don't have the detail on hand, but pretty much every major film company is cozy with the Pentagon in exchange for the use of military equipment in their movies. On top of that, the corporate news channels run ads for the Pentagon and MIC companies, and so are pretty dirrectly paid off that way.
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  5014. Not only isn't all heart disease cholesterol related, but LDL can be influenced by genetics. My grandfather died from a heart attack dispite being on a strict diet for over 3 decades. Keep your medical ignorance to yourself.
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  5015. They're also still funneling US weapons to Al-Quaida. Our treasonous government knows this and still keeps sending more to them, effectively arming the enemies of the United States of America.
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  5016.  Jeremy Shaffer  yeah sure /s How much are you getting paid shillbot?
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  5017.  @skaterockerstar  the engineer example was to prove the principle, not be a direct analog, and if you don't think Saudi Arabia has the same goals you just mentioned + a whole bunch of other horrific shit, you're a fool.
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  5018. Has about as much to do with actual law and order as "support our troops" has to do with a actually supporting the troops. If we had a real law and order program, we'd have to make room in the prisons to have room for everyone that really should be in there (bankers, politicians, bad cops, etc). You can't claim to be about law and order and disregard the constitution. It doesn't work like that.
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  5019. Oh, I'm sure the government officials make a fine living, reguardless of how much even their own workers struggle. That's how despotic regimes work. They take from as and oppress at will, and then hand out from the plunder to strong men that help prop up the dictator.
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  5020. How exactly is tree planting supposed to help that potential problem??? O.o
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  5021. Yeah, if you can bring the right to repair movement (which has a particular bone to pick with Deere as I understand) together with the strikers in an organized way, they'd be hurting even more.
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  5022.  @shaydorahl6740  irreducible complexity is nonsense. If you had the expertise you claim to, you would know that.
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  5023.  @shaydorahl6740  why would life in an anoxic environment need "antioxidant properties"? That's how little thought's been put into the talking points you've been fed.
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  5024.  @shaydorahl6740  when did anything I say rely on there being "surface life" on early Earth? Be specific and succinct or admit you are lying to intentionally misrepresent me?
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  5025.  @atrociousconsequences4432  or any establishment politician for that matter.
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  5026.  @loulfw2513  do you know who would be next in line for nomination, or are you just looking for empty performative gestures?
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  5027. Informal debates (which to be clear, basically everything outside of written exchanges in the academic world is) are nearly useless. Even worse when they are held in the current format (I'm given to understand those back when they were held by the league of women voters were a little better than the corporate farce we get now). Still, they're not completely useless, and this is not a good sign...
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  5028. While not a dirrect reply against him Theft of our Values by darkmatter utterly and destroys Peterson's point about art as a mere side point to his main point https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ
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  5029.  @frenchiesfrankieandhenry  that seems to have just been levels of incompetence, not intent, though.
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  5030. Iran and North Korea (whatever we may think of their domestic policies) very obviously see nukes as a means to deter invasion (mostly US invasion, and both have very good reasons, modern and historic, to fear that). I'm not aware of China making threats to use nukes offensively, either. The India/Pakistan conflict is a very serious risk, however, as is the increasing escalation between the US, Russia, and China. Even if it isn't at the point of any explicit nuclear threats (at least by any half-way sane actors in said countries), things can spiral out of hand quickly were conventional warfare to start, and we have already been in violation of some of the treaties that helped end the Cold War for well over a decade, which isn't promicing. I'm not encouraged by the selling of Saudi Arabia even allegedly peaceful nuclear technology, either, considering they keep giving our weapons to Al-Quaida.
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  5031. Grass roots stuff relies on word of mouth and volunteer work. I don't live in WV, but I've donated to her because I think your fight there is super important for you and our country. Got my fingers crossed for you, neighbor.
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  5032. While I'm willing to chock this up to another mistake (specifically having checked the msm outlets before they put it up), I'm increasingly disappointed in the coverage on this channel. Do you have recomendations on other sources? (Using multiple sources is always better in general)
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  5033. Election integrity is non-negotiable. It's what seperates citizens from subjects. Hillary doesn't want to represent the people, she wants her "deserved" turn to rule them.
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  5034. HAZ MAT especially the NYPD. Remember Occupy Wall Street?
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  5035. Spone Mr don't feed the known troll
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  5036. Um source?
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  5037. That's how we got here though, so don't hold your breath for the US government to kill off their own puppet.
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  5038. Well if they didn't focus on the Russians people might pay attention to what was actually in the leaks and realize that Hillary went full Republican on voters in the primary so she could steal the nomination. They'd also figgure out that she colluded with the media to push Trump forward in the GOP primary to "ensure her victory". That's what the Russia talking point is actually about. There are plenty of countries Trump is proven to have colluded with the way they claim he did with Russia, but that gets no attention because it wouldn't serve the real purpose.
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  5039. So many "progressives" arguing like conservatives when it is their complacency moderate attitudes being protested, and it's disgusting and disappointing.
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  5040. Suspicious Flaming Pyro they've always had a range of art styles thanks to the guest artists. I'd still say this falls within that range.
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  5041. Voting anonymity is a pretty huge factor in election integrity as it prevents people being threatened/bribed into voting a certain way, so no, it shouldn't be verifiable to a specific voter's hand. I 2nd people watching Tom Scott's video.
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  5042. Ryan Carroll building support for 3rd party candidates in an election can produce multiple effects, even if the probability of winning that election is 0. They can move the country towards a political upset and replacement of a major party in a following election (which has happened in our country's past and can happen again). It can help build support for 3rd party candidates in smaller elections. It can force more discussion of their political positions. It can force a realignment of the major parties to recapture the votes. It can help build support for election reform. Meeting a certian vote threshold can cause the party to get some funding and/or get included in some debates. It can send a message that some issues are non-negotiable to you (I, for example, refuse to vote for election-rigging war criminals or those who want to be such). At a certain point of degradation of the political process, using these minor perks to do everything you can to fight against the system you're in is more important than trying to buy into the good-cop, bad-cop game being played on you because even if you get the lesser evil this time, you know you'll just get a worse choice of evils next time. At that point, the corrupt system itself is the greater evil, and a vote for either candidate is a vote in support of it working against your efforts elsewhere. Imagine going into a shady used car lot and telling the salesman "Give me your best deal, but I'm not leaving this lot without a car."...we all know you're not going to get a good deal with that because any negotiation you don't at least appear to be willing to stand up from the table from and say "no deal" is one you should expect to be taken advantage of in. There's also a whole different, but not mutually exclusive, line of reasoning that says that in a constitutional democratic country, the integrity of the elections and constitution are more important than any other issue, so no candidate that works against those things can be rationally considered. You can also make an argument that supporting someone to represent you that has utter contempt for you and those like you is irrational at face value, and that human societies only function when a demand for fair treatment is held to at a cost that, on an individual level, may seem irrational. This demand for fairness is hardwired into primates through evolution because, even if it comes at a short term cost, it is a vital trait for survival when cooperating with other members of a species smart enough to manipulate. There are several entirely rational reasons to vote for a 3rd party, dispite knowing you'll loose an election, and there are several other less rational (but arguably still valid ones). Sometimes, even without knowing why, our instinctive emotional reactions to social situations have very good reasons behind them ingrained into us through our evolutionary history.
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  5043. Not true, as long as the US wants to be there, we will ensure peace never comes. That's why we do things like target first responders in drone strikes to enrage the local population and funnel masses of weapons into the region with little concern where they and up.
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  5044.  our hair defies gravity so can we  the bible endorses the rape of enslaved children. Countries and states that are less religious have lower rates of things like violent crime and approval of tortures (and even divorce, which we don't even see as immoral, but getting god out of relationships tends to get people to make better choices). Athiests make up a disproportionately tiny percentage of the prison population. Would you like me to go on? The foundation of morality in Christianity is obedience to Yahweh (who, as a fictional character, is a genocidal monster), but actually studying humans finds that our tendency toward obedience toward authority brings out the worst in us and that obedience-based morality is juvenile and something we're supposed to outgrow. Religion makes people less moral.
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  5045.  @inquisitorsteele8397  no, the definition (even the very loose definition) requires the target of the violence to be civilian. You're just dead wrong on this.
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  5046. Not him, Us. It's our role to put the media on blast for their dishonesty. Make the media appear as dishonest as they are, and every attack they levee against Bernie will be a point in his favor.
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  5047. Alt-right is a self-rebranding of neonazis to improve their public image and they're the pinnacle of identy politics. What shit are you spewing?
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  5048. I'd like to add that some of the people doing this are far right people pretending to be progressives. Not all. Some are as you discribe, but some are absolutely pro-Trump and hiding it.
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  5049. I thought his lead-in for that was inhaling....
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  5050.  @stormisuedonym4599  bigotry is basically just a "matured" and systemic version of bullying...only with life and death consequences far more frequently than what happens in schoolyards in no small part because of the scale it happens on. Like schoolyards, though, the differences they use to turn people into an "other" are arbitrary excuses, used to try and justify the actions of people for whom kicking down (and kissing up) is the only way they can prop up their fragile sense of self worth. Why are you so defensive about someone pointing out the reality that police departments are generally full of bigots?
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  5051. War is a racket.
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  5052. @Adam E ah yes, known Trump hater Alex Jones. 😆 Do you ever think about the shit you say to even try not to embarrass yourself?
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  5053. Look up the "Southern Strategy"
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  5054. The idea of the Supreme Court is that they're replaced so slowly that they serve as a final protection against corruption and federal overreach because you should only ever expect to have maybe 3 bad judges before the country gets it's shit together and starts appointing good ones again. The idea is that you're averaging several decades of elections together with the appointments so you should have a majority of the judges being reasonable and in line with the views of the people at all times. We've just been so corrupt for so long that we have ~5 bad ones and 4 terrible ones.
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  5055. No...just no. You're so wrong about the last part.
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  5056. He is a fascist and you're both incredibly gullible if you didn't see it at least by the time he was going off about the BLM protests.
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  5057.  @carol127v  you're expecting someone with that username to have a coherent or logical...anything?
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  5058.  @michellemcknight4185  no liver??? Hope you're seeing a doctor about that 😉
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  5059. This isn't something to be praised. It's what we should expect especially from anyone who's focus is banking.
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  5060. Like "think of the children" wherever the right brings up mental health it's just a smokescreen to cover views they know they can't get away with expressing honestly. It's NEVER genuine!
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  5061. Not to mention, an early demonetization kills nearly all the ad revenue from the video before the review can be completed.
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  5062. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" -Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  5063.  Walter De wit  you want to stop the imperialism of the white man wrecking South America. Get rid of the US-installed fascist in Brazil called Bolsonaro by any means necessary, rather than trying to yell this rediculous and counter-productive tirade at those people from America who want to stop their government's imperialism.
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  5064. 9:43 The real election to them is defeating progressives in the primary. As long as they don't rock the boat after thay, they still get paid
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  5065. As someone that's center-left, I agree that's the way to go, but Bernie is only a left-leaning moderate and is being treated as some radical so we have a long fucking way to go before far leftists even get close to being on the edge of mainstream.
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  5066. One day she's going to unionize a workplace over being indignant over being told she's not smiling enough at the customers by some abusive boss and I'm absolutely here for it. Never loose your readiness to drop your polite smile and tell someone demanding too much of you that they're full of crap, little girl. The world has never been made a better place by people willing to be satisfied with BS.
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  5067. Yup. That's why the Nazis names themselves what they did dispite not at all being socialists. It's 100% classic fascistic rhetoric
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  5068.  @satyasyasatyasya5746  I see what you did there
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  5069. Derrick Belanger amazing what blackmail can get you sometimes, huh?
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  5070. ​ @spitfire3797 and you
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  5071.  @MackeyDeeez  racism is dumb. It's not just ethically wrong, it's factually wrong. Every "race realist" argument is based on logical fallacies. If I went around actually judging people's intelligence and character by hair color, I'd be an idiot. Same for skin color.
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  5072. Yeah, the subtle ways reactionaries are promoting violence while maintaining plausible deniability is a really big problem, but at the same time, history shows that when push comes to shove, capital tends to me more opposed to anything left-wing than fascism, so letting a mega-corp control discourse (especially under the pretense of being advertiser friendly) runs a real danger of them suppressing all left-wing content more than reactionaries, as long as they aren't too overy about it...and history shows that when capitalism is in crisis, and left wing voices are silenced, you get fascism. There is a really interesting conversation there, but even if Jimmy were able to set his emotions aside (which when can he?), he's nowhere near smart enough for that conversation. Kyle and Sam might be up for it and it could be really interesting if they bring their A game and keep their heads.
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  5073. Of course nothing is done. The head of the government is a far-right, authoritarian white-supremacist just like almost all the domestic terrorists in the US lately. What would we expect?
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  5074.  @crafty9953  because some of the people who are why we can't have nice things saw some black people misbehaving.
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  5075. The lesson was sent and received. The think you're missing is Dems really would rather loose to Trump than win with real progressives.
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  5076.  @syncmonism  late reply but yes, othet shipwrecks are also scrapped for low-background steel. It's just rare to get any easier to get at than wrecks already in a harbor unless you want to scrap one of the few remaining ones that hasn't been sunk (and is likely a museum ship by this point). It does happen elsewhere as well, though, when things are easy enough to get at.
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  5077. Nathan or we'll wrench the party from their slimy hands...either way, I'm not picky as long as the corrupt tools go away and quickly.
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  5078.  @heronimousbrapson863  considering adding at least half of banking to that list. We need sovereign monitary policy, not this absurd boom-bust cycle with governments paying interest for the use of their own currency. The current finance systems are insanity.
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  5079. Wells Bush, Obama, and Trump have all been called traitors frequently (and correctly, though that's a different discussion). Your argument is invalid.
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  5080. The Humanist Report had a brutal compelation of Warren supporters being terrible at the end of his video on this. https://youtu.be/r8z3qTGL7R0
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  5081. "Centrists" love indulging in the feeling of superiority of their imagined highground from the safety of their couch.
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  5082.  osborne007  you could easily flip that causal link and argue they turn hard to religion because of the environment they live in and be way more logically sound. Sure there's a feedback loop there, but it's neither as simple as "because A, B" nor something that can't be broken.
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  5083. lifeislessthan3 simple: stop subsidising corn, and if other food prices rise too much, put the money into SNAP to make it sure that people can still afford food. Then, food prices reflect the costs of production, we get less corn syrup in everything, and people still get to eat. Freedom, safety net, and a less government interference than we currently have now. Everyone should be happy about that.
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  5084.  @robm6645  likely even earlier and more frequently
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  5085. It better be a good one, cause they already managed to spin Hillary rigging an election into Russiagate and have that double as cover with actual collusion with foreign powers....
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  5086. ​ @swdetroiter313 fyi, you've been reported for misinformation and supporting terrorism.
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  5087. Orwell's work helped delay it half a century.
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  5088. Maybe this is me being naive, but I think they're focusing their resources on female cats BECAUSE one male can impregnate so many female cats. Unless you can get nearly every male cat in the area, neutering them does almost nothing to impact the reproduction rates because the female cats will just get impregnated by another male and the result will be the same. If you only have the resources to neuter X number of cats, it makes sense to only neuter female cats because they (not the male cats) are the bottleneck for the population and neutering males will have virtually no effect. Maybe I'm being naive about the people in your area, but that is an entirely logical course of action, so jumping to assigning bad motives seems premature.
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  5089. Getting rich without a conscience is super easy if you have any startup capital and aren't a total moron. That's kinda part of the problem, but we can at least take pride in getting through life without putting things on the easy difficulty setting.
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  5090. And he just had to throw the ageist steriotyping as the cherry on top...but then he's a boomer, so that's not surprising either.
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  5091. @rubbles2206  baseload power is an outdated concept in a post-carbon grid and even nuclear will need energy storage to get away from peaking plants.
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  5092. Did all the peaceful protests get the cops to stop murdering black people in broad daylight? No? Well, this is the INEVITABLE result of that. Btw, murders are still worse than property damage. Stop blaming the abused for lashing out when their anger is still less distructive than what they've endured.
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  5093. More like Officer: "Sir, please get down." Spiderman: "of course, officer" starts dancing "I'm happy to help" Officer: "....I walked right into that one didn't I?"
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  5094. Sean Hannity is one of those boomers to whom socialism means "the bad side of whatever we're talking about, reguardles of logic and what I said 30 seconds ago"
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  5095. Jeremy Ranta Nazis are pretty well-known for their infighting. Shouldn't be surprising, though, since "divide and conquer" is bigotry's MO.
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  5096. Poe's Law is real. Always use "/s"
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  5097.  @rust44  several is a huge understatement. The "alt right" is the leading source of domestic terrorism in the US and committed all of it last year.
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  5098.  @gartblart3330  occum's razor: failson with no life
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  5099. They're on the fence between "far right" and full-out facist. Neo-conservatism is just facism-lite.
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  5100. Poverty drives crime. Cut their income and they'll increasingly turn to more crime to cover the difference until they can't get out. Not saying no punishment of course (fines and jail time are of course fine), but what you're talking about almost guarantees perpetual recitivism
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  5101. Brain damage from lead exposure is irreversible.
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  5102. Not sure he really takes that much convincing, tbh
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  5103.  @kingbugs3558  the automation tsunami is coming fast. We can either massively change the economy intentionally or let it turn us into something resembling a cyberpunk dystopia.
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  5104. Real talk; to establish a hierarchy that puts people in their place That is what is really in their shriveled hearts.
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  5105. Copy and potentially pass on.
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  5106. I mean the kekistan flag was created by fascists to mirror the Nazi flag, but I'm not seeing it in that frame unless I'm missing something. That said, the "alt-right" has basically taken over 4-chan and spread their propaganda largely through it (even before Qanon) so yeah, it's absolutely involved.
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  5107.  @geraldfinn436  Poe's law is real. "/s" is your friend.
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  5108. If they were they wouldn't get their legalized bribes aka campaign contributions.
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  5109. Yup. Getting to keep ANY of the money (directly or indirectly) is an OBVIOUS conflict of interest.
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  5110. Establishment: "Bernie is divisive and his supporters are sexist." Also establishment: erasing the voices of women and attacking voters. Hmm...that sounds like the level of projection I would expect from a Republican...oh wait, they're all opposed to democracy so none of them are real democrats!
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  5111.  @leveljoe  the probabilities of a planet having the right conditions for life multiplied by the scale of a universe (which may be literally infinite). Btw, if you'd done any research at all on this topic you wouldn't have needed to ask that...
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  5112.  @leveljoe  so you're just completely abandoning trying to argue your point and doubling down on your incredibly weak attempts at insults then? You realise that's basically an admission that you lost this sorry excuse for a debate, right?
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  5113. Let's be real, they're worried about a repeat of the night of long knives.
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  5114. Atilla Israel is bad, but they're mostly hung up in their own conflict. It's the US followed by Saudi Arabia, actually.
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  5115.  @peterbondy  I mean, internalized bigorty happens in every form from sexism, to racism, to homophobia, etc. I would never claim ageism to be any different, but let's be real, older generations' complaints about ageism towards them is kinda like white people complaining about racism towards them. Does it happen and suck when it does? Sure, but if there's some uncouth comments about white people under a story about some racist BS a racist white person did, I'm not under there making the issue about anti-white racism. See what I mean?
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  5116.  @peterbondy  I mean, don't get me wrong either, that is happening and I would much rather people be vocalizing that frustration in calling out, for example, Biden's ageism instead of making more wierd essentialist statements about older generations. Identifying and calling out bigotry for what it is, is much more productive than taking a less targeted approach to reacting to bigotry dirrected towards one's group (as we have seen with other civil rights issues). How to get from where we are where the understanding of what's happening to the younger generations being ageism as subconscious to a more productive reaction of calling a spade a spade instead of the normal reaction we see now, though, idk, beyond doing my very small part in putting the right labels on things and do things like steer the conversation in a more productive dirrection. I do appriciate your willingness to listen, btw, agree that a lot of the comments weren't things I would say I really approve of, and hope that came across.
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  5117. Actually "whether or not you vote has little impact. Nowadays, procuring a state-issued ID or driver's license, buying a home, and/or filing tax returns can get you on the list as well. Basically, if you're an active citizen of the United States you can expect to be called someday." -https://lifehacker.com/eight-myths-about-jury-duty-debunked-1538152456
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  5118. The thing you have to understand is that while you may be able to reach the ones who were tricked to voting for Trump, the actual far right does not care about truth. I mean that with full sincerity. If something supports the power heirarchy they want, truth of it is entirely irrelevant to them.
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  5119. Sam Burns once we finally win back our government, we need to remember to add "rigging elections" to the legal definition of treason. If trying to destroy the foundation of your nation's very form of government for personal gain isn't legally treason, you have a problem.
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  5120. French Cyndaquil any religion that endorses the genital mutation of children deserves to be spit on. As does any one that endorses slavery, genocide, pedophilia, killing non-believers, cast systems, or human sacrifice. Saying it's part of your religion doesn't excuse evil behavior, nor do the good parts of a religion excuse the bad ones.
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  5121. Stonemansteve II yes, cussing and threatening violence while claiming I'm the one with the attitude problem that needs corrected...you're so superior and mature /s Get over yourself and your reverence for those tales. Willingness to point out evil and criticise it where ever it turns up is needed for societies to progress and even just to prevent decline. I'm done wasting my time on you, though, as you're too immature to meet an opposing point of view without closing your mind and lashing out in a tantrum, so continuing this is a waste of time.
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  5122. Worst part about TPP wasn't even the outsourcing (which would have been disastrous), but that it sold out our national sovereignty to corporate review officially. It effectively created a corporate super state over all signing countries with the power to overturn their laws, which would be an oligarchy on paper as well as practice with the US being no more than a territory under it's control.
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  5123.  @HarryS77  denialism isn't quite the most accurate word. "Appeasement" is what I'd call it
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  5124. On the floor of a moving airplane with risks of serious injury or worse if you hit turbulence? What the company did was likely flat out criminal.
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  5125. There is a way to avoid an empire collapsing: dismantle it and return to just being a country.
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  5126.  @mulamoon  neither are bullets
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  5127.  @franohmsford7548  required precision is determined by the acceptable margin for error. 1 yard being almost equal to 1 meter is acceptable for most situations where you're just doing a quick eyeball measurement of scale. Most people cannot eyeball multiples of 1yard+3inches intuitively, making it, while more accurate, less useful in a not insignificant number of situations. Of course, trade speed for precision in your measurements as the situation calls for.
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  5128. Saminul Haque agreed, but it's not even if, but when. Truely cleaning up our government may take a century to complete. Even the most generous estimates of his time left and the time required to complete the revolution will have him dead long before the task is done (and most likely anyone old enough to read this will be dead before it's done). Creating stable movements and being in the fight for the long haul is the most important lesson to learn from history (especially recent decades). A movement built around a person is weak, but one built around an idea is strong. Leave idolizing to the childish. That said, damn it feels good to have a strong ally in Bernie (note: ally, not leader).
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  5129. Probably both.
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  5130. "gringo" is vulgar slang for Mexicans over here. Don't use that or you'll be perceived as racist. Also, "yankee" is something that American's have been called by both royalists that hated democracy and confederates that loved slavery, so a lot of us over here won't take that as much of an insult since we believe the "yankees" were on the right side of each conflict those terms were used in. Just saying "American" or "US" is probably best
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  5131. The reason they were too busy talking about Russia to talk about interstate crosscheck was because they needed to distract from the fact that Hillary stole tactics the GOP uses to rig elections by disenfranchising black voters to use against millennials to rig the primary. The entire 2016 election was fraudulent.
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  5132. Reminder that we're talking about the worst crime against humanity in human history and what amounts to a generational genocide. We need to be treating stopping those most responsible for this at least like we treated stopping the Nazis.
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  5133. The problem is right wing politics are aristocratic instead of democratic and hierarchal instead of egalitarian. Having consistent standards would go against the whole idea of consolidating power.
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  5134. Ignoring the pathetic trollbot, and getting back on topic to what it wants to stop us from talking about, does anyone know his politics better? The mix of left-leaning satire of the corporate world mixed with this BS is suggesting Nazbol to me.
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  5135.  JohnnyGotHisGun  yup, and we need the green new deal and housing as a human right for that to work. The jobs guarentee needed to mobilize the country/world to fight climate change will hold us over until then.
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  5136.  @moonman1717  um, all the establishment "Democrats" are right wing. Hell, even Warren is slightly right wing.
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  5137.  @moonman1717  um, Bernie has one of the most left platforms in the running, pretty much every position is the same as the majority view of American voters, and he is the most liked politician in the country by far. What BS source are you getting that nonsense from?
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  5138.  @moonman1717  yes, they did basically ignore Bernie in the last primary, but there's no good reason to count on them doing so with him (or any other progressive candidate) when they have apperently started taking the left a lot more seriously with the attempts to bash AOC. They might, but they don't have any good reason to make that mistake.
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  5139. There has only been 1 new idea the far right has come up with in the last few centuries. It's called "fascism" and it wasn't even that origional then....
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  5140.  Dylan Stewart  a-the media is helping him scam them b-a conman can get remarkably far on just a few good tricks without needing much intelligence (doubly so if people are angry and desperate, which you can thank the neoliberal establishment for) c-Hillary colluded with the media to help push Trump through the primary (look up "Pied Piper strategy")
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  5141. Who would bet against you though?
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  5142. John Ehrlichman (Nixon’s chief domestic advisor) even admitted what it was really about, but we still pretend like the "War on Drugs" is different from prohibition. Unfortunately YouTube seems to not like me posting the quote, but you can find it easy if you search.
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  5143. Marc Grundfest you're either trolling or know very little about history. Either way, please be quiet. You're making us look bad.
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  5144. I know she did as first lady and then changed her position for the '08 primary. Going from championing it (not just supporting it) to being to the right of Obama's proposed public option was how I first knew she sold out completely and wasn't to be trusted.
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  5145. Because people using CBD and learning how much they're getting fucked by the DEA will pave the way for people calling to dismantle the agency entirely. They're in too deep with their lies and their only choice is to tripple down.
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  5146. You don't want someone's past drug use to be used as a pretence to fuck people over? We need to do more work to stop bigots from getting into the white house. Biden is ageist AF.
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  5147. Tim Cahill anyone (police or lawyer) caught messing with evidence (either planting or withholding) should recieve whatever sentence their victim would have received. Get serious about that and this kind of BS would stop real quick. (oh, & legalize drugs too of course)
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  5148.  @th69supreme58  a sticky sugary syrup covering up and making palatable to those with crude taste an expensive and low-quality product really just a great metaphor for this whole situation isn't it.
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  5149. Because she's rich and famous. (Yes, I realize how circular that is)
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  5150.  @jige1225  it unironically is. I don't thing you're appreciating how hard terraforming actually is whereas disassembling planets is just a matter of mining and launching what you mine into orbit over time.
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  5151.  @macher2266  O'Neil cylinders are far from cramped. We're talking about a rotating cylinder with dimensions measured in kilometers. They also are able to get far more Earth-like than any realistic terra forming project.
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  5152. gellendar and that's the generous interpretation...
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  5153. I'm sure you can and that his website will provide dirrections for those looking to volunteer. I'm not in a place to check it atm, but I encourage you too :)
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  5154.  @dismurrart6648  it's cheaper to just give homeless housing than to criminalize homelessness.
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  5155. If it's pronounced the way he did, can someone please tell me why it is spelled that way?
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  5156.  @robertmatthews2009  Bernie consistently has won the hypothetical matchups against Trump by a large margin for years and weathered basically every attack Trump could make from the people pretending to be on his side for the entire time. You're talking out of your ass.
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  5157.  @jarredgeis625  watch this <5 min video from CGP Grey (a channel with amazing short vids explaining complicated things) to learn how YouTube puts ads on videos, then think about the demonitization layer added on recently (which lumps channels like this in with neonazi shit) and you should be able to understand exactly what's happening and why. It's confusing only when you don't understand the underlying systems.
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  5158. I think a lot of people severely underestimate how far you can get with just a basic amount of training in a battle and greatly overestimate how much the kind of skill that helps you win 1v1 fights that takes so long to master matters on a battlefield. You can get people to a respectable proficiency level in probably about a week. After some basic strikes and stances and teamwork drills, it's mostly just combat experience, physical condition, and morale that matters. All else being equal, I'd bet on the force that traines for 7 days and experienced several battles to the one that trained for several years and has seen zero battles. Most of the time in unit-scale combat you're doing very basic atracks with your weapon while trying to maintain situational awareness.
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  5159. So you should form cooperative bonds with your community so you can organize when things go bad. I can almost guarantee you that your area doesn't have enough wildlife to support the people in your area turning hunter-gatherer. We are a social species. We are stronger together. The systems that hold up larger, more complex societies collapsing doesn't change that, and it doesn't change the amount of farmable land in your area.
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  5160. I mean, if providing more evidence would open him up to criminal prosecution for, say, terrorism (which his actions could easily fall under the definition of), this could easily be his best move as it keeps things in civil rather than criminal court. Pretty simple, really.
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  5161.  @audrey8275  and yet not the dumbest thing said there, somehow
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  5162. Americans have such a poor understanding of what communism is, that even our dictionaries have it wrong. Most people over here don't even know George Orwell was a socialist and will either be stunned or tell you you're wrong when you tell them that.
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  5163. The people aren't the customers, they're the product.
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  5164. Just like Republicans, if you want to know what establishment dems are doing, look at what they're accusing other of.
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  5165. They're ALL complicit.
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  5166. Move all infrastructure (including, but not limited to fuel, electricity, internet, and healthcare) to the public sector (national or municipal as appropriate) Break up all megacorps. Make all remaining large businesses worker co-ops. Institute Massive electoral reform of which getting money out of politics would be like 10%.
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  5167.  Don Taylor  the only ones who have done janitorial work are all criticizing this fake solidarity, and yet all these people who have apparently never touched a pushbroom in their lives are telling us how we're wrong. The patronizing classism is honestly disgusting.
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  5168.  @PlazDreamweaver  yup, it's very common that the argument someone is actually defending isn't the one they're actually saying. Example in this thread being R A who's actual position is "protests shouldn't ever be inconvenient. 'You people' should just get back in line and not bother your 'betters'"
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  5169. I don't know about African ones, but considering that they were drawn by the same people that put together the (at best) criminally negligent middle east borders that Absolutely lead to current conflicts (Iraq being 3 groups that hated each other seperated from others they would rather have been with, the Israeli-Palistinian conflict being started be Britain promising the same land to 2 groups with no concern for the consequences, etc)...well I have to assume it's true there too.
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  5170. King Alfred this is correct.
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  5171.  @dcgregorya5434  I mean, while you're not wrong, we put lead to some fairly trivial uses fairly recently (and the comment I was actually replying to seems to be from a channel that has been deleted for some reason, so context is missing)
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  5172.  @samzen9031  kinda proves my point about how Ben's rhetoric and the actions of the Israeli government feed the rise of Nazis
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  5173. Xander Chicago also is right next to places with REALLY lax gun laws, so people just leave the city, buy them, and return. It's not a good comparison to nationwide laws (or even statewide ones for larger states)
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  5174. @Amog don't bother with AntBoy. He's just a troll out to strawman leftists.
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  5175. Like half my family is on CBD for one reason or another, including my grandma, who if she stops taking it will go blind in a few years due her macular degeneration. It's a medical necessity for many people so they can fuck right off.
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  5176. misterawsomeman never underestimate a fundamentalist's willful ignorance or cognitive dissonance.
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  5177. We're living in the world of The Onion now, where Poe's law applies to the entirety of real life. The worst part is that this was inevitable with the dirrection we were going in, but people were too busy blindly supporting their party of choice to do anything to stop it.
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  5178. That someone could be you
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  5179. Sorry to break the illusion, but that sound was from a wooden train whistle (the kind you blow with your mouth) either just out of shot or cut in. I'm 100% sure. There's a scratchy dry sound in there that comes from the roughly finished wood typical for the interior of such whistles. I had one as a child. I know that sound extremely well. It's why I can tell you not only wasn't it her voice that made it, but that it wasn't a real train whistle either. It would be actually easier to replicate the sound of a real one with the human vocal chords than that of one of those.
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  5180.  @fred1395durst  the fact that you think reaffirming the existance of polyphonic overtone singing has anything to do with what I said just shows how you're getting the Dunning-Kreuger effect by overestimating the value of your little tiny bit of knowledge.
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  5181.  @fred1395durst  ah yes, because I was "using bigger words" than you....get over yourself and drop the projection already. It WAS a whistle off camera and the reasons I gave for that have NOTHING to do with the term you think knowing makes you so smart. Notice that NOTHING I said disagreed with that existing? I only said that this particular instance was a specific type of whistle.
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  5182. Fascists just are walking self parodies....with murderous intent and access to weapons.
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  5183.  Rick Sanchez  Nazis weren't socialist and were the extreme right of the German political system you complete moron
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  5184. How to write a good tournament arc? Go watch a sports anime and then bring those lessons on character development back to your genre.
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  5185. Feel free to cross reference and see how mant of Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism Tucker just blazed through (spoilers, though, it's most of them, in almost no time at all....while talking about a cartoon candy)
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  5186. I'm sure. Pete's father was a socialist at least. The apple fell very far from that tree.
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  5187. NK is insignificant and nuclear weapons. Iran has oil, no nukes, and both Israel and Saudi Arabia wanting it wiped from the map. The fact that we almost hit nuclear war over words alone makes this a very dangerous situation.
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  5188.  thesparitan  you know what's greener than that? Public transit, and Musk hates public transit because it means sharing a ride with poor people who he's expressed concern might kill him. People aren't talking about Musk's flamethrower producing a huge amount of greenhouse gasses. People are popping the myth that Musk is some savior from climate change because what he really is, is an asshole with too much money inventing toys for rich kids.
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  5189.  @Photologistic   What individual people in the industry think is irrelevant. No one is even saying everyone in a listed industry shares the same stance. What matters is the flow of power. That means "campaign contributions" (aka legalized bribery) and how it works as a tool to suppress voters and break up communities (ethnic and left-wing) that challenge the status quo. The political machine does not care about opinions. Call me when the craft brewing special interest has more power than the big brewing corporations and wield that power to have the government act against their financial interests. Frankly, you're the out of touch idiot if you can't see that.
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  5190. You know...if one were to have a dong I, personally, feel it should be Amaterasu. That may just be my tastes involving their personalities, but it also does make a more...ahem, fertile pairing with the more typically feminine-gendered ground for the symbolism for plant(&crop) growth...and I have already put more thought into divine private parts than I probably should have so I'm going to stop there. Lol
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  5191. What positive achievements? The best he's done is take credit for Obama's limited successes, and clean up his own messes sometimes.
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  5192. Much as I hate to give them credit...I think Russia deserves some credit here. Unlike the US, they actually want the conflict to end.
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  5193. Faux News will very likely ask unfair questions, but it's much easier to for him to argue against the more overt opposition he's likely to get from them than the undermining from people who are pretending to be on the same side. Also, commentating on the Faux News coverage of Bernie puts them in the catch-22 of having to side with Faux News to oppose him. To top it off, him holding his own against Republicans further undermines their questioning his electability. It's not good for the "centrist" Dems for him to be there.
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  5194. Drakilicious obvious troll is obvious. Go back to 4-chan little boy
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  5195. Bill Roberts exactly my point. Blindly following what authority figure says and believing them to always be right and good is juvenile. It's not something we're supposed to see outside of young children looking at their parents, but it's completely pervasive in our society.
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  5196.  @InterestsMayVary2234  if they get news from TV at all instead of realizing that news on cable tv is a fraud within a scam.
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  5197. @Sam Smith hahahaha wow you're dumb
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  5198. I'm not super concerned about this tbh. We had a similar situation with AlJazera America, without much issue of buying into the propaganda of the original site. We already had a small portion of authoritarians with a not so subtle boner for Putin, and sure they're becoming louder, but even with the number of people joining them who immediately assume that the enemy of their enemy is their friend, I don't see that as a runaway situation, but just some vocal idiots.
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  5199. Well duh, on the rare instances it does, the good cop gets fired.
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  5200. They're already openly pushing for that, for the record.
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  5201. @b_radfriendship fascists ruined it like they do with everything they steal like the loosers they are.
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  5202. ​ @jlinkpro still should be illegal to get married. Just means that no-one IN the marriage belongs in jail.
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  5203. https://youtubersunion.org Can someone with a twitter account please share this on the secular talk twitter page where Kyle might see it?
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  5204. The American Bund.
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  5205. Even massively pro-rich steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie was for a steeply graduated estate tax. Without it you just get a bunch of spoiled brats running your society because they inherited it. It also encourages philanthropy. If you want meritocracy in your society you should want to strengthen the estate tax.
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  5206. Hillary and Trump were rightly the 2 most disliked presidential candidates in US history. Let's not use the most shitty politicians we know as reference points. That's how DC became so disconnected from the people that we got Trump vs Hillary in the first place. Ps: Rand is just controlled opposition for libertarians. He's a fraud and will vote establishment anytime they need him to make a vote fo through.
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  5207.  @live2groove  is it really? We have the rise of facism, are still recovering from the worst economic crash since the great depression and about to hit one at least as bad. On top of that, most Republican voters support many of Bernie's core policies and at least trust the man's character even if they disagree. It wasn't GOP voters that stopped progressivism in 2016, but the establishment by rigging the election, and with people watching the election integrity and the rise of people advocating real socialism, there's only so much of that they can do before the disaffected masses start polarizing even more into fascist and comminist groups yet again.
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  5208. Yeah, but then the Red Scare happened and this nation lost its fucking mind...decades later we're still looking for it.
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  5209.  @jeremiahbarnes6313  not the least among them the extreme level of stigmatization of it such that parents commonly let their kids never leave their room rather than accepting the "shame" of taking them to get help....to say nothing of the overwork problem or the relationship problem coming from that and the attempt to hold onto traditional relationship rituals in a more egalitarian society. It's an interesting mess that's not without positives, but an absolute mess.
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  5210.  @insightfulhistorian1861  you're not wrong about the 2nd part, but if this country weren't filled to bursting with rubes, neither party would exist so...
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  5211. Lol, you forgot the projection step, but otherwise spot on
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  5212. A: idgaf who you "trust to vote". That's already an antidemocratic way of thinking. B: even in your mind, it's an INDIVIDUAL responsibly. This law goes after every "get out the vote" organization by making them liable for everyone who might (unintentionally or otherwise) turn in an application with errors on it. Think for just a couple seconds about things for a change.
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  5213. If it can be seen from over the horizon, it wasn't a little oops.
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  5214.  @crait  their private jets disagree with you.
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  5215. I take it you mean more than just a public defense attorney so overworked that he only has the 5 minutes to spare to tell the defendant to plead guilty because effective legal defense is a privilege in this country.
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  5216.  @connormcgregor4578  I mean, one has the nuclear codes right now so...
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  5217. The grift was super obvious. The only questions were when we'd learn the details and what they would be.
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  5218. Keep in mind that's about Trump's approval rating, and that ~25% of the country is effectively completely disconnected from reality on the macro scale.
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  5219. He's not a 16 year old. He's a spoiled brat of a 13 year old.
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  5220. Trump and Hillary were rightly the two most unpopular presidential candidates in US history. Kinda damning with faint praise to saying someone's better than them in one area where they're both horrific, isn't it?
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  5221. https://youtubersunion.org Can someone with a twitter account please share this on the secular talk twitter page where Kyle might see it?
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  5222. A member of the Nixon administration admitted that they did the war on drugs to arrest the community leaders of ethnic minorities and hippies to disrupt those communities so they couldn't organize and in general lock up a bunch of people from said communities because that would stop them from voting Democrat. The war on drugs started as just another voter suppression program. Not the first, or the last
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  5223.  @libertyvlogum9740  there's no definition of terrorist you could use that would include him and not high-ranking US military leaders.
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  5224. White Cheddar Popcorn he wants human extinction so I think he does
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  5225. Landlords aren't working for free. The job that's doing the work of upkeeping apartments is "property manager". Landlording is just getting paid because you already have more wealth than someone else.
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  5226.  Nachos Livestream  establishment dems have no message because their goals are 90% identical to the GOP's. Just like in a good cop/bad cop routine the message comes down to "help me help you or I won't be able to stop that guy from hurting you" when really they're on the same side.
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  5227. There are functionally endless replacements for her type. She was alwasy going to be replaced with another person who would do the same things because the people that do the selecting for the position haven't changed.
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  5228.  @HealzHS  nope, just calling a spade a spade as your vapid propaganda and account age made clear.
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  5229.  @MrS22222  more democratic than Russia, but that's why you want Putin to win, right fascist?
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  5230. This is less "I'm trying to make this a viable mass production line" and more "I'm terrified what the disgusting poor people might do after the next economic crash, so want an armored car that would fit into a cyberpunk setting"
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  5231. They do use threatening porn as a useful distraction though.
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  5232. Seriously though, her whole demeanor does just give off the air of something inhuman wearing human form and trying to mimic normal human mannerisms. From the very moment she's on screen (and especially those first few moments starting at 1:45) there should be something screaming in your brain "uncanny valley! Avoid! Danger!" because we evolved such instincts to survive encoutering the dangerously insane (like sociopaths). If your brain is not doing that, there's something wrong with your social survival instincts. This is the kind of shit that makes the more paranoid among us jump to actually believing ideas about reptile people.
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  5233. +
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  5234. Yeah, they're not so good anymore. The slow slide started after the defunding issues back in the day, and it didn't happen all at once, but it sure happened...unfortunately many people don't re-evaluate their news sources so they'll stick with whatever they used to like no matter how bad it gets and not even notice.
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  5235. Citation? (Honest question)
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  5236. @Britannic hayyomatt that is a big block of anti-historic drivvel you posted.
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  5237. @cablecow15 ...it's obviously a joke on the ambiguousness of the phrasing and how terrible Walmart is in both shopping experience and product quality... O.o
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  5238. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”⁣ -Nelson Mandela⁣ 'Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain Whether someone thinks this was the best way they could protest or not, those claiming it wasn't brave show that the concept of moral courage is foreign to them.
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  5239. When Ben's balls drop.
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  5240. Origional sin is eating from the tree of knowledge. The firsr 3-4 (depending on version) out of only 10 commandments are just Yahweh demanding worship. Morality is proscribed as coming through faith (and in a good number of denominations, faith alone, with deeds being irrelevant). This is to be expected. While I'm glad there are many more open-minded Christians these days, he's in line with a LOT of the range of Chrstian thought.
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  5241. I mean, it's probably not that hard with her setup. You just set up the camera, use that to take a picture of the room when it's all set up nice with the lighting and everything you'd be recording with. Then you bring the green screen in and use the same image from the camera you haven't moved to overlay the exact pov and lighting situation over the greenscreen and everything beyond its border. It's trying to make the room look like a different room that's hard. Freaky effect, but it's really simple.
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  5242. What does him being young have to do with it? If anything, you're less likely to hear that from an older one.
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  5243. @Zooch I said absolutely nothing about forgiving or forgetting. The fact that you went there is just proving my point about you being so unhinged that you aren't caring about the facts. I appriciate your eagerness to demonstrate exactly what I was saying, though.
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  5244. The right has opposed our form of government since its invention and the nearly simultaneous creation of the term "right wing".
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  5245.  @ragingmenace1984  they listen. They understand. They approve. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  5246. gerg sadly, yes. This is what we've fallen to over the last several decades.
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  5247. SkyTech RTS I agree with that. Like I said, don't support the attacks, and part of that is the huge # of civilians killed.
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  5248. Jordan Sharps regulations are often complicated things to set up for much of the economy and economic desperation leads many to take jobs they otherwise wouldn't (including ones that often lead to maiming, chronic illness, and early death). These aren't issues unique to prostitution and even a system of legalization with mediocre regulations would produce far less harm than the current situation, and could be fine-tuned over time. I don't see any reason to give the issue abnormal concern.
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  5249. Alkerae exactly. Replacing things like minimum wage with a UBI would work wonders for our economy by leveling the playing field between employers and employees for the first time in history, and without the corruption unions often suffer from. Until both sides are just as free to walk away from the table, exploitation will continue.
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  5250. All religion that bases morality on obedience retards moral development, not just the ones you mention (though that does make it worse).
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  5251. The Rational National it's just a troll
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  5252. @user-kx4dp1ki8p where do squatting rights let you to take over a building occupied by someone else? I'll wait.
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  5253. I think you mean MSM: "Russian agent reeeee"
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  5254. That'll happen when you take Koch money to push their propaganda.
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  5255. Temperature isn't that big a deal, actually, at least not for grid storage. Ambri's losses were entirely manageable, and you're dealing with a square/cube problem. The bigger you make them and closer you pack them together, the less of an issue you have as efficiency increases with scale. Keep in mind also that all power distribution and storage has inefficiencies and you also save massively on reprocessing vs the maintenance and replacement vs other energy storage systems (like lithium ion batteries that don't handle deep cycling well and have short lifetimes with massive costs in extraction/recycling and assembly and all that takes not only money but energy (and some systems require active cooling because operation increases temperature which decreases efficiency) I don't know GE's numbers specifically, but considering you can square-cube your way out of heat-loss inefficiency problems for grid storage, I'm not concerned. It's only really a limit on practical minimum size for the technology, not the viability of the technology. It's not that often the square cube law works in our favor when making stuff so enjoy it when it does.
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  5256. don417 their voting record says otherwise. They keep voting for war criminals and just this last election the guy that ran on a promise to "take out their families". By definition, that means it's bearable to them. Until the public at large decides that being a war criminal (actual or wannabe) is a disqualifing trait no matter what the rest of the election looks like, it remains true. No amount of claiming to hate it means anything as long as they leave those sentiments outside the ballot box. Dan may or not be a moron (I don't know him), but the op got it right.
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  5257. Neo-liberals are basically just neo-cons with a thin veneer of pseudo-social progressive rhetoric to hide the poison. If you look at their positions over time it's clear even that is just an act as both Hillary and Obama only came to support gay marrage AFTER it was the majority oppinion out of political oppertunism.
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  5258. Easier to provoke an existing enemy until they attack if you're not on a time crunch.
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  5259. Yes, illness took him from us. Rest in power.
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  5260. As long as the optimism pushes you to action, it's good.
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  5261.  @NeoFryBoy  the redpill in the matrix movie was a reference to the estrogen pills the creators were taking because they were trans women
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  5262. Rand Paul talks a good talk, but unlike his father, can't be counted on to hold to principle when the vote is close. He seems to be the other side's version of controlled opposition to me.
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  5263. HA! That's a joke! No, the military is our only hope.
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  5264.  @petrapatia6395  it's not just the botched attempt at reconstruction but a legacy of how the south harmed itself with slavery. People talk about the legacy of slavery as merely how it harmed black people (which is both true and hard to overstate, so I don't want to discout that) but also true is that not having all of a population integrated as full members of the society stunted the growth of the south in about every conceivable way. The most visual example of this is how the north industrialized, in large part because all members of the society were full participants in the economy, but the south largely did not. Likewise, the north was able to set up larger and more robust education systems and infrastructure, and progress culturally as well. The South on the other hand remained basically locked in time. This was only made worse when the South resisted reconstruction, and at this point anti-intellectualism and resisting progress have basically become part of Southern culture. (Pockets and individual examples of exceptions can easily be found, of course, but the result is there)
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  5265. +
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  5266. Well, what passes for "centrist" in the US anyway...
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  5267. ​ @Acanthophis Your argument only makes sense if the Dems actually prioritize winning. They. Don't.
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  5268. YouTube's system lags in updating view counts for technical reasons, but that's normal everywhere for videos just uploaded.
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  5269.  @Omni_Shambles  they're statistically shit for self-defense, yes, but only the far right being armed would be really fucking dumb.
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  5270. My guestimate numbers for the drake equation put things at about 0.4 civilizations/galaxy with that number being even lower in the early universe. The notion that we can get intelligent live on a planet that isn't almost exactly like earth is making a lot of assumptions considering how specific things had to be for evolution had to select for it on earth once in all the time we've had life here. You can pretty much rule out any planet significantly larger or smaller, without a massive iron core (which basically rules out the early universe, when amounts available were low), with too thick or thin an atmosphere, further in toward the galactic center (too many orbit disruptions and gama ray bursts), around red dwarfs (they're too variable), around supergiants (they're likely too radioactive and short lived), too much/little water, one too big mass extinction event knocking life back a stage, etc There's also the fact that the notion that intelligent life expanding through the galaxy isn't a sure thing. We're already seeing countries where birth rates are declining below replacement rates, so it's not at all strange to think that populations for advanced species tend to stabilize. It's also likely that, due to energy requirements, interstellar travel isn't a good way to deal with overpopulation, so most species that are capable of it only choose to leave their star system when it becomes uninhabitable and focus on population control instead. Also, set up a series of smaller filters and you get a similar effect without and "great wall".
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  5271. Matthew St. Cyr kind of a case of correct point, but bad choice of source.
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  5272. Scholagladitoria on the subject. https://youtu.be/meln41VHxqs
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  5273. "Grew up"? I'm quite sure he's done no such thing.
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  5274. Scholagladitoria on sword costs: https://youtu.be/dy1fcRG0A3g
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  5275.  @keishpie1  those aren't mutually exclusive things, actually. There are plenty of channels that are much more aggressive at shaming the right for their stupidity that regularly deconvert people and the public shaming lowers their recruitment. You just have to be intelligent about it.
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  5276. Yeah, when they're not editing the video and photo like they just did yesterday: https://youtu.be/iuHlWe_aydE
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  5277.  @bradleysmith681  then that's not a UBI. Period.
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  5278.  @bradleysmith681  it's not semantics. The core defining thing about UBI is that everyone gets it. Period. That's the very thing that seperates it from other welfare systems and avoids the problems therein. You can't remove the defining aspect of something and still call it the same thing.
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  5279.  @cjohnson3836  not an argument. Just you projecting your failings onto me.
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  5280. Whatever the case, stay away from wild animals, ESPECIALLY, if they are acting weird. You do NOT want rabies or prion diseases or anything else that attacks the nervous system. Just keep a distance and call animal control if you don't know what's up.
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  5281. Look up "gaslighting"
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  5282. ​ @anannon8384  even just getting Hillary off the ballot would have solved 2016.
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  5283. Or dead. The fact that this kind of thing happens repeatedly but the people haven't risen up against the oligarchs who have stolen their democracy from them would be shocking if didn't fall into such a shameful pattern of complacency.
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  5284. More likely she's trying to draw attention away from Biden when he was about to be hit hard on his record so he could go into the first voting better prepared and she could get a vp/cabinet position.
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  5285. Gonna answer anyways: The insurance companies are major customers for the "news" corporations creating a huge conflict of interest.
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  5286. octasian if you watched that through, you earned it
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  5287.  @suebee4843  np. Innuendo Studios' video "White Fascism" is a pretty good one that both uses as a lense and describes "palingenetic ultranationalism" and he's quite good with citations if you want to use his content as a springboard for further research.
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  5288. Him going to jail would be a pleasant surprise, but establishment politicians really don't want the prescedent set of even a President being convicted and jailed on corruption charges. I'd estimate that 90+% of Congress belongs in jail for something, but they want to imagine themselves as above that, but the might let it happen if they can successfully cast Trump as enough of an outsider. We need to make sure to pin his reputation to them all as he's just a more overt example of what they do, and being discrete about crimes doesn't make them better.
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  5289.  @theeccentrictripper3863  the legitimately elected government that hasn't won an election?
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  5290. As opposed to the present where the "men" are just boys? Penis or no, if you got triggered by this, you're not a man because men identified with those who stepped in on behalf of others. Real men saw this as a celebration of real masculinity.
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  5291. Look at it this way: Native born Texans live there because they were born there. The others chose to move to Texas dispite/because of its reputation.
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  5292. "The migrants should have stopped in Mexico." they said. "It's safer there than in the US." they said.
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  5293. If you can afford plate armor, a plain but solid and functional sword is not particularly expensive. As for use against armor, once you move away from viking age blade heavy swords, you move into swords suited for half-swording and reversing to use the hilt as a striking & grappling/hooking tool (& once someone's on the ground, they're done, either by a friend with a heavy weapon, or a well placed dagger). If you have enough armor to use it 2-handed, you effectively have a 2(or even 3)-in-1 weapon depending on how you're holding it. ...& who cares if you break your sword by chance? Your life's worth more and so is the gear/ransom of the guy you just brought down, and for the short term, there's bound to be weapons lying around a battlefield (including whatever your opponent was just using) (Side note: contrary to popular belief, falchions were not blade heavy weapons. Shadversity has a great series on them you should check out if you haven't seen it)
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  5294. Probably extremist Hillbots that blame the internet for their queen's loss
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  5295.  @amn3h23h2  or, we could stop debating protofascism vs neoliberalism and move left of center.
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  5296.  @jankjaws9815  it is a drug. So are aspirin and caffeine.
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  5297. Geralt of Rivia even ignoring that we'll never get a 100% accurate court system (which is a HUGE deal) it's not effective at deterrence. Actually, states with the death penalty tend to have higher rates of murder. Simply put, if the state says that someone can do something so bad that it can be warrented to kill them when they're not a threat, then the mentally deranged are more likely to take that and run with it. Holding fast to the principal that it's never ok to kill someone who isn't a threat without exception produces more stable societies and less violent lunatics. It's entirely human to want to kill people that reduce themselves to being monsters, but that doesn't mean we should.
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  5298. "She said 'get down' so technically I'm following orders"
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  5299. We still use first past the post voting, and for the presidency, filter it through the obsolete electoral college (which no longer even fulfills its origional function) and only 1 out of this list of 7 things illegal to do in your elections are even being talked about by election reform advocates here in the US. https://youtu.be/egeMAIXYIvI We are doing a hell of a lot better than with the alpha version though https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW89FNT_WV_E6kYYGXyeR9f1WV2qM1-E2 Just be careful you don't get complacent about fixing the problems in your own system lest you become us in the future.
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  5300.  @numbersix8919  no, democracy is about everyone getting a say in how things are done. That helps maximize overall human ability to achieve personal excellence in a way that Rand's sociopathic neofeudalist fantasies never would, but it's not the core. The core is the rejection that there are special people who deserve to decide how our lives are to be run. Dressing feudalism up in some "free market" "meritocratic" selection process instead of divine right doesn't make it any less authoritarian bootlicking.
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  5301. Then you don't care about them.
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  5302.  @chart6454  "no you" doesn't work when you're actively lowering your pets' life expectancy. Also, grow up.
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  5303.  @chart6454  you're projecting again.
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  5304. dieubermensch tribalism and black and white thinking. "If the dems are corrupt, team red must be the good guys"
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  5305.  @HahaDamn  you think elections are anything but a formality in a totalitarian state? What a joke.
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  5306. So you dumped T-Mobile and Sprint and went to the company that gave us Ajit Pai? Really???
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  5307.  Cuck Baldson  Jimmy thinks everyone's a fucking sellout. Not a good metric there chief.
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  5308. neil adlington with how rigged our process is, that's only partly true
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  5309. I am absolutely appalled by Thunderf00t's poor understanding of physics and engineering. He clearly has absolutely no idea how the device he talked about works. I'm referring to the trebuchet, of course. You don't "spin up" a trebuchet! That'd be stupid. Let's not insult the beautiful physics of the trebuchet with comparisons to this disaster in waiting.
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  5310.  @googleuser9383  ...do you think that going completely off topic to complain about people being called racist might say something about WHY you think they're calling everyone racist based on your anecdotal experience? Maybe just a little?
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  5311. Liberal, by definition, is openness to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Conservativism, by definition, is traditionalism and resistance to change. "Neo-conservatism" is a desire to return to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed. "Neo-liberalism" is neo-conservatism, with a sugar-coating of (mostly empty) rhetoric on social issues to help those that don't hate brown people or gays swallow the poison. Establishment Democrats are not at all liberal. They're about as strongly neo-conservative as Reagan under their rhetoric and occasional bone thrown to people on social issues. While we're on definitions, left vs right is about populism vs establishment power (originally democratic government supporters vs monarchy supporters). Of course, this means the DNC isn't "left" either, whether by the origins of the term or as a coloquial euphemism for "liberal". "Progressive" is the same listed definition as above by its root (though lacking the "pro-freedom" 2nd definition), but was popularised because of the DNC bowing to republicans using "liberal" as a smear. It does avoid the confusion with libertarians saying their economically liberal under the 2nd definition, even though their policies are regressive in terms of the change-spectrum.
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  5312. I'd be VERY interested to see you look over liquid metal batteries due to their claimed longevity, modular deployment, simple mass manufacturing, low material costs, low maintenance costs, and ease of recycling. I'm far better at identifying pseudoscience than the average person, there are areas of science that I don't have the skills and knowledge to catch more than the most obvious problems with and several of them come up in battery tech. It feels right on the edge between "that sounds like a great idea. Why would we be using the same batteries for grid storage as we use for vehicles? They have entirely different design requirements, not the least of which is weight/kW." and "that sounds too good to be true"
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  5313.  @supernova783  if you actually cared about this, you'd either educate yourself or listen to the medical consensus. You do neither because you don't care about the wellbeing of trans kids. You care about them not presenting as the gender they actually are so as to not offend your sensibilities. You're starting from a feeling of disgust and rationalizing backwards from there and it's painfully obvious no matter how much you pretend that's not what you're doing.
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  5314.  @supernova783  and one of our oppinions aligns with the medical consensus, and it's not yours. Your oppinion is not as good as other people's facts. The facts don't care about your transphobic feelings. I also, btw, don't care what "oppinions" people have on "conversion therapy". It's torture.
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  5315. Factually incorrect. Also, you lot being Nazis IS the real story here.
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  5316.  Ann Linley  no solutions but lots of criticism to level at others. Like a pizza cutter you're all edge and no point.
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  5317.  @kyle1235  didn't say they were ever left at all, did I?
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  5318. Can we just acknowledge that that entire segment (especially that line) was yet another dog whistle to facists?
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  5319.  @jasonramero6274  go look up "millennials workaholics" in your search engine of choice to dispell a lot of this internalized ageism you have had beat into you. You've been fed a particular set of data to distort your self-perception and make you dislike yourself and put up with abuse.
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  5320. As automation really comes into its own, it's either a job guarantee or UBI. There's really no getting around that reality. As for housing, we already have way more empty homes than homeless but costs keep going up. We need a housing guarantee or to nationalize the banks that are distorting the market. There's no real way around that one either.
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  5321. ​ @ddddpaulette no, she didn't. You feel sorry for her for being as naive and negligent as you are. Admit what Trump is already and that this softball BS doesn't cut it.
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  5322. Jay Rock Jinx "left"
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  5323. It's not the guns. They're not trying to deflect blame from the guns. They're trying to deflect blame from themselves and the death cult of an ideology they've embrace. The guns just magnify the death toll of the evil they've made a career of promoting.
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  5324.  @jambott5520  you're just feeding a troll
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  5325. E Debs it'd be so easy to at least add logical fallacies to the English section of the SAT as a component of reading compression, but no politician wants to make their voters resistant to propaganda techniques, and no buisness does either as that would make advertising less effective.
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  5326. JohnnyThund3r the problem is the "legal loophole" doesn't actually exist. It's all delusional BS put together by people trying to do things like say that maritime law supersedes all other law reguardless of context and nonsense like that. Sure, most of them are largely harmless, but being way out there in crazy conspiracy theory land makes you more vulnerable to other conspiracies (including more dangerous ones) and those that buy into the sovereign citizen BS are extra vulnerable as their views about how societies function are warped.
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  5327.  @alexculliton9926  people do definitely interpret their religion in multiple ways. The case I'm making is that it's (nearly?) impossible to deny that the Christian right in the US treats economics in a very religious way (with a 2ndary theological sub-argument that it's heretical to do so)
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  5328.  @lapizza7175  that's not really how that works...
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  5329. So we have a candidate that no one has ever heard of (other than being Starbucks' CEO) threatening to run as a spoiler and deliberately trying to push Bernie toward taking positions that would compromise his election chances. They project just like Republicans because they are Republicans, regardless of what letter is after their name.
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  5330. The Rational National and The Humanist Report both did. I expect Jimmy Dore and Secular Talk will do so as well soon
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  5331. Their cause is oligharchy. Trump doesn't threaten that. Bernie does. They are not on our side.
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  5332.  @rmsgrey  unless they can justify it as a potentially profitable investment in PR, it does get onto shakey legal grounds, yes. Usually that's enough to justify whatever executives might want to do if they pair it with some investment into advertising or something to make sure people know they're doing it, but then if it doesn't turn out to be profitable after all, it's possible (even perhaps likely) they will be replaced by someone who will be more cutthroat than them. Corporations are effectively psychopathic homunculai created by tying a contract to a stack of money...or alternatively an AI set singlemindely on the goal of short-term profits, no different than an AI set to make as many paperclips as possible...even if it means destroying the world to turn it into material for more paperclips with the only difference between it and a classic rogue ai doomsday scenario being that they replace gears and circuits with people and they're not superhumanly intelligent (though advances in weak ai to supplement the human minds set to work in the algorithms of corporate beurocracy are starting to push that for some tech and investment companies) As long as you don't limit the idea of an ai apocalypse to needing to be made of metal and silicone, ones and zeros, we're actually living in a slow-moving one right now and haven't even realized it for what it is. Sleep well 😉
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  5333. Well, they're real voters, just ones hand-picked to have the right views. Bernie gets only 1/3rd of the voters dispite being the most popular politician in the country with about 2/3rds support, and both of his supporters are men and appear to be the oldest on the pannel dispite Bernie being most popular with young people and women. Then they throw on only women who, statistically, don't represent the views of most women. This is a pannel curated by CNN to push an agenda, not a real reflection of voters. Standard Corporate News Network fare.
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  5334.  @sarenareth689  bitch, I actually know who you're subbed to so pulling this hypothetical what-aboutism is incredibly weak shit
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  5335.  @tretre3892  most likely MLM spam. Report for unwanted commercial content/spam.
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  5336. Setting aside the strict hierarchy he asumes, the fact that he doesn't prove the harm he claims, and doesn't consider many other solutions to the problems... What he describes isn't enforced monogamy, it's encouraged monogamy. This is part of a pattern where he regularly redefines terms to mean things we already have perfectly good words for (from his nonsense definition of truth on down) and only reveals what he really means when pushed (which he often resists). If you can't figgure out why, let's try taking his advice and looking at the results: He's become nearly impossible to debate as he can squirm out of nearly every argument he wants because it his opponent needs to take upwards of at least 10 minutes per word to pin down his actual position on an issue and then to actually debate him on said issue they need to basically work around the fact that he's functionally working with a third of the dictionary changed. (Something few have the rhetorical skills to do on the fly even when in a format where they have time, and when they do we find the underlying arguments so full of factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies that it borders on solipsism) He's also amassed a large following (and a bank account to match) of emotionally vulnerable men, many of whom are at least slightly sympathic to Nazis because JP also uses their fucked up vocabulary as part of his. What motives seem most likely given what we know?
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  5337.  @giovalladares1022  even Rationality Rules overly kind critique of JP (focused almost entirely on exposing logical fallacies) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcIPV7s4KSBe8iCczxI0GwLhyOa1O2TN proves that his language (deliberately or not) is incredibly imprecise (pay special not to the frequency of the equivocation fallacy) and that those "mistakes" go down all the way to the core of his ideology.
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  5338. YouTube takes time to process views.
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  5339.  @wmarshal2802  Ant's either a troll or a propaganda shill. He doesn't care about things like facts and logic.
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  5340. Supposedly?
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  5341. The center between a center-right party and a right wing extremist party is FAR RIGHT.
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  5342. Hell, most of Congress under both Obama and Trump has voted to give/sell Saudi Arabia weapons knowing they're giving those weapons to Al-Qaida, the very group which attacked us on 9-11. Most DC politicians from both parties should be on trial for even the very narrow definition of treason laid out in the Constitution.
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  5343.  @Rodriguo322  yeah well, you have a fascist burning the Amazon, so... I say this from a country with another fascist working to accelerate climate change at the help. I'm not pointing any fingers at you. Only stating facts.
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  5344. Most self-described "conservatives" these days are either neo-cons (which is just a more polite way of saying "proto-facists" or worse) or liberals who have been scared away from using the term out of decades of propaganda using it as a smear and the democratic party caving to it rather than doing something like this: https://youtu.be/zTFp7WG9J-E I am a big advocate of going to the dictionary and finding definitions that are consistent across both dictionaries and contexts (and when that fails, going to the historic origins of their use). This gets you the definition of left and right I already mentioned, and: Conservative: 1-Traditionalist/favoring the status-quo 2-Cautious Liberal: 1-Open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of freedom (especially personal) 3-generous and given the rather recent movements' behaviors: Neo-conservative: attempting to return to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed (students of history will read that as "proto-facist at best") Neo-liberal: Neo-conservative under a thin veil of social progressivism While normally, language's meaning is determined by use, politicians must never be allowed to change the definitions of political terms (or any terms really) or, as you mention, they will quickly strip all meaning from the words so the public ends up talking past each other and they end up with all the power. Basic divide and conquer stuff, really...so if there's ever a time to be pedantic, it's about politics.
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  5345. Not as embarrassing as this comment.
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  5346. @Padraigh Desmond I can't speak for Emily, but related reading https://the2020progressive.com/andrew-yang-ubi-not-answer-for-progressives/
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  5347.  @JaneAustenAteMyCat  You're quite welcome! I'm glad my limited knowledge was sufficient to help ☺
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  5348. The origin of the very term "right wing" was to describe royalists opposing democratic government. Just because it has shifted from hierarchy based on inherented titles to economic hierarchy with low social mobility doesn't change what the far right fundamentally is: Supporting entrenched, consolidated, hierarchical power against populism, egalitarianism, and democracy.
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  5349. The 2 discussed in this video are hands-down the best in shonen anime.
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  5350. R1665 yup, part of that is clinical narcissism, so yes, she is actually incapable of critical self reflection.
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  5351. I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be satire...
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  5352. They are going to try to stop him from running as one with rule changes put in place last year though, so the fight has already started.
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  5353. Chan Bros if it's unconstitutional to begin with, yes you can.
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  5354.  @norml.hugh-mann  it was also about the people at the top just wanting to play the odds because even a 0.01% survival rate at great personal cost and suffering of that 0.01% is still a lot of people who can be put to work or war in the aftermath.
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  5355.  @MillerIndustriesInc  yeah, being left of fascism doesn't automatically put you on the left. The OP phrased his comment as a relative statement.
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  5356. Like with everything else, their minds are stuck back in a point in history where malnourished peasants were thin and didn't dare question their "betters" or else It's been centries and they're still having trouble adapting.
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  5357. What "law enforcement"? I only see uniformed gangsters.
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  5358. I didn't think he would as he was getting the best healthcare in the country, but I sure hoped. It would have saved thousands of lives if he had.
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  5359. AwkwardRenegade the logic is that they spy on everyone so they can dig up/manufacture dirt on anyone that tries to stand up against them.
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  5360.  @gengkiskhan2871  how many average breaths a day do you think the 1% breath that aren't at a country club with fresh air or in some car/office/home that doesn't leak and has all the air passed through a high-end filter in their climate control system? Maybe 200?
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  5361. Both
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  5362. This group isn't representative of voters, Democrat or otherwise. Bernie gets only 1/3rd of the voters dispite being the most popular politician in the country with about 2/3rds support, and both of his supporters are men and appear to be the oldest on the pannel dispite Bernie being most popular with young people and women. Then they throw on only women who, statistically, don't represent the views of most women. This is a pannel curated by CNN to push an agenda, not a real reflection of voters. Standard Corporate News Network fare.
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  5363. Everybody: "it's staged" If it is, he still deserves credit for that one. You try to intentionally fall backwards down a flight of stairs for a stunt and see if you can override all the eons of self-preservation instincts telling you "oh fuck no! I'm not going to do a trustfall with a staircase!" *note, this is rhetorical. Don't actually do this. I don't want to be responsibile if some dumbass hurts themselves.
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  5364.  @jetaddicted  shouldn't have disarmed and emptied their tanks then. Fighting Nazis takes a higher priority than orders from a government that, among other things, left Poland twisting in the wind just lining itself in queue to get toppled (thus, at best, failing its own country in the process as well)
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  5365. Welcome to the real face of #Unity It's just NewSpeak for "fall in line peasants"
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  5366.  @setsunanoroi4971  not really familiar with this omegaverse thing, but, tbf, it's also pretty well agreed here that Zeus is usually in the wrong and the cause of so many problems.
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  5367. A "communist state" is an oxymoron.
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  5368. Turns out that making a vehicle capable of amphibious landings in testing and making a military capable of amphibious landings in actual combat situations are entirely different things.
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  5369. @Eric Lawrence Britt, Umberto Eco, "Palingenetic Ultranationalism", and "rebellion against The Enlightenment". By all means, educate me on how it differs from any of the above.
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  5370. Guys, pink is a troll, stop feeding his whiny ass.
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  5371. Putin does have sizable support, but let's be real. If they can stuff ballot boxes, they can alter poll results.
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  5372. xKomachi Onozuka getting entire ballot boxes thrown out in select districts can sway vote percentages widely. The US will suppress individual voting areas to swing elections all the time. Different mechanism, same result. They don't even have to not get caught for it to work. I think you're the one insulting people's intelligence by oversimplifying things into strawmen and engaging in deflection.
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  5373. Carter Blunt you are watching video of people stuffing a ballot box, deflecting about it, and accusing others of propaganda. Really??
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  5374. "No see, I meant rhetorically or at least astroturfed like the tea party; not something able to achieve anything more than get the base out to vote for our controlled opposition candidates like Obama"
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  5375. There are plenty. Every donation to an establishment politician is one.
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  5376. Russia has a LOT of space to hide in and a lot of border to slip over. Not saying you're wrong, but there's enough of a chance to be worth it and worth wishing them luck.
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  5377. It takes work, courage, and word of mouth for campaigns like these to succeed. It's up to us if we want change.
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  5378. It's not even ineptitude. They did this on purpose. It's vulture capitalism consuming one of the largest companies in America. This is capitalism beginning its death throws, and if we don't fix it (ala a rapid shift toward social democracy) or replace it, it will take us all with it to either a dystopian hellscape reminiscent of something out of cyberpunk fiction, or the return of Nazi rule.
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  5379. As long as corporations are still allowed to pay lobbyists and give former politicians cushy "jobs" after they gat out, this doesn't change that much beyond optics.
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  5380. If someone cares more about politeness than about the real suffering of real people, they have no moral compass whatsoever. Civility politics is the smiling face of evil.
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  5381. And let's not forget on top of the laundry list of industries lobbying against it, there are still plenty of politicians out there that seem perfectly happy with the origional goal we learned Nixon started the war on drugs for (namely, destroying liberal and minority communities by arresting community leaders)
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  5382. The answer to the last question is "bigotry"
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  5383. JR if one refuses to listen to experts in a field, that's not a lack of foresight.
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  5384. That would mean that every 2-term President would completely pack the court. Gotta think about the consequences of your policies. Changing it so every presidency gets one appointment sounds like a good idea, but the real problem is simply that they have allowed our government to be completely corrupt for so long that the court has been filled with people who flagrantly disrespect the Constitution. And by "they" I mean the Boomers.
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  5385. Why was the war on drugs started? To lock up voters who would be likely to vote dem, taking away their voting rights, as well as the community leaders of left-leaning groups and minority communities. Who profits from it today? A wide range of companies who would have to compete with it from big-pharma, to alcohol & tobacco, to those making paper from wood pulp, to cotton growers, etc. Also, there's the police and prison industrial complex which profit even more dirrectly (and Faux News which profits very indirrectly by the fact that the Republican Party we know and hate being only able to exist in the form it does by the voter disenfranchisement the war on drugs facilitates). Just to add shit icing to the garage cake, the police departments use the war on drugs to violate protections from unreasonable search and seizure ("I think I smell pot. I'm gonna have to search ___"), excuse their unconstitutional "civil asset forfeiture" (the profits of which they keep and buy all sorts of goodies for themselves with), have an easy thing to plant on people to arrest them for, and justify their militarized equipment (because without the gangs the war on drugs fuels, there's little excuse for it). Welcome to the war on drugs. Leave your freedoms, constitution, and sence of morality at the door.
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  5386. i4nix13 look up the articles of confederation. We tried having taxes be optional, and guess what? No one pays taxes and the whole country falls appart. If you pick up a history book, you'll find that every position put forward by the right has been tried and failed before.
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  5387. Our "debates" are such a fucking joke. It's just a formal, softball Q&A session that's side by side. They're not even technically debates.
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  5388.  @dudeman5303  they can't not be. Remember: their customers are their advertisers. Their profits demand they not report on (to pick just one example) healthcare accurately. The insurance and big pharma companies wouldn't like that. These kinds of conflicts of interest make real journalism basically impossible in corporate media.
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  5389. Scott Humphreys sadly, Ron =/= Rand. Rand pretends to be like his father, but his voting record shows him to be a hollow shadow at best. He doesn't deserve any more respect than a corporate dem, as the good things he does are just a smokescreen to him. I disagree with Ron vigorously, but I still wish Rand was like him.
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  5390. And they're correct. Bernie is a left-leaning moderate.
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  5391.  @kap1618  yup, grab any part of your boots, pull as hard as you can, and see if you're closer or further to standing on your 2 feet
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  5392. Jonathan Conklin it's not sudden at all. They've been doing it constantly since about the 1950s. Obama of all people was called a communist. It's just their go to slander term when they want something more punchy than saying "liberal" like it's a bad thing.
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  5393.  @justdontbeadick4096  cryptocurrencies do the opposite of empower 3rd world countries. Even global currencies (as close as we've gotten to them) tend to be bad for poorer and weaker countries whether we're talking about the gold standard, the dollar being a global reserve currency, or even regionally with how the Euro has worked out for countries like Greece. Especially 3rd world nations need soverign control over their currecy to spend it into existance to pay those who work outside the market economy to do things like build infrastructure and create exchange value for said currency by creating demand via taxes. Crypto is terrible for both. Please look up David Graber's Debt the First 5000 Years to start to unlearn some of the myths you were taught in econ class.
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  5394.  @MrKhushrenada  _you say unironically after being humiliated with a thorough fact check in this comment thread by the very person you're implying doesn't back up what he says with facts? This is your reality check. You're going out and shit-stirring on Jimmy's behalf, unquestioningly taking his information while automatically discounting anything that disagrees with the narrative you've been told to believe while you hate who you've been told to hate and provoke conflict that isolates you from everyone inside the group (and starts to border on self-harm) Behavior control Information control Thought control Emotion control B.I.T.E. I'm not being hyperbolic when I'm saying this behavior is becoming cult-like. I'm being completely serious. Jimmy's fanbase is shifting from normal parasocial behavior towards a decentralized cult of personality.
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  5395. Lmao 😆 yeah, like that'll ever happen. They do not care about free speech. Appealing to the liberal over of free speech is only a convenient political tool to them which will be dropped any time it is not convenient.
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  5396.  @Theomite  also decreased ability to make and understand jokes. Also decreased ability to engage in collaborative/non-competitive activities (see the pair of playthroughs of the Global Change Game they ran separating players between high and low RWA-score groups). Also increased gullibility (see the study on "Pseudoprofound BS"). It very much seems to be a developmental disorder that is contagious through the generations (much as there exists "the cycle of abuse"). The medical community is just unwilling to call a spade a spade here.
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  5397. Because the right has always been about opposing Democracy and creating heirarchies to preserve or replace feudalism/monarchy. All right wing thought traces back to the people who hated this idea of democratic government in the first place.
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  5398. anael55 I want companies like Amazon (in terms of being internet stores) to exist, but regurally breaking them up seems to be a necessity.
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  5399. Just look at the pariot act (to say nothing about the corporations and banks they warned about) and it becomes clear that they wouldn't just hate those in power now: they would shoot them. We are talking about revolutionaries for whom getting into duels wasn't unheard of.
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  5400. I'm an independent because if the DNC thinks they can rig their primary (in part) by systematically disenfranchising my demographic and still count on my support, they can shove their agism right up their asses.
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  5401. If you hadn't said it, I would have. Typical fiscal "conservative"
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  5402. Not only more secular countries, but less religious states have lower rates of things like violent crime, teen pregnancy, abortions, and divorces. The last 2 aren't even things most athiests or moderate theists believe are immoral and still we do better on those metrics.
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  5403. The Sparkle Zone if you don't think that a relatively neurotypical person in a bad state in their life could be wrapped up in the incel worldview or think that everyone that adopts it in part because of a mental problem was doomed to think that way because of said mental problem reguardless of whether they got into the toxic community, then you don't know as much about psychology as you think.
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  5404.  @shakenbacon3655  he's anti vax and got ripped appart recently for lying to push that agenda. Deal with it.
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  5405. Nancy Mesek yeah, dude, get some consistency. Your double speek is about to reach critical mass.
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  5406.  @highneedforcognition9660  good point, actually...things would be so much easier if capitalist economies weren't so damn fragile and we didn't have so many critical industries concentrated in few hands in such an economy.
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  5407. 1-Engaged in anti-compeditive collusion 2-Bribed politicians to destroy internet privacy 3-Subverted democracy to eliminate net neutrality and gain undue control over the flow of information vital to our age Three strikes, you're out. You cannot be trusted with an infrastructure vital to the 21st century.
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  5408. VA does more than just cover healthcare costs. Would a lot of their expenses be taken away with a medicare for all system? Of course, but then we need to provide MORE support for our vets, so freeing them up to relocate those funds to other support programs would be great.
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  5409.  @adiaarau4463  the man who kept his word to endorse the nominee. Please take a moment to really look at what you're complaining about. I know watching Faux News trains you to follow your anger to shut off your brain, but you can do better than that.
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  5410. ​ @ad8447 most porn currently being bad doesn't mean banning it is a good idea
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  5411.  @masterofrockets  you mean like how he's defended his supporting of white nationalists by saying that they are less objectionable to him because they wouldn't harm him personally?
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  5412. Even if we pulled out of SK, NK would have to be idiotic to give up their nukes after the US recent record with not attacking nations who disarmed. They might give up further balistic missile testing, though, which would be good at blunting the warmongers' rhetoric over here.
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  5413. Moh Moony if I was president, as soon as I could I'd put the names of all top intelligence officers on a deadmans switch with orders to take each of them out if I died in any way mysteriously. The amount of power they have is insane.
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  5414. Jay G willful ignorance and dismissal of all evidence of things that challenge your worldview (such as the success of Nordic countries) to continue putting everything into black and white categories and you go calling others morons? Really?
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  5415.  @antoinetteherrera9026  r/ woosh
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  5416. How to argue against felon disenfranchisement: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman This is important not only for the reasons mentioned, but because it shows that you cannot ever trust politicians with the power to tell any adult citizen "you cannot vote" because they are willing to throw huge numbers of people behind bars to secure a political advantage. The right to vote must be inalienable no matter what they have done, not out of sympathy for the prisoner, but because you cannot ever hand politicians the power to undermine the democratic process of voters choosing their representatives by the politicians choosing their voters. All forms of disenfranchisement must be ultimately rendered unconstitutional if we are to safeguard our democracy because you cannot trust politicians with that power or they will do shit like create the disasterous war on drugs as a facade to arest their political opponents.
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  5417.  @teamthoth  what about private insurance denying your treatment outright? Wtf kind of hack argument is that?
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  5418. Yup, if 60% of the county wants medicare for all, and you oppose it, you're not centrist.
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  5419.  @codeecomah5920  you're going to criticize me for a typo? That's the most helarious thing you've said yet. Hit me with another! 😆
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  5420. More money for the politicians to protect companies who are already big and powerful.
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  5421. This is good, but <1% of what needs done.
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  5422.  @NameofaYouTubeChannel  you act like a system designed to have loopholes in it is the only way to do a progressive tax system, and that you couldn't structure the taxes you mention progressively.
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  5423. Ha!
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  5424. No, we're interwar Germany. It will get far far worse if the slide to the right continues
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  5425.  @darkdragonsoul99  that too
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  5426. Kids shoot up schools all the time...
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  5427. A better reason to exist than most of the people on the stage
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  5428. Welcome to the remaining Cold War propaganda poisoning this country where people equate everything left of anarchocapitalism with totalitarianism because of fear of the USSR (which no longer exists).
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  5429. They should be reexamined now. Euthanasia especially, at least of the assisted suicide variety. Keeping someone around dispite terminal illness that makes them suffer so much they want to die is just selfishness, pure and simple. Suicide is a slightly more grey area only because we're so terrible with how we leave people suffering emotionally without help or hope for improvement so often, on many occasions not even noticing there's anything wrong until a suicide attempt is made.
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  5430.  @donHooligan  please look up Debt: the First 500 Years (hell, even watch the youtube video of a lecture on it) I don't agree with all of MMT, but the basic idea of the government spending money into existence and then controlling inflation with taxes is correct (and even applied to when money was coins made out of precious metals). And to be clear, by "correct" I mean "an accurate depiction of reality" not just "what we should do".
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  5431.  @donHooligan  I am pointing you to economic theory from an anarchosocialist...you really need to work on being less closed minded because you're so busy attacking the right that you can't even tell who your allies are. Hell, the author is likely closer to your economic positions than my more social democratic ones (even dispite my leaning more socialist than most social democrats)
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  5432. The racism of our past including, but not limited to, white flight scars the urban planning of every city in this country. This has long been acknowledged. It's nothing new. You were just insulated from that knowledge. Maybe ask who did that and why?
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  5433. She's a narcissist who feels like it's way past her turn. She's going to run again as long as she can get the money to do so. Just accept that as by far the most likely thing to happen and plan for it.
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  5434. David Carlyon the ACLU would defend the civil liberties of someone trying to destroy them. Much like a doctor's hypocratic oath, who it is doesn't matter to them one bit, so this shouldn't supprise anyone.
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  5435. ​ @ThePhenom777 yes. FOR Trump. Look up Interstate Crosscheck.
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  5436. The left: "if you want to support politicians who try to strip me of my human rights, we can't be friends" The right: "son, if you don't conform to my expectations for your gender/religion/sexuality, prehaps some time as a homeless teen will teach you to be who I tell you to be"
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  5437. ​ @EmilyCheetham fascists happened.
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  5438.  @32tray  you don't really get thiis whole "democracy" thing if you need me to explain the difference there, but as I no longer believe you're actually arguing in good faith, this conversation is over
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  5439.  @justinlegrande1630  they should have, yes, but he still turned that situation into a positive, as I explained. Why you want to ignore the facts and logic I laid out to push an argument that boils down to "they did something they shouldn't have, therefor we should think less of Bernie"? Care to explain why that is?
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  5440.  @woobiefuntime  _as well. Also positioning. Also MIC profits. Also deflecting from Saudi Arabia.
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  5441.  @brianjacobsen5762  Malcolm X AND MLK...for those who might want to dismiss Malcolm X due to the propaganda they've been brought up with.
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  5442. What do you mean future? They already played that one on black people (which doubled to basically call all black people homophobic)
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  5443. More concerned about the IMF and world bank, tbh. Remove those and the international corporatocracy, and NATO becomes a relatively benign mutual defense treaty (alibet one in violation of the treaties about approaching Russia)
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  5444. The right Always Projects I know that sounds hyperbolic, but that's really what it comes down to.
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  5445.  @gigsrouiy8080  gold and silver coins had value for the same reason that all real currency does: because the government demands it in taxes, creating universal demand. Remove bank created money and the system is very simple: currency is tokens created to be given to those who make your civilization possible by working in the publuc sector and have value because of taxes which amount to the confirmation that you have paid you debts (dirrectly or indirrectly) to those who work outside of normal markets to make your way of life possible. Please see Debt: the First 5000 Years for more.
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  5446. Nun Ya fuck off Nazi
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  5447.  @AlexPotvin  not saying you're wrong, but it's the first I've heard of it, so I'd be cautious about taking those anecdotes too seriously. Keep in mind also, though, that you can buy a single burner countertop option (looking like a warming plate) if you just want to dip your toes in, or alternatively, keep a portable butane/propane stove as a backup so you can still cook with that until you get your main appliance fixed, since unlike the common failures of gas stoves you probably won't be able to fix the break by just manually lighting it.
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  5448. Fucking death cult.
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  5449. Benny-boy is better, actually, because he has the emotional maturity of a child.
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  5450. The biggest example of "the wealthy oppressing the poor" WAS slavery, or do they not count?
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  5451. Either you'd actually quickly get sick of that when actually faced with it (either through boredom or wanting more money), or you're a liability to your employer with your coworkers quietly picking up your slack. I assume it's the former.
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  5452. C Robinson the difference with my idea, is that countries could institute such a plan without agreement from other nations. We can't even get significant agreement on climate change, so counting on an international agreement approach just isn't realistic. You need plans that nations can do independently that don't start a downward spiral like a trade war.
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  5453. Cygnus X-321 that's what the current system does. Conditional tariffs would protect domestic workers from foreign capitalists and domestic capitalists from pitting workers of foreign nations against domestic ones. At the same time, it would improve the bargaining position of foreign workers as it doesn't profit the owners any to keep their wages low, conditions unsafe, or externalize environmental costs to their communities if they have to give up all those "savings" in tariffs. PS: while Marx is dead on with nearly every criticism of capitalism, please don't put too much stock in his proposed solutions, because they're just as flawed, and really, him still thinking in the worker vs owner mindset of the capitalist is part of the source of that problem in the first place. We don't need Marx. We need a new paradigm shift. Until then, well-managed mixed economies are hands-down the best systems we have.
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  5454. Jacob Robert that is one of the very few times I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition comment. Well done.
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  5455. dsadik666 and them elevating Trump in the first place because they "couldn't possibly loose to him even when running a candidate as hated as Hillary"
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  5456.  Richard Peck  that's a really fancy way to say "troll"
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  5457.  @gypsylips1950  plenty of people with degrees have no competence in their chosen field, so I'm just going to ignore that blatant and narcissistic appeal to authority right along with that pathetic ad-hominem. It's only "tricky and tough to navigate" when your religion demands things the constitution explicitly forbids, like forcing your religious rules on others. There are values we humans have in common. Ones evolved into us and ones developed by almost every society because complex civilizations run into problems without them are the normal ones. We call these secular and/or humanist values. Personal values are generally acceptable too, but as soon as the only realistic source for the value is religious, then you are running right into the constitution, which is not only very broad and explicit (and painstakingly stripped of any mention of God or religion other than the first ammendment in contrast to language of the day, including the declaration of independence written by many of the same men), but further clarified by commentary by the authors and treaties. You (and many like you) just want to make it complicated because you don't like the simple answer...but that's been being done in the name of religion before Christianity existed so nothing new there.
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  5458.  @Giantsfanlewis  Troll harder (& get this account banned too)
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  5459. Specifically building 7 here, btw https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w
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  5460. +
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  5461. The money from big pharma's opioid epidemic profits works wonders on that kind of pain.
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  5462.  @saintsfearful  I was referring to the deepstate itself being bipartisan. Misinterpreted the ambiguity in your previous comment.
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  5463.  @saintsfearful  np, neither of us noticed the ambiguity in the comment initially. A common misunderstanding.
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  5464. If you understand how a good-cop/bad-cop routine works, you understand how the "two" party system in the US works.
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  5465. I'm kinda of the position that the backlash proves it wasn't actually disproportionate, dispite first appearances. If we have this many manchildren we have a lot of work to do.
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  5466. "Consumers couldn't afford the change" isn't actually a real argument. Tax the fuck out of those who have benefited most from destroying the environment and use their assets to fund the change. We're past the point where we have the time to dick around with market-only solutions. We need to take control of our national economy and industry like we did when we mobilized for WW2 because this is an existential threat to our civilization. Is it gonna suck a bit for some? Yeah probably, but we gave up the right to an easy transition when the science came in and we sat on our hands for decades and now we don't have any fucking time left. An economy is just a man-made system, not a law of nature. We can change how it works any time we want.
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  5467. This isn't something to be praised. It's what we should expect especially from anyone who's focus is banking.
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  5468. Related concern: if heating is enough of a problem, there are going to be a lot of burst pipes, which while not an issue that's impossible to deal with is going to be an issue. Even if it takes rationing and everybody lowering their thermostats uncomfortably low, it's really important that we maintain a baseline level of heating in Ukraine.
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  5469. If we're talking about the "rights of potential people" then we're talking about a legal standard where the state could mandate women be pregnant as early and often as biologically possible, which of course would be insanity right out of the handmaid's tale.
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  5470.  @tigernotwoods914  I'm expanding on your point, not disagreeing with it.
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  5471.  @tigernotwoods914  yup, no biggie. It happens.
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  5472. That's the idea. They want the "rights" of governments to supercede those of people because they are authoritarians.
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  5473.  @davidescobar3368  the thing one needs to wrap their brain around to understand this insanity is that, be it the traditional theocratic variety or the kind that arose lase century that is currently calling itself (among countless other names) the alt-right, reactionary politics rejects enlightenment values. Among values like liberty and egalitarianism, they also reject rationality. No matter how much some of them may appropriate the aesthetics of it, fundamentally, they do not care about truth and reason (or facts and logic). They only care about whatever helps build a power hierarchy that puts their in group at the top. I understand hearing that is one thing but actually wrapping your head around an entire idology with actual power that just doesn't give a fuck if what anything coming out of their mouth is true or not, so I'm going to link a few videos (starting with what I expect will be the most accessable to you and in increasing order of length) Innuendo Studios: The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4 Philosophy Tube: Steve Bannon (probably the best of the 3) https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo Vaush: Politics 101 https://youtu.be/95CKWmV19bo If you want to understand reactionary politics, and even if you're pretty decided on social democracy, it pays to listen to some real, post-capitalist, non-authoritarian socialists on it. The well known poem starting "first they came for the socialists" is no coincidence and socialists know it, so they pay extra attention to the reactionary right because if they don't, they know their deaths will be the canary in the coalmine warning to the general population of the arrival of full-out fascism.
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  5474.  @asdf1991asdf  speaking of reactionaries here's one now
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  5475. It's almost like the weed was the excuse and the other mentioned characteristic (them being young) was what was the motivating factor?
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  5476. Erik Brock wouldn't change the revenue/view. That's not how it works (though may have some effect on page ranking and searches)
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  5477.  @uncannyvalley2350  I'd argue you have your causal relationship backwards. Revolutions more likely to succeed are more likely to see the powers that be abdicate peacefully.
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  5478. Do any of the popular right-wing thought leaders mentioned in the video have consistency? No? Are people on the left like Kyle Kulinski consistent on free speech? Yes. Are you, yourself, pushing an inconsistent double standard? Yes.
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  5479. Trump loves our troops like he loves a cheeseburger: as something to be consumed and then forgotten about as he reaches for another.
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  5480.  @russhartman4927  "demonic intent" yeah ok sure. I don't like Obama either, but how about you leave the big problems to sane adults and get some help with your childish delusions.
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  5481.  @russhartman4927  Obama a Marxist? Thank you for proving you don't understand a single thing about economics for me. Have a nice day and thank you for the laugh
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  5482. Respect them. Remember who's in the wrong here. Remember that their deaths were a crime.
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  5483. People tend to act like rude jackasses when presented with truths they don't want to hear. Since it takes a lot of avoiding reality to support Trump...well, you do the math.
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  5484. This one? https://youtu.be/I39nP8VXZbA
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  5485.  Don P  unlike Pete though, they work hard and benefit their community.
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  5486. This is 100% what she is doing.
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  5487. While I agree with what you're saying, this isn't just a left issue. There are a LOT of neolibs that would rather lose to MAGA than cede any ground to us. Trying to ally with them is impossible and a waste of time.
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  5488.  @nicothenu8903  they're not even anti-abortion. If they were, they'd be the biggest advocates of contraception and comprehensive sex ed in the world, because that's the most effective way to lower abortions. If I may borrow from George Carlin "they're not pro-life, they're anti-woman"
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  5489. Idk, why would an oligarchy pretending to be a democratic country replace tried and true election systems with outsourcing the issue to corporations who produce less secure and unverifiable results? Apologies for the sarcasm, but you already know the answer.
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  5490. @CosmicDamian the fact that this is being driven specifically by divestment dispite solid returns is absolutely key here. The fact that people are investing in renewables dispite the lower returns is meaning that the market will behave differently than is typical and effectively work as a form of subsidy of renewables. In game theory terms this is a bunch of people in a prisoner's dilemma switching from defecting to cooperating in mass, which is starting to upset the entire balance of power in the energy market (and could threaten the cost/benefit calculation of fossile fuel investment if it goes much further). Keep in mind also, that as more renewables get produced, more of the costs of producing them will be based on the prices for renewables, so we just need to push things past a tipping point to flip the system (after which, fossile fuels will become an increasingly niche market for where renewable sources aren't yet practical).
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  5491. Yeah, but she's probably a compulsive liar so...
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  5492. Starteller which is kinda showing that the original apology was a lie too, and showing that taking so long to get legalization was, in part, the dems dragging their feet.
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  5493.  @desmondbrown5508  also, the cops and (other?) white nationalists keep getting caught infiltrating the protests. The first guy who broke windows was a cop.
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  5494. Jimmy De'Souza being a cop isn't actually that dangerous a job. Go look at the most dangerous jobs statistics and it's quite a ways down.
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  5495. "Work through your daddy issues on your own time" ha!
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  5496. I have this "little" thing about not voting for war criminals, election-riggers, and people bigoted against me. Biden is already 2 out of 3 instant disqualifications. Even before we get into policy, he's a hard no.
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  5497. Smokus Pocus um, no. He's saying "typical" left-wingers, not excluding and group as not real left wingers, and the statistics back him up that those radicals are not representative of the larger group. So yeah, not a fallacy. Try again.
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  5498. Just was listening to the audio book earlier today. I'd also like to recommend this 20 min video for perspective on Venezuela, specifically: https://youtu.be/le86H7Xfjrc
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  5499. The polarization is rather extreme. If I were to point to anything that showed the polarization in our politics it would be this poll.
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  5500. Not his friendship with Epstein. That all was VERY biblical.
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  5501. Remove corn subsidies End food deserts via subsidie programs including expanding and altering SNAP
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  5502. There is no Hell. If we want him to see justice, we need to make sure he sees it here on Earth.
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  5503.  @OfficialSeth  well, see, you're white but not a white nationalist so of course you haven't!
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  5504.  @aishabintabubakr4944  I appriciate your commitment to proving what I say about you correct.
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  5505. Forget about faith in humanity. Just be stubborn enough to prefer to go down fighting.
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  5506.  @yeetskeet7234  Sanders is an independent and the most popular politician in the country (especially with independents) He's the only one who has any chance of winning as an independent, and has way more experience and name recognition than Gabbard. Bernie/Gabbard 2020 Gabbard/? 2028
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  5507. Dems are provoking Trump on the wall so they can push him further right in an attempt to make him so extreme that even their right wing corporate shills will look good enough to elect next to him. Same thing they were doing when it was revealed that they were pushing for Trump to win the primary behind the scenes to get a candidate more unpopular than Hillary to run against her in the general election. They're tripling down on the same strategy that gave us Trump in the first place with no reguard for the costs.
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  5508. Conservatism is an appeal to tradition...the political ideology is built on the logical fallacy of "this is the way we've been doing it, so it's good"
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  5509. If they had any clue what political terms meant, they would understand that "leftist establishment" is a fucking oxymoron. Protecting entrenched political power against the popular will is the most fundamental part of right-wing politics, all the way back to when they were royalists opposing representative government in the first place.
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  5510. Even just basic common sense says it's used to remove iron and manganese Blood needs iron Bones need manganese But our government says "not great, not terrible"
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  5511.  @freetrailer4poor  the guy who was against private banking and standing armies? Sorry, he didn't share your views.
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  5512.  @golternator333  of course there's a glass ceiling as a specialist. As a specialist, you can make no more than the value your work produces. The highest "earners" all "make" more than the value their work produces. That ceiling is nothing to be ashamed of, though, at least when you're below it.
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  5513. ​ @quietackshon yeah, there may be breakthrough like those you mention that bring us over the 33%, but I don't expect it to get much higher than that. People tend not to realize how much inefficiency is inescapable in many technologies. Diminishing returns on efficiency as technology develops set in sooner than most people realize. I think most people, for example, would way overestimate how efficient ICE engines are. 100% efficiencies are functionally unheard of baring a couple rare exceptions.
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  5514. He's not wrong, but at the same time, that being his immediate response is pretty telling, and unnerving.
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  5515.  @rogerdavis149  youth turnout is low, yes. If you have an actual argument, make it.
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  5516. Yup, almost like bigotry against the young is so acceptable that they don't even notice it.
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  5517. If you mean posting porn of someone as an act of revenge I agree, though that's one of those things where the burden of proof would be hard to prove, so I would focus on destigmatizing having porn of a person online in the first place. (Though that doesn't solve all the issues of revenge porn of course)
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  5518. Koala to top it off, I'd bet that a huge portion of that 45k is people wanting to get entirely elective procedures without the wait time by cutting in line in countries like the US where their money lets them bypass the waiting list. Another huge portion are people just getting cheap plastic surgery in some country where a dollar buys a lot.
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  5519. Using these kinds of methods was explicitly the plan before Russia even invaded and had a lot of prep-work put into it in a bunch of ways.
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  5520. ​ @idontwantahandlethough one genocide vs multiple genocides is a hell of a thing to have to vote on, though.
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  5521. Ur Mom well known=/=relevant
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  5522.  @kevin6293  ant man is a known troll. Just ignore. He's just going to ignore anything he can't twist into more trolling.
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  5523. Don't forget the theocracy
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  5524.  @ortegazs  Sandars/Gabbard 2020 Gabbard/? 2028
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  5525.  @ortegazs  age puts a restriction on the order we can viably put them in, and Bernie is the most viable for 2020 anyway. Get him in while he's still alive for it with a good successor as VP to compliment him and up their chances in later elections. If we do Gabbard/Sanders 2020, realistically, we don't get a Sanders 2028
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  5526. Sounds like they stayed outside the space for the private event in the areas communal to students where they had every right to be, so no.
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  5527.  @tinytoychihuahua7306  very good article showing why getting your politics from soundbites is a bad idea.
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  5528. And we have historically low taxes and historically high military spending, wealth inequality, and corporate profits. We can afford basically whatever we want at this point if we're willing to adjust our priorities.
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  5529. Honestly, almost anyone BUT Hillary would have won in 2016.
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  5530. We live in an oligarchy, so yes, it is hard to try and turn this back into a democratic country without a violent revolution.
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  5531.  @tadferd4340  😆 I may have to steal that one!
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  5532.  @oisnowy5368  technically, a flagship could be a submarine, though.
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  5533. It's always been a war on progressives. That's why once they're out of the race, the election is treated like a gentleman's game by the establishment.
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  5534.  @woodstream6137  yup, the entire system is built on lies as much as feudalism. Whatever they think they can say to excuse consolidating as much power in as few hands as possible. Replace the divine right of kings with the invisible hand of the free market and keep the game in the corridors of power going.
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  5535. Possible he was one of the increasingly rare people who supported Trump out of ignorance and was shocked by what he helped cause. Possible he was one of the officers who had to kill someone in action and couldn't handle the weight of taking a human life. Possible (if a stretch) he suffered some brain damage or injury he didn't want to live with. Possible he was already kinda on the edge and this pushed him over. Too little information to say anything about it, really.
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  5536. And then there's the bit about golf courses, where he literally (among calling it classist) advocated we stop calling homelessness homelessness, and call it "houselessness" instead, and then seize the golf courses to build low cost housing for the homeless in nice neighborhoods instead of letting the oligarchs who play on them use them as places to conspire to screw the rest of us over.
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  5537. Hardly a control group. It was an unrepresentative group picked to say what they wanted to say.
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  5538.  michael nola  I have to nitpick a moment. Dem voters are not particularly susceptible to platitudes and vitrue signaling. GOP voters are even worse. It's just different platitudes delivered and vitrues signaled.
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  5539. You feel revulsion because no establishment politicians here are actually liberal. They're right-wing extremists dressing up their filth in slightly less right wing rhetoric and pretending that makes them liberal.
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  5540. Right wingers always interpret the constitution as they see fit. (And the futher right they are the more leyway they take) this makes sense when you understand that right wing politics traces its roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. For more on conservatism, specifically, see: https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
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  5541. It's not even close to far left. The far left position is "end wage slavery! Seize the means of production. Companies should be democratically run by their workers not a dictator appointed by shareholders who take all the profits while producing no value."
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  5542.  @julieannmyers8714  nailed it! Even possibly without dirrect cooperation they all can get on the same page too just by trial and error.
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  5543. As much as Jesus himself may have preached otherwise, most of the religions dedicated to him teach that people deserve what they get and build a moral code on obedience and guilt rather than compassion and love. Just look at the mark of ash on his forehead. Matthew 6:5 & 6:6 has Jesus saying some pretty harsh things about flaunting your faith in public, but still many do it and think they're honoring a man who said not to because traditions and their church tells them so. Sorry to say, but this isn't at all abnormal for Catholics or many other Christians (though thankfully not universal).
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  5544.  @LiftedBuddha  repeatedly
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  5545. They say blood is thicker than water, but that's not really saying much now is it?
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  5546. It's a pretty big achievement to have them totally flatfooted and without anything to say. They are professional spin artists afterall. Gotta give the man credit for not one of them having a single word to say for so long.
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  5547. They will never calm down. If we want them to sit down an be quiet, there need to be legal consequences for their actions.
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  5548. It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't put one of them right on the edge of the bottom so it dug into our fingers when we went to use the darn thing.
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  5549. How is this not obvious to everyone here? Even Trump is smart enough to know that Bernie is a threat.
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  5550. Reminder: the corporate media gets a lot of advertising revenue from health insurance companies. It's not just a internal culture bias but in their financial best interest to misrepresent reality.
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  5551. Idk, there's a lot of competition for that title, including military contractors...
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  5552. Considering the political state and how bad the next one is likely to be, they very well could be punnished because it's not unlikely to trigger violent revolution. I know that probably sounds crazy, but consider that we're in the boom part of the cycle and we have a LOT of angry people and that the next bust may well eclipse even the great depression.
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  5553. That feels like damning with faint praise, but yeah, sexism isn't one of Cenk's flaws.
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  5554. Citation or at least elaboration on what infections they would make worse please?
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  5555. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012
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  5556. What is the other demographic obsessed with trying to present themselfs as men? Boys These are people who never grew up.
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  5557.  @sphereious1  Tulsi's spending the last of her political capital before she leaves office to attack trans people. A fighter for what, exactly and are you really so sure about that?
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  5558.  @Beast-bf4cl  a-the term is "transwomen". Everyone can tell you're a transphobe with that language. b-the organizations managing sports were doing a fairly gopd job determining how to handle any advantages a transwoman might have vs how they loose advantages during medical transition without the fucking federal government getting involved. c-with such a highly debatable amount of good for the harm it would do, putting the last of her political capital into that is really telling of her political priorities. But hey, I'm sure the fascist subset of her fan/simp base appriciated the move and that will be useful for her down the road when she wants to capitalize on their support.
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  5559. There is no god. All we have is each other.
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  5560.  @dipojones  that line of reasoning has been debunked countless times. If you can't see that it's on you and you have no business insulting anyone's intelligence.
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  5561. Hopefully we can win a lot of primaries. The GOP aren't the only ones shooting for their seats.
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  5562. ​ @CptApplestrudl yup and yup
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  5563. Kyle doesn't even read much less police his comments you lying shit
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  5564.  @jon9428  yes, I would prefer corrupt politicians acting against the will of the people to be in the hands of evil people than to have said politicians committing crimes against humanity in my name. The right would prefer to see established power protected than to worry about atrocities committed against those with little power in their name. As someone on the left, I absolutely agree with that distinction you drew.
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  5565.  @jds614  pink's a well-known troll, btw. Nothing you can say to him matters. Logic and facts are irrelevant no matter the subject.
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  5566. Even if that were true. The starting point of "fuck Zuckerberg. He's an untrustworthy douchebag who already has both too much power and displayed an unquenchable desire for more, so he needs to be blocked from this move to limit his power." is basically just a self-evident fact needing no further support to any informed person.
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  5567.  @endeavourist5287  well of course. To a real conservative, the goal is simply the maintenance of neofeudalism. The culture war points are merely diversions to divide and conquer. To the fascist, however.....
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  5568.  X-Files A  were we talking about religion here? No? Then you're being rude as fuck.
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  5569. What's baffling? It all seems pretty straightforward to me.
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  5570. Zachary CHERIF do you not understand the concept of a calculated risk or do you disagree with the assessment of wikileak's intentions presented in the video? I respect that you're angry, but your position is unclear.
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  5571. There's plenty in the law that is motion in the right dirrection that will need to be made before or after we fix the voting machine issue. Sure they're only including most of it because they know it won't pass, but since it's all stuff we need to do anyway, why complain about it?
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  5572. There is a term for that: oligharchy
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  5573. Ali rights being a social convention =/= no one should complain when we decide to remove them. That's an overly simplistic way of looking at things and actually makes you vulnerable to creeping authoritarianism because if you don't know exactly WHY we've decided to codify such rights in a constitution, they can be easily eroded into an "in name only" situation without you noticing.
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  5574. Just another far right propagandist appropriating ideas. Nothing new there.
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  5575. @Aisha bint Abu Bakr  "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) But sure, you're "not a racist" and "don't need help" Dude, everyone here knows why your last account got banned and why you can't keep one for over a year. Just drop the mask and admit what you are at least. This cowardice is pathetic!
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  5576.  @Hyarmendilcar  rounding even numbers out of 42 cannot get you 3%, 4%, 6%, and 7% reguardles if you do it up or down. Either the sample size is inaccurate or the numbers are weighted by demographics.
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  5577.  @SabrecatFromSpace  bad analogies. We're talking about something that would take a massive amount of people, time, and resources to accomplish, not something people will be able to just decide to do on their own as a hobby.
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  5578.  @Del_S  dude, the USSR fell decades ago, and no, correctly identifying the ideology at play is not "overanalyzing". It's baseline level stuff.
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  5579. Miles Jackson even her own staff said that she was only running because she felt like it was "her turn"
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  5580. There is no legitimate politics right of center. All of it traces its roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place.
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  5581. Remember Charletsville?
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  5582.  @1MarkKeller  so the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"
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  5583.  @erichoberg3502  bingo, you win the prize.
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  5584. Ed Wuncler III dude, you already let the Nazi out of the bag, shut up already. We know what you're about.
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  5585.  @Rowsy91  why not. Free speech is not just for citizens. "Congress shall make no law" protects the rights of everyone.
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  5586.  @Rowsy91  first off, why choose a dictatorship that has overt contempt for the idea of free speech rather than a developed country that at least claims to care about human rights?
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  5587. AND prison for any officers involved.
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  5588.  @cadenrolland5250  you just failed at reading comprehension.
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  5589.  @J0SHUAKANE  notice that the closest you had to a counterargument was performative laughing at the least consequential part of my comment and contrast that with the evidence I pointed to in said comment. Is this some kind of public autohumiliation kink or are you just that desperate to cover for fascists?
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  5590.  @o76923  that's an interesting point.
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  5591.  @timoathetr  the Nazis made it one. They like to steal shit and dogwhistles and plausible deniability.
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  5592. Jordan A'BernieBro wouldn't call them "libreals" though
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  5593. Yeah, I'm just a strong advocate of calling a spade a spade and not letting politicians change the definitions of words (because they have proven they will take a mile if you give them an inch on that subject). There's so much arguing that goes on that boils down to people throwing terms they're misusing at each other as insults that I've decided that it's actually worth being pedantic and very precise with language for political terms and to encourage others to do the same. It's also really valuable to put into context just how much they've changed and how far to the right political discussion has moved. Tl;dr: I believe the real definition of these words carry useful information, and as information is power, I want the public armed with the real thing.
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  5594. One problem though. Biden didn't fall for them. He was knowingly on the side of the liars. Frankly, anyone who was involved in politics who supported the war was either a liar or colossally stupid (and I include the entire media in that).
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  5595. Ed Wuncler Thank you for proving everyone's point by demonstrating that you don't understand that children cannot give consent. We're done here.
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  5596. Also wasting valuable physician time to need a 10 page letter.
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  5597. You're rather optimistic there...hope you're right, but....
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  5598. Mateoski don't do it. It only makes them stronger. See Rome
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  5599.  @danellymani205  what about when she withheld evidence that would have proven a defendant's innocence or when she kept people in jail longer specifically to exploit them for their labor?
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  5600.  @jayqpublic6209  not real sure what that first bit was about or if you understood I was agreeing with you.
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  5601.  @jayqpublic6209  np, text doesn't carry tone well
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  5602. Here's a list of 32 rights given to married couples, with only 3 of them involving children (which homosexual couples still have have, through adoption or other means). To pick just one, imaging living with and loving someone for 30 years, being married in all but name. Then your loved one gets sick, and your hospital visitation rights are greatly limited because you're "not family", but their parents (who may hate them for being gay), have full visitation rights, and will be differed to before you if someone needs to make a medical or funeral decision while your loved one cannot. That kind of shit happens (or at least did while the unconstitutional bans were still in place), so yes, people care about this stuff. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/marriage-rights-benefits-30190.html
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  5603. There was no mistake by those in power. They knew what they were doing.
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  5604.  @vinnieg6161  I'm sorry, was that supposed to be a coherent point?
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  5605.  @BodyMusicification  please tell me this comment was just for the pun
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  5606. You should look up their fish sause, because it was almost as prevalent as soy sause in Asian cooking. Personally, I think I'll pass.
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  5607. It's something a lot of cryptofascists call themselves.
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  5608. Alien the amount of minerals you get from water is entirely negligible compared to your diet...especially sodium, which, as mentioned, we're already eating too much of anyway. Distilled water may taste a bit strange, as pure water has no flavor at all, but it's completely harmless.
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  5609. Heirarchy and consolidation of power are the 2 core tenants of right wing ideologies.
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  5610. *complicit appeasers
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  5611. See, that's the covert form of Newspeak we live with. They don't limit thought by removing words from the dictionary, but by removing meaning from words. doubleplusungood
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  5612. "Nancy Pelosi needs to just admit she's a Republican." Fixed it for you
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  5613. Wow my ears are ringing from all those anti-semetic dogwhistles.
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  5614. 3:15 you're right one group are trying to make a better life for their family, and the other enslaves them in violation of the law. No comparison at all.
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  5615. She's playing both games; stealing votes from Bernie and setting herself up for VP under Biden or as the compromise candidate for the super delegates. If it ever looks like Warren is only playing one side of the fence, you're missing something 🐍 is doing.
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  5616. Volunteer too!
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  5617.  @Gmex_ONE  cognitive dissonance is easy. Humans do it all the time as a mental shortcut. Thinking about things at more than a superficial level and working to correct one's own cognitive dissonance is what takes mental effort...especially when one's constantly being gaslit by people like you.
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  5618. You know, an 8 hour debunking of a state of the union address sounds like exactly what this nation needs.
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  5619. "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament" They're not fighting because they need anything Ukraine has. They're fighting because their ideology demands they have an enemy to fight to forget how weak they are.
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  5620.  @snowblow1984  given that a lot of his projects are being at least in part funded by government grants, it's still that way, and Musk's dirrecting of that research into less important/viable dirrections isn't exactly a great thing either.
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  5621.  @atrociousconsequences4432  bs, the establishment "Democrats" have been hitting Bernie and his supporters with every major smear in both the RNC & DNC the playbook with the help of the corporate media since they were forced to acknowledge his existence in 2016 and the GOP-style ones have been the least effective of all, just all rolling right off him at worse. Are you that out of touch with reality or are you a DNCbot desperate enough to recycle that long debunked lie?
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  5622. Idk, but without having a 2nd child to take care of like she does, tbh I would try to remove as many of those responsible for this from the earth before I was taken down. Real justice is preferable to raw vengeance, of course, but if our justice system is so dysfunctional that it cannot/will not punnish such heinous crimes, in my anger and grief I expect I would seek to level an older form of punishment in leu of the justice denied to me and the dead.
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  5623. When they start caring more about what's good for themselves than about the twisted ego boost they get from thinking about how many people are "beneath" them. ...so not anytime soon, unfortunately.
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  5624.  @jakepatterson3235  the super left wing vote has never liked Warren.
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  5625. Maher is, and has always been, a tool for the establishment Dems to dirrect the anger of the left in the dirrection the want. That used to mean riling the left up and pointing them at Bush and the GOP, but him being turned on the left is really telling of where the establishment is going. The other roll he serves is for his performance (and let's be honest, it is a performance) to defign the left-most position of acceptable political thought.
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  5626. That's because Bill Maher is an establishment tool with the jobs of defining the leftmost position of the Overton Window and directing the anger of progressives to where the establishment "Democrats" want.
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  5627. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012
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  5628. Idk if he has, but that's just stupid antagonism on the US's part. I guarantee you we have a nuclear-armed sub waiting in the area, and it's not like any country doesn't know that's a large part of our MAD system and that they should just assume one is near them if there's any risk of a nuclear exchange.
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  5629. So a website that by its very structure opposes nuance got bit in the ass by their users not being able to understand any nuance? HA, serves 'em right.
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  5630. Because he's 1 "let them eat cake" comment from a guillotine
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  5631. Politics is about power. Knowledge is power. Science is a tool for discovering true knowledge. Science always has been political as it draws the ability to dictate what it perceived to be true from demagogues who would rather public perception of truth be whatever is convenient to those in power at the time. Likewise, drop this ridiculous notion that neutrality is virtuous. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” — Paulo Freire "It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take sides. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering... In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened, the victim lies, the victim exaggerates, the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail." Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror This absurd notion that politics exists in some space that could ever be seperated from things like science, economics, violence, etc so that it can be a matter of opinion where the virtuous can simply sit in the middle and condemn both sides is absolute garbage. When you decide that truth matters, you are taking a political stand. When you decide which facts are more important, you are taking a political stand. When you decide what instances of violence you accept (which every political position does), you are taking a political stand. You can't avoid doing so. The attempt to is merely choosing to be ignorant of your own political ideology. Abandon equivocation Abandon the golden mean fallacy Abandon the notion that inaction is any less of a choice than action And finally, you can begin to see clearly.
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  5632. Starting? We have a whole section of the country we call the "rust belt"
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  5633. "Throws a flayed pony into Ameterasu's weaving hall." Imagine your brother threw a pony with no skin into your living room, splattering blood everywhere, ruining all your hobby projects and giving a friend that's been helping you a heart attack. I mean really imagine that.
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  5634. Why would an oligharchy go around the world spreading real democracy? No, they're going around the world setting up corporate-friendly governments, and if those aren't actually democratic, redefine democracy to mean "that which serves buisness interests" https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc (Noam Chomsky)
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  5635. This is ageism. This is a crime against humanity.
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  5636.  @thatgoodpain  it's more than that, actually. It exists because it's something to threaten the working class with.
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  5637. ​ @TerreHauteRemoteGoat have you ever heard of Poe's Law?
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  5638. Jeremy Chase he's not a liar. To be a liar, he has to believe otherwise, but I think he's completely bought his own rhetorical slight of hand and completely lacks the self-awareness to see his own biases (or even that he's starting from said baises, rather than evidence and logic). Ironically, if he didn't have the disdain for anthropology and post-modernism he does, his extensive education might have actually expanded his mind rather than just building walls around it.
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  5639. These replies are incredibly naive. Losing? No, we've already lost it and will have to fight to get it back.
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  5640.  @AndiDuck  so you're just going to glaze over that the DNC's rules demand they be impartial, the media collusion, and the illegal voter suppression (to say nothing of what's below that undeniable tip of the iceberg)? People like you who put party loyalty ahead of democracy are why I have to put quotation marks around "Democrats" and how we got to Hillary vs Trump in the first place. Stop thinking like a fucking serf. 1776 was a long time ago.
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  5641. Even just back up until you know what's going on like a human being?
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  5642.  @zydian_  the origional right has 2 anti-democratic parties, so yes you do.
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  5643. He has always been obedient to shifting marching orders.
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  5644.  @thenellierose  wouldn't be that hard once we do the rest, honestly
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  5645. As long as corporations are still allowed to pay lobbyists and give former politicians cushy "jobs" after they gat out, this doesn't change that that much beyond optics.
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  5646. The enemy must be portrayed as simultaneously strong and weak in what political idology?
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  5647. Nuremberg 2.0 when?
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  5648.  @No_co_OK  what did I JUST say? Stop wasting people's time with your posturing.
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  5649. Hawtsaus that special kind of dim bulb is commonly called "Nazi troll" (though I expect he and antman would deny it)
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  5650. Using them to deliberately overwhelm services may count as a DDS attack and/or interference with government function and therefore may be illegal.
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  5651. He got into socialism about as overtly as he could get away with and still get on the air. He had an EXTREMELY strong and overt political alignment.
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  5652.  @johnrobi0  ....really, victim blaming someone murdered by a fascist terrorist? Totally not obvious what your political stance is! /S
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  5653. Reminder since it's been a while, Verison gave us Ajit Pai
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  5654. Conservatism isn't good either, but I agree we need to call a spade a spade here.
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  5655. That was part of the reason for the new studio, afterall, and I want to see that too....that said, if you want him to read this, you should post it to twitter, not youtube as, to my knowledge, he doesn't read YouTube comments.
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  5656. nw qw they've sniped women, children, people preying, people running away from the fence, and journalists with "PRESS" written in big letters on their cloths. If you think they're demonstrating restraint, I've a bridge to sell you.
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  5657.  @sirius1696  what's the difference?
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  5658. It's not the biggest thing they need to be doing, but getting one of those simple things that's just objectively the right call and in basically everyone's interest to change off the list of things we need to do is something at least. Kinda like if we could just stop wasting money creating pennies... So many dumb things we do just out of tradition that we could just...not do...
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  5659. Played the game "Alpha Centauri"?
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  5660.  @AmbyJeans  Trump is the symptom. Focus on the problem.
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  5661. See the difference is you're not a psychopath that doesn't even see them as human.
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  5662. Even if you avoid the plates, the weight is still useful at striking mail, and the added thickness makes it good for thrusting too.
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  5663. As mentioned find the best source(s) and tweet him with them. He doesn't read YT comments. He has criticised abridging the free speech of those who speak out against the Israeli government multiple times before (notably defending attacks on those in favor of BDS) so we know where he stands on the issue.
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  5664. Michael Vander Wal it's more that there are many groups speaking out against the Israeli government. Some are pro-Palestinian, some think both governments are at least partly in the wrong but may criticise one more than the other, and some are just anti-semetic. It's functionally impossible to police your own group perfectly, much less other groups which you are in strong disagreement with on nearly every other issue.
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  5665. big 1234 agreed. If things become violent, it needs to be the oligarchs who strike first. There will be plenty of military individuals who will stand with the people if the rulers strike first. If push comes to shove and peaceful revolution fails, the one to strike first looses.
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  5666. Middle ground on climate change, because the laws of physics are known for being negotiable. /s
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  5667. harry balls no, there WERE issues of ISPs throttling and blocking content for their own ends. That's why we put rules in place against it.
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  5668. sha floyd please rephrase (ideally without the insult). It wasn't even clear what you meant to say.
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  5669.  @matthewrutters6842  you mean believe in the "great replacement" conspiracy theory?
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  5670. Pretty much every country has some banking system to blame for huge economic problems. Japan has this BS, Wallstreet keeps fucking the US economy, and don't even get me started on the World Bank/IMF or how most money in use these days is created by banks (and I'm not talking about ones like the Federal Reserve).
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  5671. The only person I've seen running on the D ticket to do well with republican voters is Bernie. You want the right to vote for you it's simple: be strong and unapologetic in your convictions and for the working class. It's that simple. Strength + convincing people you're on their side. Blue Dogs are the exact opposite of what you need to win in red states, and painfully obviously so.
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  5672. If there were a 2nd round of the Nuremberg trials, the only place the people promoting the vaccine would have is the witness chair against people like him and Trump.
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  5673.  @johnpoller8897  IQ was developed to measure how well schools were educating children. It works for shit for measuring any kind of inherent intelligence (and the idea of a single intelligence metric is looked at with increasing skepticism by people studying it for good reason).
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  5674. Got a particular video you want shreaded? 'Cause there's most likely somebody who's done it already?
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  5675. Don yeah, we call them spin doctors, but maybe spin magicians would be more accurate as they use the same principles of distraction and misrepresentation to work their craft and spin their illusions.
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  5676. ....unfortunately, she hasn't either. Not even close. I can point you in the direction of far crazier if you want.
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  5677. TheMrfrodough I can't confirm this, but I think the term "Justice democrats" is a quiet nod of respect to a little known "Justice Party" who ran in 2012 on nearly the exact same platform.
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  5678.  @Soleilune1995  having trouble finding that through the chaff of the Twitter News. Can I get a link?
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  5679. I think everyone knows what they're doing as soon as they feel the other person go limp. Anything after that is just intent to kill.
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  5680. Why arrest when Trump will just pardon him? You need a more permanent solution than that, sorry.
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  5681. They will try to do so again. We need to completely swamp the primaries to make them choose between letting him win and blatent enough rigging that the general population will no longer be able to have any illusions of democratic government...which opens the doors for all sorts of public action (legal and otherwise).
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  5682.  @memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724  I mean, not actually the first, but yeah if we're going with that theme for the metaphor, it's more that the US kinda forced Iran into a relationship via blackmail/being the landlord/etc and has been acting like a jilted lover/obsessed stalker ever since, justifying their bad behavior by all the things Iran started doing after and because of the trauma. I really would like our country to get its shit together to not be constantly embarrassing itself on the world stage for a change...
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  5683. And if there aren't MAJOR consequences, what happened on the 6th will be called "practice" And just a couple years in jail is clearly not enough as 20th century Europe clearly shows. They just write a book and get right back to conspiring to commit genocide right after they get out. NEVER AGAIN! It can happen here. They MUST be stopped.
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  5684.  @paulaagam5071  do you not even understand the difference between personal and corporate taxes or are you a liar? Which is it?
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  5685. Franz Perez I'm just saying that even just in class disparities, the reality is a lot harder to put in simple terms of one being obviously worse than the other. The only things that are really easy to say is that social mobility was terrible and that the middle class was tiny. Even just in terms of wealth, how much merchant or exceptionally well off artisan (such as the leader of a guild, or an exceptionally talented smith) might make may beat out some of the poorer landed knights (which were the absolute lowest rung of landed nobility). All of this though, as with most things in the middle ages, varried across time and location making sweeping generalizations even harder.
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  5686.  @ksnyder586  the first time I got foodstamps was while working 5 days/week at one of the hardest jobs I've ever had. You don't know what I've experienced and your point is irrelevant to the point I was making. Try actually reading what people are saying instead of what you think they're saying so you can spout a talking point.
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  5687.  Aaron Bower  see my explaining of right vs left above to start, but libertarianism (in the US sense of the term being advocating both personal freedoms and an unregulated/minimally regulated market) is a bit of an oddball in that its results favor the right (as capitalism, left to its own devices will concentrate money and power just through market forces) but for everyday people it can range nearly the entire left-right spectrum from those who are basically fine with corporate totalitarianism as long as the government stays out of things to those who argue that the only reason the market produces such extreme injustice and inequality is government interference (which, while wrong in the broad sense, they do have merit on some specific policies). Left vs right is just one axis of political alignment out of many, so it won't always be a useful way to describe a given political position.
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  5688.  Nobodyimportant  wait wait wait, even ignoring that you can't blame Jews for a state that claims to be for them (anymore than we can blame Aryan people for Nazi Germany) since when was the USSR a Jewish state?
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  5689.  @Dr0Qui3T  no basically about it. They are Republican infiltrators to the party.
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  5690.  @zicob2536  you're missing the big picture. There's a pool of Dems that vote with the party most of the time to stay in good graces, but always enough out of the pool to defect to ensure that things pass. Pretending to be better =/= being better. It's controlled opposition.
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  5691. moismyname not if they made steps toward abolishing it at home right afterwards
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  5692. It's not exactly a bad concept (it's even a view shared by many of the founding fathers, but it's unrealistic. People are going to organize into political parties naturally, even if they can't be official ones. The only way to deal with that is to recognize it as inevitable and set up systems to limit the harm it can do.
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  5693. +DootDoot +Carlos Pellecier Jr Ah, there's the answer, thank you. Bitch owns the tower and wants us to pay to use the space to provide the security he's making us also pay for. Imagine working security and being forced to pay for the square footage of your desk and break room. It's a plain scam. I knew at those prices there was a way someone was making money off this BS, I just didn't know how. All I knew was the numbers didn't come close to adding up for just security.
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  5694. BadOmen_96 If he was generalizing, it was to crooked cops, at least as I read it. I think the way the rest of the team handled that was quite well done, personally, (de-escalating a tense situation with an armed and unstable individual, and then following it up with actual action) but there is a pattern to the behavior of those that make trouble, and pointing that out isn't harmful. If anything, I think identifying red flags to tell crooked cops apart from the rest only helps the other cops' reputations.
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  5695. BadOmen_96 Ah, you're right, I did misread that, thank you. Given that "they" can be used in a singular, gender-neutral sense, I can see that sentence being read in more than one way, though, so I'm not sure what their meaning was with that post.
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  5696. +philpot kentucky you do seem to be able to mute them through the notification dropdown menu still, which isn't really that great, but it's something.
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  5697. Supports positions that the majority of this "center right" country wants=far left radical American Politics for you
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  5698. sato hopefully waiting for someone to say something stupid about science to give us another science mic-drop.
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  5699. That's not communism, that's totalitarianism. Communism is about abolition of private property and business, and is fundamentally about economics. Totalitarianism is about censorship and controlling what people are allowed to think. You can have capitalism and totalitarianism in the same state very easily.
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  5700. If I were in charge of the appeal case, I'd let them appeal, but when I got through bringing up damages for things like being negligent with regards to preventable rape, lack of std control (a lot of prisons even outlaw condoms), and opening up potential cases against any individuals responsible that I could...well, despite only 1.1mil being from the wrongful conviction, they'd be wishing they'd just paid the first amount and shut their mouths.
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  5701. It's for queer, and is basically there to be a catchall for anyone who might not fall into any of the first 4 labels but still may receive discrimination for their identity or who they're attracted to. As an example, if someone if largely attracted to trans-people, are they gay, lesbian, or bi? It's kinda like saying "ladies, gentlemen, and others" in that it picks out the major groups without snubbing those that might not fall into one of them.
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  5702. Mrigank Rawat what?
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  5703. Let me explain something: When people get angry and desperate, acres of green lawns is the LAST thing you want. Remove your head from your ass before it's removed from your shoulders. This isn't a threat; I live far from any drought. It's a reminder to look at a history book for what happens to the powerful when a shortage of necessities is met with indifference.
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  5704. Wow the right-wing propaganda on that blog is fucking thick!
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  5705. We don't need a law for this; we have the bill of rights. (You know, that thing we're currently using as a doormat)
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  5706. +Ethereality that would be "making guns that can kill specifically children" not "making guns that can kill specifically for children" That is saying the guns are lethal and are specifically designed for children to use. Technically, there should be some commas in there but, even without them, it isn't ambiguous if read carefully.
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  5707. +SuperJav1988 I don't know, "willfully ignorant" is more harsh to me. At least if you're dumb you have an excuse.
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  5708. 86blackberrywhite yes and no. What you're saying is true, but in practice you do need to do some matching of taxes to spending to keep inflation in check. The notion of controling inflation through the federal reserve and borrowing the use of our own money from private banks (on interest) is insane though.
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  5709. Watch the polls here: http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/ballot-measures/maine/ currently winning, but still many many idiots voting against democracy
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  5710. The jury system is terrible, but judges deciding the outcome can easily be far, far worse. It's like democracy which has been called the worst form of government possible, with the exception of all the others we've come up with.
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  5711. It doesn't matter where or when you live, nor how many "rights" you have spelled out for you. Cowards will never be free.
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  5712. Hillary, we've already said "we're just not that into you" Take a hint and save yourself the shame of this desperate display. To continue the dating metaphor, you're the hookup option that the public was waffling on when there weren't any good options and we were considering going home alone. However, this hottie just walked up and is serious (unlike your corrupt ass) and, now that the disbelief at what's happening is gone, we're so done with you. Burned
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  5713. You know, if you have a job where, when your employer says "you're not doing your job right anymore" and tells you clearly what you're doing wrong and you can respond by passive-aggressively slacking off without getting fired on the spot...well, "I have a hard job" starts to sound like bs
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  5714. Honestly, it's the constant quiet message sent by little things like this that gives me more courage than anything else. More than any victory abroad, knowing that, when push comes to shove, the Marines stand on principle and their loyalties lie with the PEOPLE first is what's truly important to me. With as much craziness and powerlust we have in our government right now, it's really hard to overstate how important that is.
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  5715. I know Kyle likes to stick to substance, and that's why we're here in the first place, but can we talk for a minute about the appalling levels of agism in this clip and in the greater context? And this from the generation that was: -too "entitled" to make sacrifices to halt climate change before it passed a tipping point -too lazy to keep this country from slipping into decline -too impulsive to keep our constitutional rights from being stolen with crude fear-mongering -too ill-informed and distracted by celebrities to even notice when public opinion on issues stopped having any effect on our government Not all of them are like that, obviously, and millennials don't think that (or Bernie would never have gotten the support he did), but those that spread agism about millennials are projecting just as hard as any republican to try and ignore what they have become, push the blame onto someone else, and maintain their precious status quo just a bit longer at absolutely any cost.
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  5716. I have a zero-tolerance for the kind of lack of humanity displayed by this school district. How does someone that insane end up in charge of children?
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  5717. jawadc97 Maher is, and has always been, an establishment tool to defign the left-most position of the Overton window and to keep the left's anger dirrected at the Republicans. This was cathartic and at least somewhat useful under Bush, but he became a problem long ago.
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  5718. "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" ...just sayin'
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  5719. Reminding me more of Putin's Russia, but that's not inaccurate either, sadly.
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  5720. ***** I'm aware of how powerful the Russian Mafia is, actually, but I was referring the pattern of media control and rigged elections. Putin makes a better analogy for that, in terms of MO.
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  5721. Hey jackass, How about you actually read the constitution before you try talking about it (assuming you CAN read it). That was the declaration of independence, not the constitution, and the first amendment to the constitution as well as article 6 say that you can't do what you're talking about.
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  5722. Harry Stoddard Agreed (to be clear, was using "your" broadly to refer to any reader, not trying direct it at you specifically to imply you had been duped)
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  5723. The thought of Zuckerberg as president legitimately terrifies me.
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  5724. Yup, but please understand that America has the same opinions of him as you. We're currently experiencing electoral difficulties. Please stand by. We apologize for the inconvienance.
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  5725. There's still good cops, but don't worry, Trump will fix that.
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  5726. How is "just spray it in the air" a fucking disposal method for anything? Fumes and emissions are bad enough, but this is just deliberate asshatery. Jackass, if it's too dangerous to put in a stream, don't put it in the air. We breathe that!
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  5727. If you think that someone who's drunk, just been flipped in a car crash, and who's holding himself up by both arms as he climbs out of a car in that position is an immediate threat, you're too much of a coward to be allowed to even touch a gun. If you're violent enough that you think that someone that's just been through an accident like that needs to be shot out of vengeance, you're far too unstable to be allowed to touch a gun. If you think that the possibility that someone might, possibly run is justification for shooting them, you don't know the first thing about law enforcement. If you're that worried that a drunk guy that's just been through a car crash is going to outrun you, you're not fit enough to be a cop. We handed this guy a gun and a badge...
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  5728. Hai D Sorry, that one's mostly based on experience, the general principle of "we learn more from failure than success", talking with people that know more about it than me, and lots of observation (1st, 2nd, and 3rd hand) comparing people that are exceptional in their field and those that are full of it. Beyond looking up phrases like the above one and "don't fear failure" and trying to look over the best results, I don't have that much on that particular subject in terms of academic reading. (not saying it isn't out there, but that's not the path I took to gain the understanding in this case, so I don't have those kind of references for this like I do for some other areas of psychology)
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  5729. Equiinox1989 He is too far gone for any point you or anyone else makes to get through. He'll just keep endlessly arguing too self-assured that he's right to either seriously consider any other point of view, or notice the logical fallacies in his own, and seems to act as if having the last word automatically means he wins. That's why everyone else stopped responding to him. As much the arguments he's made after you backed him into a corner are hilarious, please don't think you're going to get anywhere with him.
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  5730. +Liptonicetea is Hillary the Balrog then?
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  5731. Constitution? You mean that thing we haven't been using since 9/11 that both you and Hillary have shown nothing but utter contempt for? Yah, it'd be nice for that to matter again, but any of you establishment hacks complaining about that is a complete joke!
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  5732. The leaks proved that the Dem establishment was colluding with the MSM to push forward Trump in the primary in the hopes that he was too extreme a candidate to beat Hillary. Just look at him saying "He was the frontrunner right from the start" despite all the MSM being dismissive of Trump's chances innitially. Look at the empty podium incident and all the PROVEN bias against Bernie (that earned them the "Clinton News Network" name) Put all that together and it's pretty clear that it wasn't about any of the BS he said. It was about access to Hillary and her ad money from the very start.
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  5733. Protip: if you know anyone used this, never date them (especially if they're not completely ashamed that they did) It's like if someone needs to get friends to tell you they're interested because they don't have the nerve to tell you directly; it's a pretty sure sign they can't handle a relationship. (though understandable in young teens)
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  5734. This is a historic day in America...when the supreme court successfully passed a reading comprehension test. (Only with a 56% but still)
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  5735. We expect different from political parties that have been using legalized bribes to lie to voters to swing votes in gerrymandered districts to win delegates that only exist to further reduce the people's voice for longer than most of us have been alive? (and that's just the foundation that all their other rigging of elections is built on)
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  5736. +RuleofFive that's why I always note it with something like "/sarcasm" or "/scsm" No matter how absurd the statement, there's someone in the youtube comments that believes it.
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  5737. Well, the old testament is pretty damn barbaric... Something as minor as picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week can get you stoned to death.
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  5738. The leaks proved that the Dem establishment was colluding with the MSM to push forward Trump in the primary in the hopes that he was too extreme a candidate to beat Hillary. Just look at him saying "He was the frontrunner right from the start" despite all the MSM being dismissive of Trump's chances innitially. Look at the empty podium incident and all the PROVEN bias against Bernie (that earned them the "Clinton News Network" name) Put all that together and it's pretty clear that it wasn't about any of the BS he said. It was about access to Hillary and her ad money from the very start.
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  5739. ***** I'd argue that the last attempt was the 2000s but that doesn't make it any better sadly...
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  5740. ***** oh, I don't dispute that at all, but my point was that we've had more recent examples than even that. Actually, I think they're not the first state to try it since the 2008 crash if memory serves. We've seen nearly a century of evidence pile up against "trickle-down economics" so it's not like there should be any question on the matter by anyone who's studied economics at all. Ignoring investors not investing because there's no demand at the time, there really hasn't been a large-scale situation where lack of investment has held economic development back in the modern age. Between corporations (specifically stocks as a means of gathering investment), and having a banking industry (which rapidly forms anytime where charging interest isn't forbidden), there's really not much of an argument for lack of the "supply" of investment funds (even less so now with crowdfunding). Not to mention that established businesses are the ones least in need of it.  Sure, a lack of it can slow growth greatly, but it's not going to doom them like a lack of demand will.
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  5741. +Lord Caelvanir I'd bet not even them, since it's probably hard to find a good shop for S&M gear down there XP
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  5742. "It's almost like these police are like those jocks in the highschool lockerroom. . ." What do you mean "almost" and "like"? They are those exact people! To deal with the disappointment of not being good enough to be professional athletes and still have an outlet for their violent, authoritarian impulses they suck corporate dick and act like brownshirts. Bullies usually don't grow out of it nor are they hardly ever really corrected in a significant way. They just get dumped into the adult world and try to find new ways to do the same things they were doing in school. Don't forget: the cops doing this volunteered for this assignment.
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  5743. Even on an older smartphone while making breakfast (so I'm half awake and can't read most of it) that graph was still obviously BS. No y-axis? Really, something as variable as that has a flat, linear change rate with no noise? It's like a textbook example of how to spot a BS graph! (and a lazy one at that)
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  5744. Again, ALL $ figures in laws/government should be tied to inflation unless otherwise specified. Minimum wage, fines, budgets, tax brackets, etc. There's no good reason to have these things change value every year automatically and have to step in and correct them with abrupt adjustments once they become problems.
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  5745. Ah euphemism time apparently...let's compile ideas to help those under these bs rules: "Permanent flooding" "Weather intensification" "That thing I've been warning you morons about" "The problem that shall not be named" (Please feel free to add to the list) Want to ban the most dry, technical terms? You may not end up liking the results.
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  5746. Yah, that's actually just a myth our culture has. In ancient Greece, women were seen as the irrationally lusty sex. More empirically, studies on one-night-stands with bi/pan-sexual women show that while they are less likely to want a one-night-stand than men, that difference goes away when their partner would be another woman. Sad conclusion: a lot of guys are just bad in bed :\
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  5747. ***** While I unfortunately don't have it on hand (the specifics would be really interesting with this type of discussion, and sadly not that many details remain in my memory), the study wasn't including straight women. It was using women that were interested in both men and women so that it would just be the gender of the partner being tested. To be more detailed in my conclusion: Men looking for a one-night-stand are going to be inherently less interested in the pleasure of their partner since there's no real concern for wanting the woman to come back for another time. Experience only counts if you're trying to learn from it to improve, after all. On the other hand, a female partner, would presumably at least have a significant amount of practice at self-stimulation, so even if she has a similar experience and mindset to our male example, there should be a baseline level of competence. In that sense, it's just a simple risk-reward of the likelihood of a good experience vs a bad/awkward/disappointing one. I only brought up the Greeks as an anthropological example to show that our societies perceptions aren't universal and should be questioned. I'll try to remember to see if I can find more details on the study, but it won't be tonight, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to (it may have been from my anthropology class in college and I don't have all the materials from that anymore).
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  5748. And it'll still filter which posts you see on your wall.
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  5749. Good cop, bad cop...pretty obvious
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  5750. Reminds me of my idea of how to take over the world, it's a very simple plan: Take half of the US military budget and use it to put up satellites that give away free, uncensored internet to everywhere on the world. Immediately you win the goodwill of most of the world and simultaneously take out totalitarianism at the knees by making suppressing information flow practically impossible because free information is constantly raining from the sky. Even the people that don't like you for doing it will be too busy dealing with the collapse of totalitarianism to do anything about it. Not only that, but the sudden flux of different peoples to the internet combined with the current state of the internet will encourage much of the plant to become bi-lingual (national language+English) as well as bi-cultural (national+western) enabling a level of understanding and communication never before seen. (Causing many to eventually become tri-cultural, most likely).
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  5751. Arizona wins that one hands down, actually.
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  5752. As long as we keep voting for the "lesser of 2 evils" every election will be worse than the last. Break the cycle: vote independent.
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  5753. If there was ever a time for the term "sheeple" it would be now. The seemingly unquenchable desire of Americans to find a leader instead of elect a representative is, frankly, sickening.
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  5754. Risk? Was he planning on having sex or spilling her blood?
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  5755. Correction about the Fox News bit: There wasn't A study proving that. There were years of studies from different sources proving that. Actually, most of the MSM doesn't fair much better than those watching no news (basically, the only sources that scored consistently well that I remember were comedy central's satires, and NPR) Sadly, they tend to put "internet" as all 1 sourse, which lumps shows like this with the many small little conspiracy-theory channels. (Missing that it's basically as absurd as equating Rush and NPR because they're both "radio")
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  5756. Hillary's unelectable? Well we (progressives) have been telling you all that for months. I'd add another "we told you so" tally, but I'm out of room.
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  5757. Even when was at a job were they limited my hours to keep me from getting benefits I worked longer shifts than that. 5 hours is fucking weak!
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  5758. Any of those holy texts (and I don't just mean Muslim ones) can be quote-mined to justify anything with how much they contradict themselves. All equating morality and religion does is allow evil people to hide the true ethics of their actions behind the virtues of good believers by claiming to share the same moral compass.
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  5759. hood sam *facepalms* I chose a link because a simple google search turns up pages and pages of example contradictions. The fact that you didn't even refute 1 of the 7 I could offhandedly throw to you is just embarrassing. For the record, no, I have not read any of the "holy" texts in their entirety, since they're all so full of contradictions, logical falicies, fantasies (poorly written at that), and immorality that there's no point going further in. Also for the record, even if they were true, I would refuse to bow to such a god who's main "mercy" is sparing us from himself, because such an authority is a tyrant, no matter how you try to spin it. I'm done wasting my time here now....
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  5760. Did-did he just imply that the Japanese were too direct, rude, and self-centered? What?
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  5761. white male CHRISTIAN talking about being persecuted. Christians haven't been persecuted for being Christian in the west in a LONG time. There are some crazy groups that get nailed to a cross to see what it was like if he really wants to though. You don't have to hate gays for that.
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  5762. You mean delegates all together, right?
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  5763. ***** Hillary's already proven she has no care or respect what-so-ever for Bernie supporters (or anyone under 40, really). Even if she tries now, it's only going to sound like patronizing lies. Far as I'm concerned, she's welcome to run as far right as she wants (follow the GOP off that cliff to the dustbin of history, please!). We all know the only thing that's going to change her policies is her corporate sponsors, so her right-wing rhetoric is only going to make more people fed up with her breed of politician and eager to cast them aside.
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  5764. RedXlV I was speaking broadly about her political career. She's had to turn it down to a 1 out of 10 while dealing with Bernie, but it'll be back like clockwork.
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  5765. RedXlV To pick the most public one that's been in the public attention, how about the "we need to bring them to heel" quote? Or we can go into her pro-war stances, or her coddling of her sponsors like the big banks. Really, you shouldn't need me to point these out at this point.
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  5766. +I'm Negan Most 18-20 year olds know more about politics than most people over 50
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  5767. Can we please stop catering to the most stupid and cowardly among us? It does not take an hour and a half to walk over, glance at the paper, tell the woman "that's math you moron, now sit down and stop delaying the flight for everyone on the plane or I'm going to have to remove you so everyone else can get to their destination on time" ....as an aside, is anyone surprised that this was American Airlines?
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  5768. At first, I was thinking bullets pass through walls+night raid+sniping(inherently targeting silhouettes)+bad info....I'm actually willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for once. Now, though?....read the article! This video barely skims the surface of all the issues with this incident. Seriously, go read it!
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  5769. It's never the right time for positive change if you listen to the establishment. F-that! Fear is the mindkiller.
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  5770. Now now, he managed to rob the place without waking them, and then sneak into their room and undress. I'd say he was plenty competent, problem was that he's frigging nuts! If this it true, you can skip the whole sentencing/prison thing and go right to a nice padded room.
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  5771. TYT politics is very different from the main channel. It's a shame, since TYT was very much like Secular Talk when I started watching them, but TYT Politics and The Jimmy Dore Show are both still good.
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  5772. Truth
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  5773. I think jail-time is not unreasonable for doing illegal things with aircraft, considering how things can go wrong. Given the situation, community service is a better call, but a short 5-day sentence would still be reasonable....120, though, is NOT!
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  5774. Wait, so he wants Hillary as president because, as he puts it, she'll be a mom and take care of things, then calls that the grownup position? Grow up and stop looking for a parental figure to lead you, you nearly 50 year old child! PS: if Hillary seems at all motherly to you, you need to see a therapist, because the way she treats liberals is just flat out abusive
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  5775. I don't want to sound like I'm putting the blame on him (it rests with saudi arabia), but if you get out of a country that has a death sentence on you don't go back!
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  5776. Nice to see I'm not the only one who noticed that "oh crap, need to bs my way out of this corner I boxed myself in" moment XD
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  5777. +Jason Gablaski well, you can't call it a democratic republic anymore when public opinion has 0 statistical effect on policy
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  5778. Mr. Raleigh D. I can see both your posts if that's what you're asking.
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  5779. Yup, Maher is, and has always been, an establishment tool to defign the left-most position of the Overton window and to keep the left's anger dirrected at the Republicans. This was cathartic and at least somewhat useful under Bush, but he became a problem long ago.
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  5780. It's simple good-cop, bad-cop.
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  5781. +cptmiller132 Nearest "creek" to my house is about 60-100ft wide and goes right into the Ohio river. There's no official distinction and if the person to name a waterway calls it a creek, then a creek it is. I think that's a bit absurd, myself, but that's how it is.
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  5782. +musicheadim 2 sad realities of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings: 1-it wasn't that much different than how WW2 was fought. Firebombing cities was standard practice in both the European and Pacific theaters. We likely killed more people firebombing Tokyo with conventional weapons than with both atom bombs. The only real difference was the cost of doing so dropped dramatically to the point where it sent the message of "we can now afford to do this to every single one of your cities" Destroying large urban areas was as much of a reality defining WW2 as trench warfare was of WW1. 2-Showing the willingness to use nuclear bombs on cities, and the horror that seeing what a single bomb could do being globally shared very likely made all the difference in preventing a global THERMO-nuclear exchange. That would have been incomprehensibly worse. Trying to reconcile that reality with the scale of the atrocities that prevented it is supremely humbling.
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  5783. Debating who the "lesser evil" is misses the point entirely and falls right into their hands.
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  5784. Keep in mind these laws that make it illegal for trans people to use the bathroom appropriate to their gender require them to out themselves publicly every time they need to use a bathroom. If you live in a state with these kind of lunatics arround, how safe do you feel doing that? These laws only enable hate crimes. Can you think of a time in history where members of a hated minority were required to publicly identify themselves? What happened next?
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  5785. Other than the fettish for following psychopathic leaders? Personally, I blame the cold war.
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  5786. This is a "you're not doing your job right" problem not a criminal one. It's the kind of thing you fire someone over if they don't stop when you say so, but it's not something you bring courts and jails in on. I don't see how there's a question here.
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  5787. Just once I would like someone to shut down his "a lot of people are writing/saying" with "internet trolls don't count as credible sources" right to his face. Can that please happen?
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  5788. There is no good side left in Seria, and there hasn't been for a good while now. Help evacuate refugees that want no part in the war? Sure, but beyond that, there's nothing productive to be done there.
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  5789. BS We will have brain scans that can read every thought and memory down to the subconscious and cybernetic brains being commonplace before mind uploading even becomes possible. The only other way would be to freeze the brain and take it apart to build a map of every synapse before uploading that to a supercomputer millions of times more powerful than today's best (if not more powerful). This is a hoax, no question; we don't have anywhere near the ability to even attempt this. It's like saying we are building a ship to build a self-sufficient colony in another star-system, when we're still working on getting to Mars.
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  5790. and the "sales division" of the private prison industry AND a tool for the GOP to jail and thereby depower and destabilize demographics that usually oppose them (such as the war on drugs starting with targeting blacks and hippies) effectively getting political prisoners while having plausible deniability about what they're doing.
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  5791. "First"
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  5792. Here's a new law: if you're an officer of the law and you intentionally destroy a phone/camera, it's automatically counted as destruction of evidence and requires (at minimum) a large fine and being suspended w/o pay. (Whether we have a clue what you were trying to hide or not) I know the killings are far worse, but this is getting really fucking out of hand; when your citizens are afraid to record what the police are doing, you have a serious problem!
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  5793. +Carlos Franco nownow, he said on their knees together, so probably not (unless there was a doner there) Doggy style though.... but the question remains: who was "catching"?
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  5794. It IS, they just don't care
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  5795. I'm 28 and I can guarantee you that the establishment doesn't want anyone under about 35 having a voice because they know as soon as we get one, they're out of power forever. Every year more of them die and more of us come of voting age and unlike the babyboomers, we're not falling in line with the system as we age.
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  5796. Sexist? Idk, but it sounds stupid. Were they drunk when they thought this up? 'Cause this sounds like drunk logic... Wait, damn that's clever.
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  5797. David Frey http://churchandstate.org.uk/2013/03/how-rich-is-the-roman-catholic-church/ http://humansarefree.com/2012/03/christian-church-is-biggest-financial.html Regardless of whatever label they managed to get put on themselves, the entity is far from any sane definition of "non-profit" (political speech is really just a 2ndary requirement for getting the official designation as non-profit, but obviously refraining from political speech doesn't, by itself, make any group non-profit) Really though, the amount of gold should have tipped you off.
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  5798. You do realize that most rich people are rich because obtaining money is a priority to them, right? Once someone is "rich", they're actually far past the point where more money stopped making them happier, but they continue acquiring it.
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  5799. We have life sentences for when we find people that are messed up enough that we can't safely allow them to walk among us. Letter of the law is one thing, but I think we all know that deterrent isn't going to work on her. Not sure what the answer to that should be, but that is the reality.
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  5800. Winning against establishment democrats doesn't count. They're paid to loose.
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  5801. Did you really expect someone willing to set decency and self-respect aside to work at FOX in the first place to NOT settle if given a generous offer?
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  5802. Why do I feel like the outrage is really because it was effective teaching?
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  5803. These aren't polls about who won the debate, these are polls about how effective cable new's propaganda was. You can extrapolate useful data from this with just a few facts, however. With how slanted the coverage of the debate has been, it's a safe assumption that >90% of those that didn't watch it say that Hillary won. Combine that with the percentages of those that watched vs didn't watch & working backwards gets you Bernie winning the debate among those that watched it between a 3-2 and 6-1 margin. (which fits the more accurate polls) That's pretty wide error bars with our methodology, but looking at it with the more accurate polls shows that the media's propaganda had little to no effect on those that actually watched the debate.
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  5804. +edith bunker Both Hillary and Trump are >50% disapproval. If you don't know why people don't like Hillary it's willful ignorance. I'll give you the tip of the iceberg though: She lost to Obama because she was a right-wing corporate shill (& unlike him, couldn't even pretend not to be) and since then, not only have the demographics changed to being more anti-establishment, but she's treated half her party with utter contempt while rigging the primary to rob them of their political voice. It's impressive her disapproval isn't nearly 75%, actually, and even that it just due to fear of Trump and the biases of the MSM.
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  5805. He already works over 12hrs a day doing research for the show. You can't really fit a 2nd job into that schedule.
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  5806. +Craig Franklin Both parties as a whole are doing that, so they're going independent. Bernie's clearly an independent running for the democratic nomination, so Hillary's repulsiveness is a moot point at this stage. (though it may well become relevant later)
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  5807. Inarguable? They still manage to say that it's very dangerous and has absolutely no medical use what-so-ever to call it a schedule 1 drug. (which is insane) Don't thing reason or facts matter anymore, much less justice or ethics.
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  5808. "Make a little bit of a profit" Where have I heard that before? Oh right, that's what this pos said about the gouging price he raised it to.
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  5809. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma I tend to agree that its use is more often a good thing than a problem, and people tend to pick one style and stick with it.
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  5810. Pretty much. Even assuming a gun was the answer: If he was worried about protecting the victim, he would have either done nothing, or used the gun as a threat to separate the criminals from the victim. (and would have prioritized helping him over getting away if someone he didn't intend to shoot got hit) If he was worried about them getting away, he would have shot out the tires. No, he thought, "ooh criminals, I'm going to shoot them!" He didn't even check his line of fire for innocents that he could see. Part of being responsible with any type of power is knowing when not to use it. If you're looking for an excuse to use it, you shouldn't have it.
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  5811. Ones that think that a badge means "I am the law" instead of "I protect and serve"
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  5812. Declaring war is a very specific thing in the US that comes with a number of other things including legal suspension of some constitutional protections. We do need a less "clean" thing to call them, but most, if not all, of them aren't wars in the legal sense. (which just makes the situation more fucked up imo)
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  5813. +Gehti Nixan and historic opposition to whistleblowers (to say nothing of the targeting of civilians and massive domestic spying programs they revealed).
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  5814. +Jake Adams exactly Most in-pocket uses for internet connection are pretty low-bandwidth, so will be fine staying on wifi, but higher bandwidth applications like games and video are generally things you need to have your phone out for anyway. Not to mention we're running out of radio bandwidth for how we currently handle wireless internet, so we need another section of the spectrum to continue current growth.
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  5815. Shiftless Lazycrat this isn't fantastic, it's barely passable. It only looks good compared to the mainstream propaganda outlets that pass for "news" in America (and presumably at least a couple other western nations)
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  5816. Exponential price growth is the result of inelastic demand. If you'll pay whatever the market demands because you need something to live, the free market will always screw you. We need public healthcare for the same reasons we don't let people price gouge in the wake of natural disasters.
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  5817. I feel I need to point out (because of how movies portray it mostly) that anytime a head blow causes someone to loose consciousness for more than a very brief amount of time, it's not a minor injury. The whole 'knock someone out and have time to move them to a different location/tie them up, and when they wake up they'll be fine' idea is just a Hollywood plot device that has no more relation to the real world than pretty much anything they do with guns/explosions/cars/computers/etc.  Even durations that are 'short' by Hollywood standards would be serious enough that it'd be impressive if they lived, much less were able to speak/see/walk/etc ever again.
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  5818. Part of the JD platform is to implement such legislation. Kyle has said repeadedly that it's a temporary measure.
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  5819. If the democrats really want the youth vote, they would openly admit how the primary was rigged, and force Hillary to step down (preferably out of the party). They can try to spin it anyway they want, but since we know from her record that she'll tell any lie to get ahead, their words are meaningless. Only actions will be considered to have any weight. We're not like the gullible older generations: once we know you're a chronic liar, we stop trusting anything you say.
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  5821. My personal favorite: Faith and religion had people believing various supernatural causes for diseases and praying desperately to save their loved ones from smallpox to no effect at all. Skepticism and science took a crack at it and eradicated it entirely in rather short order. 'nuff said.
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  5822. Neither government wants peace because as soon as it comes both populations will turn back toward more sane leadership. Both factions in the conflict will continue to do things to provoke the other side so they can rally support from their citizens.
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  5823. When's the promised AI takeover coming?
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  5824. +Matthew P. Sorry, but that doesn't really hold up entirely. Sure it's about money, but not the way you think. People know that the ads they see online are algorithmically picked and targeted, often to the user, but that advertisers aren't picking which ads their videos appear before themselves. I've never heard of anyone boycotting a company because of a youtube ad. The reason this is happening is because the advertisers want to control the content on youtube like they have with old media. That's why these things don't care what position you take, global warming was involved in the previous demonetization push, they keep messing up the comment system, etc. Of course it's about money; most actually real conspiracies are, but that doesn't mean it isn't shady as fuck.
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  5825. +Gonzo Lewd "altering" not "controlling", but yes, my bad, I was remembering that before it was partially debunked. A number of sources seem to have been originally misinterpreting an algorithmic white-washing of search results that was incidentally favoring Clinton (but affecting all individuals) for a targeted effort. It was such a small thing compared to the other BS going on around that time that I never did a follow-up. I'll remove "As for conspiracies, google showed themselves completely willing to go along with this BS when they were found to be altering search results during the primary." from my original comment to correct what I was saying (though the main point I was making stands entirely without it).
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  5826. +RAUL RVJEDI It's well past time everyone of every age turn off the tv and do some internet research. Get out of the main stream hypnosis. Fixed it for you
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  5827. Very well covered.
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  5828. +nick otwell (nofrownonme) hey, the amount of damage a block of wood can do is quite limited. ...can't say that about Hillary or Trump, though.
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  5829. *facepalms* Now for the obligatory sex-ed psa: Sticking anything back there where the base is not the widest part is likely to lead to a very embarrassing emergency room visit. sorry, someone had to say it...
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  5830. +Solar Porpoise and only even "moderate" by the fucked up spectrum of US politicians.
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  5831. Um, if the heating problem is that bad when idling, how do they drive? and don't give me that bs about the electronics causing all that heat. If a computer remotely came close to putting off the kind of heat as a car engine while driving, it would be a puddle of plastic with some smoking silicone and metal in no time.
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  5832. +louis prinzo a direct democracy would be the people voting on each law. Electing representatives like a president in the first place is a feature of a democratic republic. Please at least double check your facts before you take a condescending tone.
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  5833. Mr. Rapey No, that's not the purpose of the electoral college. That's the purpose of the checks and balances and limitations on government power. The electoral college without those, would allow the 49% to drown the 51%. (actually 23% to drown the other 77%)
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  5834. I seem to remember them trying this a few years ago too (beyond just the "no sharia law" stuff, which was like this but more complicated).
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  5835. Guessing with 20 parties, you don't have "first past the post" elections.
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  5836. Yah, my read is that someone close to her has been spiking her drinks with just a little bit of kool-aid for a couple years now and it's starting to show effects.
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  5837. +LE/A Tyrone and judging by the last part of the video, very much not gay.
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  5838. StarFighters76 ikr? At least read the constitution you pathetic tool!
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  5839.  evolver  FDR was towards the left side of the Overton Window at the time and was basically a somewhat racist ("internment camps") social democrat. Economically speaking, though, his political platform was basically in line with that of Bernie Sanders. The New Deal we got was only a fraction of what was proposed with FDR dieing before much of it could be implimented. So yeah, to put it simply, FDR was significantly to the left of this. (Though really still only a left-leaning moderate at best) The Cold-War era propaganda and the momentum from that has just pushed this country so far right that we're surprised by even quite moderate political positions.
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  5840. "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices" Great one Should add war criminals to the list though.
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  5841. If he's economically moderate, what's a pro-corporate extremist to these people??? It's like they just throw around buzzwords with no understanding of their definitions smh.
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  5842. +myheartspits Yes, romantic attraction and sexual attraction aren't the same thing despite usually aligning. An obvious example would be asexuals who still desire romantic relationships with a preferred gender.
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  5843. Um, how is 26 too young to make decisions for yourself??? Even setting aside the absurdity of "you're old enough to decide to be a parent, but not old enough to decide to not be one"... The brain's medically considered done developing at 25. There's not really any "growing up" to do after that (sure, new things to learn and more time for life to, hopefully, beat some more normal human stupidity out of you, but that's not really the same thing). After about 25, keeping your mind flexible is something you have to actually work at. The painfully common tendency to look at people in their late 20s as "kids" is REALLY annoying and insulting!
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  5844. Sounds like a step up from what we often get in the US. No action can be preferable to bad action afterall.
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  5845. ALovelyTsundere Counterpoint: Bernie Sanders It doesn't have to be this way.
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  5846. No person shall be. . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." -5th amendment, US constitution If a government derives it's legitimacy from a constitution, and then disregards that constitution, it looses its legitimacy and becomes a group of people that have usurped control of the country; in other words, they've preformed a subtle equivalent of a coup. ...they're hardly even pretending anymore.
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  5847. The network who's viewers are less informed than those who don't pay any attention to the news is saying other people live in a fantasy world? You know, that's actually kinda funny.
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  5848. Well, us lashing out in poorly directed anger would make an environment that would be easier to spread their extremism. Not to mention, military operations use a lot of fuel and would distract us from dealing with climate change (and thereby delay us getting off of oil), so would line their pockets nicely. Being able to use the US military to strike at Iraq could arguably just be a bonus in that light, sadly. I don't think they counted on Bush making such a mess of things so as to create a group like Isis that would threaten them, so now we're dealing with that too...
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  5849. Therrydicule In 2013, he wasn't running for or holding any office I could vote for, so you're point is irrelevant. The media's job in an election is to take a critical and objective look at all candidates regardless of how well they are known. If the media had done their job correctly the whole general public would have known that Bernie's policy positions align more with theirs than any other candidate (or probably anyone in congress). Sure, the public should have done more research on their own, but that doesn't disprove media bias. Actually, it's only because of media bias that they need to seek out alternative information sources in the first place.
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  5850. Dr. Zoidberg the difference in kind is that most circumcised men can enjoy normal sex. Some have problems and the pleasure is reduced, of course, but they still largely see sex as pleasurable rather than an unpleasant task. http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/global-post-i-hate-it-it-hurts-egyptian-women-talk-about-sex-after-female-genital-mutilation/
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  5851. +SeruraRenge11 False dichotomy: you're acting like the only solution to the situation is military when it's not. Negotiating with China could easily produce a solution if we were willing to set aside pride and imperialism to reach it, and it's not the only option. Also, you make it sound like this would be like the Nazis, but it wouldn't. N.Korea is essentially a nation-sized cult and a military solution to that problem would mean wiping out nearly the entire country at the cost of several of the most densely-populated cities in the world (to say nothing of the cost to our military fighting a jungle-war against fantics).
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  5852. I don't support the shooter(s), nor do I have any sympathy for the cops at all. Antagonize, oppress, and brutalize a community long enough and this kinda thing happens. It's like if a victim of domestic abuse murders their abuser. Yes, it's wrong and there should be a trial, but don't expect me to shed one tear for the abuser.
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  5853. The only sane response to many of the areas of the middle east in violent conflict (at this point at least) is to get as many civilians out as possible and let the psychos that truly want war kill each other until the country collapses. If they need to fight 'till there's nothing left but blood and bomb-craters until they remember why it's a bad idea, let them. (no reason to let them take the innocent to hell on earth with them, though)
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  5854. Wow, at that point they'd be better off just finding a local larp!
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  5855. Was thinking the same thing as JR. If there was a movie likely to be targeted by some white-supremacist nutjob... Even if it's not the intent, it might still be a good thing...sad to say but still.
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  5856. . . . as has been happening for all of comic book history. It's part of the genre and there isn't anything that wouldn't have some part of the fan-base angry (including trying to keep everything the exact same). It's kind of amusing once you step far enough back, actually.
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  5857. +dumpthe chump Simple: Dumb figureheads are easier to control and provide a convenient "out" when the consequences of their actions hit the public. It also means they sweep up the lowest common denominator voters with overly simplistic arguments and anti-intellectual appeal, and if the VP's running the show anyway, it's of little consequence. Win-Win-Win (for them anyway)
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  5858. For more details, look up redacted tonight's channel
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  5859. Banning any discussion of natural disasters makes it pretty fucking clear that the corporations want to shut down independent media so they can control the public narrative once again.
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  5860. +Jim Yah, sadly, once you look up their success rates, this is indisputable.
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  5861. You talk about jet fuel having no water... You do realize that combustion creates co2 & water, right? (feel free to say if I misunderstood you) In fact, in the most efficient ones, that's all you get as exhaust. (carbon monoxide is created when the fire's not getting enough oxygen to burn efficiently, and most other exhaust fumes are from impurities and incomplete combustion)
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  5862. Elephant-endangered Donkey-doin' fine Raptor-extinct That seems about right; it doesn't matter how big and tough you are if you can't handle the real world... Sure that's the symbolism you want?
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  5863. Justice? What's that? Is it tasty?
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  5864. Thing is, when Maher's right, it's because it's rehearsed talking points/punch lines he probably thought up with a writing staff. You can tell when someone punches a hole in his argument or puts him on the defensive that his "views" are shallow at best because he just falls apart and just becomes more abrasive to try and hide it. Don't get me wrong, it was great to have Maher around during the Bush era, but he's served his purpose and if you look at him through the lens of him having MSNBC writers help him craft his material despite him not being that bright (not flat out stupid, but not an exceptional thinker in any way) all the oddities and seeming contradictions around him fall into place so very neatly. He defines the most left position of the overton window on tv, and by being abrasive (and a bit of an arrogant ass at times) also helps other establishment tools label anyone more progressive than him as insane radicals.
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  5865. "Herbal Viagra" things have a pretty strong reputation for being super sketchy so I bet that's what did it. Don't use that shit, ever! Herbal medicine can range from safe and effective to this kind of thing, so if you're thinking about it do your research! Anything used in medicinal concentrations has the chance for side effects and drug interactions if it has any effects at all. This is true no matter how 'natural' the substance is. Any source that says otherwise is BS.
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  5866. Even of that's true, you're going to need to force them to those extremes to such an extent that they can't hide what they're doing from hardly anyone. before you can "physically throw them out".
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  5867. I've seen a decent balance where there are "participation trophies" (often just a ribbon, but whatever) that are somewhere between an honorable mention and a "we all had a great time today" souvenir and the the top 1-3 get trophies based on where they placed. It's a nice way to give everyone something to go home with without being patronizing. Give someone a "you won by showing up" and if they don't resent it now, they will later.
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  5868. Switching sides? What are you talking about Kyle? Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia.
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  5869. Fate Kyougo Oh, I understand that. I was just making a round about point about how little our government cares and how they'll use any technicality to get out of doing anything (or just do so without any technicality in the first place). The US government really is THAT corrupt.
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  5870. Too many became exactly what they were fighting against. The baby boomers, aka the Hippie generation, supported Clinton in the primaries and other than a few stances (like abortion) are indistinguishable from the Republicans they originally rallied to oppose. They didn't even get weed legalized before they got absorbed by the system. All credit to the ones that still hold true to principle to this day, but most didn't, sad but true.
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  5871. If 80% of marriages stayed together, but as soon as women gained financial independence the divorce rate shot up to 50%, what does that 30% difference say about the domestic abuse rates? (Not even counting the abuse portion of that 20%) Can't even pull good numbers out of his ass to make his case. (btw, divorce rates have been on a steady decline ever since...fuck the 1950s) You want an idea on how to strengthen the family? How about you make it so that a 40hr work week pays enough to support a family (rather than 80hrs often not), each adult can put 20-30hours in and then there's more time to actually invest in the family and less financial strain (a leading cause of divorce)? No? Well you don't give a fucking shit about the 'family unit' then do you?
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  5872. They did have ideas at one point....when they were the liberal party, but then they came up with neoconservativism and the southern strategy and it's been downhill ever since.
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  5873. fanofmetal1 what do they care? As long as they can keep things going long enough to retire and get a nice kickback from the rich people & companies they served, they're set. Hell, they get a lot of kickback under the table while still in office.
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  5874. The problem comes down to framing. The quiz is racist and sexist because you're supposed to make assumptions about people with only that information. If you wanted a thought provoking question, it'd be more like "there are 15 random people but only 9 seats on the lifeboat. How would you decide who gets a seat?" Even the same question with a list of facts that you had to sift through and decide what was relevant information would be alright. This is very very far from those.
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  5875. In hindsight she should have complied with an illegal order is not something that should ever need said.
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  5876. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html Plenty of stories like this about the NSA collecting info on porn viewing. We live in the surveillance part of this already in the US.
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  5877. Funny though, how people that grew up with the internet and who are said to have incredibly short attention spans are less likely to be Trump supporters. Maybe it's not that they have less attention span but rather are quicker to cast aside BS. (Be it Trump's empty soundbites, or the way establishment politicians tend to take several minutes to not answer a question) Considering that on the internet, it's quality, not quantity, of information that's important, it makes sense that those who's formative years were spent with it would have an advantage there.
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  5878. I'm calling it now. This is an excuse for the establishment to get together and to back-room talks about how to defeat progressives in the primaries. The talk about beating Donald Trump is a cover.
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  5879. With the amount of information lockdown, we don't for sure on any individual incident, but look into cult psychology and North Korea fits it to a T. It's kinda like if you have a dictator with a more open state where a long string of his opponents die in "accidents." At a certain point the only rational option is to not dig into each one, but to see the larger picture for what it is. Do you know that any individual person was actually assassinated? No, but the probability of them all being accidents is so small you can safely call it zero. So do we know that this (or any) in incident is for sure true? No, but it is certain that North Korea is a country-sized cult with nukes (thanks Bush) that no-one has a good solution for. Outside of desperately struggling to estimate its current stability via complicated probability estimates, anything more than that is splitting hairs.
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  5880. Here's some advice that goes beyond the specific groups involved: If group A is driving huge portions of group B to suicide AND is inflicting often lethal violence on group B while the response from group B is extended non-violent protest which they continue despite it increasing the violence against them, stop and look at yourself. Regardless of who groups A & B are, if you still support group A, do your species a favor and go die somewhere. I don't care if you're against lgbt rights or are a segregationist left over from the civil rights era, or something else and no, I'm not joking; you're not needed anywhere on this planet.
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  5881. +Zurround100 you mean you want to hear him say "I warned you, you damned morons!"?
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  5882. El Chapo, please tell your son to stop fighting with the handicapped/insane; it's embarrassing.
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  5883. I'm guessing from none to the max dose...
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  5884. gary wood"privileged elite getting richer has also lead to the people below them getting richer" is a causal statement. If you're looking for a non-causal one it would be: "the privileged elite and those below them got richer at the same time" or "the privileged elite got richer followed by those below them" Also, trickle-down economics is a theory about a causal relationship saying that the rich having more money will lead to the people below them getting richer, which is demonstrably false. I know that all sounds a bit like nit-picky semantics, but it's actually very important in this case.
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  5885. Oh, it's worse than that: He's talking about target putting in single-stall, unisex family bathrooms. Those, while not that common, have been around for decades! If it's a single stall, what does he imagine happening in there? This puts him as more extreme than the "American Family Association" (which the Southern Poverty Law Center officially labels an extremist group), who were so crazy that in response to Target's policies demanded they put in "single-stall, unisex family bathrooms" only for Target to basically say "yah, we have those in hundreds of stores" More importantly though, let's take a moment to appreciate how appalling it is to say that the Nazis were driven by support for one of the primary victims of the holocaust.... Can we just free up all the AM frequencies for Wifi already? There's nothing of value there at all currently.
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  5886. What's wrong with our county is that we're no longer a democratic country in practice. Case in point: public opinion has ZERO statistical correlation to public policy at a national level.
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  5887. It's an intuitive judgement based on his demeanor and actions (such as the laugh) that generally give the sense that her overreaction was what he was looking for, not the fact that he's wearing a trump hat.
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  5888. Martin Šriber Wouldn't that be the plural?
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  5889. Martin Šriber hm...well that's always how I've heard the singular pronounced. Good to know though
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  5890. Old media doesn't want to die and advertisers want the same ability to shape public perceptions of things through influence of the news that they're used to. In short, the powerful want back the power that's been slipping through their fingers back under their control. That's ALL the more complicated this is. I didn't know what form it would take, but it was obvious that the power establishment was going to be coming for alternative media as soon as the "fake news" talking point started flying. Case in point, you can be demonetized for the topic of natural disasters. Not taking a particular stance or showing footage, just talking about them at all. That's because the oil companies want the only information people are exposed to to be the fake neutrality they pay for in the news and their own ads. You really think Walmart cares about their "outstanding" reputation so much that they're going to skip a massive advertising opportunity? No, they wanted the TPP and realized that alternative media was the main reason that it's dead. You think "SJW"s want to demonetize ALL videos on gender, regardless of position? No, nor would them being upset prompt this because you don't see boycotts of companies because of what video their ads happened to appear in front of without the company's choice. "advertiser friendly" means "corporatist friendly", it really is THAT simple.
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  5891. I think we have finally reached the point where the MSM's death spiral is starting to become funny. Someone start the popcorn, this is gonna be hilarious soon.
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  5892. Zeke m Sorry, while I fully support continuing to try for fusion, that's still not true, and the 'perpetually 30 years away' still holds for now. 4th gen fission reactors, however are nearly as good in every way (such as very little waste and no meltdowns ever) and could be easily and realistically fast-tracked in less than 10 (since they're currently expected in the 2030s anyway).
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  5893. Zeke m Then, cite me one expert in the field that thinks we're that close. As soon as we start moving under the standard "30 years off" estimate the story will be everywhere because it will be HUGE news. Best case scenario realistically, however, is we really are 30 years off now, but I've seen nothing from any credible source saying we're any closer than that yet.
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  5894. Um, a half-dozen random civilians could tell that this was likely to become violent & took the initiative to come over to try & diffuse the situation & stop him if that didn't work. Sorry, but it WAS obvious where that was going, & multiple security guards did pretended not to notice until the violence started. You're right that it's not illegal to be a bigot, but that's not the point. The point is the negligence of those whose job it was to at least try and stop it from escalating.
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  5895. "He who makes peaceful revolution impossible . . ." We're not there yet, but this is a dangerous game they're playing. If you treat all protesters like they're violent, you're going to get a lot more violent protests.
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  5896. Exactly. Between how targeted this was and how many other states have had problems with voter suppression, it's all but certain that this election is being rigged for Hillary. Not just the democratic party putting undue influence behind her and money laundering to get around what few campaign finance laws we have. (both of which are happening) I mean actually rigging the election itself!
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  5897. They don't take me seriously? Well to be fair, the feeling's mutual. The MSM's a damn joke and most people know it.
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  5898. +
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  5899. Missed the most hilarious irony: 40 breeding adults does not make a sustainable gene pool by a long shot. The most practical way to avoid the inbreeding problem in that situation would be to send up 40 lesbians with a sperm bank. (may even be able to afford a couple more people with the weight reduction of skipping men) So under his premise, 100% of the crew being gay/bi is the most logical choice.
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  5900. ***** Not technically, but in practice, avoiding the social problems that would come with a 100% straight, female crew would make sense. There's enough psychological stressers without adding a population that would want to form heterosexual romantic relations but that would not have any viable options for it.
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  5901. The thing a lot of you are forgetting is that tattoos can be removed or at least covered up. It's not a perfect process, but he wasn't even trying. I mean, from the sounds of it, he was still shaving his eyebrows so the tattoos could be seen, so that does point to his CURRENT state of mind. (only commenting about the tattoos being exposed or not if that wasn't clear)
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  5902. ***** Yes, but not shaving your eyebrows anymore is free, so my point stands as it shows a continued desire to appear that way
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  5903. It's so sad when you're talking about trying to get your support UP to 15-18% It's even worse when the number of voters you think you'd need to do that would only get you to 8-11%.... I mean he guessed Trump's current support in the black community was over 3x higher than it is! Of course, we're talking about a candidate that thinks that 70% DISapproval means "I'm doing great with women. They love me!" so I guess it's fitting.
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  5904. I love the hobbit homes one! ". . .it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." That's literally sentence 2 of JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" Well-built, in-hill homes irl are actually worth more than the average American home and have a large number of advantages to what's considered a normal house. UN comes and says they want to put me in a hobbit-hole, even if it had low ceilings with beams, I think my response is "what's the cetch?".
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  5905. What's the question?
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  5906. +xxFalconArasxx I never said there weren't fast tanks. I even commented quite early in the discussion about an early-WW2 tank with a 48kph tank in operation at the same time as a <13kph tank by the same country. My point was that the class of tanks the infantry spent more time around (appropriately named "infantry tanks") actually were quite slow (~25kph on road being normal) compared to other vehicles they would be dealing with regularly. Even comparing the 46kph of the heavy tank you mention to the 80kph norm of most other military vehicles makes that a pretty slow combat vehicle. To make things appear even slower, most tanks, when close to infantry, are not usually going to be going at top speed, but rather creeping along at a much slower speed than they're capable of for quite a few reasons (which are interesting, but would make this post too long), and really only opening up their throttle when on open ground (or roads) and away from infantry. This is both why tanks=slow makes sense even with faster tanks in existence (since perception of what a tank is like will be based on exposure) and this entire line of argument other people besides you have been going in circles over about tanks vs infantry speed is entirely irrelevant.
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  5907. +Afnan Zahran Yes, that is part of what I've been saying. I even specifically mentioned "infantry tanks".
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  5908. Domo N Car That's just based on how you set up the systems and incentives. I don't doubt that you could easily design a system that would be worse of a disaster than that, but that doesn't mean a well designed system is doomed to the same fate. Just as simple examples, setting up good pay incentives to encourage good employee performance and closing the loopholes that allow them to write off the losses could fix a lot of the problems you mentioned. Giving people lifetime job security with no influence of their job performance factoring into things like pay (or even keeping the job) is the problem, not who owns the bank.
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  5909. Domo N Car While much of that is true, without good governance, private banks will be just as much of a problem (just in different ways) if not worse since they'll just end up bribing the politicians, and then you have a system where the top power isn't one you get a vote in. Sure there's a tendency in human nature for corruption, but the systems we design are what dictate how prevalent that is and how easy it is to remove. Currently in the US we have nearly unregulated legalized bribery, 1st past the post voting, and massive gerrymandering, but that doesn't mean governments less susceptible to corruption can't (or haven't) been designed). Since we'd need to overturn the political status-quo and change things on that end substantially so that the government actually works for the people (even if only for a few decades) to have a hope of doing something like nationalizing the banks, I was just skipping the "bad governance + nationalized banks" concept as an impossibility.
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  5910. Domo N Car I don't know enough about Indian economic policy or corruption issues to say much about specifics (other than being hopeful about your country's fight against corruption), but US history has pretty clearly shown a couple things: 1-economically liberal banking policy nearly always results in a boom, followed by a crash later 2-market forces are woefully insufficient to fight against corruption in banks as they grow and age Remember, we've crashed the world economy at least twice in <100 years, so while going back to something that didn't work is a bad idea, copying US policy from either recently or pre-great depression is doomed to failure as well (even if the initial results look promising). That said, though I doubt they could work under the same rules, a mix of nationalized and private banks could probably work if you got rid of fractional reserve lending (if the government is controlling the money supply anyway, you don't really need it anyway).
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  5911. Domo N Car Yah, I imagine we're a great instructional aid as, succeed or fail, we tend to do it pretty spectacularly. If we could at least learn from our OWN history we might not keep repeating the same mistakes endlessly, but that's another topic altogether (though I hope you get a more objective picture of our history over there than we get taught in schools over here).
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  5912. If you're a cop that honestly doesn't know what information people are Legally required to give you in a given situation you should be fired on the spot. Knowing the laws regarding your interactions with the public is the most basic part of your job! If you can't manage that you're not a real cop, you're absolutely nothing more than a thug with a badge. If a thug tries to take you against your will, resisting is a reasonable response. If he isn't following the law now, what trust are you supposed to have that he will once you're in cuffs? "Oh, if I just endure this abuse quietly he'll calm down" what does that sound like to you?
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  5913. +chris Dejesus "Seriously how cynical do you have to be to believe politicians would pass a law that wouldn't allow kids to receive pain relief, it's just ridiculous." You....don't really pay that much attention to politics do you? We have tens of thousands of people die every year in the US because we don't have universal healthcare, and drug prohibition funds gangs leading to violence and other crime while not actually stopping drug use (even though we have the example of prohibition to show that would be the result before we started the "war on drugs"). Politicians create draconian laws that cause widespread harm all the time. I suppose willful ignorance is more likely though, given that you've had Hugh try to reason with you for quite a while, me provide a rather thorough logical argument based entirely on facts (with a cited source even) and ts757arse provide a personal testimony to the same argument. Hugh will likely not respond to you because he's done wasting his time on someone who won't listen to anyone else, and while I've given you just a little more room to have a chance to actually listen and engage with others, I now am too.
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  5914. John A. I'm assuming scrambling to deal with the ad-pulling BS pushed back those plans, but I would very much like to see interviews and those screens used in some way now that that's mostly died down.
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  5915. Or maybe we just adapt our understanding to new information available while continuously innovating better ways to do things. Are there conspiracies out there? Sure, always have been, but: CFLs are better than incandescents LEDs are rapidly surpassing CFLs These are objective facts. Don't let your fear paralyze you and close your mind to new information.
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  5916. What do you think about using "shaped" or "formed" as a translation instead of "created", "modified", or "organized"?
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  5917. +Jose Andrade So you like driving in rush hour traffic?
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  5918. We do have a pretty nice constitution (outside of MASSIVE election reform being needed)...shame we haven't been using hardly ANY it for going on 2 decades now.
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  5919. ***** Try re-reading my comment. I didn't say it was....and your taking a side on the Hitler vs Stalin hypothetical shows you missed my point as well. sharper68 Please read my first comment. It's what I would reply with but I don't want to annoy you with re-posting or make things confusing.
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  5920. sharper68 You think Hillary, who is a center-right corporatist herself, won't put in another corporate demagogue??? On top of that, every election we have the issue of the supreme court come up. Worrying about that hasn't changed the slide to the right, nor the fundamentalists and corporate demagogues from setting policy. No matter how that compromise looks on paper, it's proven to be a loosing strategy. Both Clinton and Trump have a record of doing whatever is in the interests of their personal power, so, in that light, I don't expect the differences between who they would nominate would be that different. Pro-corporate, pro-executive power, anti-freedom (especially free speech), anti-privacy, etc. Voting for an establishment candidate will only get more of the status-quo, and unfortunately, the status-quo is not a static point, but a perpetual slide toward right-wing extremism.
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  5921. Bernie end a speech with a mike-drop and that stare? Would win every state going forward 90-10 and flip the super-delegates that day. Does it against Trump in the general election? Republican party collapses, never to recover
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  5922. I can't stand seltzer water. Does that mean I am a demon?
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  5923. Hillary rigs elections like Putin showing that she hates democracy. They're both wannabe dictators.
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  5924. don't take pride in willfull ignorance (@ Pan and Nic)
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  5925. lucidity I agree, and largely support them, but removing the "necessary" part of that phrase would be an even better solution.
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  5926. Dingdingding We have a winner here! That's exactly when and why her normal saber rattling for defense contractors and general grandstanding escalated into something exceptionally dangerous.
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  5927. Let's wait before we even discuss why a tragedy happened? If a terrorist attack happens, do we wait months before we try and find out who did it and if there's more on the way? A sharp spike in violent crime? Do the cops wait for the evidence to go cold before they start looking for a murderer? Do you even think that when those that loved the victims are better off wondering why it happened than they are if they get a quick answer followed by what we're going to do to stop it happening again? Saying it's "too soon" to ask "why?" is always politicizing a tragedy. Period.
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  5928. +Lucifer'sLoveChild liberal: "believing that government should be active in supporting social and political change" "not opposed to new ideas or ways of behaving that are not traditional or widely accepted" -Webster "open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values." -google "Progressive" is just another word for the same thing to sidestep the GOP's demonizing of the word "liberal" (which they only managed to do because the democrats are weak at best)
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  5929. "Fox news is attacked when we report the truth" This from the "news" network who's viewers are consistently Less informed than people who don't pay any attention to the news? That's actually rather funny. Fox news reporting the truth; when was that?
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  5930. Cheap location, $750 for food (which can be a lot if you're not paying for catering and can do at least some of the cooking yourself/in the family); simple to plan, cheap, and a good time for everyone that doesn't have a stick up their ass. (also doubles as a personality test of your new in-laws if you pay attention)
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  5931. Now we only need about 300 more videos like this contrasting him with current Republicans to show how far right things have gone.
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  5932. How are preemption laws even a thing? Isn't defigning what can and can't be law a constitutional issue? Also, couldn't and congress just repeal the preemption law with a single sentence at the top of the bill or a law passed right before it? This isn't rherorical. These things make no sense to me from even a legal standpoint.
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  5933. People did, but they were ignored, and the media drowned out the story. Protesting the actions of the federal government is a waste of time. Public opinion has zero (not negligible, ZERO) correlation to public policy. In other words, our government does not care AT ALL what we think. Overturning the entire establishment is the only option
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  5934. record breaking use abuse of the espionage act to crack down on whistleblowers, assassinating US citizens w/o trial, making Bush tax cuts permanant, bombing the middle east so much he ran out of bombs briefly, waiting for the GOP to get the numbers to oppose him before trying to do anything (so he could pretend there was nothing he could have done to meet his campaign promices), etc
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  5935. Miss Kekistan The dictionary definition of liberal, depending on context, is pro-change, pro-freedom, and/or generous. Left vs right started as commoners vs aristocracy, so left would be correctly defigned as populist, democratic, and anti-establishment. Those aren't at all contradictory. Are you using a different definition of "left"?
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  5936. Dara Macr Sasmaz Yup, I completely agree on all points. I was just using slightly different wording. Political terms, especially, must have solid definitions or else they're just meaningless buzzwords consisting of just different emotional connotations to different groups (which only leads to meaningless polarization). I believe that reminding people that these words to have real meaning no matter how politicians want to twist them to be very useful.
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  5937. Does this mean that a religion that has any racial component anywhere in it (some forms of Christianity like Mormonism) can be used to justify segregating businesses with "Whites only" signs again? How about Islam being used to segregate based on gender/sex? Yup, neo-cons once again opening the door for shiria law and trying to set civil rights back 100 years...sadly, nothing new.
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  5938. Even if the officer was making a mistake about the surrender (likely), look at where the kick was: he kicked the back of the knee. I think it's pretty clear he was just trying to put the man on the ground; he was using violence to disable in a way that had an extremely low risk of anything more serious than a sprain. I don't see a significant problem here. Perhaps unnecessary, but that's not possible to say for sure and it was very measured to the situation. (in all honesty, it was probably safer than tackling him for both of them)
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  5939. +Ryan Marshall In what way? It's been mostly "blue" states that have legalized pot. The war on drugs was started to help Republicans beat Democrats in elections by having an excuse to lock up blacks and hippies to destabilize their communities and stop them from voting. This isn't even a theory. One of the Nixon aids involved in the program flat out admitted it. Even back with prohibition, it was Democrats that repealed it.
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  5940. +Ryan Marshall "conservatives have always been about small government and staying the fuck out of peoples' private lives" No, they haven't. Conservatives are constantly trying to legislate traditional values. Marriage, pornography, drugs (including alcohol), "blue laws", abortion, voting, unionization, speech/press/expression, sex, identity, privacy, and religion all have a very long history of having their freedoms restricted by conservatives under the justification of "protecting traditional values" (to say nothing of the massive conservative effort resisting the civil rights movement which sought to end restriction of freedoms to groups that had been traditionally second-class citizens). Also, most republicans aren't libertarians http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/25/in-search-of-libertarians/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/there-are-few-libertarians-but-many-americans-have-libertarian-views/ Even if you don't agree with the specific numbers, common sense would tell you that Ron Paul & Rand Paul would do much better in GOP presidential primaries. The Republican party and conservatism in general are not at all what you seem to think they are.
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  5941. +Ryan Marshall No, I've been demonstrating that in no way outside of your personal opinion or it being something they're coming around to, is it a Republican idea. I could say "in theory, the sky is red" but I'd be wrong, and so are you. Neither conservatives nor the Republican party actually are about personal freedom, in theory or fact.
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  5942. No, going on strike is voting 3rd party. Not voting just sends the message of apathy and does no harm to the people causing the problems. That said, yes, we should all go on strike and vote 3rd party.
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  5943. +Nicolas Cage Crime? Probably Unconstitutional? um, citation needed.... The constitution puts very few limitations on actual citizens. Almost everything forbidden by the constitution are things that the government might want to do to the people, not the other way around.
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  5944. Nicolas Cage Where was assault or force mentioned? Frankly, you're stretching on all points and this is really starting to sound like a straw-man fallacy.
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  5945. Nicolas Cage I never disputed that it would be a crime.  I don't know the specific rules for permission to enter the capitol building but yes, it would very likely be at least trespassing. That doesn't mean it's unconstitutional. Not everything that's illegal is unconstitutional, nor should it be.  Unconstitutional has a very specific meaning that shouldn't be diluted.  If you can point to a section of the constitution that would prohibit entry and peaceful protest into any public building, by all means, do so. Otherwise, you're just throwing around words without knowing their meaning and equating peaceful protests to Hitler's rise to power (which shows a profound ignorance of how it happened).
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  5946. Nicolas Cage ...really hoping this is a failed attempt at subtle trolling and not someone actually believing that people like MLK and Ghandi are, by definition, not peaceful because they violated some laws....
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  5947. Nicolas Cage Off topic and highly doubtful, yup, done here.
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  5948. + Dukoth It hasn't quite crossed over into Successful violence. http://www.inquisitr.com/3107093/sanders-press-release-reveals-shots-fired-at-nevada-campaign-office/
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  5949. +Kevin Masterson (stormkevin27) What definition of "left" are you using??? o.O
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  5950. +Max Donovan that exists? I'm genuinely afraid to look.
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  5951. He's definitely a pervert, but that's hardly unusual for a human. As for their relationship, where they draw the boundaries of what is acceptable is for them alone to decide. Cheating and abuse are terrible, but it's not for anyone outside their relationship to judge what is and is not off limits, and it's not like they're going to be open about those kinds of private details. Even fully open relationships (which I think are a bad idea) are not really any of my business to try and make moral judgements on if there's consent by all parties. I suspect she doesn't care what he texts as long as it never goes further than that. (though I also think you're right on the money with Hillary and Bill, but again, not my place to judge them on that...besides, too much else they've done wrong to even care about that kind of thing)
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  5952. +Jeff Chang That reason would be population density. Easier to avoid people you have issues with when there's more space, deescalating conflict. Shooting a gun in an urban area is more likely to hit a bystander, disincentivizing gun ownership in such areas. Rural areas have more cause to use guns against non-human targets. Distance for an encounter is likely to be different, leading to different self-defense strategies. (Also, differing likelihood of being caught in the open rather than having lots of thing around for cover/concealment) Differing police response times between areas There's a few other more minor reasons such as: Income disparity Access to shooting ranges More exposure to violence giving a more realistic picture of how much a gun will actually help (in a home defense situation, a gun would actually not be my weapon of choice).
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  5953. Really? 3-degrees from a suspect? It's at most 6 from any person in the world to any person in the world. (Probably approaching 5 by now) Even if you had just one suspect that'd still come to something like half the country!
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  5954. One does not simply take a moderate stance in a cult. The only difference between fundamentalists and cultists is the size of their groups.
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  5955. Carlos Zarate Wall street is supporting Hillary because they know who she works for. Trump will push pro-corporate policies, but they'll be designed to skew the economics in his favor, so they don't trust that he's not going to stab some of them in the back while he's screwing the rest of us. That's all. They're both pro-corporate and only care about their own power.
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  5956. At least in PA we have E-voting, so we can't recount. It's possible to design an e-voting machine that isn't hackable and is able to be manually recounted and checked, but nothing we have comes even close to that.
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  5957. The other argument Bernie needs to make is that the superdelegates should flip so that someone's representing the voters who were disenfranchised along with those that voted early in the election because they were tricked by the lies but would vote for Bernie if they could change their vote. With Bernie beating Trump by so much, I bet there's a bunch of people that would vote differently today than how they did early in the primaries. (I'd love to see a nationwide Bernie vs Hillary poll today, but I can't find one)
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  5958. Judging by their use? Assaulting peaceful protesters, small children (especially if they're white), and torturing people they already have subdued.
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  5959. Mark Oliver Walsh Perhaps, but guns aren't always that reliable either. Plenty of times someone gets shot and just keeps going until they loose too much blood. Not saying the probabilities are 100% equal (I don't have numbers on that, honestly) but emptying a gun at someone and then being killed by them is not unheard of by any means.
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  5960. Youtube's comment changes making it hard/impossible to block people isn't helping.
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  5961. +william santos Don't forget that as soon as he got power with his movement, and was done using them, he killed the 'left' wing of his party to remove the last of any opposition. Now, I'm not saying we're going to have a night of long knives of libertarians if Trump wins, but anyone that thinks that he's not throwing them under the bus as soon as he doesn't need them to further his own power...that's just plain naive.
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  5962. Yes, yes it is.
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  5963. I think I remember something about the way they made them having a possible carbon gradient with some steel at one side, but only iron on the back, but I don't remember where I read that. Not that it was something with a controlled carbon content much less tempering, but rather just that they forged them with one side to the smoke and fire and it ended up harder. Roman-era metallurgy wasn't actually that good, so it's best to assume iron or low grade steels, generally for anything of that time period. As for thickness, if you can get the weight and thickness of one piece of torso armor, you should be able to estimate the thickness of the segmentata using just weight. You may also be able to work backwards if you can get a weight estimate of the rest of the gear the legionnaire carried, since heavy infantry tends to hit a max weight they carry.
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  5964. EnhancedNightmare Sure mass loss would be a factor, but you could compensate for it within the margin of error of the other factors used in the rough estimate. You're of course, going to have to do some estimating about how much of the original armor is left, but it's not undo-able to get close, and the suggestion was a way to get around not having full access to an original piece (which may have thickness loss over time as well). As for Roman measuring units, we can do unit conversions, and I expect you could get reasonable estimates in imperial or metric for the weight of the Roman soldiers' marching kit and work backwards with the gear weight of heavy infantry to get a weight of the armor. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, and, of course, access to an original piece is better, but it doesn't mean the information you can access is useless (just that the precision of your estimate will be lower). Half of investigating history is making the best use possible of incomplete information, after-all (especially history of earlier eras).
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  5965. So Poe's Law applies to real life now. Got it.
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  5966. Niether, no matter how slim the odds of that get, it's the only rational position.
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  5967. Antibiotics are a stopgap until we develop focused treatments like synthesized antibodies. Considering that's one of the holy grails of medicine and something that is still a very good ways off (We'll likely need to use quantum supercomputers and get pretty good with them to make that happen, for perspective) we need to make that stopgap last as long as we can. Keep in mind, antibiotics work by targeting biochemistry. Eventually, we're going to end up with "superbugs" that are too much like our own biochemistry to target with conventional drugs (even ones we haven't developed yet).
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  5968. The thing is, once you fix all the other problems with the elections like money in politics, voter suppression (be it messing around with voting registrations or just not having sufficient polling places or even just the BS with our voting says), 2-party system (by instituting ranked-choice voting, like Maine just did this past election), gerrymandering, the electoral college, and unfair congressional representation, you don't even need compulsory voting. The thing is, while you could make voting compulsory, you can't make being informed compulsory, and that's the civic duty that comes first. Uninformed voters will probably just vote for a name they recognize and leave if they're compelled to vote, so you'll just get more establishment BS.
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  5969. I trust the military can classify it as a weapon without presuming it was used as such all the time. Given context of how used to handling weapons is, I take this as just a legal recognition of it's potential for misuse in a way that I would not for a civilian court.
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  5970. +HimerosTeviot Unfortunately, the founding fathers didn't define "treason" broadly enough since, among other things, deliberately undermining and sabotaging the foundations of our form of government isn't included.
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  5971. One change to Kyle's idea: you have to limit it to 1 journalist per briefing per partent company or else they'll just flood out the small outlets with numbers. Bonus is that you'd get to see how grossly huge these companies are. Bonus bonus is that all the MSM would get like 5 journalists in the room.
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  5972. Sadly, this is spot on.... Even those of us that are like "of course you need to follow the law" know that it's normal behavior for these assholes not to. We can't even get our federal government to abide by it's own constitution, so states breaking federal laws is too comparatively minor an issue that making a big deal out of the principle of it would make you look like a radical (which is an insane state of affairs) and be mostly a waste of time.
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  5973. Wow, the amount of crazy it takes to try to get back in that car! Dude needs a padded cell, asap. Nice to finally see tasers being used appropriately again. They have incredible stopping power at short range and aren't lethal (normally). This is exactly the kind of stuff they were made for and how they're supposed to be used.
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  5974. The little bright spots aren't technically the same as the floaters. Floaters are junk like mis-folded proteins suspended in the fluid of your eye. The little bright dots are actually white blood cells moving through the capillaries in front of your retina. (Hence why they have different movement patterns than the rest) Now you not only know why you see them, but what you're looking at.
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  5975. xXWhatever13Xx That one I don't know. Curious now, but can't help you there.
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  5976. Given the likelihood of a shootout in a residential area and possible innocents being shot, this does seem reasonable... not ideal, and he should have probably communicated better, but it is proportional to the situation and stopped it from escalating further. (Which, given the behavior of the guy, it was going to. Be real; he wasn't gonna put that down, and was arguably trying to provoke the cops into a shootout)
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  5977. Do I seriously need to point out that the study was on cancer MORTALITY. If your quality/amount of care is tied to your income, a lower income means you're more likely to die if you get cancer. Nations with universal healthcare like the UK had no increase in cancer mortality. This was explained <3min in.
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  5978. Tylr Cancer rates=/=cancer mortality
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  5979. I live near a major city and I basically have only 2 choices for internet because of monopolization of the market with help from local governments. Not living in a rural area doesn't make you safe from this, and even if you're not directly affected, web sites you visit will be. There's no escaping the effects of this if it happens. Fight.
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  5980. Please? We're ripe for regime change. The voters' will has no effect, we brazenly violate international law to commit war crimes, completely ignore our constitution to oppress our own people, and 2 out of the last 3 presidents got into office while loosing a popular vote that was rigged in their favor. We're even recognized as the greatest threat to world peace. Canada likes peace right?
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  5981. If this person doesn't have the social skills to behave around adults, why are the running a school full of kids?
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  5982. I understand the gown part (the outfit is part of the ceremony), but a small symbol like a feather? Seriously? Do we get rid of all of the countless symbolic tokens for different groups then? I don't hold any of it sacred (I'm neither religious nor have any real ethnic heritage) and I can see you've passed outside the realm of sanity when you do that.
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  5983. "If the good lord didn't want us to eat from the tree, why did he put it in the garden?" Sorry, too obvious, had to say it
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  5984. I'd help you with this, but I don't use their shitty service. Facebook or tumbler either for that matter. I know too much of how the tricks they pull work to ever put up with their sites.
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  5985. +Trish Stclair or your own post past the first 5 apparently. Seriously though, stop taking pride in ignorance.
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  5986. We really need 5-10 amendments to really fix our election system, but first things first. Besides, once we fill congress with new people, it's going to be full of people who've been kept down by things like gerrymandering, so that'll be the perfect time to fix things like that. After we get the money out, it'll be easy, but we need to remember not to dust off our hands and leave things half done.
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  5987. It's pretty obvious to me that the spying on the American public has nothing to do with stopping terrorism. If it were, you wouldn't see the balance between information gathering and information analyzing being so vastly biased toward gathering. That kind of program is not useful for stopping any crimes, because even if you have all the information, if you can't put it together in a meaningful way, you can only notice the signs in hindsight. What it is useful for, however, is as a political tool. The ability to dig up blackmail on anyone you don't like (& the intimidation of your would-be political opponents from the knowledge that you can do it to anyone) along with the ability to use bs guilt-by-association arguments against anyone even remotely related to any attack that does happen enables great control of the public discourse. Looking at the overall design (& what it would be most capable of) & comparing that to how the program is working (a pattern of gathering masses of extremely private data & not having any meaningful results in the stated goals) makes it pretty obvious. Not trying to be all conspiracy theorist, but does anyone paying attention really believe that the program is for anything other than political control?
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  5988. Maine actually passed a version of that under the terminology of "ranked choice voting" via ballot initiative this past election and it applies to ALL their elections. Getting that nationwide is about as important as getting money out of politics.
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  5989. Been saying since the primaries: Trump is basically Walder Frey Hillary is basically Cersei Lannister and for that matter Putin is basically Tywin Lannister the power relations aren't the same, but the personalities are frighteningly close. PS: Winter Summer is coming.
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  5990. Ah, if only we lived in a civilized country.
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  5991. "Destroy the blood of our youth and our people" hmm...that sounds familiar...oh right "We must protect the purity of our precious bodily fluids" the crazy warmonger from Dr. Strangelove...that doesn't bode well.
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  5992. Yah, much of the heaviest, multi-layer armor from the middle ages was driven by weapons that weren't a concern for the Romans. The advancements in saddle and stirrup design (and even the lance rest) that turned the couched lance charge into the insanely powerful thing it ended up being weren't around. The amount of armor that knights needed to deal with the insane impact forces that late period charges could produce when they met head on is very different that what you'd need in infantry fights (especially before things like poleaxes)
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  5993. I was too busy thinking "well that's obvious considering how much of your BS can be easily debunked with the 1st page of a google search and 5 minutes."
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  5994. Chill dudes, they're not analyzing your genes. They're just using it like a fingerprint to try and find a match. It's not the same thing.
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  5995. So sick of the condescending attitude toward the younger generations. The under 30 crowd: -understands politics&policy better than the rest of the county combigned. -will have a harder time getting established than any generation in living memory. -still has a ridiculously high un&under employment rate. -will be inheriting such a mess that it will take the rest of our lives to clean it up Yet we're still treated like we're children! Under who's watch did the country slip into decline again? Which generations -elected such a poor excuse for a president that allowed 9/11, and then when he basically said "omg everyone panic!" actually listened to the idiot and surrendered basic rights? -couldn't see how obvious the lies that got us into Iraq? -are ignoring the consequences of their actions that will happen after their death? Entitled? Immature? Ignorant? Sorry but, projection much?
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  5996. illkhan So then, your most substantial counter-point is to complain about an education system your generation designed? Then it's just a bunch of unsubstantiated insults mostly based around loud minorities (you really think you want to descend to those levels?) without actually addressing a single point in my post....yah, think we're done here. That's not to say it's a blanket statement about any generation, but rather to point out that the generalizations that are common are actually contrary to the norms. (and how done with your BS we are)
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  5997. No, voting is a right, period. Voting eligibility tests are just a way for the powerful to selectively disenfranchise voters who might vote against them. If you don't know our very clear history on this, then you're one of the people you're complaining about.
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  5998. Happened in 2000, even more blatently, and they got away with it... Don't ever believe they won't do it. Just keep trying until they fail.
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  5999. ***** He is, sadly not even a pleasant one, and there's more wrong with it than you could even begin to explain in a comment. Best you can do is point him in the direction of plain facts like Kyle did and hope he bumps into them hard enough to shatter that delusion.
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  6000. superstarpally oh sure, left us trying to keep the crazies away from the nukes! lol Seriously though, every time I think about moving, I remember the USA's history of exporting it's problems (take the Iraq War and the 2008 recession for some of the more recent examples) and running seems pointless.
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  6001. superstarpally Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you did. Just a joke and some commentary on my particular situation and viewpoint.
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  6002. Crossing my fingers on Maine's ranked voting. If we had that nationwide, we wouldn't have these 2 disastrous candidates.
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  6003. There are a few political reasons they do so: 1-the government has to pay someone to make those weapons, and they pay the politicians a lot of money 2-our crazy christian fundamentalists want to see the Israel all be retaken by a jewish state so that armageddon can happen and they can have their little rapture fantasy where they get lifted to heaven and watch the end of the world where everyone not like them dies (wish I was joking about that) 3-it means they always have a militaristic non-Muslim state in the region for their imperialist plans 4-makes it really easy to smear anti-war opponents as anti-semetic 5-makes them look like they're fighting terrorism without the baggage of getting american troops killed 6-keeps the region in perpetual warfare so it's always a bit unstable (good for excuses for wars and other imperialism, keeping the voters here afraid and not thinking, blowing interruptions in oil supply out of proportion so that speculators can make more $) Sick huh?
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  6004. Doubtful. Our society does all it can to break people like this as early as it can or, failing that, push them into dead end life positions where the power the can ever wield is greatly limited. Unless WE change things drastically ASAP, the best we can hope for is that he'll go into teaching or counseling. (Nothing against those of course, but compared to something like president, the scale of help they can provide is rather small)
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  6005. +Lord HiggleBottum Nuclear is actually far safer than most people think, and many upcoming reactor designs are basically immune to meltdown. The only reason we've had problems is because we've been using one of the least safe reactor designs because it dovetailed with our nuclear weapons program, and all reactors that have had incidents were gen 2, while we're building gen 3.5 currently. Gen 4 (which are ontrack to hit the market in 30 years without being fasttracked) reactors are meltdown proof, proliferation resistant, use more common fuels (some can even use current nuclear waste as fuel), produce less waste, produce waste that's less dangerous, etc (and require less industry to set up (which is dangerous and poluting, even if less so than fossils fuels) while working with a normal power grid. Old nuclear is a mixed bag Current nuclear is surprisingly good when you look at the numbers Next gen nuclear (which we should be fast tracking) is absolutely great and nearly here
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  6006. Thought they helped ferry most of those to various places in South America?
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  6007. You would be correct. The ~20tons of tnt number is a lie. The real energy equivalent is something like 10+ times that (at 200-300tons as a very rough estimate). Whether the 20tons number is just some bs they pulled out of their ass to downplay it/hide that they had no idea, or they're trying to keep secret what was there it's too early to tell.
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  6008. ShadeOnTheUtube That would fall under the "hide that they had no idea" which would be the expected posturing the modern age expects from a large organization. Not saying it has to be nefarious. Most likely one or another standard flavor of BS (probably "no really, we totally know what's going on" and/or "no we wouldn't let them store THAT much stuff there") Personally, my money's on "and"
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  6009. ***** There are plenty of examples of times and places with lax regulation, and the outcomes are consistently worse. In the real world (to use your term), it doesn't matter how elegant, logical, intuitive, simple, or comforting your hypothesis is if it doesn't fit the observable data. Yes, there are poorly written regulations out there that are unnecessarily difficult on businesses while providing little-to-no benefit to anyone in return, but the results of saying that the amount of regulation is the problem are worse than the problem you're trying to fix. It's about quality regulations backed by strong enforcement, and yes, that means there's not one simple answer (such as an ideal amount of regulation) that fits all situations. Tough, welcome to reality.
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  6010. Aiso, once the scenes switch from the rural, there are a decent number of black people. It's just the rural areas where we only see white people, and really, that's not that far off in some places.
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  6011. +EasySnake Don't forget the torture they'd put him through before sticking him in our hellhole of a prison system.
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  6012. So, no matter what you've got in life (home, family, friends, health, career retirement, rights, etc), none of it has any value to this guy because if you're not rich you've got nothing to loose in his mind. The level of contempt is sickening!
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  6013. You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_crenellate As I understand, the desire and resistance of rulers to castle construction varied a lot depending on when it was happening. Specifically, if the main threats to their rule were external, then rulers would want their vassals to make fortifications on their own whenever they had the resources. (hence why such laws don't appear on the mainland as far as I can tell) If, however, the main danger was of rebellion, then fewer castles makes sense for the rulers. Reading the details of to whom (mostly just knights) and how many (500/1500 castles) suggests this was mainly a formality to maintain good relations with the king (if you're in an area at risk of revolt, you're going to draw a lot less suspicion asking first, and the same holds true if you're building a more impressive structure than is common for your rank) and just assumed as a right of higher nobility. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adulterine_castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slighting
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  6014. I've been past acceptance and into prepping for the next fight since a month past the primary. The corrupt, 2-party system is the real evil we need to be fighting and until we win that fight, we will continue to get a worse selection of candidates every election.
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  6015. Well that, and they have a say in what questions are asked.
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  6016. Not only that, but if involving a doctor is the norm, people that do have other options are more likely to be made aware of them.
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  6017. A vote for a warcriminal is a vote against international law. A vote for someone guilty of election fraud is a vote against our own form of government. What does that leave you voting for?
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  6018. That would require Asians to move TO Mississippi. No one moves to Mississippi. There are only people there because there are people born there that haven't left. (Not exaggerating much, <2% of the state is anything other than black or white...and that's combined)
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  6019. So we have a gun that is more concerned about it's effectiveness as a weapon than making sure that no-one is trying to get you to point it in the wrong direction. Something poetic about that. Are we sure this gun isn't a piece of art about right-wing terrorists?
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  6020. The problem with that mindset is that our political spectrum is so far right of the electorate that we need to drag it back toward center before "moderate" really means anything again. Obama spent his presidency trying to meet the gop extremists half way and look what we got for that. Also, if you try to build a populist movement that isn't inclusive of all peoples, then there's a crippling contradiction in what you're trying to build.
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  6021. As an independent too, what I saw from this last election cycle was many republican voters willing to switch parties to vote for Bernie who's very progressive. That's telling of what they're actually looking for: strength and integrity (and lack of corruption while being pro-worker, which everyone that isn't irredeemably partisan wants). In short, the right wants strength and the left wants compassion. These 2 things aren't exclusive. If you have good ideals, you win liberals, and if you stick to them no matter what, you win conservatives too. If you poll the issues, the country is pretty solidly progressive, even with hardly any good messaging for those issues most of the time. The right just will never follow anyone that's dishonest or weak in fighting for those values. That means no corporate shills, no weaklings that will betray their values when it's convenient (like trying to silence dissenting views), no "whining", and no lying to blow something out of proportion to win a fleeting political victory. The real long-term solution is, of course, ranked choice voting nationwide, but in terms of party we need, it's not about a less progressive populism, but a populism that sticks as strong as possible to its progressive convictions and is unapologetic about it, even when it's not to their advantage.
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  6022. Assuming you aren't insane enough to think that paranoid schizophrenics should be able to own nuclear arms, how about you get off your high-horse, admit that you draw a line somewhere too, and join the conversation over where and how that line should be drawn rather than just using pithy little sentence fragments?
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  6023. Lenny3669 and where does "sufficiently discriminatory" begin and end then? RPGs? Machine guns? Anti-tank rifles, or other anti-material rounds? Just because the example I used to rule out the crazies is an obvious "no" doesn't mean there isn't a large continuum of types of arms in terms of how discriminatory they are and that different people draw that line in different places. Burring your head in the sand and ignoring that fact doesn't make it disappear. (this is to say nothing of background checks being mandatory either, which is a discussion that we apparently still need to have despite most NRA members supporting universal background checks)
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  6024. You really did! In pa myself and all I got was a proposition to change the retirement age of judges from 70 to 75, but since it was worded to change it from no limit to 75, it's currently winning... Kinda jealous tbh, but hope you win and set a great precedent that will spread!
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  6025. ShadianVise Yah, politico has 90.8% reporting at 649,010 people voting against more democracy. Absolutely stunning
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  6026. No, it's not "just a piece of paper"; it's a contract that protects rights to things like hospital visitation and funeral leave. That's what you're denying people you heartless excuse for a human being.
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  6027. Yah, we're talking about a pope knowing some latin. It'd seem kinda weird to me if he didn't.
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  6028. Spartacus of Thrace He was saying it seemed strange that he knew those terms, so I was just pointing out that he obviously would know what those meant.
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  6029. If there was an asteroid coming, NASA would be able to ask for (and get) the largest science budget in history. (Including the manhattan project & Apollo programs combined) They have no good reason to hide that kind of news and every reason to tell everyone asap. If they're not saying to be worried, chill.
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  6030. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of and thankful to our brothers to the south in West Virginia....but as a Pennsylvanian, it's embarrassing to see West Virginia do something we were too conservative to do. (It's usually the other way around) The primary map for PA was weird though... All the areas that normally go to the Rs in the general election went to Bernie, while the more liberal areas (which are also where the colleges are concentrated) went to Hillary. I still haven't figured that one out yet. I'm curious if you have any ideas why things happened that way for us in PA this time. Any thoughts?
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  6031. Or the MSM talking about fake news Now THAT'S some heavy irony!
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  6032. While I don't believe for a second it was suicide, I also don't really think it matters. The things that would have to be done to drive someone to suicide in that short a time would make them just as guilty as if they strangled her with their own hands.
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  6033. Tests to be allowed to vote are a terrible idea as they allow people to twist them to disenfranchise any group they want. If you're someone thinking "we need to stop ignorant, stupid people from voting", then you're one of the people you're complaining about because you clearly don't know enough history. ...that or you know it and want it back because you're a racist and/or an authoritarian.
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  6034. To our justice system: Resisting assault=\=resisting arrest Also, arrest with blatant lack of just cause isn't arrest; it's kidnaping.
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  6035. WafflesIndustries um, citation needed. There are reports of clowns "trying" to lure kids into the woods, but that seems more just a part of the scary clown act to scare kids than anything. (remember, your primary information sources on this are the children) I work with people who follow this thing daily and who have a radio on where this is brought up daily and I haven't heard of one actual kidnapping.
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  6036. Does our constitution count if we're not using it?
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  6037. It's quite refreshing to see a police department respond appropriately to a cop going off the rails. (Both the other cops on the scene trying to deescalate the other cop's behavior, and the official response after)
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  6038. +Donald Edward Obama was a placebo, and was never going to change the system. Don't trust a politician's rhetoric, only their voting record. (sadly, we didn't even get that in many ways either, but it's at least more accurate)
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  6039. Izza Duck Again, look at his voting record as a congressman being entirely moderate democrat before he ran for president; there's nothing in there showing any desire to really change the system. On top of all the things he did to continue Bush-era policies that DIDN'T require congressional involvement, you can look back through nearly 8 years' TYT videos for examples of how he set himself up to "loose" on issues he claimed to be for before ending up at a pro corporate position (often to the right of positions republicans had previously proposed themselves). Sure the system needs changed, but that doesn't mean that Obama actually tried to be the president he ran as in the elections at all, and all the evidence points to him having no desire to do so. If you want to have a clue what's actually happening, you need to learn to look past politicians' rhetoric to the actual facts.
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  6040. But we do have a free pony program. You just need to be a hugely profitable corporation with a strong lobbying arm to get those baleouts, subsidies, no-bid contracts, tax loopholes, etc to get them.
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  6041. So the election's going to be between Putin-lite and Putin's puppet? Vote 3rd party. No matter the odds, it's the only sane option.
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  6042. So digital-age privateer militia? Not bad.
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  6043. Nothing new, we've been getting this attitude since the occupy wallstreet movement! They hate that we're consistent in our positions over time (we refused to support Hillary for the same reasons in 2016 as in 2008), that we refuse to bow our heads and be absorbed into the system that we're fighting against like they did, and that they know they've caused a generational rift that cannot be healed and that as demographics shift, will leave them a (rightfully) marginalized relic of the past rather than passing the same condensation and suppression down to future generations like they are doing with us. Their hatred speaks volumes about THEM, and is in many cases just projection of their own loathing of what they have become. Their insistence on thinking that we're just following Bernie like they follow Hillary, rather than recognizing the continuing pattern of independent judgement is much the same. Frankly, I'm growing to the point where I welcome their hate, since many refuse to actually even head the call of causes that they, themselves, used to fight for.
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  6044. Consistently voting for the lesser of 2 evils makes this inevitable. As long as we but into the fear and keep in line, we shouldn't expect better choices from either establishment party in 2020, 2024, 2028, etc.
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  6045. Side note, but I have to point out the obvious: Attempted murder? If the guy'd wanted the cop dead, he would've been. He took the gun 'cause he was afraid of being shot. People that steal a gun with ill intent use it as a gun, not a bludgeon. Not saying what he did was good, but let's be realistic here. The cop could have shot the guy right away, but didn't. The guy could've shot the cop after he got the gun, but didn't. The guy could've took the gun and started a shootout with the next cops to catch him, but didn't. The cops that caught him could've shot him in revenge, but didn't. Everyone involved chose life over death; whatever the reasons, this is good. (& as other people mentioned, this is what tasers were invented for, and a situation where their use would be appropriate)
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  6046. She's a true liberal firebrand and I love it! Fuck that's satisfying to hear!
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  6047. Inhuman-adj-lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like You really want to start having a discussion about who gets human rights? You sure about that?
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  6048. Nailed it!
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  6049. Hey dems, ready for election reform yet?
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  6050. Without trying to make assumptions about this particular case, anyone else notice how far the credibility of the police in this country has fallen? Sure before there were bad pockets and such (not denying that at all) before, but the repeated protecting of officers and bending (or worse) of the truth is completely destroying any public faith they have. I feel like the antagonistic distrust of the police that existed in those bad pockets of some areas is spreading on both the police and public sides, and am getting a growing sense of unease at the building tension.
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  6051. We don't even have universal access to mental healthcare for those that want it. (Or physical for that matter) Heck, a quick google search turns up "Studies indicate that 56% to 87% of service members experiencing psychological distress after deployment report that they did not receive psychological help." Meaning we don't even reliably provide mental healthcare to our veterans that we claim to care so much about. Though, since we allow something like 40% of our homeless to be veterans and another leading cause of homelessness to be teens thrown out of their homes by their parents (not sure on the current stats, but for a time that was THE leading cause of homelessness) but we still characterize the homeless as lazy people who don't want to work and try to cut support....well, you can see that compassion doesn't figure much into our governance around here, sadly.
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  6052. Anthony Smith Yah, every system has flaws, but it's important to keep in perspective how things would be without it. We're trying to improve things here and join you all in the developed world in many ways, but due to problems with our political system it's an uphill battle, sadly.
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  6053. Collapze The idea was giving them something inconvenient to carry around (no strap maybe). It won't stop everything, but if it's not within reach at all times, it should help with drawing it instead of a tazer in a split-second reaction. Would also help with the "he was reaching for my gun" BS, since the gun's in the patrol car, not on the cop. Not saying it's perfect, but it would help a lot for a small change.
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  6054. Wishful thinking. If they get control of major holy sites, then they can claim any western action against them to be a new crusade. If they get control of Saudi Arabia, they can play the "the christian crusaders are coming for Mecca" card, and that would suck to say the least.
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  6055. France is the obvious choice from a strategic standpoint. ISIS needs to grow the conflict to stay in power. Those in charge feed on it and their actions in the middle east alone show that they know this and build their plans around what will grow the war. France's judgement about middle-east foreign policy has been remarkably sound in retrospect. Both their warnings of not invading Iraq and for early intervention in Syria before it devolved into what it has become would have been hugely detrimental to the rise of ISIS had they been listened to by the west. If they can provoke France into acting less rationally, it will be much easier to guide the west's action like they can with the much more impulsive US foreign policy that ISIS has used to gather support. Also, if they can drive a wedge between France and the Muslim population there, they can both gain support inside France and discourage refugees from seeking safety in Europe. Further, with France being a fairly large tourism center, it has more of an effect on the rest of the west and the perception of them being soft rather than strongly self-reliant (deserved or not) only amplifies this. France's geographic distance from the conflict also serves as a show of strength by implying that all of Europe is within easy reach for ISIS. If you remember that the random violence of terrorism has strategic value for only intimidation and provocation, it's all pretty obvious. (and as usual US politicians are playing right into their hands without hesitation)
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  6056. Taxes? "The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War." -Benjamin Franklin Frankly, I'll trust him over the myths we've been telling ourselves for our entire history (especially since our politicians started giving more and more power to the banks and want to pretend that there's nothing wrong with that). Sure, taxes were involved, and make a quick and pithy reason that's easy for people to understand and act on, but let's not just fall back on blaming it all on taxes again.
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  6057. Think you're forgetting our tendency to export our problems and failures globally. That said, getting tired of living in the damn twilight zone down here...
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  6058. Tbh, more respect than I would have given CNN
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  6059. Btw, most are available as audio books for free on librivox (not a shill, just how I got to experience them, and so I recommend it)
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  6060. +Quin Skew Trump reminds me of Walder Frey, really
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  6061. Dire Warning "It's easy to make someone extremely defensive when they're religiously supporting a candidate who is so obviously bought." "25 years of falsehoods from the extreme far-right are not facts" Case in point, thank you for providing the example. A-the far right is usually lying, but it doesn't mean everything they say is a lie by definition. (if they said the sky was blue, would you say it was green?) B-Bernie's supporters are to the left of Hillary, so unless you are claiming that Hillary is so far right that "the extreme far-right" is to the left of her, then you're argument is non-sequitur. C-All of this is obvious from a rational perspective outside a cult of personality.
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  6062. No, people take care of their back yards. Also, it's not like America takes care of what's in its borders either...
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  6063. So, your complaint is that there's no one on that strokes your follower sensibilities the right way? Not sure I get your point or that you have any room to talk. ...then again, those that throw around the term "beta males", 90% of the time, aren't even betas so I'm not sure what I was expecting....
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  6064. Sorry, but sex=/=gender Even brain scans back this up, though even without an MRI machine, it's obvious to anyone that's studied anthropology, since neither gender norms nor even the number of gender roles is constant across different societies (or even the same society across time in many cases).
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  6065. +Warren Fry addendum: being a successful athlete can move someone up 0.5-2 levels
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  6066. +Anthony Jeffries If you want to be technical, the us is on paper a constitutional, federal democratic-republic. (Though the democratic part is up for debate now due to corruption) You could quite simply design a constitutional democracy just as much as you could have a congress make any laws it wants without regards to a constitution. There are good reasons we're a democratic-republic instead of a true democracy, but having a constitution is not one of them.
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  6067. They're going to be more surprised when they find out their room is flamable....why are they doing this inside?!?
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  6068. The closest I've seen is (with larger volumes of ice/water) the top of the ice bulging and cracking. Come to think of it, the cracks are most often spoke-like in the center in sets of 3 when they happen. I live in western PA and I believe the source of our water in an underground aquifer, so we probably have a decent concentration of dissolved minerals here, so that's likely the reason. I wonder if elevation/air pressure have any effect.
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  6069. rick6011 Yes, but only locally to the thermal vents, and there are nowhere near enough to stop the hypothetical ice buildup on a global scale.
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  6070. Just gonna leave this here for people. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK
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  6071. Baker Harrington I prefer Stein to Johnson greatly, but he's at least an acceptable candidate. That said, I'll probably end up voting for whichever of the 2 is in the lead come election day since we don't have preferential voting currently. While there are significant differences between Stein and Johnson, they're nothing compared to those between either and Trump/Hillary.
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  6072. MrIzzyDizzy That was a well put-together summary (though I doubt it will actually be considered, sorry to say)
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  6073. Yah, Google seems to have trashed their "Don't be evil" thing a good while ago and it's just getting worse...
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  6074. I'd say Trump supporters are the most anti-information but that's splitting hairs at this point
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  6075. ". . . more Taliban now than when we invaded in 2001." Yup, that'll happen when you target first responders and generally act like terrorists. Given the evidence, all I can come up with that makes sense for intent, is that we wanted to provoke the population to create perpetual war, so actually "Mission Accomplished" I guess. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/20/us-drones-strikes-target-rescuers-pakistan http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24557333 Not a big enough deal has been made about this, as I've yet to see a SINGLE argument explaining these war crimes as anything other than INTENTIONALLY prolonging the war. (and as a side note, aiding our enemies in that way does technically border on even our extremely narrow legal definition of treason)
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  6076. It's taken a lot of hard training, but they can finally project like real Republicans now!
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  6077. ***** Supposing the electorial college worked out to being at least 51% as well, yes, I do believe that's how it works. Now, practically speaking, that's not really going to happen, but if we can get it to the point where neither the D or R candidates gets 50% of the popular vote, it may help show that we're ready to dump those parties and get ones that represent us. That said, if something crazy happens after the voting that may invalidate one of the candidates, I don't know what happens then.  I'm not even sure if there are rules covering such a hypothetical edge case.
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  6078. ***** I encourage everyone, including those not in the US to study US government and politics (both current and early) if for no other reason than it is the prototype for modern forms of government. As much as that's something for us to be proud of and as much as we had some brilliant minds that put it together using around 2000 years of political philosophy from all across Europe, it also means that we're effectively still running the BETA version of this system, with all the bugs, security holes, design problems, etc that comes with that. (not to mention having systems like the electoral college which, despite being brilliant and actually enabling large scale democratic governments before modern communications, is very poorly suited for the modern era) We're also the oldest running version of this, so we've had more time for systemic flaws to start showing symptoms, and looking to us as an example may help other nations avoid the same issues by having foresight. For example: Do NOT allow your mass media companies to merge into just a handful of corporations.  Those anti-trust laws are extremely important!  (also, confederacies fall apart when presented with problems more on the scale of the confederacy than ones on the scale of the members.  We've tried them twice and they've proven utterly incapable at addressing large-scale problems in an orderly way.  Something to be wary of for members of the EU in their integration experiment)) Likewise, Americans really need to look at other versions of this form of government (such as the many that can be found in Europe) for innovations and improvements that have been made since our founding that we can learn from. For example, our founders were overly optimistic with their estimations of the behavior and power of political parties, and other countries do much better addressing them as inevitable rather than just letting them do as they will and hope for the best.  (not to mention voting systems much more appropriate for the modern age and less likely to result in a gridlocked 2-party system)
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  6079. Yeah, suddenly federally funding large R&D initiatives had nothing to do with the US's tech boom /s
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  6080. Or German plate armor?
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  6081. You missed a bit of the healthcare "compromise" 1-ignore single payer to compromise for a public option 2-compromise from there by proposing a republican plan 3-compromise further from there giving yet more concessions 4-get called a Marxist anyway 5-learn nothing! If you're always going to compromise & your opposition knows it, you'll always be taken advantage of because they always know they can demand more. Further, if your opponents know they can always get more of what they want by using more extreme rhetoric, then that's what's going to happen. Unfortunately, this drives them toward more extreme positions overtime too. For what happens when that cycle is left unchecked, look to the Nazis. (Specifically Europe's appeasement policy, and letting jews' rights to be chipped away) Put in this light, people like Obama are partly to blame for the state of the GOP by being too weak to be able to say "No!" (get a safe-word at least, bitch!)
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  6082. That doesn't surprise me. If you have linear growth of income disparity, then you will naturally have exponential growth of wealth disparity (unless the rich spend everything they make, which we know they don't). It's not super obvious because human minds have trouble when it comes to exponential growth, but it's just basic math, really. We've been having this exponential concentration of wealth since about the 70s, so really, that's about what we should expect.
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  6083. PTSD from covering an insane decade of US politics while trying to elicit change (and falling short, despite his good work) while trying to not piss off advertisers and get shut down?
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  6084. Maine has ranked choice voting! If we had that nationwide, we never would have had the 2 most disliked candidates leading the election. Best news of the election anywhere! Take that light of democracy and spread it.
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  6085. Well, at least we still have the right to not have troops quartered in our homes...
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  6086. The liberals, who are trying to improve mental healthcare, are responsible for your son "going" crazy? Uh huh Hard to say without a proper diagnosis that we'll never get, but there's a good chance that if cys had taken him away from you, he'd be alive and with his son.
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  6087. +Randy Randalman His point was more like "Trump is like chemo: he's poison, but he'll probably do more damage to the cancer plaguing this country (the political establishment) than this country, and then we can start trying to recover after that" It's not a position I share, since I think it will cause the Democrats under Hillary to shift nearly completely to the Republican platform leaving use right back where we started, only with a less divided establishment, but it's not completely absurd IMO
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  6088. Not about left vs right. It's about if the channel is corporate or not. ALL independent media is being targeted
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  6089. Watching the video, my impression is that he got partial control over an officer's gun. It's hard to see clearly, but I don't get the impression from the officers that I get from other recent incidents. Honestly, while I can't say for certain, I actually believe the cops this time. Might better training have avoided the situation? Sure, but that's nearly always true, but I don't see the cops reacting unreasonably this time, and the better training needed might just be better grappling instruction to keep control of the guy's hands better. Sometimes, bad things just happen. :\
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  6090. ejr23 blame facebook
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  6091. Get a dictionary and read them the definition. Not joking there, and there should be a good number around at a school. For bonus points, then ask them to explain what they meant again.
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  6092. Terrorism-The use of violence against a civilian population with the purpose of political intimidation especially when the violence is lethal, only hits civilians (often with little to no discrimination), is comprised of seemingly isolated incidents (as opposed to a continuous and systematic campaign), is largely sudden attacks with very short duration, and is unpredictable to the target in time and location (instilling the perception that it can happen anywhere at anytime. Usually used in asymmetric conflicts and often doesn't refer to they type of widespread civilian-targeting tactics used in conventional total wars. Also generally considered distinct from assassinations. What's your (non satirical) definition!?
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  6093. Feels weird huh?
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  6094. Try framing it in more natural terms: betting your next 5 days' meals you can walk away and have your next 5 days' meals be the same average stuff you eat all the time, or you can bet them. If you win, your next 5 days' meals are all 5 star and all you can eat, but if you loose you have to fast for that period of time, taking only water and a vitamin every day. Loss aversion bias makes a bit more sense in that kind of context; losses and gains are rarely equivalent in impact in that kind of sense and THOSE are the kind of risk decisions that are important to your life.
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  6095. The uncomfortable truth is that intimidating the USSR was why it was necessary. Without showing everyone (including the USA) the horrors of the weapons and the reality that we as a country (and as a species) were willing to use such weapons, the Cold War would have almost certainly turned into a thermonuclear WW3. We almost started WW3 several times without people having doubts about the existence, power, horrors, and willingness to use nukes. We'll spin almost any narrative to ignore the fact that we allowed world politics to get to such a bad state that nuking 2 cities of a country for reasons that had nothing to do with them became a reasonable decision. I suppose it's good that we find that appalling, but ignoring how global military tension led to it probably isn't doing us any good.
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  6096. Their ability to still pretend that pot fits the definition of a schedule 1 drug is impressive if nothing else.
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  6097. Ignoring the causation vs correlation problem for now & supposing a causal link, I'm curious as to the effects of this change in the brain. Even if it has no measurable effect for normal people in terms of day-to-day behavior, rewiring the brain should have some effect in decision-making processes. It's possible that in learning the mechanism of what's happening, you could use the effect to induce the brains of people with a neurological problem in that region to rewire around that problem. Maybe anxiety, ocd, addiction, or something in those categories? Imagine a drug you could prescribe to not treat, but actually cure a mental illness of some-sort rather than having to take for life (with all the side-effects, monitoring, & medication adjustments that come with that).
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  6098. Couldn't we, as a society just help people when bad things happen rather than trying to find someone to sue? Not blaming her for that situation, but just saying that the entire situation is a bit absurd. Sometimes bad things just happen; we're supposed to be there to help each other, not find someone to blame and leave the victim on their own outside of what they can get from a lawsuit...isn't that the more human response?
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  6099. I'd say Bush stealing the presidency was worse, but that's damning with feint praise so....
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  6100. liberty2014 Forbes has been shown to be pushing climate denial (presumably due to direct influence of the fossil fuel industry). http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/how-forbes-got-it-wrong-the-real-climate-change-data-from-nasa/ and that entire article was misrepresenting what the NOAA was trying to say to push their own agenda. Note: Even that grossly misleading article doesn't even say "climate change is not occurring" but actually mentions "heat waves were nevertheless exacerbated by global warming." and "probability of another extreme 5-day rainfall, like the one that caused widespread flooding in Boulder, is estimated to have decreased because of human-caused climate change” because it wasn't trying to disprove climate change existing as you claim. A look at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (I assume what you meant) shows the opposite position that you lay out in your post. http://www.noaa.gov/climate https://www.climate.gov/news-features/category/96/all (note, all climate links on noaa.gov are direct links to climate.gov) https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/global-warming-increased-risk-intensity-louisianas-extreme-rain-event (one of many, many articles showing a link between climate change and extreme weather, which the BS forbes article tried, and failed, to disprove)
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  6101. liberty2014 It's easier to find the NOAA site than a Forbes article if you're looking up their position. It misrepresents the NOAA position (as the links we both posted prove). I read it, that's how I know the quote you cite isn't in the article at all. Did you not read it, or are you intentionally lying to people about this subject?
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  6102. Not true It's at least 10% celebrity gossip. Thy have that tabloid reputation to maintain afterall.
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  6103. Doesn't matter, 40 people is not a sustainable genetic pool.
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  6104. ***** Swearing, insults, AND completely missing the point about the distinction I was making....yup, we're done here.
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  6105. Please! Clicked on one of their videos a week ago and just ugh As much bs as FOX news but organized to have the facade of intelegence They're a real problem!
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  6106. +MrDoobysm The "problem" is that they can't always identify trans people by sight. Forcing them to use a particular bathroom makes them let everyone know they're trans, opening them up to discrimination and violence. That's what this is really about, and it's not the only time in history that forcing a persecuted minority to publicly identify themselves as such. It's not even the first time the lgbt community has been forced to, and it never ends well.
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  6107. +MrDoobysm The public bathroom issue started in the public awareness with conservative states trying to legislate which bathrooms trans people could use. This thing you think is a "smokescreen" is a reaction to stop real attempts already in motion to restrict trans rights, and even if it weren't, violence (very, VERY often including sexual violence) against trans people is still a very real problem. As for it being a "choice", that's absurd and you know it. Sometimes people simply need to use the restroom (sometimes even without much warning, for reasons I shouldn't need to explain), and traveling all the way home is not always an option. So, unless you mean they should relieve themselves in their pants or outside, yes, they are forced to use a public restroom.
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  6108. +Smilley MLK that's not actually how it works. Here's wiki for an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States "allows formal charges to be brought against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been committed. . . . The actual trial on such charges, and subsequent removal of an official upon conviction, is separate from the act of impeachment itself. . . . Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings; trial by the other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts. . . .The removed official is also liable to criminal prosecution."
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  6109. Smilley MLK That's true, the concept of a "right to a speedy and public trial" from our constitution seems mostly forgotten. The amount of time it takes to bring things to trial is rarely justifiable. Trump and Hillary should both have already been tried a while ago and kicked from the election and been replaced by people that weren't the worst candidates in US history or just left as a Stein/Johnson race.
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  6110. +There is no one better, We are number one. Public opinion has zero statistical effect on public policy. (That's higher than a plecebo) You don't have to say "democratic" anymore.
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  6111. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Evidence through both tests of the voting machines and exit polls show that in many cases the vote was actually hacked! That's also ignoring the blatant voter suppression that's pretty standard these days. The primary wasn't just unfair, it was stolen through full-out election fraud by these "democrats". Opposing Hillary is just as much of a moral imperative as opposing Trump, regardless of the odds. (and if everyone decided not to vote out of fear on election day, they'd both loose)
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  6112. Let this be a lesson as to what allowing legalized bribery does to a country. If you don't have publicly financed elections where you live, get them before you become like this too!
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  6113. Heinz Voss Public-financed, ranked-choice elections aren't just something we want; they're something we need, and that's just to start.
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  6114. When don't totaliarians?
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  6115. The reason the electoral college was made for was made obsolete by radio.
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  6116. Obviously.
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  6117. I live in one of the states where you have to be registered with a party to vote in the primaries. It's really the only sensible thing to do in that system. Anything else just diminishes your voice pointlessly. If Bernie can run D and hold true to his principles, you can register D and do the same. (It doesn't force your vote, it just gives you a chance to vote when you otherwise wouldn't have one)
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  6118. +GaMing Landfill that and don't rig your primary and then just act entitled to their votes. But they won't learn that lesson. They'll blame everyone but themselves, and keep on going as usual.
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  6119. +liquidminds Trump's VP pick is actually really dangerous himself (kinda like Dick Cheney), but I hope they both end up in jail because it's where they belong and we desperately need laws to actually apply to the elites again.
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  6120. He's talking about the democratic establishment. You're describing the Hillary supporters.
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  6121. The debates have been a farce since the 70s when the 2-parties took over control of them.
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  6122. Crap, she's starting to sound like a Republicrat now...I was angry, but giving her a very warry 2nd chance, but this interview is making me rethink that.
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  6123. Side note on cluster bombs: They're only banned by a voluntary treaty that many nations have signed. They're problematic because of the high likelyhood that some of the explosives will not go off (thereby likely detonating on some unsuspecting civilian years later) One of the nations who has not signed the treaty and continues to employ such weapons? The United States of America (To make it worse, if memory serves, it's also one of the treaties we pushed for but later refused to sign)
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  6124. Exhibitionism and secretary fetishism are not the same thing :P
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  6125. Imagine? I don't have to. We already know what happens when someone gets this rowdy on a flight; the plane jumps them and duct-tapes them to the chair (their mouth too if they don't shut up) and goes back to having a normal flight. Apparently that doesn't apply if you're a rich bastard though.
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  6126. Nihilanth1982 _that just told us to "get smart"...the irony
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  6127. To everyone that says we need to support 3rd parties: I completely agree, but read their platform. Their 1st position is election reform including ranked choice voting. That's huge for 3rd parties! That would instantly make 3rd parties viable, and if they were really doing this just to make independents complacent that would never be in the platform. We should support this and make it clear to the republicrats that if they kneecap this and make it impossible, we will destroy the party on the way out.
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  6129. +TylerIsCoolBro If these bits of political theater look like a real debate to you, your implied debate class was a total failure. I'd love for them to be replaced with real debates, but trying to pretend that they are just because they're called such is plain dishonest. Some basic fact-checking is the least they could do to add some semblance of legitimacy to this bad joke they're calling a debate.
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  6130. You could use it that way, but spears tend to be longer, lighter, and use the smoother shafts to allow the leading hand to slide along the shaft durring use. The stiff blade of a katana makes for a fairly good thrusting weapon, offsetting the curve in the blade with the main problem in thrusting for the weapon being it's broad tip, but if you're not thrusting into mail, that's not that big a problem. Since the nagamaki uses the same blade as a katana, that should hold true for it as well. It's just that it won't be as easy to use as a thrusting weapon or able to fill the same formation roll as a spear.
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  6131. When I took the test: Today’s trending question If the Presidential election were held today, which candidate would you vote for? Donald Trump Bernie Sanders Jeb Bush Rand Paul Marco Rubio Hillary Clinton John Kasich Ben Carson Evan McMullin Gary Johnson Ted Cruz Other stances That's an interesting selection. Sure, Jill Stein is in the expanded "other stances" but to not have all the people actually running on a list that big is baffling or intentional.
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  6132. JordanScottMills The other gulf states aren't much better, the west is responsible for the current destabilization of the region, and what you're arguing is like saying "the Germans trying to escape the Nazis can go to other European nations which refuse to take them in" and then being responsible for increasing the death toll of the holocaust. Just because other nations are making unethical choices doesn't mean we should follow suit.
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  6133. +ThoseAmericanGirls Just trash bin them. Wouldn't be the first time we left political parties behind, and it's overdue.
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  6134. I'm seeing a really strong correlation between how much of an asset empathy is in your career field and your likelihood to be a democrat. You even see this in jobs in the same industry. The first graphic is full of it (pilot vs flight attendant, bartender vs beer wholesaler, taxi driver vs truck driver) Anyone else seeing the same?
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  6135. Sadly, you're probably right
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  6136. Peter Kapeel Ah, yes, I'm not saying that empathizing with the dead does anything for them, specifically. My point is that empathizing with them can provide the one doing it with some amount of understanding of the suffering that lead up to the moment. That understanding can be be used to help others, even if it's just being slightly more able to recognize when someone is suffering in a similar way. It won't tell you exactly what's going on, of course, but more people being more likely to spot symptoms of abuse and severe emotional distress can help to know when someone needs a kind hand reached out to them to save them, or when you should really be concerned. Since people in those states tend to have muted reactions and expressions, that's actually really important. Also, the fear of the stigma around suicide can even further reduce the likelihood that they will be able to reach out on their own for help. In this case, the abuse went on for a decade before it was stopped. Depending on the circumstances, it's not always fair to point a finger of blame at anyone and say "you should have noticed and done something" of course, but the more aware we all are of what someone is going through with abuse and/or leading up to suicide, the better chance we have of someone putting the pieces together and stopping it. Her story basically comes down to that we (the rest of humanity) didn't notice and save her in time. That can be a depressing way to think about it, but it also reminds us to be more aware, and in the end, that can save people, heart mind and body.
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  6137. Go on, beg, please. It means I'll get to do the same thing you've been doing to us for years: ignore you.
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  6138. To be fair, with Turkey's political issues atm, along with the Golden Dawn party just nextdoor in Greece and Putin taking back territory that was a part of the previous version of their country under the pretense of "it has ethnic Russians"...well I'd probably buy it too. "Know thy enemy," right? (well, tbh, I'd probably steal a digital copy since I don't care one bit for copyright on trash like that, but same idea)
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  6139. +Xipo86 Kidney stones can range from "not that bad" and passing with minimal symptoms to needing surgical removal.
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  6140. Think Florida just crossed the line into my "states I refuse to enter" list with this BS. (bringing the count up to 3 with Mississippi & Arizona)
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  6141. +InFluXadVenT333 Well, in some states you don't get to vote in a primary if you're not a member of that party. That's a big part of it.
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  6142. Serfs look for leaders. Citizens choose representatives.
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  6143. Adder's Musical Musings for someone presuming to insult others' intelligence, you've entirely missed my point, and likely the entire point of democratic government.
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  6144. After listening to that, yes, that's exactly what she was going to say! The level of awareness and intent at voter suppression I heard in her voice was blindingly infuriating.
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  6145. Can we confirm electronic jamming? https://www.fcc.gov/general/jamming-cell-phones-and-gps-equipment-against-law I know that's on top of shooting the drone down (destruction of property and likely reckless use of a firearm), endless counts of assault, and the pipeline in the first place, but still.
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  6146. +Mutex50 Not really, votes should be transferred by order of preference of the voter, so it eliminates the need for strategic voting completely. +I.C. P You don't even need to have multiple nominees per party as, for example, Bernie could have just run as a 3rd party candidate after the BS in the primary and actually won because he wouldn't have been worried about the spoiler effect.
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  6147. +Charles W This 100x
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  6148. ***** That would be the obvious cause for this kind of mess in the first place.
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  6149. Lol, majority? Check his disapproval ratings and try again! Reality: the consistently loud, authoritarian minority has hijacked the Republican primary to nominate a candidate that most of the country can't stand.
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  6150. Chicago doesn't even count as an example since everyone can just drive a bit out of town, buy one, and drive back. They don't even have to leave the state.
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  6151. Between southern propaganda, how they didn't know when they'd already lost, and how bloody that form of war was, it's hard to appreciate how one-sided the war was. I mean, even with Lee and the North stumbling over replacing one incompetent general after another, they still couldn't be enough of a threat to get the USA to move our capital from Right On Their Border back to even Philadelphia. The one time they made a push North, it was an utter disaster for them. Despite all Gettysburg is built up, there was no way they were going to make it past a specialist of logistics and terrain tactics like Meade in the Pennsylvanian foothills. They basically spent the whole war fighting a war of attrition against an industrial nation while they were still mostly pre-industrial and without allies (since they were basically the last part of the west still clinging to slavery).
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  6152. I love orange blossom water, but yes, the key is moderation, especially for most modern pallets. I find the best use is to try and shoot for a background aromatic that is noticeable, but hard to place (using orange blossom rather than the more recognizable rose helps with this too)
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  6153. +X-man The electoral college predates the existence of both current political parties. I'm in favor of abolishing it, but the idea that the current parties created it is just wrong.
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  6154. and let's not forget voter suppression on top of everything else mentioned.
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  6155. +Sandra Balvert You think that's bad, go to to 7:23 and watch her reaction to the question. Can't even cover her tells when she's not talking!
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  6156. +Clint Holmes exactly! Both mainstream candidates have >50% disapproval, so the willingness to buy into the 2-party mindset is the only reason they're relevant.
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  6157. Happiness that comes from time to spend with friends and family is not relative to what someone else is getting.
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  6158. +Robert West Lesson 1: the MSM is lying to you The last thing the rulers want is people able to determine what real news is. If that happened, the establishment would be kicked to the curb so fast they wouldn't have a clue what happened to them.
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  6159. The racist vote already goes Republican, and Trump got less votes than the last few republican candidates. Talking about what in his message appealed to racists is pretty meaningless.
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  6160. Hell, I'm white and grew up in the Northeast and you couldn't pay me to move down there either! Even if it didn't directly effect me, the thought of being surrounded by people that were alright with this is just too nauseating. I honestly don't know how black communities in the south cope with this BS, but I'm glad you got out.
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  6161. Pretty sure he already sold those to his corporate overlords.
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  6162. +Frisbieinstein Fucked up but true...also why I'm not a registered democrat anymore, even though I live in a closed primary state. The DNC proved they don't want to let people like me have a voice in their party and will rig elections to ensure that, so there's no point in being part of that BS.
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  6163. Facebook, from its very beginnings, has never been a force for good. A quick look through their history is enough to prove that. These days, they use their algorithms to shape the discussions that happen there for their benefit and do this kind of thing when that is insufficient. This should surprise no-one. Get off facebook.
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  6164. "Perfectly ordered"? What universe does he live in!?
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  6165. +Najee P Those are specific examples of how to acquire more power, yes, but it's the fundamental truth that one of the uses of power (especially quantifiable and exchangeable power) that underlies it all from political corruption down to simple market forces that cause concentration of wealth. And while it's not true that none of the rich do work to get where they are or to stay there, keep in mind that after a certain point it's not really necessary since almost any work needed to maintain it that you can think of, you can pay someone to do for you. Above a certain point, it actually takes actively bad actions to actually loose wealth.
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  6166. Free-market capitalism (aka economic anarchy) is effectively a religion. Whatever the question the answer is always the same: God/deregulation
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  6167. Israel's government needs the fear and anger caused by the attacks they provoke to keep power. Whenever there has been a semblance of peace for too long, political moderates start gaining support.
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  6168. Humans suck at driving; just look at accident statistics and how many people you see doing stupid shit during your next commute. (and that's only the people who can drive) I eagerly await our robot chauffeurs. Forget flying cars, self-driving cars are the future.
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  6169. +CPL. Social Security was designed during the Great Depression specifically for retirees and the unemployed for them to live on! since they had lost most to all of their savings in the crash. Not only were people supposed to be able to live on it, it was specifically designed with that very intent.
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  6170. ***** May I assume you're being slightly hyperbolic in saying enough for food, water, and nothing else? I'm pretty sure "that minimum necessity to keep a foothold" would need to include just a few other things, like housing of some sort. (I'd argue internet too for the modern age, but that get's complicated in that there's no decent cheap internet options and is an entire discussion unto itself)
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  6171. And right before this video was that BS Clinton ad claiming that she's spent her life fighting for children. Bitch will be dead before the worst of this hits and doesn't give a fuck about younger generations.
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  6172. This is also insurance for isps like Comcast as people are getting sick of their BS and calling for them to be made like other utility companies. Also, pretty sure the constitution does not give any branch the ability to hand over core sovereign powers (like deciding what laws can be made) to any other powers. (and therefor both of these treaties would be unconstitutional due to A6C2 and possibly other sections) Side note: this would make the federal reserve also unconstitutional, but that's a comparatively smaller issue.
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  6173. If I may use a Babylon 5 quote "Only an idiot fights a war on 2 fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on 12 fronts!" What's this make us?
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  6174. That half of the GOP has been immune to facts as long as I've been alive. Nothing new there.
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  6175. +TheAed38 Climate change is going to make clean water scarce enough for wars to be fought over it. While what they did in Flint was criminal, it's not a crime with global consequences.
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  6176. At what point does impeding efforts to combat climate change become a crime against humanity?
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  6177. 20 to 30 shots fired through homes=1 unlawful use of a weapon+8 reckless endangerment? I know it's not the biggest issue here, but that literally doesn't add up.
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  6178. Can we please talk about ranked-choice voting? Maine just passed it, and it would have prevented this farce of an election from the start to the point where we'd be saying "President Sanders" right now (not trying to re-run a bs 2-party election system).
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  6179. Meowlickss In an ethical society? a mental hospital
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  6180. Watch the polls here: http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/ballot-measures/maine/ currently winning, but still many many idiots voting against democracy
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  6181. Sadly, no dark types yet I hear...
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  6182. +2Truth4Liberty Late beta testing has to involve putting the software out in the real world. If you go from entirely in-house testing (usually called alpha testing) to full release, then you've skipped a very important step.
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  6183. ***** Right now, what we're doing isn't limiting area, but the numbers of cars. It has a similar effect in terms of limiting damage without limiting data gathered as much. It gets complicated to get into the specifics of why, but from a programming and safety standpoint they're testing the right way. (though that particular problem should really have been foreseen and taken care of in alpha, but that's a different conversation)
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  6184. ***** If you're limiting by area, you're likely going to limit the kinds of situations the program will encounter. That's going to lead to your testing missing certain things even when you think you're done testing. Imagine trying to limit a medical trial of a drug. Whether by age, area (which could be hiding any number of factors), or whatever, it's simply unsafe to release products like this in situations where your testing hasn't covered. Only limiting the size of the trial in terms of volume (in this case the number of people driving them) is the only way to be sure that you're not unintentionally excluding certain combinations of conditions, so you have to do that eventually, and frankly, there aren't that many of these cars on the road yet, so that covers limiting the size.
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  6185. Also, domestic abusers.
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  6186. alpha beta It's quite possible, but the number of people describing how he was acting the way they did makes me put it slightly lower on the list of likely answers.
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  6187. Bipolar Self-Help I'm not really familiar with different strains of weed, but psychosis=/=violent. I won't say it's impossible (doesn't really take that many genes to code for an extra psychoactive substance or 2), but the pattern of behavior (swinging from apparently suicidal to murderous, among other states) doesn't really sound like someone "tripping" on anything weed-related. The pattern of behavior is closer to (though not quite like) someone on bathsalts by the sounds of it. Maybe the dealer was processing other things besides weed and didn't keep the batches properly separated. (hence why I ask) I'm not saying that's common by any means, but sometimes people do stupid things for money.
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  6188. What I find most disturbing is the body language. There's almost twice as many cops forming a defensive ring around the ones arresting the guy to keep a fairly calm public away from them. This is a public that, if we're to believe the cops' side of things, should be grateful that a crazy guy is no longer being a danger. Instead, the cops are treating those very people as the primary threat and we're supposed to believe they're serving justice? Go watch it again and look at the attitude toward the public they're supposed to be "protecting and serving."
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  6189. Frankly, these "treatments" are designed to cause things like PTSD. Anyone doing this needs to be banned from practicing psychology, medicine, social work, etc due to flagrant opposition to the values of the hypocratic oath. This is deliberate malpractice no matter how you dress it up.
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  6190. Meh, Nihilism doesn't really matter. Humans are quite capable of creating subjective meaning strong enough to substitute any lack of objective meaning.
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  6191. And avoiding this is why the filibuster was originally designed to be VERY difficult, why presidential vetoes can be overridden by a large enough majority, and why states can call a constitutional convention to get amendments passed w/o congress's involvement. It's also why the UN's veto system is a disaster. (Be it the US, Russia, and China shielding barbaric dictatorships to serve their own interests or Saudi Arabia blocking action on their own human rights abuses)
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  6192. +Fernando Hernandez "INCONCEIVABLE!" "That word you're using, I don't think it means what I think you think it means" Kinda like that? ...think the only other time I've heard "rhetorical question" misunderstood before was in an abridged Parody series where they were exaggerating a character's stupidity up to 11 for comedy...
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  6193. +Malek Ubuntu A manchild as obviously insecure as Trump sits to pee? That's funny, actually.
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  6194. His unending bullshit brings a new meaning to "that is not dead which may eternal lie"
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  6195. I'm thinking more of Nyarlathotep or someone high up in one of the many cults he manages. ...that said, it was largely for the pun on "lie"
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  6196. +Rouzbeh Modarresi Not saying they don't, just that the situation makes it so very easy for them to have done otherwise. Most politicians, even perhaps most people, don't usually behave that way under comparable circumstances.
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  6197. Thick black smoke? Neurotoxins? Destroy the plane and kill everyone onboard? Uh, bullshit! Any basic familiarity with thermite (youtube or wikipedia are sufficient even) will make you call bs on this fear-mongering! It's basically a liquid welding torch that's really hard to light. It's non-explosive, produces almost no gasses (much less thick black smoke with neurotoxins), is a big mass of metal powder (it should show up on all those x-ray machines as a "wtf is that?"), and all it would do is melt a small hole in the plane and force everyone to put on the oxygen masks until the plane can get to a lower altitude with more pressure. The only possible danger would be it burning into an auxiliary fuel tank and lighting that on fire, but even if you couldn't stop someone from lighting the stuff (you need something like a welding torch to light it, and even then it takes a bit), AND they'd brought enough to burn through the floor and top of the tank, all you'd need to do is suppress the fuel fire long enough to dump the fuel in the tank and then land using the main fuel tanks and the remaining auxiliary ones. If you're still paranoid, just retrofit some heat resistant tiles between the cabin and the tanks, but really, not a big deal.
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  6198. Many reasons, (some of which have been mentioned) but they all come down to demand for car insurance being elastic and healthcare being largely non-elastic (with the exception of preventative care which reductions in increase total costs).
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  6199. +A. Whiteman They turned into Republicans. Also, voter suppression
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  6200. Quick question; if the executive branch (from the president down to the local law enforcement) regularly shields various forms of organized & violent crime from going to trial, the legislative branch has maybe 10% of the constitution they haven't thrown out (in practice if not name), and the judicial branch's concept of "justice" would be a joke if it were actually funny, where's any legitimacy in this government? ('cause I'm having a hard time seeing it these days)
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  6201. Christian Knuchel Not exactly any nation, actually, since dictatorships don't actually work on more than "we just do what that guy says" Having a set of ideals as the foundation of the nation, while not unique to America, is actually not that common for the whole of history since authoritarianism has been the norm for most of it. Thankfully, we're moving past that into an era with nations worth having, as you put it, but it's surprising how many people are like the guy in the clip and don't get the distinction at all.
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  6202. To be fair: the question is hot water, not clean water. Hot water is mostly a comfort & convenance thing, not a necessity. And let's be honest, people have been choosing things like McDonalds over a healthy diet for a long time now.
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  6203. Yup, most of the work in voting is the work that goes into getting informed, and you can't mandate that. What we should mandate is that our polling places should be set up to handle 100% voter turnout, even if we know that's not going to happen, to get around some of our voter suppression bs. Throw in automatic voter registration (there's no excuse for not having this since the government has all the information) and you're doing pretty good to actually giving everyone the chance to vote.
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  6204. Don't forget being for police brutality and against free speech.
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  6205. Average Latino: "Trump's an insane asshole. The rest of the republican candidates? Why would I care? I'm not voting republican?" That's my read.
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  6206. AD=Anno Domini="In the Year of the Lord" (often translated as "In the Year of our Lord") and the whole dating structure is based around Jesus. (BC="Before Christ") You're already doing this and you need to rub it in our faces MORE?
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  6207. See the 2016 democratic primary for all you need to know on that.
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  6208. Much as I try to assume stupidity instead of malice whenever I can, there's no arguing with that.
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  6209. Why would a college want to make sure you took the right classes if they get more money if you have to take extra ones to finish your degree? Much more cost effective to put money into advertising and pocket the difference. For profit colleges that get all the money up front are never going to be on your side. Their goal it to get you to take classes. After that, all they care about is PR to get the next batch of students.
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  6210. Wow, their proficiency at skirting laws against slander by the narrowest margin are impressive. Treason to come to think of it.
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  6211. Yup, the only real argument for electronic voting is that it's cheaper. All the other difficulties in voting can be solved with more polling places and them being open longer.
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  6212. Doesn't that make the entire court in contempt of a higher court? Hey, if these are supposed to be halls of justice, you need to jail them or you admit that your job isn't about justice.
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  6213. +Alexander Est does being suppressed that he entered office with LESS than 50% disapproval count?
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  6214. +reven50 you mean repentance, right?
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  6215. To the people offended by that pic: You're not upset because his post was disrespectful toward the victims. You're upset because his post reminds you of how were toward them that you couldn't put in the tiny effort to see through how obvious the lies the Bush administration used to get us to stop chasing BinLaden and instead attack innocents. You're mad because he pointed out that, instead of flowers YOU left the deaths of innocents on their graves. Be glad he was being kind to you. I would have rubbed your face in a less conservative casualty estimate (say the 3 million one) and all the dead and injured troops.
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  6216. Ha, that's rich! ...you are joking right?
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  6217. Jonathan Rarebit oh, that was clear. That was supposed to be aimed at the OP but somehow my app didn't throw that in.
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  6218. Calling some sexualities "unnatural" only shows stunning ignorance. Even ignoring that homosexuality can be found everywhere there is sexuality, there's things everywhere that make that look tame. -Bonobos make bisexual swingers look like puritans -Seahorses have the female get the male pregnant -Hyena reproductive anatomy is pretty...unique for mammals (& for that matter, non-mammalian reproductive anatomy is often strange) -Feline barbed dicks (& I think masochism-triggered ovulation for at least lions if I'm remembering right) -"Traumatic insemination" and other terrifying insect reproduction that makes that look gentle And to quote Jack Sparrow "let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends, the cuttlefish (flippin' glorious little sausages)"
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  6219. These armed "protests" (imo, you show up to a protest armed, you're not part of a protest; you're part of an angry mob) against scapegoated minorities are starting to remind me of Kristallnacht.
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  6220. ***** Murder them? In this country? citation? Mocking them? Do you understand disproportionate response?
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  6221. The reason crossbows have a reputation as more powerful and longbows have better range comes down to physics. Specifically ke=mv^2 and air resistance being proportional to velocity. Heavy crossbows can be, and often were, made heavier than any person can physically draw, and so bolts can have a higher kinetic energy off the string than an arrow. However, since they have a light projectile, more of that energy is in velocity and so their bolts will loose that energy much faster than a longbow's arrow. A high arc makes this difference even stronger, obviously, but it's actually the difference in projectile weight that creates it.
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  6222. Jace Solomon My first thought too!
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  6223. ...ow my brain...
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  6224. We need to stop trying to make everything wireless. If they weren't trying to go wireless they could have easily thought of dozens of other ways to do this that would be more reliable, cheeper, and not need to negotiate for an airwave. This really isn't that hard an engineering/programming task if you're willing to think.
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  6225. Yup, the ones too stupid or arrogant to hide it are much more likely to get people to get people pissed off enough to stop heading in that dirrection. Do I want a sweet poison that may be habit forming, or a bitter and revolting one that I'm never going to want to take again? Framed that way, the "lesser of 2 evils" idea takes a different light. Hillary's less evil than the republican candidates, sure, but 8 years of her further entrenching the establishment or 4 years of someone making people disgusted with republicans? Personally, I'd rather loose this election and have a good shot at 2020 than deal with 8 years of her (and realistically, we all know she'll get 2 terms if she wins unless something crazy happens)
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  6226. Most obvious study ever. And to everyone defending them, they might have a point IF they weren't cutting school funding, lying all the time, and supporting the fake news system rather than trying to get it back toward it's more objective past. Hell, some of these people work in political think tanks who's entire job is to figure out more effective ways to trick the public so they have no room to complain about the public being ignorant. AND even if you set all that aside, saying that the public's voice shouldn't matter in our country still makes them completely un-American and unfit for office.
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  6227. ***** Neither Trump's insanity nor the establishment status quo are acceptable outcomes. No matter the odds, or how many loosing battles we have to fight to overturn the system, it's irrelevant. Restoring our government to one that works for the people is the only goal worth fighting for. Bernie is a surprising opportunity that we should make the best of, but no matter the outcome, good or bad of this one battle, the fight will continue until we win the war. Surrender is not an option.
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  6228. McQueenPress Yup, I don't see any Whigs running for office any more and even the 2 parties we have are completely different from their earlier forms. The current situation is just one state. It's hard to change, but once a tipping point is crossed, it will become something else very quickly. The more rigidly a power structure resists change, the more rapid and spectacular the collapse when it reaches the breaking point. When something built to flex under load stops flexing when more load is applied, that means it's close to failure.
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  6229. Right or wrong, if the justice system fails to act, this kind of thing should be expected now and then; that's just reality.
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  6230. Well, it's pretty obvious that there's 25% of the country that is completely disconnected from reality and entirely immune to logic and evidence... If you watch polls overall, you'll find the most absurd things that make you thing "how can anyone possibly believe that" still run into a wall at about the 25% mark. Really makes me wish we had safe enough antipsychotics to try prescribing in mass.
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  6231. Wouldn't forcing all pets bought from stores both decrease the overcrowding problem in rescue shelters directly and reduce the "production" of more pets than there are homes for? Doesn't this law directly address your concerns?
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  6232. JimahoAlMabin I wasn't saying that those dogs end up in the shelters. I was referring to that it would increase the number of dogs that come out of shelters by stores (since it would be all shelter dogs rather than split between them and breeder's dogs). I get the impression that most people that "impulse buy" a dog are doing it partly due to convenience, so I doubt they'd go out of their way to go to the black market. The reduced market should also push out all but the highest quality breeders, and push them to focus on quality instead of quantity. (since they're only competing for the people who are out looking for a good breeder) I'm not saying that there aren't problems with shelters (there absolutely are), but it looks like it would help alleviate some of the pressure causing them. Also, retail stores that want to have better quality may set up their own training and treatment facilities to hit the price point between the shelters and breeders since they can't just buy from the lower-quality dealers. (it's uncomfortable to talk about this in terms of market forces, but I think it applies here, for better and worse)
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  6233. Great time for a third party upset. If you think that's impossible, remember that progressives did it for Teddy Roosevelt a century ago without the internet. Look up the Bull Moose Party. We can do it again if needs be.
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  6234. Can we just get single-payer and be done with this insanity? Health insurance via employer is one of the most needlessly complicated systems in existence (and a much bigger burden on small businesses than large ones).
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  6235. No seafood? So fish sticks are too good for them? F-off
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  6236. "No one is trying to do that" if only this were true...sadly, it's decidedly not, though I recognize not everyone in favor of trigger-warnings is trying to (yourself as an example). It's why I opened that post with an "if" worded the way I did. Yes, giving people a heads-up for things like rape is polite, but that's very different from both "you can't talk about that because it makes me uncomfortable" or "we should create a space free of triggers". but that heads up is polite, not universally mandatory, and censorship is absolutely not the answer to it. and, for the record (not that it should matter, since I could have considered such points of view without it being true but...), this is coming from the perspective of someone who's received professional treatment for ptsd, so your assumptions about what points of view I've considered are considerably off-base.
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  6237. Said it before and I'll say it again: If a man's against dildos, it's because they're so terrible in bed that they see inanimate objects as competition.
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  6238. The main problem with religion is that it allows evil people to pretend to be moral by conflating religion and morality and using the examples of good people from their faith to improve their reputation. They can even use that to convince others that "what I'm doing is moral because it's part of _ system of belief so you should do it too" Even in less vile cases, members of the religion will often band together to protect a member if something they did would hurt the credibility of the faith. (as we saw so clearly with the Catholic Church protecting pedophiles for a while) The fact that most religions can be interpreted in such a way as to justify anything doesn't help. Nor does the tendency towards authoritarianism among many other things. What a person takes from their religion is largely reflective of their chatacter, so it can do good on an individual level, sure. Once you consider how that good shields the misdeeds of others, it becomes quite negative in the big picture.
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  6239. Trump would still likely have been nominated, and Hillary cheated her way through the election. What we need is not manditory voting. What we need is publicly-financed, ranked-choice, verifiable (none of this e-voting BS) elections without voter suppression (so to start, none of this "you need to register to vote" or insufficient polling places bs). (and while you're at it, get rid of gerrymandering and the electoral college) Do all that, and you'll never have a Hillary vs Trump again, even if most of the country wants to sit on their ass on election day and not do their civic duty. Besides, most of the work that goes into your civic responsibility to cast an informed vote is in the "informed" part.
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  6240. Interesting...I worked blue-collar with amazon fairly recently and had a quite pleasant time there. There was a nice team environment, and management was responsive to the workers (not only was it air-conditioned, but management turned the AC up when they were asked) This was in one of their newer warehouses though...wonder if that 2011 incident shook them up. They did have the thing tracking how many packages you were doing, but they also were walking around, and if they knew you were behind because you were doing something that needed done, they didn't care about the numbers. Only complaint I had was that it wasn't really possible to get full-time for most blue-collar when it wasn't peak season. (which suggests to me that the description of upper-management might be accurate, but outside of that the corporate attitude mainly was just "how can we make this run efficiently?" which included ample breaks and a focus on safety) Anyone else have recent blue-collar experience with them?
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  6241. Hey, Republicans, grow the fuck up and quit your bratty tantrums. The adults in the room have real problems to fix, and can't hear each other over you screaming the same thing repeatedly because you can't be bothered to expend any mental effort! Most of you Democrats that just laughed are just as bad, so I'd be quiet because you're next. Can we please get to the point where more than 1/3 of this country has matured past 16? Please?! Democracy doesn't work when most of the nation is too lazy to use their damn brains.
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  6242. The Dems and the GOP are nearly full out cults at this point.
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  6243. Can someone explain to me what part of "less predictable and more extreme weather of every kind" is hard for people to understand?
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  6244. Actually, for non-academic conversation, I think "lunatic" does a fairly decent job of that by implying a violent loss of reason and control based on no reasonable stimulous. There's something to be said for leaving the more technically correct terminology to those trained enough in the field not to misuse the terms on accident.
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  6245. Wouldn't be a problem if the constitution guaranteeing a "speedy trial" was taken seriously. Seriously, you can't get a trial together in 120 days? (and for a pretty simple charge too) Sadly, these huge delays are the norm. We shouldn't have charged sex offenders working as police, nor should we need to suspend someone for >4 months to sort out an accusation, and if we gave a fuck about the constitution, this wouldn't've come up. Bs like this is exactly why the right to a "speedy trial" is in the friggin Bill of Rights! Seriously, the only one of them we haven't shit on is probably the quartering of troops (which isn't practical for the military anymore anyways)
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  6246. He isn't, but the GOP is using him as a magnet for all the anger their policies will generate that they can distance themselves from later. In short, George W Bush 2.0. In this case, they're also trying to distract from a couple votes in congress too.
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  6247. Trying something new? Not everything needs a pannel and giving other members of the crew besides Cenk a chance to do solo reports that aren't "final judgements" (something that's gotten a bit out of hand) is nice. I personally like the density of facts for straightforward pieces like this. Save the discussions for when there's more room for interpretation and opinion.
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  6248. +David Harford that's not how progressive income tax works. Tax brackets are a tax rate on what you make over that amount.
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  6249. And at least in the case of the USA, the west is intentionally radicalizing them. Not trying to excuse them, of course, just saying we need to admit that there are people on both sides that are deliberately fueling this war to stop it. So long as there are war mongers on both sides deliberately inflaming the violence, it won't end. The Israel-Palestine conflict has shown that quite well, and we've ignored the lesson too long already.
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  6250. airgear87 Even ignoring the fact that you couldn't even take out all the areas ISIS controls with 3 nukes, that's a terrible idea. It would just help the survivors gather even more people to their cause than they have now. Not to mention, Russia and China would never allow it considering the amount of fallout they'd get, and would likely threaten to use theirs on us starting WW3. AND 'nuke or let grow' is a false dichotomy
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  6251. I have a simple rule: I don't vote for election-rigging war criminals or those who want to be such. That didn't leave me any viable option after Hillary and the DNC stole my primary and spat in my face, so I voted Jill to try to weaken the oligarchy we call the 2-party system. That said, independents are a plurality of this country, so if we voted as a unified block rather than bowing to the established parties, we could have anyone in we wanted.
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  6252. If Bernie (or anyone like him) gets into the white house, there's actually a very simple way to get things done: You pick an issue with overwhelming approval by the public (ideally 85%+) that congress doesn't want to do. The you say "alright, short of an unchanged renewal of the budget, I'm not going to sign ANY bill that comes to my desk until you get me this simple bill that the whole country wants" Then until they do, you just keep talking about it, why it needs to be done, how much the American people want it, that congress hates democracy and won't pass it, and all the groups they take money from that would be against it. They'll try to change the subject, but you say "no, the American people DEMAND this and we're not talking about anything else until they get it" and keep talking. Make it a very regular thing, (like the old radio fireside chats if needs be) and you're basically 2 years of unlimited free advertising for your opponents to destroy themselves with.
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  6253. Don't forget moronic! Case in point, 2 words: sample size
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  6254. When has Trump ever shut up?
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  6255. That's not really a good idea. Polling places have people from all interested sides involved to watch each other for election fraud. You won't get that in workplaces.
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  6256. +Hateful Oucho Had she endorsed Bernie early in the primary, it would have been enough to flip it so we'd be talking about Bernie VS Trump right now. (or at least "can Hillary take the lead back?") Btw, Bernie vs Trump has polled consistently better than Hillary vs Trump throughout the primary, so if "no Trump" is your first priority, well.... I still view her favorably, but EW really dropped the ball this time and we need to be honest about that.
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  6257. +War450 The fundamental problem with your argument is that the power balance between employer and employee is fundamentally unequal (especially lower on the pay-scale) so in our current economic models, that will never result in fair outcomes. Asking for a job to be done, but not being willing to say that those doing the jobs shouldn't live in poverty is a massive contradiction in terms of ethics. You make a lot of points I agree with, but the only moral way to make those work in practice is to replace things like the minimum wage, guaranteed paid leave, social security, welfare, unemployment, etc with a universal basic income. Now while I support that for a long list of reasons (including the great majority of what you've said so far), until we actually do that, we do need minimum wage laws and need to keep raising them to keep up with inflation and cost of living. (Really things like that should be indexed to those and automatically update yearly, but that's a different topic)
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  6258. Exactly! The fact that not even military service earns you the right to medical care is a disgrase. In many other countries, all it takes to have that right is citizenship. (If that!) If you can look at a veteran with skin cancer and say that their access to care should be at all related to how they got it, go find some 3rd world shithole to live in. You don't deserve to live here.
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  6259. Kazooga 1234 That was my point, yes.
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  6260. Equate religion and morality and evil people will use it to cover and justify their actions. Of course this will happen when you create a group of people that aren't held to the same level of moral scrutiny!
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  6261. Good old AM radio, staying nice and insane....seriously though, can we take down AM radio and use the bandwidth for more wifi or something already?
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  6262. +Paul Gatto true, but you could just run ethernet cables to your light sources, add a small amount of hardware and a central router and you're done. It's also possible that more developed versions of this technology may be able to bounce off of white walls (and baring that, a simple set of mirrors could greatly extend your line of sight)
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  6263. They even project just like real republicans. The transformation is basically complete.
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  6264. No, but other members will die and Hillary isn't going to give us anything we're going to like anyway. Come on, she's an election-rigging war criminal that wants to sell out our sovereignty to multinational corporations (among many many other problems). If you think you're getting judges that will uphold the constitution out of her, then you're fooling yourself.
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  6265. I'd say it's only 25% that are completely disconnected from reality and the remainder of those 33% are just very Very confused... But then, "now now, it's not 1 in 3 it's 1 in 4" is a pretty damning defense...
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  6266. SpeakerWiggin49 True, but it can desensitize one to visual stimuli, and considering how hypersensitive he appears, that is probably a good thing too. Just so long as he doesn't look at cheerleader porn...that one has a chance of backfiring lol
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  6267. Watch the polls here: http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/ballot-measures/maine/ currently winning, but still many many idiots voting against democracy
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  6268. Sure he's gonna clamp down on the press, but I don't think he has the attention span to make it his first thing if he wins. Smart money is that his 1st act will be something impulsive for his financial self-interest.
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  6269. Supposing you have a real problem, this isn't how you fix it. The people that would cause that kind of problem won't respond to "hey guys, be sensitive" "We're taking it away because you lot apparently aren't mature enough for it. End of discussion." on the other hand. That might get results.
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  6270. Notice that in 2/3rd of the clips it's actually the person with the gun that closes the distance into disarm range for no apparent reason.
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  6271. +Theseus Schulze um, that claim makes no sense. They're playing a competitive sport and winning more. They're fundamentally in the business of entertainment and are drawing in more viewers and making more money. Even if the claim that the mens team would win in a competitive match is true, it's like saying that in sports with weight divisions, the heavyweight athletes should always make more regardless of how much they win or how much people watch them. How does that make sense?
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  6272. Theseus Schulze Inside a country, yes, that happens.  Few enough athletes want to move overseas for a better salary that that's a moot point, however.
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  6273. Being free doesn't mean you get to endanger others or dangerously neglect children, sorry. You don't get to build tall, unstable buildings that will fall on your neighbors house and let children play in it while hoping that they don't accidentally set your block on fire with what you're storing in there either, because that would make you a significant hazard to everyone around you (not to mention the poor kids stuck with you)
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  6274. +GhettoNBA political suicide? Pretty sure Obama and Bernie didn't have their political careers end by not supporting it. (To just name 2 obvious examples)
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  6275. We lost the moral high-ground LONG before that
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  6276. Like how we use voting machines that can't add correctly? You missed that part. When's the last time you've seen a calculator get #+1 wrong?
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  6277. Incorrect. Carbon wasn't folded into the iron. Once they smelted the ore, they would smash the bloom and seperate the fragments by carbon content introduced during the smelting process. The folding process (while very good at homogenizing impurities to strengthen the metal by removing fracture points) actually burns off some of the carbon, so swordsmiths would use very high carbon steel to then work down into a less brittle carbon level. I believe the Shadversity channel has a pretty good video on katana metalurgy if you want more detail.
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  6278. "Was dead" Yes. Is dead? Maybe...
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  6279. Oh, don't worry, they've a history of fighting terrorism and we paid them a lot of money for their family's deaths so it's inconceivable that they'll take up arms against us. /sarcasm
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  6280. Cutting hair as discipline for vanity is the exception. The ugly truth about suicide is that it happens when someone's day-to-day existence is a fate worse than death to them and they see no other way out (though with help, there's almost always a way). The ugly truth is that it's a coping strategy born out of desperation. (also the same reason people turn to drugs usually) Sometimes it's a blameless tragedy (as when they have a severe, treatment-resistant mental illness) but it's pretty clear that she was enduring emotional abuse at home and school. Those that receive the worst bullying at school typically have the weakest support network of friends, today's schools don't really make an honest effort to stop bullying, and she goes home to basically the same thing. She's dead because the community abandoned her (at best) and the blame lies with ALL of them. I don't have sympathy for the father, sorry. If your kid is clearly suffering from that kind of self-loathing and you think for a second that lowering their self-esteem further is a solution, you're showing that your desire for control exceeds your compassion. (and yes, he's right saying that the way the father spoke was textbook abuse)
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  6281. Ikr? Wow it's intense here. So much nonsense!
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  6282. Carl Sylvester take your pick https://duckduckgo.com/?q=9%2F11+plane+debris&t=samsung&ia=web Also https://youtu.be/YxljFOCZ6TU @ 10:16 (the whole series is full of solid evidence and reasoning debunking the 9/11 conspiracy theories)
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  6283. +Benny 베니 As a Bernie supporter who will either be writing him in or (more likely) voting 3rd party should that happen, I still think it's too soon for that. A lot of us haven't had the chance to vote yet, so let's not kill the energy by presuming defeat. Having a real independent run on the democratic ticket is a rare chance that we shouldn't waste!
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  6284. "She's either completely lost her mind, or she's, on purpose, trying to start a war with Russia" If she's trying to start a war with Russia, she's completely out of her mind! ...just sayin'
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  6285. That...may well be the creepiest thumbnail I've ever seen! ...and I stumble into some pretty weird corners of youtube sometimes.... If I may be a bit crude for a bit and continue the metaphor... "just hold still" is understating it. It's more like "don't worry, I'm clean, I'll pull out, and you don't need foreplay" (Meanwhile Hillary's saying "I don't see any hole in the condom, calm down and trust me")
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  6286. 0 sympathy for this POS, but this is a really bad idea. There's no legitimate use for this, and introducing it to the legal system in any way is a really bad idea for many reasons. (& btw, if they can do it to a penis, they can do it to a clit) Rape fantasies (including being raped) are really common, but fantasy =\= reality, even for determining what someone likes, so that proves nothing. (Even ignoring the huge thoughtcrime bs) You start including this as a legitimate part of the legal system, and it's only a matter of time before some lawyer tries to use it to "prove" that a rape victim "wanted to be raped" or that a rapist who tricks the machine can't be a rapist since the machine didn't detect any arousal. So many reasons this is a bad idea!
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  6287. Dogmatic established religions where people defer their responsibility to make moral judgements to their local preacher have been, overall, loosing ground for at least 1500 years. Think about it, when was the last time someone was stoned to death for breaking the Sabbath? What about the last time most people of any given religion belonged to 1 denomination? Last time where heresy was a death-sentence in most of the world? Personal faith is one thing, but the death of organized religion has been a long time coming, and the sooner the better. (For everyone on this planet)
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  6288. Nathan Young Don't feed the trolls, man. Especially not the obvious trolls. ;-)
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  6289. No the left is supporting Bernie. Hillary is in no way progressive or liberal. This is just a symptom of the sickening levels of celebrity worship and followers' mindset in the country.
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  6290. nick otwell think you replied to the wrong comment there
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  6291. Yes, very obviously assault. Pepper spray is supposed to be in the same category as a taser: unlikely to cause significant harm, but serious enough that they should only be used in situations with an element of risk/danger to someone. This is just using violence because it was easy and satisfying to those using it. Nothing more.
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  6292. All those things are problems, but the way they're being used can be overwhelmed by numbers. We need to get high turnout and then immediately turn to fixing the SYSTEM before there's another election. Also, add to that list needing ranked-choice voting.
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  6293. One of my favorite intermediary forms in this period used small pieces of wood like sticks. You make at least one side flat, write the note on each end, and break it in half with each party getting one half. Since no 2 sticks are going to break quite the same way, only the original halves of the stick are going to match. Medieval counterfeit&forgery protection. Crude? Yes, but damn clever.
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  6294. Even setting aside the spiritual/meditative side of things, this is a terrible idea. Yoga isn't just an exertion thing like most exercises, with the large elements of balance and stretching. You need mindfulness to listen to your body and know what pain to listen to and what to push through. Drinking and being angry while doing yoga is a great way to end up with joint injuries. Seriously, don't do this! Stripping yoga down to the bare bones of the exercise elements+mindfulness makes sense in making it more accessable. Most yoga+___ stuff is painfully embarrassing but mostly harmless other than that. This is actually physically dangerous. Unlike someone saying "work through the pain" to being trusty during endurance training (a great way to end up with severe dehydration) however, a lot of people in the west won't see how dangerous mixing these things are. Even if this is a joke, some idiot's going to try this and end up in the hospital.
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  6295. 9/11, the day the president responded to a tragedy with "everyone panic" and the "adults" listened to him, queuing up to hand over their rights and reasoning in exchange for the illusion of safety. The day my generation was awakened to the fact that most of the country hadn't graduated high-school (in terms of maturity, critical thinking, etc) and that we couldn't vote yet.
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  6296. +Nicholas Connor not to mention the time he could have spent putting together this "short list" could have been spent releasing her. It actually took more time to make a political maneuver of this than to just do it.
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  6297. Smashing random people's things won't really do anything either...other than make it easier for the media to demonize your cause.
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  6298. Also on maintenance you can repair mail in the field, but you really need a forge to do proper repair work on plates. Don't forget that you'd be cleaning this yourself, after a march and after setting up a camp with a ditch and palisade while carrying all your supplies yourself. There's also the very overlooked area of coverage. Mail shirts would have sleeves and cover the arms far better than the segmentata could, even covering the armpits, so while it wasn't as strong to a direct strike, it was more protective overall against most things. It may not look like that big a difference, but attacking the arm can become really common if a formation is disrupted. Good mail is actually really hard to penetrate, even with a pointed weapon (especially if someone's trained with it, as they'll just make most blows roll right off), so while I might possibly reconsider if I knew I was going up against something like a falx (2-handed ones anyways), or a mace, I'd probably pick mail over segmentata. Keep in mind as well, that the area on the shoulders (where you'd likely take the strongest blows) were double-layered for Roman armors.
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  6299. There are dice out there that are one 6 sided die nested inside another
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  6300.  @ZenoDovahkiin  you're missing the obvious solution to it. Think a bit and check "read more" 2 sides with 7s
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  6301. Pretty sure that was kinda her point: if you're slimming down pictures of someone that's already skinny, there's probably something wrong. If your job is to touch up photos to make them more attractive, and you make them look less attractive to push a negative body image...well you've just reached a level of fail worthy of internet attention. (Especially since this has become standard practice)
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  6302. Sad truth is that most people use the complicated tenets of religion to distract themselves from one simple truth. The root of all true morality is compassion. You don't even need faith for that, and dogma usually gets in the way.
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  6303. The leaks happened because someone internally got so sick of the corruption that they took a risk and did the right thing. She's no more of a "victim" of that than a mugger is a "victim" if he gets arrested for his crimes only to walk on a technicality.
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  6304. +Reckless Canuck I think you may be equating liberals with democrats there.
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  6305. ***** If you're referring to those that are so sensitive that they want to go back to segregating races and genders into safe spaces, and undo the work we've done in equality by playing the victim to get special privileges, there's a word for that too: "regressives". Please use it. Lumping the remaining liberals/progressives in with them is why it appears to you that "the good guy was killed" (that and both the democrats and regressives are much louder)
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  6306. Both candidates have >50% disapproval. Fear is the only reason they're not both loosing to a 3rd party candidate already.
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  6307. They hate us for our freedoms. They hate democracy. Hell, just look at what the leaked e-mails prove Hillary thinks of the citizens having real input on their government and realize the GOP is much worse. Why? Because they're authoritarians at heart that want the rich to rule over a new form of feudalism. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it's not.
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  6308. I bet that's a damn significant part of it.
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  6309. It's so nice to hear that she doesn't sound broken from all she went through!
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  6310. Who else saw this coming as soon as the establishment dems started using the "fake news" talking point?
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  6311. Judging by frequency if historical use: Maces are Far more effective weapons than flails. There are some interesting things about flails, but the control and speed you loose is an immense downside for practical use that's too hard to offset.
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  6312. Given the discrimination situation in this country, I don't think the focus should be on women's rights, but what she said was innocuous. Save that kind of criticism for the tumbler "feminists" and their BS, not people that are just about "hey, equality's good, let's keep working on it."
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  6313. Not again, still. There's a significant portion of the country that is still stuck there. We need to drag them, kicking and screaming if needs be, into the modern age... Just as we have been doing for our entire nation's history. (sadly, that's not an exaggeration...) ...hell, a frighteningly large percent of Mississippi still thinks that interracial marriage should be illegal! (and let's not forget the impact the "red scare" and McCarthy era still has on our politics)
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  6314. ***** I agree, but it also means the metaphorical lube is about to go next.
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  6315. This would be the perfect time of year to STOP using them...but we'll wait.
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  6316. Anna might not be saying "life sentence" but I'm saying we should be considering it. Judge says he doesn't think he's a danger to society, but I seriously question whether any amount of rehabilitation will ever make him NOT a danger.
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  6317. +Yul Bahbo yah, that makes us more like prison bitches...
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  6318. The sad part: used to be that people worked hard to make sure their kids had a Better future than them, but now we're struggling to even get close to them having the same chance as their parents.
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  6319. So it wasn't gremlins or unseele fey this time?
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  6320. multitudeofidols for an uncomfortably high percentage of them, it's because they're actual psychopaths. I mean psychopathy shoots up from 1% in the general population to 20-25% in CEOs and I HIGHLY doubt it's any better in congress (I actually suspect it's worse). Just take a look at the last election. Both Hillary and Trump are at least diagnosisable as borderline. It's pretty easy to sleep at night when you're a narcissist with no guilt or empathy reguardless of what you do.
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  6321. Good for him Journalism=\=gossip tabloid 'nuff said
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  6322. Wow, so many people acting like this isn't part of a long-running pattern of Putin's Opponents turning up dead from suspicious circumstances or that there'll be a real investigation, by the Kremlin, to see if the Kremlin was involved. Can you all be that naive? Go look at pre-WW2 Nazi tactics, 'cause it's nearly the exact playbook that Hitler used to placate his enemies and expand his power then. Only now, the world powers have nukes, so it's not as simple to respond, but open your eyes and see what's happening!
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  6323. +hmpeter liability risk to inspect weapons? Huh? Sorry, but no, you need to do weapon inspections. I'm not a lawyer, but I know the SCA requires them, despite having larger events and there being lawyers going over the rules of the SCA. If you're doing it in a way that creates a liability risk, you're doing it wrong.
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  6324. NintendoAddict ah, ok...only ever managed to keep track of about 200 or so, myself, but yes, those are the ones I was thinking of
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  6325. Facts? Like the fact that one of his campaign offices was shot and the apartments of his staff were ransacked before he had any secret service protection and he didn't make a big deal about it. Compared to that both incidents of people trying to rush the stage with loads of guards around barely qualify as threats. Given Bernie's almost infuriatingly calm reaction to past events, this shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
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  6326. #2 doesn't require being taught it It just requires reading comprehensions beyond a 5th grade level >.<
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  6327. I know this sounds rhetorical, but honest question here: If someone had the resources to get a sex change and they were trans, why didn't they first use those to get to a different country? I know attachment to home soil can be strong, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel it myself, but I still have trouble understanding why hated minorities live even in some places in the US much less a shithole like Pakistan.
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  6328. All meanings of gang do involve a strong group, however, and if "nobody knows" well then that shoots that right down. A lesbian will have a much smaller dating pool than the average person, doubly so in grade-school, and if "nobody knows" they're probably not dating their classmates either. If anything, the shirt invokes the image of some girl that is tired of guys trying to ask her out, but is either in a relationship outside of school (and so probably unavailable) or not really that interested in relationships at the moment. In short, a reserved loner: the exact opposite of what they're claiming. Also, frankly, banning anything controversial at all would ban things like evolution. I believe that kind of catering just allows the most extreme and belligerent to redefine what the center is again and again. If something like this is a significant distraction to someone, I'd say they need more exposure to this kind of thing to function in the world. Yes, lesbians exist, and no, they're not always obvious. If someone can't deal with that, there's a problem, but it isn't the shirt.
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  6329. Is it possible that someone did this to the FCC site? Of course, but just, throwing this out there: The FCC benefits from this by limiting the influx of discent before it could grow further and faster, while getting to play the victim. All that for the cost of loosing the use of what amounts to a giant poster for a few hours. Government web pages like that are basically just big, digital posters, not things they need to function internally and everyone capable of a DDS attack knows it.
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  6330. I REALLY hope not. Getting a constitutional convention is one of the very few legitimate ways left to fix the system. He who makes peaceful revolution impossible . . . *shudders*
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  6331. Hillary: Shill Trump: Insane Next question?
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  6332. If "10 year old rape victim" isn't an obvious exceptional circumstance, what is???
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  6333. +koopinator He was teaching, you just didn't like the lesson. Tough Are you suggesting that we should wait to teach children the consequences of bullying until one of their classmates commits suicide? This is only a lesson that some of their peers are being forced to live every day by the people the lesson is intended for. As for how the parents would react? They're adults, so again I have to say: tough
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  6334. After checking Raw Story, I have to say there's something fishy about this. Does anyone have the full interview or even just more of it than the edited clip the local station uploaded to youtube?
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  6335. I can only speak for myself on this one, but without the video, I have to admit I probably would've had trouble believing that she struck first. It wouldn't be anything sexist in my case, just a "come on, she can't really be that stupid, can she?" Starting to like the new host, though. Keeping it real. I'd want no part in that mess & she was asking for it when she hit him. (imo, hitting someone=consenting to be hit) Also, if you watch, the guy's response to every attacker was proportional to them & ended as soon as they stopped fighting. (& in a brawl, that's not that easy to manage)
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  6336. I don't have a problem with standardized testing in theory...unfortunately, our tests suck!
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  6337. bandrukesucks I'm not counting on them. It's why I expect they will wait until after the primaries, but between the Republican influence over the investigation, and the threats of leaks after, I think them coming down on her after the primaries is the most likely situation currently.  (not a certainty of course, just the most likely)
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  6338. bandrukesucks I'm not sure what you mean by that. Being investigated by the FBI sounds like pretty direct threat of indictment to me. Can you clarify what you mean?
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  6339. +Tommy Gordon bit his lip before he did too! It's like he was trying to go for "these have been some bad years, but we have remained strong and not wavered" and the crowd cheered before he got to the "but" Seriously, that's one fucked up audience!
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  6340. Germany should really know better than this, especially with extremists like golden dawn already in play. Even if they're right and it's not as bad, 'Nazi-lite' isn't something to brush off.
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  6341. With as easy as Trump is to manipulate if you have his ear, there's not much difference. It's like Bush & Cheney.
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  6342. So, the CIA wants us to believe that the same people that have technology to pull data off of re-formatted hard-drives conveniently lost data (which they can't recover) by fluke accident since they had less data backup than is the low end of what's recommended for normal home computers? Sure, and all CIA computers use "password" as a password, and run exclusively on unsecured wi-fi. Sorry, >80 IQ here, so not buying it! Prosecute them as if what we have on them is only 10% of it on "tip of the iceberg" principles and throw destruction of evidence, interfering with an investigation, purgery, and contempt of court on top just for good measure. (and when they complain, remind them to be glad we're above using their "enhanced interrogation" techniques to find out what really happened)
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  6343. Obama goes after whistleblowers harder than any other president and wants to talk to at us about being serious about facts? Really, now?
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  6344. Back when charging interest (aka: usury) was still considered a serious sin, the only way to get what is today a normal loan was to go to someone who wasn't part of your religion. Since the medieval church was pretty thorough about getting rid of the pagans, that means that you'd have to go to the jews. Combine the reputation of a loan-shark, being such a small minority, and being some of the only non-christians around and you've got a textbook scapegoat for anytime something goes wrong. Give that over 1000 years of momentum, and you get a level of reflexive persecution that very few groups are comparable to. (one being homosexuals, who have been being murdered by, at any given time, at least 1-2 branches of the Abrahamic religions for >3000 years and counting)
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  6345. jemimallah  When did I say that? Considering the book they all share in common has some anti-homosexual passages, there's an excuse there for a fundamentalist in any main branch that wants one.
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  6346. jemimallah That was mostly referring to the fact that they're not all that old and to allow for any brakes in the barbarism.
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  6347. Problem is that ideologies can adapt to take advantage of mental blind-spots far far faster than genetics can keep up with.
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  6348. Miles Hayford or genetic engineering or some other form of transhumanism and transcend it entirely.
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  6349. But I thought the private market excelled at cutting overhead and that government bureaucracy was always super wasteful! /sarcasm Seriously though, what value do people think these insurance companies are producing?
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  6350. Technically not a samuri
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  6351.  jag10  try making a rational response to this https://youtu.be/le86H7Xfjrc without falling into ad-hominem Otherwise, leave politics to the adults.
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  6352. Contagious? When have US problems ever stayed within our borders? This kind of shit is a huge part of why I stay and resist rather than fleeing to another nation with a higher standard of living (for now).
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  6353. savydude1 you do know that doesn't necessarily guarantee a fair outcome right? Considering you're dismissing arguments about how election systems could be structured to be more fair, I doubt it.
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  6354. Mr Wizard thank you for the civil debate as well. As I said, it's still an issue I'm not 100% decided on myself, because there are tradeoffs in both dirrections. As much as things like getting money out of politics are obvious, it's also nice to sit down and discuss finer points of government reform that don't always have clear-cut answers.
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  6355. States that completely ban underage marriage: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Michigan, Washington, Virginia, and New Hampshire. States with the highest rate of child marriage: Nevada(0.671%), Idaho (0.338%), Arkansas (0.295%), Kentucky (0.262%), Oklahoma (0.229%), Wyoming (0.227%), Utah (0.208%), Alabama (0.195%), West Virginia (0.193%), Mississippi (0.182%) Anyone else notice a pattern? The GOP is projecting when they call others "pedophiles".
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  6356. Also known as a mixed economy. Everything else (with the possible exception of some types of hypothetical future economies) is just ideological extremism.
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  6357.  @MrBlaq  if he had finished thr physics degree, he wouldn't have wasted money on the hyperloop BS...but then, government grants took the edge off that failed project.
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  6358. That's not a political decision. That was a profit decision.
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  6359.  @del1rn  *progressive independent correcting a gross mistatement of the systemic source of the problem being economic forces rather than any laws, since there was clear pressure from the markets but no dirrect legal influence. I don't believe I blamed anyone, specifically, much less everyone yet correcting a mischaracterization of the problem gets me mischaracterized. Funny how that seems to keep consistently happening, isn't it. It almost seems like your side is arguing in bad faith.
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  6360. If you'll excuse the bluntness, there were plenty of us warning that Trump had a good shot of winning, and your characterization of why people don't vote is incredibly wrong, out of touch, and condescending (and I say this as someone regularly telling people to always vote).
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  6361. It's not a catch-22 exactly, but a (complicated) prisoner's dilemma. Politicians want the publicity they can get through the journalists, but all else being equal, they are going to go to outlets that pitch softballs. The way to cause the problem to collapse is for normal people to stop watching media that wants to be mouthpieces for government propaganda so that politicians will be forced to go to outlets that will actually be asking hard questions to keep viewers.
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  6362. Steven Anchundia Regan is more liberal than Obama in many ways...we need to reverse this slide to the right that the DNC has been helping with ASAP
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  6363.  @drewschumann1  "pretended" only to lay down more lived than anyone else to fight the bloodiest front in the war and beat us to Berlin. Stalin was a POS but you've completely lost touch with reality (likely due to those fascists you sub to).
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  6364.  @j.f.fisher5318  imagine thinking you have a zinger in pointing out something I pointed out months ago as if I didn't know it.
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  6365. Alternative possibility: it was an excuse to fire young people because Biden is ageist af kinda like a low-key version of how the Nixon administration created the war on drugs because they wanted to lock up black people and the anti-war left.
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  6366.  @scrubjay93  you're oversimplifying. They sure don't want the left involved enough to win primaries or affect policy and (while it wasn't covered in my comment) they don't want minorities to have too much representation lest the GOP be relegated to the dustbin of history as they would no longer be able to use them as a threat to get people to vote for more conservative "Democrats" Also, Biden is legitimately ageist and that may be enough all on its own even if it's against his best interest.
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  6367.  @trequor  absolutely wrong you disgusting misogynist. It was legal and expected to beat your wife back then and keeping a child in an abusive home (even if that abuse is not directed at them) is incredibly damaging to them
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  6368. To be fair, Americans have a habbit of pronouncing everything our own way.
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  6369. ​ @fred-62 no response to tsmith906? Thought so.
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  6370. What's the difference between a news station which hires hosts who knowingly tow the corporate line, and one which hires people too out of touch to realize they are and firing them when they get a clue? Effectively nothing.
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  6371. ​ @eyuin5716 most of us don't, but some do, and all need him.
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  6372. ​ @stephaniec9539 yeah well, anyone who wants the job probably shouldn't have it.
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  6373. reaper39 Jesus did...but I'm sure she'd claim to be Christian
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  6374. DM R no, Fox doesn't just misrepresent but lies all the time. The rest of the MSM has just sunk down to their level (admittedly not that far from where they were).
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  6375. G Worm what? Fox viewers have frequently tested as being less informed than those who don't follow the news at all. They're called "Faux News" for a reason.
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  6376. AZOffRoadster I have the choice of Verison or Comcast charging me >100/month after fees
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  6377. @James Henry Smith ....what? O.o
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  6378. Bill Maher is an establishment tool with the jobs of defining the leftmost position of the Overton Window and directing the anger of progressives to where the establishment "Democrats" want. He's just performing his job as normal. It was just less obvious when all he had to do was point at Bush.
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  6379. Yeah, cutting back is actually pretty easy if you just start thinking about meat as something that is a nice treat to be greatful for rather than something that is a requirement to complete a meal. I reduced meat consumption mainly for the environment too, but I did find that I felt healthier after I started getting a bit over half of my protien from plant sources like beans and nuts, so it was a nice perk (though I would need to plan that side of my diet a lot more than I do to cut out meat entirely)
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  6380. +
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  6381. What kind of rediculous story would have someone climing someone's hair up a tower indeed.
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  6382. MrCrazyLeprechaun we'd love to take her back...if you embarrass your country you've failed as an ambassador. We're having elective difficulties though, please stand by.
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  6383. Tried a soft reboot...it mocked us...going to try again before a hard reboot as our system doesn't handle those well
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  6384. Asian Dave think it's good to make a distinction between Trump supporters and Trump voters (though there are some of even the diehard supporters that are just incredibly gullible)
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  6385. Troy Shea Israel? No, that one was in us. The Israeli government has plenty to answer for without shifting blame onto them.
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  6386. No, too busy being stunned by how accurate that map is. To anyone familiar with pre-modernish maps, that is incredible!
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  6387. Oh look, you said "Zionism" and a Nazi popped his head up.
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  6388.  @mistabobdobalina7054  setting aside your gross oversimplification of middle east foreign policy, shall we start with the dude subbed to multiple white supremacists (including David Duke) calling Trump a Jew as a way to explain his actions? Come on now, don't be so naive.
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  6389. Gru ber weak governments can't protect their people's rights/saftey or tackle large issues. What we need is a moderately strong government that's more beholden to it's people (better election systems would go a long way toward that) and which actually follows a strong constitution which guarantees things like provacy, free expression, etc (I know free expression is a bigger issue over there due to many countries not protecting it constitutionally)
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  6390. The CIA has never been that different to the KGB.
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  6391. It's a cult. Cult members are victims, not necessarily stupid. There's numerous methods of manipulation at work.
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  6392. Think you'll enjoy this: https://youtu.be/FzF1KySHmUA
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  6393.  Malic Bk  Poe's law strikes again
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  6394. Honestly, if Canada wanted to do it, I'm not sure how opposed I'd actually be.
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  6395. It's not even about improving the lives of the in-group. The appeal is JUST about getting to hurt others. See the "alt right playbook"s "always a bigger fish", "the origins of conservatism" and "white fascism"
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  6396.  @GoDanReport  I'm not stupid enough to answer a loaded question that is pure projection, no.
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  6397.  @GoDanReport  I did. You're just too stupid to understand, apparently.
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  6398. Varney? Not a chance. This isn't even close to unexpected for him.
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  6399. Very informative. Thank you for the quality you put in these videos. I'm left with one question, though: Why did the military go back to using timed fuses for airbursts instead of proximity fuses? I was under the impression that the proximity fuses we'd developed in WW2 (and I assume have improved upon since) had rendered timed fuses obsolete for artillery, so I figure I must be missing something important.
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  6400. Along with how many lives?
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  6401. How to write a good tournament arc? Go watch a sports anime and then bring those lessons on character development back to your genre.
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  6402. _and if you think it can, you don't understand democracy.
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  6403.  @goodtaste4  money as debt isn't inherently a problem if it were just created as debt to public servants. I think we all owe a debt to teachers, for example, and handing out IOUs (in the form of dollars) to teachers as payment which they can exchange for goods and seevices they need is fine. The problem is trying to get everyone in debt to the banks, creating some corporate neo-feudalism BS. It's not just our money system where money=debt though. It's been that way since the invention of currency.
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  6404. What it's going to take is replacing them all with progressives because "centrist" Dems ARE moderate Republicans.
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  6405. @Mimosa Baker catagorical, adj: without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional Oppose, verb: to act against or provide resistance to; combat Ethnonationalism, noun: A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity Does that clear it up for you?
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  6406. Cold as that sounds, it's probably true...
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  6407. Btw, see that quote, and look at the fake progressive spamming the comments with nonsense and understand how basically nothing can be gained by talking to it.
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  6408. Good. Btw kiddos, if you take the paddle from the teacher the flat causes pain and red marks. The edge can break bones.
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  6409. It's not the Trump effect. It's the CIA effect. Crash an economy, undermine the left, and a little nudge is all you need for fascism. This isn't anything new.
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  6410. @matthewpeterson1784  go learn what "slur" means and stop misusing the word, tankie.
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  6411. And the tell me a fear of heights is a mental disorder...
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  6412. Shawn Brink my only claims were that having it not happen when your phone was on vibrate would defeat the point of such a system and the specific claim about what has happened with my phone and both systems along with the implication of my belief that it would be logical to assume that such behavior would extend more broadly. I do not claim to have statistical knowledge of the system's behavior across phone models. I am using an Android for what that's worth.
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  6413. Same energy as a certain German fellow talking about how what he was doing would last 1000 years
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  6414. Short answer: because the "news" they watch is funded in a very large part by health insurance companies and so they get pro-corporate propaganda masquerading as news. Long answer: Innuendo Studios' alt right playbook explains the mindset in a few videos. Of particular note are "always a bigger fish" and "I hate Mondays"
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  6415. Innuendo Studios' alt right playbook explains the mindset in a few videos, but giving more detail is getting my comment deleted.
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  6416.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  you just equated liberals and socialists. You're completely politically illiterate allong with everyone that upvoted your comment and should never be taken seriously on any political topic.
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  6417.  @ikexbankai  a-neutral=/=objective And b-his criticisms of his own network were pretty objective.
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  6418. Here's a giveaway: His proposed UBI was to be paid for with a regressive tax and he said that people would have to choose between the (not so) Universal Basic Income and their current government benefit programs which (especially with not making housing a guarenteed human right) would hurt the poor. Look for clues like that in the details of policy proposals while you treat politicians like magicians. It's almost always about misdirection and playing with your hopes, fears, and expectations.
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  6419.  @suzumes6738  you know...people were saying something similar in the 1920-1930s range...turns out that new fascism thing wasn't just the corporate elite making their final struggle against change. We need to take this seriously. Jan 6th was our Beer Hall Putch moment.
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  6420.  @Ryman158  well, every decent country to live in has Bernie as a centrist at least...and every country that sees him as far left is a shithole in dirrect proportion to how common that belief is. Funny about that.
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  6421. Byzantines also used something similar as well sometimes. That's far enough away that it could've been independently developed, but there was also a fair amount of trade with China so it may have spread that way. I don't know the history that well, only the range it was used in. They're supposed to be good for distance shots and if your enemy doesn't have a track to have them ride on, they can't be shot back at you.
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  6422. You don't really understand politics. The only way you could the Republicans to flip and vote for it is if it was a case their own voters found outrageous. We're decades past the point where the letter of the Constitution matters and Republican voters don't give a single fuck about technicality arguments involving how Trump pushed for an investigation of the corrupt son of an establishment "Democrat" so what exactly do they have to loose if they vote to aquit? No, the only way you can get them to break rank is if you can make their voters make them and the only way you do that is by making enough of their Republican voters outraged at Trump to threaten their re-election chances and the only way you do That is by playing off of Trump's faltering support with the military by making the case that Trump sold them out as mercs to Saudi Arabia for personal gain at the financial expense of the USA. All politics is about power. If you can't effectively leverage that power, you have nothing.
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  6423. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) ". . .they legitimately do not care whether the words coming out of their mouths are true." https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
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  6424.  @puffdaddy69  it is explicitly legal to enter the country to claim asylum.
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  6425.  @puffdaddy69  the distinction you're trying to make is legally BS. It doesn't matter how an asylum seeker enters the country. You're just pushing talking points from racists.
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  6426.  @puffdaddy69  the law explicitly allows it. I suggest you take your own advice.
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  6427. When has Trump ever cared about due process? He's just saying what his degrading brain thinks people want to hear while trying to present himself as tough while one-upping everyone else. I'm not surprised by this at all. Bonus points for him is it forces the NRA to come to him to try and pay him off again because they know his position on any issue can be bought. EDIT: and look at that, got further in the video and he changed his position after meeting with the NRA
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  6428. And they quietly shut him out again like he doesn't exist, bringing in someone else who meets their own explicit standards less to fill the spot.
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  6429. Just dump TYT. They're LONG past relevant.
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  6430. Yeah, the extent and choice of the things YouTube will censor is highly alarming, and this was true even before the election.
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  6431. Once you make bribery legal, you can make anything legal if you're rich.
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  6432. No 56%+23%=79% (just a rounding difference away from 80%) 9%+10%=19%
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  6433. And donate and volunteer. We have the entire system against us. We need a landslide so big that they couldn't hide rigging it.
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  6434. Right wing politics traces its roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  6435. On the upside, these ones tend to statistically cancel each other out in a large enough voting pool.
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  6436. "the loyal and honorable deep state" that really says it all doesn't it?
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  6437. ​ @zero_six_romeo only because the target group and offending country are so small. Proportionally, it's one of the worst.
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  6438. When they want the police to do things they can't get away with legalizing.
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  6439.  @starwarfan8342  so you're 90% a moron? Antifascist aren't out there helping an attempted fascist coup.
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  6440. Maher's a shill for the DNC. He's a mere tool for them to define the leftmost position within the overton window and to direct the left's outrage in a direction the establishment finds useful. His actual positions don't matter, as what he values is his cushy paycheck. It's really that simple.
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  6441. You had an ex who told you, and perhaps believed, she was abducted. Occum's razor doesn't point to it actually having happened.
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  6442. Hahahaha that's cute but no, in most places in the your voting rights aren't even restored when you walk out of the walls, and some places require you to petition to EVER get your voting rights back if you've been convicted of a felony. Disenfranchising voters by making them felons was one of the main reasons our government started the war on drugs in the first place (highlighting one of the reasons taking voting rights away like that is problematic). More detail here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement We really are that far behind wherever you live. Keep in mind, we also still allow long-term solitary confinement as punishment for all sorts of things, so yeah, our prisons are pretty fucking barbaric to the point where I've met ex-cons that flat out said "I'm not going back there again. I'll die in a shootout with the cops before I ever let them take me back there." ...so there are people that would choose DEATH to going back to a US prison. ...just let that sink in a moment.
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  6443. Viking Dk joking about the US prison system? Sadly not. You can read the specifics about how much of our country disenfranchises convicts for different abouts of time, but broadly speaking we don't really do rehabilitation over here. We just make the punishment so terrible we hope to intimidate people into not committing crimes (or at least doing a better job of not getting caught). Meanwhile, many prisons make money off of forced labor on top of the profits they make from the state paying them to house inmates (not only being allowed to funnel money to the campaigns of elections to sway politicians to put more people behind bars for longer, but also often being able to charge the state penalties if the cells are not all full), so they have really all the incentive in the world to have more recitivism. As for your nationality, I didn't want to presume or risk mixing up my memory of flags.
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  6444. It is, but that hasn't stopped us from flagrant violations of the constitution for a long time.
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  6445. That'll happen when you fund it with a regressive tax that companies can get out of by making you an independent contractor. Warren's plan would fail before the completion of its 10 year rollout. #HindSightIs2020 #Bernie2020 Accept no substitutes.
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  6446.  @fadenmac8092  how about normalizing and often expanding many of the terrible things Bush did? Obama is about as much of the cause of Trump as the previous 2 administrations.
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  6447. Walter Krueger as a demi- I agree (though I usually go for written, as opposed to filmed)
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  6448. Takemikazuchi thinking it might be infected with benign malware suggests they might actually be using windows to me.
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  6449. If Russia had then its people might expect something from its government besides telling them who to hate, which would make it really hard for Putin to maintain the kind of control he's accustomed to.
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  6450. In spite of them having a fascist government or because of it?
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  6451. I can't be sure. Also keep in mind that sometimes the lines between a faint and a real attack are blurred if your goal is to try and get them to move their defenses, but if they don't and ignore it, you can follow through turning the faint into a real attack. What I do know is that one of Ukraine's biggest advantages is how easy it is to outsmart fascists.
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  6452. -Aegon Targarian
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  6453. ReblazeGaming "it" would be referring to the word choice, in that context, not the person
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  6454.  Mad Jackson  yes, the useful idiots trying to remove the price gouging health insurance companies (aka the for profit death pannels that control our politicians and the MSM) from between you and your doctor. /s Meanwhile the system you support lets rich assholes from anywhere in the world cut in line to get elective procedures they want before you can get what you need. Who's the useful idiot?
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  6455.  @JoeM347  just look up cost/kwh and you'll find an abundance of sources all saying the same thing.
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  6456.  @JoeM347  pick a credible source. They're all saying the same thing. Heck, even just skim the Wikipedia page before spouting your lies.
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  6457. ​ @akumakorgar hired is more appropriate...assuming, of course, that they took the job of their own free will. "Rented" would be appropriate if they had an "owner" if you get my meaning.
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  6458. Getting liberals to acknowledge that we need to move left (not right) to win? Good luck with that!
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  6459. Note: see Debt: the First 5000 years for more of what I'm talking about
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  6460. It's all projection. All of it. No exceptions.
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  6461. Ben Chesterman idk the situation in Australia, but here in the US, having been involved in running a small business, I can assure you that small businesses here would do better if our country was MORE socialist. Ex: tying healthcare to employment is a huge burdon, better public transit would increase access to more locations, having more money in consumers' pockets would enable more competition with outsourcing megaconglomerates, etc.
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  6462. Ben Chesterman setting aside that there are different styles and degrees of socialism and I'm not sure how socialist Australia is, there's a serious problem with that analysis. The US, for example, has moved further and further away from socialism after the New Deal, and since the 1970s our earnings have flat-lined despite ever increasing productivity. Meanwhile, other, much more socialist countries have seen their incomes go up during the same time, so the idea that socialism=low wages and crushed small businesses doesn't seem to fit the data. In reality, it's most likely the rise of giant conglomerates dominating the market and free trade deals that have seen your wages fall, not socialism, as (unless you're a total idiot or tool in implementing it) you need to move rather far to the extremes of socialism before wages start dropping. As one example, Walmart entering an area nearly always drives out small businesses and depresses wages. On the manufacturing end, a closer proximity to it means you're likely hit harder by outsourcing to poor Asian countries than the US due to presumably lower shipping costs.
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  6463.  John Dunham  said every tyrant ever....
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  6464. For profit banking is inherently predatory. "Predatory banking" is a tautology. It used to be called "usury" and be rightly banned. It must be turned into a public service only.
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  6465.  @Beafy  I didn't mean this video specifically, but showing hateful people trying to impose theocracy like the one in the video.
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  6466.  @mountaindweller777  it's looking like Biden winning the election while looking as awful as possible without loosing to Trump so that the entire election can only be seen as a condemnation of Trump while also making everyone who voted for Biden in the primary become completely disillusioned with him is probably the best outcome for this election. I'm all for almost anything that makes Biden look bad and Trump look worse right now.
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  6467.  @insightfulhistorian1861  I wish the debates changed no-one's mind...unfortunately the reality doesn't bare that out
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  6468.  @michaellovullo7363  yes, the left is fighting all forms of discrimination all the time. You either fight for equality for everyone or you aren't doing it at all. If you can't handle that, guess what side of the political spectrum you're NOT on.
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  6469.  @insightfulhistorian1861  public political debates are propaganda. All the campaigning leading up to an election is propaganda. Not always of the same level of honesty, but all, definitionally propaganda. I don't understand the distinction you're making. O.o
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  6470.  @thowl7065  "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) Seems to fit, huh?
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  6471.  @墨隨筆  should've said "hard rods"
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  6472. We have both a victim's testimony and his confession already and somehow I really doubt law enforcement forced a false confession from one of their own.
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  6473. Of couse they did. Who would expect anything else?
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  6474. How to survive? Simple: surrender or go home.
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  6475.  @carrieseymour5197  stigma against left-handed people varied quite a bit, I'm sure. It's important to not forget that when people say "medieval" we're talking about the spread of at least 5 centuries of cultural drift over at least a continent. Be sceptical of anyone who tries to generalize over the whole thing. Take for example laws about townsfolk owning certain types of weapons. Those ranged from bans (to try and limit the potential of revolt) to mandates (to make sure everyone could equip themselves if levies were raised) and everywhere in between.
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  6476. Dusty utterly eviscerates JP's talking points about women in the first few minutes of this video: https://youtu.be/_kktI8-lZw8
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  6477. Lee didn't want confederate statues and most of these were put up long after the war specifically to intimidate black people. That would be the REAL history the south is trying to rewrite. Try again.
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  6478.  @gibbyrex522  even more importantly, information doesn't travel at the speed of horse, so the idea of electing a local with a good grasp of politics who's a good judge of character to go do a vetting of the candidates for you has been outdated by about the advent of the radio.
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  6479. Considering a good chunk of Hillary voters flipped to McCain after Obama was nominated in '08, that's a real possibility. The "moderate Republicans" are in the "Democratic" party.
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  6480. BearOwl well, in a dictatorial sense since divorces were really hard to get and women (and children) were basically the property of the husband....doesn't mean they were healthier though.
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  6481. When isn't it? A big channel speaking truth is always going to be swamped with trolls.
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  6482. We know what happens to the jobs of people under Pete that expose racism. Pretty strong selection bias there.
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  6483. ZCorp Alpha see THAT shit is actually harmful. Twilight too. Let them watch whatever kinky shit they want, 'cause if you're actually educating them right, they'll know it's just a fantasy and it'll be harmless. Romanticizing abusive relationships, however, is fucked up.
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  6484. I will add to that, though, that if Russian command has really resigned itself to turning to armchair analysts for advice, they have conceded to always be behind in the OODA loop that is such a huge part of modern military strategy, which in layman terms means they will always be loosing the battle for initiative meaning they will always be at least one move behind, reacting to the last move Ukraine is making while (or worse: after) Ukraine is making its next one. So yeah, even if they are listening and the armchair analysis is right, it will be less useful than a lot of people would assume.
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  6485.  @SeasideDetective2  it's not that complicated. They just want the market to fuck over minority groups they want to feel better than. It's never been about any market principles. It's just about heirarchy.
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  6486.  @henk-3098  fairly sure that was sarcasm...but with Poe's law it's not a sure thing. "/s" is your friend
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  6487. Isn't that what the entire CNN channel is?
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  6488. a_true_classic _never_dies we don't act just like them...but we're working on it
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  6489. Idk, museums tend to have more artifacts than they have on display. Prioritizing aquiring more things than you can display over information for the things you have on display is really debatable.
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  6490.  @dragonnsv9710    of what? Entrenched political powers unresponsive to the will of the people? 1776 Better question: When did the "Democratic" party become our enemy?
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  6491.  @dragonnsv9710  I see that now...think I made that comment half asleep and read it as "the enemy" somehow O.O
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  6492. Is that expecting better or expecting worse?
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  6493. Yes, YouTube set up a system where videos on a great number of topics where there are abundant conspiracy theorists get linked to a relevant Wikipedia page automatically reguardless of what position they take on the issue.
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  6494. And what did the British do to thank him? Chemically castrated him and drove him to suicide We owe it to him to not let history forget that.
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  6495. Rixton you want to talk definitions? Try looking up "context" dumbass Nazi
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  6496.  @rtg5881  you have no clue what fascism is if you think vaccine mandates are fascism. The fascists are even (basically universally) opposed to the vaccine mandates...just like in Germany where they rolled back existing ones back you know when.
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  6497. Technically not all right-wingers..."just" fascists, white-nationalists, and "free market" capitalists...
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  6498.  @baraka629  cope harder. I didn't force them to write that.
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  6499.  @willymac5036  it's 100% the right that is overtly against public education. To deny that is to deny reality. Stop chasing red herrings and just believe people when they show you who they are.
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  6500. Quote the more time people have and the less stressed they are about their basic needs, the more able they are to participate in their democratic government to limit corruption.
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  6501. I mean, there was the Iran deal, but the guy he expanded executive power for on his way out the door ripped that up.
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  6502. Democrats aren't feckless and important. They're complicit. It's an important distinction.
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  6503.  @NajwaLaylah  Nazis were not socialists. This idiotic claim has been debunked countless times and you're just displaying that you share a level of anti-intellectualism comperable to fascists by regurgitating it. They picked the name for PR reasons alone and admitted as much.
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  6504. More to the point, if you're a brat who thinks you're entitled to sex, surprise! No-one will want to sleep with you. It's amazing how many people don't get something that simple. ("You" not meaning you, specifically, of course)
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  6505. Hey, Steve King, if you don't want to answer the question of what seperates your ideology from that of the terrorist, we're perfectly happy to answer it for you and more honestly than you would.
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  6506. Remember when CNN Photoshoped Bernie to make him look ill? I do.
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  6507. Because (to paraphrase George Carlin) homelessness is something they WANT to exist to scare the shit out the working class and keep them showing up at their underpaid jobs. All the poor treatment of homeless people just exists to reinforce the threat against every working class person. It would be cheaper to just give homeless people housing but they'll never do that because they want all of us who work for a living too terrified and desperate to fight for the pay we actually deserve. Never forget that homelessness exists to threaten YOU.
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  6508.  @2Truth4Liberty  are you incapable of using Google?
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  6509. Gott Mit Uns Remember that one shitlord?
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  6510. I'm not sure the wage controls are necessary. The employment arrangement being optional for both employers and employees would change that power dynamic a lot in ways I'm not sure we can really predict without just doing it in a country long enough for the cultural mindset to change.
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  6511. What's the difference? Oh right, racism, sexism, and hating/scapegoating the LGBT+ community. He's a Republican.
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  6512. We don't know yet, but since we don't have universal background checks....
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  6513.  @evantroymusic  an AR-15 is basically just a normal, low-power semi-auto rifle that looks like a military weapon. Nothing more.
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  6514.  @Ockerlord  that's not how insurgency works. You're thinking in terms of symmetrical warfare not the threat of asymmetric warfare.
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  6515. Please check this playlist by a lefty on gun control. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZOMlO2_17fvIiTRFiQ9C2OqfGER03v4G The 2nd video, https://youtu.be/wNtxtuQxUz8 at about the 6 minute mark explains why taking away the AR-15 goes beyond stupid into outright dangerous.
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  6516. It was a while ago, but anyone remember when the Boston Police confused Aquateen Hunger force ads (which resembed giant light-brights) for bombs?
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  6517. MrDUneven significantly reduced usefulness for everything else for a slightly reduced risk at doing a move you might not be able to pull off (and even then, would likely make it harder to keep hold of)
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  6518. ​ @zallyzally2698 your English lessons were clearly rushed Kremlin troll.
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  6519. Well, I saw this on another youtube channel first (I think the rational national) so it's a few guys on Youtube at least.
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  6520. bagser1 he wasn't saying he wouldn't, but that what he said would be likely to make her refuse the interview.
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  6521.  @JazzJackrabbit  perhaps. It can be hard to tell sometimes.
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  6522. Seriously, not even bothering to come up with a remotely believable lie is absolutely stunning. The normal lying politician response would be to inflate the number of missiles to make it look like Ukraine had to expend a lot of their resources to do the damage or blame a mine or sabotage or something while giving a low but at least somewhat plausible casualty estimate. Going right to "there were no casualties" is just lunatic behavior.
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  6523. By the very standards they silenced her, all the "holy" texts of all the Abrihamic religions would need to be banned. Is that happening? No? Then you have a double standard. It's that simple.
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  6524. Ramona Andersen lol, indeed, praise be to the Morninglord.
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  6525.  @DissociatedWomenIncorporated  no, that seems to be roughly the appropriate number of crabs
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  6526. 0:55 the helarious bit is, in all likelihood, that was entirely unintentional and made by one of the completely out of touch older people who apperently run Boston and have no-one of a younger generation (or even who understands the younger generation) anywhere close to them to double check when they do something absurd...like thinking that LED Aquateen Hunger Force advertisements were bombs. (Yes, that happened, look it up)
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  6527. Nothing stopping us from voting JD in primaries and then 3rd party in general if we fail to get independent candidates nominated.
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  6528.  @GeometryDashKenaz  there's no evidence that any have that I'm aware of, much less multiple, every reason to believe that the rate of them coming from vaccinated people would be the same or lower, and no reason to believe it would be higher. Let's not lie here. You were heavily implying otherwise or throwing out a poorly-worded meaningless statement as a distraction. You know it. I know it. Drop the farce.
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  6529.  @GeometryDashKenaz  also, you did make a causal claim for vaccines causing variants, which is just plain false. You've no clue what you're talking about, or you're a liar with blood on your hands.
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  6530.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  are you illiterate, or did you just not read my comment? (also no, vaccines don't technically produce antibodies)
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  6531.  @GeometryDashKenaz  notice how I'm able to insult you while also making valid points, while you struggle desperately in the attempt to do either seperately?
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  6532.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  it's not pedantry. The difference is vital because you know what else makes your body produce antibodies? Getting sick. I spelled this out. Learn to read then go learn basic biology. I'm not a replacement for how your highschool teachers failed you.
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  6533. The right ALWAYS projects. There are no exceptions.
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  6534.  @laurabeaudoin3335  he's not even a true democratic socialist. He's not advocating anything post-capitalism.
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  6535. They blatently don't see anyone with under $100million as a human being.
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  6536. Buddha (supposing he existed) was a pacifist, but remember that Samurai were largely Buddhist, and they were a damn warrior caste. Every major religion (and at least the majority of minor ones) have contradictions and flaws in their moral code that can be used to justify evil if someone wants to. Buddhism's main (but not only) problem is that the concept of reincarnation can be twisted to mean that if someone has a shit life, they deserve it because of something they did in a past life. An extremist might even take that further and "help" someone "pay off their karma" (which they clearly have deserved by being born as part of X group) by making them suffer and killing them quickly so they can learn and maybe try again in their next life...and suddenly you have a Buddhist justification for genocide, but since you have a religious figure with such a good moral reputation to hide that evil behind, people can swallow it. ...and this is why organized religion is a blight on humanity.
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  6537.  @Mina-ok5qm  I've very much of the mind of Jefferson in believing is it every American's responsibility to be informed, so I can't say I have much respect for them either, but the ability to say "I don't know" rather than jump to a (usually authoritarian/violent) position on an issue they know nothing about is something we're so short on, I really hesitate to shame anyone for saying those 3 words. "I don't know" is generally the first step to learning anything.
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  6538. An even more accurate comparison would be what the US and Canada did to the native peoples in their current territory. Remember those news stories about Canadian "schools" they keep finding mass graves of children outside of? That's what really trying to erase a culture through these means looks like. (And there's also a LOT of rape that happens in the background on top of that)
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  6539.  @trevorh6438  no, I'm not waiting until we're trying to identify bodies in mass graves to make accurate historic comparisons. Only genocide apologists do that.
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  6540. Look at the age statistics. The most antiestabishment generation appears the least concerned with money in politics? That makes no damn sense, and doesn't reflect well on anyone. It makes me wonder if younger people didn't understand the question and as for the older ones, if you're in such agreement that it's a problem, why do you keep siding with the oligarchs?
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  6541. Obama: "Old men running the world is a problem, now let me, an old man that ran against a woman in his primary, tell everyone to listen to me instead of the overwhelming voice of younger generations."
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  6542. Even just in the specific context of grappling in a brawl, I'd much rather have my opponent grab my hair than, for example, my leg or my shirt. (Getting that pulled up over your face is no joke in a fight)
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  6543. Concerned Citizen we live in the world of the onion, ruled by Poe's Law...fuck if I know.
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  6544.  @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong  all evidence suggests e-cigs are both far less harmful and far less addictive with people even using e-cigs like nicotine gum to quit entirely. Even if we accept they are harmful (since they contain nicotine afterall), in the context of a society with normal cigarettes, e-cigs save lives !
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  6545.  @cageybee7221  yeah, I'd only even consider it with massive checks on it's use...like needing more than just a judge to sign off on it and if it goes poorly, the police chief/sheriff/etc is fired and barred from working in law enforcement again (no exceptions) and an immediate criminal investigation from a higher-authority agency (state police if county police fuck it up, FBI if the state police fuck it up) is required to be opened immediately with all records immediately turned over. In other words, maybe I'm willing to listen to an argument for NNRs if you can convince me that you're super-duper extra-sure with a cherry on top and everyone in charge, not just the people rushing in with guns drawn is willing to put their ass on the line in case they made the wrong call, even if it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time...but until that's the kind of conversation we're having, I'm pretty sure we're killing way more innocents than the tactic could possibly be saving, so I'm gonna have to go with "you've got a lot of tools at your toolbelt. Stop acting like you're itching to go larping like you're the main character in some FPS where you get to pretend you're an operator."
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  6546. Unless you can find a way to easily produce muons without a particle accelerator, cold fusion will always be BS.
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  6547. And hardly even unique in that respect.
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  6548. Humanist Report Secular Talk Rational National ?
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  6549. At least we get to watch him squirm
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  6550. Biden targeting a demographic he's made bigoted comments and policies towards under the pretence of their use of drugs? Sounds like Nixon. Reminder: Biden is an ageist POS.
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  6551. It should. Look up "Trump Nazi Facebook ad". Jan 6th was their first hard grab for power. As typical for fascists, like the Beer Hall Putch, it was an incompetent failure. Whether you go by Lawrence Britt or Umberto Eco's list of 14 characteristics or "palengenetic ultranationalism" Trump is a textbook fascist. Also, the US's support for Israel is largely driven by Christians who think that reestablishing a Jewish state there is one of the conditions to bring about the events of Revelations...which tl;dr is basically an attempt to turn Israel into a giant alter for the mass sacrifice of almost every Jewish person alive. (And if someone really believes that fulfilling a prophecy will bring about that genocide, is their intent in persuing it any less antisemitic than trying to get Jewish people onto a train they believed was headed for a camp) Hell, just look at how they talk about Soros or "Cultural Marxism" (aka Cultural Bolshevism) all the time. We are way closer than a lot of people want to admit.
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  6552. They need to be thrown in prison for conspiracy to commit murder.
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  6553. Yup. Ethnonationalism is always bad. It's not any less horrible when Jewish people do it as when others do it.
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  6554.  @commandershepard9920  American "centrists" are conservatives is, I think, the point of that comment
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  6555. Here's an idea, how about we stop borrowing the use of our own money from banks who basically just create it out of thin air. A government paying interest on a loan of its own currency is absurd beyond reason, but it's been going on so long that we just accept it.
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  6556.  @Bluebelle51  (grid based systems aren't the best to stop gerrymandering, but I get your intent) we need to do a lot more than though. We don't need an amendment. We need several (at least).
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  6557. 1st-the organization isn't a person. The people in the organization (including whoever is doing the preaching) can still vote. By your logic corporations paying taxes would give them a right to try and control the government. 2nd-Churches get a tax-exempt status on the condition that they remain nominally non-political (though there is no way for a religion to be truely non-political). It's quite simple to argue that promoting discrimination is an inherently political act that should loose them said status. (I'm personally rather tepid on the proposal, admittedly, but there is a solid foundation there to make that argument)
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  6558.  @HelicopterShownUp  it's actually not a bad argument. Abortion prohibition follows the same dynamics of alcohol and other drug prohibitions: it doesn't reduce the rates. It only pushes it to a black market. The anti-choice crowd doesn't care and opposes legal abortions along with everything that would actually lower abortion rates because they never cared about abortion rates in the first place. It exposes their claimed aims as lies and lets us move past those to see what their actual motivation is, which is plain-old misogyny.
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  6559.  @fellinuxvi3541  do I need to point to the concentration camps?
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  6560. Because their goal is to "lose" to Republicans because they don't actually WANT to stop Trump.
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  6561. She probably doesn't for the same reason people's skin crawls when she talks: clinical narcissism
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  6562. Ah, my memories of honoring an alliance by agreeing to declare war, and simply never raising any troups. Good times.
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  6563. I mean, if you're willing to withhold evidence that would have proved someone's innocence in court so you can get a conviction, you clearly don't give a fuck about honesty or the costs of your lies.
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  6564. theprince08853 or is such a looser that the only relationship he's been able to get was being a "bread" for a lesbian because no-one can stand to be in a real relationship with him.
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  6565.  @jonathanbenavidez201  there are multiple vaccines that need continually re-upped to be effective. Others that need just 1-2 boosters. If you had any clue what you were talking about, you'd know this. You're just grasping at excuses and it's pathetic.
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  6566. I was polled by one company (don't remember which one) around the 2018 elections...their questions were mildly shitty in their allowed responses, and they left out some responses that were allowed (they asked if I was a Democrat or a Republican as a binary in the middle of a bunch of A or B style questions, but accepted I was registered independent when I told them, even though the phrasing of the question implied that wasn't an option for response) As for how I was contacted, it was by calling my (cell)phone.
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  6567. We need a strategy that doesn't involve all the generations working together because the older ones HATE us more than you seem to understand.
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  6568. ​ @robertl.fallin7062 public banking is actually even better than credit unions (though those are still preferable to the norm we have currently)
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  6569. @David Powell *MSDNC
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  6570. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET no, you. You're the one pulling up statistics. One number without context or anything to compare it to is only useful for shock value and nothing more. You've only made half an argument. We can't even talk about it's validity until you can make the other half (and then provide where you're getting both). It's not on me to complete your argument for you.
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  6571. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET less posturing and more completing the rest of your argument please. One number+posturing=/=an argument.
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  6572. That's what you get with politicians who are center-to-far right. Establishment "Democrats" are not moderates.
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  6573.  The Irish Italian  most of the biomedical research in the US is done with public funding. Your argument is invalid
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  6574. Disordia try to spread the word too. I know politics is often a taboo thing to bring up, but candidates like this rely on word of mouth. Best of luck.
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  6575. I can't find it anymore through net chaff to look up the details, but they mentioned that were they to do another series like this, that they had another industrial tragedy (I forget which one) in a different country in mind.
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  6576. Reminder: the "pro-life" side never really was about the life of the fetus. If it was they would actually look into how to most effectively accomplish those ends, find that comprehensive sex ed+free birth control+ending poverty were the best ways to do that and push policies to those ends harder than any progressive could match. But they don't because it's not about life. It's about punnishing women for sex.
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  6577. We really need to stop calling them centrists at all and bring up by any definition outside of the current climate in DC, that Bernie is what centrism looks like. His platform is supported by most of the population, is considered moderate by most of the developed world, and is in the middle of nearly every spectrum of political thought. On ecnomics, he's about halfway between free market capitalism, and pure communism (both of which fail spectacularly). On war, he's neither a total pacifist, nor a hawk/imperialist. On civil rights, again, moderate as he doesn't support special rights/restrictions for any group. On scope of government, he neither wants an important nor tyrannical one. Etc. Bernie is what a real centrist looks like without the filter of the Overton window redefining the political spectrum.
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  6578. I didn't find it funny either, but it was all accurate and on point, so that's mostly just personal taste in humor.
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  6579. David Cadman I'm aware Smith was doing satire, but he was surely satirizing a similar attitude to what is on display here
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  6580.  @susanw1863  very little will go into the healthcare system. The landlords and banks holding the mortgages will get it first.
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  6581.  @MrBen51309  wrong.
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  6582.  @MrBen51309  oh, you've met all women, including the ones I know who take that stance?
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  6583. Oh, you actually have those, don't you?
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  6584. This is very simple. 2024 is our last chance to get a progressive firebrand in to save our country and the ecosystem human life and civilization depends on. We NEED Nina or someone like her. In the meantime, organize and agitate.
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  6585.  @b1bbscraz3y  please let's not get our policy positions from jokes like the right-wingers. Even if the cost was a deterrent the buyback program is going to end up sending the money to more letal weapons. I appriciate how much you want to see something done about the gun violence in this country, but using bad arguments to push for bad policies is counter productive to getting effective reforms.
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  6586. Thurgor Supreme as far as I'm concerned, unions are a weak half-measure that are too vulnerable to corruption, and that if you really want to get fair treatment of workers you need to (at minimum) provide a UBI so that both worker and employer are in equal position to walk away from unfavorable terms, and mandate significant worker representation on boards. Once those are done, the dismantling of the arbitrary 40hr distinction (at least as a legal element) can begin.
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  6587. The right ALWAYS projects. There are no exceptions.
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  6588. The point of this is to feed into the establishment "Democrat" electability narrative so he doesn't. They're not that stupid, even Trump isn't dumb enough to think Bernie isn't a threat. They're gaslighting
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  6589.  @Peopleofthesun386  how about we start with the guilty plea for illegal voter disenfranchisement targeted at likely Bernie voters in New York?
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  6590. They want it because it limits voter choice, prevents people from building up a solid record like Bernie, and speeds up the revolving door of corruption. Term limits are a bad idea.
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  6591. Local laws are just as likely to be BS as federal ones. Shifting legislation up or down the federal system doesn't fix bad legislation. Only electing better legislators can do that.
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  6592. Walls don't stop ideas (or people that often either).
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  6593.  @snipervictim  instead, be ready to send help. The best defense is a good offense as they say.
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  6594.  @snipervictim  the kind of worse case scenario plans that could use outside help have to be sprung at the last possible minute by their nature unfortunately, often as a countermove.
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  6595. Yes https://youtu.be/3PiyOojCIDQ https://youtu.be/q5majAET5KA
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  6596. bryan s nailed it
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  6597. Yeah, at current rates it's still a "not in our lifetimes" thing to get from where we are to economically viable power plants built. We're not doing it for us. We're doing it for future generations. That's how I think of it.
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  6598.  @samzen9031  that'll happen when people need to find BS filters to be able to deal with the news. I try picking up a newspaper and I'm just disgusted by the dishonesty. I'll trade a delay in getting my news for even just more honest framing every day of the week.
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  6599. We shredded the bill of rights after 9-11, and while I appreciate every ally we have to get them back, the majority of boomers don't seem to give a fuck because they have even less spine than the establishment dems.
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  6600.  @IgnacioMIbarra  this...though that does mean he doesn't have as much plausible deniability of ignorance/stupidity for the evil propaganda he pushes so...
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  6601.  @internetwonderbuilder4741  I assume trying to paint the dems as prowar (half-truth) and/or just trying to reduce the GOP's reputation as a party of war mongers to give them room to pretend to be isolationist/anti-intervention and/or trying to gain some reputation for being against regime-change so he can then pretend to make an exception somewhere. Hard to say from just this, but I agree there's an angle somewhere or this wouldn't have happened much less aired.
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  6602.  @internetwonderbuilder4741  just realists willing to follow the evidence to whatever the most likely conclusion is and to stop trusting people who have proven themselves untrustworthy. There are more good people than bad ones, but we do need to stop pretending that objectively bad actors are drawn to and (in our current society at least) more likely to get into positions of power. One doesn't need to be a cynical asshole to acknowledge that psychopaths exist and to refuse to hold a mindset similar to a serf or the victim in an abusive relationship when looking at politics.
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  6603. To Bloomberg, if you don't have power, you're not a real person.
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  6604. Please stop calling these people "moderates" or "centrists". They clearly have contempt for democratic votes. They're at least center right!
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  6605. Important reporting and thank you for that, but overlaying the 2 level of audio makes it impossible to understand either audio source at points.
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  6606. Or do the negatives cancel, making a false religion the truth?
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  6607. "Don't be rude to the fascists" Yeah, no. Fuck that BS, Whoopi
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  6608. It's funny because it's true
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  6609. ShiningArmor359 that's not what they mean though. Besides, the no attack strategy is stupid since you need to nominate a candidate that's resilient under attack becaude that's all the GOP does anymore.
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  6610. An hour? You shouldn't need to be in a voting booth for more than about a minute. O.o
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  6611.  @jyw0000  ok, my ballot wasn't incredibly simple this time, but I guess I've done something like that before, if not to the same extreme.
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  6612. Ricky Spanish pretty sure both still use the death penalty themselves...could be wrong about Japan though
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  6613. It's almost like bigotry makes a nation weak, not strong (not that the people who need to learn that lesson will ever understand it)
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  6614. zombiewoof63 save maybe Golden Dawn, but they're just straight-up Greek NAZIs, so... damning with feint praise.
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  6615.  @arkinyte13  I mean, letting Biden be tied to someone hated by everyone for 4 years doesn't sound so terrible of the realistic options if we don't eat our own progressive representatives alive over not making a purely performative vote. Not saying you specifically, but there are a lot of people that seem really eager to performatively denounce Bernie so they can feel like the bestest progressive if he doesn't vote no without considering the consequences.
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  6616. The entire idea of market economies is based on people paying for the costs of production for the things you buy. If those costs are forced onto an unconsenting 3rd party, the entire foundation of the system is broken and the whole thing eats itself. If you oppose carbon taxes being levied to pay for clean up and you're not a socalist, you're a hypocrite because you only support markets when they're to your personal benefit.
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  6617. MSM basically is tabloids at this point. Doing real journalism at any of them will get you fired.
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  6618. Another actual patriot I see.
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  6619.  @aarondickson1898  pathetic and desperate deflection
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  6620. @Glenn the usual people: those with more money than morals.
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  6621.  @annaclarafenyo8185  excuse the frankness, but what you just said sounds absolutely insane. Showing weakness? No, no it doesn't.
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  6622. Didn't cry for Baldur? Red is Loki confirmed!
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  6623. Our grandparents said "never again" Our parents said "yes, again"
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  6624.  @InternetMameluq  wtf? How did you misread my comment so much that you got that stream of incoherent BS? checks your channel Oh, it was intentionally misrepresenting me. I was wondering how it was possible to be that stupid and still form complete sentences, but you're just dishonest AF.
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  6625.  @jefflittle8913  I'm an independent, sexual abusers are rarely one-time offenders. Swing and a miss there, bucko!
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  6626.  @midnightrambler8866  my shocked face: 😑
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  6627. Once them doing this specific thing has nationwide outrage. To make a 3rd party viable you have to force the establishment to way overplay their hand, but if we win in the meantime, that's just as good.
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  6628.  @traiancoza5214  how about "emergency"?
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  6629. Or we could, you know, stop trying to destroy their economy so they can go back home.
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  6630.  @王翔-j4o  beto is 100% a fake progressive, and that you don't know this shows how out of touch you are
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  6631.  @thedaredevil1907  who, tf, is "they"??? Be specific or stfu.
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  6632. I will say that Imperial makes a lot more sense if you're a peasant and not using a base 10 system...not that that has much baring on the modern world.
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  6633. The war on drugs is just an excuse they use to go after left-wing and non-white people.
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  6634. Not helping his case there
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  6635. Every neoliberal is responsible for the divide in the country, Obama included, by producing an economic system that fails working people and closing the door to left-wing politics. As easy as it would be to chock this up to race, what she's really unhappy about is that the peasants got the idea of change in their head (as if we didn't want it before 2008 because of the policies of people like her and Obama) and wants to go back to the times where they could enrich the rich, push the costs onto the working class, and no one would say anything about it.
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  6636. Because that has never gone beyond the intentions and control of the leaders /s
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  6637. Musk really isn't that smart. He just has enough money to throw at ideas others have thought up and a PR team able to make it look like he's innovating.
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  6638. Oh they do, and that's the problem. They know that if their customers start getting the same stuff online they'll never come back to those shitty stores when the virus is over.
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  6639. They're intentionally set up in every state to make sure every congressional seat is beholden to them.
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  6640. Here's a breakdown about the truth of the trans bill he git famous over: https://youtu.be/xb3oh3dhnoM
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  6641.  John Hillman  what I just said
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  6642. You're full of shit. No, the BS you just spouted doesn't deserve more reply than that.
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  6643. Edward Cortes they were largely behind him then if you pay attention to how many of his policies had bipartisan support. Now they just get to be open about it to try and shift the Overton window further right so they have to fake things less for their base and call more actual leftists and even centrists "radicals"
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  6644. Bin Laden makes a more effective comparison (at least rhetorically). Just a tip.
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  6645. Also, fittingly, mutually assured destruction.
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  6646. Oh we've been in constant parody mode for a long time now. We've got a long way to go before that changes and we can tell the difference between the news and the Onion again.
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  6647.  @diannaskare7829  the Rust Belt is a real area of the country and will continue to be until it is rebuilt. Wtf is your issue?
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  6648. Please check this playlist by a lefty on gun control. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZOMlO2_17fvIiTRFiQ9C2OqfGER03v4G The 2nd video, https://youtu.be/wNtxtuQxUz8 at about the 6 minute mark explains why taking away the AR-15 goes beyond stupid into outright dangerous.
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  6649. It's called spring cleaning.
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  6650. We are dealing with genocidal levels of ageism against the younger generations. Don't believe me? Just look at climate change.
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  6651. We are dealing with genocidal levels of bigotry against the younger generations. Don't believe me? Just look at climate change for one of many examples.
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  6652. Conservatives are shit at understanding comedy. That's not even my oppinion. It's been studied.
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  6653.  @jamespuso1627  yup, and the other things he talked about with language (like calling "pro-life" "anti-woman" or saying "homelessness" is a BS term and we should say what we really mean "houselessness"...and then take golf courses from the rich to build housing for them on) aren't at all subtle about being left wing. He's had some takes here and there people will disagree with, but the idea that he was at all right-wing is absurd.
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  6654. Because internet media sites (especially social media) strongly tend toward monopolies. I'm much happier without a Facebook account, but alternatives are problematic when most people are using Facebook.
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  6655. Faux News
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  6656.  Joe Average  could be, but the truth is that the reactionaries using the NPC meme was, like always, projection. They all sound the same in the same way and for the same reason all Jehovah's Witnesses do; they're in a cult and their real personalities have been replaced by one beneficial to the cult.
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  6657. Impeachment is the process of bringing charges against a president and doesn't necessarily involve their removal from office.
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  6658.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  nope. Or at least no more than every other election. If Trump won because being overt about the racism got Nazis out to vote, we would expect to see his vote totals to be higher than expected. We don't see that. If anything, once you account for population growth, his vote totals were slightly low for a GOP presidential candidate with no incumbent to run against. What we do see, however, is that his poll numbers tanked when he picked his swampy cabinet at a time when before inauguration when poll numbers for Presidents normally go up. Conclusions: 1-his support was largely about economics/corruption (much of which were just rolling the dice on him being anti-establishment) 2-any vote gained by being more overtly racist looses at least one vote uncomfortable with it 3-the election was more about Hillary loosing than Trump winning It did pretty clearly embolden the Nazis though, and I'd argue we have more than we used to, but that's not Trump's fault either, but that's another discussion.
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  6659.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  how does what I said show that they are no more responsible for Trump than any other Republican president in the modern era?
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  6660.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  is that the question you are asking?
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  6661. Nice whataboutism you have there. Would be a shame if someone pointed out that it was just a distraction and that your side wants to inflict that on people here.
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  6662. Wait they fired him??? Source please?
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  6663. That's such BS. Jordan was the only thing I went to TYT for anymore. Hope he can get picked up by someone good soon!
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  6664. Let me put it this way, YouTube algorithms care about subject, not position. This means that climate science videos get lumped in with climate denial videos, videos debunking Nazis get lumped in with antisemitic videos, etc.
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  6665.  @rjdiggs738  hey, if you're looking there, post this there
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  6666. My take: imagry depicting killing fascists doesn't suddenly become over the line just because a bunch of racists and fools voted one into the white house. Call me crazy, but weren't fascists the least controversial target of depicting killings of just a handful of years ago? Didn't we constantly love media from video games to films (like Indiana Jones) that made light of killing fascists not that long ago?
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  6667. Why? Their last presidential nominee was Mitt Romney, a living caricature of a used car salesman. The right looks for a strong ruler, not an honest representative. Look up the origins of the left vs right divide and this will all make sense.
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  6668. We start talking about 1 person, 1 vote and suddenly a homophobic troll jumps in trying to equate gay people to pedorasts. Really fucking telling, isn't it.
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  6669. Joe Smerksky more "active shooters" are stopped by civilians without guns than civilians with guns. You need courage and innovative, not a weapon to do that, and you have to find those in the moment. Also, while there are plenty of gun owners with courage, let's be real; there are a lot of NRA members who cling to their guns because they're cowards who are too afraid to deal with life without the illusion of safety they're sold with the guns they buy. Freezing once they're hit with the adrenaline dump that comes with real danger is exactly what we would expect from them.
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  6670. Did Boeing forget to buy CNN advertising by chance?
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  6671.  @akihitochan  look forward to US being able to get to blame Biden for everything he does do and refuses to do instead. Biden won't be able to manage the progressive facade as well as Obama did.
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  6672.  @fatdoi003  yeah, make sure that only the rich and criminals have guns. That's a recepie for a stable society /s
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  6673. Decent chance they'd all flip parties as soon as they got their barrings on the modern world.
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  6674. This is what the GOP has been working towards for decades. Their objection to him was not his politics but that he couldn't dogwhistle and was abnormally incompetent and unstable even for a fascist which upset their long term plans overthrow democratic government to install a fascist dictatorship by making "centrists" realise what they were up to too early.
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  6675.  @johnmccain3762  yeah, it's the fault of liberals even though "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1 Just can't admit the problem is with your people no matter how much evidence (and how many bodies) pile up, can you?
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  6676. You should be, but there is an amendment created for exactly this situation.
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  6677.  @dennisz1252  "destroys a bunch of things just to be with her" wow, no, you don't understand her character at all
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  6678. ​ @peterroberts4415  there was noone BUT white supremacists on one side to talk about. Get a clue.
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  6679.  @theotormon  no, it was ALL white supremacists. There were not other conservatives there.
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  6680.  @WL1264  look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists and he was specifically calling neonazis "very fine people"
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  6681.  @theotormon  it was ALL neonazis and neoconfederates.
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  6682.  @Nosugarcoatingme  yup. Charlottesville was the mask slipping on the true face of maga.
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  6683.  @peterroberts4415  look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists and he was specifically calling neonazis "very fine people"
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  6684.  @peterroberts4415 look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists
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  6685.  @johmyh14  wrong on both points. Racism is way more common than you think, unfortunately.
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  6686. Not only is there no such thing as an interest free loan, but there's no law that guarantees you be extended any credit in the first place, so if your credit is shot, you're SoL.
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  6687. I mean, if I was a copyeditor I would seriously consider taking his money and then fucking up the job. Just sayin'
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  6688. That's the point. Everything they do to the homeless is a threat made against everyone who works for a living to keep us showing up at our jobs. Never forget that.
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  6689. The international community can't directly do much to Putin because of the threat from his nukes, unfortunately. What happens to Putin will likely be decided by people in Russia, whether that be turning him over for trial in an international court to get sanctions lifted, him getting away with it entirely, or a surprise bullet in the back, it will be their decision. I don't like that answer, but it is the honest one.
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  6690. Good, organized religion is just a tool for evil men to hide behind the reputations of idealized saints and get people to confuse obedience with morality.
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  6691. Even more to the point, the same forces we're using for our imperialism are picking and choosing who "runs" the country, much like Rome. The fact that it's nor generals leading armies against anti-imperialist politicians makes little difference in the bigger picture.
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  6692. Quinlan Els is almost certainly a paid Russian bot and E E is a fascist, btw. They are not arguing in good faith.
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  6693. They're moderates to the policy positions of the American people too. It's only the oligharchs who usurped our country and reactionaries who actually consider their positions at all radical.
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  6694. It's not so much of hard lines as strong groupings. There are many complicated reasons for it, but yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see statistics showing 80%+ of one race in a neighborhood being the norm.
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  6695. The Man of Tea I may have to steal that one. Hope you don't mind
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  6696. Yeah, that's why the first amendment contradicts the first commandment. /S
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  6697. It's really interesting that you feel in a position to condemn them when you don't even know that there was glass there. Maybe do some self reflection on that instead.
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  6698. ​ @severalwolves they really did. Keep reporting them.
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  6699. ​ @brockreynolds870 you wouldn't say that about burn victims would you? No, because you're not bigoted against them.
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  6700. Because it's a tautology?
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  6701. I mean, there is a recent video of one using a shield to beat down a journalist with a big camera filming him. Does that count?
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  6702. I'm grateful I've never had a breakup ugly enough or lived in a neighborhood bad enough to ever need to change my locks. It happens, though, and if you've reason to be concerned about retaliation (even if just to your stuff, not physical violence) and you store your keys in such a way where it could have happened that's a good idea. Theoretically, it should be possible with some tinkering and some simple tools to rekey a lock to take a different key, but if you don't have those tools and skills, it may or not be cheaper to buy new locks. I just point out that it is something that can be done in case you actually know there's a locksmith or something in your area and you have many/expensive locks, as it should just be a matter of taking it apart, switching the pins around, and making the right key for their new arrangement (at least for standard locks).
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  6703. Notice how exclusively contracts are anti-compeditive, market-distorting BS that's bad for everyone outside the contract? Maybe there's a problem there?
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  6704.  @austinking3962  the chance is non-zero, not just because of ego but also because Trump has put himself in the legal position where his office is the only thing protecting him from prosecution. Frankly though, I'm significantly more worried about the small change we get another neoliberal in. If that happens we will both get a Trump 2.0 (who will be even further right and less of a fucking idiot) as we sail right past the deadline on climate change, and then we are fucked in a way that will make a packed Supreme Court look like getting a bad dog catcher.
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  6705.  @Johnywang1  it looks like a decades old idea of what the future would look like...which is the aesthetic Musk likes for his toys.
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  6706. We need both and more. Diversity of tactics is important.
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  6707.  @Langley-Outdoors  so house the homeless and you've solved the problem and not made the public spaces worse for everyone. "Fun" fact: it would actually cost the government less to give every homeless person a place to live than it costs to deal with having homeless people around (especially in costs to our medical and "justice" systems, which the government has to pick up the tab for). Homelessness exists just as something to threaten the working class with.
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  6708.  @scotodell389  how to tell me you don't know what those words mean without telling me you don't know what those words mean.
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  6709. People couldn't even seem to remember shit he'd said and did while he was still IN office!
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  6710. Look up "democracy at work"
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  6711. Robert Burnett actually it was suspended under Bush following 9/11...I mean Obama's just as guilty for continuing it, but it's been gone way longer than 8 years
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  6712. As long as they keep progressives from winning the general, they'll still get paid.
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  6713.  @drsusredfish  no he hasn't. You just nominated a candidate who's against the rule of law...again. Don't be surprised when lawyers begrudgingly stand up to oppose you.
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  6714. They can't. What do you want to do about it?
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  6715. Sad thing is, if we abandoned our myths about what money is (and the flawed policies that go along with that), the dollar would be just fine without petrol. We're helping people commit genocide in the name of their myths so we can hold onto ours.
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  6716.  @JamesDavy2009  no. The very idea of commodity currency is part of the problem. Real money is a representation of debt to those who work in the public sector to make a society possible (origionally soldiers, but expanded far past that as societies developed). The public servants get compensated for their work with money, which has value because it's what the government accepts as payment for fees and taxes (at which point, the government can confirm that said debt to the public sector has been paid dirrectly or indirectly) This is as true if the money is actual gold coins as it is if the money is paper backed by no commodity (and trying to tie the currency to a commodity causes all sorts of problems while only obscuring the reality of what money is). Debt: the first 5000 Years goes into more detail of this and the proofs for it. Gold standards are based on ideas of economics that have been empirically proven false (such as money being invented to facilitate a prehistoric barter economy).
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  6717. What's he waiting for? Maybe to see initial reactions. Kyle's already made his point that withdrawing from the Iran deal is a bad idea. Would you rather have him simply repeat himself or wait a bit and add something more substantial than "it's obviously dumb" to the conversation? Demanding promptness over details and accuracy makes for bad news, and Kyle knows a lot of his audience watches other shows which have already covered the initial pullout. Patience
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  6718. ​ @BeeCeeJay That's a nice hope, but it won't happen. The fascists will continue their war on truth even after the election.
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  6719. If they loved their children more than they hated minorities, they wouldn't be Trump voters.
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  6720. Or you recognize that he was lying almost the entire movie and was even keeping his finger on the hammer of the gun durring that little coinflip.
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  6721. Genova Checklist, apparently....
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  6722.  @ikigai47  "expressing conservative opinions" doesn't get you banned. Spewing fascist hate speech does. Learn the difference, read the terms of service you agreed to, and stop whining. We're all tired of your bratty victim complex.
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  6723. Nationalize Amazon or at least make it a coop.
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  6724. Idk, haven't seen one in my lifetime yet
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  6725. Religion has been called the opiate of the masses for good reason
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  6726. You got it. If we win, the gravy train stops for good, so we're the primary threat to them. Preference for team blue or team red shifts back and forth as people get sick of one not giving them what they want and foolishly go back to the other, so as long as the corporate dualopoly is preserved they'll get another chance, and in the meantime, if they fight progressives, they still get paid
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  6727. Browns Fan, Not only is Bernie's platform common-sense in the developed world. Issue-by-issue polling puts the majority of the country in agreement with Bernie's platform. Bernie's policies are simply a stable in-between point between anarchic-capitalism/corporatism and full communism that, while he uses the term "democratic socialist", are simply a mixed economy. You know what that makes him by EVERY metric outside of the corrupt, BS standards of Washington? A Centrist!
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  6728. Mckenzie .Latham the double taps that kill first responders prove that the intent is to enrage and radicalize the population into terrorism so we can have an enemy for perpetual war. There's no debating that are intent is anything but malevolent at this point.
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  6729. bary1234 that's the other half of solution. Not enough without lowering childhood mortality, but still a vital step.
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  6730. That might be accurate, if accidentally.
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  6731.  @Inoffensive_name  https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism Since you apparently don't know what fascism is.
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  6732. ChrisJ Fox and this is what happens then you base your morality around obedience rather than compassion.
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  6733.  @TheIntJuggler  detonating bombs in the desert or over the ocean doesn't create a nuclear winter. Detonating them over flammable things like cities does. The rate, of course, matters, but it's the ash and smoke from what the nukes destroy that blocks out the sun, not the relatively small amount of mass of the nukes, themselves.
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  6734. Ur-fascism's list is a more accurate assessment, but yes.
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  6735.  @lordshadow19  "far left" lol you're an idiot 😆
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  6736.  @darkdan3379  "just vote blue" is how the "Democratic" party got taken over by the right wing and enabled the GOP to move far right. Every time we fall for the good-cop/bad-cop game we take a step closer to fascism, and have you looked around at how close we are?
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  6737.  @darkdan3379  dude, the establishment "Democrats" are in many ways to the right of fucking Reagan. Are you actually disputing the rightward shift of the "Democrats" for decades??
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  6738. On the wrong side
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  6739. Solder Joe poe's law
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  6740.  Manny Santiago  Bernie is a rock, Tulsi is a firebrand Ideally it's Bernie/Tulsi 2020, and Tulsi/? 2028
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  6741. Exactly
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  6742. AIPAC needs to be charged with conspiracy to commit jen o cide and have all its members arrested.
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  6743. Channels that get demonitized have really low prices on their ads, so the rich assholes bankrolling the right-wing propaganda channels can buy them in bulk on the cheap
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  6744. Lol 😆
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  6745. Well, not like they'd be allowed to publish it until it was too late...
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  6746.  @optricks2469  must be frustrating that the data supports my position and suggests that the voting in the 2020 primary was based on perceived electability. Maybe stop subing to fascists (in both senses of the term "sub") and your political takes will be less embarrassingly stupid. As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
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  6747.  @optricks2469  is my username "Google"? I'm not handholding you bucko, especially since the shift in conversation topi from "people agree with Bernie's platform" to talking about if he ran his campaign optimally shows you don't give a fuck about truth (as if your subscription list didn't do that enough on its own)
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  6748.  @optricks2469  whoo more bold-faced lies and doubling down on the motte-and-bailey BS! Got anymore, chud?
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  6749.  @thejackanapes5866  those are called "liberals" because they are 'open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things' as opposed to conservatism (which opposes change) and progressivism (which advocates it)...and reactionaries/neocons/fascists, which want to go "back" to an "idealized" version of the past that never actually existed.
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  6750.  @b_uppy  when you see acknowledging reality as "biased" that's a red flag that you have become the problem.
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  6751. dipojones more importantly, how much does the military spend on ads on cable news, and what do you think they're really buying with that?
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  6752. They haven't had to deal with a progressive with real power in decades so they've forgotten how to do it. This isn't them being lazy. It's them doing their best...and that's even more pathetic
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  6753. It's not just Palestinians Biden doesn't see as fully human, either. See Iraq.
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  6754. I really hope for your sake this is sarcasm.
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  6755.  @AndrewAMartin  true, though the fact that they don't include that feature in the app is a big problem with getting the critical mass of reports in for the system to take notice with how many people use the site through mobile these days ..
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  6756. Mhi kl our society is run by psychpaths. That produces a wide range of toxic behavior. Psychologists don't call it ANTIsocial personally disorder because it's good for social groups.
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  6757. Yeah, a lot of those big purchases would take more than a day to complete the paperwork on anyway. Stocks and/or gold/other commodities could be done in an afternoon (less if you already have an account with a trading company)
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  6758. Well it can't be part of a class war; only one side is dieing.
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  6759. Lakers fan tweenage troll: ignore
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  6760. Musk's disgust at having to commute in the same vehicle as poor people is intolerable. If he keeps that attitude up after the next market crash, it's not unlikely he's gonna want to get that glass right.
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  6761. TY! This celebrity tech daddy mythologizing needs to die!
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  6762.  @thecoobs8820  the distinction isn't relevant to this conversation but by some metrics India can be considered a continent. Of course, that's mostly just for geology and would not seperate Europe and Asia but be talking about Eurasia. I don't know of any metric which would list both "India" and "Asia", though, so it doesn't change anything about the conversation. Just sharing a bit of information about there's not just one way to divide up the continents you might find interesting.
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  6763. I'm one of the people that is grossed out by separating yolks from whites with my fingers, but it is undeniably the most effective way to do it either pulling them out of the bowl afterwards or dumping the egg into cupped fingers and letting the white run through. I usually use other methods out of preference, but if I'm feeling lazy or impatient, the fingers get used and if it doesn't bother you it's absolutely the way to go.
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  6764.  @jessicascoullar3737 yup, they were put up to say "white supremacists are still in charge" and every day they remain says the same message. Preserving sites of historical significance is not the same as leaving up symbols and statues that represent oppression. When you overthrow an authoritarian regeme, you destroy their statues and symbols like this: https://youtu.be/sEfxLTUi8PU
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  6765. The 2nd means nothing if you don't have the 1st so you know the right place to point them.
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  6766. The Lord told him to commit crimes because the Lord wanted him in prison.
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  6767. In the mob storming the capital or taking pictures with them inside.
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  6768. The Constitution trumps all laws and says that any law that says this is ok is invalid.
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  6769. I blame the people telling the cops in that instance, more than the cops on the ground. The ones that shot the boy were not told that the gun was suspected to be a toy, and the ones at this were TOLD to stand down and complained about it publically.
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  6770. Or does CK2 taste like this?
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  6771. How about no? Election fraud is non-negotiable. It's what seperates citizens from subjects. It should have been added to the legal definition of treason (as it's trying to steal the government from its rightful masters: the people). Violent revolution becomes justified before election fraud does, and what was done is a form of election fraud.
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  6772.  @robertpreskop4425  yeah, our state government in PA was extremely bad under GOP control. The previous guy basically spent the whole term gutting the state systems as quickly as possible to benefit private corporations (mostly fracking companies) so he could "earn" as large a kickback as possible after completing a single term.
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  6773.  @SaraphDarklaw  keep the statue...but pull it from the pedestal and leave it broken on the ground forever.
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  6774. Here's a little cue you can look for: Uniforms matter and colors matter. Police normally wear blue because it invokes feelings of calm and rational behavior in the viewer and wearer alike. This subtly promotes descalation for all parties. If you see officers in black, a choice has been made to abandon even the appearance of descalation to project power and domination. If you ever see a cop in black, you have a problem. If you see cops in black and don't see that as strange, you have a crisis. This is the crisis boiling over. Trump is able to act like he does because a dictator's toolkit was left in the Oval Office for him.
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  6775. Lunarcide I normally don't like citing Huffpost as their reliability varies, but this one is solid and actually goes into the details of the studies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/myths-about-transition-regrets_b_6160626.html "the higher mortality rates are in comparison with the general populace (and not other transgender people who have not received treatment) and only apply to people who transitioned before 1989" (also, it's no wonder if the rates of suicide are higher in trans people with the strain of rampant discrimination, and insanely high rates of being sexually assaulted) Sorry, but GID (Gender Identity Disorder) =\= psychosis. There's only one case I could find of pimozide being used to treat feelings of gender dysphoria, and that was a 20yr old case of "doubtful gender dysphoria" (as in the psychiatrists were unable to actually make the diagnosis). 1 case of what is most likely psychosis manifesting as wanting to change their physical body (but not conclusively meeting the other diagnostic criteria for GID) does not outweigh a mountain of evidence showing anti-psychotic drugs to be ineffective at treating ACTUAL GID. That's basic scientific rigor, and trying to proscribe pimozide anyway when "As it has severe side effects, it is considered a drug of last resort," (including multiple potentially fatal ones + being "strongly suspected" to be "carcinogenic in humans") would be completely unethical. http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Pimozide Not only that, but if it was just psychosis, it wouldn't show up on brain scans as being more like the person had the brain of the opposite sex.
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  6776. Duncan Bijl Presumably the one described in the Huffpost article I linked to, which, as evidenced by the quote I pulled, doesn't even say what he seems to think it does. The article contains a link to a very detailed description of the study as well if you want to dig super deep into it yourself.
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  6777.  @burningsnow9870  some care about themselves. None care about their own kids as more than possessions.
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  6778. If you think there won't be a self-caused bang with global fallout (perhaps of the literal variety) you don't understand the USA.
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  6779.  @scrunkledorf  also puking from acute radiation exposure
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  6780. Why do domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers?
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  6781. "He's a populist" Lol good one
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  6782. There are black KKK members. Being a member of a group doesn't mean you can't hate that group.
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  6783. @INFJason if it was about fetuses, the "pro-life" crowd wouldn't be obsessed with pushing bans that don't lower abortion rates while opposing everything that would actually lower abortion rates. When you call yourselves "pro-life" it's a lie. You're not even anti-abortion. You just want to punish women for sex ... because you hate them.
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  6784.  @sanninjiraiya  ....as if O'Riley wasn't one?
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  6785. Alt-left and alt-right are both terms invented to obscure the truth. Alt-left to make progressives sound like violent bigots and "Alt-right" to make Nazi-ism sound like a legitimate position.
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  6786. So do you think the war in Iraq was a good idea?
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  6787. Dan A it is, but a Warren VP is more likely, and that's what she's likely shooting for right now. She's almost certainly going to be at least cabinet if the DNC or health problems don't keep Bernie from running in the 2020.
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  6788. Because the right is about concentrating power in few hands. That's why it got it's start as a term describing royalists opposing representative government and has included corporatists, theocrats, fascists, and other dictators. The only way to do that is to trick a bunch of people that it is better to give the con-man more power than they should have (and yes, money is a form of power, so they do it that way too).
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  6789. Nathaniel Claw and how did they get the land that the law and paperwork say they own? CGP does good content, but there are layers past what was covered in the video.
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  6790.  @williamriordan1619  just going to keep repeating the empty lie until people take it as truth, I see.
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  6791. Capitalism is a redistributive system as those with more power (including money) get to take a larger share of the pie (including the money) in proportion to how much power (including money) they have. If you want markets at all, you need to put redistributive systems in place to work in the opposite dirrection or the system consumes itself by its own processes.
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  6792. Xairam a few do get out now and then, and the more of those we get, the more we have an actual idea what's going on in there
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  6793. Twice
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  6794.  @ZedNebuloid  $1mil/vote X ~70k votes to win = $70,000,000,000,000 Then we declare the election illegitimate due to illegal bribing for votes, and use the $70 trillion to fund a series of elections (the record breaking 2016 was <$7 billion, so we could run both sides of 1,000 of those) sweeping all corporatist candidates out of office. Even if you only end up with 1% of that somehow, you're looking at 10 consecutive elections, so 2 decades of winning near 100% control of government and passing any ammendments needed to fix the system permanently. Don't think they'd pay it.
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  6795. If by "going off the rails" you mean "letting his mask slip" I agree. He's always been this (and worse) under the surface.
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  6796.  @chioma3100  "left"
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  6797.  @ryangoepfert9112  Everyone can tell when you're being intentionally dense, genius.
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  6798. Or the guy that just got fired knew it and Trump was just tired of hearing the truth. It's hard to tell with him.
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  6799.  @miloskocic1759  a disaster: https://youtu.be/mZ1jkjfRKJM
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  6800. My money is that they will keep him on through the election, but sideline him to keep him quiet and not moving to a place where he can do real journalism
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  6801.  @vivahernando1  MSNBC is the propaganda arm for a center-right political party. Most leftists aren't watching it at all.
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  6802. Django Marine what would I call that? Non sequitur at best, but more likely intentional deflection from the topic at hand.
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  6803. Solution: go with the news organization who's viewers repeatedly test as the most informed as an unbiased solution. (Spoilers: it's NPR) https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5
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  6804. These vids from innuendo studios may aid understanding: Always a bigger fish https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs Origins of conservatism https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
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  6805. Welcome to Poe's Law May I suggest the use of "/s"?
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  6806. Imagine not supporting a wall that would cut through your property and still supporting Trump anyway. WTF is broken in these people's brains?
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  6807.  @cautious3571  that is sometimes a viable option and should be done where it is, yes.
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  6808.  @brownyellow7870  tell they you find forests burned by wild fires, citys destroyed by extreme storms, and the inevitable wars over water ugly and that they need to grow up.
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  6809. Or just a wet dream she wasn't able to seperate from reality.
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  6810.  @everythingisalllies2141  I only know of one reason people disagree with Einstein that would trip censor filters and yes, that vile conspiracy BS should get banned.
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  6811.  @everythingisalllies2141  you had your chance to walk out with plausible deniability, but you blew it, now take your echo posting elsewhere, Nazi. I know your dogwhistles and that you're ideologically opposed to science in the first place.
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  6812.  @nmg2002  his actual political position (stripping away the act he blends with it) is near the very bottom left. https://youtu.be/Khuh9KdwuSI
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  6813. I'd bet good money the mainstream news channels are not being held to the same standards.
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  6814. They're not afraid of what they think he'll do based on a caricature. They're afraid of what they think he'll do because they're projecting. The right always projects. Understanding this is a useful tool to understanding their intent.
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  6815.  @jccgold  what part of "more extreme weather of every kind" is hard for you to understand exactly? CO2 absorbs infrared light more than the atmosphere as a whole. If you can't understand how that automatically means that releasing more of it will mean a rise in average temperature, you don't understand the EM spectrum and/or thermodynamics, and are effectively scientifically illiterate.
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  6816. Back on point though. One doesn't need to get rich by undermining democracy and condemning your fellow countrymen to needless and unjustifiable deaths. If you choose that career path, yes, you are a bad person. Plenty of people struggling to get by still refuse to sell out to do what would be less harmful.
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  6817. Kyle cut the clip off before Biden got fixated on wanting to literally bulldoze businesses of people that held raves. The full clip is even more extreme.
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  6818.  @MCJustJ420  that's a grey market. People go under the table for costs all the time, but that doesn't really tend to lead to the kinds of things we see in black markets. Dollars changing hands in a grey market isn't that big an issue (mainly just creating problems for administration and taxes). Need to find something a bit closer to be able to draw any conclusions beyond "some people will skirt the law"
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  6819.  @snowblow1984  that's pretty clearly the intent, though idk how successful vs harmful it will be, hence trying to see if anyone can think of a comparable example of a delivery method being banned we might be able to make some predictions based off of. I mean, some dumbass is gonna fuck themselves up rolling chewing tobacco and inhaling the glass in that, and cigars aren't really healthier when used regularly (especially if the additives aren't banned), AND people might end up with more toxic cigarettes with more additives if they're not in the legal market, etc, but I can't judge the likelihood of these problems vs people just switching delivery methods. Does anyone have, for example, any examples of only certain forms of alcohol being banned? Hard to judge if it's just based on concentration, but that may be the closest parallel we can find.
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  6820.  @zubstep  the difference is with economics it is exponentially worse and there is FAR more bias involved in influencing things to lean in one way or another to the point where some "disciplines" of economics will flat-out reject evidence that conflicts with its assumptions and models to the point of diving head-first into the realm of unfalsifiable pseudoscience.
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  6821. Reverse those 2 sentences and it makes more sense
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  6822.  @joshuarichardson6529  not really bouncing. Colliding and exploding. Also supernova can create heavier than iron elements too
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  6823. Tom Ogburn to my eyes, he displays more symptoms in line with ASPD than aspergers. Sorry, but he's just as power-hungry and without scruples as the average establishment politician, if not worse, and people pick up on it.
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  6824. Anime Indian Says What go back a few centuries to before secularism's rise in the west and mocking Christianity would get you killed in Europe just as surely as mocking Islam would in the middle east today. The difference doesn't come from Christianity. Left to it's own devices, it's just as barbaric.
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  6825. Nah, I never wondered if, only when. It's Jimmy we're talking about.
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  6826. Yiṣḥāq David neither we nor the UN really need to be involved in that process though. If they want to split the country or come up with some other arrangement, I say leave it to them. Force or not, I don't see a good reason to be involved, and with our track record, we'd likely just make a mess out of any arrangement.
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  6827. That sounds about right, and the ISIS fighters had already attempted prison breaks when the Kurds didn't have to divert forces north.
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  6828. If your whole job is enforcing unjust laws, you're part of the problem. If they wanted to stop real crime, they'd have a job somewhere else.
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  6829. Everyone's tax dollars go to things they don't like (unless you want to get really pedantic in which case no-ones tax dollars go to anything but fighting inflation). That's not an argument to let people die, but they're snowflakes.
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  6830. godwings101 "some protesters scuffled with police" Look, at 15k, a few people are going to slip in that are there hoping for a chance to be violent. That goes for ANY protest of that size, but especially considering the recent violence and how anticlimacticly it must have ended for those that came for that reason. If "The Left" was being violent with the cops, it would not be being reported that "SOME protesters SCUFFLED with police", I promice you.
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  6831. Autism increase: better diagnosis Autoimmune diseases: hygiene hypothesis Both are entirely rational explanations and, unlike the vaccination argument from ignorance, actually supported by the data. Next question
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  6832. Also "follow the money"
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  6833. Hahahaha that's cute
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  6834.  Luis Alvarez  stop subbing to fascists. It's rotting your brain.
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  6835. ​ @maxmeier532 way more efficient and less expensive than what we have
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  6836. ​ @perryroberts4353 having a bigger country makes it EASIER to implement universal healthcare, not harder. Go learn what economies of scale are.
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  6837. ​ @redvenomweb dog whistling as loud as a foghorn there. Take your racism elsewhere.
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  6838.  @ASDeckard  funny how all the studies on the subject agree with me and say you 2 are full of shit
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  6839. An oligarch, obviously
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  6840.  @jatkinson85  spitting facts there. Careful, the Tulcells might get offended by reality.
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  6841. The only part of that I object to is "turned into"
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  6842. ​ @letitiajeavons6333 correct. I'd go further and ban all marriages until 21, but 18 is at least in line with age of consent.
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  6843. Truth.
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  6844. @Bronson Kaahui almost everyone on the planet is a better person than him. Stop bootlicking.
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  6845. Not always twice, though.
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  6846.  @dreyone6156  when is your next dialogue tree update, npc? This was a weak line when it was first programmed into you and hasn't improved with age. I'm really bored with it.
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  6847.  @dreyone6156  0 because I have never paid that story any attention at all. Stop projecting your obsession with jingoism onto us.
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  6848. Robert Campbell it's more like a flock of lambs voting on which of 2 wolves they want to eat them
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  6849. $
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  6850. Genocidally ageist
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  6851. Most "Democrats" are conservatives, and the competition between "both" parties is largely spectacle. Wtf are you talking about?
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  6852. I think you're forgetting about the nukes.
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  6853.  @Amadeus8484  we're not the USSR. If you think the USA would collapse peacefully, you don't understand this nation at all.
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  6854. Forbsi Sauras was she under 70 though?
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  6855.  bongo155  if you're referring to the OP, I think the point is that it is no longer a useful term, not that the ideas were bad. Technically speaking, feminism is about seeking equal treatment for women. A racist could claim to be a feminist and not be lying. Egalitarianism, on the other hand, explicitly excludes all forms of bigotry in its definition, carries less baggage (linguistically and otherwise), and doesn't put all the other oppressed minorities behind a label that's about getting equal rights for just one. I won't begrudge people the use of the term, but if there's a term that's better to describe your views/goals than "feminism" in every way, why use it? If I say "I'm a feminist" there's ambiguity there? Am I for equal rights for everyone? Am I a TERF? Am I a racist? Am I a mysandrist claiming to be a feminist? You don't know from just that term; you need clarification. If I say "I'm an egalitarian" there is no ambiguity there. Everyone knows what I mean and it gets real hard to agrue with that stance because I'm claiming to, categorically, oppose double standards.
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  6856. That phrase has always been a talking point, nothing more. The budget data proves it.
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  6857. US or Saudi Arabia...but the lines there are really blurred, so moot point.
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  6858.  @lennykazlauskas1101  water vapor? The thing that goes up as temperature rises, acting as a multiplier on all other warming causes? Even a child knows that a higher temperature means more evaporation. Why does this need explained to you?
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  6859. As the trolls are demonstrating, fascists and white nationalists don't want the truth. They want an excuse, and history shows clearly for what.
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  6860. The rise of fascism happened.
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  6861.  @leopheard  nope, my issues with the stock market aside, stocks in giving dividends and/or voting rights do not fall into that definition. Please learn what words mean before arguing with people about their usage.
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  6862.  @GolemRising  it's just posturing. The core of his argument (if I'm being very generous and not asigning mal intent) really comes down to "but the tech is cool"
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  6863.  @akumakorgar  tbf, he said it multiple different ways at different times and trying to explain to most Americans what communism actually is feels like smashing your head against a brick wall...
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  6864.  @SoundsSilver  so did the person who said it...sometimes. It wasn't always exactly the same every time he said it, so there are different versions floating around that are all accurate.
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  6865. Hillary has the same pathology as Trump. She's just smart enough to know she has to hide it (but not smart enough to do it well).
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  6866. Is there a link by chance?
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  6867. Michael Berthelsen fair enough
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  6868. It's not embarrassing, because unlike civilized nations, our government doesn't represent is. This has been proven. The oligarchs have usurped control of our nation from us, so what you see on the world stage are our enemies we wish to take back our country from.
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  6869. Trump didn't win the election with that much and his approval has been plummeting, so I REALLY want to see how they got those numbers.
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  6870. Ruben Garcia statistically, athiests are less likely to support the death penalty. Not surprising as the Bible commands it for all sorts of asinine things.
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  6871. So often said by those who offer no solutions of their own. A lot of the gun control laws Dems put forward don't work. The honest critics put forward things that would as alternatives. The dishonest ones only try and make it appear that nothing can be done except maybe even more guns.
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  6872. Most money is created by fractional reserve lending, not the government. The problem with the dollar is the country doesn't have control of its own currency.
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  6873. "the loyal and honorable deep state" that really says it all doesn't it?
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  6874.  @TheThundercow  the fight is both. Diversity of tactics
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  6875.  @temptemp4174  I have no idea what the real tax was, but that sounds very fake. Citation?
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  6876. David, stop calling Nanci Poloci left. She's center right and will oppose progressives at every turn because that's her job as much as it is the job of Justice Democrats to to a "hostile takeover" of the party so we can return it to a party for the people. That's not a problem caused by Trump. That's a problem caused by the "Democratic" Party being filled with people to the right of Reagan!
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  6877. With 2 right wings
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  6878. The word of the day is "complicit"
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  6879. THECOLONEL50 covers all "obscene devices", so yes, basically ALL sex toys count
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  6880. So we have a candidate that no one has ever heard of (other than being Starbucks' CEO) threatening to run as a spoiler and deliberately trying to push Bernie toward taking positions that would compromise his election chances. They project just like Republicans because they are Republicans, regardless of what letter is after their name.
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  6881. Militant Anarchist just institute tanked choice voting and there's no longer any need for that tribalist BS, and you don't open the voter suppression Pandora's box.
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  6882. It's been revealed that the DNC supported Trump behind the scenes with the intent to push the GOP so far right that the voters would even support a candidate as shitty, corrupt, and right wing as Hillary. This is just them tripling down on that strategy to keep the overton window moving further right.
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  6883. Lawrence Taylor true, but at a certain point, you expect to have that overshadowed by the process largely being hands-off except if something went wrong (at which point you would turn the machine off to fix the problem). The previews of the factories I saw years ago made it seem like it was mostly humans overseeing machines doing the work, as opposed to humans working in the middle of machines in operation. It seems that wasn't actually how they went on to run.
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  6884. More likely drop into a paranoid state that left him without being able to get a full night's sleep for over a week, but yeah
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  6885.  @MCWaffles2003-1  no he doesn't. He pays people to build rockets. Go look up stuff on how idiotic his hyperloop and boring ideas were known to be decades ago or his insanely stupid electric semitrucks that have basically no transportation capacity.
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  6886. Serious question: why are we still talking about Alex Jones when he's admitted it's a persona?
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  6887. ​ @lucianjones4727 *complicit
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  6888. Call "health insurance companies" what they really are: for-profit death pannels.
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  6889. If you start with your conclusion and reason backwards, the only use being smarter has is in tricking people into believing your BS.
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  6890. ​ @homelander7742 Compare? Quite easily. Both are situations of OBVIOUS human rights violations which rise not only to the level of crimes against humanity, but of the 1948 convention against G. Both inflict malicious psychological (and sometimes physical) trauma on populations denied their own bodily autonomy and which lead to massively disproportionate levels of early mortality. Both situations have created political refugees within our own country with the hotbed of the hatred being in the former Confederate states. You can draw plenty of comparisons without saying 2 things are perfectly equivalent in all ways.
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  6891. Chris Hakala she IS that narcissistic. She's a psychopath. She may have alterior motives as well, idk, but her ego is all the reason she needs.
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  6892. Ignoring the moron to get back to the original post, it's not all good. Lead also makes people more violent.
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  6893. Eyehayt Apricots the fact that they think it might be benign malware suggests to me that they're running Windows...and that scares me even more than it being a serious problem.
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  6894.  @salvadorramirez2507  this court has proven to be willing to flat-out lie to push its agenda (like its erasing of abortion being a normally accepted right back in the nation's founding). "How" is simple: pretend the facts are whatever would be convenient for them to mean to push more bigotry and discrimination.
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  6895. America may have created the modern form of representative democracy, but we, sadly, still haven't thrown off the royalist mindset. Serfs look for leaders to follow. Citizens look for representatives to serve them. We got about halfway through that cultural shift in perspective and just stopped dead in our progress. It's not even that my countrymen are stupid (though some certanly are), but that they're just so incredibly juvenile looking for idols and surrogate parental figgures everywhere like teenagers from dysfunctional homes pretending to be adults well past the point when they're old enough to be grandparents.
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  6896. Oh just let him have the last word to protect his fragile little ego. Even now he's continuing to spout agist BS and project his own failings (like the rudeness, dispite starting all this by insulting several generations as a monolith) onto everyone else. Contrary to what he says and demands from others, he's not actually interested in listening to anyone. That's just a ploy as he tunes out everything everyone else says so he can have an audience for his whiney "but I'm a boomer so I know best" BS that has pushed away everyone not in his generation in his real life and given him a victim complex because he's too arrogant to realize that the problem isn't his age but that he's insufferable and always the one to start shit while unable to even realize he's done it.
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  6897. hmm...you call both TYT and Jordan tabloid hacks but are still here...nice try troll
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  6898. As George Carlin put it, they want live babies so they can grow up to be dead soldiers.
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  6899.  @pattykelly6621  even if you were somehow able to take the massive issue of treating women like breeding vessels out of the equation (with artificial wombs or something) that would STILL be a completely insane statement. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) ". . .they legitimately do not care whether the words coming out of their mouths are true." https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
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  6900.  @davidgriffin9247  the first amendment contradicts the first commandment. You're completely full of shit.
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  6901. So they showed antifa (but not the fascists they've been opposing), North Korea (but not, say, Saudi Arabia), and AOC...interesting choices. Even the whole bit before they started showing "enemies of freedom" was talking about our greatest weapon being freedom while displaying expensive military hardware. It's almost like they're using a different definition of freedom isn't it.
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  6902. We're talking about more than even just that https://youtu.be/jgHAjfsG3_Q
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  6903. Bernie is currently throwing the reputation for integrity he spent his lifetime building on the proverbial fire to defeat Trump and buy us 1 more election cycle to hold back full out fascism as he holds to his word to support the "Democratic" nominee. If you feel betrayed by a man of principle holding to his word and opposing fascism the best way he sees to do so, I don't know what to tell you.
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  6904.  @citlalie9791  apperently in the process of being sold to T-Mobile
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  6905. No, but start putting weapons up there and you've got another cold war to line the MIC's pockets.
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  6906. Somewhere between supernatural and alien
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  6907.  @jeffroberts6428  that's what our bar is? Not actively opposing climate change legislation. Might as well break out the guillotines if that's what our standards have sunk to.
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  6908. For the same reason that being Anti-Nazi isn't anti-white. Only the most racist make the equivocation.
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  6909. This group isn't representative of voters, Democrat or otherwise. Bernie gets only 1/3rd of the voters dispite being the most popular politician in the country with about 2/3rds support, and both of his supporters are men and appear to be the oldest on the pannel dispite Bernie being most popular with young people and women. Then they throw on only women who, statistically, don't represent the views of most women. This is a pannel curated by CNN to push an agenda, not a real reflection of voters. Standard Corporate News Network fare.
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  6910. Lori Smith election fraud I think you mean (largely agree, but we should be careful with the distinction between election and voter fraud as the GOP uses the myth of the later to push for voter suppression laws and programs)
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  6911. person human welcome to how stupid Nazis actually are when they don't take efforts to hide what they really think.
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  6912.  @bernman23  look again. Most of both major parties still believe the news is largely accurate. The media seems to understand way more than 40% of people if they can fool that many.
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  6913. Lukas Dalenbring that automation scenario is already in progress as we speak.
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  6914. As long as the less viable candidates use their stagetime to shread establishment candidates and then drop out early enough and endorse Bernie (or the next best candidate if he doesn't run) it shouldn't be too much of an issue. It may even be helpful for someone who cares less about their reputation to get up there and say the shit about Hillary and her ilk that Bernie is too polite to say.
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  6915. Under-funded?? In what world is our insanely bloated military budget under-funded? We spend more than half our discretionary spending on military and spend about the same as the next 7! nations combined for a total of 37% of global military spending being just us. This doesn't even count things like spending on veterans or the OCO, and Trump wants to add an insane $700 billion to that, which would more than double our insane military spending! How it's broken down doesn't change the fact that we should be spending less but are trying to balloon our insane military even more. Go back in your hole warmonger. We know this has nothing to do with actual defense.
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  6916. James Cloud who cares? You do know there's free porn on the internet, right?
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  6917. Tbf, meat substitutes are getting really good these days. Quality vegetarian stuffing is very likely in the near future and knowing more about what you're trying to imitate isn't a bad thing.
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  6918. It's simple, take a neutral "let's see position". Denouncing victim blaming =/= tossing out innocent until proven guilty. Condemning either accuser or accused before the truth is determined is wrong. "I don't know and neither do you, so stop trying to ruin people's lives on a hunch." is the only sane and ethical response. Just like the fight between the establishment parties, you can opt out of choosing sides and condemn anyone that demands it of you.
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  6919. Oligharchy is the national emergency
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  6920. Betting he got more of the meth
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  6921. 90% is an exaggeration...thankfully
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  6922.  @nairsheasterling9457  yeah, the thought process goes: Is popular -> find a way to coopt -> demonize and try to ban if that fails -> repeat with something else It really is that basic.
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  6923.  @USSAnimeNCC-  🎯
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  6924. Since when is that new?
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  6925. Abusing the poor is the solution to keep the middle class servile and too afraid to do anything that might upset their ever tenuous status-quo.
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  6926. Keep in mind that not all FGM is equal, but is all wrong. Circumcision is not the same as clitoral removal, of course, but not all FGM is that. I do have to push back on one point, though. BOTH treat the child as sexual property.
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  6927. What woman? The only confirmed women in this story are saying he's not an abuser. The only word we have is an anonymous TMZ source. Nice strawman though.
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  6928. ​ @dlg5485 YouTube just does that sometimes. We all deal with it.
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  6929. This isn't even just a black thing. This happens to women all the time and I've even had a woman at work come over and stroke my hair and tell me how she missed when her husband had long hair. There are a lot of fucking creeps out there who can't keep their hands to themselves.
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  6930.  @slinkingslug  he should retire from psychology too. That's just the field he's the least bad at.
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  6931. Mckenzie .Latham exactly. He does some nice political stunts when he can get away with it without rocking the boat too much to make it look like he's anti-establishment but he's not. He's just the GOP version of controlled opposition.
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  6932. Tell me you didn't even watch the video without telling me you didn't even watch the video
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  6933. I have some lights in my home that are wired to 2 switches so that when both the switches are in the same direction, the lights are off, but when they are in opposite directions, the lights are on. Being able to turn on the lights in the stairway from either floor is really convenient. The same principle could be applied to bedrooms, putting one switch by the door and another by the bed. Problem solved with no relying on having a brain in the mornings.
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  6934. I'm ok with churches being tax-exempt if they open their books and show they're meeting the standards of running as a non-profit that we require of any organization that we give a tax exempt status to.
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  6935. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with the old man. It's not that they don't know about the attrocities our country has committed. It's that they approve of them.
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  6936. Silver lining: it'll be a completely legitimate way to remove one of Trump's picks and get someone to replace him who doesn't have contempt for law and the constitution on the court in the near future. So in a way, I'm kinda glad if he's appointing a criminal to the position.
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  6937. Also, FDR so...
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  6938. We call those "externalized costs"
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  6939. Alex Wu they started going after the right and left at the same time, actually
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  6940. He knows. That's why he's called JD a "hostile takeover of the democratic party"...I'm unconvinced it will succeed, but since I think a 2 pronged attack is more likely to succeed no matter which attack fails, I think it's all good.
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  6941. Saminul Haque you need government intervention to have a fair playing field, or else industries will just externalize costs whenever possible.
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  6942. Habitat Reports we have no carbon budget. We have a growing carbon _debt_.
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  6943. "Alt-right" is a term coined by Nazis to sugarcoat their ideology. "Alt-left" is a term coined by the dem establishment to try and continue pushing the narrative that Bernie supporters are violent, racist, and sexist. Even trying to redefine them into something useful doesn't change that they only obscure what you're saying, so don't use either. If you want to say someone's being a facist or a totalitarian, or anything else, use the word that means what you mean. Don't use a buzzword designed from day 1 to blur the truth.
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  6944.  @Kc-dq7zj  they are. They don't give a shit about either. They oppose everything that would actually lower abortion rates. They just want to punnish women for sex.
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  6945. Childism
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  6946. Will destroy the future unless we destroy it. It's impossible to care about the future and despise the people who will be living in it.
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  6947. Is incompatible with caring about the future.
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  6948. They do know how to fight. They show it all the time when they are fighting against the left. They're CHOOSING not to fight because their role in the current system is to lose to Republicans.
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  6949. They absolutely know how to fight. They show it when they resist the left. They're CHOOSING not to
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  6950.  @dashx1103  should I be laughing at your joke or at you for being an idiot?
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  6951.  @steveschweichler9047  it is impressive to make a comment that long where every single piece of it is a different piece of BS. Congrats on the written gish gallop there. You even completely inverted the normal anti-immagrant argument related to government services to make it fit. Perhaps if you didn't treat economics as a religion with markets as your god you might not embarrass yourself so bad.
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  6952. Why not? I don't know that he's a valuable enough asset that he wouldn't just be replaced by the time the PR hit from this has died down. It's not like the kind of people they get to host these shows are really that rare.
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  6953. Ikrani um, no, since the training is provided by the department, that's not an excuse. We just don't choose to properly train them before we send them out with a gun. It's not like we're telling them to go get trained on their own and that is limiting the number of applicants.
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  6954. Ikrani I was not referring to gun licenses, but the difference between specifically police officers given the authority to use force on behalf of the state, and some unarmed pencil-pusher/mall "cop"/investigator to emphasize the importance of the judgement and skill set you're talking about Apologies if that was unclear.
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  6955. Are the stomach acids really enough or do you need a chaser of holy water?
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  6956. The legal argument is that the government can't force you to buy a product. A single-payer system would be constitutional, however.
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  6957. But tech companies like youtube and Facebook put them as trusted sources and give content from them preferential treatment while cracking down on independent sources under the guise if "fake news".
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  6958.  @biokido575  on the subject of genocide, both Ben and Trump are supporting genocides going on right now (the creeping one in Palistine and the even more active one in Yemen, respectively) Funny how you bring up points you don't actually care about. It's almost like you're arguing in bad faith and saying whatever you think will make your side look good without reguard for truth or hypocrisy....did you pick that one up from Ben?
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  6959.  @biokido575  it is absolutely the case that the genocides I mentioned are happening and supported by said people. Hell, Trump even used his veto powers to make sure the US kept providing military aid to the one in Yemen, but that's inconvenient for you, so you deny genocides being committed right now in part with your tax dollars, once again proving that your side is always projecting.
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  6960.  @biokido575  they are supporting the genocidal actions of those countries, so yes that is supporting genocide, you complete hack
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  6961.  @biokido575  Trump vetoed a bill to stop giving Saudi Arabia the military aid they were using to commit said genocide and Ben Shapiro has repeatedly defended Israeli violence and illegal settlements. You're seeing, but refusing to acknowledge. Those aren't the same things. That's why I called you out for lying, not for ignorance.
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  6962.  @biokido575  by your "logic" a company selling poison gas to the Nazis knowing what they were doing with it wouldn't be supporting the holocaust. Holy shit dude. Was it reason or the English language you just murdered in your last comment?
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  6963.  @biokido575  and we have arrived, at last, at holocaust appolgea, as I expected. We're done here.
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  6964. Broken clocks and all that.
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  6965. +
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  6966.  @aliastheabnormal  being right about major political predictions for the last 2 decades is a grim form of satisfaction, I can confirm.
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  6967.  @actaeondiomedes4270  you want to explain to me why one of the last things Obama did on the way out the door was to quiety expand executive power after Trump got elected and just leave it for him like some kind of housewarming gift? Get it through your head that the corporate "Democrats" are just playing good-cop/bad-cop on you.
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  6968.  @537monster  no, if Biden wins we get nothing but a Trump 2.0 after him while we sail over the climate change deadline. Hell, Biden has already said he will veto M4A. Trump's 2nd term vs Biden followed by another Trump-like figgure. Which is worse again. You're forgetting that Trump is a symptom not the problem!
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  6969.  @dylanmatheson4385  go look up hyperloop, boring, and his idiotic semitrucks and get back to me on how much he revolutionizes shit. No, he buys up tech that's nearly complete and takes credit for decades of work so he can get techbros who don't know any better worshipping the ground he walks on while he puts forward the most idiotic BS (most of which he picked right out of a trash bin of discarded ideas from the mid-20th century or earlier). He's good at 2 things: being born rich and marketing his brand (to mostly failsons), so kinda like Trump. Also, the right isn't, never has been, and never will be actually pro-free speech. Just look to all their "free speech" alternative platforms to see that their "free speech" screetching is just "I want to be able to harass minorities with hate speech while all ideological opposition gets censored" Stop being so dangerously gullible.
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  6970. Yeah, Nina and the 2 mentioned are really the only choices that come to mind. Bernie should not, however try to appease the establishment by picking someone they're more comfortable with. That's just asking for problems, and it's the primary, not the general, that is the big hurdle for him. Notice, btw, how the GOP basically never pics VPs more moderate than their Presidents, but establishment Dems basically always pick one to the right of their President? Food for thought.
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  6971.  @FunkyJeff22  environmentally friendly =/= forces everyone to buy a car
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  6972. Twisted in Cognizance not at all what I was talking about. Don't even know what position you think I have. I'm just saying that the idea of someone being a hero by carrying a gun when shit goes down is largely a fantasy.
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  6973. You underestimate the sunk cost fallacy...
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  6974. So, standard CNN content? I mean they couldn't use Bush Sr's funeral to shine some truth on his legacy afterall.
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  6975. That's because the "SJWs" you refer to (as opposed to egalitarian rights movements) are what happens when you take a bigot and convince them that hating brown people, women, lgbt people, etc is wrong, but don't get them to discard bigotry itself. Bigotry itself is the problem. All the -isms it is identified as are just masks it wears. Take them away (whether by convincing them it's wrong to discriminate for THOSE reasons, or by them being a part of said group) and it'll just put in another mask and keep hating a different outgroup. This kind of reactionary bigotry happens as a sideline to every equality movement because some people just don't understand "equality for all", even if they are the target of discrimination. This psychology is strongly linked with authoritarianism, being largely about developing a hierarchy of groups, hence them tending to employ the same tactics as their oppressors.
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  6976. If they can agree to avoid Bernie or Bust I think that could be productive.
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  6977. I suggest looking into the "global change game" social experiment. (Especially the one run in 1994 that ran 2 different groups sorted based on a personality/political questionare. Spoilers: one performed above average for the groups run through the "game" and the other ended human civilization in thermonuclear war) Tl;dr, our continued existance as a species may depend on keeping power out of the hands of those who most want power over others.
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  6978. Bill Schlafly better than paying a subscription AND microtransactions
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  6979. ​ @ruthtaylor1450 yup. We have the word. Use it!
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  6980. Burg Skeletal when the only tool you have is a gas chamber...?
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  6981. Liberty stop it with the white genocide nonsense https://youtu.be/VUbxVfSqtt8
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  6982. Just a bunch of children expecting sky daddy to clean up after them.
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  6983. Unless you equate an ethnicity with the state...where have I heard that before?
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  6984. Make tazers standard issue for flight crew.
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  6985. Only Ben and Jerry's has been pushing against the right since at least the Bush years. See this from at least 12 years ago: https://youtu.be/H9kXPTwIO08
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  6986. Let me translate Biden's position: If there's a pandemic, you should get free care for that so you can not make him sick. If you're a poor working class millennial with some other condition that isn't a threat to his health: you can go die. And boomers, who are on or about to be on medicare decided that he was the politician they wanted because there is that much bigotry toward millennials in this country.
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  6987. Sadly not everyone. It seems to be working with out of touch democrats over 50. Smh
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  6988.  Cheesie Horde  that was a whole lot of non-committal BS when all I asked for was a workable definition that was what you were using. Do you think how you're talking right now makes us on the left look good? It doesn't. It makes us look weasily, weak, and whiny. I expect an unwillingness to defign how someone is using terms from people on the other side, not ours.
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  6989. WhoBoogaloo Ireland's neutrality is rather irrelevant. The justification comes from the teachings of expansionist religions.
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  6990. Hell, we could even get them on treason charges for arming Al-Quaida via Saudi Arabia without getting international courts involved.
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  6991. Lol, a lot of people idolize Musk. What planet are you on?
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  6992. Welcome to religious fundamentalism. A game about always giving the same answers where facts don't matter.
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  6993.  @alexedelweiss3267  socialism is worker control of the means of production aka economic democracy. Communism is a moneyless, classless, stateless society. China is neither.
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  6994. That "ocean" between Tump and Warren is a fucking tidepool, with the real ocean to the left of Warren. As for no one believing there would be electric cars...people thought we would be using flying cars and we had electric cars decades ago. As for judging tomorrow on the basis for what happened yesterday....everyone who isn't an idiot can. It's called learning from history, something people like him seem incapable of. What world does this guy live in?
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  6995. Let's look at a UK boomer analyzing the generational economic disparity then: https://youtu.be/ZuXzvjBYW8A
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  6996.  @haroldlebo2005  nice job proving you're not even willing to listen to data-driven counterarguments
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  6997.  @wadesultan5074  because she's already selling out and planning on doing so as hard as she can in the general. She's not a real progressive and even if she wins, she'll just pave the way for a Trump 2.0 by being an Obama 2.0.
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  6998. Not unlikely.
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  6999. Most boomers talk to/about millennials like "no, I can't be racist, I have a black friend" white racists talk about black people.
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  7000. un mog if you watch carefully, you'll see that US problems tend to spread to other nations fairly reliably.
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  7001. Ever walk through a dry scratchy field in shorts and felt how abrasive is was on your legs? Imagine walking and running through that for miles with nothing covering your feet or sensitive bits. I'd wrap something around my hips and feet too!
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  7002. There is probably not one ideal solution to heating in Ukraine. A city apartment and a rural house are very different situations, for example.
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  7003.  @thevalorousdong7675  wow, you are pathetically susceptible to fear mongering! 🥴 I'm not talking about something that hasn't already been tried successfully. Stopping treading drugs like a criminal problem and moving to treading them as medical problem is beneficial in every way measurable, unless you're a police state that just wants to use drugs as an excuse to bring the boot of the government down on people and lock them up (which is the whole reason the war on drugs exists in the first place) They've got you conditioned into unthinking cowardice!
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  7004.  @saltysoldier68  Projection!!!
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  7005. @Strict Salty Diet If you're referring to the incident that happened this month to deflect from Trump's Epstein connections and all the other sex offences of GOP politicians, or their legislation that protects rapists (from trying to scare off people from reporting rapes to trying to block sex ed which has been shown to help protect children from being sexually abused), or their defense of child marriage...well, just fact-checked it, and it didn't happen. The liars on your side just took him out of context, as is typical. Anything to deflect from how those you support are so much worse in every way than the liberals (who, as a leftist, I have no shortage of negative things to say about)
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  7006.  @saltysoldier68  Yes, that is what you're going. Very good there kiddo...oh wait, did you think it was deflection for me to point out that you were spreading fake news? Lol that's helarious 😆
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  7007.  @saltysoldier68  You're already struggling to handle one point at a time, so I'm going to break this down again nice and slow. 1-if you're referring to the recent incident about that word, it didn't happen. Your sources lied. 2-I have been and will continue to be vocally critical of Biden and other liberals for being far too much like you 3-Trump was worse on all these issues, so it's obvious you don't actually care about any of it. If you can show you're capable of understanding these points, we can move onto something else after.
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  7008.  Larry Holiday  look, I'm not vouching for those who let him out in any way, but do you think it might be a bit premature for that?
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  7009.  @saltysoldier68  You're lying about Biden, and saying whatever you think will distract from me calling you on it. Aka: deflecting
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  7010.  @saltysoldier68  Since you struggle to understand how words work, look up the article "No, Joe Biden Did Not Refer to Satchel Paige as a ‘Negro’ During Veterans Day Speech" on Mediaite to have your failing in understanding how the English language works (when understanding would be inconvenient for you) explained to you. Oopsies! I can cite shit too...just, you know, correctly because I'm fluent in English. (Btw, I said we were sticking to that claim first, so we're not talking about the China stuff right now unless you're able to find where I said Biden wasn't racist anywhere on the internet at any point. Like I said, he's too much like you for my tastes.)
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  7011. In any other civilized country, that alone would have triggered the election results to be immediately thrown out and the entire thing done over again with anyone implicated behind bars. We really need to go all the way and declare election fraud to be treason to stop all this.
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  7012. Yeah, AT&T has managed to pass Verizon in my rankings of phone companies I would least like to give my business to. An impressive feat after Ajit Pai.
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  7013. ​ @FreshwaterSquid77 mrrf mffr mrmf?
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  7014. Sean Hurley I believe there is likely legal standing to challenge the schedule 1 classification as it requires it to have no legitimate, recognized medical use to fall into that, which it clearly does not.
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  7015. Look, this is very simple. Right vs left is about consolidation vs distribution of power. Right wing populism is always a fraud because they want heirarchy. Now, if you've got someone who's making left-leaning economic gestures and adopting leftist rhetoric (like Saagar) while still being ok with the concept of capitalism...well, we've heard that before and we know where that goes. They don't want equal treatment. They just want to use bigotries to change up who is where in the heirarchy. This is at best fascist adjacent.
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  7016. Considering they have a overt "with us or against us" mindset, only allowing neutrality as a temporary state for people to come to "the right decision" it's not even subtle.
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  7017. Coy Hampton depends on how many eyes we can get on it and how many people will take rigging of the primary as a serious concern
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  7018. You have a video link and know people. If you use social media, put it up there.
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  7019. Bing is just a fallback if you're having trouble finding what you're looking for on better sites. It's the last resort before Google, nothing more.
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  7020. Faith in the system is a bad thing if the system is unworthy of trust. Persistent faith in the system we have is either naive or disillusional.
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  7021. I would agree with a law banning most arms exports, but treasonous to give them to allies is a bit of a stretch. Giving them to a country that you know is funneling them to a declared enemy we're in military conflict with (like Saudia Arabia is doing with Al-Quaida) on the other hand? Yes THAT does fall within the narrow definition of treason....which would mean the current and previous President and most of their Congress's at minimum deserve to be on trial for treason.
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  7022.  @jonstone9741  caring more about a 1-2 day delay in news coverage than the accuracy and honesty of said coverage is poison to a democratic system and no small part of how we allowed the credibility of journalism in this country to sink to the level of gossip tabloids. A delay in getting your news is a good thing 99.99% of the time.
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  7023. They're not even left. All of that is just right or far-right. Left vs right, from the very origins of the political usage of the terms, has always been about the people vs the powerful.
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  7024.  Harry Callahan  nah, they just bomb brown people, stick them in concentration camps, and "meme" vehicles right into crouds. Much better /s You don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining about political violence if you're on the right, sorry, deal with it.
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  7025. Democracy Is Not Negotiatable "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. " -FDR "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
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  7026. As long as corporations are still allowed to pay lobbyists and give former politicians cushy "jobs" after they gat out, this doesn't change that much beyond optics.
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  7027. Ground News makes the mistake of thinking Dems are left-wing. Common for Americans but still a serious problem.
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  7028. *The rich are the enemy of everyone.
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  7029. +
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  7030. And he believes in doing unethical things for profit, and doesn't believe in a right to privacy, and wants to monopolize as much power as he can, etc...I mean they're really cut from the same douchey cloth
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  7031. It's almost like the entire dem establishment is controlled opposition
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  7032. The Consitution has been composting for decades! This is nothing new.
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  7033.  @llibeel  ...way to prove you don't know what left and right mean.
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  7034.  @llibeel  the "Democratic" party is center right. Why tf would I have to argue any of that?
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  7035. WVU STEELERS CELTICS yup, gotta get the word out in person, as taboo as bringing up politics often feels. People have to know this one is for real and we need her.
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  7036. It's almost like you can't rig a primary and expect the same demographic you systemically and illegally disenfranchised to turn out to vote for you when you treat them with obvious contempt, nominate a VP even further away from their preferred candidate than you, and want to sell out US sovereignty to an international court of corporations which would block 90% of the things they want done from ever happening (and actually take us backwards on those issues). I know, wierd right? /s
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  7037. We're going down, but we need to drag things as far left as we can, because if we don't, it won't swing left. It will swing to full fascism.
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  7038. Actually it's the advertisers wanting to go back to a system where their advertising dollars buy them a pro-corporate slant and the corporate media conglomerates wanting to not loose all their viewers to independent content.
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  7039. The establishment is clearly pivotting to their fauxgressive Warren (aka Obama 2.0). While they would have preferred Biden, they saw the writing on the wall quite a while ago and were clearly using him as an opener to warm the "audience" up for Warren so they could use the debates to push her forward.
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  7040. Not a war when it's one sided. That's called a genocide.
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  7041. Alejandro Nopasanada to attempt a rough answer, because most of the boomers grew up to be what they fought against in their youth. "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster." Here's to hoping that today's younger generations are in for the long haul, because even in the best case scenario, it's going to take longer than our lifetimes to clean up this mess.
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  7042. How radical are you willing to go? You could democratize the workplace.
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  7043. Say it with me: gaslighting
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  7044. It's official, the jackals have admitted total defeat in Venezuela.
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  7045. @MomoTheBellyDancer wonderful company on your side of things, isn't there /s You're welcome to move over to the side intelligent enough to realize how stupid misogyny is any time.
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  7046. @MomoTheBellyDancer misread something. Disregard my previous comment.
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  7047. That's not true. You may need it as a component of yours and there's nothing wrong with that at all, but asexual people can still have functional relationships.
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  7048. Conservatism as an ideology was created as the successor to Royalism to continue opposition to democratic government. I'm not making this up or exaggerating. It is anti-democratic to its roots.
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  7049. I'm sick and tired of these motherfucking Republicans in this motherfucking party.
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  7050. The thing is, Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' is actually a Nazi; it's less that she's stupid (though she is) and more that she has contempt for the very idea of truth. 0% joke 0% exaggeration Know thy enemy.
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  7051. I mean. You can share this video. Hit 'em in their credibility.
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  7052. There's no good answer to that question for her. Either she's completely racist, or ignorant of such a historic court case that most highschoolers know about it.
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  7053.  @ihl0700677525  the USSR wasn't socialist, but the guy who wrote 1984 and Animal Farm was This is a false dichotomy.
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  7054. Or "I have severe cognitive dissonance. Please get me to a psychiatrist ASAP."
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  7055. Some Body apperently complaining about one instance of how she was momentarily made to feel like she made her base feel through the entire election cycle.
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  7056. Both the right and left hate the establishment. Can't let them unite. Divide and conquer on overdrive mode now!
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  7057. Most people shouldn't debate Jordan Peterson live because he's a sophist and will gish gallop you with BS. It's far better to dissect his arguments with time after the fact.
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  7058.  @darktrooperdalek7991  +
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  7059. It was during the election. Ignore the facist snowflakes' complaints
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  7060. Anton Voltchok you can still support the candidates dirrectly and bypass the leadership entirely.
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  7061. Nuclear's problem is not waste or danger. It's that we waited too long. Renewables are the only things we have enough time left to build enough of.
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  7062.  @squibble-vision  or the satanic panic...or when 2 men holding hands in public would be too much for people's sensibilities... The right has ALWAYS been the biggest purveyors of cancel culture. They're just whining that they are (for being bigots) getting a fraction of what they gave out to people just trying to live their lives and that corporations are pandering to anti-bigotry sentiments instead of bigoted sentiments because we're finally a larger market to virtue signal to. (Let's also not forget all the times they told us "a free market would discourage bigotry because people would just take their business elsewhere" and immediately flipped out as soon as that actually started happening for real)
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  7063. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  7064. Those with no interest in critical observation and analysis are very, very common. (Probably most people, if we're being honest)
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  7065. *addicts But desperate addicts aren't much different.
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  7066.  @tylerpeters2624  fascists like TRUMP are the enemy
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  7067.  semmel  how about you do some research. You have one of the best healthcare systems in the world dispite your right-wingers trying to defund it.
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  7068.  semmel  you know that thing where Americans often don't have a clue how their country compares to the rest of the world because they only know their own experience so they have no frame of reference? Here's your mirror.
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  7069.  semmel  sure you have /s
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  7070.  semmel  NHS timeliness of care: 3rd US timeliness of care: 5th #factsandlogic https://cdn.internationalinsurance.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ranking-11-best-international-healthcare-countries-800x600.png There is no metric where the US healthcare system is better than the UK system. On your way now little troll
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  7071. Pills have identifying markings on them that anyone can look up online to identify. Also, the war on drugs needs to end.
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  7072.  @genericscout5408  so your proposed scenerio is that the cartels are going to make up/have made up pills of illegal drugs that look like legal drugs so they can slip relatively small quantities across the border at a time when it is being over policed (to put it likely)? That makes sense to you and would require brining in specialists and specialized equipment to damage some of their medication so we can be 100% certain about what it is before we allow someone to keep what is most likely a medication they need when we shouldn't be fighting the "War on Drugs" in the first place? You realize how absurd that sounds and how it will be used to justify taking meds away from people who need them based on suspicion and the cost is going to be used to explain why we have to "play it safe" about not letting them keep their meds?
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  7073. Eh, stone eyes for pissing them off means the fay likes you. It gets much worse from there.
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  7074.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  I mean, it causes pneumonia so it's not really technically wrong to call it that then (or even now if you remove the "rare" part). It's just a bit too vague to be useful. It's less that they were correcting themselves and more that they were increasing the specificity of what they were saying as more information became avalible, which is just science....at least in this case. Other things they said weren't quite as truthful, but in a very technical sense they were correct is my only point.
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  7075. Most DC politicians belong in jail so no hesitation on that from me
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  7076. Specifically a younger woman.
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  7077.  @mckenzie.latham91  A-She's a right-leaning moderate conservative B-There are multiple people in the house to her left So no
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  7078. A yes, teaching an animal with bite strength sufficient to crush the bones in your delicate hands that the way to get what it wants is to lash out in violence and hurt others. I can see why the abusers in this thread got bit. The only time I have ever been bit by a dog was a rescue dog who WAS frequently kicked in its previous home and was traumatized for LIFE by it. And you worms don't even have the excuse of being a child with a serious mental handicap (I presume) who literally couldn't understand what they were doing. I hope you get bit again for each and every time you hit a dog.
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  7079.  @itsdokuro610  the most consistent variable in that series of events is you
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  7080. Really drug out the disinfo trolls and bots with this one. Must be something they really don't want us talking about
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  7081. Move all infrastructure (including, but not limited to fuel, electricity, internet, and healthcare) to the public sector (national or municipal as appropriate) Break up all megacorps. Make all remaining large businesses worker co-ops. Institute Massive electoral reform of which getting money out of politics would be like 10%.
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  7082.  @rebelchevy728  I don't need protecting from patriots. I need protecting from nationalists. The cops are beating up the patriots trying to protect me from nationalists.
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  7083. It's a hardcore, for-profit cult by any definition.
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  7084. I've got a ball of dirt I've got a ball of dirt I've got a ball of dirt and guess how I made it.
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  7085.  @Nastara  ain't that the simple truth of it!
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  7086. And that's just what's publicly known for sure and basically admitted by the government.
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  7087. What a gross excuse for a human being you are!
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  7088. Spoilers, some "dems" will still vote for him
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  7089.  Kylem  car insurance is voluntary as it is a conditional requirement. The health insurance mandate is not. Bad comparison. To be clear, like military, police, firefighters, etc, the government can give away said services, but strictly speaking, doesn't have the constitutional power to force you to buy it.
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  7090.  @siw7118  you think they're free. That's almost cute.
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  7091. There are in many other developed countries. Just sayin'
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  7092. Better to let her get some experience in Congress and have Bernie run for now. She doesn't seem like the type to get corrupted by the system, so no need to rush her there when we already have some good and more well-known candidates to fight with ...yet.
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  7093. Why do they keep talking about Nuremberg codes? Uh, right wingers always project and look at their last President.
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  7094. woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice How the far right uses it? The same way they use "cultural Marxism" and "cultural Bolshevism" before that. But Ben's going to keep pandering to a political movement that wants him killed.
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  7095. Kinda like "I have black friends" isn't it?
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  7096. If Musk was so great as science, he wouldn't have been pushing the hyperloop disaster, for example. He's not some magnificent inventor, sorry. He's just a rich guy with an expensive hobby.
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  7097.  @tipsyMJT  so, just ignore that reusable spacecraft already existed and that all Musk did was throw money at some ideas people had in the past taking advantage of other peoples' inventions and his economic advantage so he could claim "first" on a technicality?
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  7098. The "Democrats" used most of the same methods of election fraud against millennials in the 2016 primary. It's up to us to FORCE this issue because the establishment dems see progressives, not the GOP, as their #1 enemy.
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  7099.  @annoyingdumbhole8985  not if said box is the frame for a block of concrete
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  7100. I want Bernie/Tulsi 2020. Get him in there while he has time, Then Tulsi/? 2028 Maybe get AOC in there after that if she keeps improving as she has been
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  7101. ​ @insertrelevantmeme9219 that's an idiotic assumption.
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  7102. Fascists really aren't that uncommon, unfortunately.
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  7103. Andrew S not a dunce, but a slightly more sophisticated troll, in all likelihood The fact that he's refuted by the first point made in the video is a dead giveaway.
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  7104. I'm sorry, who hates America again?
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  7105. NyYankees1985 being more progressive than most democrats in the US is a pretty low bar
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  7106. Not all of us....just most of the adults over 40...that didn't help our case did it?
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  7107.  @f58534  it is all dependant on avalible evidence of course, but you gotta keep up hope
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  7108.  @Rudenbehr  yeah, because the states with larger African American populations voted first before he got name recognition, Hillary's "super predators" background became widely known, people got to see how he treated black Americans, learned his record of marching with MLK, etc. Gotta pay attention to context for your numbers.
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  7109.  @LauraIsPink  yeah well, we knew that was comming when the "Democratic" party put their thumb on the scale to make sure that a pro-Trump "Democrat" got the nomination instead of the more progressive candidate.
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  7110. Red, you missed one very important detail: they did manage to find enough silver to crash their economy because they didn't understand how to handle inflation (which, ironically, probably fueled their drive for gold even more). Otherwise great video with a lot I didn't know. https://youtu.be/rjhIzemLdos
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  7111. It's 100% the fault of Hillary and the DNC that we have Trump, way back from when they were colluding with the media to push him forward in the primary. Look up "pied piper candidate". The leaks prove it.
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  7112. Not even. Emma is better than what Ana pretended to be.
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  7113. SoKoy Sugoi and a warrent to bug his golf bags
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  7114.  @janelleg597  blatent denial of reality and projection from the right. Typical. We get it. You hate that voting is a thing. It's not something to proud of.
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  7115. VarietyGamer they were ACCUSED of working with ISIS. Until there's a trial, no, we don't know that they did because all we have is the government's word. Did you miss that distinction?
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  7116. I'd argue it was Cold War propaganda more, but they're kinda intertwined, huh?
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  7117.  Flash Gordon  "neocon Trotskyites?" Lmao
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  7118. No, we don't cover for fascists here. Btw, stop subbing to Nazis and other fascists, looser. It'll rot your brain.
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  7119.  @Vulcorio  you misunderstood the sense I was saying that to be broader than I meant it. I see where you're coming from (even if I don't entirely agree) but that is a different conversation (and one that's largely irrelevant considering Russia is the aggressor here, so entirely responsible for the war)
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  7120. soccerholden13 the difference is "news" pieces from the MSM did claim that, but the polls didn't (they had to twist a lot of facts to make them sound like they said that). If you run into someone claiming the polls said Hillary had a 98% chance of winning, that's a different thing.
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  7121.  @spanqueluv9er  you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
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  7122. Melchior Magni most people don't know about the double taps
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  7123. ​ @UberNoodle watch me!
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  7124. Not true. There's the invisible hand of the free market.
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  7125.  NicKingPapiChulo  you somehow seem to have missed my point entirely.
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  7126.  @zoro115-s6b  to be fair, hills are really useful in mechanized warfare too...you just want to be behind one (perhaps hull-down in a tank), not standing tall on one like a jackass.
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  7127.  @Bluebelle51  why are you going through every post criticizing the Daily Fail's credibility, even one that is explicitly saying they're not defending Obama?
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  7128. War is the last resort for the imperialists today. We see war primarily when the other, cheaper, methods of regime change have failed. It may still happen, but if they can REinstall a puppet government entirely through sanctions, psy-ops and the other things (like assasinations) the CIA does, they will probably not invade. The catch is Iran has proven able to resist (at least to some degree in the past) those things which is why war is even talked about. For more see "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  7129. ​ @JanelleChristmas-w6u they're not being secret about it, they want women to have no lives other than making more workers and men to work themselves to 💀 doing all the work in factories. It's not even about productivity. They just like seeing us suffer as cogs in the machine.
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  7130. Well, there was that one time our society decided that 50 Shades didn't count as porn and so was acceptable in public for some reason...
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  7131. Pink's a troll guys, and he really doesn't want people talking about how M4A is a very moderate position.
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  7132.  Classical Scholar  just helping the newer and less frequent viewers get up to speed sooner
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  7133.  @Regdren  yeah, it's a problem if dropping a pure cash UBI in our current system.
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  7134. Deondre Clark I see politicians wearing a tie matching the color of the opposing party so often it might be the norm...make of that what you will.
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  7135. "Let's pretend that the word 'fuck' is more insulting than repeatedly ignoring the rights of groups of people, because it affects us rather than just the peasants" Content over presentation! (Though demands for certain presentations usually reveal more than those making them wish they did)
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  7136. And Bush and Obama and... ...we have a lot of work to do because each recent president has shreaded the constitution a bit finer than the last.
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  7137. The left isn't trying to romance the right. LIBERALS are...and what else do we expect from them when they're also right wingers?
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  7138. ​ @diffened farmers know that. They're just so hateful that they don't care.
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  7139. Chronic exposure to lead, even at low levels, causes increased rates of violent crime. http://www.advancesinpediatrics.com/article/S0065-3101(14)00016-4/abstract "There is no safe level of lead exposure"
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  7140. To equate criticism of Isreal's government with antisemitism is to equate an ethnicity with a nation....you know, like a fascist.
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  7141. ​ @MrPhotodoc ever hear of the night of long knives?
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  7142.  @the77eltigre  possibly, but note I never asked "why" only "who"
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  7143.  @paulp5219  didn't work durring the middle ages and we're talking about the people who don't care about climate change so appealing to sympathy for younger people may not be a good plan.
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  7144.  @echomoon3381  why would they need to be military? Doesn't it seem kinda pointless to put them through expensive training they're never going to use. Just institute a jobs guarantee and use that labor to rebuild and retool our infrastructure for a green 21st century economy. #Bernie2020
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  7145.  @echomoon3381  it does not follow from "a national guard is useful" to "we need infrastructure workers to be military-trained" That's inefficient and any war of that scale would be fought with nukes and a large military trained population may be seen as a wasted resource by warmongers (increasing imprealism) And we don't need more people conditioned even further to obedience toward the state (a small change to the training and a massive increase in the number of people going through it could easily tip things toward totalitarianism)
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  7146.  @echomoon3381  it is the very definition to expend resources (such ad on expensive military training) on something that gets no use (such as, say, military training on someone installing solar pannels), and yes, I brought up that warmongers are more likely and able to start wars when they have a larger military on hand. History shows this. I never said it was something you said or that warmongers would cease to exist otherwise. Please work on your readinh comprehension so you don't strawman me. Thanks.
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  7147. Noam Chomsky explains it well here: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  7148. The Nuremberg treatment.
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  7149. ​ @lawrence208  about as many academic fields reject the idea of a sex-equivalent, gender binary as reject young earth creationism. None support either. Sex≠gender, neither is a binary, and facts don't care about your bigoted feelings.
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  7150. A toxic substance that costs more to extract and burn than it has use value is valued at a negative value? About time.
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  7151. And they dare to act like they care about a mythological "free market". It's always been a lie. They just hate us and want us to suffer. It really is that simple.
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  7152. They absolutely do, unfortunately.
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  7153. Let's put the wall in context of some things Trump has said: https://youtu.be/mrSIIZzOGOo
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  7154.  @crab_aesthetics  what was my first reply to you? This is only the 3rd, so you shouldn't be loosing track of the conversation this quickly.
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  7155. Nightingale I use "clinical narcissism" to bring it out of the colloquial use and into the realm of "no psychiatrists would use this behavior to diagnose someone with a serious mental disorder"
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  7156. "It is essential for our business that the people who come into our store never try to get the same stuff online because they'll never come back to our rip-off shitholes if they do."
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  7157.  NATAS 23  the people in the store want it to close for the pandemic. If the only way you can think to help people is to keep them doing busy work at obsolete jobs under companies quite willing to get them killed, maybe it's time to start changing the system itself. Why support a system that hurts workers when it improves efficiency?
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  7158.  NATAS 23  hey dipshit, maybe an economic systems that can only provide for normal people by huge megacorps creating useless, underpaying work where people are treated like disposable cogs is not something that is worth propping up in the first place but rather something that needs changed top to bottom. Try to think outside of the tiny little box you've been put inside.
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  7159.  NATAS 23  ok bootlicker. Can't take someone talking to you the way you talk to them Pathetically typical, narcissistic, and anti-intellectual
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  7160.  NATAS 23  lmfao, after you went to comment on all my other posts tp try and goad and insult me you call me a troll? Keep projecting there bucko, it's helarious. (Btw, when I play ttRPGs, it's with systems better than D&D and at tables that actually include women because they're not full of misogynistic manchildren, so that's not a point of insecurity) but hey, C for effort on using what you could dig up on my channel for that pathetic trolling attempt.
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  7161.  NATAS 23  lol troll harder 😆
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  7162.  @garrymiller3171  not anything, just power
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  7163.  @jamescooke7243  fact: letting kids transition massively lowers their suicide rates. You're the one who doesn't give a shit about children.
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  7164.  @maybebabyny  they also often like paying less than minimum wage and a workforce unlikely to go to the police/osha/etc
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  7165. Not only were a lot of the people he cited as black endorsements white, but a lot of the people that were black came out to say they never endorsed him. Add on top the Kenyan stock photo and you've got three layers of lies but MSDNC won't even bring it up.
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  7166. Does? No Did? Yes His mental decline is pretty obvious (not that he was ever that bright or sane)
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  7167.  @farkasmactavish  that's a very specific ritual that was done to almost exclusively enemies and criminals. If you want that kind of specifics, tell me where in Aztec religion that anyone who cannot make sufficient payment to the temple has to sacrifice their firstborn son? Go ahead and reread your bible if you think I'm making that up. The roots of the Abrihamic religions are utterly barbaric in so many ways and the evidence is still right in the writen texts because they still haven't been ashamed enough of it to remove it.
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  7168. I'll admit interest, but my stance is that our self defence laws are so poorly written that cases like his aren't open and shut matters with an obvious outcome...and that's for the states with better-written ones.
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  7169. Why did CNN put a climate change denier in charge of the election just over a decade before we reach a catastrophic tipping point on climate change? Maybe because they take money from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute which "describes its mission as to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." They're not paying to reach people to get them to buy their product over a competitors'. They're buying influence over the narrative just as much as they are buying legislation when they "donate" to politicians. The ads are just another form of bribery. This isn't just bias. Corporate "news" is in the business of corporatist propaganda. Misinformation isn't a mistake; it's their job.
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  7170. Over sample Sanders supporters?
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  7171.  Devils Right Hand  the FBI had seperate categories for Islamic terrorism, black nationalism, and Right-Wing terrorism (which yes, should have been something like "right wing terrorism not otherwise specified") That said, there are moderate Muslims like there are moderate Christians, but it's not the moderate ones who become terrorists.
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  7172. QuestionEverything thank you! The racist vote always goes for team red. That's nothing new. If Trump won because he got a huge wave of racist support, we'd expect to see him getting popular vote totals higher than normal and we just don't. Most voters were voting out of dislike for the other candidate. That's the norm in this country and this was an election between the 2 most disliked candidates in US history. Thinking otherwise is delusional.
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  7173. What's wrong them? Fascism, plain and simple.
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  7174. Well that's what they say. Really, they think she deserves it because she's poor. The law is just the excuse to kick down.
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  7175. You don't need a lot of dynamite to blow up an ammunition stockpile. If they used high explosives instead of incendiaries to set off the ammo depot's, the timing would be very controlled.
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  7176. Obama, '08, with EXCEEDINGLY low expectations... ...that were not met. Voted Justice Party in 2012.
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  7177. The cold war was basically the USA and the USSR doing shots of cultural poison until one collapsed. We "won" but decades later we still belong in a hospital bed getting serious medical treatment for our failing organs, but refuse to accept that there's anything wrong. Unfortunately Anarcho-Capitalism is addictive and our dealer keeps lacing it with corporatism to make it even worse.
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  7178. We haven't been in a constitutional crisis since 2017 We've been in a constitutional crisis since at least 2000
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  7179. Not only did I get Telltale heart, Masque of the Red Death, and the Monkeys Paw pretty early, but I got to see plays of the first, last, and I think another of Poe's work that I've forgotten
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  7180.  @ZboeC5  rolling over for those at the top and letting them do as they please isn't the answer. Responding to the excessive concentration of power by conceding more power to them without resistance only makes things worse. Always has, always will in every era of history Also, while I agree that a government routinely paying interest for the use of its own currency is absurd, you're missing the more fundamental truth: money IS debt. In a functioning system, it is the debt we pay to those who we collectively owe which in the most basic form means those who work outside the market economy to make our civilization possible (soldiers, firefighters, people that pave roads, teachers, etc) and which we confirm the payment of (directly or indirectly) through paying taxes (which is what gives said debt tokens the universal demand which creates their market value). Every dollar that banks make out of thin air because of how lending works (which is the overwhelming majority of the dollars in circulation) is a dollar said bank has unilaterally declared that everyone paying taxes in dollars owes them. Every tax dollar someone weasels out of paying after ending up with billions because of the luck of being born (rather than into an impoverished jungle) into the engine of prosperity that enabled the creation of that wealth that is the result of generation after generation investing immeasurable labor of ever kind is a dollar of wealth a worker has been short changed. The federal reserve is a distraction from a far deeper and larger problem: for profit banking itself.
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  7181.  @Sebastian-yl7nq  not better or didn't have issues? Can't even pick a consistent position to argue against. Typical wehraboo "logic"
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  7182. I'd be happy to hear that the lying to children will come to an end, but can I get a source please?
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  7183. Well take this hypothetical: someone goes into debt to go to college because that's what they were taught to do and the economy looked good. Then the economy crashes, and they're left with a degree, and are told that their unpaid internships don't count as work experience because they weren't paid for it. Then they go into trying to get as much low paying work as they can because with their crippling debt they have no choice, but have to deal with retired people REentering the workforce in what should be entry level jobs because their retirements were crushed in the recession. Of course, struggling just to get by with a job shortage and lower wages thanks to minimum wage not keeping pace with inflation (much less cost of living), many are unable to retrain and know that when/if the job market does pick up, they'll be skipped over for fresh college grads. Even if they can retrain, they can't afford to go back to college, and the comming wave of automation is likely to just leave them with another expensive piece of paper that won't help them in the future. Result: economic stagnation, people cohabiting with friends just to make ends meet because rent is WAY too damn high, and being unable to build a family or future. Oh, and you get blamed for the state of affairs dispite the crash that started all this happening before you could even vote.
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  7184. AlM NlOlS illegal immigrants are net tax payers because they can't recieve benefits but still get taxed through at least sales tax, gas tax, etc. This had been proven. You can have a debate about immigration without spreading myths that have been long debunked.
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  7185. And the fact that he's flat out said that he has "no empathy" for millenials, so will get fuckall turnout.
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  7186. Fuck Godwin. It needs to be said: Facists don't care about the factual accuracy of what's being said. Facists only care about the emotional framing. That's why they cheer for this compulsive liar.
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  7187. We wouldn't be having this discussion if we'd nominated a more electable candidate, but liberals just bought into all the electability lies in 2020 and voted for a war criminal nobody liked like that was the safest vote.
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  7188. True!
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  7189.  @remixtapes9308  M4A isn't far left. Completely nationalizing healthcare would only be center-left, if that.
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  7190. They tried that already...failed, and learned nothing.
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  7191. The corporate dems praising Bush is them trying to deliberately redefine what "reasonable" is
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  7192. Just get enough money and it'll start getting money for you...'cause this is a meritocracy?
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  7193. The problem isn't government involvement. The problem is that the majority of our economic system is controlled by undemocratic institutions operating in a form of neofeudalism. The solution is to have that power democratically controlled to be wielded by and for the people.
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  7194.  @chrisb9345  if you don't understand that election integrity is non-negotiable, you can fuck off. Hillary is an election-rigging war criminal who would have shifted the Overton Window even further right, paving the way for someone even worse than Trump. If you can't understand how this good-cop/bad-cop game is played on us all, you have no business shaming others.
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  7195.  @PandemoniumVice  you think that centrists don't change their oppinion because of oppinions held by others? That's almost cute.
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  7196. Look up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and you will know why (and yes, it's actually even more disgusting than it sounds)
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  7197.  @ParkrosePermaculture  young kids suffering because of the decisions of old men seems to be the story of "civilization" so far, unfortunately.
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  7198. Cynthia Johnson yup, sure there's a racist vote, but it ALWAYS goes team red, so you can't blame your loss on that unless you're a total lying sack of ....or right, that's exactly what she is.
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  7199. Cynthia Johnson I am against our communities all being so strongly segregated by race and class, including the white ones, and while I would oppose authoritarian means, there are some soft measures with multiple benefits that would slowly move us in that direction. So I can't answer that question (nor do I think all Trump voters are racists, in case that was unclear, merely that what racist vote there is votes almost entirely for team red every election, so isn't worth talking about in this context).
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  7200. Where are all those 2nd ammendment advocates talking about what they would do if the government started doing shit like this? Oh, they were just larpers treating real weapons like toys? Thought so.
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  7201. Until we remove oligarchy from our government, we simply can't keep promises because our government is controlled by worshiping quarterly profits of megacorps.
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  7202.  @craigpoer  Bernie's plan is to use the same plan FDR used to get the first new deal passed against the objections of both party establishments of his era: Mobilize the people to pressure their politicians. It's the only thing short of massive, frequent general strikes or bloody revolution that has a chance of working.
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  7203.  @aidenohalliganesquire3148  wow, just not even going to bother to dogwhistle that mysoginy, huh?
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  7204.  @briankerzetski5719  was using the term more loosely, yes, and "shocked" would be more technically correct, but "electrocuted" can also refer to serious, but non-fatal, injuries so I could have been and still typed it (though thankfully wasn't)
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  7205.  @DavidDellsperger  I'm not surprised there is a code about which way it's supposed to be as there are pros and cons to each, so if there's any difference in the balance of those someone's going to enforce a standard with how much can be on the line there, but it's surprising to me that such a thing would get so much attention, tbh, considering all the things that can go wrong with an electrical system.
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  7206.  @raysha9932  no one even knows what you were trying to say and have gone on talking to each other and ignoring you. Stop commenting drunk.
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  7207.  @raysha9932  lol, no, how could anyone be mad when you have butchered grammar so hard that no-one even can tell what you're saying? Seriously, get your fluids and sleep the booze off. Don't make your coworkers pick up your slack tomorrow because you stayed up too late drinking and came in hungover. Personal responsibility, right?
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  7208. +GameOfEnder Um, no, sympathizing with why a country might be feeling anxious doesn't mean you have to support all actions they take from that position. Also, Kyle has been talking about Nato expansion only, not a coup. Further, not only have I not seen any evidence of that that didn't seem at least 50% likely to be propaganda cooked up by Russia, but we know for a fact that the Crimea referendums were miles away from fair, so spare me the BS about the fake outrage over democratic elections. Face it, Russia was put in a tight spot and responded by forcibly taking over part of an eastern european country that wasn't the real cause of their problems under the pretext of there being "ethnic Russians" there. Replace Russia with the name of another nearby country and that starts to sound chillingly familiar if you know ANYTHING about history.
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  7209. +Patrick Cox an oligopoly is a state of a market with similar results to a monopoly, not a state/form of government.
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  7210. Anyone else notice how the notion of economies of scale magically vanishes right out of right wing brains when it comes to social programs?
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  7211. Trump's totalitarian reactions toward protests and elections threaten our ability to organize and start moving power back to the people. In other words, there's a good argument that Biden will be an easier political opponent to fight against.
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  7212. The greatest generation knew the antidote to this. Appeasers either never learned from history or are knowingly complicit.
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  7213.  @bobbyjbobbyj  couldn't even watch 54 seconds of a video before getting on your hands and knees to lick that corporate boot, huh? Pathetic
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  7214. Demonitization doesn't have to be complete. Companies can still choose to run ads on demonitised videos, but since ad revenue is based on an auction and so few do, it means you still get ads, but the creators get almost nothing for them. See CPG Grey's video(s) on how ads work on YouTube if that didn't make sense.
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  7215. Just know the 1-3 countertop things you will use basically every single day. I would almost never use a blender so haven't justified the purchase of anything more than a small, cheap food processor that mostly collects dust in a cabinet. I will never NOT have a rice cooker, though, even though I could technically do it on the stove because I do make rice that often and don't want my attention and stove split for it. Buy specialty tools to make the things you're already doing easier and better, not because you think you'll start doing something if you get the tool. Unless it's small and cheap or absolutely necessary, if you cared enough to use the specialty tool enough to justify the purchase, you'd be doing it with the tools you already have.
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  7216.  @pooyanmatin7182  supposed to? International courts we have set up for such things.
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  7217. ​ @noyes8882 And once again the ranks of the fascist demagogues are largely filled with failed artists of varying types....
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  7218. I have completely lost track and I think we've long since past the point where it would be easier to count the warcrimes we haven't confirmed Russia has done yet...
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  7219.  @AndyHullMcPenguin  also the transferring of children the way Russia has done is also explicitly a form of genocide.
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  7220. Nitpick though: Fuck that 50 and over shit. Those are the people least likely to support medicare for all and most likely to have decent insurance through their job. Fuck pandering to Boomers' sense of entitlement. That's why the world is a mess in the first place. We shouldn't be making the generational divide even worse.
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  7221. Same way there are white Republicans: self-hatred projected outwards.
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  7222. Is that even a real question at this point?
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  7223.  Pup Pup Man  so? That just means he sold out too. Did you know there is a candidate running for president now that put forward and passed a non-partisan resolution to end military aid to Saudi Arabia?
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  7224. 1:11 - 1:13 that shift of map perspective bothers me an irrational degree
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  7225. Because the right wants authoritarian, not democratic, government by definition.
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  7226.  @tims3712  that's not what left and right actually mean in a political context though. The origins of the terms trace back to right=royalists left=favoring representative government. Out of that very specific historic context they broaden to mean right=supporting entrenched power, left=supporting populist power. Since markets naturally condense power, the right tends to want to let big buisness do whatever it wants (even Nazi Germany put many public industries into private hands and crushed unions as long as the owners were willing to play ball with the political establishment) but will simultaneously encroach on personal freedoms and expand other state powers as well as removing the power of the people to control their own government (which is the main tool the public has to fight against excessive growth of personal power and to protect individual rights, much like a larger-scale version of a union) Meanwhile the left only wants to get involved in things to stop abuses or excessive concentration of power. The extreme right is facism/dictatorship whereas the extreme left is anarchism. The moderates of both wings want government to get involved in things, but the right wants it to get involved to preserve/expand power hierarchies, whereas the left wants it to get involved to limit/dismantle said hierachies. The definitions you put forward are right wing propaganda designed to keep leftists from actually using the state to prevent unchecked consolidation of power and to paint the democratic state as an enemy of society rather than a tool so that other powers can grow. And, as we now have a defacto oligarchy, it has largely worked.
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  7227.  @tims3712  no significant amout of politics even in America fits your left-right description once you get past rhetoric because it's a lie. Stop repeating it for the politicians. And yes, we are a defacto oligarchy. Public opinion has zero statistical correlation with government policy. It's a proven fact.
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  7228.  @tims3712  wow, going from claiming to be using a special American definition, to stawmanning me, to claiming to be using a universal definition. You're a lying sack of shit. We're done here
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  7229. Then you don't appreciate how many Americans are actual fascists.
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  7230. Empire through debt is nothing new. Loop up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
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  7231. Mostly the former, but only mostly.
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  7232. Psychology of the baby boom played out solo in <1hr.
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  7233. Ádám Szilvási it is voluntary because you choose to live here and benefit from the programs the taxes fund. Saying taxes are theft because they're compulsory is like saying when your phone bill comes for the last month of use, that it's theft because you're forced to pay it. But if you don't like the plan offered, by all means, you're welcome to stop future charges by switching civilization providers and paying another government, or cancel your service entirely by living on a boat or in some 3rd world shithole. In this country, however, we already tried voluntary payment and it was a disaster, so we won't be going back to that service model.
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  7234. Liberal: Open to new ideas and ways of doing things, generous, and/or in favor of freedom and liberty. The right wing using "liberal" is just applying the 3rd definition and generally only toward economics. (Pushing an agenda that conflicts with the other 2 definitions while remaining technically correct) Right vs left isn't entirely synonymous with conservative vs liberal either (roughly equating to populism vs establishment power). Not sure exactly what the politics where you are so I can't give more relevant points to you to compare US politics to yours, but those are the dictionary definitions and I find trying to stick to them and find other terms when they fail to be useful
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  7235. souris verte they dismantled new deal regulations in the US leading to the great recession. Don't let them do it.
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  7236. The game is called "good cop/bad cop"
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  7237.  00ProblemChild  MSDNC pretends to be the opposite to Fox "News" for one...
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  7238. JJ not my experience so citation needed? Also define "young people" please
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  7239. duhsmersh um, unless you're talking about teens, compared to the general population you're empirically wrong. More corporate & pro-war democrats are overwhelmingly supported by older generations
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  7240. JJ your experience at college is just that YOURS. Other people have different ones. Mine was people feeling overwhelming disappointment at him being a lying corporate tool little better than the Republicans. You want to say that yours is more valid than mine or anyone elses, you need statistics for that. That's how things work and why anecdotal evidence doesn't really count.
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  7241. Deisel 1968 ikr, it's like "do you even know how to politics?"
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  7242. Patrick Saxon it absolutely happened under Bush. Whoever is telling you otherwise is full of shit. And yes, many died protecting the freedoms in this country, including the right to refuse to stand for/say the pledge that you want to deny others. You want to be patriotic? Try to actually understand the ideals this country was founded on, and actually care more about the country than one of the BS political parties we have. The fact that you seem to like Bush, who ran his administration with utter disregard for the constitution shows you have a long way to go for that, so please, try listening more than you speak, and ask questions more often than not when you do.
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  7243. And then they shut him out anyway
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  7244.  @zachdavis5854  your inability to follow or create a logical train of thought
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  7245.  @Trofnoker  Did I ever say riots are ineffective, or are you a dishonest pos? Which is it?
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  7246.  @Trofnoker  dishonest POS it is, got it, enjoy your block.
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  7247.  @maximsavage  I think you missed the joke in the 2nd part
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  7248. Trying to adopt the system that picked Boris Johnson without him even being elected to that position? Come on, we can do better than that if we're gonna change things.
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  7249.  @lol-xs9wz  but why do you prefer it to the alternativeS when it appears to give an inordinate amout of power to party officials in a way that demonstrably produces bad outcomes? "All systems have problems and I like this one" isn't a solid argument for anything.
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  7250.  @lol-xs9wz  you still haven't mentioned why you like a parliamentary system, but if you want to go claiming it can be fixed, can we at least start with what do you think the difference between a parliamentary system and a congressional system is?
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  7251. Noam Chomsky on the actual definition of democracy (and "peace process) the US is using: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc
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  7252. PappyMan true, but people will consistently organize into political parties reguardless. The main question is how many of those and how representative of the voters are the ones likely to arise from your election system.
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  7253. Pat Hacker no one thing, including public financing of elections is. It will take many significant changes to fix our elections, but changing from our current voting system is a large one of those.
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  7254.  @kazohinia5751  perhaps even more relevantly than those good recommendations: Confessions of an Economic Hitman https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  7255. Liberal Rod ending political parties completely is a pipe dream. People will always organize into such, even if they're unofficial, and having them secret would be even worse. You can, however, design election systems that favor multiple parties and high party turnover.
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  7256. What kind of person chooses to move from Cali to Texas? That's the key there. People leaving Cali have 49 states to choose from, but the ones that chose Texas are a self-selected group and are going to average a strong political leaning to the right.
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  7257. 400th? We're way past that! 400th since he became president maybe.
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  7258. I'll go even further: Facing the consequences of their actions due to tables turning is the only way the far-right ever even approximates learning anything. All sympathies for the innocent children and all wishes for any methods of alleviating the consequences for them, but the adults facing consequences is not just something I'm indifferent to but something that (in isolation) is a GOOD thing!
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  7259. Someone's not "biologically male" when they're on estrogen. Estrogen makes people weaker and trans women are required to have lower testosterone than cis women in the Olympics. This idea that trans women have some great advantage is just a transphobic lie.
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  7260. Fascism tends to happen when capitalists in crisis find the left more of a threat than throwing in with fascists and crushing their opposition. "Centrists" actively enable the rise of fascism most (if not all) times it happens and then pretend to be shocked by the aftermath once they loose.
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  7261. No, he has the money to pay for top of the line human skins.
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  7262. SAME!!! My school district was painfully white and I still couldn't even come close to coming close tl keeping up with them in shooting hoops. I was really good at defense (at least as far as teens not on an actual team for the sport goes), though, so at least I wasn't totally useless in an actual game and could be something other than a liability as long as I didn't try to shoot.
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  7263. Because they want the working class desperate enough to accept poverty wages and work more than one job to avoid becoming homeless ourselves. It's just about threatening all of us with it, nothing else.
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  7264. Yes https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc (Noam Chomsky explaining the twisted definitions of political terms in the establishment)
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  7265. And trains its military for insurgency! Iran wouldn't be like Iraq. Iran would be like Vietnam.
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  7266. Musk wants to do everything he can to avoid the fact that the real solution to the transit problem is public transit because he's disgusted and terrified of sharing a ride with poor people.
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  7267.  @taumus1  the transit problems Musk's proposals seek to "solve" aren't dealing with the rural areas, so you know that's a no-sequetor, at best, and at least a borderline strawman, right? Can we please stick to intellectually honest arguments?
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  7268.  @omega5285  well, unless you get vaccinated basically immediately. I think there've been a few cases of survival if people who didn't get treatment before symptoms showed, but so few that it's basically a rounding error.
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  7269.  @dexmoonfire3785  both the unrest against theocracy AND the US attempts to REinstall a puppet government friendly to US business interests are objective facts. The Iranian people deserve a better government than they have, but if you don't think the US isn't pushing unrest and dirrecting it in a dirrection they want you're a fool.
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  7270. This was the best laugh of my day (btw, way to start proving his point guys! Keep it up because it only makes it funnier)
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  7271. Because (to paraphrase George Carlin) homelessness is something they WANT to exist to scare the shit out the working class and keep them showing up at their underpaid jobs. All the poor treatment of homeless people just exists to reinforce the threat against every working class person. It would be cheaper to just give homeless people housing but they'll never do that because they want all of us who work for a living too terrified and desperate to fight for the pay we actually deserve.
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  7272. ​ @lynwill9946 “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman (Nixon’s chief domestic advisor)
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  7273.  @alec3000  https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/07/every-single-one-ocasio-cortez-notes-every-democrat-who-backed-medicare-all-won?amp Explain this and us winning progressive ballot measures in states that went red.
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  7274. Definitely other threats, but the only one that even comes close to the US is Saudi Arabia.
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  7275.  @collectiveconsciousness5314  they are very probably 3rd on the list but lag well behind the first 2 despite their blatent warcrimes.
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  7276.  @edwardwood6532  edgy like the kind of hipster who "totally ironically" wears a mass-produced Che Guevara t-shirt along with jeans he spent $500 on so he could get them with paint splatter and distressed enough so he looks like an artist who has to get his cloths from a thrift store, but can totally afford it because daddy is upper management and gives him a heafty allowance. Imagine listening to that guy about politics and you've imagined VICE.
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  7277.  @edwardwood6532  ...and yet you have far, far worse in your sub feed, so maybe you shouldn't be throwing stones
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  7278. Let me say in no uncertain terms that the crime against humanity that is blocking action on climate change deserves a second round of Nurmberg trials, and if I were one of those responsible, the last thing I would want is for the people to loose hope even in mitigation and turn all their energy into going after who's to blame. Heads have literally rolled for far, FAR less. The last thing any ruling class should want is a people with nothing to loose and nothing more productive to do with their anger than pick up pitchforks. Being outnumbered more than 100-1 tends to be bad for one's life expectancy. They are playing with fire in every sense of the phrase.
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  7279.  @richsackett3423  the only other candidate with a chance in hell of both winning the nomination and the general is Warren (aka Obama 2.0) and we already saw what a president that was a lot of progressive talk with no conviction did to the political discourse, shifting the Overton Window so far to the right that it paved the way for a protofascist. (& btw, one of the last things Obama did in his term, after Trump's election, was to quitely increase executive power which he never used, instead leaving it as a housewarming gift for Trump) By all means, if you want Warren to replace Trump's incompetent protofascism, get nothing significant accomplished, only to be followed by a full-blown fascist (the timing of which, btw, will make us miss the deadline to avert climate catastrophe), go ahead; double down on the blue no matter who strategy that brought us to Hillary vs Trump in the first place.
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  7280.  @rezadaneshi  Bernie 2020 is the only sane choice. Everything else is either impossible or different degrees and flavors of terrible with a staggering death toll. People need to realize that 4 more years of Trump isn't even close to the worst possibility on table right now, that he is a symptom of the establishment (and thus, no establishment option can fix what is going on), and go all-in on Bernie.
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  7281. Yeah, tell me more about how different the establishment "Democrats" are than Republicans "moderates" The "radical leftist" is the only real moderate (or for that matter, democrat) that made it to the last debate stage.
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  7282. They keep managing to put together pannels with this level of stupidity. I'd like to know their selection process.
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  7283.  @traiancoza5214  the executive branch, no question. You only need to corrupt 1 person. No one person should ever have that much power. I don't think you really understand this whole democratic republic thing.
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  7284.  @ZombieBarioth  unfortunately, and with kindness, I must tell you that you're laboring under the delusion that the point of reference would matter. I promise you it wouldn't. I suggest watching Innuendo Studios' "alt-right playbook". In particular for this issue "Always a Bigger Fish" is exceptionally relevant. Also topical is "The Origins of Conservatism" and "I Hate Mondays"...and that's not even getting into the psychology of fascism. They believe that if you're in that situation is evidence you deserve it and feel not sympathy but a sense of superiority at the suffering of those at the bottom. You're assuming that they may be wrong about a lot of stuff but they share a desire to make a world that's better for everyone including those at the bottom. They don't. Period. And I mean that with full sincerity. You're not going to move them with appeals to sympathy. Their politics never EVER have been about making the world a better place. They're not trying to reach the same underlying goals as us and failing. They simply don't share our values or motivations. They don't care about a better world. They care about where their position is in whatever world is to exist. It's ALL about power and heirarchy. Some bad thing inflicted on someone below them raises their perception of their own station in the world. That's why they support positions that help no-one and only hurt people they see as below them. It's not the cost of a mistake trying to achieve some desirable end; it's an intent they won't/can't own up to.
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  7285. ​ @kamiasana because they are
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  7286. allonscanadiens careful, Trump's renegotiation of NAFTA is slipping in the worst of the TPP provisions into the "improved" version. Only hate for Hillary here too (voted Stein), but Trump's trying to fuck us on that end too, and it may go through.
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  7287. This is what advertising dollars on the MSM get you. They're not going to piss of their real customers are they?
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  7288.  @ongoinglife  I mean, they do fight back by seeking out other news sources and exposing them on social media to do the same. What kind of collective fighting back do you expect?
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  7289.  @ongoinglife  you're not from the US are you? 2: basically impossible with how our laws are 4: with what money and on what platform? 1: requires politicians on board we're still fighting to get onboard other points 3: would require more effort in mobilization than it would take to convince almost everyone to switch to alternative outlets and be subject to framing by the corporate media (whereas if we're working against them in a more decentralized fashion, we get to control the framing) None of those are a more effective use of your time than trying to convince the people you know that nothing on cable is to be trusted and to introduce them to better sources. Just because something isn't big and flashy doesn't mean it's not more effective.
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  7290. Debates are...to be blunt, a rhetoric platform to use to swing the voters who otherwise wouldn't know much more than the campaign ads. It's better than nothing (and would be better with a format and moderation that didn't suck) but serious people keep informed on the issues, then just look up a candidate's platform and (if applicable) voting record and decide who they like best that way. The debates are for keeping track of how things are going and what rhetoric to be expecting to run into, but yes, you should be informed enough to have what amounts to a political platform in your head before the primary even starts and comparing candidates to that before we even get to the debates. The problem is how many people don't do that, will never look into platforms and issues on their own, and otherwise what else are they going to end up voting based on? (There are other options but they all suck too)
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  7291.  @crobinson2624  that, also, we agree on. A lot and in many ways at that....like most things....
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  7292. To me, a sword is the most balanced and flexible weapon. You can use a sword as well in offense or defense, and in war or civilian conflicts. It is great against unarmored targets, as well as being able to be used against armored targets. All other arms have much more limited styles and usages based on their traits, but the sword, through balance and the wide range of things you can do with it, leaves how it's used almost entirely up to the one holding it. At the same time each good sword I've ever held has ways it "wants" to move due to nuances in its balance and inertia in different dirrections. This can even make the idea of a sword having a will seem almost reasonable if one sets aside their sensibilities. To top it off, look at when swords were used. They were used in civilian contexts when violent conflict was not expected. They were also used in military contexts when lines were broken and people had to fall back on sidearms to save the day. Times like those are when heroes are born.
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  7293. kubush well, it gives everyone who knows anything about Nazi propaganda plenty of insight about infowars....does that count?
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  7294.  @merlinsteele6840  the left isn't the ones openly promoting ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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  7295. If it looks like a "moderate" Republican, talks like a "moderate" Republican, and acts like a "moderate" Republican... Run it out of the party!
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  7296. Mass voter suppression (again) Exit polls off widely (again) https://tdmsresearch.com/ Boomers being fucking terrible on election day (again)
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  7297. He knows they're the evil party. He doesn't call Justice Dems a "hostile takeover" because he thinks these establishment goons can be reasoned with.
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  7298. They will be mockingly denying it's fascism while loading us into train cars. They revel in dishonesty.
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  7299.  Soren G  no invasion, just another CIA coup and economic sabotage via multiple means when Venezuela implimenting a less "socialist" economy than exists in quite a few well-off European countries today. Educate yourself, fool.
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  7300. "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  7301. Honestly, it's less about finding them sexy and more about a totalitarian desire to shoce women into the same box Faux News does with the women they put on camera....and that box includes exposed legs and precarious footware because they want women constantly vulnerable and afraid of self-expression.
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  7302. mustafa khan not uncanny, Kyle's simply more reliable and intellectually honest than Cenk. That's why a large portion of Kyle's audience is former TYT viewers that started looking for another outlet when the main TYT channel became too unreliable and put narrative over facts. That's just being rational.
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  7303. Same
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  7304.  @pinkypony2598  when you poll the people, policy by policy, you get a platform that more closely matches Bernie's platform than anyone else. Way to prove you are spouting corporatist talking points though. How much are they paying you?
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  7305. Taxes are how you pay for civilization. Deal
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  7306.  @SeanStrife  even more to the point, that moment when you're dumber than tim pool's audience. Just...how?
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  7307.  @0okamino  multiple times yes, that's the one
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  7308. If protesting the war gets a death sentence, why would protesters NOT eventually start showing up to protests armed with no intention of being arrested? Putin is turning Russia into a powderkeg.
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  7309. Boomers are as ageist as white people in 1980 were racist. "Ok, Boomer" is the generational equivalent to "Ok, white boy" After a generation of millenial bashing that happened with almost no boomer making a peep in protest where discrimination continues legally to this day to those under 40 as boomers were the first generation to refuse to pay forward the work needed to ensure their children has a better future than them (selling out all the advantages boomers got while they wrre younger for some tax cuts which hardly reached them) and continue to blame millenials and gen Z for their own generation's failings while preventing them from cleaning up the mess while people keep saying "who cares about global warming? We'll be dead by then" with no pushback... Frankly, I don't want to hear a single complaint about boomers getting a single digit percent of what they do to the younger generations thrown back at them.
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  7310. Andrew Driver liberal: 1-open to change 2-in favor of personal freedoms 3-generous Conservative: traditional and opposed to change. The democrats of the civil war era were the conservative party, but that flipped when the republican party adopted the "Southern Strategy" which meant appealing to racists to get votes, and the parties flipped positions. Stop trying to rewrite history.
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  7311. "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ☝️same energy.
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  7312. There is no winner in a WW3 except maybe the roaches. Don't kid yourself
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  7313. Wars get funded on the government taking out debt. Social functions get funded by ongoing taxes. (For the colloquial use of the term "funded" at least. If we ignore the absurdity of the federal reserve and how private banking creates money, the federal government spends money into existence and creates the universal demand that gives it market value while controls inflation via taxes)
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  7314. "4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason." -Umberto Eco
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  7315.  @frankmorton514  aw, that's helarious. I pissed you off so much with the truth in another comment, but you didn't have a good retort to that one so you dug up another post of mine from weeks ago, double posted, and that's the best you could bring? 😆 Sorry dude, but trying to believe that you're superior to others and can share credit for great accomplishments of the past because of the melanin content of your skin is never going to fix your self-esteem problems, nor are these pathetic attempts at trolling. Only therapy and self-improvement can fix the issues you're dealing with.
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  7316.  @frenkli9815  I believe that the Houthis did, and that it was more than justified
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  7317. I want to know where they came from. If she's specifically not telling who for this particular subset, that sounds like it could be interesting.
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  7318.  @ganzmontejo4176  you mean the car that the only component he actually made something patentable for was the proprietary charging plug that only stands out from other EVs because of the marketing campaign?
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  7319.  @ganzmontejo4176  false equivolence + golden mean fallacy. Musk is demonstrably a conman, hasn't done the things he's given credit for, draws resources and attention away from real solutions, and has done a bunch of other negative BS. When one side is correct and the other is wrong, meeting in the middle means being half-wrong.
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  7320.  @Technics19  the government helps give small businesses loans because we know that the average positive effect on the economy will exceed the costs of the loans that fail, so functions as an intermediary for the society to make a distributed investment in its own economic benefit. What would be the difference between the government helping out small, private businesses and them helping put coops (through helping buy out a company looking to outsource via first right of refusal and/or helping start new ones)? As for investing, why wouldn't they see a return? The profits from reinvesting would return to the workers instead of going to shareholders, so what makes you think they wouldn't see a return that would make them want to reinvest in improving the company?
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  7321.  @zammmerjammer  yup
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  7322. He's complicit. Let's not kid ourselves about the situation we're in. His entire job is to make sure the party continues shifting to the right.
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  7323. I would rather force them to declare martial law over striking workers than let them declare it over street protests that they (and the msm) will spin as riots. Make them prove that they see us as slaves.
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  7324. Only if all the poor die or rise up to overthrow the economic system and forcefully redistribute the wealth. We've tried what you suggested many times throughout history and it always fails. Pick up a history book please. You can start by turning to "the roaring 20s" and just keep reading.
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  7325. We need a landslide victory setup to overwhelm the BS they're going to pull to steal the election again.
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  7326. There is a difference. There are many statues in the world to honor the great things some people did in spite of them having done some bad things. The statues of the confederates are put up to honor the immoral act of fighting to keep slavery (which they failed at) and were put up well after the civil war to terrorise remind black people that white supremacists were still in charge. We can debate the former, but there is no excuse for the latter. Every day they stay up is sending a message of white supremacy.
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  7327. The line the progressives are holding is already a compromise on a compromise at best, but the people blocking it get portrayed as the "moderates" ffs
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  7328. Welcome to Neofeudalism
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  7329. Of couse he was threatened. Fascists are pro-evil and hate demonstrations of decency. "Tow the line or we'll treat you the same" has always been the MO. If you express oppisition to racism, white nationalists will take you out of the "white" category and put you in the "n*-lover" category (or jump right to calling you Jewish) faster than you can blink.
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  7330. Can't win elections with her either
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  7331. If fossile fuel companies had to pay for the negative externalities of their business, they would all switch to another power source or go bankrupt. It's easy to make a profit with a terrible business model when you get to shift most of the costs of your business onto uninvolved 3rd parties.
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  7332.  @AlexanderRJaruk  yup, just learn some frigging tact... especially with any supernatural beings who help with the housework because whooo-boy can they turn on a dime.
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  7333.  @miguelangelcifuentescruz9465  eh, depending on the drone that may not matter that much. It's conceivable that a large number of very cheap drones could be networked to provide recon using swarm robotics with each drone being pretty expendable. The drones/missiles/cyber/missile defence dimension of warfare could go a lot of ways in the near future, and what types of systems end up being most optimal as these techs mature could drastically affect what near-future hardware even looks like.
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  7334.  @glennjanot8128  well, sometimes at least. But that is way better than "basically never except when they have absolutely no choice but to throw someone under the bus". The GQP is basically just openly pro-evil as their most consistent party platform position.
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  7335. Over 95% of domestic terrorism in the US is from the far right. About 2-3% is from the left. We know WHO the problem is. We just refuse to seriously act on that knowledge.
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  7336.  @Johnny_Doe  sure "sarcasm" That's how you want to play off your pathetic grasping at straws. Welcome to your brain on Dore.
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  7337.  @Johnny_Doe  dude, if you're so dishonest that you're going to pretend I wasn't calling you out your blatent lie to cover up thinking Bernie had shit to do with the Pelosi vote, then it's really not worth getting into the specifics of that bill. Tell me though, did Jimmy turn you into a lair or is a shared willingness to deny reality and misrepresent progressives what drew you to him?
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  7338.  @Johnny_Doe   @John Doe  dude, if you're so dishonest that you're going to pretend I wasn't calling you out your blatent lie to cover up thinking Bernie had shit to do with the Pelosi vote, then it's really not worth getting into the specifics of that bill. Tell me though, did Jimmy turn you into a lair or is a shared willingness to deny reality and misrepresent progressives what drew you to him?
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  7339.  @Johnny_Doe   @John Doe   @John Doe  dude, if you're so dishonest that you're going to pretend I wasn't calling you out your blatent lie to cover up thinking Bernie had shit to do with the Pelosi vote, then it's really not worth getting into the specifics of that bill. Tell me though, did Jimmy turn you into a lair or is a shared willingness to deny reality and misrepresent progressives what drew you to him?
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  7340.  @Johnny_Doe   @John Doe   @John Doe   @John Doe  dude, if you're so dishonest that you're going to pretend I wasn't calling you out your blatent lie to cover up thinking Bernie had shit to do with the Pelosi vote, then it's really not worth getting into the specifics of that bill. Tell me though, did Jimmy turn you into a lair or is a shared willingness to deny reality and misrepresent progressives what drew you to him?
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  7341. Knowing more than what our corrupt politicians and generals pretend to understand isn't actually that hard.
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  7342.  @evolvedape3341  it's really not. Nearly every single politician smarter/more informed than the average person is playing dumb for personal gain to the degree than the average person can become more informed than the publically-displayed understanding on an issue with a deep-dive on said issue over a weekend. These people get their positions by charisma, skill at politicking, and willingness to sell out, not by displaying expertise on the issues, sorry.
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  7343.  @evolvedape3341  yeah, at what point did I put myself above my oppinion of most people? Be specific. Saying "anyone can do what I have done" is an expression of humility if anything. What nonsense definition are you working with?
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  7344. As if the cops would ever invoke it on them.
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  7345. If you'll excuse the bluntness, most of your generation is a lost cause and not worth trying to persuade. Whatever happened between the 'nam protests and now, they are too far gone and we should just be trying to energize other voters.
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  7346. And counted by people, not hackable machines. And that's just to have your vote counted. The system still can be (and is) unfair on top of that. We have a lot of work to do.
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  7347. I think you misspelled MSDNC
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  7348. We already tax 2 of those things heavily and the overweight thing would be BS to tax for several reasons. Universal access to mental healthcare would also help with the overweight thing, as would ending corn subsidies (though you will likely need to do something to offset the grocery bills of working families jumping up). Not saying it's a bad idea, but you will create side effects you will need an answer for.
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  7349. Not only is that not true (as that voting block is more likely than not to oppose her position on arming them) but so what? ½ × 2.8%<61% Do the math.
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  7350. Jason Carpp in addition to all the interests that have a stake against it (timber, alcohol, tobacco, big pharma, etc), the War on Drugs was kicked off largely to target blacks and liberals. The arrests stopped them from voting and targeting their community leaders further helped Republicans get elected. This was all admitted by a Nixon aid involved in doing so.
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  7351. Because a lot of people still haven't caught onto the good-cop/bad-cop game being played on them
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  7352.  @Bacteriophagebs  the rich and powerful assholes want you scared the other ones are going to take your guns away so you buy more guns and keep voting for them and are distracted from real and important issues. Not anti-second ammendment. Just giving you a heads up that you've lost the plot.
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  7353.  @Bacteriophagebs  did I say you were talking about voting for anyone, or did I talk about how the "they're coming for the guns" propaganda is a misdirection that profits certain companies who legally bribe certain politicians who spread it while politically benefiting?
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  7354.  @Bacteriophagebs  yes, said in reference to the intended goals of the politicians...I'm sorry, are you incapable of reading at a highschool grade level?
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  7355.  @Bacteriophagebs  those sentences mean, fundamentally, the exact same thing, yes. Please learn how logic and the English language work, or you won't be capable of engaging in this conversation.
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  7356. Depends on if one sees the American people as disposable subjects or citizens.
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  7357.  @luna-p  shall we start with the illegal, targeted voter disenfranchisement that was pled guilty to in New York? I mean, the list of things that would have gotten the primary results thrown out in a civilized country is long, but that seems like a good place to start.
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  7358.  @yusefhasan7524  Hillary's only downfall was corporate money? You really believe that???
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  7359.  @yusefhasan7524  I'm a social democrat significantly to the left of Bernie and I already pointed out a huge problem with rigging the primary (turns out, if someone rigs a primary against people using methods upto and including illegal voter registration purges, if not worse) people won't turn out for them, especially if they are overtly bigoted towards them like Hillary was towards millennials. Turns out if someone pushes for TPP as the "gold standard of trade deals" people who had their jobs outsourced through NAFTA which said politician also pushed for, the rust belt working class isn't going to turn out for you. I already mentioned the rigging part, but, just like Hillary, you don't actually want to listen to other people, proud of your incredulous ignorance while imagining yourself smarter than everyone else.
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  7360.  @Jacaerys1  timeline: -Beto breaks fundraising records Bernie just broke by a small margin, but hides number of doners and average donation -people start talking about why it's secret -Beto quickly spams cheap ads dirrectly asking for donations (and claiming not to take any "PAC or lobbyist money") instead of the normal early campaign ads -Beto is pushed on the fundraising issue and later releases just the average (which could be a bunch of big doners and bundling, which he avoided commenting on, counterbalanced with a bunch of ~$1 donations of tepid support) That doesn't seem fishy to you at all?
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  7361.  @TheSchaef47  and that's why all those bailouts including most of those for "small businesses" went to big companies instead of helping the small business owners and workers survive the shutdown needed to save lives. It's that classic "you have 3 options, pick 2" setup with the options of human life, small businesses, and keeping the red line feeding the wealth of the uber rich going up. Our government picked the third twice and propagandized people into taking any attempt to save lives as something that would destroy small businesses. Oh, and btw, there's plenty of evidence that small businesses were harder hit by people voluntarily taking steps to lower their Covid risk (and being financially strapped) than the shutdowns we've had in the big picture. Turns out a lot of people in a pandemic will tend to go to as few stores as they can to get what they need and not chill in a local cafe in their freetime. Who would have guessed?
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  7362. Draven Main xd even on the ground, you're much more likely to see 4-legs &/or wheels and almost certainly not a humanlike frame. The human body is designed around a lot of concerns that a robot just doesn't have...heck, the main advantage to our bipedalism has to do with running interfering with respiration in quadrapeds, but that's not really a concern for a robot. The beginnings of autonomous, armed robots could be developed to production ready in about 2 years if the right ideas (which I'm not going to elaborate on, because I don't want to risk even the slightest bit of feeding into that discussion) and intent were in the right weapons company, so it's frighteningly close. It's not skynet that's the problem though, a robot uprising could be easily destroyed by a set of EMPs, and since the entire global nuclear arsenal is unlikely to ever be completely removed from humab control, we're safe there. What's dangerous is the risk of making countries even less reluctant to go to war or refrain from warcrimes while doing to (look up drone double taps for how even manned robots are being used). It would also allow a tiny minority to control a nation (or even the world) in abject tyranny because they could squash dissent while not really needing to concern themselves with persuading anyone outside their elitist click to do the actual oppressing for them. Don't fear the robots. Fear the ones who own them.
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  7363. Def Con I'd argue that power, load, and maintenance issues are worse for bipedal machines. A bipedal design remaining upright takes more motors with a high degree of precision working nearly constantly to maintain balance. That means more power use and more wear on more expensive parts. Also, quadrapeds can have a malfunctioning leg (as might happen if it, for example, gets shot) and, with the right programming can still retain a fair amount of mobility.
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  7364.  @tylerhackner9731  yup, Boeing (for an obvious example) doesn't buy ads there because they're trying to reach a market to sell 747s to.
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  7365. Liberal: 1-open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of liberties (especially personal) 3-generous Right wing: favoring entrenched power structures I keep having to go over political definitions with you. Is this apperent political illiteracy willful?
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  7366. Either that, or generations later well into recovery. The "it's been several years and everything is still a mess" is almost never done well (in part because they almost all want some kind of post appoc stasis where people neither recover or become doomed, but just scavange perishable goods semi-indefinitely)
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  7367.  Khashon Haselrig  as someone who relies on public transit to live my life and has neither a lot of money nor free time, I honestly care rather little if I throw back a fraction of the rudeness you showed to me in supporting such an insulting policy with essentially no thought, and if you're more concerned that I was crass in my reply than the arguments you were agreeing with, that says more about you than it does me. These are the kind of policies which drastically affect the lives of large portions of the population. Either think more before you support things or grow some thicker skin where you can still rationally consider counter arguments even if someone claps back at you a bit heated, because these aren't discussions without stakes.
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  7368. Without free and fair elections (including campaign finance reform) I'm never going to see a cent from social security because it will be raided to pay back special interests' bribes long before I'm old enough to collect it. So really, publicly funded elections and/or some other election reform should be highe- oh wait, that's not even on the list. Interesting
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  7369. Mr. D. What happened to the world economy durring our last 2 major market crashes? This will be a global disaster.
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  7370. Real answer (not her's): Every neoliberal is responsible for the divide in the country, Obama included, by producing an economic system that fails working people and closing the door to left-wing politics. As easy as it would be to chock this up to race, what she's really unhappy about is that the peasants got the idea of change in their head (as if we didn't want it before 2008 because of the policies of people like her and Obama) and wants to go back to the times where they could enrich the rich, push the costs onto the working class, and no one would say anything about it.
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  7371. Worse. Megan actually can't help how stupid she talks. Ben is just a lying far-right ethnonationalist perfectly ok with apartide and a borderline genocide. He's not a male Megan McCain. He's a jewish Richard Spencer.
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  7372. It was much worse before the FDA existed, but there needs to be some really significant housecleaning and anticorruption reforms put in place.
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  7373. GO BC! Corporate democrats only "evolved" to giving tacit support to gay marrage when it became clear that they were going to risk loosing elections if they didn't because of overwhelming public support. Compare to interracial marrage being legalized 28 years before it reached majority approval to gay marrage which legalization lagged years behind popular approval. That's not being liberal. That's being a neo-con that's willing to compromise on non-class-based bigotry. (That said, actively trying to go BACKWARDS on economics makes them more neo-cons than true conservatives)
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  7374.  @thehungryhungarianXi  yeah they're "allies" (implied 72 pt font on the quotation marks)
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  7375. It's not even about productivity. They JUST want us to suffer because they get off to it.
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  7376. Not endorsing random violence but I'd rather die a martyr than a statistic. People literally died to get us the 8 hour workday. We must defend their sacrifices. We must never complacently accept the imposition of conditions designed to bring about our destruction. That's called "class genocide"
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  7377.  @Schmidty1  np, it's a crude approximation of ≠ which you may have encountered in math (not that it gets used there much either, so you might not have)
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  7378.  @StevenMichaelCunningham  people are confused because you appear to be off topic from the first comment in the thread and are speaking vaguely through allusions and pronouns. I think I know what you're trying to say, but even I am hesitant to say what I think you mean due to not wanting to put words in your mouth. If you have something to say, say it plainly and dirrectly (though again, I suspect it's off topic and thus kinda pointless as a response here where people were discussing the factual description of the mechanisms of the bombs dropped on Japan)
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  7379. Watch this CPG Grey video to understand the basics of how ads are done on Youtube: https://youtu.be/KW0eUrUiyxo Then ad to that how Youtube has created a category of "potentially unfriendly to advertisers" with the media scaring companies away from youtube advertising and you can see how they could get a lot of advertising out there for the cheap by exploiting the demonitization system. I've seen a lot of PragarU ads on other demonitised channels not dealing with politics as well, btw.
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  7380.  @dixztube  I support the idea of re-normalizing the idea of the President being subject to the law, but let's be real. We have had Presidents committing severe crimes with impunity for quite a while now. That's part of how we got Trump in the first place.
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  7381. ​ @mattressfour20 it's cute that you think protests will do anything beyond be the trigger they're waiting for to declare martial law.
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  7382. No, the US could transition off oil and the petrodollar to renewables, safe nuclear, and sovereign money and be just fine.
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  7383. 1:07 um, I don't think that's how mousetraps work...just sayin'
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  7384. Wait, dumping massive amounts of glitter? You fools! We already have one plague, we don't need a second!
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  7385. Ernest Rimbeck if they cared about the damage they do (either morally or just having to pay for all the costs they externalize) they wouldn't be in the oil business.
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  7386. ​ @FreshwaterSquid77 dude, your subscriptions are public. We all know you're fash. There's no point in hiding or projecting. Just argue for your actual positions openly.
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  7387. Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme.
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  7388. Danya Scully basically the only differences are specifically German nationalism and being more accepting of different hair and eye colors So not much, no
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  7389. They do like to appropriate the reputations of socialists who they can get the public to forget were socialists.
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  7390. Most likely.
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  7391.  @SoSoKayla  why would the Kremlin support the most war mongering mainstream "news" outlet? As much as Russia is shit to their own people, it's not in their interest to have America be domestically and internationally unstable. Everyone looses in that scenario.
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  7392.  @SoSoKayla  of course the warmongering is against Russian interests. They're allied with countries like Syria and Iran and on the other side of the regional power struggle against countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia. We also keep putting both nukes and missile defense systems (both in violation of the treaties that helped end the cold war) right near their borders. They don't want that either, but Fox loves all of it. As for destabilizing the US, when we have even an economic issue we tend to take down the world economy. Russia uses the bigotry in their own country to distract from their own issues, but actually wants us to address ours rather than making a mess of the world, so even on the area where you'd think there to be agreement, there isn't. Don't believe me? Go look at some content from RT America and tell me they're right wing.
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  7393.  @regulusmine2336  we have manufactured consent through media that supports establishment propaganda better than state-owned media, a "democratic" government who's policies have zero statistical correlation to public oppinion and no respect for the Constitution, legalized execution of citizens without trial, a massive surveillance system, troll farms of people paid to try and insert themselves covertly into public discourse to control it, layers of soft control of speech, rigged elections, etc so yeah, pretty damn close...not that I expect someone who thinks that we don't have a huge nepotism problem to understand that. Or were you actually stupid enough to equate an estate tax to totalitarianism?
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  7394. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Change_Game
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  7395. Beat them by about 15 minutes
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  7396. Just gonna leave this video on how to deprogram a religious extremist here: https://youtu.be/rHY-3yiHQ54 It's by a cult survivor who focuses on objectively tackling cults, and I highly recommend it.
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  7397.  @vgmaster9  would be nice, but getting the number of parties up high and their size down low is nearly as good and easier to achieve.
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  7398. If we collapse, we fracture. If we fracture, the bible belt/former confederacy becomes its own nuclear armed country descending rapidly into right-wing extremism. Does that sound like a future you want?
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  7399. Actually, best thing you can do on an individual level is don't have kids (or have only 1). People just don't like that answer anymore than being told to go vegan.
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  7400. We're not talking about intelligence. We're talking about reaction times. At a mere 35 mhp that's >51ft/second. Even if we assume that it only increased the average reaction time from 0.3 to 0.5 seconds (which is overly generous on both numbers) that means the distance traveled before the brake pedal has been even touched has increases from ~16ft to ~27ft. If we assume a more realistic increase in reaction time of +0.5-1.2 seconds (given the frequency range of turn signals) suddenly the distance traveled before the brake pedal is touched moves up to ~41-62ft. That's easily enough to cause an accident which would be likely to knock the leading car into whatever hazard (such as someone blowing through a red light or a child running into the street) they were trying to avoid. In those given examples, that could mean a life and death difference. And that all is only at 35mph! Any increase in driver reaction times costs lives. Real lives.
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  7401. Tautology
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  7402. That implies it's gotten better. No, it's worse this time.
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  7403. Would prefer it to be not focused so narrowly on religion (not that I have any love for organized religion), but maybe an expansion or other edition(s) if you need to keep the scope narrow for the game (which is also very understandable)
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  7404. I remember seeing advertisements for these as a kid. They were touted as this new exciting thing...just like all the rest of the gimmicky crap that never worked as advertised that you could get for $19.99. Their marketing team created an association with a bunch of trash products, and so I just looked at it as something that "would be great if it worked but obviously doesn't because it's in one of those ads" and that was the end of that. If they'd put those advertising dollars into getting it into store shelves, maybe it would have taken off, because it would be there when someone was looking for a replacement can opener and be seen as a legitimate option, but nope. They had an absolute marketing failure.
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  7405. "maybe because they sell quantum computers" 😂 "no it won't let you stay in the European Union and leave at the same time" 🤣 Schroeder's geopolitics! 💀
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  7406. There was spaghetti at 0:47 and a few other shots (look in front of Zeus). He may not be eating, but still blesses the table with noodly goodness.
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  7407. You hear about polarization but that's untrue. To have a polarization problem we would have to have 2 poles and we don't. People say we have a polarization problem because there's a big push to deny the simple reality that what we have is a fascism problem. Tucker Carlson's job is to whitewash literal Nazi conspiracy theories for mainstream consumption and Faux News has been doing that for decades now while people pretend it's just conservatism. About 1 in 6 Americans are full-out (if unadmitted) fascists. A polarization problem would be preferable to the fascism+appeasement problem we actually have and it would require a vastly different response than what we actually need.
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  7408.  @JSkyGemini  they already said "no more treasonous people in politics" You're repeating them.
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  7409. Look up the academic game "Techniques of Propaganda" It's a great resource.
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  7410. James Guilford Trump is just a symptom of a problem decades old.
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  7411.  @gileshabibula7006  and we now have 2 right-wing parties so maybe what the party establishment wants is biased too
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  7412. Establishment dictionary: Democracy- noun; a country which supports US business interests Don't take my word for it. Here's Noam Chomsky talking about alternative political definitions: https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Welcome to our dystopian present.
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  7413. Maurice OConnor if you don't see Nazis, it's probably because they're right next to or behind you. They love standing close to "centrists" and "conservatives" for cover
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  7414.  @gregs9210  I think you missed the sarcasm
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  7415.  @aleksey2905  no, there's no such thing as a totalitarian communist. You don't know what the word means.
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  7416.  @giokarp  you don't know shit about Carlin's politics is you think he was anything but a committed leftist
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  7417.  King Charles ✔  accelerating the process will result in killing more innocents. You want to be a mass murderer just by the hands of the state. Should you be put to death?
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  7418.  @ScottishRebel  you missed the part about "trains" designed to carry cars, didn't you?
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  7419. nemesis7884 the death penalty is indefensible when you dig into the facts enough, actually. Penn & Teller did a great episode debunking it, but they're behind a paywall these days. Short version: death penalty kills innocents and produces no deterrent effect at all (in fact, murders are generally higher with the death penalty in place).
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  7420. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. . . . As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone." -Frank Wilhoit
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  7421. He's saying he's nationalist to drum up support from his Nazi croud. Known Nazi Richard Spencer has flat out said that they know that "nationaist" is a dog whistle and that they know Trump has to play down his rhetoric and code it. Giving a less than perfectly accurate definition, trying to blur the distinction between nationalism and patriotism, and contrasting it right away with globalism only makes it more clear. I agree focus on the actions, but let's not pretend that it's not obvious what he's doing here.
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  7422. Neutral Fellow most sieges did not end with storming the fortifications, though. That was a tiny minority. Most ended with one side giving up.
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  7423. ​ @stacythomas9916 the mistake you're making is thinking that the far-right cares about truth or the definitions of words. They only believe in words having connections, not meanings.
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  7424. Another great use of a pure evil villian is to put the focus squarely on how people react to them (essentially acting like a cross between an anti-paragon and a force of nature villian). Take the Lord of the Rings for a classic example and look at how all the characters (especially outside the fellowship, but to a lesser degree within) act when faced with the evil and power of Sauron. To pick just one example, the reason "and Rohan will answer" is so powerful is, in part, because the conflict remains focused on how the character react when put under pressure. Theodin had many reasons to refuse the call, but setting aside his own issues to do what needs to be done was a powerful moment. Thinking about why Sauron was doing what he did diminishes that. The same pattern of forcing other characters to make difficult choices/rise to the occasion works for more present and charismatic villains too. Paragons make heros by leading by example. Pure evil villains make heroes by forcing choices.
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  7425. Wayne Polk thing is, using white noise machines sends a really loud, obnoxious message that drives everyone away.
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  7426. So many Putin simping fascists in denial in this comment thread. Sorry, but no amount of licking the boot of an authoritarian strongman will make you any less of a failure. Tired of getting your butts kicked? Pick an ideology where multiple recipes for failure aren't written into the very framework. Or just inhale fatal amounts of copium and spare us your innane nonsense.
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  7427. Replace "Jesus" with "deregulation" and you have your average "libertarian"
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  7428.  @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295  "the invisible hand will deliver us to salvation and prosperity. Don't question; just keep making sacrifices to that bronze bull we erected on Wallstreet and forget whatever your holy book might say about worshiping metal bovines. There is only the market and Reagan is its prophet."
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  7429.  @macdunkin5332  there's only so much "less" a lot of the world can live with, and there are predictions of much of the equatorial regions of the world including the middle east becomming uninhabitable
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  7430.  @macdunkin5332  oh, please don't get me wrong. I am painfully aware of the disaster that has been the US "helping" in the region. I'm just saying that if we don't meet the deadline to avoid the rapidly approaching tipping point there are areas of the world the will need to relocate, and, ultimately, we will likely need to put humanism above borders to address the problems we face.
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  7431. Tom Pinion idk, there's an argument for valentine's day too...and a strongly (dis)honorable mention for black friday, which is the most disgusting part of it all.
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  7432. Why would you protect a parasite? "the establishment Democratic Party likes ISIS you dumb moron. Lol." Fixed your typo for you
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  7433. Not unlikely.
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  7434. I'm glad that Ben Shapiro at least finally admitted that "free markets" are anti-populist. If "free markets" and populism are in conflict, that means that "free markets" take away power (political and/or economic) from the majority of people (which is actually true).
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  7435.  @monday_______  2:16 is the point
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  7436. What fucking jury let this psycho walk???
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  7437. The Republicans of EVERY state should scare the heck out of you.
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  7438. If not hiring banking executives (an area dominated by white men) threatens the chances for racial diversity in the administration, that means the administration doesn't want to hire black people unless they're banking executives or something similar. That is the logical consequence of what they're saying.
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  7439.  @vetarlittorf1807  that's not what nihilism means, nor are his actions a proper representation of nihilism or hating authority (or else he wouldn't be constantly trying to control people).
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  7440.  @crazwolf9825  Jimmy Dore is a lying fascist propagandist who's job is to try and get angry progressives to ally with Nazis like Tucker Carlson and Redacted Tonight is under the RT umbrella. Just couldn't keep from tipping your hand there huh? Hope your at least getting paid for embarrassing yourself like this.
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  7441. "The only person not allowed to speak at the AIPAC conference was Ron Paul." Much as I disagree with Ron on his nonsensical economic policies, can we all agree that Ben just schooled himself again?
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  7442. "Democrats" "Moderate" "Left wing"
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  7443. Valerious Catastros yeah, sure, "no true scottsman" away all bad Christians while pretending Muslims are a monolith dispite overwhelming evidence on both points so you can hate them while claiming to be about love and above that. Whatever, I'm not wasting anymore time on you
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  7444. Probably "international monetary fund" which is a horrible organization responsible for untold amounts of suffering across the world.
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  7445.  @emberducati9237  promoting expansion of fossile fuel infrastructure does that on its own.
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  7446. @Thomas Dendtler ignore the Nazi troll
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  7447. It's not really going to be taken seriously until we start giving fossil fuel executives the Nuremberg treatment for their generational genocide.
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  7448. As corrupt as anyone out there if not worse (the fact that she used to champion single payer and then moved to the right of Obama once she took insurance "donations") Election rigging war criminal (without even getting into the borderline "conspiracy theory" stuff) Has utter contempt for everyone under about 40 (& at least mildly racist) Authoritarian narcissist that feels entitled to the office and has no problems lying her ass off to the voters to do it. Privately opposes nearly every progressive position Pushed TPP (which would have sold out our sovereignty to an international court of corporations, making a true oligarchical super-state) Massively expanded the prison industrial complex Has made defeating progressives a higher priority than defeating the GOP ...that's a start. The media and republicans have attacked many people for years, but that didn't make them the 2nd most disliked candidate in US history. You have to earn that.
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  7449. ​ @LizChurchill-p8w Netanyahu does Holocaust "revisionism", which is close enough in my book.
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  7450.  MoneyThink  yeah, I'm normally against blaming voters, but that district is elitist garbage.
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  7451.  @christianpetersen163  to be clear: I'm not offended (or even really consider myself a hipster). Just saying that if you see a hipster in Starbucks they are the worst hipster ever.
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  7452. He doesn't read the YouTube comments, sadly.
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  7453.  @Litany_of_Fury  the problem is you keep taking our worthless ideas instead of our good ones, so we don't get anything back for it. Heck, you keep taking our ideas with negative value, and somehow we end up with some of your bad ideas over here to keep the balance sheets even. One of us needs to import a good idea to reverse this cycle soon.
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  7454. W isn't even a high enough bar that we should be comparing people to him, even on his grammar.
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  7455. Go look up the prisoner's dilemma.
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  7456. armweak13 if UBI is only given to citizens and replaces a minimum wage, illegal immigration would basically stop overnight, actually...and even if it didn't, who would care if an illegal immigrant wanted to come here for shit wages to pick fruit to make profits for some corporation who's taxes would be paying for our UBI?
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  7457. Just in case, yes they are. If I remember right, this 6 item limit was a comprise from when the Supreme Court struck down a total ban as unconstitutional on privacy grounds
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  7458. Will it be the final blow, or spraying gas on the embers of the revolution. That is still for us to decide.
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  7459.  @mangobalaclava3329  A- in office buildings? B-that would be fraud and pretty obvious to find if they're saying they live in dozens of obviously empty properties.
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  7460. This is all wrong. Money isn't based on trust. Money is debt. Money being invented to facilitate barter is a disptroven myth. See "Debt: the First 5000 Years" for more.
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  7461. The standard peaceful protest is fundamentally an appeal to sympathy either directly to the rulers, or indirectly through the masses. (Thus why police use of excessive force is often the turning point) That's why the response whenever possible is to vilify them (or baring that, make them sound like they're protesting over nothing). Violent protests, while more effective in pressuring the rulers, do their vilifying work for them, and thus only work when you have revolution-fueling levels of support to begin with, thus it's actually small-scale violent protests which reinforce the rule of the ruling class. Know your tactics and when to use them against those who imagine themselves your master.
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  7462. danHooligan the problem isn't that non-violent protest doesn't work. The problem is we have a complacent and callous older generation and most people of all generations have forgotten the fundamental goals of non-violent protest, merely taking a cargo-cult approach to it. Taking your standing rock example, there was this emphasis on the protests being peaceful (which while nice, isn't enough on its own to engage sympathy, as most people haven't been part of an extended peaceful protest) and a bunch of people praying (which doesn't create that much sympathy as it's a strange religion to most people). If you understand that it's an appeal to sympathy, you focus on the most graphic examples of brutality (such as the lady who got her arm nearly blown off and the people with hypothermia from the water-cannons used in freezing conditions) and blast them everywhere, making it as viscerally real for as many people as possible. Then, you use such things to pin anyone to the wall who wants to delegitimize your protesters and show how they are defending the monsters doing such things. This pushes more people to the position of "something must change or else " which is what you want. If you gather enough support of that nature (rather than "oh, they're protesting peacefully? that's nice") then either you can get a capitulation from the ruling class or then escalate. Escalating before you have that level of support is so common and such a surefire way to end up crushed into irrelevance that you hardly ever get a footnote in history unless someone comes along after you and succeeds where you failed because you went off half-cocked. People don't want to be part of either a crushed rebellion or one that turns extremist and becomes what they fought against, so you tend to not only have enough support if you start with violence, but you tend to loose it.
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  7463.  @jonessii  really? Pulling that out of context to try and what? Imply that one of the most successful leftists at pulling people out of the alt-right pipeline and arguing against racista has a racist agenda? I'm sorry, did you like it when the alt-right was spreading all over YouTube constantly bragging about how the left wouldn't debate them? Do you think we need more of that? Get over yourself. Advocacy spaces are not and cannot be safe spaces and trying to make them such hurts both the advocacy and those that need a safe space. People like Vaush and Contra, dispite their comparatively minor slipups now and then do WAY more good than harm, and dishonest hacks like you who undermine that to boost your own ego and social capital are the ones actually hurting the left. Fact: there are a lot less chuds in the world right now because of Vaush. However mad it makes you that he's more effective than you at leftist advocacy means nothing to me.
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  7464. The problem is that we're often letting our societies be run by those who desire power and status over others above absolute quality of life. These people will always treat the world as a zero-sum game, reguardless of the state of the world because of their mental disorders.
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  7465.  @Hardcoreforliife  UBI is bigger than changing the minimum wage to a living wage...you know that right?
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  7466.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  arguably that would be less hazardous.
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  7467. ​ @CrapKerouac i'm $ure there are rea$on$
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  7468. It's called a victim culture....you know, that thing they keep seeing everywhere else in the world because they're projecting.
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  7469. No, the best bet is closing the loopholes that let those with a history of domestic abuse get guns. By the numbers and in terms of political will and messaging, that's the most effective first step we need to take.
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  7470.  @JMObyx  I blame Venice
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  7471. Not all republics are democratic. Republic just means that you have rule by representatives, not how those representatives are chosen. You can have an autocratic republic just as easily as you can have a democratic republic. If I say "I want to restore democracy in the US" that can simply mean that I want to restore that ELEMENT of our government (not make the US a direct democracy) There's a similar distinction between dirrect and representative democracies (which are basically the same thing as a democratic republic, even if I cringe at making a new term for a identical thing for political expedience). If you're going to be pendantic, at least be correct.
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  7472. The irony is people will die if Rachel doesn't retire her job as an MSDNC propagandist.
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  7473. Exactly. We either believe in the importance of consent or we don't. In every way imaginable we teach guys through our actions that consent is irrelevant. We surgically violate them as babies, treat their consent as expected to any advance from a woman, and turn their consent into a punchline if they ever step outside the letter of the law. Is it any surprise that some percentage of guys take the lesson of "we don't care about men's consent" to mean that everyone's consent is irrelevant? Hurt people hurt people.
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  7474. Odd, don't know why YouTube put that comment as a reply to you. O.o deleted because that was a reply meant for someone else.
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  7475. Because they have to lie to win
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  7476.  @frank254100  wow, talking about a politician like you would a lover or religion...that doesn't raise red flags /s
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  7477. Peerless Leader Kang it seemed there was a sharp shift to the right about a decade ago as they, much like the UK, seemed to adopt some US-style neo-conservatism, but someone more versed in Canadian politics can correct me on that as I was a bit distracted by Bush at the time.
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  7478. Trump has moved past the normal Republican racist dogwhistles into defending Nazis. Of course they're emboldened to adopt the same tactics as right wing extremists normally employ (they're not exactly a creative lot).
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  7479. "3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation."
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  7480. ​ @noragutberg dude, your country is openly justifying the 🍇 of innocent prisoners in concentration camps. Stop denying reality. Your country is FULL of people who would do that.
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  7481. How about a list of all their advertisers?
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  7482. Lord Caelvanir Yup, that sounds like a US election to me
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  7483. Unnamed object Ingredients: Hydrogen, time
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  7484. They ignored Bernie early on too, but now he's too big and well known to get away with that without completely exposing their hackary. It's really that simple and using the same psychological trick of saying something people agree with before moving on to a dishonest claim.
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  7485. Nationalize our healthcare infrastructure.
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  7486. Kyle's one. Does he spout that talking point? Didn't think so.
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  7487. ​ @jonncockrell3606 "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge. Please use in that order."
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  7488. The right hates the democratic process and has been opposing it and trying to disenfranchise people from the very beginning.
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  7489. Could be a cool project, though they'd probably have to be pretty thick and heavy to work with the limitations of the material, and historically, if you could afford the lenses, you could probably afford metal frames, and if you couldn't, that's what monocles were for: so you only needed one lense, which was the expensive part.
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  7490.  @whyamimrpink78  real talk: do you have a fetish for publically humiliating and debasing yourself, troll?
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  7491.  @lyni50  yes and no. Taxes do affect inflation (and so even all else being equal, lowering them on the rich would lower the buying power of the poor), and we still haven't come out of the insane rabbit hole of our current economic status quo to adopt something in the field of sovereign monitary policy (which is basically practical, real world application of MMT), so since our government insists on paying interest (largely to banks and rich investors) for the use of its own currency, the deficit does reduce the spending reaching the workind class. It shouldn't but it does because we're still clinging to the petrodollar paradigm. (And income inequality has a whole host of problems too, that on their own would be cause to tax the rich more)
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  7492.  @FemmiFatale  the problem is she's in a pretty rich, conservative-blue district. The attempt to primary her was noble but always a longshot.
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  7493. Reminder: US wargames show us loosing to Iran. https://youtu.be/g9b1DG86a4k
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  7494. Oh, I'm sure they'd call it terrorism if it were a socalist. It's reigh privilege.
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  7495. They just made one mistake though: they also taught those kids, by example, that they couldn't rely on the """adults""" to keep them safe.
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  7496.  @anzumazaki7798  fascism (of which Nazism is a type) is politically adjacent to conservatism, but they are distinct categories
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  7497. Gotta start somewhere, but I'm all for locking up them (and really most DC politicians) too
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  7498. Until they are tried for conspiracy to commit genocide our work is not done.
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  7499.  @ZedNebuloid  he'll leave himself room to say he'll just raise the age and cut benefits for those under a certain age. Bet me
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  7500. I believe it's a British thing
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  7501.  @scottmatheson3346  but apparently, to you, not reckless and criminal cops or politicians who write the blatantly corrupt laws they enforce. This bootlicking is pathetic and disgusting.
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  7502. Open warfare between 2 major nuclear armed states seems like a good idea to you? Sorry to tell you this, but you're an idiot.
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  7503. He won't because he doesn't really believe in people being equal.
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  7504. "Communism" in the American usage refers to the authoritarian "transitional" governments that claim to be trying to achieve communism through force (but really just become anything but real communist societies). If you want people to understand you mean the actual definition, you have to say "anarcho-communist" or something like that. There's an argument to be made for using socialism for socialism to refer to countries like Denmark, but one has to be really careful of how you use it. It's much like I can say there's democracy in the USA, because we're a Democratic Republic, but to say we're a democracy isn't entirely correct. Denmark HAS socialist as part of it's mixed economy, but ISN'T socialist. Really though, we have butchered nearly every political definition to the point of near uselessness over here. Hell, people don't even know what "liberal" or "conservative" mean anymore despite only needing to look them up in a dictionary. Never let politicians shift the definitions of political terms or they quickly just become rhetorical tools to get people yelling at each other while they run off with the money.
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  7505.  @kevinhuang8916  someone fucking gets it.
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  7506. It's not about how big it is. It's about how corrupt it is.
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  7507.  @donaldpetersen2382  and those are other questions. Small scale doesn't prevent corruption in any way.
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  7508. Also Legal Eagle "I shouldn't be laughing at this carnage." The juxtaposition there is platinum then, I suppose.
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  7509. The good parts? Pioneering modern governments, the melting pot, killing Nazis, and some tech stuff (moon landings, internet, etc) The bad stuff? Most of the rest of it. Better question is what is southern heritage?
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  7510. And there's already a word for a political "ideology" built around trying to keep things the same: conservatism.
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  7511. I mean, it's not hard to notice the moon moving towards the sun before the eclipse, into the same spot in the sky as the Sun durring the eclipse (if you don't mind some spots in your eyes from looking nearly straight into the Sun) and then away from the Sun after the eclipse. It's not hard to put together that the moon has something to do with the eclipse.
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  7512.  @efghggdxlmfn33  no, he didn't. He just banned the fascist pro-Putin parties, as he should have. Fascists always try to act like banning their conspiracies to commit genocide is the same as banning all political dissent. (Also, reported for misinformation)
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  7513. Confessions of an Economic Hitman audio book. https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  7514. Fellow citizen from PA, and my heart goes out to you. The only advice I can give is to try and get statehood. I won't go so far as to say the state are treated well, but it's gotta be better than how the territories are being treated.
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  7515. Why electronic voting is a bad idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs No digital program should be counting a single thing in an election. Also, anyone else see this coinflip BS? https://youtu.be/am2A30IsVVI
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  7516. Will it make a huge difference in the short term? No, but every step in the dirrection of politicians (especially presidents) being subject to the law again is a good thing, and the fight to restore that as a norm can only be won with a great many small victories. That said, I've recently come to the oppinion that taking Trump out like this would do 2 very good shortish term things: 1-it would shove the dems' hypocrisy in their face by proving that the Russia stuff was deflection because there was a perfectly clear case for impeachment in plain sight that they chose to ignore 2-when things didn't get better, prove that Trump was not some random disaster, but rather a symptom of a systemic problem, and without him there to serve to distract people, we could face that head-on now that people got the wakeup call of his election slapping a little of the complacency off their faces. It could do wonders for our national discourse.
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  7517. tomatodamashi one step at a time, though I think I speak for most of the audience of this channel when I say that if I had my way I'd be putting them on trial too. Hell, I'd put most of congress on trial for treason for deals that funnel weapons to AlQuaida.
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  7518. Never let fascist propaganda convince you that they're strong, unified, and organized. Infighting is a MASSIVE problem within fascist regimes. You didn't expect it because you're thinking like a sane person.
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  7519.  @augustuslunasol10thapostle  like I said, thinking like a sane person.
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  7520.  @ChiquitaSpeaks  there aren't a large number that regret it, abd doubly so so the way you mean that.
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  7521. @YoITS XpertGamer not if you take the machete from your friend's body before Jason can retrieve it. Then you have a machete and he is unarmed. Better know what you're doing with it though
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  7522. Yeah, when just a few degrees off could put rounds in the middle of your troops instead of the enemy's, you don't have much margin for error.
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  7523.  @acctsys  they use mils specifically because of how far off a few degrees would put them 😉
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  7524. The word of the day is "complicit".
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  7525. Not even white collar work. Hell, if he'd even just done his homework he wouldn't even be in that party.
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  7526.    they understand. They're just fine with getting a foot shoved up their ass if it means being the boot that stomps down on someone else.
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  7527.  @jamestepera3356  right in your headline your argument falls flat. California is borrowing to save the lives of the people that live there knowing it has a strong enough economy to pay it back. Meanwhile red states, on average, receive more in federal spending than they pay, year after year, as just a gift from the rest of us to keep your states from collapsing from their failed policies. What a pathetic attempt at a deflection from the point.
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  7528. Crypto isn't money but a ponzi/pyramid scheme. Those that buy in only make a profit when others do after them. It only doesn't collapse because people were taught mythology instead of history economics class. Money is a quantized, transferable debt relation that gets a stable exchange value from the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, by which those who work outside the market economy (who make your civilization possible) get compensated for their labor. Crypto is "hey, I wasted energy and expensive and environmentally costly computer parts making the digital equivalent of mud pies. Pay me for them and you'll probably be able to sell them at a higher price to rubes that buy in after you." For further understanding of what money actually is, please see Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graber (rip) There's even a free audiobook of it right here on YouTube.
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  7529. Because the US has made Mexico a shithole with the war on drugs just like their own countries which they're fleeing. You seriously can't figgure that out yourself?
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  7530. Ukraine is actually vital for the long-term food security of Europe. The US is on shakey ground because of all of the Putin-aligned fascists in our government right now, but Europe knows very well that they cannot afford appeasement.
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  7531.  Ryoshikari  wrong on all points: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK
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  7532. Irrelevant. The result will be the same, because these people are shit at cooperation, which is what you need for a large scale operation like that.
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  7533. They explictly stopped investigating right wing terrorism. YOU have your blinders on.
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  7534. Replace medical patents entirely with cash prizes based on effectiveness, cost, and side effects. The patent then becomes communal property of the US citizenry, free to use without charge within the US borders. Costs would be recouped by licensing fees for production outside the US (and by non-US citizens/companies), and increased economic activity within the US. Problem solved, forever. (Also, yes, return to 30 year copyright rules for consumerist products, and probably 10 years for programming copyrights, given faster development cycles for new products. Long copyrights stifle innovation)
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  7535. Fascists assuming that their opposition will loose the stomach for the war any day now is a consistent pattern for their military failures, yes.
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  7536. You're assuming they're all honest actors there. I can guarentee you most that make their way here are not.
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  7537. They took a job specifically to enfore unjust laws with shakey constitutional grounding. Fuck 'em
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  7538. We caused the problems where they came from. Not exactly in their control to do that now is it?
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  7539.  @sweetmisery75  are you seriously that ignorant of the shit the CIA has been pulling for decades? And you want to go telling others to read their history? Really?! The term "banana republic" was invented to describe puppet governments our country set up in that part of the world and that's just the tip of the iceberg. If, on the small chance they actually managed a revolution that was neither coopted or crushed due to CIA involvement, they would be smeared, put under unrest inducing sanctions, and the CIA would use that as a cover to put in yet another puppet dictator. This has happened so many times that it's trivial how easy is to predict how that would go down just by pattern recognition, but you want to tell them to fight a revolution, spilling a lot of blood to get a new boss even worse than the old boss because you can't be bothered to actually learn things you haven't been spoonfed.
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  7540. *conservative men doing what they do. It just so happens that most conservative men in America are white, but go to a country where there's a different racial majority and suddenly it'll be a different color of guys who are disproportionately doing it. What won't change is that it'll be the conservative men who are the worst offenders (unless we're counting fascists, in which case conservative men will be the second worst offenders).
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  7541. Vytautas Danielius rotfl
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  7542. Let me fix that for you: there is a small, but not insignificant, chance that one of your vaccinations didn't take, and that you are relying on herd immunity to protect you from whatever disease that it was supposed to protect you from. Near where I live 5 people were discovered to have measles at an international airport with reports saying 2-3 of them had been vaccinated. The infected kids were not.
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  7543. Unilaterally at that, especially given the US's history with that
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  7544. It's more that drug prohibition makes people violent. Like with alcohol prohibition, remove the black market and the organized crime shrivels.
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  7545. I've had people admit to me that how hot a candidate is is a big factor in their decision to vote for them. They said this out loud to my face without embarrassment. (Also note the plural). Also relevant for those with a half-hour to spend on learning more about the waifu aspect of politics in Britian (actually not clickbait, as rediculous as that statement sounds): https://youtu.be/x2W7P3wGBI8
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  7546. "I've had it with these mothafuckin' Republicans, in this mothafuckin' party!"
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  7547.  @rotwang2000  I absolutely agree. Do you have souces for those numbers though? I keep debating people on that and having a source to pull out would be useful.
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  7548. I mean, anyone want to bet on which side of politics most wife-beating happens?
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  7549. @Conor7734 33 yeah, it's not so much having bad luck as being impossible to work for
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  7550.  @LuisLopez-iw5zx  debatable.
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  7551.  @pigs6486  they only hate how Trump is ripping the mask off the game they've been playing because he's too stupid to play it well.
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  7552.  @jacilivengood9653  are you familiar with even a fraction of the amount of rigging that went on in the 2016 primary? If you can confidently say "Hillary won the popular vote" referring to the 2016 primary, I'm guessing no.
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  7553. They do
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  7554. Reading this in 2020 is oof....
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  7555. @Zico this kind of conspiratorial BS where everything is a deliberate attack (especially on one's masculinity) is symtomatic of an incredibly weak mind (and an undeveloped and insecure sense of one's own masculinity). It's better to put a check on that early because conspiratorial thinking tends to rot the mind and make one vulnerable to manipulation by demogogues and cult leaders. Fortify your mind against BS.
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  7556. Anti-gun isn't a left-position. It's a liberal one. The death penalty costs more, isn't a deterrent, and kills innocent people. Excepting maybe things like crimes against humanity, it needs to be abolished.
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  7557. Truth: "Ok boomer" is the generational equivalent of "ok white boy" Boomers have no room to complain about ageism.
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  7558.  @snuffeldjuret  wow, how many non-sequiturs did you pack into that short comment? Well done.
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  7559. ​ @neutraltral8757 yup "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  7560. Anyone else read Lord of the Flies? This is the kind of politics you get from children, reguardles of age.
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  7561. David exactly
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  7562. Clinical narcissism is a component of her psychopathy, so she's incapable of that.
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  7563. This is a crisis. Blame is irrelevant atm. If you have the means, you have the responsibility to act.
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  7564. It's not even about productivity. They JUST want us to suffer because they get off to it.
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  7565. Yeah...let's not think about Trump and 69 at the same time please...
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  7566.  @madsaintjames  we were absolutely against them before Japan. We were providing military equipment to the allies well before we actually joined in the fighting officially.
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  7567. Lol, took me a bit to realize what you were doing there
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  7568.  @IMelkor42  listen to Kyle @ 0:35 1-2% recent change isn't news. It's statistical noise.
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  7569. ​ @MereAYT you think the majority have empathy? Ha that's a joke. Not even a majority of Dems do.
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  7570. Saudi Arabia is a false ally and a genocidal theocracy funneling our weapons to terrorist groups like Al-Quaida. We shouldn't be giving them any military aid (and if Trump hadn't vetoed a historic bill, we wouldn't be)
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  7571. ​ @michaelmontana251 wrong.
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  7572. More expensive and slow to construct. Renewables now then probably 4th gen reactors in the future when those are ready for mass implementation.
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  7573.  @dudeman5303  a protofascist stealing rhetoric from the left to draw people further right? They only do that every single time.
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  7574. CHRNC it'd be like Hillary
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  7575. Anti Imperalist or municipalities being able to opt into state and/or national systems. There are several ways to address that problem so I'm not too concerned, tbh.
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  7576. Well there are some non-racist oligharch votes somewhere.
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  7577. 2 of those three only want nukes to defend themselves from us and China is a pretty standard nuclear-armed world power (at least disregarding domestic policy). That's a rather odd list there, don't you think?
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  7578. She's never faced a real progressive firebrand. She doesn't know what getting hit hard even is.
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  7579.  @Y2K2PointO  it absolutely is if they're underage or otherwise non-consenting.
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  7580. Yeah, make sure your protests are always convienant for others. Don't disrupt the comfort and sensibilities of the public with art, or sit-ins, or kneeling during sports games, or blocking traffic with your protests or anything like that, right??? 🙃
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  7581. HA, not unless we force them to. The DNC's goal is to disrupt us enough that we won't be able to nominate her by 2020.
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  7582. My friend came up with a definition of magic I'm inclined to agree with: "Magic is rules that break other rules" I'd say, to qualify as magic, it would definitionally have to suspend the laws our universe operates on in some way, at least locally and temporarily. Thus, magic would be something that could break laws as absolute as thermodynamics, if it existed. It would actually have to to not just be physics.
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  7583.  @Lucien86  I'm (in good fun) arguing the philosophical position that were magic to exist (I don't believe it does, to be clear) it would be able to completely suspend not just our understanding of physics and find little workarounds to do things we didn't think were possible (such as your example), but actually shatter the premise that physics works the same everywhere in space time and actually get a section of the universe to operate on entirely different rules for a time.
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  7584. Mandisa W and, while much better than all charlatans, sadly, a spotty history of being able to tell one from the other.
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  7585. We're talking about Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Since when did we like or trust any of these companies?
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  7586. Um, lady, you sure you want to be broadcasting, on TV, your inability to tell your rather strange erotic dreams apart from reality???
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  7587. Getting back to the op, it is absolutely a waste of time at best as we already can describe "that which helps one survive and reproduce" as useful. Trying to redefine truth to mean the same thing as we can already describe without changing the definition of the word. In short, it removes a core word from our vocabulary to redefine it into a synonym for another. That's not a defensible position to take, sorry.
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  7588. It's about the ratio, not the absolute number.
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  7589.  @shinymike4301  it's a shame we don't have any way to use quantum flux tubes as capacitors. The storage density of that would be REALLY high. Then again, it would be so high that maybe it's better that we can't....
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  7590. This is no nightmare. Welcome to our dystopian present. What are you going to do about it?
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  7591. Let's just say he has lots of practice at mental gymnastics.
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  7592. Our military personnel swear "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" so where are they?
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  7593.  @Cakebattered  "Got Mitt Uns" tl: "God's With Us" the Nazi belt buckle insignia. Do we need to pull up quotes from his book, speeches and meetings invoking Christianity as a justification for the holocaust or is that and the open alliance with the Vatican enough to debunk that myth? As for Stalin, in addition to creating a cult of personality, he tried to ally with the Russian Orthodox Church...who, btw, were supporters of the brutal monarchy that came before, so just one evil opposing another. Also this means that one's religiosity had a lot to do with their crimes but there's no causal link to athiesm in the other dirrection. Also also, no shit that an industrialized, post-enlightenment (a rebellion against religious dogma) society has more power to carry out the atrocities common to religion than a medieval society with a lower population. The greater ability to cause harm in the modern age is not a reason to cling to bronze age myths. Just the opposite.
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  7594. That's the "official" reason, yes, and it is generally better to assume incompetence. Unfortunately it just doesn't fit the string of events, the timing, the specific policies they've made, or consistently who they've allowed through the system. It also doesn't fit that there has been NO boycott of a product or company because of showing up on a truly hate-filled video (because people know it's a fallible bot and can chock it up to the ad being targeted at THEM, not the content) and there were already pretty effective safeguards that greatly limited that before. Also, the "issue" of occasionally running into a misplaced ad isn't a new thing at all, but suddenly it was a problem, and with companies you wouldn't expect to be super conscious about their image. For example, Walmart was one of the early boycotters, but they're not really known for being super conscious about ethical behavior. They are, however, well known for liking trade deals, and when the TPP ran into significant problems and a lot of the electorate (on BOTH "sides") in the US wouldn't quiet down about their outrage at the corporate establishment, we got this boycott that started with advertisers and some 2-bit tabloid hit-pieces no one cared about, quickly followed by the corporate media (which is hemorrhaging viewers, due to a justifiable lack of public confidence). The huge conglomerates http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-owns-what-on-television/ that control them then realized their success with this and are broadening their attacks to include the competition for their other shows. You're right that this started with news media, but it's not about actual fake news, but that independent news isn't influenced by direct ad dollars like TV stations are and so doesn't tow the established corporate narrative. Keep in mind that one of the "news" channels on TV (which YouTube started pushing just a few months after the crackdown on independent media) has been consistently found to have their viewers be less informed than those who watch no news in all and HAS has had consumers boycott companies that advertise with them due to offensive content in their overt propaganda, so the idea that YouTube is trying to actually be responsible about tone and accuracy doesn't fit their actions.
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  7595.  @iluvcamaros1912  and the fascists, don't forget the fascists....oh wait, you said "terrorists" and "organized crime" ...also it's a ponzi scheme and anyone that understood money would have been able to see it from the start, but unfortunately we teach mythology in econ classes, so even most people with a brain in their head don't.
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  7596. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Change_Game
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  7597. ​ @Thisguy651 if you think caring about the rule of law is "extremely left leaning" you're as far right as the Germans were 90 years ago and have no idea what the left actually is.
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  7598. ​ @PaulWeiss-b7s we live in a DEMOCRATIC republic. Democracy is part of our system.
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  7599.  @PaulWeiss-b7s  you're just further proving you don't know what words mean
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  7600. The Russian government is always lying. That is constant regardless of the truth of the statements from anyone else.
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  7601. Wait, you mean the ageist, right-wing Islamophobe was projecting her ignorance onto others? Who could have seen that coming???
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  7602. Considering they were giving Faux News special treatment while they were complaining about "fake news" dispite Faux News viewers being repeatedly proven to be less informed than those who watch no news at all (making them objectively fake news, misleading more than they inform correctly), well....
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  7603. At LEAST since the cold war (there wasn't really a good side in that)...but that's kinda damning with faint praise, isn't it, even if it's true (which is totally debatable).
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  7604. I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but it is a very clever one with some potential!
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  7605. Right-wingers always project. Biden is center-right (at best).
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  7606.  @sandpiperr  you mean like the "libertarian" party that got more votes than the green party in 2016, but who's effects on the election were completely ignored?
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  7607. When was the last time the US created a big problem that didn't envelope the world? We're kinda all in this together.
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  7608. Pretty sure they were the ones doing the dividing when they attacked other lefties for not falling in with the establishment distraction to keep people from talking about the rigging of the 2016 primary. I will accept appologies if behavior is corrected going forward, but they do deserve to be called out for it, and characterizing those who are doing so in the way you have is BS.
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  7609. If the primary is rigged again I will be voting 3rd party again though. I don't care who they're running against. Election-riggers never get my vote.
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  7610.  @123ucr  supporting corrupt "Democrats" who work against the people just means that the following election we have to fight against an even further right wing candidate the following election. You want to know how people think that the left is about big government crushing the little guy? Look no further than the DNC. That's how we got Trump vs Hillary in the first place and we don't have much further right to go before full fascism. I'm not a subject. I'm not going to entertain discussion about which ruler is less cruel, and neither should you, because if the elections don't matter, neither does your oppinion on any issue. Elections seperate citizens from subjects. Which are you?
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  7611. ignatius thomas i don't blame him, this is awesome stuff
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  7612. I'll be voting 3rd party because anyone else with a chance at the nomination would just pave the way for an even worse far-right demogogue than Trump.
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  7613. @m. rude no, it makes you a useful idiot
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  7614. Seriously though, everyone who voted against this is guilty of treason as there is no longer any plausible deniability that military aid given to Saudi Arabia is being redirrected to an enemy of the USA. That falls within even the very narrow definition of treason spelled out in the Constitution.
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  7615.  @radioactivetrees9626  even illegal wars do not count as treason, but knowingly arming an official enemy of the United States of America (Al-Quaida) even if through an intermediary (Saudi Arabia) falls under the definition of treason, yes. We don't just let off, for example, serial killers just because they've been getting away with it for years.
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  7616.  @truegrit2060  Bernie isn't one so irrelevant.
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  7617. SigWahrheit TJ is a liberal, but a lot of his audience became alt-right once he started his anti-"SJW" line of videos, there's a not insignificant amount of cross overs from channels like his, whether he intends it or not (hell the fake Sargon quotes started as a mocking of the alt-right asshats that were coming from that channel) There's also just the periodic influx of trolls to deal with since people got complacent with how few we had for a while, and the ones we have have become less overt on average, so they look more like real commenters.
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  7618. Me: yeah, that sounds like her.
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  7619. R Vanzo go troll a channel that hasn't repeatedly defended the right's freedom of speech (Btw, real progressive channels like secular talk were hit at the same time as more right-leaning ones) So yeah, fail
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  7620. Reminder: neoliberalism is the ideology of Reagan and Thatcher. When that's what passes for a "left" party in your country, fascists like Trump aren't surprising. Also reminder: the right always projects with their insults.
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  7621. Did you notice his response at the beginning? All he knows is 27 years old, leaning Bernie but willing to change mind, and studying synthetic biology and Biden's response "It doesn't look like [I can change his mind]" Can we talk about how telling that is?
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  7622. ​ @FrankWichert-c4v the comment wasn't about what IS but what SHOULD BE. Learn to read, please.
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  7623.  @cobrakaier238  most people are just showing how shallow their thinking is and are proving that the complacency that the girls are protesting is a MASSIVE problem, even among "progressives"
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  7624.  @garetclaborn  and yet none of that makes what I said untrue. Nice try.
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  7625. Wrong evil ally
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  7626.  @gs7828  I hear a lot of claims of that, but when delved into the details, nothing specific I've heard holds up.
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  7627.  @aishabintabubakr4944  far-right types have no sense of humor. This has been objectively studied from multiple angles.
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  7628.  @tek2095  why is it denying the obvious? "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists)
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  7629. UNIVERSAL means "universal" Putting conditions on it undermines the whole program's ability to cut beurocracy, remove cracks in the system for people to fall into, account for a variety of situations, and all the little side benefits that add up and just turns it into welfare. The tiny minority who would not work for pay/purpose, educate themselves, maintain a household for a partner with a higher-paying skillset, or volunteer are just liabilities on the job anyway as they get bounced between jobs at a net loss to anyone who hires them. If someone's greatest ambition in life is to sit in a shitty appartment, eat shitty food, and watch TV 16 hours a day we'd be better off letting them than worrying about trying to squeeze as many hours labor out of the population without concern for the quality of said labor or the people who get hurt by such a system.
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  7630. I can't give you a number, but everyone, including him knows it is "less than he has"
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  7631.  @jeffnorbert1871  citation? Ancient Rome wasn't even monotheistic.
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  7632. I'm not disagreeing or agreeing there, but you're going to have to explain why those particular burn marks are evidence of thermobaric weapons, specifically. Being able to tell anything that specific by looking at burns is not at all a general knowledge skill, and that's even for people willing to spend time looking in detail at graphic images of corpses (which many people are not unless absolutely necessary).
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  7633. Bannon is entirely aware of what he's doing (that being global promotion of fascism)
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  7634. He's not a grifter. He is a committed fascist.
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  7635. As long as we're replacing right wing politicians with people to their left faster than they can be corrupted, we're winning. Politicians are our employees, so treat them like a megacorp treats its employees; some are more valuable than others, but the goal is to get as much as you can out of them for as long as you can and replace them as needed when you have better potential hires focusing on replacing the worst tier of your workforce first. Their service is voluntary and the stakes too high to be too sentimental about it.
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  7636. I mean, this is the equivalent of getting Capone on tax evasion, but I'll take it to get one of the world's most prominant and effective fascists behind bars.
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  7637.  @TheArmchairrocker  if he does, that's a win for us for exactly the reason you describe. If he doesn't he's going to simultaneously anger and disappoint a lot of "Liberals" who are going to be a lot more receptive to people who are actually left of center talking about how similar Biden and Trump are, which is also a win for us. It's a loose-loose situation for the establishment.
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  7638. Non-white paint seems to solve the problem for birds. Maybe a whistle mechanism above the range of human hearing attached to the blades would help bats?
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  7639. ‘Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.’
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  7640. WLKwYA I bet it was a private "school" where teaching any amount of critical thinking would run contrary to the bible studies classes.
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  7641. Well, he's an open ethnonationalist they can publicly support without usually being compared to Hitler, so...
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  7642. ​ @thepinkestghost funny how every field of study with anything to say on the subject rejects your hateful BS.
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  7643. This is in no way a "both sides" problem. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012 "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  7644. ....this sounds uncomfortably similar to a rather bad anime I once mistakenly gave a chance...which unfortunately wasn't quite bad enough to fall into the "so bad it's good" territory... 😬
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  7645.  @ocumstweezers  let me put it this way: I'm guessing the people you talk to do real work for a living and don't live in mansions?
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  7646.  @sharonsmith1360  there are disenfranchised people, lots of them, but those are not the ones that rank their preference Biden>Trump>Bernie (barring the ones who have had red-scare hysteria completely break their mind)
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  7647.  @smithschips7287  a-that's an incredibly surface level understanding of the issues with it b-I never said he was pushing it due to bribery
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  7648. I can't say I've followed her recent activity, but, if that's true, I still don't blame her. She was fucking tortured when she should have received a medal as a hero. I'd be pissed too, and can't even say I wouldn't make unfortunate choices. That said, antifa likely saved Cornell West's life (along with a bunch of others), so, while I disagree with them often, it's not like they haven't done any good.
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  7649. There is no point where Russia/Putin will have enough. Appeasement does not work on fascists as the annexation of Crimea showed yet again and Putin's use of Nazi "blood and soil" rhetoric. (And please note I am using the term "fascism" in the academic sense not just a vague symptom for "authoritarian I don't like") Ukrainian will not yield more territory because it knows it would just be giving more power to a future aggressive action and Russia will not accept peaceful and independent coexistance because its internal politics are incompatible with such. This is mirrored in the geopolitical situation where Russia's status is dependent on the perceived might of its military to both support allies and threaten other regional countries with. Accepting the at least temporarily diminished status and the domestic changes needed to transition Russia to not leaning on its military for geopolitical power would have ended the cult-like propaganda Putin relies on to stay in power. When a country seems to be doing something against its interests, check for a conflict between the internal and international political interests of those in power in the country. Putin put himself in a situation where he needed to win the war (and even if he did would then need to start and win another before too long) and Ukraine in a situation where it couldn't afford concede anything to Russia. Putin followed the inevitable pattern for his ideology and created a no-win situation for himself and the only way this ends is when he is removed one way or another (almost certainly by the hands of other Russians when they decide that the war is worse whan what it would take to deal with him). He has past the point where there is any possibility of a way out for him. Every path he could take leads to his end, so he will keep throwing as many lives as it takes to drag this military aggression out as long as possible until he reaches his dead end.
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  7650. Correct and correct.
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  7651. Basic ethics: if you are detaining someone, you have a reasonable responsibility for their well-being. If they die, they did so under your watch, and it was from your action or gross negligence, you are responsible for that death even if said action wouldn't find you culpabile under normal circumstances. Also, the medications could be identified by anyone with an internet connection. Also, also, the risk of depriving people (especially children) of life-sustaning medication is greater than the cost or the risks of letting them keep whatever they have. Even if we pretend this is about the farce we call the "War on Drugs" (rather than just being part of the Trump administration having been proven trying to make the process as punitive as they can get away with) there's no justification for it.
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  7652. It's 1. Gravitational waves are produced by the spiraling of massive objects, not the collision itself (and the gamma ray burst probably starts with a slight time delay from first contact) The specific length of the time delay will certainly be used to refine models of such collisions in the comming months.
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  7653. Better ear then me, I guess, as it's always been good enough that I can't tell the difference.
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  7654. Robert Hills fair point
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  7655. flashfloodarea3 when your means are below a living wage, pulling that off is a matter of luck. So far I've been able to pull that off (partly due to seeing the economic problems before I got student loan debt) but that could change any time. Of course, any higher education expensive enough that you need to take out any debt to get it on more than a summer job entirely destroys the principle you mention because to have the most benefit, we want people getting degrees as early in life as possible so they're fresh from college and can spend the most time using it rather than letting their education dull from unuse as they spend a large portion of their working age saving up to be able to afford college (which, to do in any halfway reasonable amount of time would require advancing significantly in a career only to then abandon those skills to retrain for what you want to do with your degree after you've saved up enough to get it) Meanwhile, all the savings either drain money out of the economy, stagnating it, or have to be put in risky investments, making getting the degree even more of a crapshoot. Does that sound like an efficient system to you?
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  7656. Same reason people listen to any fascist.
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  7657.  @Cerulerouge827  think you're missing the point. It may have been better for the world if his friend hadn't pulled him from that car, is I think what was being said.
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  7658. No signs? How about the yield curve? https://youtu.be/5L_zQGPNXOk
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  7659. So tired of YouTube deleting my comments calling out lies and protecting other people's lies...
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  7660. Idk, when did he leave TYT?
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  7661. ​ @cindybrown9398 only in-so-far as the overwhelming majority of older people are bigoted against us.
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  7662. This and 2. They are corporate media. Megacorps who's customers are other megacorps will never be friendly to left politics because of their conflict of interests problem.
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  7663. "his father became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School" and he got a doctorate there (likely largely through nepotism, but I don't expect a religious school would have too many objections to his denial of reality) then ran for office in a state full of fundamentalist Mormons. That's how.
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  7664. ​ @mr.v3061 go read the The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide This unambiguously is genocide. Denying that is just genocide denial.
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  7665. Been there for yesrs
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  7666. They have unironically claimed that to the point where it is half of the reason they blame Bernie for her loss.
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  7667. ​ @Justme-rt4gj you mean like how Elon called a rescue diver a pedo for telling Elon his idea was stupid? Yeah, he totally got away with that. There are different rules for the wealthy and powerful than there are for the rest of us.
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  7668. Probably don't need to tell this audience but obligatory reminder that neoliberalism is the ideology of Reagan and Thatcher. It IS conservatism. They are not our allies.
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  7669. Please do "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." -Thomas Jefferson
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  7670. Oof, my sympathies
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  7671. Is the MSM still viewed by a great many as at all credible? Still work to be done then isn't there?
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  7672. "1. The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. . . 2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. . . The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. . . 6. Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. . . Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values. 4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason. 5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. . . 7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. . . 12. Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise. 13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, . . Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." -Umberto Eco: the 14 characteristics or Ur-Fascism (basically the only damn thing he ever talks about because he's a single-issue pundit, and that issue is being pro-fascism)
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  7673. Scott R. Gray It's obnoxious because he's going to be one of the first 5 and is basically rubbing people's faces in it and saying "the gap between the rich and poor is only going to increase and there's nothing you peasants can do to stop me." And yes, he's actually MORE dangerous than Trump as he's a totalitarian with ambition to control the entire world, but is more competent.
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  7674. Everyone should be using duckduckgo or another non-tracking search engine for their default search engine.
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  7675. It's mainly the Abrahamic faiths that suppress that. Once you discount them and the cultures strongly influenced by them, it's fairly common. Unfortunately, religious edicts favoring high rates of procreation tend to make a religion more expansionist, leading to some non-ideal results when things are left to play out. How much someone wants to say that those religions are to blame vs it being a negative cultural norm that hitched a ride on the religions (or visa versa) is up to them and not something I'm going to touch right now. Thankfully we're starting to move past such repression again.
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  7676. TheUltimateBeing 01 more likely her husband isn't having sex with her anymore, so she blames porn to not have to face the fact that, now that she's aged, her former youth can no longer cover for her dull mind and repulsive personality to make him attracted to her.
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  7677.  @lowqualityshitposts8860  accurate name
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  7678. Saying you found a terror cell in the GOP is like saying you found a terror cell in ISIS....
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  7679. The conquerors largely came before and after them, so while their hands weren't exactly clean, that wouldn't really be accurate.
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  7680. Part of me hopes he'll make it that long. Not to 2025 mind you, but if he could make it into 2024...maybe October, or just long enough to loose again.
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  7681. Considering he vetoed a bill that would have ended all military aid to Saudi Arabia, yes, it is his fault.
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  7682. Police don't work in law enforcement. They don't even know or care what the law is. They're just members of gangs we've given badges to.
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  7683. Can anyone dig up a link? It needs to go viral.
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  7684. If this happen at my job I would also probably be the person to clean it up and I think you sound like a conservative complaining about how protests aren't convenient enough for you as a way of saying "don't protest in any way I can't ignore"
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  7685. Specifically quantum tunneling should be able to. Say I take a sphere of assorted atoms, arrange them in a specific way, then isolate them for eons until quantum tunneling and entropy makes them uniform in distribution of all properties. If you come to it at that point, no amount of readings you could ever take of it, no matter how perfect, will tell you what state I set it in. When you scale things to the extremes conservation of information seems to fall appart, and I haven't been able to find anything yet that makes me conclude anything but that entropy actively destroys information. (Was actually watching this on the off chance I got something new to consider in that reguard) Of course, I also think singularities turning into universes are also likely, so this big "paradox" is twice over a non-issue.
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  7686.  @Mitchthemysteryman  Bolsonaro is 100% a full-out fascist. You haven't done your homework on him if you think otherwise.
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  7687. Please stop feeding the sheep troll. It's not arguing in good faith, so it's pointless. Please just ignore it like you would a flat-earther.
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  7688. Yes Please! I need to see an OSP overview of that!
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  7689. To save the soul of America (and the habitability of Earth) the petrodollar must die, but I have good news: the world doesn't need a reserve currency.
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  7690.  @7milegreat  Yang is not for M4A, he's just stealing the label to hide behind its popularity https://youtu.be/RrF7qdFP2Qc
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  7691. I agree with you about stronger enforcement and penalties around DWIs (not about benign public intoxication, mind you), hell, I'm for being stricter about revoking licenses when people do stupid shit with cars while sober...but that's a totally separate issue to the issue of legalizing drugs for use at home.
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  7692. "If there was nothing instead of something, we wouldn't be here talking about it, would we?" is my preferred response to that question. Even if it is just a finite but arbitrarily small fluke of chance, there's no possible vantage point by which observations could be made of the alternative.
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  7693.  babajohn100  if given a fair range of choices, you may have a point. In the situation where the "Democrats" use the threat posed by the GOP like a domestic abuser uses the threat of violence or homelessness, no, that's not a reasonable standard.
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  7694.  @brittany1172  well....web searches are your friend. Google is your stalker, but that's another discussion.
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  7695.  @rachelmadison7771  the polls didn't say Hillary would win in a landline. The talking heads in the MSM saying that Bernie would loose to Trump did. Nice try though.
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  7696.  @matthewfusaro2590  I assume they're not ok with it either, dispite not having a better choice.
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  7697. I don't mind the levers on modern toasters....I just want to know why its so hard to get one that will toast even one side of one slice of toast evenly one time. I mean, yeah, having my toast done to the same doneness every time no matter how hot the toaster is inside would be really nice too, but can we please stop making toasters that toast my bread in wide strips? Please?
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  7698.  @jmiquelmb  also Scotland: "Sure you don't want to just quit while you're ahead? Because you don't want any of this!" Unrelated, but I would have respected the fuck put of Eva Rebuild if the 4 movies thing had been a fakeout and it had ended with the credits roll in the 2nd movie as a "Well, you wanted Shinji to grow a pair and just get in the robot. Happy now?"
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  7699. Literally not true.
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  7700. ​@Georgina602for now
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  7701. Real truth of 9-11 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK Building 7: https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w
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  7702. Look up the Oklahoma City bombing to see what just a couple crazy people can do to a non-explosive target with only an improvised bomb. Now imagine what proper special ops could do to an explosive/flammable target.
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  7703.  @LonerWeirdo  yeah, for home defense, baseball bats (or equivalent stick) or a sword or something generally is the way to go, imo. Statistically, someone in the house is more likely to die to the gun than be saved by it, so while there are reasons for gun ownership, home defense is a poor one. Also, all that talk about the distance within which someone with a knife has the advantage is basically all the distances in which a home confrontation will happen, and since you're defending with a home-field advantage, you get to determine the distance the fight happens at. Also, it's really hard to beat the threat neutralization of severing the forearm holding the weapon. Even if you don't get through both bones, if the tendons/muscles are severed it can't pull a trigger or even hold anything.
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  7704.  @vgamesx1  you can not believe it all you want but it's true and documented fact. What we have is not the corruption of good intentions but a failed rehabilitation of bad intentions.
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  7705.  @commode7x  ...you are, unfortunately, incredibly naive there....
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  7706. ...I've been electricuted enough to be glad to not share anything close to whatever experience you refer to.
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  7707. The notion that he will step aside is a fantasy. His entire job is to keep real progressives away from the levers of power.
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  7708. They seems to have eyes, so yes, they knew the painting was behind a pane of glass.
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  7709. And you answered your own question right at the end
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  7710. Frankie Tobarensis or, you know, get charged with murder
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  7711.  @yao052  Hillary did NOT run on single payer in 2008. She supported it when she was 1st lady and sold out as soon as the bribes rolled in well before 2008.
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  7712. She's either had a psychotic break from reality, or she's gaslighting... Or if you really want a 3rd option, she's saying he's a narcissist for going against the ruling class when really he's "an uppity commoner who should know his place"
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  7713. Depends. Would they still refuse to distance themselves from Biden? If so, no.
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  7714. "The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values." -topical excerpt from Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-fascism Seem familiar? That's because he's not just another corporate talking head. He's a fascist propagandist. (See also the Nazi great replacement conspiracy theory he's repeatedly pushed) CNN & MSNBC are full of corporate talking heads. That's still bad, but there is a difference.
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  7715. Obama was, in a great many ways, to the right of even Reagan, who just about anyone would describe as a neocon, and so is, himself, a neocon, despite his rhetoric.
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  7716. Exactly! All twitter did was withdraw Trump's special boy privilage to violate their TOS.
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  7717. There was proven voter suppression and the exit polls are making the results looks sketchy too. https://tdmsresearch.com/ Maybe not the whole story, but these are facts.
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  7718. And that is almost certainly an underestimation.
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  7719. Ah, only following the show atm and thought we were down to 1 season and 1 book. That was supposed to be an and/or though, just waiting for the show wouldn't be too long (or alternatively, I suppose having it finish right before the last season was released would work).
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  7720. To support abortion prohibitions, one must argue against the bodily autonomy case, show the law to be effective at stopping abortions, AND show the thing being aborted to be a person (which is impossible before 20ish weeks). Good fucking luck to anyone who thinks they can argue even one of those.
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  7721. ...I mean...there's a good argument to be made, that slavery was economically motivated and that racism, in turn, was in slavery motivated and then it just kinda got stuck in a circular feedback loop from there, but I don't even need to get past the preroll ads to know that's not the argument Crowder made.
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  7722.  @victoracosta4796  somehow I don't think a battleship's main guns would be fit for purpose there.
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  7723.  Sixshooter 9  let's be honest, people with the science skills to become actual rocket scientists often have rather poor social skills
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  7724.  @MK_ULTRA420  you know why the New Deal, alone, only helped somewhat? Because the government spending for is was too moderate. The way WW2 helped was to get the government to spend and employ even more than they were spending on it alone. How can we replicate that? Use a jobs guarentee to truly mobilize the country to fight the threat of climate change....which the Green New Deal would. Ps; the New Deal actually implimented was highly incomplete compared the full vision of it.
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  7725. I'm here just wanting humanity to achieve a positive milestone worthy of a year 1 of a new calendar because while I like history and fantasy, I do also like sci-fi.
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  7726. Reminder; Facebook started as a "Hot or Not" site that Zuckerberg conned away from his (somehow) less douchey business partner. Zuckerberg is that creepy douchebag you met if you went to college given an absurd amount of social, economic, and political power.
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  7727.  @hectorreyes6884  MSDNC: "long answer, we think the fact that you are actually trying to help people is helarious"
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  7728. You think these bigots give a fuck about frontline workers?
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  7729.  @oliviatree  well there's also racism, classism, and ageism at play, but those can be offset by a combination of intelligent self-interest and a not outstanding ability to isolate oneself from the consequences of policy. It's not (usually) as simple as a single bigotry being a lone determining factor.
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  7730. *cryptofascist
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  7731.  @PhuckedUpPhilosophy  the rigging methods they use can only go so far before they shatter the illusion of democracy. We have to force them into that no-win situation by making the election overwhelming for Bernie. You're not going to overturn oligharchy sitting on your couch and spouting that pessimistic BS. Of course they will try to rig it, but that doesn't make voting worthless.
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  7732.  @GeorgePiazza  yup. The damage done over the last few decades isn't going to be fixed in a single election. There will be victories but there isn't going to be some magic switch flipped. We're going to have to fight for every last thing we want. When we win, it won't be because there was an easy way out, but because we simply accepted that we couldn't afford to loose. Pack extra pairs of dry socks and wear comfortable shoes, because this is going to be a journey, but one worth taking.
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  7733.  Rename Murder  being fascinating doesn't change it from being a Ponzi scheme fueled by the fact that everyone has been miseducated about money religiously teaching Adam Smith's long debunked hypothesis about money coming out of barter.
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  7734. Well, sometimes they do...wait, do accidents count?
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  7735.  @Rompelstaump  operative word being "more"
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  7736. People like Trump because he gives them an excuse to behave at their worst, consequences be damned.
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  7737. Think the point is that MSNBC is NOT better than this. Even the fact that there's a question that they might have dropped the call is pretty damning in itself.
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  7738. https://youtu.be/GxEmyN8fPSE (link to episode 1 of Stains;Gate)
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  7739. *MSDNC
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  7740.  @Predestinated1  it's a fact. Did you try looking it up?
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  7741. Is someone ever going to explain to him what excuse me actually means?
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  7742.  @Zandiv  I mean, we started breaking cold-war ending treaties under Bush, so this was only a matter of time unless we started electing people who weren't right wing, which we haven't managed to do for a long while.
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  7743. You know that whole "private ownership of the means of production" thing socialism is against? Take that, and turn it into a casino capable of crashing the world economy (which routinely does so every decade or so) and which people are pressured into betting their retirements on. On top of that, it's the thing every publicly traded company is legally obligated to put delivering as much money to as possible over all ethical considerations. All that and we haven't even touched on the rampant fraud as business model that is how it operates irl.
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  7744. ​ @sutapasbhattacharya9471 so do Christians and Muslims. It's not just the "chosen people".
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  7745.  @djtoxicdhg  the Dems don't do it ENOUGH. The GOP is fascist and actively conspiring to commit genocide. The fact that any of them are not behind bars is an affront to justice and human rights.
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  7746. https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w I did
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  7747. Like every President we've had this century?
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  7748. I'm sure plenty watching cable news were shocked too.
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  7749. +deshaunsteph um, inherited and collective guilt is an evil concept, and "Somebody has to pay for what happened to us." is just revenge that's even apathetic about it's target. Your "morality" is evil to the core....just thought you should know that before you tried spreading it further. Please try improving yourself before you go preaching to others, because right now you're kinda proving the point about equating religion and morality to be a bad thing. W3rm Madallions, same advice
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  7750. Mass D E I C I D E yeah, there are BS religious local laws all over the country, but Utah gets a special prize for their asinine levels of control. Nevermind that all religious laws are unconstitutional to begin with, but we apperently need to raise the literacy level of the country before people can actually understand the Constitution enough to recognize that fact.
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  7751. I mean his body is. His mind sure isn't.
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  7752. Income inequality, or net neutrality. It's interesting to see the bubbles people live in by what they decide to put in these polls...not good, but interesting.
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  7753. Please take those self-esteem issues to a therapist, not the internet. This path of behavior will only end badly for you.
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  7754.  @NelsonMandela961  Charlottesville
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  7755. At this point it may be less fallacy and more what Putin knows awaits him when this ends, so it's in his interest to continue throwing lives away to drag this out as long as possible. He's crafted a no-win situation for himself where the best case scenario for him is the worst case scenario for his country. The ultimate reality of this is that it will probably continue until Russia removes him from power by any means necessary.
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  7756. The word of the day is "complicit"
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  7757. "Frustrating" isn't how I'd describe living in a society where I'm constantly being gaslit and surrounded by people who are bigoted towards me and have succumbed to said gaslighting.
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  7758. On top of the fact that "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1 The way theses studies are done, "right wing extremism" essentially means "not otherwise specified. In those 73&23 numbers, they're not counting Islamic terrorists as the 73% even though there both right wing. Having looked at other studies like them, I can say with confidence that of the remaining 4% the majority would be black nationalists which, being ethnonationalist, would also be right wing, leaving <2% for everything else. And in this environment, the media will waste time debating if throwing milkshakes at the people promoting this (via stochastic terrorism, look it up) is justified.
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  7759. Player Review I think I saw something about them reversing the policy after the outcry they got, but IDK for sure
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  7760. Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each.
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  7761. You think there's an establishment left? You are completely fucking lost.
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  7762. There is only one "rational" motive for the drone double-taps targeting first responders: to enrage the local population to create more terrorists to justify continued war and occupation. Much like our actions in Syria (where the most generous interpretation of events is that we waited until any moderate rebels were wiped out and then proceded to arm groups indiscriminately, including ones fighting each other and/or ISIS), or our unwavering support of Saudi Arabia (dispite all they have done including their funneling of our weapons to Al-Qaida), or that Isreal and Palestine would be at peace if only we became neutral, the US's actions only make sense if you accept that continued war is desired by our government. It's not a bug, it's a horrific feature.
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  7763. It's not always just lazy. Sometimes it's also sexual. Which considering kids can't consent...
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  7764.  @Hooyahfish  we have an existential threat on that scale. It's called climate change
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  7765.  @garnet4846  birds are birds and dinosaurs. That's how taxonomy works.
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  7766.  @garnet4846  taxonomy has no basis in reality? Lol ok, bud.
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  7767.  @garnet4846  oh, you're one of THOSE people...
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  7768.  @garnet4846  no, a young earth creationist who doesn't understand the first thing about science.
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  7769.  @garnet4846  you're just proving you're not worth the energy of talking to.
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  7770.  @garnet4846  faith is your schtick, not mine, and that's why I'm not bothering with explanations: you shout about proof, but don't care about it, not would you recognize it if you saw it. Nothing evolves out of being anything. That's just how taxonomy works. You're welcome to look this stuff up on your own time, but I'm not wasting more of mine than I already have on you.
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  7771.  @garnet4846  like I said, all you have is projection. You can't even be bothered to look up what taxonomy IS.
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  7772. Because they hate us and want us to suffer. No, I'm not joking or being hyperbolic.
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  7773. Nicole Inman I like Redacted Tonight too, but be careful with them as they're not always super accurate (even when they're right on the overall point), so use them as comedy and a springboard to look into things more yourself. I have issues with Pakman, so I don't watch him, though I wouldn't go so far as to say he's not legitimate. Of course, always be periodically evaluating where you go for news, as, like shown with TYT, reliability isn't a constant thing.
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  7774. EbFilesX people misunderstand political labels all the time and identify with ones which don't describe them. You really have no business saying that.
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  7775. They're both liberal-conservative right-wing technocrats trying to pretend to be real progressives.
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  7776. Here's a good space. Belle of the Ranch is another good one if I was to stick to a single recommendation.
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  7777. Yup!
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  7778.  @onamove70  what happened is they're cowards and were so in fear that their brains turned off and they believed any lies about electability they were told.
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  7779. Cry more fascist.
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  7780. Truth
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  7781. Who else thinks getting a pipe bomb will change CNN's commitment to false neutrality? Me neither.
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  7782. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p nice try 5 month old Russia bot.
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  7783.  @Yanaschaf  almost like having megacorps who's customers are the other megacorps (like, say, health insurance companies) who buy advertising time presents a conflict of interest that means large corporate "news" networks are actually unable to inform the public due to perverse incentives huh? (Look up "Manufacturing Consent" for more)
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  7784. Format is fine. Just need to balance the audio
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  7785. Darn right they care about immigration. It makes a great political tool to control the peasants and is a great source of workers with no effective rights for their doners. Why do you think they're trying to build a wall rather than go after companies that employ them when it's been shown that more wall means more undocumented immigrants in the country?
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  7786.  @donanders2110  pretty sure the earliest study of wall effects that proved it would be counter to their claimed goals that I saw was durring the Bush years, but I can't find one earlier than the Obama years online anymore, sadly, but yeah, the data has been out on this for a long time, so it's pretty open and shut what their real goals are.
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  7787. It's pretty obvious when you look into the origins of right wing politics: royalists opposing democratic government and the enlightenment and everything that has stemmed from that is just more means to and justifications for maintaining heirarchy. Add in populism and you have enough of the makings of fascism for the remaining elements to just fall into place.
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  7788. Think for about 2 seconds longer please. You're comparing supplying food on the mainland US in areas with functioning infrastructure in an established location, to emergency supplying a remote island with large regions with no functional infrastructure. One of those is going to have an automatically higher lowest price point.
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  7789. I have to strongly disagree with her bill, I'm afraid. Fundamentally, the practice in schools is adults in positions of authority systemicly bullying children to try and punish their parents. Everyone responsible for this is fundamentally unfit to work with children and needs to loose their job and be barred from any job involving children for the rest of their lives. Anything less is an unacceptable situation. If a divorced parent was caught doing anything comperable to this to "punish" their child for a financial dispute with their ex, it would be really solid grounds to strip them of their custody rights, but we're going to pretend that adults who think it's acceptable to treat other people's kids left in their care in this manner are fit to supervise children? Really?! The fact that her proposal isn't the right-wing position is disgusting.
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  7790. They gave us the tools to do so. We just ignored the problem until it became titanic in scale.
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  7791. There's a video on YouTube with the beginning being sung, in Sumerian, about how old the story was to the people recording the epic.
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  7792. The assumption that we would see constant expansion is questionable at best. Already we see an increasing and global trend towards urbanization and a leveling off of population growth. In other words, already we are seeing evidence that we aren't going to expand into some galaxy-spanning empire and that's before we get our fill of space colonization trying to expand to fill the solar system. We look to our past behavior and assume that means we're going to put Dyson spheres around every star we can get our grubby little hands on as we continue having exponential population growth when really we get an entirely different picture if we extrapolate current trends foward. Maybe the thing we want as a social species is NOT to be as far away from each other as humanly possible. On the subject, it seems notable that pretty much ALL our fiction seems to view a war between Earth and a Mars colony as inevitable. Maybe our future is to bloody our own nose one last time and finally recognize how short-sighted our history of colonization always was. Far more likely, I think, is that we will stay around our own star as long as we can and move to another star (singular) only when our current one is reaching the end of its life. Of course, such modest and nomadic civilizations would be far harder to detect than galaxy-spanning empires, so it would make sense that we haven't detected them yet.
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  7793. Most likely his administration has that motivation and just pointed out to Trump that allowing travel with Cuba was something Obama did.
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  7794. In a word: money
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  7795. Ben B and that is why healthcare doesn't operate like normal business. You have inelastic demand.
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  7796.  @Mr_Wh1  we don't want war. We're just not fascists or appeasers, which you are both of.
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  7797.  @wasdwasdedsf  no correlation between CO2 and temperature? Holy fuck the reality denial is strong with you.
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  7798. The only thing we did wrong at the Nuremberg trials was stopping them.
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  7799. Why was the war on drugs started? To lock up voters who would be likely to vote dem, taking away their voting rights, as well as the community leaders of left-leaning groups and minority communities. Who profits from it today? A wide range of companies who would have to compete with it from big-pharma, to alcohol & tobacco, to those making paper from wood pulp, to cotton growers, etc. Also, there's the police and prison industrial complex which profit even more dirrectly (and Faux News which profits very indirrectly by the fact that the Republican Party we know and hate being only able to exist in the form it does by the voter disenfranchisement the war on drugs facilitates). Just to add shit icing to the garage cake, the police departments use the war on drugs to violate protections from unreasonable search and seizure ("I think I smell pot. I'm gonna have to search ___"), excuse their unconstitutional "civil asset forfeiture" (the profits of which they keep and buy all sorts of goodies for themselves with), have an easy thing to plant on people to arrest them for, and justify their militarized equipment (because without the gangs the war on drugs fuels, there's little excuse for it). Welcome to the war on drugs. Leave your freedoms, constitution, and sence of morality at the door.
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  7800. Because we know that they don't care about protests and the media will fall in line with government propaganda on such events. We have rulers, not representatives. They do not care what we think. Real leverage must be applied in one way or another.
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  7801. (Non-Islamic) Right wing terrorists have committed more attacks within the US than even Islamic terrorists in this millennia. All other terrorism combined from ecoterrorism to Antifa to black nationalists doesn't even come close. There is no equivalency in hate or unreasonableness when the worst the worst the left has is antifa sometimes falling into the "he who fights monsters" problem by using facist tactics, and the right has actual NAZIS! I'm getting really tired of making the distinction between Nazis and those spreading propaganda/providing cover for them due to money/lolz (rather than ideologic agreement) only to be called unreasonable by those same people.
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  7802.  @beepbopboop7727  I think she will, and I know she won't endorce an establishment stooge over him. It's really early though, so she may just be giving it time so it doesn't get lost in the news of the start of his campaign, which wouldn't be a bad choice strategically.
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  7803. And somehow, they still don't treat Bernie as bad as CNN or MSDNC. Wtf does that say!?
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  7804. ​ @sillysad3198 they weren't talking about the governments.
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  7805. No, we just need to finally understand how money works, retake control of our currency from the banking sector so we have sovereign money again and we'll be fine.
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  7806. Libertarian Exodus oh the establishment Dems absolutely helped create the problem. No question there. I was just talking about how the GOP goes on endlessly about blaming blacks for problems they inflicted on them and how beyond both hypocrisy and victim-blaming that is.
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  7807. Beware poe's law
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  7808.  @GTA5Player1  would have been if not for Hillary's primary fuckery and the establishment's lies about electability.
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  7809.  @JabberCT  what did I JUST comment?
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  7810. What the fuck does changing the location have to do with the standdown order the police received? This sounds like the governor deflecting responsibility.
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  7811. ​ @cyablu6538 found the Nazi
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  7812.  @SuperNoah160  yeah, this is something I'm increasingly concerned of as of late.
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  7813. 9:35 people of Delaware. Take note of how much less it took for Tom Carper to sell you out than the rest, and remember that anytime you see his name.
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  7814. eDDy L YouTube has been doing that for years now and claiming it to be an accident.
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  7815. Marxman no, but it is a core American value and our constitution does protect it more than many other nations. More to the point though, it's an inseparable part of America, so other nations also valuing it doesn't change that undermining it is unamerican
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  7816. More psychopaths who expect to be dead before they, personally, will be affected. Future generations are just another group to exploit for short term profits, and they display arguably less concern for them than brown people working in sweat shops while the factories poison their homeland. Profits=plunder to them and they don't really care who pays for it as long as the costs are externalized.
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  7817. Back on topic, saying it's because we don't like their economics would be too close to the truth. That's why they're bringing out the "Democracy!" justification.
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  7818. Failed
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  7819. "Unless they are willing to start engaging in heavy workplace politics" Many steps later, studies find that CEOs have a proportion of psychopaths 20-25x higher than the general population and CEO pay to have no correlation with company performance.
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  7820. If we're going to do them, especially if we're going to do them all in one place, it's less destructive to do them consistently in the same place and I suppose Athens is about as good a place as you're gonna find for it I guess.
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  7821.  @souljaboyisbad  all estimates put the costs of stopping/mitigating climate change as far lower than the costs of dealing with the consequences. Offloading the costs onto future generations because of a desire to procrastinate on a rapidly worsening issue isn't a real answer.
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  7822. Ikr. You can still vote like the rest of us, so you're not disenfranchised you Orwellian piece of shit!
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  7823. We already have a method for generating answers for random general knowledge questions. It's called "search engines". Jordan Peterson forgot GOOGLE Existed!
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  7824. [Citation needed]
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  7825. Guardian if you're referring to the illegally detained person, until we have a trial, we don't know even IF they did, much less know their motive if they did. Hell, we don't even know WHO they are. For all we know they're a journalist that the US government/military wanted to keep quiet because we don't know anything.
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  7826. Hot take: Vaush is more utilitarian in outlook than Kyle and a lot of the friction between them comes from slightly differing definitions of "principles"
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  7827. @koniroseroyval5278  religiosity is correlated with basically every social ill from crime rates (with special emphasis on violent hate crimes), to teen pregnancy, to divorce rates. You can pull the "no true Scotsman" falacy, but it doesn't change that people are good in spite of religion, not because of it. "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg You need only an honest reading of the Bible to see how evil that book really is.
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  7828.  @antediluvianatheist5262  there's no "hope" about it. This is proven to be a factor in why Bernie consistently overperforms his poll numbers. We need to push that margin up as high as we can to counter DNC fuckery, but the polls will always underpoll Bernie.
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  7829.  @jameshumphrey9939  even the ones that use cell phones are polling likely voters (which often excludes infrequent voters) so Bernie is basically always underpolled.
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  7830.  @s871-c1q  an easy, but time consuming route would be to go back further using CK2 and then port a game where you're not starting from a position handicapped by a run of terrible (usually short-lived) emperors. If you do well you might even be able to hit 1444 having most of the Western Roman Empire reunified under your rule. If you do really well, you can do even better than that.
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  7831. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Change_Game just gonna leave this here.
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  7832.  tutenkharnage  got to it first, darn you
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  7833. This should surprise no-one familiar with one set of definitions for the terms. -Liberal means being open to new ideas and ways of doing things (hence why it overlaps with "progressive") -Conservative means trying to keep things the way they are (which is impossible since change is inevitable and denying that only means you don't get to choose what it will be) -Neo-conservatism (what passes for conservatism these days) means trying to "return" to an idealized version of the past and is just a dangerous fantasy Even if you look at liberal vs conservative as just about "freedom", what gets called "economic liberalism" is just about shifting the power from a democratic system (in democratic countries) to dictatorial systems (corporations), and so is NOT actually pro-freedom. What gets called "free markets" is just corporate-dominated anarchism in reality. By no real definition does liberalism loose on average in quality of ideas.
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  7834.  @chrisraczak6931  well, pre-covid Trump could have lost to Bernie or someone like him, but if we're just talking about vs Biden, it's pretty clear that Biden was on track to get destroyed by Trump pre-Covid.
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  7835. I feel like this is a reference to something but that I can't remember what.
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  7836.  @daketora  they don't care about the explicit rights either. No ink on page can protect you from a government that desires to "conveniently misread" it. And no, it's not supposed to take 3/4ths of the country to enshrine a right.
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  7837.  @bens5859  you're incredibly naive in your presumption of good faith.
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  7838.  @daketora  3/4th of the states not 3/4ths of the people. It's only supposed to take about 2/3rds of the people.
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  7839. Terminal oh, people have been disconnecting from reality without drugs for a long time
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  7840. The cause is republicans.
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  7841. Know any of the others from 9:05 - 9:10 by chance?
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  7842. Black lives matter is complaining about nothing /s
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  7843. woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice How the far right uses it? The same way they use "cultural Marxism" and "cultural Bolshevism" before that. But Ben's going to keep pandering to a political movement that wants him killed.
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  7844. ​ @jojocatsitar6250 most? Citation needed.
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  7845. ​ @idicula1979 you mean the appeasers? Who cares?
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  7846. Erin's death should NOT have been a fakeout death. We went through the most interesting part of his character arc before and all that was left was stuff we'd seen countless times before. Meanwhile, while he was "dead" Armin and especially Mikasa went through massive and rapid character development starting to become great lead characters in their own right rather than supporting characters because they couldn't rely on Erin to take the lead anymore. Mikasa in particular went through a phase of suicidal grief and rage only to realize that she had a responsibility to step up and be a leader rather than getting her squad killed and in that state would have made a great main character going forward if the creators had had the balls to pull a decoy protagonist trope with Erin like Guran Legan did. Instead we fell right back into Erin getting revived with an uber powerup. This killed the "anyone can die" dramatic tension they had spent so much effort and so many character deaths building up. The other 2 "main" characters went right back to just following Erin's ass (in Mikasa's case, arguably literally) and lost half or more of the character development they just achieved. You also lost the main interest in the combat thus far which was humanity being GROSSLY outclassed and needing to come up with insane ways to desperately try to even the odds and that still not being enough. You could even have the plot run nearly identically if Erin just cannot heal mortal wounds by turning into a Titan, and so finish bleeding out after he turns back. Add Mikasa knowing about the key and that their father did something to Erin and you're basically running the same plots with very little changes necessary. Seriously, how amazing would Attack on Titan have been if they Erin ACTUALLY died there?
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  7847. Just accept that about 25% of the population has little to no connection to reality and work around that number
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  7848. seven miller uh, no, this is comming from big corporations...or are google, General Electric, Walmat and hundreds of other corporations socalist?
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  7849. Neutrality≠objectivity The news is supposed to be objective, not neutral. Quit your whining.
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  7850.  @sark4786  no, one does not at all presuppose the other. Look up "neutrality bias".
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  7851.  @sark4786  one doesn't at all presuppose the other. The truth is not dead center between 2 sides. To be objective necessitates being able to call out lies. See "neutrality bias" and the "golden mean fallacy"
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  7852. Let's not forget Walmart also helped lead the advertiser boycott that lead to the adpocalypse (most likely because they wanted TPP and alternative news outlets ruined that for them).
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  7853. Unnamed object Ingredients: Hydrogen, time
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  7854. "the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”" -MLK ...only this time, we're not talking about desegregation and voting rights but Generational Genocide
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  7855. Nazis. We call them Nazis.
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  7856. And let's talk about your hair
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  7857. Yup https://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-27.htm Not allowed to cut the hair on the sides of the head/near the temples or trim the edges of your beard. Basically, the kind of hair cut that you see for a lot of orthedox jews is what is laid out in scripture. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payot
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  7858. Any motivation to quit that is external (be it God or a loved one) is fundamentally unstable, because as soon as your faith/relationship is shaken, you're likely to relapse. You need to find an internal reason to quit and develop your personal agency (which 12-step programs spend about half their steps undermining, which is the last thing that someone who had their lives being controlled by a substance should have done to them). The data shows the support group is the only reason these programs preform at all (with some studies showing they do no better than trying to quit on your own) The 1/3rd statistic, as low as it is, is among the best I've seen for the program, with the average study showing that they underperform treatments that aren't faith-based.
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  7859. Good rule of thumb: take a look at all the people who worship Elon. Notice they all worship Trump too...and that everyone else they worship is about on the same level. If they like someone, it's a bad sign.
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  7860.  James Barker  way to prove you don't know what the term means.
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  7861.  @McFlyOrPie  I mean...scared, barely trained conscripts just over the age of 18 that have been subjected to absurd amounts of propaganda their whole lives and didn't even know they were actually invading Ukraine until it was happening? Who even knows if they have half a clue what they're doing! I'm personally more surprised in the chain of command allowing/ordering it to happen. Ethics aside, you'd normally expect some baseline level of mental competence there, but it's just been a long string of decisions so stupid that they fall outside the range of predictions for what the Russian government/military might do. What historic precedent excists for this kind of bad decision-making comes mostly from hereditary authority or situations where the entire chain of command has been purged after a coup to be replaced with people based on loyalty to the new government, so it is unexpected from a country like Russia.
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  7862. Every soldier in every army carries a dagger (or equivalent) and every armor can be defeated by such after some grappling. That said, the antiarmor weapons are going to be a serious issue until equipment can be changed
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  7863. Diego C. People that want more money. UBI works because all work leaves you economically better off. Sure, there's going to be an economic shift where jobs that make people miserable are going to be paid more relative to their relation to other job's wages currently, but I don't think that's a bad thing. All else being equal, shitty jobs should pay more than pleasant ones, and it's mainly exploitation of those who are too desperate to pass them up that is responsible for the current status quo. That will also encourage more of those jobs to be automated, which would also be good. Imagine if all soul-crushing jobs were either well paying or taken by machines. Doesn't that sound nice?
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  7864.  @MichaelJohnson-og5md  and poverty raises the rates of all of those things dumbass. So does systemic oppression like the disproportionate targeting of blacks in the war on drugs, which not only breaks black families dirrectly, but was explicitly intended to target black community leaders to break their communities. You want to know why black communities are a mess? It's because of right-wing white men like you putting others like you in positions of power to hurt those that look different from you.
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  7865. Please watch CPG Grey on the electoral college here: The Electoral College: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9936C719FF689E7D If you're still in favor of it after having the practical flaws of it broken down, I'm happy to debate the ethics.
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  7866. Justin Mooney please watch this https://youtu.be/ubIeQ-uO_b0 and then go to nationalpopularvote.com That answers your question better than I could, especially at this time of night, but tl;dr is article 2 allows the states to choose their delegates in any way they choose, so no, it wouldn't violate the constitution.
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  7867. ​@JasonSpielbergwrong. Look up the Global Change Game where they ran it as an experiment after separating participants based on their RWA scores. The militant people are the ones who want to control everything and everyone.
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  7868. FalconPixel 14 your welcome for holding the line against this madness. Unfortunately, this is springing up everywhere, so please try to prevent its rise where you live. It creeps up quietly when it doesn't have much power so beware
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  7869. Bastard swords, shamshirs, and tulwars for me
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  7870. ​ @mbeecher9921 you expect the rich to not have an income or assets sometime soon? How's that gonna happen, exactly?
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  7871. Bang - Up Gaming that's the plan, yes
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  7872. northofyou33 it's more like domestic abuse victims that haven't left the house and are still insisting their abusers love them. The DNC sure fits the same behavior and speech patterns as an abusive partner.
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  7873.  Big Rock  ever notice that that's because nearly every neolib is also a neocon?
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  7874. I think (in my incredibly less educated opinion) that the biggest advances we're going to see in the near future for defense will be a synergy between passive defenses (armor in the classical sense) and active protection systems. When there are interception systems and things like (possibly) electric armor to counter things like heat rounds/missiles, then the material of the solid armor can be more optimized to focus on things like apfsds rounds. Right now, armor is being asked to defend against multiple types of attacks, and that is going to limit its potential to defend against any one type of threat as optimizing for more design characteristics involves more compromises being made, as a general rule. How this will play out I don't know, though, as there is very much an arms race between active protection systems and countermeasures to them (at the most basic, tandem charges to counter explosive reactive armor).
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  7875.  @krismitchell5496  right vs left is about top vs everyone else because it is about consolidating vs distributing power.
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  7876. It is the republican MO More proof that the corporate democrats are actually republicans.
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  7877. You know, the fact that they only seem to talk about Isreal should throw up some red flags for you.
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  7878. ​ @jennifershanks453 exactly. The right ALWAYS projects.
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  7879.  @BattleDroid-sd4rp  worse
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  7880. Money, religion, and politics...mix any two and you get a mess. Mix all 3 and you have a disaster (and once they have 2, them going for the 3rd is almost inevitable given time). Tax exemption isn't even good for the religions. Making them file under a non-profit organization status with open finances would help a lot with corruption. You want to run your religion as a scheme to accumulate money and power, and you'll get taxed like any other buisness.
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  7881. Because from the very start all their insults were desperate attempts at projection.
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  7882. And everyone who's ever used it thrown in prison as the criminals they are. The Constitution is completely unambiguous on this, but the courts don't care what it says.
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  7883. It should be illegal everywhere. Freedom of speech doesn't protect conspiracy to commit crimes.
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  7884. Toast ghost the last 2 presidents completely ignored Habeas Corpus...I mean, I'd love to see Trump go, but what makes you think he's going down for the same shit Bush and Obama got a pass on?
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  7885.  @Bladerunner-yd5lk  you think psychopaths are rare in government? If it's anything like CEOs (which we would expect in a corporate oligharchy) we'd expect 20-25% of congress to be psychopaths. This isn't an outrageous leep of logic. Sorry to trample on your naive notion that the average politician is no worse than the average voter, but that's just not the reality we live in.
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  7886.  @goodgirlkay  you do know professional porn is about as real as wrestling right? And that amature porn exists (which is very often just some exhibitionists putting some stuff on the internet) Filmed porn isn't my preference (especially the kind you mention) but you should still know that that whole thing was BS.
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  7887. Sure, it's called "cognitive dissonance" but the levels you need to believe both sides of flat eartherism or climate change are symptomatic of numerous mental disorders so tread with care
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  7888. Yeah, if you want to try and define a space which is completely apolitical, good fucking luck.
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  7889. Watch this <5 min CGP Grey video and you'll understand how ads are matched to videos: https://youtu.be/KW0eUrUiyxo Then consider the advertiser-unfriendly warning and you can figgure out the strategy hacks like Prager U use to get out their ads on the cheap. It's all a lot simpler than it seems once you look at it from the perspective the rather simple (in principle) system is built from.
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  7890.  @cesspool1676  are you saying that the "Democrats" are more deregulation than Republicans or that it's "Democrats" trying to restrict abortion/marriage rights? Please tell everyone which way you are full of shit.
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  7891. Considering how well they handled the cold weather at the start of the war, there's a chance winter will basically cause a total collapse of the Russian military.
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  7892. filonin2 Kennedy was the last president who wanted to dismantle the CIA if I remember correctly...
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  7893. filonin that was the implication of the "...", yes
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  7894. It was always going to have to got sharply worse before it got better. The longer we wait to start the work, the worse.
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  7895. Jibo Da Grey well said
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  7896.  @dlawrence2053  MLK was invited in because the alternative to moving towards concessions to the more moderate socialist was more violence and property destruction. Btw, have you ever read what MLK said about rioting and looting?
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  7897. Really? We're going to talk about her Adams apple and not the fact that everything above her shoulders appears inhumanly stretched (see 1:01 to see her next to other people), or the fact that her ethics and the ways she moves just seem like a mockery of humanity? If I was more paranoid, I'd be pointing to her as evidence of lizard people, but we're going to ignore both substance and all of that to say that she looks manly and make implications that she's trans?
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  7898.  @donHooligan  no, you're just being cringy af, and I wanted to let you know because you're better than that (dispite our disagreements now and then) Not mad or hurt, just kinda cringing for you dude.
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  7899.  @donHooligan  was commenting on the uncanny valley produced by her odd appearance and psychopathy failing to emulate normal human mannerisms. (And yes, I'm probably older than you by a few years. Deal with this aging millennial for a bit please) Seriously, though, you think I ever listened to Alex Jones? I know we don't always see eye to eye on every issue, but you know I'm at least as left as Bernie, if not moreso, right?
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  7900. See https://youtu.be/le86H7Xfjrc https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  7901.  @EASTSIDESEE  cope harder, fascist
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  7902.  @WowPlusWow  Bernie was a MUCH stronger candidate for the general than the primary you UTTER fool!
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  7903. ​ @h8sjws735 found the fascist
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  7904. Because working class parents never send their kids to college /s
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  7905. Sorry, wasn't it supposed to be public healthcare that put beurocrats between you any your doctor? Rhetorical question, of course. Just like usual, it was projection from the right.
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  7906. Because when they accused progressives of hating America, like everything else, it was projection.
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  7907.  @Fuzzycat16  1 person alone rarely changes anything. The right person, in the right place, at the right time, and backed by a popular movement can change the world as history has repeatedly shown.
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  7908.  @sasha9921  look, Trump is worse, but Biden also has the deaths of hundreds of thousands on his hands. That's not a good argument.
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  7909. When were the anti-racist days again?
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  7910. Barry Nichols and most democrats aren't liberals. Also, to be fair, college is big buisness now, which has a strong GOP leaning, and management and employees don't always agree, so even if all your professors are liberals, that doesn't mean those running the colleges aren't of a completely opposite mindset
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  7911. Don't forget the connection to violent crime.
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  7912. ​ @brycedery9596 apparently
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  7913. The science doesn't support that claim, so no?
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  7914.  @paulfinneran4244  the science about HRT basically erasing all differences in athletic performance from bone density to muscle mass to oxygen transport etc
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  7915. +Jolly Cocks Most of congress voted to GIVE weapons to Saudi Arabia who armed Al Qaida with those weapons. Most of congress is legally guilty of treason on that alone, despite our extremely narrow definition of treason. Hell, this story is about politicians using their government positions to sell out US interests for personal gain, so is treason in spirit, even if it skirts the legal definition. Trump's a traitor, but so is Hillary, Obama, Bush, Bill, Bush Sr., Regan, (hell, probably every president back to and including Nixon) and most of the people through congress under their presidencies. He's a walking disaster, but I haven't seen any evidence of him being more of a traitor than is normal at this point, so can you be more specific if you disagree? (Preferably with a legitimate citation)
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  7916. As long as politicians are or are owned by the rich and wealth keeps consolidating at the top, they will keep trying to find sneaky ways to squeeze ever more out of those who actually work for a living. That's why when they keep cutting taxes they quietly raise fees and fines. When the rich pay less, either you pay more or inflation goes up (or both). There's no way around that. This goes for every society, btw, not just the US.
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  7917. No kidding Compulsive lying Narcissistic delusions What's next on the antisocial personality disorder symptom checklist? Gotta do some work to catch up to Hillary
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  7918. But they complain so loudly when we compare them to Nazis. What can I say? The truth hurts. Deal
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  7919.  @sakketin  exactly. And this is why when dealing with political terms, you always use encyclopedias over dictionaries. Just look at how many dictionaries have the propaganda definition of "communism" as an even clearer example of why you actually need to look at an encyclopedia to understand political terms.
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  7920. Pretty much everyone you've ever heard say "I'm straight, but___" is actually bi... Just sayin'
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  7921.  @staraptorflock3661  r/whoosh
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  7922. Calzon Cillos please explain to me what part of "more extreme weather of every kind" is difficult to understand. Then you can explain what part of the difference between weather and climate confuses you. Ps, I live in PA (that's south of NY) and a small bit of snow in early April has been normal for decades longer than I've been alive, dispite our winters and late falls changing drastically durring that time period. But you're telling me that I should ignore all the data as well as my own senses, to believe that ~99.9% of scientists are in some conspiracy, and that only the ones that are paid by the fossile fuel industry (many of who, btw, are the same ones that argued in court that cigarettes don't cause cancer) are the ones I should blindly believe against all other evidence? How does that make any sense?
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  7923. You do know that the T in LGBT stands for transgender right? Also, equality is not an infringement on you or your rights. Deal
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  7924. See Innuendo Studios' "the origins of conservatism". Right-Libertarianism is JUST Conservatism which is JUST corporate feudalism and that's all it's ever been.
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  7925. ​ @Dennis-xj8nh history says otherwise.
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  7926. ​ @Dennis-xj8nh read history or just look around the world for the barbarism that capitalism IS
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  7927.  @somemonkeystirnerite  that's because the only sincere right "libertarians" are the stooges duped by the thought leaders. The real ideology the leaders believe in is just conservatism. They just stole the word libertarian as a ruse (and admitted as much).
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  7928. There is one other major demographic group that speech patterns get changed to talk to. Nina was right though, it's not racial or ethnic. It's the younger generations.
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  7929. Dore is a liability, at best. Exposing his BS is always productive.
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  7930. ​ @MS-ns2pj weak ad-hom there bucko.
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  7931. Haven't watched it yet, but Legal Eagle has a video on it and is usually my go-to for that kind of question
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  7932.  @ivandafoe5451  a-viewing admitting uncertainty as discrediting is a very dangerous habbit and b-he focuses on the legal aspect, not getting into the other aspects of the thing, so saying he's justifying anything on any issue is usually an extreme stretch at minimum.
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  7933. Putin is a fascist. They're all basically the same person.
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  7934. *are willingly Nazis.
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  7935. ​ @JLF201 if you think you cannot beat the guy, you have no idea what a real hardball interview looks like.
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  7936. Chilling, but not untrue
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  7937.  @morenitomoreno1282  Poe's Law is real for a reason *looks right accusingly* But yeah, "/s" is your friend
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  7938.  mayrana2  not to mention mercenaries' interests aren't always in line with the nation's (even ignoring the inevitable military coup)
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  7939.  @tinasmith1391  now you're in crazyland. Pearl Harbor and the simultaneous attacks across the Pacific that went with it were not false flags. Reel it back.
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  7940.  @tinasmith1391  "The building of Hitler" wtf?
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  7941.  @illustriouschin  in a colloquial sense I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out that we're dealing with enough ignorance and fear that sanity (at least on the ground level) may not even be that much of a factor.
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  7942. Apparently you have never read the first amendment. (spoilers for a document over 220 years old: it doesn't apply to corporations)
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  7943.  @dennisschmidt975  oh, I was just commenting on what it appeared to be. I can work from the assumption that you are being dishonest or are too stupid to understand the constitution if you would prefer. Btw, there are plenty of situations where you do not have a right to lie. Perjury, slander, and dishonest non-political advertisements can all land you not just on the wrong side of terms of use but on the loosing side of a trial. However, as someone so well acquainted with the boundaries of constitutional law, I'm sure you knew all that too, right?
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  7944.  @dennisschmidt975  _in your own mind because of the dunning-kreuger effect, I know.
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  7945.  Mike C  lol wow that is a helariously inaccurate mischaracterization of the causes of the 2008 crash! Were tf did you pull that nonsense?
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  7946. That's what happens when you trust the people with weapons to protect you from angry peasants and yes, that's exactly how she looks at it, even if she doesn't use those words in her mind.
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  7947. Do that and you could cut the deficit while greatly increasing spending on all sorts of things...hell, you could do things like end world hunger, cut carbon emissions by >90% in decades, etc
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  7948. 100%
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  7949. 🎯
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  7950. Gave me time to go "DAAAMMMNNN, he just went there! Nice!"
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  7951. But how else will Musk keep himself safe? He already avoids riding disgusting public transit to keep away from dangerous poor people, but after the coming economic crash, that may not be enough. He needs an armored car to survive the fallout of what his class is doing to the working class of the world. That is the emotional underpinnings of that vehicle and why it looks like something that takes inspiration from Mad Max and Cyberpunk. It's a physical manifestation of Musk's thoughts about the future.
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  7952. Fucking death cult.
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  7953. Even just making sure that the plastic slides are open (rather than tubes) will expose the bacteria to the clensing UV light from the sun.
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  7954. Don't undersell it by merely calling him a robber barron. He's a Nazi.
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  7955. Same with a fool and his democratic government, unfortunately.
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  7956. What are you talking about? He's not poor
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  7957.  @jeff0064  r/whoosh?
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  7958. This is a weird dichotomy to create. We don't need new laws to call and prosecute these people as terrorists. Also, we do need to go hard and prosecute as many as possible. Being tepid and conciliatory after an attempted fascist coup historically works out VERY poorly, only emboldening them to make a more successful attempt after they regroup.
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  7959. Let me put it this way: I don't know that anything will happen, but with all the groups Trump pissed off, I will be keeping my distance from all his properties, and would especially recommend that outside the US borders.
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  7960. That is a reasonable ranking...too reasonable My ranking is to flip the table, flip off the person asking the question, and drag the lot off to be charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and (for at least most) treason.
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  7961. 🎯 Just a dogwhistle from someone who wants to finish what the tiny mustache man started.
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  7962.  @frostbitefps6210  protected status IS legal, obviously.
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  7963.  @frostbitefps6210  legal doesn't mean "citizen". You're moving goalposts here.
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  7964. "President Trump is playing defense. . ." that right there is newsworthy in it of itself.
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  7965. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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  7966.  @luceafarul579  Bernie promiced to endorse whoever got the nomination Bernie kept his word and endorsed the nominee Then people like you jumped off into crazy conspiracy land as if a politician who takes their word seriously is some atrocity. What is broken in your brain?
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  7967.  @luceafarul579  lol, making public promices and holding to them is a sign of being corruptable? Ok bucko, if that makes sense to you 😆
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  7968. Remember: if the right wing is insulting anyone, they're projecting. That goes for establishment dems too.
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  7969.  @theelephantintheroom6680  the claim that Universal background checks would require a universal registry is flat-out false. The rest of your comment is moot.
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  7970.  @theelephantintheroom6680  we already have background checks required to be done by most sellers that require them to do background checks to make sure they're not selling, for example, a violent criminal fresh out on parole. That doesn't require a registry of who owns guns, just lists of who isn't allowed to buy them. All a universal background check does is close the loophole where someone could sell to our violent criminal example with plausible deniability (or actual ignorance).
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  7971. Why is more people being open to having homosexual relationships disturbing to you? To me this just sounds like more, mostly streight, people being willing to admit that having a small amount of same-sex attraction makes them bi (even if they usually prefer heterosexual relationships).
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  7972. People like you have said the same BS again and again through history. Tell me when you were on the right side of history, exactly? Was it during the civil rights era when you were saying the same shit about MLK's protests?
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  7973. I've taken to constantly telling people that normalizing Biden's evil will all but guarentee a second, even worse Trump, but yeah, the dumbfuckery on both sides is incredibly thick and absolutely everywhere and I am beyond fed up with it.
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  7974. You're dreaming. Both parties are complicit in this.
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  7975. Leftists: the justice democrats are the moderates.
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  7976. _and then blames it on Trump and gets to pretend that Biden will fix everything. That's not good either.
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  7977. Really? No one can tell you the difference between a government owned private sector and a private sector owned government? Sorry, but I have to seriously doubt you've actually had that conversation with any leftist, socialist or not because that is insanely basic shit.
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  7978. Sexual insecurity? Seriously, I don't get guys that feel sexually challenged by fucking toys...how bad do you have to be in bed for that?
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  7979. Both. Fighting to a pyrrhic victory over a symbolic objective is so typical of Putin's Russia right now.
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  7980. ​ @DVG7093 don't think that means you're immune from the same thing happening where you live. Fascism is a global movement.
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  7981. Not the Dems, that's for sure! No one's coming to save us. We going to have to save each other.
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  7982. Clint Holmes and poes law strikes again. I default to appending "/s" to my sarcastic posts and most seem to understand it's short for [/sarcasm]
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  7983. They basically did. "the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”" -MLK It's the same damn talking points they've been recycling on black people since at least the start of the civil rights movement...only this time, we're not talking about desegregation and voting rights but Generational Genocide Turns out it being life and death for their own descendants doesn't matter to this crop of bigots.
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  7984. Zombie David Bowie is my sensei well it can...we're just running the beta version of it and it's got more bugs than a rotting corpse on top of an ant colony
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  7985.  @BobBob-gz5hj  if they poll them and then discard the numbers of all younger voters that's the same as not polling them, and when they then present the numbers as representative of the whole population, that's dishonest. Are you honestly that stupid that you can't see that, or are you being paid? And that's just the tip of the iceberg of how the CNN poll fudged the numbers.
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  7986. Poblachtach Éireannach yes yes and yes
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  7987. Even without the lights out of a good headshot, I'd still prefer bleeding out from a chestwound to the horror of being strapped down as they prep me to be injected with poison while swabbing my arm with alcohol like some twisted mockery of a vaccination while I hope they've got the drug dosages right so that I fall unconscious instead of being paralyzed and unable to breath while it feels like every vein in my body is on fire. The fact that we have divised one of the worst ways to die in the form of something that sanitizes it in the eyes of the public is completely horrifying even before you take into account that we sometimes do this to innocent people!
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  7988. Damien Hailey just have faith in the invisible hand of the market and you shall be saved. Also bootstraps
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  7989. Faux News: the origional fake news. Accept no imitations.
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  7990. In 4 years most of the people in this comment section will be either in hiding or in camps.
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  7991. ​ @arunbabu2739 why do you hate this country yet refuse to leave?
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  7992. All edge no point like a ridiculous pizzacutter. Seriously, if you're this fatalistic stop wasting your time following and talking about politics. The rest of us are going to try and force them unto the double bind of being unable to rig it without the whole country being unable to deny it.
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  7993. Let's not forget his "Universal" Basic Income is paid for with a regressive VAT tax, which will fall mostly on the poor, and, since you have to choose between the "UBI" and other assistance programs...well that leaves the poorest completely fucked, the rich $12k/year richer, and those in the middle exactly where they were. Fuck! That! Shit! (And we haven't even talked about what it would do to housing prices) More: https://the2020progressive.com/andrew-yang-ubi-not-answer-for-progressives/
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  7994. The problem wasn't that we froze rents. The problem was that we just let people pay their rents late and called it a rent freeze.
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  7995. Do you really want to leave them alone with the nukes?
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  7996.  @mr.gamewatch7547  only because (and where) Christianity has been declawed by centuries of secularism. For more, see: https://youtu.be/Wd6FgYbMffk https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ
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  7997.  Gregulator  the argument from Jason, and others in those communities, is that older black voters don't believe that white voters will vote for Bernie because it would mean sharing the prosperity of the country for the first time in their lives. I disagree with the electability argument there in several ways, but that seems to be a perspective held by older black voters and I can understand how their perspective may be colored by their life experience.
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  7998. And...you know...drug prohibition is total BS that just creates a black market that funds organized crime. It's amazing how we as a country learned this lesson with alcohol, and then managed to completely forget it.
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  7999. If there's sufficient and timely evidence of severe enough fraud, any accusations of pettiness can be blunted by framing the discussion (truthfully) as the PEOPLE being cheated and running independent as being giving them a real choice that they were cheated out of.
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  8000. "The people? You think I care about the people?" Cercei Lanister and the US government They only care about their personal power relitive to other world leaders. This is a game to them and we are just pawns.
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  8001. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists including, and perhaps especially, to Ms "Jewish Space Lasers" herself)
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  8002.  @MargauxStewart  let's not let denouncing the fascism of the GQP lower our standard That far please.
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  8003. Making Satan sound comparatively benevolent with that kinda talk.
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  8004. Because Christian Zionism sees Israel as instrumental in bringing about Armageddon.
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  8005. Ohh, been talking about election reform, so I missed that one
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  8006.  @Sheepy-hp9je  democrats, commies? Lmao at least you're funny sometimes
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  8007.  @JohnDoe-ol3yz  doesn't make it untrue. People that understand logic call that an "ad hominem".
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  8008.  Music  somewhat, but not always wrong
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  8009. Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. -Thomas Jefferson
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  8010. Could do what people at Tyson Chicken did when denied unscheduled bathroom breaks: wear diapers while handling the product. 'Cause you know, that's humane and not a health hazard. (Needless to say Tyson went on my boycott list when I learned about that)
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  8011.  @jftt42  you have the "why" wrong. Not going hard on Biden made the electability lie easier.
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  8012. ​ @iTHiNKiKEN taking the testosterone away takes the advantage away, weirdo.
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  8013. Johannes Liechtenauer not about, exactly equal to. Think you're thinking of meters which are about 3ft or 1yard
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  8014. @dementiasweets2116 the real nuclear risk is Putin's Russia. MAD reduces the risk. I know thinking isn't your strong point, but try to keep up.
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  8015. ​ @Big-lron the Dems are a center-right party with a BUNCH of conservatives included. They're too far left for you because of how far right YOU have moved
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  8016.  @reptilespantoso  for what little it's worth, our government treats US citizens like subjects, so there is consistency with US foreign and domestic policy.
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  8017. Congrats on breaking free!
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  8018. @h2s stop getting your information from fascists. It's rotting your brain.
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  8019. Yup, all non-universal aid programs create areas right above the cutoff point where it's better to make less money than make more and loose the benefits. Making all benefit programs univeral is the only system that doesn't create those problems which discourage and even limit social mobility.
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  8020. That's the thing. They're trying to set the prescedent that they don't have to vote for it so they can just have their new patsy in the Whitehouse do it and denounce him after. That's the goal of the Senate committee's move.
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  8021.  @suewhite98  agreed. While something's better than nothing, we're going to need to apply real leverage against this administration, not just voice our disapproval.
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  8022. The terrorism will continue until liberals start taking the threat of fascism seriously.
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  8023.  @MeatbagTheMighty  The t_ism will continue until libs start taking the threat of fascism seriously.
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  8024.  @TCt83067695  there's this thing called "selective populism" (as laid out in Umberto Echo's 14 characteristics) and it's used by fascists to redirrect populist support toward a rebranded elites (sometimes called "class collaboration") and populist anger toward scapegoats. And yes, right wing populism is always dishonest and I am calling Tucker a fascist and saying that you should see right wing populism as somewhere between a near-certain and for-certain sign of fascism anywhere you see it.
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  8025.  @TCt83067695  this has been tried. It ends with fascists taking over your movement by faking populism. You want to exclude them from positions of power in your movements until they are willing to change their politics and stop being fascists. Correcting lies and misconceptions about what left and right mean or just sticking to policies and specific issues if you want to avoid the terms in that specific situation can work, but make no mistake; people having an emotional reaction instead of understanding of these terms is something that has been deliberately cultivated because it makes it harder to talk about things when our political vocabulary is rendered useless. Right wing politics is about heirarchy and consolidation of power. Left wing politics is about egalitarianism and distribution of power. This political axis is fundamental to politics because politics is about power, especially its distribution between people and only secondarily about its forms and uses.
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  8026.  @airspotterone5601  ...private sector created this problem dude. Private sector also bought off our government to prevent them from stopping their pollution... O.o
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  8027. Related side point: almost the entire world has refused to officially recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea as legitimately becoming Russian territory. That's very telling of what the world's response to the liberation of Crimea would be. And yes, ALL captured territory should be retaken. Ukraine appears committed to this because they understand that appeasement only emboldens future fascist aggression and facilitates genocide. Until Russia is shown, by force of arms, that their imperialist ambitions will not gain them anything, it will continue and escalate. Were it not for the nukes in play, the most moral position would be for the world to come together and remove Putin and his government and do a take 2 on Nuremberg. Total removal of ALL Russian forces from Ukraine is the bare minimum necessary to achieve peace in western Europe (not counting, of course, whatever happens internally within Russia in the fallout...which could range from a quick coup to bloody balkanization, but that's something we don't really have much influence on) "War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg War is an evil, but the guilt for it lies with the aggressor. Coexistence is only possible when either all parties desire it, or those that do are able to force those who do not to accept it "or else". We must never loose sight of the reality that being pro-peace and being pacifistic are not the same thing and often are in direct opposition.
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  8028.  @damonpearson2448  yes and no. It is possible to have both working in conjunction in a strongly mixed economy with workers getting a larger and larger say over a buisness as it grows (until it basically becomes a worker co-op) in the private sector and other elements of the economy completely or partially socialized. I see no reason why it wouldn't be impossible to structure a system such that the tendency of money (and therefore power) to concentrate isn't dealt with. That all said, energy is infrastructure, and thus has no buisness not being at least 90% socialized.
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  8029.  @damonpearson2448   technically said companies would be better described as syndicalism than true socalism (and already Germany comes close with workers having control of half the boards of large companies) though as some categorize that as a form of socialism I may be splitting hairs there. I have to disagree that dirrect democracy, anarchism, or true socialism are viable to run an entire society with but, while I do believe that the market forces of capitalism are a beast that can be reined in and put to work alongside more socialist systems, I do agree that capitalism (as typically conceived of) is insanely unjust. Hell, I don't even describe myself as a capitalist since, even though that's at least partially true, the extent of the many and complicated changes I think are needed would make it largely unrecognizable (and the fact that I don't seek to put capital in control of the economy, but simply make it an intermediary between the economy and the society designing the rules its economy will run on) I can't lay out exactly what I think needs done (that would be a thesis unto itself), nor do I find saying "I advocate a socalist-leaning mixed market economy" an entirely adequate description (as it's super broad), but as you seem reasonable, I am willing to answer questions if there's anything you'd like to know that you can narrow down to something very specific.
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  8030.  @damonpearson2448  it can be that too (not that workers' representatives taking over a company board is significantly different). I was referring to the distinction between a system where the workers run buisnesses in competition with each other and one where they are unified and not in market competition via their respective buisnesses. The boundaries on the definitions of the words are a bit fuzzy, I admit.
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  8031.  @mistercohaagen  I'm quite sure there are white supremacist and otherwise fascist factions in the CIA. It's the CIA ffs.
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  8032. So Musk can have a cyberpunk-themed armored car to protect him from the revolting peasants after the next economic crash, yes.
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  8033. Make no mistake: Putin's war is simply genocidal in intent.
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  8034. "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  8035. Because we're not dealing with conservatives anymore. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  8036.  @Mark-Wilson  my comment will explain the "why". It's not hyperbole, either. It's just a matter of correctly identifying what we're dealing with.
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  8037. Scarface193448 it's just a troll, dude. Hard to tell these days, but just a troll.
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  8038. Liberals wanted a warcriminal and that's exactly what they got. No forgiveness for those who opposed Bernie.
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  8039. He said that. What's your point?
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  8040. Here's just one example illustrated. https://youtu.be/d1gFhTGB3II
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  8041.  @EmptyGlass99  exactly
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  8042. Megacorps who's real customers are other megacorps, and the product: access to you, and the narrative they feed you.
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  8043. Emperor Scott Yee and it was largely funded by a Saudi prince....and they benefited from the resulting wars...
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  8044. this nation was not founded on Judeo-Christian values. https://youtu.be/Wd6FgYbMffk
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  8045. You apparently have managed to avoid a lot of the anti-sjw """skeptic""" community. I almost envy your blissful ignorance, but sadly being an athiest doesn't automatically mean being rational, actually skeptical, or a humanist.
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  8046. Btw, pharma (and other) ads do the same thing to corporate "news" that "campaign donations" do to politicians. What do you think would have happened to all that health insurance advertising revenue if corporate news had covered M4A fairly? Do you think Boeing advertises because they're looking to sell 747s to the audience or because they want the news coverage to not hurt their military industrial complex profits?
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  8047. If they're going to do this, then yes, all videos on any controversial subject (right or wrong) should get links for "further research" with youtube making no distinction between them. Even if you don't believe in a marketplace of ideas (which you should), you have no business talking about foreign funded/owned channels putting out "fake news" when you treat Fox "News" as a respectable outlet and uprank them dispite them being partly owned by a Saudi prince and their viewers consistently testing as being less informed than people that watch no news. They objectively fail both criteria YouTube claims to be concerned about, but are given special status because they're corporate, establishment news.
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  8048.  @Eddardstark9308  I promise you that you are giving them too much credit and that it goes deeper than that. The anti-intellectucalism we are dealing with now isn't just people latching on to random dumb things like we saw in the 2000-2012ish range. We've always dealt with people latching on to dumb things online without thinking them through. What we've been dealing with for roughly the last decade is an emotional rebellion against The Enlightenment, itself. A contempt for those who genuinely care about truth, reason, and human well-being. A feeling that thinking, itself, is emasculating. A feeling of persecution looking for a target, any target, to lash out against to avoid any introspection.
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  8049.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  8 month old troll account.
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  8050.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  everyone's above people that can't keep an account for more than a year due to getting banned for hate speech.
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  8051. More "active shooters" are stopped by civilians without guns than civilians with guns, and attempts to run scenarios that try to simulate a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun usually end concluding the good guy with a gun is more likely to get himself shot than stop the bad guy. This is not an anomaly. What stops a bad guy with a gun isn't a good guy with a gun, but a good guy with initiative and courage (and the reality is that you need to find those in situ in a real event) Unless you have what amounts to SWAT training, a gun is really of little, if any, help, contrary to what all of our natural instincts about that are.
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  8052. Frank Castle when did I say "most"? Please work on your reading compensation before you go bleating irrelevant facts and insulting real heroes from the safety of your keyboard. You've been confronted with facts that challenge your worldview. Either disprove what was actually said, or accept that you've been fed a myth about how the world actually works.
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  8053. Because just like the flag and the Bible, it's just a symbol to consolidate power with. The content has never mattered to them. They're so obsessed with constantly trying to put themselves on top of a heirarchy, they can't understand that others actually aren't cynically using everything they can the exact same way. They're so devoid of believing in things like principles, equality, and truth, that they can't even imagine that you actually believe in them either. That's why every push for equality is taken as an attempt to put someone else on top and why they're so obsessed with seeing hypocrisy that they will imagine it where it doesn't exist. They need to imagine that the only difference between us and them is they're trying to put the "right" people at the top and we're trying to put the "wrong" people at the top. (For more, see Innuendo Studio's "always a bigger fish")
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  8054. Ah good, an engineering student. Hello, I have a question: My rough calculations have changing the impact angle of the blade from 90° to 45° as decreasing the effective edge angle by about 29% since it's taking a longer path to get to the thickest part of the blade. I imagine even ignoring the sheer stesses of the drawing motion, this increase in effective sharpness would itself contribute to the cutting ability of the blade. Am I off base with this? If not, how much of an effect would you say this has?
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  8055. AlphaLemming lmao
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  8056.  @drinkskhalifa7153  Ukraine's biggest problem right now is that they're not under NATO protection, and Putin has just made every country in eastern Europe realize how dangerous it is to be near Russia and NOT part of NATO.
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  8057.  @benwest4837  we get it. Your main concern is there aren't enough women getting killed for your liking. You can stop spamming this on every comment and go back to watching the fascist channels you subscribe to.
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  8058. Anyone else find that the few breaks they need to change their feminine products being that much of hindrance really telling that NONE of their workers are getting frequent enough breaks? Just saying, breaks aren't really a bad thing when you actually look at the numbers even from a purely profit standpoint, so this kind of stuff is really telling of how management sees ALL their workers and how they treat them in all things.
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  8059. Crypto isn't money but a ponzi/pyramid scheme. Those that buy in only make a profit when others do after them. It only doesn't collapse because people were taught mythology instead of history economics class. Money is a quantized, transferable debt relation that gets a stable exchange value from the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, by which those who work outside the market economy (who make your civilization possible) get compensated for their labor. Crypto is "hey, I wasted energy and expensive and environmentally costly computer parts making the digital equivalent of mud pies. Pay me for them and you'll probably be able to sell them at a higher price to rubes that buy in after you." For further understanding of what money actually is, please see Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graber (rip) There's even a free audiobook of it right here on YouTube.
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  8060.  @mikecurry6847  idk if it's most, but if they don't offer either, they should also be banned. Same with NFTs while we're at it. I've no patience for any of this BS.
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  8061. All corporate "news" is corporate propaganda.
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  8062. "by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." "the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation." "The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason." -Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism So yeah, the entire ideological foundation of Putin's government doomed them from the start. They've been drunk on their own propaganda for a very long time. Wind the clock back a decade and you can find Russian soldiers drunk on machismo talking about the US military being "soft" and "dependant on their high-tech gadgets which would fail them in a real war against real men" all to hide their own military's deficiencies in discipline, reliable logistics, and having up-to-date equipment. They did so much posturing for so long that they forgot that they had an army designed for show and not for combat.
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  8063. Citation for more details please
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  8064. Fight's not over 'till we're dead. This is a movement, and we have no choice but to win.
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  8065. I mean...it's a centuries' old tactic for justifying imperialism still used today.
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  8066. You're not wrong, but that discribes most of Congress and the executive branch for decades.
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  8067.  @JoshSweetvale  depends on the crowd and if the tank has infantry support. Tanks are actually really vulnerable to some simple and iconic insurgent tactics if they don't have backup.
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  8068. Globalism is necessary for a prosperous a very quick web search will show his methodology is total shit https://theskepticalcardiologist.com/2015/08/04/the-incredibly-bad-science-behind-dr-esselstyns-plant-based-diet/ He also totally disregards all studies showing how unsaturated fats lower LDL just to peddle his BS. Further, eliminating cholesterol from the diet doesn't remove it from the body. Your body synthesizes more cholesterol than a normal person consumes because it's something your body needs to function. If your genetics are bad and your body produces more than you need, you're likely to die of heart disease eventually no matter what you do. The man's delusional or a charlatan.
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  8069.  @kolawoleakerele2607  I suppose that would be possible, but it'd probably be less 4k and more "analogue recording on non-electronic media"...so not a YouTube video, but perhaps the last record ever cut by humanity?
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  8070. Unfortunately lead exposure is linked to violent crime and certain mental disorders
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  8071. They won't. There's no reforming the psychopaths that have taken over government. We can still remove them, however, even if the election system isn't what one would call "fair".
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  8072. Proportional systems are deeply flawed as they allow the party officials to decide who gets into power. Still better than what we have but I'll take a ranked choice system over the DNC deciding which dems get seats.
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  8073. Radical centrism Establishment left Neoconservate (lit: new tratitional) Progressive conservative Classical liberal Notice how all of the political labels that are oxymorons are for ideologies that are full of shit. Btw Centrism=golden mean logical fallacy Conservativism=appeal to tradition logical fallacy
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  8074.  @bravecaucasian  Charletsville. Your argument is invalid
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  8075. I'm going to blame both the fascist leaders and those who fall in line behind them for whatever reason, thank you very much.
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  8076. Yes. Have the debate held by the news souce that studies repeatedly find to have the most informed audience: NPR
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  8077. Alternative possibility to make it make more sense: it was an excuse to fire young people because Biden is ageist af kinda like a low-key version of how the Nixon administration created the war on drugs because they wanted to lock up black people and the anti-war left.
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  8078. They're thinking that US policies have turned their countries into hellholes with many times the murder rate of Chicago and that if they stay they/their families are likely to be killed/enslaved.
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  8079. We're probably going to need a solution other than mere arrests because Trump has the ability to pardon whoever he likes.
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  8080. Even if I choos to forgive, TRUST is a whole other level entirely and they've PROVEN that their ethics and judgement are unreliable, so I would be a fool to trust without extreme reason. There's a reason why forgive and forget are different words. I don't even trust DEMOCRATS who didn't support Bernie because they've proven that my human rights are negotiable to them. Former MAGA can pretty much forget trust because I'm ALWAYS going to be watching for backsliding. Living with the consequences of one's actions is part of being a mature adult.
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  8081. Between her and the Hood, British battleships had really bad luck getting hit in exactly the wrong place at the start of a battle.
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  8082. What, exactly, do you think protests will accomplish other than giving him an excuse to declare matrial law? Really spell it out for me.
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  8083. Worse, we're living in the Onion
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  8084.  @FallenAngelHiroko  yeah, but you don't tase OR shoot someone over a broken tail light or for revenge, bootlicker. So what if she drives off? You have her license plate and her on video. The fact that she left before signing the piece of paper means absolutely nothing. No level of force, much less one that can potentially kill, is needed.
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  8085.  @CrayonConoisseur irrelevant
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  8086.  @shaydorahl6740  why would life in an anoxic environment need "antioxidant properties"? That's how little you've thought through the talking points you've been fed. Look up "irreducible complexity debunked" and educate yourself for a change.
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  8087.  @shaydorahl6740  why would life in an anoxic environment need "antioxidant properties"? That's how little you've thought through the talking points you've been fed. Look up "irreducible complexity debunked" and educate yourself.
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  8088.  @shaydorahl6740  why would life in an anoxic environment need "antioxidant properties"? That's how little thought's been put into the talking points you've been fed. Look up "irreducible complexity debunked" and try to actually learn something.
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  8089.  @shaydorahl6740  why would life in an anoxic environment need "antioxidant properties"? That's how little thought's been put into the talking points you've been fed. Look up "irreducible complexity debunked"
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  8090. Jayson fingers, tongues, and toys
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  8091. European Patriot well, we could use a new financial system. Replacement won't be easy, but the current one is kinda worn out.
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  8092.  @tp3815  and how many others like him? But remember, the left are NPCs /s
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  8093. Still sad to see that our Justice Dem Jess King lost though
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  8094. Except being a cop doesn't even make the top 10 most dangerous jobs. Being a pizza delivery driver is more dangerous.
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  8095. georgebushwack missed the bit about the comming upswing in terrorist attacks?
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  8096. Bill Bouma it's just a troll, ignore
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  8097.  @Salsuero  guns, mostly
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  8098. Yeah, weight for even short-range trucking is a huge concern as unlike with cars, trucks often get near the weight limits of the roads that carry them, so every bit of weight devoted to carrying your energy is weight not used for carrying the cargo that is the entire point of the vehicle in the first place. Trains are probably easier to just run off of power mains (as it's not like you don't know exactly where they're going to be traveling long ahead of time), but I suppose a car or 2 for power storage could help bridge the gaps between power grids or give the train something to run on if a line goes down or something. Seems highly impractical for the already impractical cars, but if it works as advertised, there would be other uses. I'm optimistic about liquid metal batteries solving grid storage problems, but you can't exactly take those with you and can't always hook everything up to the grid or afford the weight of Lithium batteries, so we will need some other options even in the best case scenario even if the average consumer never uses it. Idk what that will be, but it is a gap we need to fill.
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  8099. Alexander Howarth SK doesn't need nukes. SK has US protection, so if NK used them, they would have been obliterated by the nuclear-armed sub that's certainly hiding in the region.
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  8100. Shaving Pvt. Ryan I wouldn't say China sold NK out, but they did likely sit down with them and explain that they needed to stop provoking the manchild in the US and probably that they weren't going to step in if NK went and started a war.
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  8101. +
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  8102.  @gfys756  nope. Trump didn't get more votes. Dems got less.
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  8103.  @gfys756  nah, he didn't get more votes than last time. It was that blue votes were down too, just moreso. What would have aged poorly is saying people like Kamala, which I never did.
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  8104. @gfys756  then why did he get fewer votes than he did last time? And why are his rallies at record low attendance?
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  8105.  @davidtieu4920  being able to accurately assess the current situation isn't pointless and everyone here (except maybe you) is calm as far as I can tell. What's your problem?
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  8106. NK is building nukes as a deterrent to US imperialism and is, even by the admission of our own intelligence agencies, a rational actor. They're barbaric to their own people, but not looking to use nukes offensively (even if for no other reason than they know that there is almost certainly a nuclear armed sub waiting to blow them off the map if they ever try such a thing) The tensions between the US, Russia, and China are of concern. Saudi Arabia getting nukes is a concern. The India-Pakistan tension is a BIG concern. North Korea having nukes, while regrettable (and preventable had Bush not distracted the world with the Iraq nonsense), is an incredibly low risk as far as nukes go.
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  8107. Got a link for that one by chance. They need blasted all over social media for that.
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  8108. I was just like "This is news? Of course she is. Her narcissism would never allow otherwise."
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  8109. Countless people have thought he was wrong since he first put his theories forward and have been trying, and failing, to disprove them to no success. That's generally how science works.
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  8110. I mean, if you're willing to eat the efficiency loss for electrolysis, that is a solved problem. Not an ideal solution for things like cars, but we will need something for things like trucks and planes where weight is a huge concern, so we will probably need something to replace diesel/jet fuel unless we get a really, really huge breakthrough on battery tech that I don't want to count on. IDK is this is that replacement, but it's good that we have energy storage research that is optimized for things other than cars, laptops, and phones.
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  8111. John Ralph most liberals in the US are just fighting to get things most of the rest of the developed world already has. As for data, name an issue and you'll find an issue the American people are to the left of the GOP on. That's because as far as our politicians go the right is no longer conservative, but neo-conservative (which is just facism-lite).
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  8112.  @tiarnan76  lmfao, way to demonstrate why you aren't worth debating XD
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  8113.  @Jeremy.Bearemy  never park your car on a hill like that without it both being in park and having your emergency break engaged. Problem solved.
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  8114. If you identified your "masculinity" with the bullies being stopped instead of the people stepping in on behalf of others that says more about you than I ever could (and only manchildren can't see that).
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  8115. Tim Pool isn't even a moderate, much less at all left. Just another "alt-right" propagandist pretending to be something he's not to draw people into the pipeline.
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  8116. Yes the post script was excellent! More of that please
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  8117. Ha!
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  8118. Eulogio Olivo either he's a narcissist in her mind for being "an uppity commoner who should know his place and not try and take on the ruling class" Or she's gaslighting Or having a psychotic break
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  8119. @PTFOdity  stop denying reality so you can simp for genocidal fascist dictators. It's pathetic.
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  8120. I have cleaned up far, far worse as a regular part of my job. This would take a couple minutes and be not worth mentioning.
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  8121. And that's not even getting into gerrymandering!
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  8122. In as few words as possible: Corruption and racism
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  8123.  @lahabitaciondelatrapado4621  even the most efficiant cars have nothing on the efficiency of mass transit
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  8124.  @inquisitorsteele8397  yes, those were also not terrorism and the misuse of the term in Iraq was also dishonest propaganda using the emotional loading of that term to try and get the public to support an illegal war of aggression started on pretences that were simply lies and overlook the warcrimes committed by the US. Vaguely gesturing at imagined hypocrisy is all you've got.
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  8125.  @Xpistos510  he's not economically far right you nut job. He repeatedly says that there are aspects of the economy that markets cannot handle. Don't be the left wing mirror of the morons who think everything left of fascism is communism.
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  8126. Sadly
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  8127.  @taumus1  non-sequetor and ad-hominem rolled into one. Fuck off.
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  8128. Small thing, but I don't think I can come up with a better logo for combat than what was shown at 10:26
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  8129. Give up on the party. They're complicit. Pushing the government into declaring martial law to try and silence dissent is the next step for us.
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  8130. Amazing how often bigots "conveniently" fail at basic understanding of the English language. It's almost like being a bigot makes someone stupid.
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  8131.  @andrecarlo7692  wrong, bigot.
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  8132. It wasn't a fucking instruction manual! Sad thing is, you all don't need me to tell you what "it" is anymore.
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  8133. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
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  8134.  @thulyblu5486  you're smart enough to see the false equivalence there right? I don't need to spell it out, do I?
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  8135. If things go on much longer people will likely have to resort to stealing food and leaving "Trump owes you." notes. People are putting up with it in the short term, but it doesn't take long for extreme food insecurity to turn to theft and violence as history shows.
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  8136. So called "prolifers" (especially those who oppose gay marriage, comprehensive sex ed, and/or universal access to contraception) are really just pushing the agenda of making as many babies as possible as is the norm for expansionist religions. Making their life suck later doesn't conflict with the ultimate goal, as people who are more desperate are more likely to join the military. The anarcho-capitialists like it too, because more workers competing for jobs means they can treat them like shit and pay them peanuts. Win-win for those in power, and loose-loose for everyone else.
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  8137.  @davidcoats2897  better yet, just end all military aid to Saudi Arabia. They are false allies and give our weapons over to Al-Quaida and use them to commit genocide. I don't see a Japanese pilot going on a mass shooting at a US base. (also the bibles in hand is a really bad idea for several reasons)
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  8138. It was also wrong. Trump didn't loose to Biden. Trump lost to covid and his handling of the BLM protests. Without those unforseen events, Biden would have lost.
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  8139. More than any country save one called Seychelles (which has such a small population and saw such a jump between 2003 & 2014, that I'm not sure that isn't just a statistical anomaly)
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  8140. Brem Curt that's the jist of it. Once the treaty that ended WW1 was signed, WW2 was basically inevitable.
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  8141.  Self Discipline  Soros a socialist? Lol thanks for the laugh
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  8142. Unfortunately, not news, however.
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  8143. If anything big budget calls itself "genre defining" it's lying. AAA games are too big and expensive these days to be allowed to take the risks to make anything genre defining. That will entirely be the domain of indy games which are small enough to be able to risk the potential failure that comes with innovation.
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  8144. Tbh, I do love this for the unintentional subtext of "you haven't done shit, and it's all downhill from here"
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  8145. Gabe Steinberg um, BS. Florida in 2000, Interstate Cross Check in 2016, possibly Ohio in 2004, just to name a few and that's not counting things like Gerrymandering and other milder voter-suppression plans that they admit to. It's about the goals of the parties. The GOP wants to win, so isn't going to undermine their chances of winning the general by not electing the candidate that can prove they can get the most votes, but will cheat in the general. The DNC's goal is to keep real progressives from having a voice, and they'll be perfectly happy to rig their primaries if they think it's needed, but they're unlikely to try and rig the general as complaints about that would get the finger pointed back at them in a very public way and they'd no longer be able to dismiss the people accusing them as mere "conspiracy theorists".
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  8146. Happy Merchant oh please, look at voting records. Both do.
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  8147. *normalize having as many or few partners as desired who want to have you, because let people who aren't hurting anyone just live their lives. Normalize kinks to further reduce discrimination and center consent above all when it comes to sex...and yes, treat people who won't take the most basic steps to stop the spread of disease like they're more likely to spread disease especially in the middle of a fucking pandemic. I bet you'd treat people who were constantly sleeping around without using protection like they were "disease ridden plague factories" so you really don't have any room to be complaining about the last one, especially when you'd have to have sex with them or one of their partners for their behavior to put you at any risk. As opposed to before, where the state controlled who and what kind of consentual sex you could have and marital rape was legal.
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  8148.  @wvu05  yeah, the only defensible stance for voting 3rd party and letting the chips fall where they may is a non-quantifiable risk estimate that if we got Hillary, we'd be getting a fascist anyway, and Trump is about as incompetent of one as we could possibly get. Not a provable stance in any way, but at least something you can say you have an outcome in mind worse than Trump (the fascist Hillary would be paving the way for in that scenario), instead of pretending that Hillary (as awful as she is) would by herself, do more damage than Trump. This was, of course, not something I recall ever hearing from Jimmy or anyone like him for that matter....'cause he's (by his own admission) an idiot, so it was every stupid rationalization imaginable except the one that could actually not immediately fall appart once the emotions died down.
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  8149.  @wvu05  I agree. I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
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  8150. Imagine not supporting a wall that would cut through your property and still supporting Trump anyway. WTF is broken in these people's brains?
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  8151. Hafeez Hamama just look at Bush. An incompetent moron, when surrounded by psychpaths to persuade them is perhaps even more dangerous than just a streight out evil person.
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  8152. But we're the ones who will be called "conspiracy theorists" for paying attention to what was in the DNC leaks.
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  8153. I say this as a meat eater and milk drinker, but the processing inefficiencies in just about all plant-based products are negligible in comparison to the losses in using that same produce as animal feed to create animal products. Depending on what you're talking about (milk and eggs vs beef, for example) you're looking at loosing something like 60-90% of your crop to the metabolic inefficiencies and non-food parts of the animal before even getting into all the other costs of keeping the animal alive. Pretty much anything you're willing to substitute in for an animal product even some of the time will be easier on the environment (likewise, subbing eggs and dairy for chicken and pork, or those for beef will also be almost guarenteed to reduce your enviromental impact). Also, modern flash-freezing methods are great at preserving food quality while preventing food waste, so all else being equal, buying perishables from the freezer section is also good.
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  8154. jkklaffs look up religious demographics for prisons, or compare divorce rates of states to their rates of atheism and tell me. Spoilers: Yes, at least in part, more religion, more problems
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  8155.  @joshuaschmidt4161  thank you for supporting my argument that tankies are closer-aligned to fascists than any real leftists, and thus, aren't actually on the left, Mr. Fascist. I do appriciate that you're owning up to the fact that the crimes of the likes of Stalin and Mao are more aligned to your political ideology than mine, even if just out of stupidity.
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  8156. In the US at least, it seems to be largely a left over artifact of the cold war which is getting worse in recent decades
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  8157. There is absolutely foreign (including CIA) influence. The only question is how significant that is.
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  8158. It didn't save France, so maybe not the best plan
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  8159. It's a good question, though I don't think getting reliable information on that is even possible yet.
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  8160. Mine was a van my family got. If you ever turned on the air, while it wasn't the as overpowering as some people's stories, the only way I can describe it is getting a whiff of concentrated death. Not even pungent rot: it just smelled like death itself, nothing more, nothing less. We didn't keep it long enough to find out why.
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  8161. And even better, it won't be Yang's shitty one where it's paid for with a regressive tax and you have to choose between it and other social safety net programs (though we still need housing and healthcare as human rights before it's viable and getting a jobs guarentee to deal with climate change is the bigger priority as soon as this virus has passed) but yes, part of the public conversation now.
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  8162. If the boomers will let us have a chance to before it's too late.
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  8163.  @DustinMikkelsen  no, that would be because of your side embrassing fascism. Just look at who's doing all the mass shootings for an obvious sign of who the intolerant extremists actually are. Appeasement doesn't work. We know it. You know it. That's why you want us to engage in it: so fascism wins.
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  8164. Innocent civilains and kids who don't know better than to enlist. Same as every war.
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  8165. Well, they agree ethnonationalism is a good thing so...
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  8166. He's lying for personal gain. I wasn't even looking at the screen and I was cringing at his tells. I'd love to play poker against him though.
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  8167. The laws of physics do not compromise. "The middle ground" on climate change means (at best) taking out a loan against the futures of younger generations against their objections to be paid back in money and blood at loan shark interest rates and calling it "profits" Unsustainable economies make no profits. They simply steal from the future just as slave owners stole from those they enslaved. We must make the distinction between wealth creation and wealth acquisition!
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  8168. Which would probably coincide with about when the region becomes uninhabitable if we actually do burn all their oil.
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  8169.  @christopherburke7038  why would they not just impliment a warning system in their app instead of a limit?
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  8170. Well yeah, for Un it's at least half act.
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  8171. Who funds large "news" media? Large corporations and even lobbying groups. For more, see manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky
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  8172.  @wastedtalent1625  should I be laughing with your helarious satire of Musk fanboys, or at you for being such a desperate one? Please clarify.
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  8173. DuDu Buttah to save face after being driven out?
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  8174. @SchemingGoldberg  oh look, a literal Nazi. Will this cause the people who find themselves on the same side of the argument to reexamine their positions and assumptions? I'm betting not.
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  8175. I've given up that game and just gone straight to "they're either lying to me about what they're saying or lying that they are competant enough to have their job, so fuck 'em"
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  8176. I live in a rather white suburb in PA. I have never waited more than 3 minutes to vote and the polling place is no more than 20 minutes walk from any part of the area....and that's above the Mason-Dixon line. Anecdotal, I know, but still, there's your one extreme (and, IMO, how it should be everywhere)
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  8177. Greg Morris sounds nice, but better not. Interstate rivalries can get pretty bad, so a reminder that we're all Americans is probably a good idea if we want to limit post-game riots.
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  8178. LIQUIDSNAKEz28 or a Nazi one. Could go either way with extreme market failures.
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  8179. Are you referring to him, specifically, or more generally to people too rich to have any way to understand the struggles of the working class (who then whine when they get pushback on their actions which cause material poverty as their narcissism can't let them acknowledge any other interpretation than them being the victims)?
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  8180. So by your logic, corporations paying taxes gives them a right to control the government? Sorry, that's a complete non-sequitur. Also, the constitution says nothing about exempting churches from taxes. We remove tax exempt status from churches already for a list of political actions. Adding some forms of discrimination to that list (while a policy I'm very tepid about) isn't really any kind of stretch.
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  8181. Can we please drop the taxation=theft fallacy. Not only are taxes the dues you pay for the upkeep of a society you choose to live in, but they are what creates the near universal demand for the thing we call money which gives it value in the first place (even when the currency was litteral gold & silver coins). The entire belief that taxes are theft goes back to a long debunked myth that currency was created to facilitate trade in tribal barter economies. Not only has no-one ever been able to find evidence of such a pre-money, barter economy (everyone just used abstract, loose notions of credit), but we can trace the invention of currency back to the creation of standing armies. Since soldiers have nothing physical to show for their work, have no dirrect customer to demand payment from, and their job is high risk, there's no way they could recieve goods on credit. Governments created these tokens called coins to hand out to their solders as a representation of the debt society owed their protectors, and demanded them back from the general population as proof that their debts to said protectors had been paid, dirrectly or indirectly. It has become much more complicated, since then, with many more types of public servants being paid and more complex institutions in the middle of the process, but fundamentally, money is debt, and taxes are the end step of how that debt is registered as paid. Without that cycle, currency looses it's fundamental value, which is why a lot of the alternative currencies popping up follow the patterns of speculative bubbles rather than real stable currencies (because they're not). If we, as a society, decide that we should pay doctors to protect us from disease like we pay soldiers to protect us from human threats, the taxes that fund that are not remotely theft. Until you are banned from leaving the country, none of this is compulsory, but, ironically, benefiting from the system and not paying your debts/taxes when the bill comes around would actually be theft.
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  8182.  @my3dviews  fuck the "those who can't afford it" BS. The residents didn't cause this problem so it's not their responsibility to pay for whatever solution is needed.
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  8183. ​ @andreah6379 I never stopped masking. There's always been a good reason not to every time I considered it and it's just easier to keep using one than to keep up with all the transmission rates of what's going around and decide whether that counts as "safe" enough to go without.
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  8184.  @Xymage  considering you just failed to demonstrate highschool-level reading comprehension, maybe you shouldn't be insulting anyone else's intelligence.
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  8185.  @Xymage  says the person who failed at even reading my comment and thus has not a single clue what I understand 😆 Sure bucko
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  8186. 1-phages 2-(and growing) humans 3-ants
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  8187. Orion the Sylveon deadliest to humans, yes...which is what humans normally mean by deadliest. However mosquitoes don't regularly kill a large percentage of their ecosystem daily (like bacteriophages), constitute a mass extinction by their very existence (like humans), or have most natural defense mechanisms of species they prey on be evolved primarily to deal with them (like ants) so once we stop looking at things through a human-centric lens, they become much less significant.
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  8188. Um, there's actually quite a lot of rules about when and how you're allowed to kill people in war. Them simply being a soldier is insufficient. That's also far from the extent of the crimes our government has committed against Iran during his administration.
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  8189. Jaime Fernandez I doubt he's 20, but with meth involved it's hard to say
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  8190.  @twistedwithmelancholy8436  yes, every academic field with anything to say on the subject rejects the idea of a sex-equivalent gender binary. This is just more of the rights' science denial and projection.
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  8191. Getting back on topic from that obvious attempt to derail the discussion, we need to understand something important: the right always projects. When you see them talking like this, you should be very worried. They're telling you what they want to do.
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  8192. It's not about thinking they will have all the wealth and power. It's about having people "beneath" them that they can treat the way the billionaires treat all of us.
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  8193.  @michealstotten3741  you go straight to making presumptuous personal attacks because you know you have no argument
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  8194.  @michealstotten3741  you've replied 4 times to 1 comment over the course of 17 hours and STILL haven't made a single argument and are pretending that I am the emotional one? 😂
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  8195.  @michealstotten3741  lol, ok sure bucko, but nobody believes that. 😂 Also, your failure to make an argument doesn't mean I have to make one in your place. That's not how this works.
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  8196.  @michealstotten3741  you asked SOMEONE ELSE a rhetorical question in place of an argument because you don't actually have one and can't defend your position openly. Yes, that is the problem, and no, I'm not obligated to answer bad-faith rhetorical questions you asked to another person. Stop expecting me to explain how basic logic works to you.
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  8197.  @michealstotten3741  stating your position and making ad-homs is not actually making an argument. Go learn basic logic before you go trying to debate people. I don't have time to teach you how to think.
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  8198.  @michealstotten3741  pure projection yet again. We're done here I think.
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  8199.  @michealstotten3741  I'm happy to let my words stand for all to see and not waste another second on you. You're the one unsatisfied with what's been said.
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  8200. As far as the state is concerned, marrage is one of a handful of special contracts that come with extra rights. A computer cannot sign a legally binding contract because it's not a person AND not of the age to consent to such.
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  8201.  @realitywave  "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ☝️same energy.
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  8202. He's someone with a spine with a D next to their name. Of course they're terrified of him.
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  8203.  @Miranox2  really, you're nitpicking my grammar and more causal use of "citation" to thinks you could easily look up yourself, but you get a little bit of pushback on your rudeness and you complain? (Btw, an insult isn't automatically an ad-hom, if you want to be pedantic, so pick one) Whatever it takes to avoid supporting your own claims even 1/10th as much as I have huh? Back up your own shit or shut up.
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  8204.  @Miranox2  lol "you were rude to me first" "no u" the projection on you is helarious. 😆 And yeah, you just past the point where you're worth showing any respect beyond overt mockery.
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  8205.  @Miranox2  lol ok, sure, you can deflect like that. 😆 Still haven't put up a fraction of the support for your claim I did.
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  8206.  @grizzlybear3110   you don't see much of it because the Overton windows around the world have been shifting to the right for decades. Has that been a good thing for people overall?
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  8207. Not all conservatives are neocons
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  8208. It's amazing how many of the people pushing this would call themselves "American patriots" when our country was founded in large part on "F* the nobility, and the British nobility in particular"
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  8209. ​ @Vidchemy they most definitely do NOT all start with good intentions, unfortunately.
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  8210. This man is speaking facts. Deal with it snowflake.
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  8211. Interviews have value. More people investigating would have value. Rushing content out faster does not. Accuracy over speed.
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  8212. The right Always Projects Always.
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  8213. Who donates more? Social security recipients or "defense" contractors? Thought so.
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  8214. Finding a way to monitize [anti]social justice warriors. Also butchering dictionaries
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  8215.  @Unclejamsarmy  have you considered the policies one has to put in place to make WV useful for coal (such as that absense of a good education, which I don't give a fuck if the adults don't like, the kids have a right to) or just the rapant ecological damage might interfere with other options? Maybe putting wind turbines on top of mountains and dams in the valleys would make more sense if there weren't coal companies buying up the mountains to take the tops off rip out the coal and dump the waste in the valleys. Resource extraction economies tend to not put much resources into developing infrastructure or the people, but those are policy choices. We could make different ones and still have a productive WV (with less externalized costs) than what we have if people like you weren't trying to find reasons to justify writing off whole regions just because of how the "free market" uses them.
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  8216.  osborne007  yeah right, fuck fixing everything and everyone that gets born there. Let's just abandon a whole fucking state because we don't like the people we've left uneducated and desperate /s Go fuck yourself. You'll spend less time damaging the causes you think you support.
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  8217.  Secretly a celebrity  which means those "centrists" are gonna need to be picking a side really soon
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  8218. MsLuath meat is a LOT more expensive than grains. I don't eat much meat at all and usually get it really cheap, and still a pretty sizeable portion of my food budget is meat. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice different grain foods are in different categories, further skewing the numbers. (Note: rice flour, bread, and pasta are not all in the same category) It's not the wisest distribution, but that goes for most Americans, and with many people on SNAP being in food deserts, their options aren't always great either, so that changes the averages too.
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  8219. Except Ben's not a libertarian. He's a fascist.
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  8220. Yes, if you can hit them, striking there is an excellent target. Nearly all the blood for the entire arm flows through the armpit, so the bleeding is comparable to severing the arm. Also, there are the nerves that control the arm (meaning they won't be able to use it to try and kill you while they bleed out). Even if you don't hit the center and just get the muscles controling the shoulder, you still make the arm basically useless.
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  8221. Ryan Parker yeah, as much as we need to oppose this everywhere (and it's not like the algorithm chane JUST affected them), I don't have any sympathy for a news organization that bought into the "fake news" cover story
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  8222. Private prisons, drug manufacturers, alcohol industry, tobacco industry, and suppression of liberal and minority communities to sway elections.
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  8223. Don't be fooled. Rand isn't his father. He sold out and just keeps the facade up.
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  8224. Pretty sure Yahweh started as "volcano god demands sacrifices" if you look at a lot of the early passages.
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  8225. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Bernie's a great ally, and I'd gladly vote for him again in 2020, but only we can save ourselves. Movements built around one person are fragile, even if that person is in their prime. Bernie's job was carrying the torch through the darkness, but it's up to us to light the future, and it will be a fight lasting decades. Brace yourself for both the immediate fight and the long haul.
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  8226. Counterpoint: even George Carlin made the point that talking in terms of "home" obscured the point and made people not see the problem clearly. Also, it's really not strange for academics to change terminology to be more technically correct, which "unhoused" is (along with being the same # of syllables). Why does an academic using precise language herself without policing the language of others upset you so much? That's really weird don't you think?
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  8227. Red Husky all true, but it would likely help
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  8228.  Dara Marc Sasmaz  that is what the link I provided argues, for anyone curious.
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  8229.  @mattsmitchger259  depends on the issue, but considering he was running as a protofascist in 2016, it shouldn't have even been close.
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  8230.  @uncommonsense6022  bzzzt wrong Far right favors strong and fairly resilient concentration of power in few hands. That's why royalists, oligharchs, and fascists are all on the right.
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  8231. "I'm pro-life" says the member of a death cult whos every policy prescription on every issue amounts to "someone that's not me dies" It's just a bold-faced lie. They don't even care about fetuses. If they did, they wouldn't oppose everything that would actually lower abortion rates. They're just pro-evil. The cruelty is the point.
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  8232. It's in some safe deposit box on Wallstreet
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  8233.  @oldones59  no, there isn't. Full-stop. Trump's just making it harder for them to hide that reality, but it's been there for all to see for decades! “You want to know what this was really all about?  The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief "You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*, n*, n*." By 1968 you can't say "n*"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites." -Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater 8 July 1981 advisor of 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the campaign manager for 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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  8234. The agencies very much blur together in practice.
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  8235.  @SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe Historians, experts on concentration camps, people that have been held in concentration camps, Jewish organizations, and even Godwin of Godwin's Law all are calling these concentration camps. Why are you trying to downplay them as to being less than they are?
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  8236.    yeah, well, known troll so...
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  8237. ​ @alex4594 very, VERY much so.
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  8238.  @rubbles2206  no, we don't need baseload power because that's a completely outdated concept in a post-carbon grid.
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  8239.  @rubbles2206  the simple fact of the matter is that baseload power only makes sense as a concept when paired with peaking plants, which (with the exception of the potential of hydroelectric being used in that capacity) are all fossil fuel plants. Since peaking plants need to be phased out, baseload power will be an obsolete idea. No matter what we choose to go with (solar, wind, nuclear, or some combination thereof) the power generation over time will not match power usage over time, so we will need grid storage in one form or another. Sure, I have tech that I am most optimistic about implementation of, but the specifics of that are irrelevant for this conversation. Also, none of them are used in mass scale right now because we're largely leaving peaking plants as the last mode of energy generation to phase out since natural gas is the lowest emitter per kwh of all the fossil fuel forms. Agree or disagree with that strategy, it is what is being attempted, so all grid storage tech is taking a backseat when it comes to implementation. Now do you actually want to defend the idea of baseload power generation, or do you want to admit it was just a buzzword you never really questioned before?
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  8240.  @rubbles2206  we're talking past each other because you refuse to engage with the fact that baseload power generation is an outdated concept and want to keep running off on tangents instead. Focus and stay on topic.
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  8241.  @trentrubenacker9718  we need to make it very clear that we will vote 3rd party if they rig the primary. Election integrity is non-negotiable.
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  8242. That was great. Pretty clear the artist has played the game too, imo
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  8243. Truth
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  8244. Those paintings are sealed air-tight to preserve them through an oxygen-free environment...so yeah, soup isn't going to do shit to that.
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  8245. Reminder that Bitcoin is not actually money. It is a pyramid scheme wrapped up with money laundering and other organized crime.
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  8246. There's even proof: https://youtu.be/cZ7LzE3u7Bw
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  8247. Right into the embrace of the 4th Reich apperently
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  8248. He is doing his job, though. His job is to keep people like AOC away from the levers of power and to capitulate to the GOP whenever possible.
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  8249.  @nil981  you want to make the Bible Belt to be its own nuclear armed country? Have you really thought that one through?
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  8250. I'm sure you could go to a stock-trading firm and they would either take the dollars or exchange them for pounds for you
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  8251. In your defence, it was easy for him to look smart when dunking on Bush. The most important thing to understand Maher is he's a tool of the DNC with 2 simple jobs: 1- direct the anger of progressives in the direction the party wants and 2- define through example the leftmost position of the Overton Window.
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  8252. A rabid wolf understands de-escalation better than Trump
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  8253. There were 2 significant changes to airline security after 9/11. Locked hardened doors to the cockpits, and a shift in public perception of hijackings from "everyone be chill and wait for rescue or ransom" to "everybody dogpile anyone acting too erratic and duct tape him to the chair or they're going to crash us into a building or blow us up! Quick! Fight or die!" Basically everything else was security theater. Including the wars.
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  8254.  @prioris55555  and? The 3rd building you're referring to was hit by burning debris from one of the twin towers. Stop saying dumb shit you haven't fact checked.
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  8255. Don't add "dark" into that title. That was something Hillary came up with to try and shift the discussion from corruption to transparency.
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  8256.  @ralofofriverwood4806  singular they predates singular you in English. When you need to argue against the language you're speaking to turn a topic into something you can use to politically push your hatred of others, YOU are the problem. I've no interest in listening to your flat-earth tier rantings.
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  8257. No, he represents the oligarchy that has usurped our government.
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  8258.  @antonioscendrategattico2302  it's even worse than that. If you trace the "war on Christmas" back to its roots, what you find is raw antisemitism....just like, btw, "cultural marxism" which is just a rebranding of "cultural bolshevism" which is an antisemitic conspiracy theory created by the origional Nazis.
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  8259. Gunk 'The Katzenberg Kid' Googer not saying they're not anymore, but I don't know about newer polls to show how low they have sunk. We do have hard evidence on Faux News though, so there's no excuse there
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  8260. Oh look, you have the pink troll on your side. Gotta be proud of that one, huh?
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  8261. Tell me more about the benefits of privatizing government responsibilities. /s
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  8262. Steven Puckitt exactly. Short of completely retooling how we determine wages as a society, that's the answer, and it helps out everyone that isn't the most arrogant and aggressive person in the workplace get a fair deal reguardless of gender.
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  8263. Here's a big problem with that: any method of concentrating that waste heat is not only very costly in materials to build said systems, but it inevitably provides resistance to those devices dumping their waste heat as quickly as possible, which translates to inefficiency. Whether you're using peltier devices or a more traditional method of extracting energy from a heat differential (using fluids to drive electric motors in reverse), you're functionally creating an insulation system. The closest we can practically get to that in practical engineering terms is most likely just using heat pumps to pump waste heat into the ground the building is sitting on during the day/summer and drawing it back out during the night/winter. Really, though, the waste heat we generate is nothing compared to even a tiny change in the energy balance in how much energy is absorbed vs reflected from the sun. IF we're ever producing so much waste heat that it's more efficient to try and capture it than to try and reduce the energy absorption/retention of the planet, then we're talking about a situation where our energy production and usage is sufficient that we should be looking into moving people into O'Neal cylinders in space. (The point where it becomes a good idea to start living in space is when your energy usage and waste heat production is a bigger limiter on your economy than material availability) Assuming that our waste heat will continue to increase exponentially is a BIG assumption too. We know that the population is on track to level off and that we can in other ways should expect the waste heat per person to also eventually level off. We can't just look at current trends and assume they will continue indefinitely without evidence.
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  8264. Here's a big problem with that: any method of concentrating that waste heat is not only very costly in materials to build said systems, but it inevitably provides resistance to those devices dumping their waste heat as quickly as possible, which translates to inefficiency. Whether you're using peltier devices or a more traditional method of extracting energy from a heat differential (using fluids to drive electric motors in reverse), you're functionally creating an insulation system. The closest we can practically get to that in practical engineering terms is most likely just using heat pumps to pump waste heat into the ground the building is sitting on during the day/summer and drawing it back out during the night/winter. Really, though, the waste heat we generate is nothing compared to even a tiny change in the energy balance in how much energy is absorbed vs reflected from the sun. IF we're ever producing so much waste heat that it's more efficient to try and capture it than to try and reduce the energy absorption/retention of the planet, then we're talking about a situation where our energy production and usage is sufficient that we should be looking into moving people into O'Neal cylinders in space. (The point where it becomes a good idea to start living in space is when your energy usage and waste heat production is a bigger limiter on your economy than material availability) Assuming that our waste heat will continue to increase exponentially is a BIG assumption too. We know that the population is on track to level off and that we can in other ways should expect the waste heat per person to also eventually level off. We can't just look at current trends and assume they will continue indefinitely without evidence.
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  8265. Yeah, I'm torn between that tech sounding a bit like it's way behind and overpromising, but it's also a far better system if it does work as there are fewer steps between energy out of the fusion reaction and useful electricity, so it at least on paper has a higher potential due to lower inefficiencies. I kinda suspect that it's going to not live up to its promise until something is developed that is to it what the stellarator is to the tokamak, but they need to get the simpler design to at least function before they can do that, so it's still worth doing even in that case.
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  8266. You want to know what's really disgusting? CNN and MSDNC are treating Bernie worse than Faux News is. Think about that for a bit.
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  8267.  @michaelk.jensen1611  compare the Faux News town hall to the disgusting and infuriating CNN debates. Also see CNN stooping to Photoshopping Bernie to make him look sick https://youtu.be/iuHlWe_aydE Compare that to Tucker Carlson attacking the myth about Bernie not being able to beat Trump. https://youtu.be/HUPxww9I2jg I don't doubt that Faux is harder on unions, but when it comes to Bernie, the others have sunk even lower.
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  8268. Ring of Fire is too emotional to be reliable and too easily swept along in the Trump hysteria. I watch it sometimes, but it's good to limit how much of that one consumes.
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  8269. +Angel Rodarte Jr. No part of what they're doing is any part of SSC ;-P
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  8270. Most Satanist don't actually believe the devil exists. The remaining minority that are theistic Satanists simply are people that read the bible, miss that it's all made up, but correctly conclude that Yahweh is the villian and that Satan gave humanity free will. They're no more of a boogeyman than Wiccans or Neo-Pegans, and unlike Christians, often work to preserve the seperation between church and state because their religion values freedom instead of blind obedience.
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  8271. A lot of what our nation does right now doesn't hold up constitutionally, so don't count on that.
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  8272.  @jamesmacaw3865  such as, idk, paying popular content creators to talk about particular issues.
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  8273.  @jamesmacaw3865  dude, it already happens on YouTube, just like the paid commenter accounts and bot accounts. It will happen on Twitter (and probably is already to a small extent).
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  8274. Unfortunately a LOT of neolibs would rather loose to MAGA than cede any ground to us.
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  8275. "Just submit to its wisdom and it will establish a hierarchy that puts people in their right place with me high up and poor brown people at the bottom....did I say that last part out loud."
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  8276. Verizon? Might as well suck Ajit Pai off. How have so many people forgotten that he's one of their agents?? Come on, now, if you let your attention span be that short you're always going to being played like a fool.
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  8277. You could always split the difference and move north to a swing state. PA for example could use some help getting their corruption under control and not occasionally voting R, but it's not filled with theocrats. Hell, I've been seeing same sex couples holding hands in public for years now.
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  8278. The ~25% supporting some military action is the same ~25% that comes up repeatedly as being completely disconnected from reality because they do not care about evidence and rationality. You cannot reasonably expect to reach that block on any issue. The unsure are the ones we need to focus on.
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  8279. Yup, NYT is just pushing appeasement propaganda to support a fascist war of aggression and it's disgusting.
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  8280.  @John.T.  ballparking numbers but, if 90% is harmful BS and the remaining 10% is able to be found elsewhere (even in older sources), why cite the source at all? Btw, the 7 deadly sins aren't actually in the bible, nor that great a list to begin with.
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  8281. Why are we trying to boost that jackass?
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  8282. Bill Anderson considering "the right" was terminology invented to refer to "royalists" this should surprise no-one, but sadly it does.
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  8283. "Brinksmanship" is more accurate than game theory, but yes, this is what happens when you have countries run by right wing authoritarians.
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  8284. Let's be honest. They're not even mad at the ones that voted for Trump as much as they are the people who stayed home or voted for Stein. The hatred for the whole system gets projected onto those who step outside it. (That said, always vote. Staying home doesn't communicate anger, just apathy. You can vote 3rd party, write in, or even vote down ballot while leaving the slot for President blank, but cast a ballot.)
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  8285. musicalaviator honestly, that's a legit possibility
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  8286. Scott Pomeroy name us one person to ever be elected in the US that advocated for the destruction of all private industry and property through force with the end goal being total anarchism after a revolution at gunpoint. Name us just _one_. If you can't, take some time to learn what these words actually mean. Bernie, a self-described democratic socialist, is about dead center on the economic spectrum, so you're looking for someone about twice as far left as he is from the Republicans, and far more militant.
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  8287. Scott Pomeroy really, you cite a video who's title claims that a hardcore capitalist like Obama is a Marxist? Kinda proving my point. That video is pure propaganda designed to trick people that have never read Marx. I've read Marx I've disagreed with Marx And I can tell you there is not a single country in Europe or seating politician in the US that is Marxist. Sorry to tell you, but you've been played for a fool.
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  8288. Or of them letting Bernie speak
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  8289. You can have price fixing when there is more than 1 company.
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  8290. ​ @leveljoe no, assuming it exists elsewhere is just an understanding of probability and the scale of the universe. Assuming we are alone is what requires faith.
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  8291.  @leveljoe  not only is trying to insult me there a blatant ad-hom, but that doesn't even WORK as an insult. Try and stick to the actual topic of the conversation.
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  8292.  @leveljoe  and we've moved on to strawmanning WHILE doing an argument from incredulity....I'm getting bored so I'll give you one last to put forward a valid argument. Don't waste it.
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  8293.  @leveljoe  do you have any idea how many stars just like ours there are out there? Yeah, if that's the biggest hurdle to cross, then forget the universe, the GALAXY is going to be absolutely teeming with life. I take a rather extreme interpretation of the rare earth hypothesis and still get civilizations in 1 in 4 galaxies because galaxies are absolutely massive and filled with way, WAY more stars than the human brain can imagine....and there are way more galaxies out there than there are stars in ours.
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  8294.  @semicell  utter nonsense that you're almost certainly misunderstanding. The discussion also wasn't if we would ever reach it. It was if it exists. What you just did there is called "moving the goalposts" and is one of the main forms of dishonest arguments.
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  8295.  @semicell  with the size of even just the observable universe? No, it's not. The universe is way, WAY bigger than you're imagining it is. Also, life arises basically immediately after conditions are right for its formation, so take that into your estimations too (meaning there aren't going to be a bunch of worlds out there which could support life but don't).
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  8296.  @leveljoe  no, they haven't. Earth is a great deal different that it used to be, and all the chemistry that would be able to come together to form life is already being taken up by existing life.
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  8297.  @leveljoe  more failures of reading comprehension and strawmanning from you. You're too predictable to even be a joke.
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  8298.  @leveljoe  more failures of reading comprehension and strawmanning from you. So predictable it's boring.
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  8299.  @leveljoe  you could prove me wrong by pointing to where I said what you claim, but you can't because you're a liar who's abandoned even pretending to make a point.
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  8300. Crypto isn't money but a ponzi/pyramid scheme. Those that buy in only make a profit when others do after them. It only doesn't collapse because people were taught mythology instead of history economics class. Money is a quantized, transferable debt relation that gets a stable exchange value from the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, by which those who work outside the market economy (who make your civilization possible) get compensated for their labor. Crypto is "hey, I wasted energy and expensive and environmentally costly computer parts making the digital equivalent of mud pies. Pay me for them and you'll probably be able to sell them at a higher price to rubes that buy in after you." For further understanding of what money actually is, please see Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graber (rip) There's even a free audiobook of it right here on YouTube.
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  8301. If you want to see where most of the ageism is, look first toward all the bigorty the older generations dirrected toward the millennials. Hell, both the last 2 "Democratic" nominees were overtly contemptuous of the younger generations. Everything from that, to the 15ish years of solid headlines blaming millennials for everything to how it's as impossible to seperate the inaction on climate change from ageism as it would be to seperate the policy of appeasement of the 20th century from Europe's widespread antisemitism. (And that's just a fraction of the personal stuff, not even getting into the systemic level) Yeah, ageism is alive and well and the older generations need to cut it the fuck out before they ruin everything. Even in the story it was mentioned that Biden targeted young staffers for this, but you don't see that because of your underlying ageism.
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  8302.  @scrubjay93  almost everyone over 45 I've ever known for more than 3 months has made some bigoted comment that let me know I was just "one of the good ones" to them (including but not limited to every "kids these days" comment which are still made about people in their 30s) and I vividly remember that decade and a half of headlines dragging millennials though the mud (which was almost entirely projection or complaining about things that were good) and can't remember the last election where the majority of the older vote wasn't going to destroying our futures (often with a "fuck you I got mine" attitude and/or an overtly ageist candidate) Hell, the "ok boomer" thing is the generational equivalent of "quit mansplaining" or "white noise" and came about for the same reasons: a demographic tired of being ignored, patronized, and talked over by another demographic with a bunch of people with the attitude that the mere fact of that demographic difference meant they were more of an authority to speak on a subject they knew little to nothing about because "how could they possibly know what they're talking about?" It's actually the opposite: ageism against millennials is harder to notice because of how incredibly pervasive it is.
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  8303.  @0110-q6n  even more than Marx
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  8304.  @AmineSamus  pink's just a known troll cherry-picking data. I know you can refute all his points but it's better to just ignore him rather than feeding him.
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  8305. Maybe in a ranking of most clever Ponzi schemes.
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  8306. If we know that Saudi Arabia is funneling weapons to AlQuaida (our enemy) isn't continuing to arm them treason by definition?...I know that we're not going to charge most of Congress with treason even if they deserve it, but as a matter of perspective it helps to step back and think about things IMO
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  8307.  @johnmartin4641  tell me you're a pedophile without telling me you're a pedophile. Stay the fuck away from children!
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  8308. Please check this playlist by a lefty on gun control. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZOMlO2_17fvIiTRFiQ9C2OqfGER03v4G The 2nd video, https://youtu.be/wNtxtuQxUz8 at about the 6 minute mark explains why taking away the AR-15 goes beyond stupid into outright dangerous. We need to address our gun problem and that is going to involve legislation, but we need to do it with smart legislation and that takes thinking about this from more than one perspective.
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  8309.  @lynnrussell467  it's a genuine possibility. Remember when shots were fired into his campaign office last primary?
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  8310. So all that for a theoretical ad-hominem? Pathetic
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  8311. I mean, that's always worth considering.
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  8312. +
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  8313. Reality: "Ok boomer" is the generational equivalent to "Ok white boy" and boomers are about as ageist as white people were racist in 1980 so have no business complaining.
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  8314. Schmidt Rubin no one took them, our politicians gave them away
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  8315. The Hermit just did, you're wrong.
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  8316. I'd put my money on media collusion behind closed doors over dirrect funding, but it's quite possible.
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  8317. Ministry of Truth all true, but since you mentioned all 3 Abrahamic religions rather than just refering to Judeo-Christian faiths, I assumed we were talking about a broader timescale
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  8318. It's olive oil. I think you mean Rome.
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  8319. Not Georgia, specifically, but every incumbent that ran on M4A in a battleground or red district kept their seat. Those that didn't, generally lost. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/07/every-single-one-ocasio-cortez-notes-every-democrat-who-backed-medicare-all-won?amp We're also winning progressive ballot measures in states that went to Trump and Fox News is finding that over 70% of the country supports "government run healthcare" This isn't a loosing issue for us at all.
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  8320.  @FrozEnbyWolf150  yes and no. It's about center(and far)-right corporatism vs everything else.
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  8321. Jay Smathers because we're a corporate oligarchy. Money makes the rules here
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  8322. Everyone who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries has blood on their hands.
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  8323. I mean, since we fund them and give them weapons knowing where those weapons will end up (on top of what we do dirrectly) there's a good case to be made that the US government is #1
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  8324. No, that's why he kept referring to the Justice Democrats as a "hostile takeover".
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  8325. Not really. Every navy in the world has long been aware of the threat of missiles/airstikes. It's just that usually, navies are competent in their countermeasures, unlike Russia.
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  8326. @Korra Koanashi  is a fascist troll.
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  8327. Pittsburgh area is pretty good...some minor flooding on occasion, but almost everything is at elevation, so unless you're right near a creek, you're fine.
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  8328.  @OdinCutiepie  nope, for one, he doesn't understand Nazism, dispite him focusing on it and it being a huge part of the 20th century https://youtu.be/b8AcmzqFdPM Or Marxism Or Postmodernism Or a lot of things really... Jordan Peterson understands sophistry and "how to monetize [anti]sjws" and that's it.
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  8329. Yes, because the public having legitimate gripes with the government means the CIA isn't involved. /s Holy shit that was a stupid take.
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  8330. Monsters, all of them. If only we were allowed to treat them as such.
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  8331. They've already started with political opposition.
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  8332. ​ @heathermcgrath22 it's not. Be armed and aware.
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  8333. ​ @wendwllhickey6426 they're not JUST dumb. They're also evil.
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  8334.  @WinVisten  no, it couldn't.
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  8335.  @moonman1717  um, the only people that Trump has a chance of beating will be the furthest right candidates on stage. What do you think they're going to do?
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  8336.  @moonman1717  think we've both misunderstood each other in the last couple comments to your last one, but getting back to the point, why would Fox not try as much as they can to make sure that the furthest right candidate wins the Dem debates? Why would they go after them all equally if it's not to their advantage? Counting on your opponent fucking up isn't a good strategy.
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  8337.  @benpressly200   no-one here likes CNN, neither the real audience or the trolls, and we don't seem to have many DNCbots yet, though I expect that will pick back up before the primary voting starts. If you want to get a response for that kind of thing, hold off to near the voting and see how many DNCbots you can get to out themselves by their reactions to bashing the Corporate/Clinton "News" Network. Just a thought, but yeah, we're all so fed up with the DNC's double standards that we jus assume they always have one on display at any time. We don't call the Justice Democrats a "hostile takeover of the Democratic party" because we think the DNC is nice and fair.
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  8338. That dog went straight for the crotch!
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  8339. “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman (Nixon’s chief domestic advisor)
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  8340.  @vontosmagicmurderbag2611  that's not, strictly speaking, true. Deer may not hunt humans, but can be dangerous and kill (particularly stags, though a doe may fight if she thinks you a threat to her fawns and they are still large hoofed animals even without the antlers).
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  8341. The likeable part is dependent on how good a judge of character you are. I find him obnoxious.
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  8342.  @katyungodly  read the emphasis on the "me" and you'll understand the ideology.
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  8343. This seems to be the best I can find atm without spending all night at it. Some of the older news pieces aren't available anymore, so it's not as definitive as I'd like, and what I remember but it at least does have Hillary quotes in it like you asked, and is still reasonably convincing. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/ I've got nothing on her supporting single payer in '08 and am certain that she didn't at least by the time the primary came around as healthcare was a significant debating point between her and Obama.
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  8344. TheRefractingOne we don't owe it to people to see it through if they don't want us there...which they don't. That's called an occupation. Don't let people trick you into thinking it's about liberation. You can't force democracy on people.
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  8345. ​ @tino9117 elections are ALWAYS high stakes for someone.
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  8346.  @WarPigstheHun  no, the party has been garbage for a long time. That's part of how we got Trump. We also don't need 2 right wing parties.
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  8347.  @WarPigstheHun  no, the party has been total garbage for a long time. That's part of how we got Trump. We also don't need 2 right-wing parties.
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  8348.  @WarPigstheHun  no it doesn't and hasn't for a very long time. Trump is your party showing its true colors and is the result of decades of propaganda from a far-right party with no left-wing counter narrative.
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  8349.  @WarPigstheHun  no it doesn't and hasn't for a very long time. Trump is your party showing its true colors.
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  8350. If you want to feed the first wolf I listened to a free audiobook (I ❤ libravox volunteers for what they do) of The Book of Werewolves which is a fascinating compelation of a massively wide range of werewolf legends put together in 1865. If anyone's interested in starting a deep dive, I highly recommend it.
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  8351. It would've been gone a decade ago if your cable company and ISP weren't the same company.
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  8352. Also, CNN's mwgacorp advertisers would be really upset with them if they treated Bernie fairly. Never forget who their real customers are.
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  8353. This is more GoT than LoTR. We had Cercei (Hillary), Tywin (Putin), and Walder Fray (Trump) already, and now we just found Pycelle in this guy pretending to be more senile than he is.
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  8354. Having trouble putting food on the table is why most rebellions in history have happened.
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  8355. Because (to paraphrase George Carlin) homelessness is something they WANT to exist to scare the shit out the working class and keep them showing up at their underpaid jobs. All the poor treatment of homeless people just exists to reinforce the threat against every working class person. It would be cheaper to just give homeless people housing but they'll never do that because they want all of us who work for a living too terrified and desperate to fight for the pay we actually deserve. Never forget that homelessness exists to threaten YOU.
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  8356.  @devonalomar9012  wrong. Housing first policies are proven to work. Stop drinking the Kool aid and spreading disinfo.
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  8357. Xanxei yeah, it's not that porn is bad, but we do have pretty terrible porn. The fact that "amateur" is such a popular category is proof of that. Of course that's just the realm of pornographic video...
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  8358. klondike444 it's not an organized thing. Many viewers of this channel came here after the main TYT channel's quality fell so low that we dropped it. It's entirely natural, especially when topics come up where Kyle's so much better than Cenk on.
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  8359.  @sprybug  Faux News is less effective in their right-wing propaganda than even the likes of MSDNC. Bernie goes on Faux News for a town hall, and that goes well. Compare that to CNN's "debates", lies, and even Photoshopping of Bernie.
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  8360.  @MrNiceVoice  ...as much as I'd like to dismiss that as just a crass joke...it's Faux News and the have earned something of a reputation so now that you mention it... yeah, that's a possibility.
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  8361. Kyle cut the clip off before Biden got fixated on wanting to literally bulldoze businesses of people that held raves. The full clip is even more extreme.
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  8362.  @christopherlin4706  that is a pretty good discription of Ben, yes.
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  8363. Lmao nice!
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  8364. Cries for obedience to rules of decorum have been used throughout history by those who see themselves as rulers to silence and dismiss the complaints of those below them.
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  8365.  @shlomochosenitestein766  every academic field with anything to say on the subject rejects the idea of a sex-equivalent gender binary. Facts don't care about your feelings.
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  8366.  @blazingkhalif2  the cradle of civilization, home to many of the longest-lasting empires the world has ever seen, has always been unstable? Whoever has been teaching you history has failed you utterly. Seriously, who told you that BS?
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  8367. I hope this is poe's law in effect because EVERY GOP proposal would have has left so many people without insurance that thousands or tens of thousands would die every year due to lack of health insurance. They already have the blood of the 45k/year on their hands and are at best indifferent to having more. These people don't actually want to help anyone that isn't rich.
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  8368. I mean, if they're going to build luxury bunkers...
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  8369.  @josephgodslayer9961  Vaush has never though we could move the Dem establishment left enough. He's pushed for getting policy concessions where we can, yes, but the entire point of "Bully Biden" is to use the disappointment at the Biden administration's inadequacies among even liberal voters to drive said voters left.
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  8370. Right vs left are entirely useful terms when we're using the correct definitions which is hierarchy and consolidation of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. People misusing useful terms doesn't mean we abandon them.
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  8371. norman berg Nazis were socialist like North Korea is a democratic republic. Don't fall for decades old propaganda.
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  8372. norman berg false dichotomy. That's all the response your BS deserves.
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  8373. lol I'm an atheist and I oppose Marxism just as much as I oppose "free markets". You're just full of shit and not worth wasting another character on after this period (but thanks for the laugh).
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  8374.  @PittsburghSonido  do you understand the difference between descriptive and prescriptive claims?
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  8375.  Wayne Morgan  Why electronic voting is a bad idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs No digital program should be counting a single thing in an election.
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  8376. Dunning MFin' Krueger effect
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  8377.  @blackflagsnroses6013  fair enough. My mistake for not noticing the edit.
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  8378. A-the janitors clean up far worse on the regular. B-you're demonstrating exactly the complacency and unconcern for the real victims that they were protesting. You are the white moderate preferring the negative peace that is the absence of tension to the positive peace that is the presence of justice that MLK spoke of...and you disgust me.
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  8379.  @R_A_3000  we went over this. No you didn't. You already proved you didn't through your ignorance. Now stop lying and pretending you give a shit about working people. It's disgustingly transparent.
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  8380. Just gonna post this clip here for people to enjoy...I wish it wasn't fiction from a TV show but here it is https://youtu.be/nqrG9N-cmds
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  8381. Sadly, only about 3/4ths of it...
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  8382. Santiago Bron firefighters, roads, utilities....in a broader sense, military and police too... ...so yeah, kinda
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  8383. That's because neo-liberalis are just neo-cons wrapped in threadbare rhetoric on social issues. They're the same thing underneath the rhetoric.
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  8384. That and I actually view economics through an academic rather than religious lens
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  8385. Yeah, the most valuable aspect of the resources on asteroids (beyond the scientific) is that they're resources NOT at the bottom of a large gravity well. If we squander that just so we can kick the can down the road in terms of addressing the wasteful way we do things, our behavior will be written of in future history books like that of the conquistadors when they melted down priceless artifacts to turn them into bars of gold.
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  8386.  @feralwon5293  define "inconsistent" for me.
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  8387. Everyone interested in this should watch this video by Roland Warzecha as a follow-up https://youtu.be/7vqte0QbXnc It doesn't attempt to give an estimate on it, but it's good to help one think about the question the right way IMO. IMO 30 seconds to a couple minutes would be entirely normal. Video games and movies are usually too long, but modern martial arts very often have people acting WAY too aggressively leading to unrealistically short fights.
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  8388.  @MephLeo  what sovereign money are you talking about? Bitcoin doesn't count, nor does the dollar or any of the other currencies I know details about.
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  8389. Talk about how good Biden is and people know you're BSing them and then you loose. Talking about Biden is the strategy of an idiot if you're trying to beat Trump.
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  8390. Me: it belongs broken on the ground, pulled down from it's pedestal and left there forever as a reminder that white supremacy is a garbage ideology for pathetic loosers. Let its boken remains serve as a reminder to white supremacists who's in charge here the way it served as a reminder to black people that white supremacists were still in charge when it was put up long after the civil war.
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  8391. Denial: the first stage of grief
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  8392. Obsene devices/articles means more than just dildoes. Just a little creativity and you could use that many at once.
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  8393. Guillermo Rivas helping the corporate wing is a necessary step to run again. If the progressives start winning, she has no chance to get through the primary, and she needs to start banking favors with the rest of the establishment because she certainly cashed many in in 2016, and that's the currency her kind works on when not allowed to use actual dollars.
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  8394.  Austin Martín Hernández  you don't need a gun registry to have univeral background checks. That's an entirely non sequitur slippery slope argument.
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  8395.  Austin Martín Hernández  to answer your question, you don't need a record of everyone who owns a gun or even is allowed to own a gun. You don't even need people to be issued licences to own a gun for a universal background check. You just need to require all gun sales to do a background check to check against any of a number of transparent things that would prohibit someone from owning. People with domestic violence records or who have used deadly weapons in the commission of other crimes for example. (Side note, making the domestic violence aspect non-negotiable would force a lot of cops to find another field of work which I'd be fine with, and I gather you would be too)
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  8396.  @whyamimrpink78  one sitation (which doesn't even contradict what I said) doesn't change a pattern of behavior spanning years across multiple channels.
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  8397. Pepper and coffee in unison: he does this to everyone even ask pufferfish
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  8398. People are usually conservative due to a lack of imagination. This shows itself in not being able to see other people's points of view, or ways in which the world could be better. Most of what imagination that exists in that school of thought goes into being terrified of the worst case scenario for the future and creating an idealized fantasy of the 1920s & 1950s (though technically speaking that last part is the MUCH more toxic neo-conservatism, not true conservativism)
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  8399. Spoiler warning: the DNC thinks everyone that isn't rich is stupid
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  8400.  @graememudie7921  trolls don't care about facts.
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  8401. 95% of domestic terrorism is from the far right. We have a far right party and a center right party. There is no "both sides" here liar.
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  8402. Watching this channel? No. In the American public? Sadly, yes.
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  8403.  @rgruenhaus  do we still have the electoral college? Yup? Then it's irrelevant to this discussion, isn't it?
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  8404.  @MsBahbii  if you can't see the election-rigging, overt contempt, or how nominating a VP to her right after such a bitterly fought primary (among other issues) there is no helping you
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  8405. I want to instill some fear into some Republicans right about now...
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  8406. Sorry, but all this is based off of a fundamental misunderstanding of what money is. Value is created by demand. Real money has its demand created by taxes and represents the debt a society owes to those that serve in the public sector (originally soldiers, but expanded since then). Bitcoin, like any other bubble, derives it's value from demand created by people not understanding the bigger economic picture, and represents either the greed or gullibility of whatever poor fool ends up holding it when it does crash. If this is not self-evident to you please follow the following steps: 1-look up Debt: the First 5000 Years 2-realise Adam Smith didn't have a clue what he was talking about 3-blame your economics teacher (s) for teaching you myths 4-sell all your Bitcoins for real money
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  8407. Sounds like you had an unusually good education.
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  8408.  @TechExploresNYC  waging war against reality to try and get it to conform to his speech?
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  8409. They won't stop there either. Fascism is about rolling culture back to a pre-enlightenment state.
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  8410. ​@radaedagunironically yes
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  8411.  Rick Sanchez  dur dur dur People's Democratic Republic of North Korea dur dur dur Understand it better in your language?
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  8412.  @darkcrystalmagik3369  idk, he's pretty fucking ageist too, so maybe if said male journalist were a millennial. Definitely not a white male journalist his age, though.
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  8413.  @mcdonaldchristian8273  the most likely outcome atm is a proxy war in Iraq, because invading Iran borders on suicidal for the US military.
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  8414. Corruption is a feature of right-wing politics, not a bug.
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  8415. Madhatter speaks the truth. Ask yourself who told you that we paid them.
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  8416. Yeah, the models are pretty obviously built on the assumption of the "Democrats" running a neoliberal.
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  8417. Like the south cares what their idols actually thought.
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  8418. I'm assuming those were in the US? There are other countries with municipal internet going strong, providing better speeds at lower costs than the US. Also, it'd be nice to see statistics on success rates to be sure those articles you mention weren't cherry-picking.
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  8419. If you identified your "masculinity" with the bullies being stopped instead of the people stepping in on behalf of others that says more about you than I ever could (and only manchildren can't see that).
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  8420.  Adarsh lal  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#NPC
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  8421.  Adarsh lal  more like they played projection with it...as usual
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  8422.  Adarsh lal  most likely, yes. Some may be doing it consciously, but that seems both less common and somehow even more pathetic.
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  8423. ​ @blas_de_lezo7375 you don't, but careening into solar wind at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light will slow you down quite a bit. Deceleration is what solar sails are best at.
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  8424. ​ @peterd9698 exactly! Between all the interstellar dust and solar wind and such, decelerating isn't an issue for a solar sail. That's one of the main advantages to using one.
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  8425.  @stupidburp  it does require braking against the interstellar medium as well, yes
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  8426. Because they know the reasonable non-fanatics in the country would shut them down instantly, just like we should do with mutating the genitals of babies. Fanatics can do all sorts of crazy things and drag others into it too when decent people don't stand up for real human morality.
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  8427. What could be more important to spend the money on?
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  8428.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  that one appears to be less that they lost thrust and more that they lost use of some control surfaces and breaks. Still, no fatalities, few injuries, only a couple serious injuries, and the plane was able to be reused. "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing where you can also reuse the plane is a great landing." Compare also Ural Flight 178, another airbus. Didn't loose power (just birdstikes to both engines): landed in a cornfield (rather than runway like 236) with zero serious injuries. If it's just thrust gone, you're fine (especially if you still have one working engine). It's if the power goes out that you should start to worry. Commercial airliners have pretty low stall speeds, for fuel economy, to make landings softer, and to be able to land on less runway without the need for arrester cables or lots of heavy landing gear to apply more breaking force. As long as there's hydrolics to the control surfaces and flat ground to land on within gliding distance, you're mostly just looking at possible scrapes and broken bones, but unless something else goes wrong, 0% fatalities is still by far the most likely outcome.
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  8429.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  true in a sense, but all definitions of safety are relative, and I was narrowing the discussion to how well they worked as gliders. Breaks+powered control surfaces+a proper airstrip is likely to produce 0 injuries, and having 1/2 engines working is even safer, because it means you've still got a large portion of the thurst...which you'd need to throttle down to land anyway. The loss of 1 engine alone is of minimal concern. You need another problem or a bad location for things to get bad enough to produce a bunch of injuries. It's mostly just dangerous in that you've lost a large chunk of your safety margin, not in that it means something bad is about to happen is all I'm saying.
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  8430. Ash Kitt the DNC isn't actually liberal, but yes, anything to keep the real left from getting power, 'cause once we do, their corrupt games are over permanently.
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  8431. Large portions of books by politicians are bought up in bulk as a way around our threadbare bribery laws and then handed out as what amounts to really thick propaganda flyers to try and get mildly influencial people on the same page without explicitly coordinating talking points. So really depends on the doner class.
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  8432.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  I'm sorry but, you're a fool if you bought into the "safe boring moderate" BS that is being pushed by the establishment. Bernie is the leftmost politician in the race and the most popular politician because of all the reasons mentioned in the video. His policies also align more with the ones wanted by the average American. His popularity extends to independents and Republicans too because, guess what? Bernie is the real moderate! Stop letting them trick you into thinking that center-right oligharchs are the actual moderates. They're not and there's no one "too progressive" in the race, so how about you support the guy who's destroyed Trump in every hypothetical matchup poll since 2016 and is the most popular politician in the country rather than another corporate tool who will just suppress the vote and get trounced in the debates like the last one?
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  8433.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  no, you don't get it. The further right from Bernie we go, the greater Trump's chances of winning are. We need to fight tooth and nail in the primary, not start by bowing to center/far right Democrats in name only. How well did it work last time when we had a candidate snub the base to chase "moderate Republicans" I'm not subbed to RT, and find their reporting sub-par at best, but you're a fool if you think they were how we got Trump. We got Trump because of Hillary, and everyone who supported her primary.
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  8434. I have no hope either. I do, however, have stubbornness and a preference that I would rather go down fighting.
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  8435. Phrased as "medicare for all" 60% of the country supports it with way over 80% of democrats and more republicans supporting than opposing. Public option is actually different proposal that isn't universal without a mandate (which people don't really like), but would still be a lot better than what we have and is a lot easier for republicans to be on board with.
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  8436. The customers of the MSM are not the viewers. The viewers are the product. The customers are the advertisers...like AIPAC.
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  8437. ​ @excentrik5725 you're projecting
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  8438. ​ @JustAPasserby-e6z good. This country shouldn't be trusted, and not just because of Trump.
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  8439. proud american yeah, because the US has wait times based on your wallet, where as Canada has wait times based on need, so the rich from other countries pay to get elective procedures done in the US where they can force people that actually NEED medical care to wait. Still proud?
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  8440. At this point, I'm more concerned if he ever plans to be gone, seeing as what would likely await him as soon as he leaves office.
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  8441. handyhippie65 all 3 Abrihamic religions share the same utterly barbaric book yet people want to pretend there's some fundamental difference between them. It's a bad joke.
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  8442. All else being equal, everything that increases the economic value of labor vs wealth is going to lower the racial wealth divide. Also, moving public services from being means-tested to universal programs will make poverty less of a trap where as how it is now, bettering your situation past a certain point will cut off your benefits and make you worse off at certain amounts of wealth/income than you would be before.
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  8443. Sara Samaletdin agreed. Admitting the pov up front is the best solution to such an issue going forward.
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  8444.  @AmirhoseinHerandy  go read "Confession of an Economic Hitman" and tell me which is worse again. Here take a link to the audiobook for free. https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  8445. Magnanimous Knight the USAAF existed back then but was considered a division of the Army rather than a brach in its own right. Saying someone served in the US air force in WW2 isn't incorrect.
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  8446. Warren is Obama 2.0 and even if she wins, would just pave the way for an even more extreme right-wing demagogue than Trump after her
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  8447. anime Walsh sadly, he's not...I idk how seriously Trump takes it (or anything else that isn't his ego for that matter) but yes, I remember Trump saying things to that effect.
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  8448. Money can't buy you sanity, and it's more often lunatics that make their way up the economic ladder. Just look at the statistics of psychopathy in CEOs vs the general population. Really though, in the US, Christians doing fucked up shit like this isn't abnormal. We have hundreds of thousands of kids/teens that are homeless because their parents refused to accept an lgbt child. Everywhere has some level of crazy people but over here we have a bunch of pastors telling people that acting like them is the moral thing to do.
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  8449. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca "The Pope isn't doing his job right." -Faux News (paraphrased)
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  8450. Canaan the rare good cop already wants legalization because it would cut funding to the gangs. Most cops want it illegal because of both indoctrination and because they can use "I thought I smelled weed" to get around all reasonable suspicion requirements. The really bad ones want it illegal because they can use it to plant on people they don't like and as an excuse for robbing people through civil asset forfeiture. (And they hold the most power)
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  8451. Operating In A Perpetual State of UGH! Well, Un was the first to flinch in this insane game of chicken, so he's not wrong
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  8452.  @eirmundgundnand9442  tasers can kill people. It's a LESS lethal weapon, not a non-lethal weapon. You're not supposed to taze people over a tail light. The crime in question has to be taken into account for the deployment of such force. And what was she refusing to do? Sign a piece of paper. They have her license plate. They have her on camera. What the fuck does the police department need her signature for? She wasn't a danger to anyone. She refused to provide written acknowledgement of her receipt of a ticket they had her on camera getting. What happens if she doesn't sign it is the same thing that would happen if she did: she'd either show up to her hearing date (and likely loose) or not, and be sent a bill either way. So Fucking What This is exactly what I'm talking about. The cop could have let her drive off and NOTHING would have been different except he would have had his feelings hurt that she didn't jump through meaningless procedural hoops, and you think that justifies the use of a taser because you're a little bitch that loves licking authoritarian boot.
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  8453.  @kelmirosue3251  retaliation and self protection are not the same thing. The fact that you clearly don't understand even that is disturbing.
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  8454. So....back in 2001 or do you mean earlier?
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  8455. ​ @emsleywyatt3400 if by "Trumpism" you mean "fascism" then no...that won't stop until we get some actual left wing politics to give people an alternative to the status quo that isn't fascism. Kamala buys time but doesn't fix the root of the problem, so it will come back as soon as the next 'dear leader' comes up to replace Trump.
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  8456.  @smitty1647  it's kinda like they're saying whatever they think in the moment will get them slightly closer to another try at the whole genocide business and don't actually mean anything they say.
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  8457. It's not about competency. It's about greed. There's just more money on the right.
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  8458. ...not sure that makes it better, actually.
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  8459. I believe they're called "Democrats"
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  8460. No.
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  8461. Hope so
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  8462. Except austerity has proven to worsen, not help, economic collapses you tool.
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  8463. This feels like how when they're making scam emails they deliberately put in misspellings to filter the audience that would reply down to the dumbest and easiest to trick people possible so they don't have to loose time on the people just smart enough to figure it out halfway through and pull out at the last moment.
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  8464.  @Gigika313  even if the only thing voting blue does is slow the country's slide into becoming a fascist dictatorship, that's still buying more time for other political action, and thus more useful than a 3rd party vote. Denying the GOP power has to be priority #1, and if they're made irrelevant, the "Democratic" party will split as has happened to parties in the past.
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  8465.  @Gigika313  if we stop the rise of fascism and not that, we can still work on that goal. If we achieve that goal and fall to fascism, we're 100% fucked and any 3rd party you would want to push for would be outlawed and any political advocacy left of the "Democrats" would get you turned into a political prisoner or dead. You're completely out of touch with reality if you can't prioritize those goals correctly.
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  8466.  @Gigika313  denying fascists elected office by making sure they loose the vote to whichever non-fascist they're running against at least buys more time for other methods of political action to bare fruit. If that means voting blue (and it usually does thanks to fptp voting), that's what needs done. The easiest path for fascists to seize power must be blocked for as long as possible, even if that isn't sufficient to completely stop them.
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  8467.  @Gigika313  of course that was a "yes". I know what I wrote and it was pretty unambiguous. Congrats on passing the most basic and unintentional reading comprehension test? As to the rest, while the donor lists overlap, but aren't identical, and even if they were, them being equivalent wouldn't follow from corporations trying to buy influence in both parties. Your "argument" is a total non-sequitur.
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  8469. No, it just needs endlessly repeated that kneeling is a high form of respect, and that the whole idea of the kneeling protest came from a veteran as a way to do so respectfully. We need to show the insanity for what it is.
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  8470. It has been repeated, but not endlessly. Repetition is your friend in politics, for good or ill, so use it until the truth becomes undeniable (just use it for good).
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  8471.  @glennwilliams2950  This is good, but <1% of what needs done.
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  8472. ​ @ArizonaTengu by "traditional marriage" you mean 1 man and his human property. Yeah, we don't care about that, p3d0.
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  8473. ​ @Timmycoo maybe YOU should reread the comments, because we're clearly NOT all in agreement on that point.
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  8474.  @ArizonaTengu  you're still not getting it. There is no context in which genocide and sex slavery of little kids is acceptable. And no, modern values are based on a rejection of your book. You know darn well how many genocides have been done in your god's name and that it continues to this day. Trying to take credit for a moral rejection of the things condoned in your book is BS no matter how many times you people do it (or project your failings onto others). You and your book are evil and you continue to prove my point with every comment.
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  8475.  @ArizonaTengu   There is no context in which genocide and sex slavery of children is acceptable. And no, modern values are based on a rejection of your book. You know darn well how many g-sides have been done in your god's name and that it continues to this day. Trying to take credit for a moral rejection of the things condoned in your book is BS no matter how many times you do it. You and your book are evil and you continue to prove my point with every comment.
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  8476.  @ArizonaTengu  Christian history is FULL of genocides.
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  8477. @bendari194  that's a complicated question that depends on the situation. More importantly do you disagree that g-side and sex slavery are never an appropriate response to a situation?
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  8478.  Sohan Biswas  plenty of lefties are pro-gun. They're just quiet about it because they know what our right-wing government likes to do to lefties who are loud about being armed and because they don't use if to compensate for certain insecurities. That's just one of like a half-dozen ways that take was dumb.
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  8479.  @XavierbTM1221  please don't get your policy stances from stand up comedy routines.
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  8481.  @SasquatchAtTheSpaceDisco  if I were to guess based on the comments of the only other person who's making a point of spamming hate comments about her, the answer is raging antisemitism.
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  8482. In principle, you have a point. In practice though, he's just as selective about enforcement. Just look at how civil asset forfeiture (the most common violation of the constitution) is used in conjunction with the war on drugs. Or look at how pot doesn't fit their own definition of a schedule 1 drug, since it has proven medical uses, but they still treat it as one. Hell, all of drug prohibition today is on shakey constitutional grounds through commerse loopholes about possession and trafficking, since they can't actually legislate what you can put in your own body. (At least with alcohol prohibition they had enough respect for the law to realize they needed an ammendment)
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  8483. No, that many psychopaths in one place is not natural.
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  8484.  @roscoedash6673  it's called being a manchild.
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  8485. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  8486.  @waltergrace565  the only people who say things like that ARE fascists. Thanks for outing yourself.
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  8487.  @waltergrace565  the only people who say things like that about Eco's work are those who don't like how accurate he's being because they know they're being called out.
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  8488.  @waltergrace565  it's not at all vague. That's why you have a problem with it. We went over this already.
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  8489. Japan is such an odd case across the board that it usually makes a bad example. Overall point is correct, but unless you're trying to make a comparison to Japan being remarkable in some specific way, it's usually better to pick a different example because it gets super complicated super quickly.
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  8490. The right always projects, and the further right the more flagrantly. While we're on the subject, though... "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists) (Also, anyone else notice how far downvoted this comment is...kinda proving your point, aren't they?)
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  8491. ​ @RaptorOrGrungus they should still vote for Kamala, but it IS g-side.
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  8492. ​ @clrdr7 he did tell the truth about taxes. The media just kept pretending like he didn't because they're all bought off by insurance companies.
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  8493. You requested to let you know what I think. Respectfully, I think you need to leave your disclaimers or any other large block of text on the screen at least long enough that I can be reasonably be expected to pause on it without backtracking and slowing down the playback speed. I enjoy your content, but please don't pull impossible-difficulty quick time events on me. It's hard enough with a spacebar to slap, but on a phone [Gollum Voice] it hurts us. [/Gollum Voice] (Try listening to YouTube videos at 0.25x with headphones if you don't understand what it does to the audio)
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  8494. "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. " -FDR "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
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  8495. They're evil.
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  8496. Please report the white supremacist for hate speech and move on.
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  8497. ChibiRuah that's because he's more dull than a butter knife.
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  8498. ​ @peterroberts4415 there was noone BUT white supremacists on one side to talk about. Get a clue.
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  8499.  @peterroberts4415  look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists and he was specifically calling neonazis "very fine people"
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  8500.  @peterroberts4415  look up "how Prager U lies to you: Charlottesville" But yeah, tl:dw; one side was ALL w. supremacists and he was specifically calling neonazis "very fine people"
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  8501.  @peterroberts4415  there was no-one BUT white supremacists on your side. Please don't lie.
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  8502.  @peterroberts4415  there was noone BUT white supremacists on one side and he was specifically referring to the people chanting "** will not replace us"
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  8503. Wow...gotta love it when people prove your point right after you make it. It's classic.
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  8504.  @JackBlack-fs3so  yup, every single one. Listening to their projection BS and working backwards from that is a very reliable way to tell what they want to do.
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  8505. America: 41% Nazi or Nazi-adjacent.
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  8506. Hopefully not, but that is likely an even bigger risk than the US/Russia/China tensions atm. ....and we're selling nuclear technology to the Saudis who are still arming Al-Quaida with our weapons to help them commit a genocide...
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  8507. While I don't disagree at all with that excellent comment, I would recommend making a point of mentioning the Koch brothers whenever you mention Soros so people don't mistake you for a far right antisemite. It's clear you're not in this comment, but it's a good habit given the current state of political discourse online.
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  8508. Side note: assuming you adjust income tax rates, UBI can be functionality identical to a negative income tax. It just is simpler (no one can ever fall through the cracks) and can be sent out monthly instead of yearly, which produces a more stable economy. The year end totals can be identical for every income point for the two systems because you just get the money back in the adjusted taxes from the Paris Hiltons. Bonus points is that since everyone gets it, there's less social resentment for the program.
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  8509.  @blakejohnson3864  because you're incredibly easily impressed and WANTING to be impressed.
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  8510. It's real interesting how many right wing trolls don't want us discussing this point.
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  8511.  @alex-qd6of  according to historians (including experts on concentration camps), people who have been held in other concentration camps, Jewish groups, and even Godwin of fucking Godwin's Law, yes, they do.
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  8512. It's actually worse than that. These people are ideologically opposed to truth and reason on a fundamental level. There's a word for being ideologically opposed to The Enlightenment. That word is "fascism". "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name." -Chinese proverb For more, see Lawrence Britt, Umberto Eco, and "palingenetic ultranationalism". MAGA *IS* fascism.
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  8513. I mean, it's the only legal way to hurt him...
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  8514. My recent preference is to put up a plaque explaining when and why they were put up, then pull them from the pedestals and leave them broken on the ground forever. Choice of putting up a civil rights/union hero or leaving the pedestal empty to represent "no slave masters ever again" after that.
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  8515. Obvious troll is obvious guys -.-
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  8516.  @feedingravens  1st off, Biden was advocating for a "preemptive" invasion of Iraq in the 90s so we already know he thinks like that. 2nd off, even if all we do is defend Saudi Arabia, that's still freeing up their military resources for aggression and genocide in Yemen. They can sugar coat it all they want and it's still military aid supporting a genocide. (Oh, and let's not forget it wasn't the genocide that flipped Congress and Biden on this. It was that they killed one US-based journalist.)
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  8517. "people"
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  8518. It seems like naming destroyers after weather is just asking for miscommunication...
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  8519. A psychopath caused her own bad situation dispite over half the voters trying to stop her. Save your sympathy for actual victims and people who can actually feel it for others.
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  8520. When the manners the ruling class shows each other are more important than the harm they do to the common people, that should be a flashing neon warning sign to anyone who thinks we live in a democratic country.
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  8521.  Progressives Against the Regressive Left  troll harder
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  8522. A B's idea is actually good. Replacing age-based office requirements (which are arguably discriminatory in structure) with minor experience-based requirements which force a candidate to build at least a limited voting record to be scrutinized before they can get on the ballot would improve the system's resilience to charlatans and demogogues.
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  8523. There aren't fine people on both sides. Zionists aren't fine people.
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  8524.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  so if someone wants to set up a totalitarian dictatorship and forcably deport all minorities (eventually resulting in genocide) they can't be extreme right-wing because they support 1 leftish (really moderate) policy? That makes sense to you?
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  8525. Bitcoin (like every cryptocurrency) is a bubble. Look up Debt: the first 5000 years if you don't understand why.
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  8526.  ryne green  one Jordan Peterson is enough, yes.
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  8527. Call these people what they are: Appeasers.
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  8528. And? There were also kids who felt like they could get away with anything, and both and those in between exist today too.
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  8529. I don't think the people you're calling "leftists" actually are.
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  8530. The disagreement between Kyle and Jimmy is wether it's practical to remove such people from the Democratic party, not wether such people can be saved
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  8532.  @michaelk.jensen1611  not to attack you, but on the subject of the Status Coup video, it was very detailed and broke down multiple ways in which the polling was done incredibly dishonestly. Frankly, and again, not attacking you personally, I'm running out of patience with "progressives" who immediately tune out as soon as they get a whiff of someone implying even a small conspiracy before considering evidence even though small and medium-sized conspiracies happen all the time in our corrupt country. We have a guilty plea for targeted illegal voter disenfranchisement in NY (among other things), but still we have people calling themselves progressives who insist that 2016 was legit.
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  8533. If you have that population density, you have the manpower and less transit problems, by definition. Election integrity is worth the trivial expense and labor of doing things the right way.
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  8534. Every time they start talking about cutting food stamps I'm reminded of 3 words "bread and circus" People starving is historically proven to be one of the fastest ways for a ruling class to commit suicide. Guillotines start to seem a lot less radical to a parent looking at the face of a starving child.
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  8535.  @mehdihatami3391  "one of" not "a surefire"
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  8536. ....REALLY fucking low bar for what you're calling a reporter there....just sayin'
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  8537.  @Sacrengard  to be more accurate, they're not worried about the economy. They're worried about the stock market. These are not the same thing no matter how much they try to equate them.
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  8538. As best I can tell from inside, a combination of the lingering effects of Cold War propaganda and the insane corporatocracy controling our government and media
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  8539. The demographic most likely to support Bernie is young black women.
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  8540.  @uzumakiangelus  is he insane? Well he's a troll so... https://youtu.be/6Zxy_dScjsM
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  8541.  @TheBrooklynBeastLeo  gotta keep beating that strawman huh?
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  8542.  @DevinHeida  considering every video is him talking, it's him
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  8543. Oh it is being burned intentionally...but by his supporters who he promised access to the resources under the forests.
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  8544.  @mrgaudy1954  Poe's Law is real. "/s" is your friend.
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  8545. Imagine if Donald Trump tried to peel off black voters with an ad using the kind of terrible rap white, middle-class suburbanites listen to. This is that, except generational instead of racial.
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  8546. You've got a non sequitur there
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  8547. If we actually cared about people like that, we would lock them up in mental institutions.
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  8548. "Centrism"
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  8549.  @mattkodak7544  providing a vaccine but not distributing it quite widely enough to prevent mutations that would necessitate another vaccine sounds very profitable for the companies involved. Just sayin'
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  8550.  @samanthab6642  I'm not the one who needs to be told that, to be clear. I already knew.
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  8551. ...you can imagine something? Ok, I can imagine dragons and magic. What's your point?
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  8552. Red Menace Leave I don't mean to say that flippantly. I know it will likely take years of work if you're trapped, but still, you should always be working toward leaving.
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  8553.  @iainmcmullan6049  just like Bush, if they're not the worst offenders, they're fairly safe from backlash as they drag the overton window further right. Erratic moron presidents are useful distractions for them.
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  8554.  @kafulamulenga753  vote for an all-talk, no-conviction Obama 2.0 that, even if she wins, would just pave the way for a Trump 2.0 (who would likely be even further right and less incompetent)? No, I'm not down for that.
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  8555. @TIGGER-ALERT  you know who led in 2020 campaign donations from the military? Bernie Sanders, and it wasn't even close.
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  8556. When you play an arena map enough, some strategies just emerge as just the standard optimal play for the level layout no matter who you're up against.
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  8557. To any non-troll saying "stay" what is the force of arms of the US military going to do to put back together a country designed (by the European powers that drew its borders) to be constantly at its own throat that it hasn't been able to do already? We can set aside all of the BS that actually is driving US involvement in the region and the fact that the best way to stabilize the middle east would be to stop funding terrorists, arming them, and get off fossil fuels so we can just stick to that simple question.
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  8558. Watch more then, because its relatively common.
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  8559.  @akumakorgar  if they're a supporter of the CCP, of course they don't understand any leftist theory.
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  8560. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  8561. If we actually wanted to curb illegal immigration, what we would to is increase oversight and fines for companies who employ undocumented workers to cut off the problem at the root cause. (Bonus: the fines could pay for the oversight: so it would be budget neutral) We'd also end the drug war and reverse our policy of exporting it to central and South America. Instead, when we have a negative illegal immigration rate, we crack down on the immigrants themselves, which not only makes them more fearful (and therefore willing to put up with worse treatment and pay from their employers), but has been shown to make them stay longer each time they get in to reduce the risks of getting caught, actually increasing the number in the country at any given time and making them seek out more long-term employment to fill that time (instead of just coming for itinerant farm work and leaving after harvest) Why do you think that is?
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  8562. Because, reality check, it's entirely normal for initial reports to be extremely conservative (the non-political definition of the term) for criminal cases because overstating things can cause problems later. Everyone needs to just chill out and wait for more information to come in.
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  8563. @FltBdN87 yeah, metaphorically I like to wait until they get their toes in then strike the back of the heal so they choke on it harder. They're so predictable that it's not even hard. Just the slightest nudge and they'll set themselves up for it for me all on their own.
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  8564.  @yohnjates  no "fleeing a domestic disturbance" is a standard statement of fact for this kind of incident, reguardless of who or why. This early after an incident very reserved statements like that are the norm, not evidence of an agenda. Kinda suspect that you're unaware of that fact, but this quick to jump on this incident, ngl.
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  8565. @Zooch I deliberately do not have a twitter account. Another swing and a miss there. Doesn't being dead wrong this often clue you in to how brainwashed you are?
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  8566.  @yohnjates  what makes it different? It's so incredibly new and you're not this quick to jump on stories that aren't about black people, so you didn't notice this was normal. That's what's different. But by all means, keep telling on yourself. And see, that's the thing. They're not trying to lay out a narrative beyond "these are broadly the events and the order they happened in" yet. They never implied one caused the other. You're just so obsessed with getting a narrative that fits your agenda out asap that you can't even see that.
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  8567. @Zooch I very deliberately did not put "always" into that sentence. Nice try though. Maybe go back to middle school and learn to read before you dive into conversations for adults.
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  8568.  @yohnjates  yeah, gee you think the white nationalist hate mob jumping on this hard before there was sufficient information out may have gotten this pushed up the algorithm sooner than a normal news story??? Come on dude, engage a 3rd braincell, please. You don't normally follow this kind of story this soon after the event, but it was presented quicker to you because people like you have been rabidly clicking and commenting on this over everything else, because you've got a bias to push with it, unlike other stories which you normally let develop for a bit if you get to them at all. This is really basic stuff, I promise.
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  8569. There's nothing new about fascism
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  8570.  @duxnihilo  yes those are pizza slices, and judging by my experience in school, they probably taste like greasy cardboard. So glad I was able to pack.
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  8571.  @ezgarrth4555  well, see, the person you referred to in your comment (which also pointed towards his lawyerist integrity) deeply offended the troll's politics by acknowledging actual reality. That's how it relates. Until the recent rise in right-wing extremism is driven back to being a fringe thing of universal contempt, we don't get to have nice things....like a plague free society or reasonable discussions...
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  8572. LoneWanderer360 soft is good for shields. You want them to flex instead of crack, and if an opponent's weapon bites in too deep and gets stuck, all the better. Also, don't forget you usually had a thin layer of hide/linen helping to hold it together as well.
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  8573. Or is it just religious fundamentalism? Hard to tell the difference sometimes...especally since Mormonism isn't exactly non-racist.
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  8574. Because their favorite thing is projection
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  8575. Ageism? Like when the democratic party systematically disenfranchised millennials and you said nothing? How about when she sold out our futures? No establishment dem has any right to even mention that word in my books. That's like a white Republican complaining about racism. Fuck right off.
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  8576. Kyle..."new"?
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  8577. There's nothing significant that seperates the AR-15 from any other low-to-intermediate power semi-auto rifle. It just looks like a military weapon.
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  8578.  @thethikboy  matchlock muskets used to be military grade equipment. We both know that no-one cares about what was a military grade rifle before light, full-auto rifles became standard-issue for basically every infantryman. You know that's a dishonest twisting of language. The AR-15 isn't a sniper rifle, high-power/caliber rifle, or capable of full auto. To say the AR-15 has a lower rate of fire to a gun which can switch to full auto is an incredible understatement and you know it. It's a low-caliber, lowish power semiautomatic rifle no more dangerous than nearly any other rifle on the civilian market (and a lot less dangerous than some of the other popular ones)
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  8579.  @thethikboy  I told you what the difference is, or do you not understand the difference between full- and semi-automatic weapons?
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  8580. Well, other than the bible repeatedly endorsing a theocratic monarchy, and not a word for democratic government in the first place?
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  8581. A Republican would be better. People fight against them from the left.
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  8582. DMD actually, trying to deal with population problems by lifting people off planet is way too energy intensive to be practical at that scale in all likelihood.
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  8583. I don't believe in Yahweh, but read the Old Testament again if you think he's a morally good character in that story.
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  8584. Like "think of the children" wherever the right brings up mental health it's just a smokescreen to cover views they know they can't get away with expressing honestly. It's NEVER genuine!
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  8585. It's really not doing him any favors, though...it just makes him look like he's too deep into a mental breakdown to shave
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  8586. ​ @joelp123 exactly. Suburban sprawl is largely the result of zoning laws and the near total lack of medium-density residential zones.
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  8587. Clinical narcissism is a symptom of psychopathy
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  8588. _then laugh because they had to be towed to the battlefield because they broke down 5 miles from the factory.
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  8589. SkyTech RTS While I 100% denounce the 9/11 attacks in every way (for violence, effectiveness, and # of civilian casualties, should you even treat it as a para-military action), I think you should take another look at the targets if you want to understand what they were going after. The WTC buildings were filled with a lot of huge (and often international) companies including a number of large banks, investment firms, and health insurance companies while serving of a symbol of overblown corporate capitalism and (if I'm going to be blunt about it) economic imperialism They weren't the only targets, however, as the pentagon and the capital building were also targets (though the pentagon had little effect, and the attack on the capital building was thwarted by passengers) Again, the terrorists were scum, but these weren't attacks aiming to rack up a civilian death count like we see with bus bombings (for example). They were specifically targeted attacks in a way that the normally indiscriminate violence of normal terrorism is not. Simply put, Osama and the Saudis that planned it were looking to strike right at those that pull the strings in the US.
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  8590. Jordan Sharps really? I specify "ones that often lead to maiming, chronic illness, and early death" and you try to pretend I'm talking about "serving people burgers or stocking shelves"? Try comparing it to something like coal mining instead and not straw-manning the people you're talking to with that and trying to claim I advocated "being completely cavalier" as I clearly argued for regulation. A little intellectual integrity goes a long way.
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  8591. Jordan Sharps you want to strawmand me and then complain about me being rude and not addressing the nuance in your point when that's exactly what you did in strawmanning me? Guess what? You just shreaded what credibility you had left, so I'm done talking to you because there's no longer any point when you insist on dishonest arguments. Bye.
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  8592. I don't
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  8593. Jethro Beaudine your intuition isn't reliable if you wanted Trump. Don't trust it until you get it recalibrated, or you will fall for con men.
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  8594. We did warcrimes which weren't excusable then either. There's never an excuse for g-cide.
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  8595.  @SpoopySquid  that IS the argument he put forward, yes.
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  8596. How many studies have found that Faux News veiwers are less informed than those who don't follow ANY news?
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  8597. There is, however, a connection between murder rates and being at war and the death penalty. Surprise, when the government says it's ok to kill people for any reason besides self defense, the number of people finding ways to excuse murder enough to themselves to act on it goes up.
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  8598. +fomalhaut I'm aware that there are many factors that go into it, that the effect isn't that large, and that the evidence is inconclusive, but, considering we see similar increases during offensive war and with the death penalty, I believe it's fair to say that a state saying that "killing people because they've done something you don't like is OK under certain circumstances" has a measurable increase in murder rate. Of course, the correlation between blacks and crime rate deals with so many socioeconomic factors that it's unfair to imply that the ethnicity is just inherently more violent...but you didn't mean that right?
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  8599. The individuals cannot be reformed. Trapping them in a pincer attack between a "hostile takeover" of the party and flipping 3rd party if/when they cheat is the most effective strategy, though.
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  8600. Let's not mince words. These cuts will cost lives. The only reason it doesn't count as a class war is that the poor aren't killing the rich back.
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  8601. Objection! (again) Choking the victim for minutes after he lost consciousness and went limp proves clear, lethal intent from the cop beyond a resonable doubt. (Doubly so with the lack of attempting to help after) Also, intentionally blocking filming of the killing and creating a bogus autopsy report would both make someone an accessory to murder.
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  8602. If it looks like a "moderate" Republican, talks like a "moderate" Republican, and acts like a "moderate" Republican... Run it out of the party!
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  8603.  @timekeeper2538  just look up US excess deaths to see how much bs the people you've been listening to have been feeding you and then stop trusting them for news and medical information.
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  8604.  @timekeeper2538  plenty aren't, "who cares if fat people die" is monsterous, we've literally had cancer patients and others forced to postpone treatment because of hospital overcrowding (even with how much we're overworking our hospital staff which is going to affect overall medical care in this country for decades), and death isn't the only outcome for the illness (many more are left with long-term, possibly permenant, damage to their bodies and/or brains). Fact: this is killing way more people than the flu and plenty of them aren't fat. They've got you denying objective reality to ignore the growing piles of bodies and for what? So you can oppose the things that would end this sooner?
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  8605. Once again ~25% of the country is totally disconnected from reality. Write them off and move on.
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  8606. ​ @alix1493 learn to read
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  8607. Yup. Ignore the denial from the people who support it. They're not being honest.
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  8608. b0wtiefrencfry idk if it's what he means, but I'd argue that most of Congress should be on trial for treason just for arming Saudi Arabia while knowing they are funneling those weapons to Al-Quaida. That would also include Trump and Obama for signing off on those deals, and probably Hillary too. Is it going to happen, obviously not, but legally speaking, it probably should.
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  8609. All laws are ultimately backed up by violence or are just ink on paper.
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  8610. you don't nuke cities to destroy androids you nuke the upper atmosphere to create an EMP
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  8611.  @boobah5643  yeah. We have them and they work. The main problem is trying to design materials that can withstand the corrosive problems for practical application, as I understand. Hopefully, we will solve those problems soon, but atm they're kinda like tidal generators: we can build them, but the maintenance needed is to frequent, extensive, and expensive to make them practical.
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  8612. ​ @JacquiGrace2090 if a politician will let an R by put next to their name you know they're unacceptable.
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  8613. Because appeasement totally works on fascists. /SARCASM
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  8614. Yoshi the green cheek Conure Collins towards the end of my public school days, I did just that, actually.
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  8615. reaper39 technically you don't have to say it at all, but that's a separate (though related) issue to changing the pledge itself to something that violates the constitution.
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  8616. Don't though. It just increases the supply in the end.
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  8617. Wrong video for that comment
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  8618. Let's not mince words though. Tucker isn't a conservative. He's a Nazi.
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  8619.  YouFancyMe  can you read or are you deliberately misrepresenting me? I said nothing about who was leading. I only spoke to Bernie going up post-debate (which there are polls which confirm)
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  8620.  @johnmoore9862  the "elephant" being "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  8621. David, stop pretending this is an actual debate. An executive order cannot override an ammendment. Period. End of discussion. No number of lawyers who wish it to be otherwise changes that.
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  8622. Share this with your male Canadian friends and family I guess.
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  8623.  @ww748  exposure as in inhalation of the dust or does it absorb that readily through the skin?
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  8624. What does the rat say? "CheatCheatCheat"
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  8625.  @mayamaya-kn8mk  insurance companies are for-profit death pannels.
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  8626. You forgot the liars. This guy could have done better hiding his tells. I could tell he was lying with audio only.
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  8627. Her whole demeanor just gives the air of something inhuman wearing human form and trying to mimic normal human mannerisms. From the very moment she's on screen (and especially those first few moments starting at 1:45) there should be something screaming in your brain "uncanny valley! Avoid! Danger!" because we evolved such instincts to survive encoutering the dangerously insane (like sociopaths). If your brain is not doing that, there's something wrong with your social survival instincts. This is the kind of shit that makes the more paranoid among us jump to ideas about reptile people.
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  8628.  @torritaite2880  didn't he? Been a while so my memory could be off, but I thought I remembered him doing so.
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  8629. Because we live in an oligarchy
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  8630. I'm with you there. Cynicism and trauma makes it hard to cry even when I want to, but I still had a tear to wipe away. There may be no god watching over us, and the universe may have no inherent justice or farness, but we have each other, and together, we can create the justice and fairness we want to see in the world. On our own the task seems monolithic, but when we refuse to be pitted against each other or give into dispare and begin working together, we can achieve great things.
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  8631. It's not increasing their funding, it's cutting their paperwork by getting rid of the many different weasely insurance companies with their convoluted paperwork designed by teams of lawyers who's job it is to get out of paying. They just want to be left to do their jobs: helping people. People don't become doctors to spend huge amounts of time deal with lawyers, but our system forces them to do just that. That's a terrible analogy.
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  8632. Fascism is a death cult, afterall. Wtf do we expect, exactly?
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  8633. His hands aren't tied. He's sitting on them because he LIKES what is happening.
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  8634. Even US intelligence agencies admit that NK is a rational actor and wants nukes as a deterrent against US invasion. They're barbaric to their people, no question, but not going to use a nuke offensively. The US/Russia/China tensions, India and Pakistan conflict, and Saudi Arabia being sold nuclear technology are all big concerns, though.
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  8635. Not the purge, just wind the clock back around 90 years and look to a certain European nation.
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  8636. The simplest way to defeat terrorism: don't give in to fear. Good on you for keeping your head.
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  8637.  @stumblingmumbler  newspeak
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  8638. If I may pull a quote from Innuendo Studios, it's not even that they're lying; it's that "they legitimately do not care whether the words coming out of their mouths are true." https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
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  8639. ​ @Cantudreams 1-gridlock is not how the system is supposed to function. 2-even if the GOP entirely went away, the Dems would split and there would be 2 parties again anyway 3-the actual center (of both the country and the full political spectrum) is to the LEFT of the Dems, meaning any "both sides" nonsense is BS
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  8640. All of the people handwringing over the art are literally who is being protested against and they completely lack the self awareness or integrity to acknowledge it.
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  8641. They are always voting red. You'll never swing them to vote blue, but they're a small enough vote that a black man with a Muslim-sounding name, and a foreigner father won twice. If it was about the racism, that wouldn't have happened. It wasn't even about Trump at all. When Trump was talking and Hillary was silent she gained in the polls, but when she made public statements her numbers went down because people find her utterly repulsive.
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  8642. Jonathan S if Trump's win was because of this energising effect you mention, then we should have expected to see significantly higher voter turnout for him than previous republican candidates, but we don't. Nor would we expect Trump to do well in areas where Obama won, but we do. We'd also expect to see his poll numbers go up when he was spouting racist shit while Hillary was silent, and down when she came out to speak against him, but we see the opposite. Broadly speaking, whoever was talking was dropping in the polls. The energizing effect did seem to have an effect on hate crimes, but it looks like most of the people that were going to vote for racism were already turning out for the "dog whistles" and any additional votes that were gained were offset by the loss of someone being so disgusted they stayed home. The notable difference between elections isn't that Trump got so much more, but that Hillary got so much less than Obama.
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  8643. Stop using dystopian literature as instruction manuals!
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  8644. Jokes aside, just taking good care of your health and skin can go a long way. If you're using moisturizer, well hydrated, getting enough quality rest, and eating well, it can do a lot for your skin, especially if you're in your 20s-30s. Making your skin a bit fuller smooths out wrinkles and when combined with getting rid of bags under the eyes and a better complexion, you can actually make yourself look a little younger for a while until the collagen breaking down outpaces what you can do. The real weirdness I don't understand is when someone hits old age and then just stops aging for like 10+ years.
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  8645. Hip Movement inventing the concept of gods
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  8646.  @MackDickson-m8y  explain what?
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  8647.  @yikesyikes5974 and Ephesians 6:5-8? There's nothing forbidding slavery in the Bible. Instead it is endorsed in new and old testament.
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  8648. Logan Byrd UBI is actually better than NIT. As soon as you start putting conditions on things, you create cracks for people to fall through. UBI still keeps the incentive to work by letting you keep whatever you can make after taxes, and you can get the same effect of UBI+NIT by just UBI and adjusting the normal income tax brackets.
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  8649. "Again" implies it ever stopped.
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  8650. Maxwell Montgomery DNC fraud lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds that those suing didn't have the right to sue. There's solid proof of them rigging the primaries (with their lawyer even saying they were in their rights to do so) through multiple means such as funding allocation, media collusion, etc, and very solid evidence of systematic and targeted voter disenfranchisement, and more circumstantial evidence of even worse.
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  8651. Everyone should be allowed to vote for the simple reason that we cannot trust politicians with the power to strip any group of people of their right to vote. If they can, they will abuse that power. The right to vote must be inalienable.
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  8652.  @eldridgedavis  things are never as good or bad as they could be. They can always be better and can always be worse.
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  8653. Who is still giving our weapons to the group who did the attack.
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  8654. Bush is entirely unacceptable. Don't be tricked into continually lowering your standards. That's how we got Trump vs Hillary in the first place.
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  8655. Physically? Unfortunately to the noticable detriment of the species Mentally? Not even close, even when he's trying to appear presentable when the cameras are on.
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  8656. Type 6b where your dark reflection nemesis is your future self is surprisingly common when time travel is involved. Beware to any who would interfere with the flow of time!
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  8657. You know, an 8 hour debunking of a state of the union address sounds like exactly what this nation needs.
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  8658. I have occasionally watched him in the past (less so in the last year+), because he sometimes stumbles into things that are interesting enough for me to do research on that aren't part of the main discussions, but when he comes to the right positions, it's mostly from flailing around, so he's completely unreliable and no-one should be taking him at face value on anything, no matter how sincere he is being.
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  8659.  @spinner771  if they have any degree of power? Dangerous
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  8660. The non-Islamic, non-black nationalist right commits the most numbers of domestic terrorist attacks in the country period. (And both those groups are also right wing, meaning the right all counted together counts for nearly all domestic terrorism.
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  8661.  @bradleysmith681  what UBI proposals? We've actually done small scale experiments with actual UBIs (not a mere expansion of unemployment insurance) Stop spreading BS and take 10 minutes and get at least a brief overview of what you're talking about. https://youtu.be/kl39KHS07Xc
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  8662.  @koloblicin  a really good dealer (which you're unlikely to find in areas where it's illegal, to be clear) should even be able to sell you more mellow strains with a higher ratio of CBD to THC if you want the whole plant as well, but if you just want the anti-anxiety, yes, you can just get cbd oil. This all just reverses the gateway point though: pot isn't a gateway to hard drugs; it's a gateway from hard drugs (same with kratom, btw)
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  8663. I did some research a while back for some RPG reasons I was getting way to technical with, and found that, for my purposes, iron and bronze had roughly equivalent mechanical properties. I've seen some evidence that there was a little high-carbon steel floating around back when both were in use (the primative smelting process produced varrying carbon content, but the higher stuff could be seperated out), but if we're just talking about the kind of iron/low carbon steel that was common, sometimes one or the other would be harder.
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  8664.  @DisturbedAidan2  lying with your words and your political compass I see.
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  8665. What was destroyed?
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  8666. Judd Hurst I don't have any statistics, but as a white man in the north (barely) with experience dealing with a range of ages and income brackets, that feels about right to me. Done everything from going to a decent sized school where we were like 94% white, to workplaces that were like 80% black. Lower middle-class and younger people are the least racist in my experience (though the millenials that actually are racist are the most vocal short of crazy retirees). Upside, the % of racists is dropping fast. I notice that 25% number in a lot of polls where you'd be like "no sane person could believe that" to the point where I'm convinced that 20-25% of people are just slightly disconnected from reality and strongly resistant to logic and evidence. So, when I see 26% show up in polls, I just think "oh those dumbasses again" PS: before anyone brings it up, no, I'm not feeling "white guilt". I believe to my core that inherited and collective guilt is utter BS. It's not solid statistics, but that's what I've seen.
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  8667. See, this kind of surreal behavior is what makes lizard people conspiracy theories seem almost plausible. Wtf are we even watching? These people don't even react like human beings to anything.
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  8668. Because the dems don't actually have a leg to stand on to complain about it because Hillary pulled it in the 2016 primary too.
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  8669. If you actually think some highshool kid is going to outgun a SWAT team because he has played some FPS's and has cover...wow
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  8670. 2% per year is less than a reasonable return on investment. The only people who would see their wealth go down from this are people who are too incompetent with money to hold that much in the first place. It's just a check on money making money and making being obscenely wealthy actually take skill and work.
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  8671. BoozeNMetaL it's not worth the side effects like constant guilt and sexual repression
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  8672. The conservatives were the ones who came up with the war on drugs to disenfranchise hippies and minorities via incarceration in the first place, so no.
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  8673.  @FOLIPE  um, the war on drugs is internal policy (and Obama governed as a conservative)
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  8674.  @FOLIPE  fair enough
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  8675.  @tsaoh5572  Good rule of thumb: anyone who tries to pry fascism and Nazism appart is almost certainly a fascist.
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  8676.  @doeeyes2  ”Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something that applies to all fascists)
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  8677.  @doeeyes2  see also: “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -John Ehrlichman, former Nixon Whitehouse Aide
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  8678. Compared to the voters, she's at least solidly right-wing...our politicians don't really match that though
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  8679. The right traces it's roots back to royalists opposing representative government. It is (at best) sympathic to authoritarianism by its very nature.
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  8680.  @ericthomas917  yes, the green party is less intelligent on average than the normal people who align with them politically because it's a self-selecting subset of them that so frequently fail to understand pragmatism that they made a political party out of it...and frequently dump huge amounts of political capital on loosing issues like actually trying to ban guns. Yeah, the green party's politicians are frequently some of the least intelligent socDems out there. Imagine thinking the politicians they put out are the best progressive circles have to offer? (Orb on 2nd though, don't! Considering something that stupid might turn you into a conservative and you're already struggling enough)
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  8681.  @otomicans6580  what gets called "libertarianism" in the US is just conservative propaganda, yes.
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  8682.  @laserbrain7774  nope, just facts you're so used to lied that you can't recognize as the obvious truth.
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  8683.  @otomicans6580  no, my political strategy is, for the part relevant to this topic, to try and undo all the work COINTELPRO did to make sure that the most ineffective and counterproductive people were the ones leading the left.
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  8684. Exceptions to this requirement are made for those with no morals or shame I'm led to believe.
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  8685.  @coolnerdlll6053  Hillary would have sleepwalked this country right into the hands of the next fascist demagogue to come after Trump (who would likely be worse and more competent). That said, Gore winning would likely have put the party on a trajectory to nominate someone other than Hillary.
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  8686. Oh joy, just what social media needs...more brain damage...
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  8687. You're not wrong, but his opponent is also way worse.
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  8688. Maher says whatever he thinks will get him enough cred to slander moderate progressives as extremists.
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  8689.  @editthemadparts1913  more moderate? Sure if you mean left of the center-right "Democratic" establishment. Bernie is the most liked politican in the country, his positions are supported by most Americans (and even in many cases most Republicans), he does especially well with independents and in the rust belt states Hillary lost, has beaten Trump in nearly every hypothetical matchup poll by a large margin, etc, etc Going further right just alienates the average American more.
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  8690. Jetskee forever? No, but 300-400 would be pretty nice if I got to be in my prime through it...gotta make suicide ok though for those that can't deal with it (not that it being illegal would likely stop me at 500, but you'd have to ask me when I was there)
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  8691. Conspiracy to murder one cis, straight, white man gets you thrown in prison. Conspiracy to murder millions of minorities gets called "free speech" and will get police protection if you try to shut them down. We will never get anywhere as a country as long as we continue this legal double-standard.
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  8692. Patriotism is about the foundational ideals of your country and trying to make it better than it was yesterday. Nationalism is about dominance. Given a choice between: 1-A path that would affirm the core ideals of the country and help the people living there slightly but which would help other countries more, undermining their global dominance 2-a path which undermines the core values of the country and harms its people somewhat, but which solidifies and expands their power on thw world stage by hurting other countries more The patriot chooses 1, the nationalist chooses 2. Real world example (with the muddyness that comes with that): Another democratic country decides to nationalize one of their natural resources which may (or even will) raise prices for said resource here, but said country has a fascist wing of their politics which, with a little backing, could overthrow the current democratic government and undo said policy. The patriot opposes the coup, saying that democracy is more important than prices going up somewhat. The nationalist supports the coup to "secure national interests" Btw, Stephen Crowder is a white nationalist, which is a whole nother level of problems.
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  8693. Can we stop pretending Maher isn't a conservative already? Just because he isn't a fascist doesn't mean he's not a conservative.
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  8694. Oh yeah, that used to be a big thing all over the place.
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  8695. Steve Hirsch some countries in Europe get one.
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  8696.  @charliekirk8570  and yet Bernie is the most liked politician in the country and does better when labeled a "socialist" than when labeled a "Democrat" Most people support his policies, including often most Republican voters and self-described "conservative Democrats". Maybe, and hear me out, Americans don't understand or care much about labels.
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  8697. Noam Chomskey's "Manufacturing Consent" explains this quite well.
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  8698.  @goldilox369  neoliberals are right wing.
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  8699.  @suebee4843  both sets: Lawrence Britt's and Uberto Eco's. See also "palingenetic ultranationalism" They're textbook at this point!
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  8700.  @krieger8825  nah, your taste just sucks.
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  8701. That'll happen when you society is run by reactionaries. Those at the top are the victims, Left means oppression (while right means freedom), And the way forward is to "return" to a mythical version of the past
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  8702. Most upvotes but pushed to the bottom of the comment section. Wow you "triggered" the chuds there! Well done!
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  8703.  @garyintx6703  Once you strip away the white washing of MLK that has been done over the decades, their rhetoric isn't actually that different. Some difference in tactics used (which created an effective 2-pronged effort), of course, but their quotes really aren't that different.
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  8704.  @MrJturner74  wouldn't that be a nice loosing streak to break then? #Bernie2020
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  8705.  @MrJturner74  yeah, splitting the Dem vote would have stopped Trump /s Come on, you know that's BS.
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  8706.  @MrJturner74  sure, there's absolutely tradeoffs in both dirrections for Bernie supporting vs not supporting Hillary in 2016, and I don't even claim I could say with certainty which was the better option. That said 1-that was not your origional claim. Your claim was that Bernie going after her for rigging the primary would have stopped Trump from winning, and we all know that's BS. 2-I cannot fault Bernie for holding to his word that he would endorse the nominee, even if I may have done different in his place, because the integrity of his word is one of the things I like most about him. 3-(and a more minor thing) when you say "Hillary's emails" people think of the email server scandal, which pales in significance to the contents of the DNC leaks
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  8707.  @MrJturner74  you're incredibly naive if you think complaints about the election fraud would have gone through in time for him to replace Hillary as the nominee, sorry, that fantasy isn't the shithole reality we live in today.
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  8708. ​ @painwithgain8510 🎯
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  8709. I approve of the precinct being burned down the way I would have approved of Al Capone's house being burned down.
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  8710. Why do you think they care so much about Zionism getting all of that region under Jewish control?
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  8711.  @christyann1201  no disagreement on the 2nd point, but we need to be clear that Dems see US as their main political opposition, not Republicans. They have never been on our side in this struggle and have actively chosen to prioritize stopping anything remotely left of center over stopping the far right. This future that we're suffering is the result of deliberate choices they have been repeatedly making.
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  8712. Not when they constantly blackmail people and force people off their meds. They're a more harmful cult than the Westborough Babtists, and arguably even the modern KKK
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  8713.  @amrahmed7856  that was just the impression the media wanted to give. For why, jusy look to their advertisers and realize, for example, that Boeing isn't looking to sell passenger jets from their TV ads. (Or read manufacturing consent)
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  8714. So they switched to molasses dispite it containing no vitamin C because of scurvy? ...kinda like once it was discovered that citrus would cure scurvy, they chose to forgo the cheaper European lemons for limes which had about half the vitamin C to start with, which was almost all destroyed by the boiling and leaving open to air in copper vessels. I like learning about historic food, reguardles, but I'm really glad we're actually starting to figgure out nutrition (as long as you stay away from clickbait sites and people trying to sell you things) because for a scavenger species we're remarkably bad at understanding it sometimes I just am left facepalming and then chuckling at how consistently bad we are at it. Molasses does have a lot of different minerals, though, so a couple tablespoons could be beneficial for a few things (though just a small teaspoon wouldn't do much, and it covers much of the same range as the oats) and unlike a lot of things on a ship it would keep well, so there's that.
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  8715. And when they replace your job with a machine?
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  8716. tapmy wire there aren't going to be enough jobs in robotic to replace all jobs that will disappear. That's just the reality of it.
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  8717. Largely solid analysis but you are wrong about the shifting balance of power. Russia is a great power in decline. Every year its military becomes more outdated and poorly maintained. Meanwhile its economy is reliant on a natural resource which the world (and Europe especially) is seeking to phase out entirely so every year its economic position becomes more untenable. Likewise, the domestic shifts that would be needed to transition Russia to a more advanced 21st century economy would kick the power structures the current regime relies on out from under it (as would the acceptance of diminishing from a world power to a regional power). Putin needs to both ward off competition for his gas exports and find some highly necessary extractive industry to replace that geopolitical economic leverage and income so that he can keep buying things like computer components and other tech developed by societies educated and well off enough to not be inclined to tolerate his authoritarianism. What a better thing than highly productive farmland with reliable water in a future where climate change will increasingly strain food security? Conversely, Ukraine is a rising economic power with increasing ability to translate that economic power into military power and increasing inclination to transition aspects of its economy (such as rail line width) to EU standards and away from Russian standards. That means that every year Ukraine's ability to resist Russian aggression was increasing. (And because of the shared language, the harder it would be to hide how much of a failure Putin's government has been for the average people of Russia). This all, as noted, dovetails extremely tightly with the personal benefits from Russia's internal politics where between the more tangible political situation and the palingenetic ultranationalism (which makes both the Russian Irredentism and Ukrainian unwillingness to engage in appeasement because they know it will just be ceding power to an adversary who will never be satisfied nonnegotiable) Putin relies on to stay in power, Putin has walked himself into a position where he has to win ar any cost (or at least drag the conflict out indefinitely) and both Ukraine and other European powers know they gain nothing long term from making concessions to Putin's unquenchable (and for him, domestically, absolutely necessary) ambitions, which Putin has reminded them through his unwillingness to be satisfied with Crimea (as just one example). Put together, this creates a situation where peace would ultimately require or result in Putin's removal from power (and considering all of his crimes both internationally and domestically that would probably number his days even if he would be willing to quietly retire in humility, which I doubt) which means Putin has trapped himself in a no-win situation from which noone can free him. This means that we should expect this conflict to continue until those in Russia find the war more costly than what it would take to remove him from power.
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  8718. Unfortunately...not making sense isn't entirely unintentional on their part...
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  8719. Fleck Smugbrother that's more blind nationalism, but yeah, we are in decline and doomed if we don't turn things around asap
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  8720.  @joolzvega7298  sure, because there's totally eqauility of opportunity there and all of Musk's ideas are successful and origional. /s
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  8721.  J Leicht  side-stepping to avoid being caught lying? Try something origional...I know that's hard for conservatives by definition, but make an effort.
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  8722.  @Babygirlly555  the people saying Bernie is the best shot at beating Trump are mostly those warning that Trump could win in 2016. It'll be a fight because of how much of the "Democratic" establishment that will decide to try and help Trump, but just keep who's got the track record on this in mind.
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  8723.  J Leicht  so you have no facts, only ad-hominems. Got it. Thank you for proving your full rejection of rationality.
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  8724.  J Leicht  uncited and not the statistic I asked for. Still dodging like the coward you are.
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  8725.  J Leicht  I'll let you back off from "all" to "never under 88%" if you define "citation" and then show me a poll showing that. (Spoilers, it's dropped lower than 80% before)
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  8726.  @akzebraminer  you should absolutely take it seriously. Musk's dusgust for the working poor constantly pervades his decision-making processes. The vehicle's design, in features and aestetics just screams of a dystopian (possibly cyberpunk) future, putting Musk's thinking in line with the rich assholes who are creating the market for luxury bunkers. If you don't see it, you are incredibly naive and gullible. He is telling and showing you who he is all the time.
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  8727. Male????
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  8728. Bribes
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  8729. If they're trying to achieve "victory over fascism" they need to turn around and march on Moscow.
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  8730. What do you expect when we're still running the Beta version of this form of government? Most of the first world got to see our example and improve on it for their own governments. We just need to install a big update patch and we should be good. He was the most disliked candidate in US history afterall, so we're not that bad.
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  8731. But remember: the mainstream media is left wing propaganda. /s
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  8732. Mitchem Callahan they're acting just like Republicans, constantly projecting and everything, now. Don't count on it. Besides, defeating progressives will always take priority over defeating republicans because real progressives will end the corrupt game that is their money train, but at least with the GOP, the game is still being played, and everyone's still getting paid
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  8733. Rodger Page that's why it's called UNIVERSAL basic income. If it's conditional, it isn't a UBI by definition.
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  8734.  @deadby15  considering the politician who's platform most aligns with the policies favored by the American people is Bernie and he keeps getting called a radical leftist, I'd say you're asking too little.
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  8735. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it) "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."
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  8736. I didn't know they could get that big!
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  8737. No downside for us, but Faux News will very likely ask unfair questions, but it's much easier to for him to argue against the more overt opposition he's likely to get from them than the undermining from people who are pretending to be on the same side. Also, commentating on the Faux News coverage of Bernie puts them in the catch-22 of having to side with Faux News to oppose him. To top it off, him holding his own against Republicans further undermines their questioning his electability. It's not good for the "centrist" Dems for him to be there.
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  8738. Didn't that worldview shattering happen in like ep3 though?
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  8739. Cool story bro
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  8740. As Cornell West has correctly called him out as.
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  8741. Lorena Bernal an economy that uses the stock market for retirement savings is fundamentally unstable as we've seen. Not only does it put retirees at risk, but forcing them back into the workforce hurts the poor and those just entering the workforce. Clinging to that model for paying for retirement is just setting ourselves up for problems in the future
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  8742. Scribble Man The Art Of Barcraft I first found JP through his lectures, with no priming in any way. After several hours of listening to just that, concluded that he was full of BS. Just in this clip not only did he make several unsubstantiated assumptions (which we'll ignore for not), but he once again redefined a term to mean something we already have a perfectly good word for. What he describes isn't "enforced monogamy" but "encouraged monogamy" and once again his twisting of language appeals more to right-wing, (at least mildly) bigoted, emotionally vulnerable men. Let's try an experiment of judging JP by his own standards when intent is in question. If someone repeatedly and flagrantly twists language to appeal to a specific demographic, what can we presume about their intent? If they typically do it in such a way that they only give a semi-reasonable definition when pressed (and that differs from the definition the language most appeals to) what more can we presume? If that language is not uncommonly the same as used by neonazi propaganda, what more can we presume? Even if we take the most charitable (and IMO most likely) conclusion that he's just a for-profit charlatan, he's still gathering a group of emotionally vulnerable men and neonazis into the sam community which is a recipe for disaster (more neonazis).
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  8743.  @Bubblemation   aw is the little boy triggered because people are talking truth about his daddy? Guess what? It doesn't matter how smart you are if you work backwards from your conclusion and only use your intelligence to cover up your logical fallacies. When adults are talking, that's called sophistry. Since you're not smart enough to see through his BS without having your hand held like I did when I watched his lectures, try watching this critique by Rationality Rules (don't worry, he doesn't think your daddy is dumb or call him on misrepresenting Canadian laws, so his fairly gentle critique shouldn't get you too triggered) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcIPV7s4KSBe8iCczxI0GwLhyOa1O2TN
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  8744. Blue MAGA right here.
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  8745.  @christianknuchel  yeah, Bernie is the autocrat here /s How much are you getting paid?
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  8746. Way more than just oil, but for none of the reasons given. All for money and other forms of power.
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  8747. ​ @Master_Roach we don't even care about ourselves properly considering how much we vote against our own interests. It's really just about kicking down to other groups.
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  8748. ​ @ericv7720 that's why the Nuremberg trials should have never stopped.
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  8749. The government puts a $ amount on human life (to be used as a reference point for things like reasonable safety standards, civil court cases, etc). Bush lowered it and things have only gotten worse since that atrocious act.
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  8750. Stetson Shirley nope, the demon's to strong. Better let him run wild in the world to become the antichrist or something ...cause logic?
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  8751. How many years do you need to believe a blatent pattern of behavior being shown to you?
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  8752. Sane thing to do is just legalize and regulate. The war on drugs is an abject failure at producing positive outcomes in society, because it wasn't intended to. It was admitted that it was started to damage black and liberal communities so right wing politicians could get elected, and continues due to lobbying by special interests (like private prisons, big pharma, and alcohol). There is no good reason that any common person should support it being illegal. Everything people might think are reasons are just lies told to us by politicians.
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  8753. Most of what you're seeing is people not talking about regulation because "don't cut it with strange things, give it to kids, or drive/operate heavy machinery" on it is common-sense enough that it's not worth talking about. Sure, you can find some idiot who believes anything, but most people are just like "yeah, treat it like alcohol and move on". Sure, there should be some rules, but you shouldn't need a prescription for it.
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  8754. “At present it is estimated that marijuana’s LD-50 is around1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response." (note; that makes it about as dangerous, in terms of lethality of a single dose, as sugar) Even if you believed that was an extreme outlier, that makes it far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, and we don't require prescriptions for those either. On top of that, you can't just say "well something is harmful, so we're going to make it illegal" but (even setting aside the argument that a person should have the right to put whatever they want into their body) you have to both compare the harm done in penalties to the harm caused by the substance (arresting people for it causes far more harm than the thing itself, even ignoring the black market sales funding organized crime) as well as the effectiveness at curtailing use (which drug prohibition fails spectacularly at). Further, even for medicines, the prescription model doesn't make sense as the dosage doesn't need to be tightly controlled at all and people are largely able to self medicate with it more safely than just about any OTC medication, so even in the medical sense that doesn't really fit well.
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  8755. My point is, what's the point in prescriptions in light of these facts? In objective context, it doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't do any good, and still would allow many of the harms caused by stricter prohibition to continue at a reduced level rather than being eliminated.
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  8756. beaconrider Russia seizing Crimea was in response to the encroachment of nato and violation of the treaties that helped end the cold war (specifically our putting missile defense systems near Russia, jeopardizing MAD). Also we're already fighting a proxy war in Seria.
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  8757. Charity donations are a terrible way to handle disasters (personal or otherwise). They usually fall well short of what's needed, and even when it's not, it's poorly distributed and/or virally overblown taking away from other crisis. To top it off, the more heartless people then just don't donate, and gain more control of the markets. A better way to do it is to get together as a society, everyone chips in a bit to a big pool of money and we agree on different ways and situations that money should be spent in an organized fashion. We call this government. None of either group should need charity from individuals.
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  8758. +
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  8759. Remember this next time someone tells you we live in a "meritocracy"
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  8760. +
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  8761.  @supernova783  let's be specific, you feel that trans people are so icky that you don't care if they're driven to suicide by your authoritarian BS.
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  8762. Mine laying munitions have already been in use by both sides for a long time. These would not be very effective at that task.
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  8763. Did you also live in an area with GameStop and EB Games and then learn they were the same company?
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  8764. Really? You people are thinking of going to Verizon? Did you forget who gave us Ajit Pai?!? My memory is shit and even I don't forget so easily. Btw, love you manchildren getting triggered by Gillette. Please keep showing the world that you're the real snowflakes so obviously.
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  8765. Max Min when study after study found that Fox viewers are less informed than those that don't follow the news at all, there's not even any arguing that point. But it's not even about news being authentic. It's about if it's corporate.
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  8766. The tl;dr is "but I really wanna kill them" and then stamping your feet...but also holding a loaded gun.
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  8767. More like a 1-way ticket to the Hague
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  8768.  TheWin200000  how about you do some savings now, or do you like living as a subject in an oligharchy? If we don't make a stand, your life will only get worse as time goes on.
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  8769.  TheWin200000  electing someone to represent you is not the same thing as having a master, and if we don't do something about the plutocracy soon, your children won't have a future worth calling a future. Yes, that means making short term sacrifices so they can have better prospects than you as every generation before the boomers did you myopic fool. (And where did I say for you to pick up a gun?) If you care about your kids at all, how about doing something to try and give them a future that isn't a dystopian hellscape?
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  8770.  @anonymoususer3561  not all of us were born with apartheid emerald mine wealth as starting capital and then went on to be what amounts to a banker under a different name and then on to scamming the government and fixing market in our favor. Silly us.
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  8771. It's an ugly truth, but I agree that we were always going to use them on each other at least once. "Fortunately" it was when there were only 2 very low yield ones rather than when multiple nations had stockpiles of hydrogen bombs. That said, it's less future leaders I'm worried about not understanding the dangers of nuclear weapons than current ones.
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  8772. Aka Trump
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  8773. Budget chairman in the Senate
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  8774. "We can't print more money" Citation. Fucking. Needed.
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  8775.  Battle of Valmy  satire or lobster? I can't tell
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  8776. How much do all these for profit corporations hosting these debates make off of heath insurance advertising? Let's start asking this question loudly and publically.
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  8777. If you don't understand this, you don't understand democratic government. Unfortunately, that seems entirely normal.
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  8778. Or what her search history looks like...
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  8779. Keep in mind that the rams were, to my understanding, being used over an extended period of time while the tower suppressed the surrounding area to prevent interference. Several meters of stone is something a ram can still get through if you're not talking about the kind of timetable you'd have if your troops are already storming the fortifications. It's less "smash the gate in" and more "here's a giant swinging pick. We're digging through"
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  8780. 5:35 apologies to blue for reading that entirely in his voice and putting red's on the "shut up"s
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  8781. SHAME on CNN for editing the video and pictures of Bernie yesterday! How do they sleep at night working for a rank propaganda outlet willing to resort to photoshop for a hit job? https://youtu.be/iuHlWe_aydE
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  8782. You have no idea. https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  8783. Agreed, afterall, what's the difference between a news station which hires hosts who knowingly tow the corporate line, and one which hires people too out of touch to realize they are and firing them when they get a clue? Effectively nothing.
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  8784. Sounds like inflated word salad to me, like a lot of the language in the video. All advantages are relative in conflict. Making needlessly wordy technical jargon isn't a good sign for an organization, as it's a sign of putting the appearance of expertise before real expertise. Happens a lot in the corporate world where people are being pressured to appear more knowledgeable than they actually are.
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  8785.  @JosephMetts  the big bang and evolution are absolute facts of reality. Sorry if they hurt your feelings.
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  8786.  @alexculliton9926  specifically, a booming stock market, but yeah, we treat laissez-faire capitalist economics like a religion in this country and Christians frequently push for trying to make sacrifices (typically of things like feeding the poor and healing the sick) to try to make the pretty stock market go up while being highly dogmatic about what they believe will make that happen. Hell, Christian leaders have criticized the whole of prosperity theology as idolatry too. I'm just narrowing the focus to point out how blatently they've done it.
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  8787. I feel the British monarchy has been fairly benign recently, but as a progressive and a real American patriot (not one of those flag-worshiping dipshits), I have to agree with you.
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  8788. Death Angel nihilism isn't the goal. Not deferring moral judgements to some authority figure is the goal. Humans consistently behave less ethically in such contexts, even without ill intent from anyone.
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  8789. Just like Musks multistory tunnel network nonsense caters to the desire of rich narcissists like him to avoid the simple truth that the answer to the traffic problem is public transit because they don't want to share rides with poor people?
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  8790. Their plan is for there to be no more Palestinians.
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  8791. Missed a zero
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  8792. "Faux News, we invented fake news." (also a lie)
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  8793. Also works on wraiths (and other incorporeal evil creatures), demons, and any other evil creatures with supernatural damage reduction. Jokes on them though. The bless weapon spell needs to be used on projectiles if you want to use it for ranged attacks, not the gun/bow/crossbow, etc https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Bless_Weapon
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  8794. Certain people here are making really stupid points about the healthcare system. He was having problems getting treatment after the fall of the USSR when much of the system was privatized as Russia transitioned to the oligharchy of today.
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  8795.  @GSMusician  and yeah, that is pointed at you.
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  8796.  @kayellee7202  so we're going to ignore the actual information about how much time doctors waste dealing with different insurance companies and how many people working in insurance companies have medical degrees (and could be using that knowledge more productively) to focus on an anecdote about how you knew a guy who moved from practicing to training furture doctors (those people you correctly mention we're short on) and want to use that to imply that a very right wing healthcare plan (it's based on a plan cooked up by the Heritage Foundation and is basically Romneycare done at a federal level) is bad? I'll agree that I don't like the ACA (it doesn't go anywhere near far enough), but I don't get how you expect people to treat you like a serious person when you're spouting that kind of superficial, irrelevant nonsense.
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  8797.  @kayellee7202  in case it wasn't clear: I. Do. Not. Care. About your anecdotes. Even if what you say is true, anecdotes mean nothing because atypical examples exist.
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  8798.  @sarenareth689  _says the guy subbed to at least one Nazi like he has any ground to no true Scotsman this.
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  8799.  @seeibe  well, it's both, but yes, without the cooperation of corporatists, fascists are typically fairly impotent.
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  8800. See also Confessions of an Economic Hitman https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0 It makes an excellent pairing
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  8801.  @thetraveler893  Bernie uses the term because he knew he would be hit with it as a smear anyway, and "yes, let me tell you what that means" works better rhetorically on a population still indoctrinated with Red Scare propaganda than trying to squirm out of it with "well, not quite, see, I'm a social democrat which means . . ."
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  8802. He's an ethnonationalist. It's what all of them eventually do.
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  8803. Unfortunately, his main objective in holding that position is to prevent people like AOC from getting it.
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  8804.  @cassiusdhami9215  I mean, today's GOP is mostly fascist, so there's plenty of room for a Conservative to be too far left for them...I mean, look at all the Conservatives in the "Democratic" party
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  8805. Meanwhile which buisnesses have been boycotted for an algorithm placing their ads next to controversial content? Just sayin'...
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  8806. https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 No joke
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  8807.  @hoodaticus  kinda the wrong solution to that problem though, isn't it?
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  8808. Well, not stupid by human standards, maybe, but I think we all experienced how well our ingrained intuition handles spinning objects the first time we saw demonstrations of the weird physics around spinning flywheels.
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  8809.  @SusanPDavis  stop spamming your scam
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  8810. Wells statistically, I just proved to you by what is likely the best metric that the rhetoric on the right is far more dangerous and toxic than anything that could even be misconstrued as the left, including groups I disagree with like antifa and even black nationalists (who being ethno-nationalists are right wing by definition, even though the FBI statistics count them separately)....and now you want to try to lie to make a false equivalency between the sides and claim I'm not acknowledging the toxicity on the left even though I explicitly cited the existence of left-wing terrorism? Tell us all why you're being so dishonest to cover for Nazis. I think we'd all love to hear an answer to that you damn Nazi apologist.
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  8811. I called you a Nazi apologist because that's exactly what you've been doing. You straw-maned Seronemo__ who was talking about extremists, when you brought it to the mainstream right. I exposed the implied false equivalence (a logical fallacy often used in propaganda) in your comment and brought the discussion back to measuring the actions of extremists who might be presumed to align with the rhetoric of the left or right and radicalized in part by the rhetoric (a subject brought up in the video). You then, as I mentioned, not only straw-maned me and continued the false equivalency, but claimed I "refuse to admit the toxicity of the mainstream left" even though I explicitly cited the existence of left-wing terrorism. Now you're trying to erase all that, claim the decades of racial dog-whistling from the right doesn't mean they have any culpability for the Nazi violence, but try to pin antifa's actions to the left and me (even though I've explicitly said I don't agree with them, and refuse to be baited into defending them). Even if you're not "elevating the Nazis" that means you're trying to drag down the entire left and paint the mainstream left as toxically radicalizing and to be avoided, which would leave them virtually unopposed as the right refuses (or is unable) to reign them in. That is Nazi apologetics. You are pushing Nazi propaganda, and frankly, your insistence on holding to that means that you're indistinguishable from a Nazi trying to pretend to be a moderate. Don't like how you look to others, change how you, but as I've sufficiently proven how dishonest you are I'm done with a possible Nazi.
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  8812. "Seronemo__ said nothing about extremists, instead only making a comment about white supremacy" lmao You just implicitly admitted that you don't consider white supremacy to be extremism and didn't even realize it! That really says it all. Why didn't you lead with that? Could have saved so much time. Seriously though, thanks for the belly laugh, take the last word, I won't reply, promise.
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  8813. The only problem is that the lightning rod named Hillary is wired TO the democratic party instead of around it. Having a lightning rod damage the thing it's attached to kinda defeats the point.
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  8814. RoboticsNShenanigans and the south should be ashamed that they started a war they couldn't win to protect slavery and tried to set up a confederacy to do so dispite the utter failure of attempting a confederate US being still semi-recent history. Some bureaucratic inefficiency slowing getting rid of the incompetent generals untill we were left with good ones is nothing compared to that. Couldn't even force the north to relocate the capital from the front lines back to Philadelphia.
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  8815.  @jagoosw  if the Hague were to get involved, most federal-level politicians in at least the last 2 decades would be getting lawyers to try and save them from hanging for their crimes. Note: I'm not saying that would be a bad thing, but there's no way our current government would ever even dream of truly submitting to international law because of the implications to themselves they would be opening the door to.
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  8816. Timothy Reynolds it's a multi-faceted thing. Drugs are a huge part of it, but also the rare earth metals. Further, the defense contractors make money both in the short term, and (when you take into account our methods being designed to create more terrorists to fight) in perpetuity.
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  8817. TheL0wner doesn't matter. The insurance company is supposed to be lowering the price of your drugs with the dues you pay them. Not their role to manipulate prices in that way.
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  8818. I believe you mean the democratic party (Greens) vs the antidemocratic party (the "Democrats") vs the protofascist party ("Republicans") You need to research 2016 more if you think the party in blue gives one fuck about democracy.
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  8819. The CIA is likely to try and use the gangs as their hit squads
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  8820. Dean W and most of the rest is getting people to do the work without funding. Hands-on work is the mark of either an amateur or desperate spy. That's why orchestrated coups far outnumber false flags.
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  8821. ​ @TheChinBurton  You mean the treaties Ukraine never signed or the ones Russia broke?
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  8822. It's really sad how tactically sound the idea of not appealing to older voters over the well being of younger generations is. For all their "think of the children" the average boomer is to ageist and self-centered to actually give a fuck what happens to the younger generations. Climate change represents a threat of what amounts to generational genocide, and most do not care.
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  8823. Take a look at the graph @ 0:31 Notice how most Republican voters don't want policies to redistribute wealth but most Republican voters do want a wealth tax. The cognitive dissonance it takes to be a Republican voter on display yet again.
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  8824. Canaan Blank a lot of Americans still prefer dynasties to democracy and it's disgusting.
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  8825. Actually, "religious morality" is a tool created to think that morality means obedience to authority figures to make them easier to control.
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  8826. Stupidity is a willful choice.
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  8827. ​ @chadb9270 side note: there are tests you can do yourself to prove the Earth is round. Maybe challenge your sister to do them with you to prove who's right.
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  8828. How is taking to the streets going to change anything when the media has already bent the knee and the politicians are long past pretending they care about public opinion?
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  8829. +
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  8830. Dat Fishe Boi that's conservativism, neo-conservativism, and liberalism (respectively) That said, the conservative-liberal axis and the right-left political axis are nearly parallel in the current context, hence often being used interchangeably.
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  8831. I really hope this is sarcasm.
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  8832. I can't say I'm versed enough in the situation in Brazil to give useful advice to someone already there, but yeah, the war on drugs is a terrible strategy. Really wish the US hadn't pressures so much of the Americas into adopting it, and got rid of it ourselves so our money wasn't funding cartels. Still working on our government giving a single fuck what our population wants though, so may be a while 'till we can fix our end.
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  8833. TheBeastWithin unrelated to the main discussion going on here, but yes, daggers were more common, because nearly EVERYONE in any culture that armed themselves with anything would have a dagger as a final backup weapon, and because they're unmatched for close grappling. Most styles can even be carried in leu of a knife to use as a tool as well. Also, with their low cost and how easy it is to wear one, there's no reason not to have one on you.
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  8834. The first 2 rights laid out in the first amendment are freedom from religion and freedom of religion and in that order. "Separation of church and state" is just another way to say the same thing.
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  8835. The host that was blatantly trying to change topic when his favored guy was loosing a point? That's the bar now?
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  8836. I'm more familiar with the shortest split line method. Is there a good overview you know of for the at large districts method of eliminating gerrymandering?
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  8837.  @steverigney7017  false, and yes, wiki is about as accurate as any other encyclopedia.
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  8838.  @steverigney7017  you made a false assertion that was only worthy of a 1 word response, so that's all you got. And yes, Wiki is accurate. Look it up.
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  8839. The death penalty kills innocents while having no deterrent effect (at best...there is evidence that murder rates are actually higher with the death penalty) Opposing it isn't being soft or even necessarily giving one fuck about mass murderers.
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  8840. Since when is Trump actually anti-finance. Your assessment of Trump's cabinet is totally wrong because it's filled with high-ranking bankers including a Goldman Sacks CEO. He may have run on that rhetoric, but he's a bold faced liar too, so that means nothing.
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  8841. The sad thing is they will. They get to sit back and play McResistance while the cash keeps flowing.
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  8842. We got Trump in large part as backlash TO Obama. I don't think that will help
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  8843. I hope so. Their track record for complex operations is hilarious bad.
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  8844.  Jason Reyes  I've seen the same. There was a bit of a delay in the rollout to make it less obvious, but it happened, and I noticed.
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  8845.  @roy8200  fuck Verizon. They sent Ajit Pai to repeal NN in the first place!
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  8846. The one for the rich that you paid for, obviously
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  8847. Justin Trushell the CIA would be perfectly happy to arm, fund, and support the cartels to do it themselves. All things being equal, the CIA usually prefers indirect to direct action, or in common terms "getting someone else to do their dirty work".
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  8848.  @tomservo5007  actually it does. It says they should happen in cases of infidelity.
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  8849. Patsy Stone I'd give you a more dignified response if you deserved one, so instead I'll just say this: Fuck off sexist
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  8850. Notice how that was him toning it down? He started with "ver-" as in "vermin"
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  8851.  @TechnoGeek18023  many are also guilty of treason for giving the Saudis weapons we knew were going to Al-Quaida.
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  8852. 10:10 jfc, just pause and read the rest of the text on screen there. Absolute monsters.
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  8853. Talking about this or the 2016 dem primary?
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  8854. Look up "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and you will understand.
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  8855. You absolutely should, if only to push them to the point where they have to rig it so much the election-rigging is undeniable to the general public. Don't sit back when you can force the establishment into a loose-loose situation for once.
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  8856.  @chrisalan3307  😆😆😆😂😂😂
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  8857. ​ @goctexas1444 appeaser
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  8858. As usual, however bad you think things are in the US, they're actually worse.
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  8859. As long as the right wing perpetuates things like the war on drugs which turns their home nations into living hells they will come because they don't want to fucking die.
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  8860. https://www.xkcd.com/1431/
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  8861.  @bravecaucasian  Obama was a neocon too. What's your point?
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  8862. We've basically failed at producing tidal power so it's been largely abandoned. The dual problems of the corrosiveness of seawater and marine fouling made the maintenance challenges effectively impossible to solve in an economic fashion, unfortunately. That's why almost no-one talks about it anymore. It would be great if that weren't true, as it would put a lot of power generation right where we would want it for desalination, but unfortunately it seems to be a dead end.
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  8863. While all energy lost to things like noise and heat is inefficiency, the short answer to your question is "not in any practical way with current tech". The noise you're hearing comes from the fact that robots tend to use rotational motors (which can make noise of their own in a couple of ways depending on the design), and then running them through a gear system to step them down a lot, traiding rpm for precision and torque. Other motors that could be used tend to have other problems like a limited range of speed, bad power to weight, etc and are often much more inefficient than what you loose through the gearing anyway. Hypothetically, there may be ways to do it, but we're talking about inventing an entirely new type of electric motor.
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  8864. We're not in a position to do much for them right now, but we can help in the future by implementing income-based affirmative action in the future, as well as things that will help all of us like lowering the cost of housing so they don't need to be dependent on their awful patents.
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  8865. Notice how proportionally much higher our rates of intentional shootings are than our rates of accidental shootings? That shows how much more of a problem the hands holding the guns are than the actual guns. The biggest problem is less how many guns we have and more how many Republicans we have.
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  8866. Corporate Dems are on the same team as the GOP, and the opponent is you. They didn't forget. The goal is to move the political discourse to the right (to the point where someone like Bush is a moderate) making it easier to push through what they really want to do while framing everyone to the left of themselves as "radicals"...which would mean something like 60-75% of the country would be excluded from what is considered a "reasonable political discussion"
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  8867. There are unions that can't be outsourced. Dock workers, for example.
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  8868. Antifa: zero deaths The "altright": steals the spot of the leading source of domestic terrorism from Islamic terrorists Right wingers: these are equivalent This is embarrassingly stupid. Stop.
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  8869. Defacto: the law is whatever the court says, no matter if the Constitution or even other Supreme Court rulings say otherwise. We are not citizens. We're subjects.
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  8870.  @PhysicsGamer  and when the highest courts in the land are all corrupted and don't care at all about either legal consistency or the Constitution, that's not just a "well that happens sometimes" kind of problem. Rulers rarely step down to let people self-govern peacefully and make no mistake, that's what we have: rulers, not representatives.
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  8871. @PhysicsGamer  ah yes, so silly to acknowledge that systemic corruption exists. 🙄
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  8872. @PhysicsGamer  nothing I said was remotely nihilistic. Learn what words mean.
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  8873. @PhysicsGamer  never said that anywhere here or elsewhere. Go learn what words mean before you try and guess at things I haven't talked about. Btw, while you're looking up "nihilism" look up "bootlicker"
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  8874.  Dragonblazzer969  no dipshit. Companies already hire as few workers as they need to do their job. You act like for profit businesses give out jobs like a charity when they're doing well, but that's not how any of this works.
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  8875. How about "comcast news"?
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  8876. Now if only us leftists could wake liberals up to what needs to be done about them.
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  8877. On reasonably flat ground, drone location, altimeter, and camera angle would also be sufficient, though a laser range finder would probably be more accurate. In practice, though, in a spot like that, the video feed and google maps is probably all you really need because of the obvious landmark right near by. The bare minimum equipment for this is a toy (albeit not a cheap one) and a cellphone, which is kinda nuts. I'm sure the better equipment would do a better job, but the fact that it could be done with entirely consumer-grade stuff for less than a high-end cellphone would cost is really the kind of thing that reshapes how one thinks about these kind of conflicts.
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  8878. The work to make the world better will never be done and we will always need terminology to describe the different ideas of how to do that. Acting above it all for not being willing to engage with how to do that is, frankly, disgusting.
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  8879. What soviets?
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  8880. Broken clock and all that, sure, but holy shit. I figgured they were explicitly forbidden from saying "military industrial complex" and here she's saying they control our government!
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  8881. Carter Blunt no, my waters are crystal clear: rigging elections is never acceptable. I also never said shit about Putin's leadership. Not one word, merely that one shouldn't trust the approval polls for someone able and willing to rigs them. You however are trying to turn discussion away from the integrity of the vote being paramount, and then argue you're the one in favor of "self determination" as if that's solidly established when that's the exact thing under question. You clearly have no intellectual integrity, and are obviously the one spouting propaganda (dispite your constant projection and ad-hominims), so I'm done with you. I'll leave the last word as your undeserved parting gift should you bother to pick it up.
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  8882. ​ @unstabl-3 let's not stretch our neck out to defend the guy who made Reagan's politics mainstream in the Democratic Part
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  8883. Abortion WAS considered a right in our nation's founding. When the court says there wasn't historical grounds for it, it was simply lying.
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  8884. AGARTHA STUDIO that's why we only find trans people in one culture and time period...wait, no, what's the exact opposite of that?
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  8885. ChipnDipz1 dude, trans history is ancient as fuck https://youtu.be/0UQdPSsYU9U The idea of static binary gender roles is total BS in so many ways. Those are the facts. Deal with them.
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  8886. LinusMLGTips you're telling someone to go into debt to go to school right before a market crash that's going to happen shortly and likely going to lead to them being unable to pay back a loan the law won't allow them to declare bankruptcy on? I mean, I'm all for education, but let's be realistic here, that may not be a wise choice.
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  8887.  @renscholl8639  you technically no longer count as a minimum wage worker for their bookkeeping and PR and for a fairly cheap price for them!
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  8888.  @lordzaboem  I didn't "play the race card". I just drew a parallel to another time your side was opposing civil rights because it's the same damn pattern every time. The point of that choice of comparison was to pick an issue we all should at least be able to pretend to agree that one side was completely in the wrong to demonstrate the absurdity, emptyness, and irrelevance of the statement. Apparently, that offends you, but here's the thing: I don't care. Anyone who that comparison pisses off because they WANT to defend the excuses of segregationists is someone I'm happy to piss off. You're welcome to stop being anti-freedom and on the wrong side of history any time you like, but seeing as you're utterly incapable of coming up with new arguments or actually being on the moral side, you're just going to have to deal with being compared to the villains of history whenever anyone wants to draw an analogy, because nothing else will fit.
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  8889. ​ @ryanhubbard1885 lies
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  8890. TheEvolver311 if Bernie was president, the GOP would be being set up to be utterly destroyed in the midterms for opposing all the policies he would be putting forward that the people wanted. THEN we would get shit done.
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  8891. Vote for someone that endorsed Trump over the best chance we have to move the Overton Window away from fascism? Hard pass.
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  8892.  @ngantnier  I mean, that was a stupid answer to being too entangled in dollars for the good of their own currencies, but yes. Both the gold standard and having an international currency are bad ideas. To do both is idiotic, but they're trying to solve real problems in a world where even most economists don't understand how money works, so I can't blame them too much for making such a colossal mistake.
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  8893. If only
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  8894. ​ @DustinLaGriza they're addicted to "line go up"
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  8895. Under what jurisdiction?
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  8896.  @thetimberwolf100  do you understand what jurisdiction means?
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  8897.  chocobonita  why would I? How about you think about the information I had avalible and try and make an educated guess. There's very little I had, so it shouldn't be hard to find the relevant parts that would inform that assumption.
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  8898. Anti Imperalist desalination is extremely energy intensive and requires large, expensive facilities. Individual areas can get away with it at a cost, but as a species we can't desalinate our way out of this problem.
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  8899. Anti Imperalist desalination is an inherently inefficient process and there's not much more gains we can make, really. It's just not a thing you can do for a low amount of energy, unfortunately, and brute-forcing the energy requirements carries its own problems.
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  8900. Ted Ingalls very true, though thankfully we do have some allies there who want to cut funding to gangs and get back to real policing without such levels of organized crime making their work needlessly difficult and dangerous. Not anywhere near as much as we should, and we have entire departments like with the DEA with their careers actually devoted to the BS, but it's good to know we have allies there, and useful to be able to point to them in debates on the issue.
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  8901. You're flabbergasted because you live in a country where you have free media and expect the government to care about public opinion.
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  8902. A wealth tax that doesn't force someone like Bloomberg to liquidate assets isn't high enough. Them not having so much economic power is a huge part of the goal.
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  8903.  @stephj9378  you're not understanding the difference between leaders and rulers. Bernie having the courage to take point and take the blows as best he can trusting us to back him up is strong and is leading. It's just not the kind of strength you need to rule. Good! This is America. We need no dictator-wannabe. We need a representative with integrity.
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  8904.  @runswithraptors  yeah, once their funding was cut, they started to go downhill and I stopped listening.
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  8905. My intuition, while not certain of foul play, says to be suspicious too. All the information we have to go on atm is timing, and since plenty of causes of death, like the suggested heart attack, are pretty random I don't want to give too much credit to my gut (since afterall, even the most suspicious timing, which this isn't, can also be just anxiety overblowing bad luck) but something feels off to me too.
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  8906. Hahahahaha
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  8907. The thing that most recently died is the concept of forbearance, and that's a huge problem encompassing this issue as well.
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  8908. Maybe the bulk of the older ones, but on the whole, people under 35ish hate this BS.
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  8909. ​ @CYRUs-e5u they're talking about the military.
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  8910.  @alien0gamer139  the Dems are a center-right political party. If you actually understood what the words mean, you would know that, but to illustrate, go look up the political compass for the 2016 and 2020 primaries. I'll wait.
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  8911.  @alien0gamer139  if you had any business talking down to anyone on the subject, you would know that the Dems are a center-right party. Go look up the political compass for the 2016&2020 primaries if you need a visual aid.
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  8912. I was just thinking "if it's got paralyzed back legs, get it one of those wheel things" and then I saw it move and was just "nevermind. The cat's totally fine without it!"
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  8913.  Uncomfortable Truth  how achievable you think anarchism is (and even how right or wrong you might be in that) is irrelevant to my point.
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  8914.  @ToyotaTom04  it's more than that and you are strawmanning the definition I provided. Are you used to the people in your life taking you seriously when you talk that way, or do you only spout that level of willful stupidity online?
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  8915.  Uncomfortable Truth  to make your analogy actually work, you responding that "god cannot be omnipotent" is, indeed irrelevant to my saying that a given dog is not god. Please try to stay on topic and follow a logical throughline.
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  8916. GM35964 yes, because wars are totally won by weight of numbers these days and Rome and the Ancient Greeks were a bunch of softies /sarcasm
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  8917.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  *gestures at the disasterous pandemic response* No it's not.
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  8918. Psychronia lmao that was awesome!
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  8919. Conservatives are scientifically proven to suck at knowing when they're the butt of the joke. I'm not even joking there. That's the real results of an actual study.
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  8920.  @sweep3190  I have tactical disagreements with the optics of going around and suckerpunching people but "never"? Would you apply that standard to WW2? Nazism is, at its core, a conspiracy to commit genocide. There has to be some point before you are personally being imminently threatened when violence becomes acceptable.
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  8921.  @sweep3190  how about you reread my comment and prove you have the reading comprehension to be worth my time?
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  8922. When the "good cops" cover for bad cops' illegal activities, there are no good cops.
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  8923.  @WindsorMason  yeah, it's disgusting but often true. That fine print is extremely important for those doing creative work.
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  8924. Scott Humphreys I'll entertain that idea only after he does it and then becomes consistent. Actions (especally consistent actions that can be put into a pattern of behavior) are everything, and the record suggests that this is going to amount to a smoke and mirrors show with little to no action.
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  8925. Tracy Johnson because all evidence I've seen points to him being a lot of talk when he knows the outcome is inevitable, but able to be counted on to tow the establishment line when the votes are close. That's not the behavior of someone principled, but the behavior of a con artist.
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  8926. Tracy Johnson the seats held by each corporate party are irrelevant when dems keep crossing the isle to vote with the GOP. If you want me to move me from the default position of "a politician isn't to be trusted" their words or safe votes aren't of any value. What you need to look for are votes of significance which go against the establishment, where the more establishment position lost the vote by a small margin. Those close votes, and nothing else, show where someone truely stands, because anything else more likely to be just part of the political theater.
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  8927. Tracy Johnson I didn't respond to your link about Rand on healthcare because Obamacare is a right-wing plan, is largely liked by the health insurance industry, and I already said that I don't care what his words are on issues. Sorry, thought that was obvious enough to not need to explicitly say. You're on a channel that constantly attacks the dems and I already complained about the dems working with the GOP on corrupt bills, so I'm not sure what the point of bringing them up is. We obviously are both critical of them and see their true colors. However, while the defense bill you brought up does show the dems true colors, it doesn't show Rand's since they could count on dem votes from the other side of the other side of the 2-faced party, and (by your own admission) the vote wasn't that close and they won anyway. Since the votes aren't a real mystery as the amount of talking behind closed doors that can just as easily just mean that they didn't have to call him in (afterall, it doesn't help to have your controlled opposition break their act any more than necessary). That's why I said it needs to be significant, close, and a loosing vote for them. The act would be expected to continue uninterrupted if any of those 3 aren't true.
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  8928. Tracy Johnson you're seeing this attack on fake libertarians more and more because liberals today are acutely aware of what controled opposition looks like due to the corruption of the democratic party and are warning you about it because we'd rather the debate be between liberals and libertarians than neoliberals and neocons. It's a con being run on both of us and it will take both groups to wrest power from the establishment. You don't find many people accusing Ron of the same thing as Rand. Strong disagreement, sure, but not the amout of disbelief that he stood for what he claimed he did. I respected Ron's integrity, even if I thought his economic ideas were incredibly naive, but I don't see the same integrity in his son.
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  8929. Yeah, I wish he would stick to food stuff. His content there is actually good, but he just doesn't get science at all.
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  8930. Comparing a racist protofascist to a fascist? No similarities there! /s
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  8931. Jonathan Milks Peterson being intentionally misleading or intellectually lazy? That never happens /s
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  8932. Sad thing is, it would probably not cost much (if any, depending on district) more to provide a halfway decent school lunch if we changed how we went about it and stopped trying to go with dishes that are inherently more pricy to do well and defaulting to just reheat frozen crappy imitations of cheap fast food. Even as a kid, would you rather have pizza that tasted like greasy cardboard or a hearty freshly cooked soup? Healthy meals can be cheap and tasty if you're not trying to also fit them into a pre-determined idea of what they are supposed to look like.
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  8933.  @gaffarkabal6148  basically any meats cured by things like salting, smoking, adding preservative chemicals like nitrates, or (more rarely) fermentation. Bacon and ham are processed meats, as is any sausage, but (most) other pork isn't. Jerky is, but a steak of beef isn't (and ground beef is probably not) Some of these methods are more modern, while others are quite ancient (and will probably be easier or rougher on your system depending on method and degree). If the meat is simply cut/ground and sold fresh/frozen/cooked, it's not processed. Everything else would be processed.
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  8934. Would be nice if older voters didn't keep voting to destroy their children's futures.
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  8935. TheIntJuggler pro violence? Can't really come up with much else
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  8936. Even if we payed for it with raising taxes it would be cheaper for us so that's not an issue, though I'm for cutting the military budget and corporate welfare too, of course.
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  8937. ​ @TamaraDippel Gen X and older voted for this repeatedly.
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  8938. There are fish that are better or worse in terms of enviromental impact and you can look up sustainably comparisons pretty easily, actually, if you want to be more conscious about avoiding the worst options (or at least treating them like special treats instead of staples) Good news is that, for once, the more sustainable options tend to be the cheaper options as far as fish go, so there is that.
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  8939. I was first introduced to that one as a programming joke.
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  8940.  @powerbeard5653  the GOP is an actual Nazi organization at this point. The salutes are a dead giveaway, as are their political ads. You know this and are just being dishonest.
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  8941. Guillermo Rivas they're not even progressive on social issues. They're just flexible on them and use that to make their voters exhaust themselves trying to make them not take bigoted positions and then make what should have been the default position a badge of pride and tell the voters "what more do you want?" when they ask for anything else.
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  8942.  @MrKhushrenada  the fact that people can tell who you're subbed to by the stupid things you say should give you pause to re-evaluate where you're getting your political oppinions from (because, let's be real, you go to Jimmy for more than just information) Seriously, this is starting to get cult-like.
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  8943. 😆
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  8944. Better than loosing the engine over the ocean halfway to Hawaii.
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  8945. Some were, some weren't. If you want to see how this played out I'd recommend https://youtu.be/Bd8_vO5zrjo
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  8946.  @nadinefeiler9204  there've been a couple decent ones put out by universities (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_eating_pyramid and https://celineab.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/j.jpg ) but yeah, the government ones have been shit.
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  8947. Could you please put links to the things you recommend in the first few minutes?
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  8948.  @deadwingdomain  you're the one being lazy right now. You could easily look this shit up, but you just reach for an excuse to not think instead.
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  8949. The real goal is to make them choose to either rig it so obviously that even centrist morons can see their hatred for democracy or allow the vote to go through. Let's put them in a loose-loose situation for once, hm?
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  8950.  @New-ko5qj  it wasn't overt enough for the centrist morons to be shaken out of their delusions that we live in an imperfect, but still democratic country.
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  8951.  @seeibe  and the less wealthy a person is, the more likely they, or someone close to them, has worked a job where they get tips.
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  8952.  @Anthropomorphic  or worse, a rifle that isn't low power so when a mass shooting happens they (or their kid who takes it from them) will have a gun that will kill several people/shot, go through cinder blocks, etc like one of the next most popular weapons on the market can do.
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  8953. I think you forget even just the last Pope, sitting on a gold throne and telling people in Africa that condoms spread AIDS (to say nothing of the Vatican's alliance with Nazi Germany)....and that's just a major denomination within the lifetimes of people alive today.
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  8954. Don't think he actually made a horseshoe argument. Criticising what you may see as the hypocrisy of a few people doesn't make a horseshoe argument, and I don't think he generalized the left as a whole.
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  8955.  AST  ant's just a troll. Don't feed
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  8956. It shouldn't even fill a white person with ease. Just because the police state is more dirrected against black people doesn't mean any except the elites are safe from it.
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  8957. Drug prohibition doesn't work. Unless your goal is to just lock up black people and strip them of their voting rights as a plan to subvert democracy.
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  8958. This is mask off of what they've always been.
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  8959. How about we just say "yesterday"
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  8960.  @lisettes.9598  Are the Democrats making them torture and sexually abuse the victims too? Fuck off fascist apologist.
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  8961.  B. Greene  not all are sociopaths. Plenty have just been so broken down by their abusive religion that they believe they are incapable of making sound moral judgements and need to defer all such decisions (much like a victim of domestic abuse can be made to feel so stupid that they're incapable of trusting their own reason and logic) Meanwhile, where their book and preachers have nothing to say, they exhibit usually much superior moral judgement than when they are simply obeying.
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  8962. The Sparkle Zone I'm saying that incel is an ideology that, like a leaderless cult, preys on the emotionally vulnerable. You're the one taking the more right-wing position of "they're inherently that way because they're crazy, don't look at the situational causes" and you want to same me for that and label me as some kind of hardline right-winger? That's almost funny, but it's really just pathetic. Guess what? White nationalist groups also prey on the emotionally vulnerable seeking community and validation, but we still call them hateful because the worldview they got wrapped up inpushes those vices and pretending otherwise would be dishonest and not getting to the root of how they're being kept in the insular bubble of groupthink. Gonna apologize for the KKK too? I'm guessing "no", even though we're talking about the same social mechanisms.
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  8963. The Sparkle Zone yeah, I'm done with you arguing with a strawman and putting words in my mouth just to argue. Bye
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  8964. There was a word for people that pulled this BS last century. The word was "appeasers"
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  8965. PreppyHeiress26 if someone can make something in a lab, you'll believe it isn't real, but until it can be made, you'll believe it exists? That logic is backwards.
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  8966.  @highestqualitypigiron  the fed isn't creating most of the money. The banks are.
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  8967.  @nissan300ztt  "I've been shooting since I was 6" ...shooting people in the head since you were 6? Should I be making a phone call right now?
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  8968.  @vagrant911  more accurately, there is no establishment left. There are anti-establishment right voices, though...I mean they're garbage, but they're out there.
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  8969. Because any news story that starts with "Florida Man" is gonna be a mess.
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  8970. Easier to get away with open tops when you're the one with air superiority and the only one with proximity fuses.
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  8971. The problem is that creates an incentive for politicians to criminalize non-crimes to disenfranchise certain demographics unlikely to vote for them. That's how we got the "War on Drugs" in the first place. As soon as you let politicians tell adult citizens they can't vote for X reason, it will be abused. A healthy democratic government requires voters choosing politicians and not the other way around. Reguardless of how you feel about felons, you can't trust politicians with that power.
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  8972. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984 If it was just about flooding, the top would still be flat. You have drunk the koolaid.
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  8973. Of course they're alike. They're both fascists.
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  8974. If a good person was a billionaire in a world with this much suffering, they would give away money so quickly they would cease to be a billionaire. By retaining their wealth, they reveal their character.
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  8975. Schmidty I was being facetious as well. Imagine my comment read as dry British satire, with a significant pause between the sentences and the intended tone should be clear.
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  8976. Schmidty totally fair, yes, I didn't make it clear enough as I normally try to.
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  8977. I've had trouble finding good sources on that this election. You have any talking about it?
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  8978. Ryan McCarthy I'm all for electric cars, but focusing on them before switching over your power grid is a bit of putting the cart before the horse, and not many places are doing good on that yet (and those that are, are mostly doing it with nuclear, though that's a different discussion). By the time we have a greener grid for power, we should have a better idea if fuel cells, manufactured hydrocarbons (be it synthesized, or biofuel), or pure electric (through better batteries or ultra-capacitors) are the way to go. Industry and electricity consumption are worse contributors than just driving right now. That said, if someone wants to use electric on a mixed electric grid for their commutes, I'm not going to knock it. Getting part of that energy from a source other than fossile fuels does help, especially in areas with a high amount of alternative energy sources.
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  8979. Stephen Kramer it's called corporate espionage. Get the evidence that they're doing it and make it public. Then the other companies would be the ones going to court and VW would be sitting pretty. This was willful and blatent no matter how you want to spin it, and they should be punnished for it.
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  8980. ​ @alexmipego if it sinks it will have all the cooling it could ever need.
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  8981. We need to do everything we can to preserve the integrity of the 2020 primary.
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  8982.  @NEStalgicGames  not sure if that applies to impeachment, actually, since it's a political procedure instead of a judicial one.
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  8983. I mean, there is, but we're an oligharchy, so it's so minimal, full of loopholes, and hard to prove that it's effectively non-existent. We also have anti trust laws to break up monopolies, but those are basically only invoked at the pleasure of the government, and since 99% of our politicians are bought and paid for through various forms of legalized bribery from mostly business interests, they haven't been invoked in decades dispite the rise of modern megacorps. Our government cares about as much about democracy, the rule of law, and our constitution as one from a banana republic, and you'll have a much easier time understanding the USA if you assume our government really is that corrupt.
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  8984. Technically all Trump said is the topic of how the phrase "fake news" lead to calling the press "the enemy of the people" was discussed. I don't deny that Trump is a huge problem for freedom of the press (among many other problems), and that some may misread what he said, but he didn't actually call the press the enemy of the people and claiming he did only feeds into the fake news narrative. Come on Kyle, you're better than this. Oppose him intelligently.
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  8985. Here's a video from secular talk on the reality of Trump's economy https://youtu.be/iQCrcl9wX4w
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  8986. Don't bother arguing with the pink troll. He doesn't actually care what you say.
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  8987. John David does it function like infrastructure? Yes? Then the government should have a hand in at least a public option. It's just like any other utility at this point, so the current oligopoly situation is absurd and untenable.
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  8988. avi12 that's objectively not true and the bones of the dead prove it. Diet and disease caused far more degenerative damage to their bodies than our environment does to ours, and their world was not free of toxic things either. From the use of lead to guilding (which worked by creating a mercury-gold amalgam and then burning the mercury off in a forge). People have been creating toxic environments through industry for ages, and modern medicine and understanding of health has us much better off than those of centuries prior. Just because we have new problems they didn't doesn't mean we're worse off
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  8989. The last 2 aren't real false flags, and Ukraine has absolutely no need of a false flag operation seeing as they're already defending against an illegal war of aggression and Russia is committing more warcrimes than people can keep track of. Just admit you agree with Putin's "blood and soil" justification and that you think he has the right to murder whatever Ukrainians he wants.
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  8990. @jshowa o they do give a shit though. They want him to do this so that when they throw him under the bus for doing what they always wanted to do, the establishment can look as superficially different from him as possible. He's a superb patsy, the best.
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  8991. Stephen M bad analogy with the nuclear plant, but otherwise dead on
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  8992.  @jackschueth  look at life expectancies of various systems. No, seniors are not sacrificed. You can theory craft all you want, but if your conclusions contradict the data, you're still wrong.
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  8993. And they quietly shut him out again like he doesn't exist, bringing in someone else who meets their own explicit standards less to fill the spot.
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  8994. There is a difference between being a corporatist and being a fascist, but Greenspan does a good job showing how blurred that distinction is. https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs
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  8995. This isn't even a matter of Republicans doing it to "Democrats". It's a matter of the right doing it to the left. As we saw in the 2016 primary, far right "Democrats" like Hillary are perfectly happy to pick up the same election fraud playbook as Republicans to stop real populist candidates from getting nominated. This shouldn't surprise anyone though, as right-wing politics is fundamentally about favoring consolidated, entrenched power (be it buisness, government, or otherwise), and the whole nomenclature of right\left wing originated from royalist vs those favoring representative government. In short, the right has been opposed to the democratic process from the very beginning and as soon as they get past being moderate right-wing, they start actively sabotaging it when they feel threatened.
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  8996. Iirc, lobsters die of natural causes when they simply get so big that they finally fail to successfully molt, because it simply gets proportionately more difficult the larger they are, with minimal if any other detrimental effects of aging. It's possible they simply didn't have a natural lifespan in the conventional sense and just kept growing until they were too big to molt/eat/breathe enough to not die.
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  8997. Tower Shield is a term that seems to have originated from gaming (specifically D&D). If you're going to use it, it serves best as a category of shields covering things like the rectangular scutum and pavise (a type of large shield able to stand on its own, often used for cover by crossbow men)
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  8998.  @autohmae  I'm all in for Bernie but there is no evidence pointing to Tulsi wanting to run 3rd party and she has repeatedly said she won't. Stop spouting DNC propaganda like a tool.
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  8999.  @autohmae  not sure how I misread that, but I did. My bad
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  9000. Even Andrew "Steel Baron" Carnegie was for a steely graduated estate tax. There are many problems with his ideas, but the fact that the GOP is more pro-rich than a fucking Steel Baron is something that should stun people. Unfortunately, they've managed to spin the estate tax as being a death tax and get everyone too afraid of it to realize it as just a tax on spoiled brats' inheritances. You can't be logically consistent while being for a meritocratic economic system and opposed to the estate tax. If you don't have a strong estate tax, you unavoidably have an economic aristocracy that got rich through means other than their own merits. There's just no reconciling those ideas.
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  9001. It's less ambiguous. Until I smell it, I cannot confirm if it is more accurate...and I'm not sure I would want to for fear that it might not be.
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  9002. Blame, or credit?
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  9003.  @xxxxOS  facebook has always been toxic from day 1. Fuck it.
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  9004. liquid shark well done sir
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  9005. @AL CAPPS single payer isn't government-run like the VA and the actually government-run British system beats our system handily on objective measurements. Our government treating veterans like a waste product when not trying to pretend to care about them is a seperate issue.
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  9006. @AL CAPPS no, the point is to remove the "rapacious for profit middlemen" (aka the insurance companies) not have the government pay them creating a completely unnecessary step for someone to provide no value while drawing "profit" out of the system, increasing the cost.
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  9007.  @teamthoth  because I don't think anyone here gives a fuck if you want to have some arrangement with a private company to cover, say, unnecessary cosmetic surgery. Are you even capable of making an argument without misrepresenting some one or something?
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  9008. That only kicks in at a certain level though. Gotta have the workers see overworked low-level managers to keep up the illusion that being a CEO is hard.
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  9009. If you want to understand "libertarianism" the best way is, actually, to look at it like it was a religion. The liars on top protiting from it, the very dangerous fundamentalists, the "moderates" who are full of contradictions because they simply haven't given it enough thought, the turning a blind eye to atrocities (past and current, typically with a no-true-Scotsman fallacy), the rejection of facts and logic that don't fit within their current worldview, the equating of (what at first glance are) arbitrary things with virtue, the liberation through hierarchy, the intangible and grand entity that one can gain salvation through submission to (the invisible hand of the "free market"), the constant contradictions (both internal and with reality) that are obvious to everyone else, the projection onto others ("you worship the state"), etc, etc If you adopt the lense that it's a religion built around economics everything falls into place (except how so many Christians fail to see the parallels with their golden calf story warning them not to make false gods to worship. Just because you haven't made an idol, doesn't mean you haven't done so.)
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  9010.  @KikomochiMendoza  you don't know what courage is and smashing the windows of CEOs cars would have been even less effective. Sit down keyboard warrior.
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  9011.  @austingoyne3039  you can't hurt their money enough for it to matter and the only image they actually care about is that among other rich people looking down their noses at us. Also, they will never EVER change. You want change? You need to get moderates pissed off enough that they'll actually join in forcing the criminals out of power. "Knowing" we're being screwed isn't enough. Agreeing with the message of the protest isn't enough. Go read Letter from a Birmingham Jail. You are no different from the white moderates MLK talked about in that. Different issue, same attitude. And yes, those complacent who get less outraged at what's happening to the climate than someone throwing some soup on the glass and frame of a painting ARE among those responsible. To remain neutral in a conflict between the powerful and powerless is to side with the powerful. It's not just those at the top that are the problem. It is all of those who preferred a candidate who opposes action on global warming, And all of those who said it didn't matter to them, AND everyone who prefers a candidate who supports taking action but for whom that issue isn't a deal breaker. That includes YOU. The one who needs to change is YOU. The protest was against YOU, and even now you try to try and put down the people doing more than you as a way to avoid the needed self reflection and change. There is fundamentally no difference between you complaining about this protest and moderate conservatives whining about kneeling at football games or a march getting in the way of traffic. It Is The Same Thing!
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  9012.  @Val_Emrys  we have to go through the establishment Democrats to get to the Republicans, and they would rather loose to Republicans than let progressives have power. We are enemy number 1 to them. We need to return the favor and destroy them. Then (and not before) can we deal with the Republicans. These are 2 wings of the same party. Attack the one closer first or you will continue to fail to reach the other.
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  9013. ​ @QuinnOsgood-c9v the same people that enforcing the law always comes down to when push comes to shove: Men with guns.
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  9014.  @Captain_Wet_Beard  wrong. We're not teaching atheism in schools. Keeping religious beliefs out of schooling protects the religious rights of everyone. Freedom of religion requires freedom from religion. Secularism is a neutral position. Stop acting like equality is oppression.
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  9015. ​ @Ricky-g6i Reported for hate speech and misinformation for your lies.
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  9016.  Lamondrius YungSteezyWitDemFotees Jackson  don't get your hopes up shitlord. There will be no appeasement this time around.
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  9017. They learned that what they did in 2016 worked. Why would we expect them to change?
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  9018. The country is for sure not going to move forward. The question is just "how many will die?"
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  9019. Jeez, why not choose death by burning at the stake at that point?
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  9020. Vertical axis wind turbines are significantly less efficient than horizontal axis ones, so $/Watt they'll never be more economical. There is apparently a pretty simple and cheap solution to reduce bird strikes, though: paint the blades purple. The unusual color sticks out against the blues, whites, greens, yellows, and browns of the natural landscape and enables the birds to notice and judge their speed easier, so they can simply avoid the blades in a way that they find much harder to do when we paint the blades the same color as the clouds. Incorporating gravity storage into the structure seems like a decent idea if it can be done in a cost effective way, though, since you're already building a big tall hollow tower and if you got really clever about the design it might be workable to go right from kinetic energy of the wind to potential energy of the weight without losing efficiency going back and forth between mechanical and electric power. That part is clever.
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  9021.  @philosoaper  unfortunately the inefficiencies I was referring to extend to efficiency in extracting energy from a given cross section of wind. Vertical axis turbines have niche advantages that can make them a good choice for off grid systems, but for efficient grid power, the standard design we see of the large 3-bladed horizontal design is extremely well optimized, especially when placed offshore where wind is pretty constant and low-turbulence....and just about every design (including the ones that look and are marketed as new) were already designed decades ago. As much as I like to share in the cautiously optimistic excitement of promising new tech, the aerodynamics here are extremely well-tread ground, so we should expect anything more than small, incremental improvements. :\
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  9022. It's not a parody, but seeing the birth of a religion through its cult stage is a nice case study.
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  9023.  @gavinstutler2469  old folk outnumber 10 to 1? Holy fuck you are disconnected from reality!
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  9024. Every day is opposite day in the United Gaslighting of America
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  9025. Orwell can't see into the future. He's too busy spinning in his grave screaming "I warned you!"
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  9026.  @donHooligan  ah, my mistake as well then.
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  9027. "Far right leader Bolsonaro" Fascist. The word you are looking for is "fascist". Don't tiptoe around the subject.
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  9028. I don't
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  9029. I mean, it's the job of the cable companies to sell advertising space and they want to keep their customers happy so...
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  9030. Liberal: 1-open to change and new ways of doing things 2-advocating for freedom 3-(more informal) aligned with populist goals and priorities Hillary is NONE of these things
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  9031. +
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  9032.  @ttt69420  no.
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  9033. MSNBC is the PR arm for a center-right political party. Faux News is far right CNN is playing centrist between the above options with their neutrality bias, making them moderately far right.
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  9034. We live in the world of the Onion. It's understandable.
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  9035. ​ @menotyou8369 🎯
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  9036. Being against a fascist war of aggression and all the ensuing warcrimes is just basic human decency. Find some.
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  9037. It's very simple: they get paid whether they win or not, but if they win WITH progressives, then the corporate dollars will dry up. They're not playing to win. They're playing to look like they're trying.
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  9038.  @Cakebattered  more blatent lies from you.
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  9039. Compromising with reasonable people makes you a reasonable person. Compromising with unreasonable people makes you a fool, or complicit.
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  9040. Hartia should be...isn't...sadly
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  9041. Meek Jahye abolishing a redundant agency overstepping its legal bounds=/=abolishing law enforcement. Don't give them pity technicalities they aren't even right on.
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  9042. Totally agree with legalizing prostitution, but I think you'll find income inequality to be a driver of nearly every social ill, including violence.
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  9043. LIQUIDSNAKEz28 I should have been clear and said "extreme income inequality". More than essentials likely have an effect if some get too far ahead, as poorer, but more equal countries have less effects of income inequality in many social areas, but we do have full communists here sometimes, so I should have been more clear. My bad
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  9044. CampingforCool41 some of those are desperate enough to be excused (not as many as think they are, but some) TPP was (and to the degree that it's being slipped into NAFTA, is) a huge threat.
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  9045. It's called Faux News for a reason
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  9046. Don't undersell it. If laws applied to wealthy politicians, basically every Republican and over half the "Democratic" politicians would be locked up or executed at the Hague.
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  9047. He's bypassing Congress to send weapons to Israel to kill civilians. His hands are stained with blood.
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  9048. We have a president that was pushing for the Iraq war all the way back in the Clinton era. He HATES Arabic people.
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  9049. Because Biden LIKES the death toll.
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  9050.  @ianoliver3130  *of bigotry and hate
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  9051.  @macaron3141592653  the Catholic church (for example) rakes in a lot of money. It just funnels it up the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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  9052.  @seanmatthewking  women regurally get at least as uncomfortable medical screenings of their sensitive parts earlier and at significantly higher rates than men. Beyond men's general relative reluctance to get medical care, yes, growing up steeped in a homophobic culture is the difference. Just look how heterosexual men will frequently see even the suggestion of a woman (consentually) doing anything to their butt in the bedroom not just as something they might personally not be into, but as a challenge to their masculine heterosexual identity or how you, yourself, phrased your incredulous comment in sexual language. That's why the gender most conditioned to "just tough it out" is most likely to avoid that particular discomfort: because it's not just about the physical discomfort. While overt homophobia definitely accounts for some of the statistics, you don't even need to personally hate gay people for the homophobia of our society to fuck with your thought processes and (especially if you're not aware of it) consequently your actions.
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  9053.  @connielingus8385  see my reply to Sean
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  9054. "I'm saying it's not a crime if the President USA does it."
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  9055. YouTube: deletes innocuous comments constantly. Also YouTube: whitelists literal fascists so they can spread hate speech daily with no repercussions.
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  9056.  John Sampson  we all know the Nazi vote went to Trump and why it did. Nice try though.
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  9057. Joe Ciliberto thank you for the sentiment. It's nice to hear when most of what we seem to get is opposition and millenial-bashing when we try to take up the fight. Any ally still willing to stand with us in their later years is still very welcome (Bernie would have never gotten the support he did if that wasn't true). Sadly, though, I think too many people in the boomer generation and older aren't strong enough to turn an objective eye to the failures of their generation like you have. I'd imagine it's quite difficult to face that one has become exactly what they fought against in the youth they take pride in when they look back at their lives for the real achievements of their generation. That's all the more reason, though, to value the ones who can face that. Anything you can do to get people of your generation to stop hating us, or treating us like little kids, would be greatly appreciated, because without that baseline level of respect, it's impossible to have a real conversation with any of them. Even when I develop a good amount respect from a boomer on a job, I still hear a whole bunch of generational bashing right to my face with the only difference being that it's clear they're not counting me as part of that group. It's like a low-key version of "you're a very well-spoken black man" as just a constant din in my day-to-day life, and yeah, it sucks comming from people with no awareness of their own generation.
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  9058. Kyle has covered that, to be fair...the corporate media sure as hell won't though.
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  9059.  @roberttelford745  see "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" for more (audiobook can be found free on YouTube) Edit: link: https://youtu.be/ySefPIZaYT0
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  9060.  @mos2952  what? No! He got some stints put in which is a routine procedure today. Where tf did you hear that?
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  9061. @wingracer1614  you can arguably go past 100% but using heat pumps for heating is the only thing I know that does it because all waste heat in the system is also accomplishing the desired goal too.
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  9062. He didn't come out of nowhere. He was a congressman with a totally centrist voting record. He obviously wasn't going to make massive progressive change. I voted for him in '08 going "eh, he's going to be a lame centrist, but at least it looks like he will at least respect the constitution, and after Bush we really need that (and Hillary and McCain are obviously non-options)"....unfortunately, he couldn't even measure up to my exceedingly low expectations of just not violating the constitution, so he didn't get my vote in '12.
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  9063. Look into joining the SRA.
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  9064. Conclusion: honest street philosophy is the best philosophy.
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  9065. Jokes aside, it's not that they thought they could outfight our production capacity in the long term. It's just that they thought the US had no fighting spirit and would just spinelessly fold if things got ugly enough. This is what happens when you drink the Kool aid.
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  9066. It's often not being tone deaf though. It's called gaslighting.
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  9067. Because it's about cracking down on non-corporate news, not fake news
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  9068.  @Michael-h8l5m  ia absolutely is not. What's going to come out of that frustrating waste of time? That Jimmy is an unhinged screaming lunatic that either has no clue or no care if anything he's saying is true? Everyone that can be pursuaded on that has been, so what's the point?
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  9069. Oh look, someone who's too insulated in their bubble to tell the difference between a Liberal and a leftist. Don't want any different ideas to get in, huh? Gotta vet all other people for ideological purity before seriously listening to what they have to say?
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  9070. "innocent"? no, but a lot of this shit is the people around him using him to push horrible shit while not taking the blame themselves. It's just G.W. Bush 2.0.
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  9071. @Jonathan Motl if the problem is the polution, fix that problem and you can easily solve the fish problem.
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  9072. The hilarious part: public roads are socialism.
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  9073. Chander S it's funny because most people don't know that the road system amounts to socialism. You're wrong about healthcare though. Single-payer systems provide better outcomes at lower cost than our system. That's just objective fact. It's an industry with inelastic demand which benefits the whole of society for everyone to have access to and is arguably infrastructure. That's exactly the kind of thing that tends to do better when run by the government. (Also, where we have inelastic demand, we would expect to see exponentially increasing costs, which is exactly what we see for healthcare) The insurance part is the worst as, unlike other types of insurance, there's little incentives they can create for behavior change that are more significant than risks to one's health, and there're no real efficiency gains to be made. That means the only ways the health insurance "industy" can look to to seriously increase profits are making people think they are getting better coverage than they are, arbitrary denying coverage based on arcane rationalizations, flat out denying the chronically ill coverage/making it prohibitively expensive (which thankfully the ACA greatly cut back), and charging more to let the rich cut in line over those with greater need for immediate treatment. None of those are good for consumers as a whole. We're much better off just pooling money through taxes and paying for it that way as the government doesn't need to make a profit. To top it off, we're only talking about socializing health insurance while leaving the rest of the healthcare industry very privatized, which is hardly even an extreme position, especially in light of superior systems out there doing just that. You could go much further and still have a healthcare industy that still had a lot of capitalism in the mix.
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  9074. Chander S I'm not even touching that pile of logical fallacies. Nice try moving the goalpost, but I'm not biting.
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  9075. We began it in the 2010s, actually.
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  9076.  @Lee-jh6cr  I was referring to the rise of the "alt-right", actually. That's really when and where this post-truth BS really started ramping up in earnest and the start of the modern f-ism movement. I wouldn't put the blame on smart phones, per-se (though social media certainly deserves its share of blame and that is correlated with smartphone use)
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  9077.  @immunetowesternlies8697  "Oh, so everyone who didn't eat chips of lead paint as kids is a genius?" is the exact same "logic" as your reply. This is war of aggression, and thus a crime against peace. You're just an appeaser and would have opposed trying to stop Nazi Germany before things got really bad. That's why you need to completely abandon reason to argue your pro-war position and pretend others are pro-war. War exists because Putin sent people to fight. Appeasement doesn't actually stop war with fascists. It just encourages them, reinforcing the behavior and giving them more resources to fight the next war. Being pro-peace means, in part, being willing to support violent opposition to wars of aggression. That's the actual reality.
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  9078. Btw, Medicaid isn't like Medicare. It's the government paying for cheap private insurance. Kinda shooting your argument in the foot trolls.
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  9079. They're really not even trying to hide the demagoguery.
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  9080. Alt-right has been shown to be a rebranding (neo)Nazis thought up to improve their public image. You all can fuck right off
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  9081.  @TheCapn23  yup Rand is controlled opposition for libertarians. I recognize Ron Paul as likely principled, but when the vote comes close, Rand has fallen in line way too many times to deserve his reputation.
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  9082. It's wonderful to have a much more concise version of this than the one by darkmatter here https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ (Not that I'm claiming this to be a copy or anything, of course, just that we need more people saying this, and linking to a 40 minute video isn't the greatest option)
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  9083. C Robinson Why wait for something that you'll never get from the current state of geopolitics??? If we can't get an agreement to do anything substantial to address global warming, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that we'll get the people running the nations to agree to do something like helping workers universally. My solution produces nearly identical end results, preserves more national sovereignty, is simpler to implement in a non-exploitative way, and (perhaps most importantly) could be easily done if just 1 country got their act together enough to do it. (Also, it's more stable as deviations from the desired outcome are self-correcting rather than active steps needing to be taken by other nations to enforce them) Ideals are fine, but if they're not tempered with realism, they shatter on contact with the real world and we get nothing.
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  9084. Clearly not pro-life. Just against safe abortions.
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  9085. The thing is, Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' is actually a Nazi; it's less that she's stupid (though she is) and more that she has contempt for the very idea of truth. 0% joke 0% exaggeration Know thy enemy.
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  9086. Well, if they'd rather loose to Republicans than win with Progressives then no, they'll just blame progressive voters for the losses. We need to do work shifting the political landscape to make something like that viable (and even more, like putting in ranked choice voting or some other comperably massive shift) to make it prudent.
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  9087. The ordering of that list is all kinds of messed up.
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  9088. It is impressive how he has managed to violate the first ammendment twice at the same time. That takes some doing.
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  9089.  @gypsylips1950  yay, yet more fallacies mixed with lies this time. Bye jackass, you're not worth anymore time than I've already given you.
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  9090. No indication of even suspicion of a gun. Irrelevant
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  9091.  @oiops  yes, a fascist state engaging in an illegal war of aggression with gratuitously rampant warcrimes is unpopular. Quit whining about it, snowflake.
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  9092.  @Theomite  oh, their kin are a global problem already. Imperialism saw to that.
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  9093.  Josue2018  "duty to serve our leader" you don't really understand this whole America thing do you?
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  9094. Lachlan Bold until we get money out of politics or vote enough incumbents out to prove that healthcare is non-negotiable to the American people? Endlessly apperently. They know single payer is coming at some point, but are trying to delay it as long as possible and squeeze out as much money from the American people as possible in the meantime.
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  9095. He could make the "the recession is coming, so I'd rather have it happen before the election rather than have Trump try to manage the recovery" argument easily, but that's not the argument he makes, and it's telling
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  9096. America is largely a nation of emotional children. Most Americans stopped their emotional and personal growth at 12-16 and just have figgured out how to fake being an adult instead of actually growing up.
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  9097.  @hazyhalfmoon  you do if you want to criminalize oppositio to fascism though
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  9098. At least you're not alone. Those of us who go in usually have to deal with electronic voting machines and also have no idea if our votes have actually been counted.
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  9099. YouTube is telling us why they do what they do. They're not saying "family friendly" They're saying "advertiser friendly" Whether corporations like the content is the important factor, and capital tends to be more approving of fascism than anything left-wing when push comes to shove.
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  9100. Truth
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  9101.  @saintsfearful  It's not non-partisan. It's bipartisan. Those aren't the same thing.
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  9102.  @shaunsmith9013  people like Tucker love to steal everyone's words. Of course they do. If they argued their filth with their own words, no one would like it. Even single terms like "Libertarian" and [National] "Socialists" they have to steal. They need others words because to say what they really wanted would get them a punch in the face (or worse) in any halfway decent society. They do have a particular liking to stealing from black people though, of course, and not just words.
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  9103. YouTube's comment filter broke and started throwing false positives constantly since around the time of the invasion of Ukraine. It's nothing unique to you I promise.
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  9104. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it) "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. . . . As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence." -Frank Wilhoit
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  9105. ​ @Maleegi I think you need to go back and tally up the devil's crimes vs yahwah's again.
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  9106. As long as any habitable world gets named Chiron "Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow." ~ Assassins' Redoubt, Final Transmission
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  9107. To be fair, the UN's founding objective is simply preventing WW3. I wish other things weren't a extremely distant second at the UN wasn't a joke at addressing them, but that's never really been its reason to exist.
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  9108. @Clyde illusion Kyle is anti-white? Found the covert klansman.
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  9109. Any e-voting system will be hacked, and true dirrect democracies with no representatives are pretty terrible and open to all kinds of exploitation. Not sold on our current system, but barring a few ballot referendums done on paper, that's a terrible idea.
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  9110.  zama202  we will write the history books to tell future generations about the boomers. Have fun living out the rest of your life aware of that fact ;)
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  9111. That's not at all true. She's also in it for ego and power.
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  9112. Murder is the ending of a _person_. By no reasonable definition is a human a person before the central nervous system develops. If murder is simply about homosapian life, then if someone kidnapped you and blew off the top of your head with a shotgun, but quickly hooked you up to life support, that wouldn't be murder even though you, as a person, were absolutely ended, but someone taking what was your body off of life support would be. Likewise, if conjoined twins were born with only one brain, seperating them without putting the removed body parts on indefinite life support would also be murder even though the number of people didn't change. People have rights, not collections of cells.
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  9113. Giant budgets and corporate bureaucrats are the death of creative vision. Once a production passes a certain size, the devs simply aren't allowed to take real risks and do real art in design anymore. This goes for games as it goes for movies. If you want something that actually has soul, you need to look towards old stuff or indy stuff because big business will only ever give it to you on accident.
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  9114. Because he is a guy with a plan, and then multiple sub plans and contingency plans. I think that makes him a schemer.
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  9115. Nurple G getting money out of politics, ending corporate "personhood", reforming our election system to one that doesn't result in a 2 party system...that's just a start!
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  9116. That ~25% shows up repeatedly when you think "no sane person could possibly believe ___" Not a new phenomenon, or limited to Trump
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  9117. That wouldn't surprise me, but can I get a source on that please?
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  9118. Every fascist does constantly.
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  9119.  @asdf1991asdf  ok, but for the record, you talking like the return of Greco-Roman philosophy as if it wasn't at odds with Christianity and equating it with whiteness (while carefully excluding other aspects of the civilizations of western Europe you don't want to wrap up in the definition) is the exact same internally-contradictory definition reactionaries use, so you may want to be careful with just dropping that with no context of your views other than apparently laughing at others.
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  9120. To understand US politics you first have to write off 1/4th of the country as disconnected from reality on about 90% of things. That it's down to 24% is essentially a total victory.
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  9121.  @xanthrax8207  also, the 4th guy was an accomplice too.
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  9122. His government's own laws are extremely clear on what the punishment for his crimes should be, along with everyone complicit
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  9123.  @keokihiga8462  I'm sorry, was there a relevant point in that?
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  9124.  @keokihiga8462  that'd be nice, but I'm not in power, often times those who are, don't, and that's an entirely different conversation.
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  9125.  @unslaadkrosis3489  no surpirise. Neo-conservatism is just facism lite and they've been going further in that dirrection every year since Reagan
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  9126.  @benjammin2L8  no, it's not. Nice try, though, but take your own advice or be silent on the subject of logical fallacies because you clearly can't identify them.
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  9127. I say it's still better for a 2 pronged attack even if they cheat the JD movement. The more we force them to act directly against the voters the closer we get to upending the system entirely, and if we can get through, then that's a win too.
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  9128.  @notime9616  most Gen Z support Bernie too.
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  9129. Even 4-chan and 8-chan censor content. You have to put rules in place for a space to function as intended, and the protections put in place require a good faith effort to do some policing of certain types of content. For example, if YouTube didn't at least make an effort to deal with illegal content (be it copyright, calls to violence, child porn, etc) they could still be held responsible. Kyle is wrong on this, but Trump is even more wrong because using the government to try and control Twitter's free speech actually would be a first ammendment issue.
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  9130. What skill?
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  9131. I have to strongly disagree with her bill, I'm afraid. Fundamentally, the practice in schools is adults in positions of authority systemicly bullying children to try and punish their parents. Everyone responsible for this is fundamentally unfit to work with children and needs to loose their job and be barred from any job involving children for the rest of their lives. Anything less is an unacceptable situation. If a divorced parent was caught doing anything comperable to this to "punish" their child for a financial dispute with their ex, it would be really solid grounds to strip them of their custody rights, but we're going to pretend that adults who think it's acceptable to treat other people's kids left in their care in this manner are fit to supervise children? Really?!
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  9132. Everyone should watch CPG Grey's videos on the electoral college that debunk a lot of what's mentioned here. The Electoral College: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9936C719FF689E7D In addition, even if we were to ignore him debunking that the electoral college helps small states, there's still the ethical dilemma of weighting votes. Imagine a different difference being used to determine who's votes count for more than residency. Should we weight votes based off ethnicity, so all races get equal representation? What about social class? There are a lot more poor people than rich. Should those in the 1% get 5 votes a piece? See how that sounds unfair? Because it is. Even if we had tyranny of the majority (which we don't, we have a constitution), ir would still be better than tyranny of the minority. The latter is called an aristocracy. Not only that, but it gets even worse, since if you live in a solidly red or blue state, your vote is essentially meaningless. The electoral college was a brilliant invention for its time, when peopl would vote for their electors to send them to meet the candidates and make a choice for them, but it was a comprise from the beginning (spouted from the same debates that gave us with blacks counting for 3/5ths of a person) and was obsolete with the invention of radio when people were informed enough to be telling their electors who they wanted to be president ahead of the convention.
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  9133. Honestly, the number of people where means and motive likely overlap is too big to pin down...
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  9134. Those are the ones we need to focus on. The ~25% pro-war are the same ~25% that come up repeatedly on obscene positions because they do not care about reason or evidence. 25% of the country is unreachable. We just have to work around that.
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  9135.  @undershade1834  a war of aggression is a crime against peace.
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  9136. +
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  9137. It is mild clickbait...I'm not angry, but I am disappointed. and yes, I do follow politics. I just follow too many programs to catch all of the content from every one, so even I wasn't aware of the details behind the senate race, as I've been paying attention to different races. Can we all calm down and stop flinging insults at people that are presumably on the same side please?
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  9138. Aeroldoth3 obviously her legal guardians are filing on her behalf, but the lawsuit is likely still in her name due to complicated legal procedures about who can sue for what.
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  9139. Aeroldoth3 yeah, not sure of the legalese of a parent filing because of something that affects their child vs filing on behalf of their child...it's all semantics that are pretty meaningless outside of a courtroom I imagine.
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  9140. All coffee in a MSM studio gets spiked with koolaid if left unattended.
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  9141. And now to set up a system to give all the clones matching tattoos.
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  9142. BabeOfBlasphemy thank you.
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  9143. Pink is a well-known troll. Just ignore it
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  9144. The reason why the US nuked Japan was to scare the USSR by proving that they can and would. That's the ugly truth. The even uglier truth: Seeing the horrors of a fission bomb used on an actual city with real people instead of some test cite in a desert, and having to face that humans were capable of doing so (and even after they had already seen the effects) is probably what has thus far stopped humans from using hydrogen bombs on each other.
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  9145.  @haroldjones8521  well, it was through implication, but he already did what you predicted and it took all of 15 minutes. 😆
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  9146. I don't care who his VP is. No-one is above the law, period.
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  9147.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  the international corporatocracy including the world bank and imf is probably a more accurate way to phrase that, but I agree with the general point.
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  9148.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  sadly, not even close. The US military doesn't start getting involved until they're on about plan E at the earliest (and if the US collapsed, they could easily slot China or Russia into that role) If you want to learn about their actual primary tool, I recommend "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
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  9149. Andrew Weis watch CPG Grey on the electoral college. The Electoral College: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9936C719FF689E7D If you still support it after having the practical arguments for it debunked, please come back and reply and I'll be happy to give you more practical and moral arguments against it as well as proper historical context to frame the discussion. (Spoilers: it was a good decision at the time, but it's beyond obsolete)
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  9150.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  ....try exercising your brain. The boxes in your head are far too small to actually fit any truth into
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  9151.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  see, basic logic would be to continue the conversation in a language that it's already taking place in when you don't know what languages the other person speaks. But thank you for proving my point about your brain not working right in a way that crosses all language barriers.
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  9152. fl00fydragon pure capitalism can't. A socialist-leaning mixed-market with steeply graduated taxes and a UBI should be able to. Ideally we need a paradigm shift off of the capitalism-socialism spectrum, but until then, pushing mixed-market economic theory to its limits should get something functional until we get an Einstein of economics. Of course, until we push mixed-market economics as far as it will go, rather than sitting in rehashed territory pontificating on possibilities, that paradigm shift will never come.
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  9153. Anthony Sturt dude, even the fucking "Heritage Foundation" (a right-wing so-called "think tank") acknowledges they pay taxes. What kind of BS are you spewing?
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  9154. Agreed. If it's a response to your opponent's stance on the issue, make that explicit. The whole "my gender doesn't matter but it does" comes across as self-contradictory out of context. Besides, there are much more hard hitting ways to counter such things if you call out your opponent directly.
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  9155. If you identify with a group of slaveholders and want to demonitize another group, you have to claim they're worse than said slaveholders. There really isn't much further down to go, so they get repetitive.
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  9156. Thank you. We appriciate every ally we have in the older generations. With so many being so quick to blame us for problems we had no hand in creating, the reminders that we aren't alone in this fight are appriciated.
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  9157. Let's be real: medicare for all IS the centrist position when you look at the polls. It's only in DC where it's not.
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  9158. He didn't say it was closed. He said it was clost.
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  9159.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  I watch Jimmy sometimes (dispite my frustration with him on the issue) and he was 3rd party only well before Bernie offered to come on his show. Meanwhile on the other side you have people saying that all 3rd party votes are a waste and don't do anything besides help the GOP. There seem to be so few people saying "the primary was rigged, the 2 parties are 1, and we need to fight it from within and without" with most believing that you have to only pick one strategy and I just don't get it.
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  9160. E R he is the same though. He's just a tool to rile up the left's anger and get it dirrected where the DNC wants. Under the Bush years, he was doing more good than harm, but he's been given a new target now. Nothing about him has really changed though.
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  9161. ​ @Ukaknir spoilers: because they do.
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  9162.  @ChimerFox  there's a military coup followed by massive violence against Evo supporters, but you want to pretend the perpetrators are thr victims....did you forget to check your victim complex at the door?
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  9163.  @ChimerFox  are you CNN personified? Wtf is this pseudoneurtality BS? It was a military coup, and there is no equivolence between the actions of the sides. These are objective facts. Firmly stating it's 50-50 because you've heard different sides say different things doesn't make you above it all; it makes you a lazy narcissist trying to stroke your own ego.
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  9164. Carbon tax+UBI+massive public transportation spending+green "new deal" overhaul to the energy infrastructure?
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  9165. Jonniman007 fucking truth there!
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  9166.  @Arcexey  shall we start with the admitted illegal, deliberate voter purges in New York systemically targeting likely Bernie voters? The 2016 primary was absolutely rigged and you are willfully ignorant if you still believe otherwise. Election integrity is non-negotiable.
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  9167. Because reactionaries reject enlightenment values like egalitarianism, secularism, democratic government, and reason.
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  9168. Lol sure, they photoshoped him yesterday to make him look bad and gave him answers today? You're a riot. Go do standup...or at least go to a renaissance fair and play the jester
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  9169. Legally distinct from any existing product. 😉
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  9170. By their own "logic" if the chief of staff is willing to work for $80k, that's the market value for that position, and anyone who is not significantly more skilled at the job in the rest of the Congressional staff is being overpaid. Notice how the "logic" is never applied in that dirrection?
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  9171. It's constitutional, but shouldn't be the case. I might be ok with a tax exempt status IF they: 1-stay out of politics entirely. 2-are completely open about their beliefs and operations. 3-open their books and meet very strict non-profit standards. And preferably if they meet non-discrimination standards. ...actually, just having them have to choose between non-profit bookkeeping and the non-discrimination laws businesses have to obey would be pretty great on its own!
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  9172.  @Demolishorx  look at the polling breakdowns. Biden won just because people were (wrongly) convinced he was more electable, not because people liked him or his policies more. This also fits with broader political trends where people lean conservative in their voting when they're scared. You're displaying the dunning-kruger effect in full when you make that argument.
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  9173. It's a blatantly violation of the Constitution as anyone who can read can tell. They don't care and have corrupt legal precedent saying it's legal for them to violate your due process.
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  9174.  @ianbelletti6241  if the supreme court doesn't give a fuck what the constitution says on CAF, then they don't give a fuck what the constitution says on CAF. It doesn't matter what legal angle you want to use because it's not a mistake. It's an excuse. Press them from another angle and they'll find another reason why they just can't rule against the cops on this. The current court just ruled that evidence proving someone's innocence was not legal grounds to appeal a death sentence. Unfortunately your hope is merely naivety.
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  9175. I'm just surprised it even survived that long without corroding through and leaking! How did THAT happen?
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  9176. Pretty sure our government doesn't have any provision for that.
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  9177. As in the missiles hit where they did because Russia shot them down before they reached their intended targets?
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  9178. That's just average donation size, but yes, breakdowns of that would be good to be made extremely public
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  9179. Call a spade a spade. This is a death cult we're dealing with.
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  9180.  @jeremychase7416  damn it, you got there first 😆
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  9181. Let's take a look at a certain coin flip that happened this time. https://youtu.be/EzSg_eY3GV0 Yeah... that happened!
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  9182. Peter that's Europe, not the US. I shouldn't really need to say they're not the same.
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  9183. Getting pretty close, and it's so much better than before!
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  9184. Note to self 37:25
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  9185. What Trump stands for is DEFENDED by the Bible. Take Numbers 31:17-18 (which means exactly what it sounds like it means) for example. It's an evil book.
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  9186. His optics are better than Bernie, but he's still the most popular politician in the country, so is that really a valid point?
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  9187.  @aishabintabubakr4944  "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre (speaking of something applicable to all fascists)
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  9188. And https://youtu.be/le86H7Xfjrc And read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
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  9189.  @jarrickhillery8664  let's take a moment to look at his signature UBI policy. He's repeatedly said it would replace welfare benefits (or that welfare benefits would reduce it, and at least occasionally that his goal was to replace the welfare system) and it would be paid for with a vat tax. So we're already talking about a program that disproportionately leaves the poor out while being paid for with a regressive tax before we even get into things like how it would raise rent or the warning signs of how many fascists liked him. What's it going to take for people to recognize that he's (at best) just a right-wing "libertarian" (in the American sense) techbro? He may not be a fascist like Trump, but he is on the right-wing side of the political spectrum.
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  9190.  @michaelayeni177  it's not. Most domestic terrorism is right wing, Al-Quaida is right wing, etc. Apartheid is though, at least among the far right, which the Israeli government sure seems to like.
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  9191.  @christianpowerssavesthewor8404  see my comment to Jarrick, but yes, because he is and I'm not politically illiterate enough to think the line between left and right politics lies between the US's center-right and far-right parties.
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  9192. I'm so proud of our northern brothers and sisters as well. Hopefully we can follow your lead before too long.
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  9193.  Ken Hudson  armed manchildren are a danger to themselves and those around them, yes.
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  9194. ...it failed, but in 2017 it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory over the corporate ISPs
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  9195. Would have, but couldn't bring myself to touch my phone while it was happening.
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  9196. Because we've seen politicians twist "reform" into expensive training programs that do nothing or other ineffective bs like that for decades. Any politician can call a vapid token policy "reform", declare "mission accomplished", and kill a movement for a decade or longer until people finally realize the reform they were told would fix things didn't and we're right back where we started...again and again and again.
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  9197. Why electronic voting is a bad idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs No digital program should be counting a single thing in an election.
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  9198.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  contra doesn't make a career spreading hate that has led to significant harm to the world. There is no equivolent to Rush on the left.
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  9199. I believe the term for what you're talking about is "survivorship bias". With people like Rogan it probably goes even deeper than that. If I may pull a quote from Innuendo Studios, it's not even that they're lying; it's that "they legitimately do not care whether the words coming out of their mouths are true." https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
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  9200.  @nicholasfarrell5981  you're not, but then most Christians don't actually know what's in the Bible.
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  9201. Ask a boomer the same question and you'll get a similar response.
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  9202.  @ToxicAudri  yeah, they started putting narrative over facts years ago. Secular Talk, Humanist Report, and Rational National are the big news channels for me, with some other stuff sprinkled in.
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  9203.  Malic Bk  there's this thing called "selective populism" (as laid out in Umberto Echo's 14 characteristics) and it's used by fascists to redirrect populist support toward a rebranded elites (sometimes called "class collaboration") and populist anger toward scapegoats. And yes, right wing populism is always dishonest and I am calling Tucker a fascist and saying that you should see right wing populism as somewhere between a near-certain and for-certain sign of fascism anywhere you see it.
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  9204. I would argue that presidential pardons cannot extend to one's self or impeachment processes being spelled out would make little sense. Just as even the bill of rights is subject to some common sense boundries, so are the rights of the presidency.
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  9205. And why can't the government aquire or create their own facilities? Why is it less expensive to buy something than do it yourself? We have government employees doing all sorts of jobs that require all different levels of equipment.
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  9206. And the invisible hand of the market
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  9207. ...that profile image really says all I was about to.
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  9208.  @Hallahanify  and that balance only grows in value when more people spend money on the same cryptocurrency. Mind looking up the definition for a Ponzi scheme for me?
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  9209. And we want every defector we can get, and banning them (whether you use the term "defector" or "immigrant") is a bad idea.
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  9210. That's completely true. I'd even agree with saying "a lot of them are legit spies". That said, between our screening agencies, witness protection programs (which if we're worried about defectors being hunted down, we should be using), and intelligence agencies (who we want in close contact with even ones that we're sure aren't spies) it's not that big a deal. Even just in terms of information, we know so much less about NK than they do about us, the cost-benefit is still massively in favor of us taking them in. (ex: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korean-senior-spy-agency-official-defects-south-seoul-n553921 ) Hell, sometimes even their spies defect, and those are information gold mines, so I'm not even that broken up about a couple spies running around if we can do a decent job on thwarting assassinations and sabotage.
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  9211. ​ @kenofken9458 giving to the party should have stopped in 2016. I can't imagine being foolish enough to give them money and expect change.
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  9212. Or even worse, she'll pivot after squeeking out a narror win in the general, which (like with Obama) will move the Overton Window further right, paving the way for an even more extreme right wing demogogue than Trump (and since he's a protofascist...)
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  9213. beatles95 ehh, Bernie equating "socialism" to things most people want has blunted all the normal red scare tactics and thereby gave people the courage to move left. We have to break down the spector of McCarthyism to have real policy discussions. There is value in being able to wear labels thrown at you as insults with pride. "Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you"
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  9214.  @blackmambo8702  yup, and neoliberal idpol is always the former.
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  9215. Seven Proxies seduction-based reconnaissance?
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  9216. Lelouch Vi Britannia 1st link is not working for me
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  9217. The Dems are absolutely an organized political party. They are organized AGAINST US!
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  9218. The Dems are nothing if not organized... AGAINST US!
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  9219. The oil companies are making such obscene profits that they can eat it and not care and the public ignores it too, so what exactly would that accomplish that this doesn't? Not offending your delicate sensibilities and letting you go back to turning a blind eye to the problem with the smug satisfaction that you have a way to look down on people doing more than you from the safety of your keyboard?
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  9220. Ocek it's simple, the Republican voters you can reach from outside are working class people that size up a candidate by strength, integrity, and how they treat that class of people. Hillary is entirely inconsistent and talks around every issue while selling out and looking down her nose at working people. Bernie on the other hand, embodies every part of that by consistatly and unapologeticly standing up for the working class.
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  9221. Unfortunately with nukes in play that's easier said than done.
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  9222. What we need to shift is what people think "looks good". The fact that people think people like Hillary and Biden are more electable (dispite all evidence to the contrary) is the result of a massive propaganda campaign we need to dismantle.
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  9223. I'll just say that, for example, Boeing doesn't buy ads on cable news because they think they're going to sell more 747s to the audience. Those purchase choices are made by accountants crunching numbers off of technical documents. They buy the ads for (to be charitable) implicit influence over the narrative.
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  9224.  @McHobotheBobo  when will you fucking tankies learn that using a far right form of government to try and achieve far left goals is a contradiction that dooms the entire endeavour to fail? You're just as bad as the "libertarians" thinking that allowing unchecked accumulation of private power will maximize freedom.
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  9225. Poe's Law is real. Use "/s"
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  9226.  @harryflashman3141  you're taking for granted that he actually cares about his family.
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  9227.  @xealit  true, but the Ukrainians there have had a lot of time to plan and for their patience to run short.
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  9228. @Coral Shipman I think they mean Liberals in the sense that every country but the US uses it: moderate conservatives. You know, like the establishment "Democrats" and the people who watch MSDNC. Pretty much the rest of the world makes a distinction between being Liberal and being on the left.
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  9229.  @ngotemna8875  no, but it's a bit unusually bad this time around. Usually it's just lesser war crimes that both are guilty of.
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  9230. Even the notion that (non-hyper) individualism is opposed to collectivism is BS. A healthy community requires healthy individuals and (to steal a quote) adaptation to a fundamentally sick society is not a sign of health. Neglect either and both suffer as they are as interdependent as Yin and Yang; each is the opposite of the other while both relying on the other and having a small element of the other within itself. Side note: notice how the "personal responsibility" angle never applies when we're talking about the negative consequences of actions to others (especially when we're talking about those with power, economic or governmental)? Funny, huh?
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  9231. We have 2024, and then we're out of time.
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  9232.  @paul5899  same
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  9233. Well, if this spins out of control into a regional conflict and escalates to the point Russia gets involved, we could see thermonuclear war...that would be new...
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  9234. Gurvinder Parmar not in disagreement other than it being certain. Was just a bit of dry, dark humor. I put 50-50 odds on humanity's survival over a decade ago, and haven't felt the need to adjust that estimate yet. Trump moves up the timeline, but whether it's our doom or a sorely needed wake-up call to get us to change course, I can't say yet.
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  9235. I KNOW I'm cynical hardly the first pokephile
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  9236. Today, a reminder that single payer is the moderate position. Britain nationalized their healthcare industry and has, arguably the best healthcare system, by the numbers, in the world. Anyone opposing single-payer from the right is an extremist on at least that issue.
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  9237. The neutrons are the least of your concerns. The mechanisms needed to achieve pressurized containment (and then actually harness energy practically) will always be big. It doesn't really matter though. Once you have fusion, you can do things like synthesize hydrocarbon fuels at will to power portable generators for off-grid power generation needs.
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  9238. You're projecting YOUR personal failings onto others. Stop.
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  9239. Saudi Arabia: gets oil production hit while committing genocide in Yemen with our weapons and aid. Rebel group in Yemen: takes credit for attack. Media narrative: Iran Iran Iran Sound familiar anyone?
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  9240.  @ChrisPage68  the standard nuclear warhead isn't that many times bigger than the ones used on Japan (the most common is <5x larger than fat man)....because we found it more efficient to pack smaller warheads in what amount to nuclear, homing cluster-bombs... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle
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  9241. Dear Yang, this is what I expected from you as soon as you tried to pay for a UBI with a regressive tax.
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  9242. @Melon Sauce so what? Doesn't mean it's not a regessive tax.
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  9243. Lodge a complaint with the manager. I bet you could get that programming changed pretty quickly.
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  9244. To evil men, religion is simply a tool to hide their actions and intentions behind the reputations of saints. Make no mistake, if you are known as a virtuous believer, evil men are cloaking their deeds in your good reputation. Until either there is no evil in the world or religion and morality are no longer conflated, this will continue.
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  9245. We can only have 1 of those. Either we get runaway climate change that melts the antarctic ice cap and renders the Sahara uninhabitable for human life OR we get climate change under control and leave the Sahara inhabitable but the Antarctic covered in ice.
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  9246. MyNameIsJ3ff totally wrong. When Christianity was at it's peak, there was nothing close to hunanism in the west, and while you can argue that Jesus was a pacifist (though there is contradictions to that point), the whole of the religious teachings are decidedly not. His point that you're either missing or strawmanning though, is that a heavily Christian population is more easy to manipulate into acts of barbarism. The morality in the books and preached by most denominations is based on obedience first and foremost, and studies have shown human ethics taking a sharp downturn in authoritarian structures. There is also a LOT of evil stuff in the books with just enough nice stuff to make it easier to swallow and conflate the good and bad parts as both being moral given a charismatic enough leader.
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  9247. MyNameIsJ3ff religion is obviously not the sole culprit of this, but the problems go hand in hand with organized religion and are inseparable from it. As for a more accurate historic perspective, please watch this https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ. It's target audience isn't the religious, so it's far from diplomatic in its presentation (and I apologize for that), but it is correct in its reasoning.
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  9248.  @juliewake4585  because it's an issue of human right, obviously. You either support them or you don't.
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  9249.  @bruskqadir6208  oh look, a Nazi thinking he can blend in.
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  9250.  @boxhedge22  yes they are. In the US, for example, they are disproportionately represented at protests AGAINST Z_. while Christian Z_s are the main problem. You're just antis_.
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  9251. Please use duckduckgo or some other non-google internet browser. It's better for you and cuts into their power.
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  9252. Luckily, with mrna vaccines out and ready, that hopefully won't take too long
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  9253.  @diggs5518  with the majority of federal-level elected officials for decades (including every president and nearly(?) every Republican) plus a whole bunch of others in other political positions of power in and out of the government. What, exactly, about my comment made you think I was at all being narrow with what I was saying when my entire point was that just because he fits in with the norm there means anyone like him belongs there and compared Congress itself to a pile of litter by the side of the road??? Seriously, what made you think I was being at all narrow about what I was saying in that comment?
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  9254. heresjohnno or at least do the very basics of "check your sources" ...that's fucking highschool level shit there.
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  9255. The video didn't show otherwise
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  9256. No worries there for me, I'm neither an idiot nor going to vote for someone who displays overy contempt for my demographic.
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  9257. The far right has been shown to have enlarged and overactive fear centers in their brains, so science backs you up there.
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  9258. @Creamy Goodness I get the idea, but do you think MSDNC is going to replace her with someone better?
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  9259. @Creamy Goodness I'm of the exact opposite oppinion on that. Compare Bernie's performance at the Faux News town hall to the CNN debate. The obvious bias, at this point, is less harmful than feigned neutrality hiding a knife waiting for your back.
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  9260. It's less the stars than the lucrative "jobs" they'll get in the MIC after they retire.
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  9261. DucFanDan really, "church of climatology kool-aid". Sorry, but I gotta call a reality check on you for that. Sure there are plenty of things to criticize about how we're responding to climate change, but that it's happening is just a fact. The only studies out there claiming otherwise are the fraction of a percent bought paid by the fossile fuel industry (and many are by the same scientists that defended the tobacco industry in court, claiming that cigarettes don't cause cancer. Not only that, but more CO2 in the atmosphere could only ever cause warming because of physics. The sun radiates light in a spectrum which peaks in the visible range. A significant portion of that is absorbed and re-radiated in the infrared from the surface. (Because the Earth isn't anywhere near glowing hot) Adding a gas to the atmosphere which is transparent to visible light, but absorbs infrared (which CO2 is and it's very easy to make up a small scale experiment to test it yourself if you feel the need) will absolutely result in a higher temperature for the planet. That's just plain thermodynamics, and that law of physics is extremely unyielding (if it wasn't, we'd have perpetual motion machines).
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  9262. The first forks in the west were 2 pronged Roman cooking tools. The table fork was a downsized version of it rather than a wholly new invention.
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  9263. Nah, someone's drooling over their dividend checks and wants you to die to keep them that way.
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  9264. Yet again some rich, powerful right-winger saying 'the problems in your life are because of people with less power than you' and people keep falling for it.
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  9265.  @Attmay  Right-wing politics is about building heirarchy and consolidation of power and traces its roots and label back to the royalists opposing the enlightenment and the things it brought with it such as egalitarianism and democratic government. It encompasses (among others) oligharchy, monarchy, theocracy, conservatism, and fascism (something you should be familiar with watching PJWs content)
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  9266.  @aragusea  this is really belated, but I'm suddenly really curious to see if there's a difference in how MSG is used in a place like Japan with really low obesity rates that created the stuff and the USA. Obviously there are too many variables for a lay person to do anything but note a correlation but differences in how it is being used in 2 countries very familiar with it but widely different obesity rates could be very interesting if you have a source on that information (as getting an accurate idea of what a lot of Asian diets are like is a bit difficult from the US).
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  9267. Ironically, by the time we could get them to uderstand the difference between a SPG and a MBT changing battlefield conditions may blur the lines between them enough to make the distinction moot for new designs. If next gen tanks become lighter vehicles, it's not hard to imagine a furture armored vehicle that's able to fill both roles since armor and gun elevation range are the main differences.
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  9268.  @esbenm6544  it would be a poor choice for a flagship under current conditions due to not having any of the preferred traits. I agree. They're just technically mutually exclusive categories. So "yes and no" is totally fair.
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  9269. ​ @qjtvaddict no, while there is a massive overlap, they are different terms with different definitions.
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  9270. Hotels do use fitted sheets and they're not that hard to fold when you know how. Sincerely, a hotel worker.
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  9271. Most people seek too little care, costing money down the line in things that could have been prevented, or at least treated much easier if they were caught early. Most people don't like going to doctors, so adding an additional disincentive (especially one as strong as the copays in the US often are) is actually harmful.
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  9272. With less weight, cost, and mercury poisoning!
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  9273.  @coletrickle1775  they're all propaganda, but to differing degrees. CNN and MSNBC mainly do their propaganda through misframing and carefully excluding facts and points of view. Faux News flat out lies constantly to the point that their viewers are less informed than those who avoid the news entirely. They're not at all equivalent, which I think is your real point, but they are all propaganda.
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  9274. Doesn't really count without doing that does it?
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  9275.  michael nola every display of religion, nationalism, respect for authority (including the police), support for the troops (even when sending them off to die), kicking down to the right groups of people (including minorities and academics), etc is vitue signaling. The talk of the wall, trade, opposition to the wars, support for the working class, etc is all empty pandering. For more, please see: https://youtu.be/pCTllwHd5RQ
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  9276. Well, on the upside, we know what kind of elitist parties Kyle is not attending. Does anyone believe that, say, Rave Dubin isn't very familiar with those terms?
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  9277. Very few, actually...it's just that those companies are the insurance companies (who would mostly go out of business), and mega-corps, who would no longer be able to leverage their massive worker pools to get cheaper benefits and would have to do something else to maintain competitiveness in employee compensation with smaller companies. It's just that those are the companies who pay their bribes so they're the only ones considered. Almost all small-to-mid sized businesses would actually benefit from not having to provide healthcare to keep/hire skilled employees, allowing the employment market to work much better.
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  9278. Not only that, but when we were viewing the world entirely through a religious lense, both art and science sucked See: Theft of our Values by darkmatter https://youtu.be/dPOMNdvKZtQ
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  9279. DrStealthbug you can both condense that and broaden it by changing it to "establishment left"
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  9280. And once again the Occum's Razor answer turns out to have been the best one. All else being equal, the explanation that involves the fewest assumptions should be preferred. It wasn't luck or my own brilliance that let me correctly call this one on the last video. Much like Paul did with how he broke down the evidence in this photo (with the advantage of much more knowledge than I have, leading to the ability to give a far more reliable answer, of course) it is simply a matter of looking at the possibilities and asking which of them needs the least amount of assumptions to be true. I say this not to brag but to give due credit to Occum and encourage others to use his method of separating what is likely to be true from what is unlikely to be true.
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  9281. Considering we can't seem to get enough movies and games about killing Nazis, I'd say the desire to give hit them with a belt of 50cal hasn't gone away either.
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  9282. The GOP's plan is to push through a bunch of terrible policies, then dump the blame on Trump to save their skins like they did with Bush. He's just starting early.
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  9283. They're not funded by viewers, though. They're funded by the large corporations that pay for airtime durring commercials, and those corporations care a lot about the content and framing of the "news" presented there. Do you think all the health insurance companies would continue to advertise on their channels if they treated Bernie and his Medicare for All policy fairly? And that's just an example using companies with legitimate reasons to advertise. What do you think Boeing is trying to sell your average household? (Hint: they make military equipment too) How about the American Petroleum Institute? They're a lobbying group comprised by basically every US petroleum company (so they're not exactly trying to get you to buy their product instead of a competitors') who states their objective as "to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry." Buying advertising space for them is an overt attempt to buy control of the narrative. You have to treat the corporate news as about as legitimate in their funding as your average political campaign.
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  9284. 1:17 ?
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  9285.  @Charlemagnetheman  anyone else smell NAZI on you?
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  9286. @S K you need to get better at recognizing cryptofascists.
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  9287.  @thevictoryoverhimself7298  dude plenty of women DO have multiple sets of DNA through their entire lives. If you understood half about biology that you pretend to, you would know that. Defining personhood strictly through DNA is absurd and would require some people to be legally treated as 2 people. No possible way you could try and define a fetus as a person doesn't lead to absolute absurdities somewhere.
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  9288. @UCnle4MBPcpa9vtZmS-HrElA philosophically, you can't, as it is an emergent property of human development. We can, however, legally lay out boundaries before which and talk of personhood is absurd. We did. You opposed all reason and evidence to tare them down, because the idea of your side engaging in good faith is absurd. You never have and never will. Also, what I was talking about (see the phrase "entire lives") doesn't even have anything to do with reproduction. Throwing out one irrelevant tangential factoid doesn't actually change that you had absolutely no idea what you were talking about because you've never given a shit if anything you say is true or not. You can't get away with projecting your willful ignorance and flagrant dishonesty onto me.
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  9289. And Trump has caused the deaths of way more people than Bin Laden
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  9290. You're 21? There is no worthwhile answer to that question except the middle finger. Obama normalized nearly all of Bush's horrible actions and even expanded many, all while talking like a progressive, shifting the Overton window far enough left for a protofascist to become a viable candidate. Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump are all too terrible to dignify that question with a response other than to insult the person asking it because they each played a major role in us getting to the mess of a present we now live in.
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  9291. Fascists don't care about truth. They just care about power. Saying whatever is useful in the moment is both a flaunting of power in the face of basic morals and a tool for further concentrating power, so they just eat that shit up. For more, see Innuendo Studio's "The card says moops" video
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  9292. Link
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  9293. @Bill  about as many different fields of academic study reject the idea of a sex gender binary as reject young earth creationism. None support either. Sex≠gender and neither is a binary. The facts don't care about your bigoted feelings, and neither do I. Transwomen are not men no matter how much you want to insist they are. I'm not interested in entertaining your facade that you actually care about the truth. If you did, you'd do your research and follow the evidence to its conclusion rather than what you're doing.
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  9294. So a way you think would improve this protest is to ACTUALLY destroy the painting and you're criticizing THEIR intelligence?
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  9295.  @LiftedBuddha  he's constantly spouted racist rhetoric and said there were "fine people on both sides" of Charletsville when 1 side was 100% white supremacists. There's 2. He doesn't just support white supremacists. He is one.
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  9296. First past the post voting systems and legalized bribery
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  9297. This whole country is a ponzi scheme right now
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  9298. Part of the problem is people are taught mythology in highschool economics classes and don't understand what currency even IS. Pre-monitary barter economies never existed and currency (even when it was coins of actual gold and silver) gets its exchange value by the universal demand created by the government accepting it as payment for taxes, not because of some nebulous "faith". This was inevitable when the "education" system did half the work for the con men before the marks even graduated highschool.
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  9299. See the alt-right playbook's "always a bigger fish" to help understand what's going on. Seriously, I cannot recommend it enough.
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  9300.  @r-pupz7032  I mean, there's an idiot or 2 and I find the format cringy in 2019, but it would be a great way to start dragging boomers back from being so strongly right wing if we could get them to watch it.
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  9301. Those in power in the US are really good at creating new enemies for us to fight, prodding them until they do something, and then claiming self-defense (while putting in place "protection" that just limit our freedoms without making us any safer). They've figgured out long ago that it's so much easier to manipulate events rather than getting their own hands dirty with actual false flags. Will it happen? I'm guessing a significant attack on our soil has less than 1in2 odds before our next election cycle, but it's certainly a possibility, and even if they didn't plan it, you can expect a politician to try and take advantage of anything that happens. (It's kinda in the job description) ...so yeah, you're not wrong about it always being something to watch for. That said, we'll almost certainly use the enemies we've already made to justify another war and make some replacements for the future, so there's that.
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  9302. Erica Donnelly it would be better to go back to using queer to mean anyone that doesn't fall into norms of gender and sexuality...some gay people get offended by this, but IMO that's just the tumbler variety anyway.
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  9303. Rapid evolution https://youtu.be/NArlXzSFt2Y Crash Course Biology #20 - Evolution: It's a Thing https://youtu.be/P3GagfbA2vo Crash Course Biology #15 - Speciation: Of Ligers & Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKlKmrbLoU&list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=15&t=0s Irreducible Complexity? - Evolution of the Eye Explained https://youtu.be/DZ9uMb8GqNY The evolution of the human eye - Joshua Harvey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrKZBh8BL_U
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  9304.  Classical Scholar  yup, it's just one of those things that is so obvious that people typically forget to notice it and think about the fact that they are looking at a company with customers to please who are not them, so it's worth frequent repetition
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  9305. First time? Not feeling safe has been a lot of people's day-to-day for most or all of those 74 years.
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  9306. There are only 2 situations that can result in peaceful coexistence: 1-when both sides want it 2-when those that want it force those who don't into begrudging acceptance through threat or violence. Emboldening the right has upset the intimidation of the 2nd, so if we cannot get control back of our government and use the police to enforce actual law and order, a revolution will become inevitable. That is what is at stake in the next few elections.
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  9307.  @citrinedragon1466  my positions on gun laws are complicated and don't neatly fit in any standard box (and I don't actually own one, largely due to the fact that I have major depressive episodes and combining that with a gun in the house is something I would prefer to avoid if possible), though on the simple end I would absolutely support a universal background check because of common sense. I'm just stating the reality of human societies. There's not just one answer to that issue, though, but it's important to keep that fundamental truth in mind when thinking about such things as not everyone is well meaning. That said, total public disarmament when you don't have an incorruptible government (which has never been achieved yet) is incredibly foolish, so I do oppose that. I do agree that there are ways to reduce the prevalence of such extremism both through social changes and education, but many of them are long term, and don't help with the immediate problem so we may end up having to use force to buy the time needed to impliment such (which will take decades at minimum).
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  9308. Hey, the (largely correct) stereotype is that Americans don't travel. So if you're out of the country, you're breaking stereotypes already, and more likely to be seen as one of the more reasonable ones.
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  9309. He's saying he's nationalist to drum up support from his Nazi croud. Known Nazi Richard Spencer has flat out said that they know that "nationaist" is a dog whistle and that they know Trump has to play down his rhetoric and code it. Giving a less than perfectly accurate definition, trying to blur the distinction between nationalism and patriotism, and contrasting it right away with globalism only makes it more clear. I agree focus on the actions, but let's not pretend that it's not obvious what he's doing here.
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  9310.  @MFink-oq5hy  you want to call me ignorant while acting as if riling up a voting block isn't a thing? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Ha!
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  9311.  @Norpan506  "Gott mit uns" (tl: "God's with us") -Nazi belt buckles Your point?
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  9312. Not only that, but not all of the USSR's old weapons are accounted for today.
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  9313.  xrelik  like the ex-hippies and many ineffective protesters, you fundamentally misunderstand the goals of protest. Setting aside the "do what we want or else" threatening protests, the goal of peaceful protest is to appeal to the sympathies of those with enough leverage (and willingness to use it) to compell those in the halls of power to bend. Civil rights protests worked largely (though not exclusively) because they envoked enough sympathy from the demographics with power to demand their representatives to extend rights to the disenfranchised. When the hippies protests worked, it was because their parents' generation told the politicians that the brutal treatment of their children's generation was unacceptable. Unfortunately, the boomers as a generation are too callous, selfish, and apathetic for appeals of sympathy to reach anymore as we saw with protests of the millennial generation, so different tactics must be used. That said, violent revolution is always costly and always very risky, so all peaceful paths need to be exhausted first (especially since chances of success go down when such options still exist) It may come to blood, but not yet and never gleefully lest we fall into the bin of failed/subverted revolutions of the past.
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  9314. Well, some other progressives have commented, but the right is silent. It's "almost" like the right just uses free speech protections as a cover for their own ideology and doesn't actually believe in it.
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  9315. thespiff44 how about just back up and reassess? If you're close enough that you're worried about someone charging you, why be that close?
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  9316. the Elephant in the Room but a bad guy wanting to shoot indiscriminately into a croud might want one.
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  9317. the Elephant in the Room doesn't mean it's not a good policy (also "gun grabbers" is WAY over generalizing those advocating for gun reform. Many, if not most, just want to STOP guns from getting into the wrong hands, not go around confiscating everyone's guns...hell, most NRA members want that)
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  9318. the Elephant in the Room the main thing I was referring to and that the NRA is trying to deflect from, is the call for universal background checks. I don't understand what the thing you're referring to has to do with that.
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  9319. Give them time. They may yet do exactly that. There's no such thing as unskilled labor.
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  9320. This feels like how when they're making scam emails they deliberately put in misspellings to filter the audience that would reply down to the dumbest and easiest to trick people possible so they don't have to loose time on the people just smart enough to figure it out halfway through and pull out at the last moment.
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  9321. @Attila Márics  being a flat area is the main design feature of an airport....have you tried turning your brain off and on again?
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  9322. I'd add to that that there was occasional use of horn lamellar armor too from what I understand. Even paper armor has some evidence and tests have proved plausible designs effective. While metal is almost always preferred, almost every material you can think of has been used in armor to put something resistive between vulnerable flesh and enemy weapons when in a pinch. Stone is the only thing I can think of that isn't completely silly which hasn't (and even then, only if you don't count ceramic armors we use today).
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  9323. Ragitsu BC you mean?
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  9324.  @OperatorFritz  awesome, ty, though if you can't don't waste too much time on it. The amount of material out there to dig through can easily bury info.
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  9325. Maher's an abrasive hack/shill with a massive ego. Jimmy Dore does the same angry liberal commedian shtick, but honestly and with at least some humility.
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  9326. Implying the rule of law still exists. Spoilers, it doesn't.
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  9327. Of course they are. They know that as soon as public perception reflects the reality that "moderate, middle of the road, electable candidate who can get things done" describes the progressive caucus way more than it does them, that their days as career politicians are over. Every progressive who can win and hold a seat in the general is a critical blow to the idea that we need to nominate center-right corporatists to keep the fascists out of office and they can only take so many before the entire illusion of them being the sensible centrist choice shatters and they have to run and govern based on something besides the fear of the GQP. That's why many would rather loose a seat (or the Presidency) to the far-right and try again next election than let a progressive win, especially since once we do, we have staying power through the ups and downs of the political cycles and they're the ones who loose their seats when blue turnout goes down.
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  9328.  @fkujakedmyname  we could (hypothetically) negotiate an arrangement for the trial to be overseen by the ICC for accountability's sake, but held to harsher sentencing standards more in line with those of Iran and the US than the current total ban on death penalty that is the current standard. (Let's not overuse the term fascist though, please, especially with the real thing being a serious problem to the point where our last President was a textbook one. It's important we not reduce important terms to thought-stopping cliches)
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  9329.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  very likely.
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  9330.  @chance2smoke  I've serious disagreements with much (if not the majority of) Sharia law and don't want to extend where it's applied, so don't take this as a full endorsement of PR's stance (I've laid out mine clear enough, I hope, to make clear the differences in our positions), but I think you may be misidentifying that fallacy unless I have missed something.
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  9331.  @mojrimibnharb4584  there was some implications in that direction, but yes, it sounded like there was room to negotiate on what counted as a "fair" court that reasonable countries could come to an agreement on hypothetically.
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  9332.  @nonamerequired123  at least Iran has indicted 10 officials over that incident and has at least semi-plausible deniability, which is a lot more than we have for Trump's BS.
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  9333.  @robbyjones3175  every world leader has their hands somewhat dirty. Not every world leader is a war criminal.
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  9334.  @nonamerequired123  what part of the phrase "a lot more than we have" are you having trouble understanding. I'm willing to explain turns of phrase if English isn't your first language.
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  9335.  @nonamerequired123  so, that's a "no, I don't understand how the English language works" then. Still waiting to know if you're a native speaker.
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  9336.  Flash Gordon  um, when did I blame the Jewish people for any of this (with the exception of little Ben, but that's an individual, not a people)?
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  9337. Indy still has soul, but yeah, the big corporations generally produce soulless, unfocused, generic, formulaic crap. Great polish, but not much else.
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  9338. Ang badang that does NOT have a good track record so far
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  9339. Nilguiri exactly the thing we should be giving to people that might be taking some form of roids...
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  9340.  @Odinsday  but then we wouldn't be dressing up the brutally of what we were allowing to be done in our name to quiet the questioning of whether the death penalty is defensible or not. The whole point is maintaining our barbaric policies and our rediculous sense of moral purity.
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  9341. Call a spade a spade: This is ageism, which is a form of bigotry.
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  9342. Well, non-constitutional democracy at least. The constitution is the most important part of the equation though.
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  9343. K L liberal: 1-open to new ideas and ways of doing things 2-in favor of personal feedoms 3-generous If you oppose gay marriage, you're not being liberal so yeah, we're gonna eat the wolves in sheeps' clothing. For reference, legalization of interracial marriage happened 28 years before majority approval because even back in 1967 with all the racism around, the politicians were able to but what was right before what was popular. Compare to 2011, just a year after some of these quotes (with clear, rapid movement of public opinion in the direction of legalization) where we hit majority approval on gay marriage but still had a good ways to go before the Supreme Court (not even these legislators) acknowledged that the bans were unconstitutional. Fighting against positive change to uphold the status quo makes someone a conservative, at best (if not a full neolib/neocon).
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  9344.  @youngloenoe   NPR viewers consistently test as more informed than the audience of any other news network while Faux News viewers test as less informed than those who watch no news at all. NPR is the best host of anything we could hope for.
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  9345. Seemed like the helicopter was what was shooting at the surface drone. If that's what Russia needs to have any chance of stopping these, that would put a relatively heavy logistical burden on them to maintain that kind of defensive screening all the time.
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  9346. https://eastasiastudent.net/regional/hanzi-and-kanji/
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  9347. nyxxie023 if you want to say that this causes confusion, though, you have to show that, and that telling kids who they are until they can get enough sense of their own identity to tell you if you're right or not is better for them. Every other instance I can think of where identity is imposed has largely negative outcomes (if only mild ones), so I have to say the proof is on you, especially when treating prepubescent children at least somewhat androgynously has happened often throughout history. Keep in mind, also, that not yet knowing isn't the same as being confused which is part of why we describe people questioning their sexuality as bicurious rather than sexually confused (but would describe someone who isn't straight but who thinks they are as such). Frankly, I'd go even further and say that some early practice exploring one's identity would tend to lead to more self-aware adults, which we could use a lot more of in every gender category. I wouldn't go as far as to say calling a child by a gendered pronoun is inherently oppressive, but would it be better if prepubescent children were typically raised without gendering them? The only reasonable answer I can come to is "very probably".
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  9348. Right wing politics traces it's roots back to the royalists opposing democratic government in the first place. Of course all appeals to enlightenment values like freedom and equality are, at best, empty.
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  9349. "Compared to other Republicans" is kinda damning with faint praise isn't it? Rand is not his father. When votes come down to the wire, he usually sets aside principles for party allegiance.
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  9350.  Tellus Of Athens  I think you mean olive oil. They loved fish sauce, but the entire machinery of the empire would grind to a hault without olive oil
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  9351. Guys please, it's either trolling or willful ignorance. Just ignore
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  9352. "Complimentary" I know you're being satirical, but you really don't understand the current US political situation do you?
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  9353. malus that one being accidental is hightly debatable
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  9354. Fukai Kokoro ...you should read more history. Start with literary tests for voting.
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  9355. seth michelson if you click the 3 dots, tell it you're not interested, and then tell it why and answer "not interested in content from this channel" that should fix your problem.
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  9356. And there is plenty of stronger glass out there in the world already....including stuff designed to stop bullets. Does he think that putting some mid-strength glass on a frame that looks more like it's designed to appeal to what the 90s thought a futuristic car might look like than practical converns is innovative? Once again, not buying this rediculous performance of a rich kid trying to show off his expensive toys.
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  9357. Does it even count as a war when one side is doing all of the dieing part? Food for thought.
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  9358. Fools mistake kindness for weakness.
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  9359.  @auntiepha8343  if anything, there's a positive correlation between the death penalty and murders.
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  9360. Multiple, actually.
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  9361. Unclear that they had those emails at that time or that Russia wouldn't be satisfied with lessened western imperialism toward their borders. You're both thinking overly simplistically about this whole situation. Just because Putin is a bad person doesn't mean everything he does is evil. For example, even if we accept your notion that wikileaks was working on behalf of Russia to undermine the Iraq war by exposing US war crimes, doesn't mean that releasing such wasn't the right thing to do. The notion that we should support any of our government's actions if they're opposed by some foreign power we don't like is incredibly dangerous.
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  9362. https://youtu.be/90WD_ats6eE
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  9363.  @0dyss3us51  something being unwise hasn't remotely stood in the way of US actions lately.
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  9364.  @dontgiveup3238  as opposed to what, taking actions that would kill even more people?
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  9365. "The" implies they have just one. Militaries like redundancy.
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  9366. Let's be real. The casualties aren't unintended. Saudi Arabia is using multiple tactics (from the bombings, to the seige of the country, to arming terrorists wit US weapons, etc) to deliberately cause civilian deaths to try and force surrender (or just for extermination)
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  9367. Why would a company like Boeing advertise on the TV if not to buy control of the narrative to make it more hawkish? Case nailed shut.
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  9368. There is no divine punishment. That's just a lie to keep us complacent and not seeking justice in THIS world.
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  9369. It's amazing how many of the people pushing this would call themselves "American patriots" when our country was founded in large part on "F* the nobility, and the British nobility in particular"
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  9370.  @fortheloveofnoise  no, you just misinterpreted my tone.
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  9371. He's using the American definition of "corporatist lapdog"
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  9372. Oh please, he does what he does out of ego, not altruism, and a lot of the stuff he's selling is total BS.
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  9373.  @taumus1  electric cars are a BS solution to problems best solved by public transit and you know full well I was talking about his rediculous sci-fi proposals, not electric vehicles in general. Again I ask you to argue honestly.
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  9374.  @taumus1  so you can't argue honestly or even honestly represent anyone's position that falls outside the traditional model. You sound like a fucking conservative dude. You know that right?
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  9375. Yup, this is just appeasement to fascist aggression, plain and simple.
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  9376. +David Bateleur yup, if all big money does in the Democratic party is win primaries, it will have been an excellent investment. Funding Hillary means they got Trump instead of Bernie, so that's a win for them. Winning general elections is just a bonus for the DNC, not their job.
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  9377. Unfortunately the ones who've been accusing others for years of "hating America" are the ones who actually do.
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  9378.  @tbird4a  Tucker isn't a conservative. He's a fascist and a white nationalist. You've moved so far right that any non-fascist looks like a liberal to you.
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  9379. Steve G as logical as that all is, I think you're forgetting one key point: she's a narcissist who feels she's owed her "turn". That may overturn all that reason, and if the doner class things she can rig another primary for them, they'll prop her up and make her think she has a real shot at the general. Don't count on this being over
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  9380.  @aishabintabubakr4944  wow, you're actually acting like "I didn't say anything because I wasn't Jewish" is virtuous! Every decent person on the planet stands united against your pro-Nazi BS reguardless of demographic because people like you are a blight on the species.
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  9381. V. A. Odin same way as most of the party establishment. This isn't even surprising. When you strip away their rhetoric and go to their actions, the dems are basically just Republicans of a half century ago.
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  9382. Zombies don't come back this much. We're in vampire/lich territory. Team A, please get garlic and stakes. Team B, start searching for philactories/horcruxes
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  9383. I imagine a less firm fit in hotel lamps results in a lot less broken lamps...just sayin'
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  9384. Being a cop in the US is less dangerous than delivering pizzas, but I don't see them shooting unarmed people saying "I just want to go home at the end of my shift"
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  9385.  @trendel13  well said
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  9386.  @JMM33RanMA  the overlap between Soviet Russia (especially, though far from exclusively under Stalin) and classic fascism is pretty extreme. Whether going by Umberto Eco's list of 14 characteristics, the more concise but harder to explain "palingenetic ultranationalism" definition (especially those today who idolize the form of totalitarian "communism" we saw back then), or the fact that the very first thing they did upon taking power was to kill people who actually cared about the stated goals and fighting for the workers (immediately rolling back workers' rights). There are some minor differences (much like there were differences between Hitler and Strasser), but there's more in common than there is different, so (especially in light of Stalin being to the communist ideals of the revolution that ended up with him in power as what Napoleon was to the democratic ideals that put him in power) you're far from the first to say what today gets called "tankies" are just "red fascists" as, even at the most generous they are functionally equivalent to Nazbols/Strasserites. In the end, anyone who thinks that handing over control of the economy to a totalitarian dictatorship is a step towards a moneyless, classless, stateless society because said state would just dissolve after it defeated market capitalism (because ✨magic✨) is a fool or a conman. Consolidation of power along any axis (state, economic, religious, etc) always tends towards consolidation of power along all axis of power. Even the most well-intentioned "auth-left" or "lib-right" ideology is going, in practice of implimentation, tend toward fascism, as we have seen repeatedly across time and borders, and of course it does, because one form of power can easily be leveraged to accumulate other forms of power (perhaps the most obvious example being using money to buy influence over the government to get laws made/repealed that would end up with said person/corporation having more money...or visa-versa) Distribution of power among the people and democratic checks on power (be it state, economic, or otherwise) are the only thing that can be trusted because it's the only way that is actively promoting mechanisms for the people to object in meaningful ways to abuses of power.
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  9387. Good for you.
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  9388.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  "Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy." -wiki So actually, no, sexual non-anarchy would be rape (and/or oppression of sexual minorities)
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  9389.  @thew0rdsmyth  so we're just going to ignore all the stories about the banks warming up to Warren, her taking corporate money in violation of her promise, her saying she would take dark money in the general, her backing off many positions, her voting for a massive increase in the military budget, etc etc so we can believe that the corporate media isn't trying to spin a story? That makes sense to you?
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  9390. Doubtful, but certainly not one both able and willing to intervene to alleviate suffering or punish the unjust. If we want good things like justice, fairness, rights, etc in this world, it's up to us humans to make and protect those things. No one's going to come and save us from either ourselves or the world we find ourselves. The only thing we have is each other.
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  9391.  @sadgegamer6643  so, he's a scumbag because he gave you proof that the "Democratic" party rigged their primary against us? Think you have your priorities backwards there.
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  9392. They're talking about video games dehumanizing people while we have concentration camps and rampant hate crimes. To be fair though, it's not like he's going to tell the truth that "All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report" https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  9393. Out of curiosity, do you know if Hershey's "Special Dark" chocolate line can claim to be chocolate in Europe? I'm not up on your chocolate regulations (though you seem to more consistently produce good chocolate so I'm not complaining, mind you)
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  9394. Other way around
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  9395. The history of Ukraine-Russia relations is largely a history of Russia trying to control Ukraine and the Ukrainian people not wanting to be ruled over by Russia. The way to peace is really straightforward: Russia leaving Ukraine alone.
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  9396.  @algrayson8965  not true (though the small amount of carbon in the steel will burn too) https://youtu.be/Ubop-51dJjg The main factor in carbon content for sparking is just making the metal more brittle and likely to break off those sparks which (heated by the breaking) will start rapidly oxidizing (aka combusting) in the air to form iron oxide.
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  9397. And how is that different, exactly? Voting for someone with the blood of thousands on their hands because the alternative is even more needless death is what you have been doing the whole time. I dare you to tell me otherwise.
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  9398.  @johmyh14  most antifascist action is non-violent and you're saying that people who would be genocided if fascists ever truly seized power to trust liberal institutions (which have historically often failed to stop fascism) and the police (who even the FBI says have been so infiltrated by white nationalists that it constitutes a threat to national security and you admit will often side with the fascists). You also have to justify why the state has the only claim on legitimate use of violence here and why antifascist violence categorically doesn't count as self-defense (and I mean that as a moral/ethical question, not a legal one). The question really isn't as clear cut as you're making it. I really recommend watching this https://youtu.be/bgwS_FMZ3nQ so you can at least make arguments that aren't full of holes you're not even aware of because of them falling into a cultural blindspot.
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  9399. If so, the author is an idiot.
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  9400. Never talk like that. Normalizing the unacceptable by pointing to a more extreme problem like you did there is a huge part of how the Overton Window shifts to the right.
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  9401.  @gamerdude1246  one does not simply interrupt Cornell West and come away looking good.
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  9402. Levi C #REVOTE In civilized nations, if even a fraction of this stuff happens, the election results are thrown out and the entire thing done over.
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  9403. "Thou shalt not", not "I shalt not"
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  9404.  @gum8191  the thing is, we can't move away from it untill "cultural conservatives" (aka bigots) stop dividing up the working class by trying to kick down to people they should be joining hands with. You either believe in equality or you don't. If you're not willing to fight for someone different than you to get equal rights, you will never get out from under the heel of the 1% (and will deserve your place there)
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  9405. Yeah, that's why CNN photoshoped him yesterday to make him look more sick....wait...that doesn't make sense.
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  9406. Bertrand Kurt Russell if we didn't let him escape after we cornered him, we couldn't have gotten the public to go ahead with the BS war in Iraq...it's a game getting played on us all
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  9407. After 2:22 it seemed a rather insignificant thing...
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  9408. Sotiris Krol retarded means "delayed" or "slowed" not decreased. When in reference to intelligence, it was formerly used to refer to slowed thought patterns and delayed development. This is why "Are you slow in the head?" Is/was (though archaic like the clinical use of retarded) used as a euphemism for "Are you stupid". When it was thought that the condition was largely a developmental one, this made sense as a clinical term and was originally a way to avoid the stigma of just calling the mentally disabled "stupid". In short, you're insulting the intelligence of professional psychologists without even knowing what you're talking about. It'd be wise to check that attitude before it bites you in more than the mild embarrassment of a poor YouTube comment. Do your research and reserve judgement, especially in areas you're not well versed in.
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  9409. Honestly, if anyone can list the souces for 9:05 - 9:10 that would be amazing!
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  9410.  @jack-o-trades304  actually, the increased difficulty just means that they're more likely to not cross the border temporarily for seasonal work, but instead stay longer and be more likely to move the whole family. So, not only are some of the portion who cross illegally over land going to find another way, but they're more likely to move permanently with their family rather than just doing some temp farm work and going home. Optimistically, you're looking at breaking even on the numbers of illegal immigrants in the country at a given time and said immigrants are more likely to be indebted to the cartels who they would need to turn to to get past said security. The only ones to benefit from this will be the cartels involved in human trafficking and the buisness owners who employ illegal immagrants (as the worse conditions will make them able to drive down both wages and working conditions, making it even harder for US workers to compete). Funny how the President known to have employed illegal immigrants is the most in favor of the wall. Ever consider that you might be being played?
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  9411. Next episode we move back to Europe it seems.
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  9412. Is there ever any time in which exclusivity clauses are NOT something that should be illegal?
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  9413. Right wing politics are inherently authoritarian. Just look to the origins of the right vs left terminology which was about royalists vs those favoring representative government.
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  9414. How much are they paying you?
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  9415.  @Rowsy91  so not only do you not value free speech at all, but you also don't understand that the students are the school's customers and have every right and responsibility to protest what's being done with their money. Stop being such a bootlicker. It's not a good look.
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  9416. Not really. The joker had his finger on the hammer of the gun, stopping it from being able to fire. Gotta pay attention to the little details, because he's lying so much about not having a plan. He's got plans within plans.
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  9417. What part of "more extreme weather of every kind" is difficult for your pea brain to understand?
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  9418. I'm kinda the opposite. I've actually gotten pissed when a writer ruins a great death with a cheap revival. The worst offender was probably Gundam SEED Destiny, where they brought back a character with one of the most epic character deaths I've ever seen...but with amnesia, as a villian, and wearing a mask to hide his face but it's super obvious who it is. My reaction was legit: "No, bullshit! That death scene was perfect; do not cheapen that sacrifice with this fanfic-tier copout. We even saw the helmet from his spacesuit floating in space after that explosion. FUCK YOU!" ...and frankly, the idea that they went back in the remaster to editout the helmet doesn't make that death any more survivable at all (the mech was vaporized with a weapon that one-shots even the heaviest battleships in the series), and just cheapens it for a retcon in a terrible sequel...and this from a series that was not shy about killing characters.
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  9419.  @RJ_Productions316  also "never again" and defending concentration camps
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  9420.  @aralornwolf3140  no, but capitalism does.
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  9421. seeibe I would have been yelling....they would have had to remove me...
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  9422.  @ronhebert3027  we are a federal, constitutional democratic-republic even by the strictest definition of the term, democracy is a part of our system. If you're going to be pedantic, don't also be wrong.
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  9423.  @ronhebert3027  we are a republic that chooses our representatives democratically. That makes us a democratic republic or a representative democracy (take your preference of synonyms). No shit authoritarians tend to mislabel their countries in their names. That's an irrelevant point. While we're on the subject, though, it's the "constitutional" part, not the "republic" part that prevents a simple majority from doing whatever it wants, so this entire misinformed tangent trying to pry appart the definitions of democracy and republic is irrelevant. You could, hypothetically, have a constitutional dirrect democracy and that could prevent mob rule if structured correctly.
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  9424. ​ @alexpkeaton4471 _alive.
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  9425. Or VP as a stepping stone to a 2028 presidency
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  9426.  @AlecBrady  compared to secretaries of state though? Yes, VPs are (for some reason) seen as getting more experience than other positions in our current political climate, and it's not like the VP has no influence on foreign policy by any means, even if largely unofficial power. As to him dying in office, yes, that is a concern, if for health reasons in his 2nd term if nothing else (it is a high-pressure job afterall). Having someone strong on international policy on the ticket also helps with the election. As for qualifications, who would you want as the VP and for what reasons?
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  9427. Actually worse than Faux News, somehow.
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  9428.  @ciarancassidy7566  talking about the people's will in a totalitarian state is pretty shakey to begin with. I mean, they're not North Korea, but the level of thought control in China today is quite problematic.
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  9429. Now there's an idea.
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  9430. Private colleges spend their money pretty inefficiently due to non-education dirrections the market pushes them in...just sayin
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  9431. Liberal means 1-open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of freedoms and liberties 3-(usually non-politically) generous In the US, all social democrats are liberals by definition. (And by definition, the corporate dems are not)
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  9432. They are, but Faux News viewers have repeatedly polled as less informed than those who don't watch/listen to any news at all, making them objectively fake news by any sane definition. https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5 The only rational stance if you want voters to be most informed, is to go with the source that has the most informed audience (again, repeatedly): NPR Bonus points: little-to-no advertiser-induced bias.
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  9433. Yup! Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each. You don't, for example, need to know the status of Iraq's WMD program to know that when the UN inspectors said "give us more time" and suddenly the reason to attack became something else to know they were just looking for an excuse and when they went back to the WMD narrative several times before the UN inspectors had given a report, it should have been obvious that the excuses were all lies. Every politician and journalist that supported the war is either complicit, or far too stupid to have their job. There is no 3rd option.
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  9434. Unchecked climate change amounts to generational genocide. He belongs on trial at the Hague, not in Congress.
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  9435.  @calebl6609  organizations don't gain political authority from being taxed. Also, the salvation army has a terrible record of behavior. Find a more reputable charity (spoilers: it will be easier to start with secular charities to avoid alterior motives and nutjob members and narrow down from there)
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  9436. ​ @ronpickings7776 not even pro-fetus as they oppose everything that would actually lower abortion rates (like sex ed). They JUST want to punish women for sex. That's it!
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  9437.  @PhuckEwerself  the algorithm hid your comment
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  9438. The left is not obsessed with following the rules. Liberals are. When push comes to shove they will always prove they do not share our values.
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  9439. If you think pointing out how someone has it worse could make someone feel better, I hate to break it to you, but you're not that good a person (and that's being kind).
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  9440. Yeah, but we don't trust the cops to have ANY integrity, so keep as many cameras on them as possible.
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  9441. Setting aside the unhinged anti-public transit ranting and insane climate denial misinformation (which I highly encourage reporting, btw) to get back on topic, if this performs as advertised is could be good for electric planes and trucks. Just because it isn't cost competitive for the least efficient mode of transportation (cars, ICE or otherwise) doesn't change it's potential viability for vehicles where weight and refueling time are critical design concerns and $/distance can be somewhat sacrificed for weight/distance because that's the more pressing design concern.
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  9442. Your only mistake is assuming Faux News isn't doing this intentionally.
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  9443.  @Jeanmat  and what is a lot of that CO2 being used to create? Disposable consumer goods for Americans? Yeah
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  9444. @FieryReign this is a terrible idea. Just look at the history of qualification tests for voting. Btw, IQ is hugely effected by the quality or your education and socioeconomic status.
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  9445. ​ @Jesu-hs8wb until the GOP abandons fascism? All of them.
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  9446. They hate heat pumps because they hate new things, critical thinking, and caring about other people. They are rebelling against the enlightenment itself, so they really don't care about the truth about heat pumps either. There's a word for those rebelling against the enlightenment, btw. That word is "fascists". See Umberto Eco for more.
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  9447. Because we hate the homeless in the USA and will bend over backwards to try and excuse their murderers.
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  9448.  real progressive  because that is how asymmetrical warfare works. /s lol you're a fucking joke
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  9449. ​ @truefacts404 all conservatives are.
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  9450. It's really not that hard to categorically oppose ethnonationalism...well, at least from the left, and there's the sticking point for her and establishment hacks like her isn't it?
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  9451.  @warriorwaitress7690  even if we take his word for it, do you know WHY they weren't there to make that judgement? Making sure the real progressives weren't available to cast dissenting votes may have been a big part of what happened. Idk what happened but I'm not turning on progessives over unsubstantiated cagey BS like that from someone I expect to by lying at least by omission with everything he says, and you shouldn't either.
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  9452. https://youtu.be/6Zxy_dScjsM just sayin'
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  9453. The tests are for jingoistic propaganda for their people and a deterrent for US invasion. They don't need longer range missiles to reach South Korea If the start a war, nuclear or otherwise, they will be obliterated and they know it. China saying they won't interfere just makes that a certainty because they would need China backing them to do anything. Also, if NK uses nukes offensively, they'll be an irradiated crater in 30 min tops from the nuclear sub we certainly have somewhere nearby. Meanwhile if we attack, not only do they have nukes that can reach South Korea and Japan, but they would kill millions in SK from conventional artillery bombardment alone in minutes. There is no way in which NK takes over SK. They just don't have the means and attempting would mean utter annihilation.
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  9454.  @warmlycalculated390  it's called "cryptofascism"
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  9455. Crypto"currencies" are pyramid schemes with huge carbon footprints. Sorry, but you were almost certainly taught economics like a religion rather than a propper field of study. It's unfortunately common and leaves people really vulnerable to various forms of BS.
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  9456. Well, she's a right-leaning moderate. Bernie is a left-leaning moderate. That would put the actual center somewhere between them.
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  9457.  @Ava-pq6om  last I checked, less strongly than even Corbin. I haven't heard anything about even right of first refusal from Bernie and even the strongest position from him I've seen of workers getting 45% representation on corporate boards is lower than Germany's 50% requirement (and also not even on his web site which is just a bunch of pro-union policies, which while excellent for what they are, aren't really democratizing our work places). I won't pretend to know if he wants more than that, long term, but he's not actually running on it.
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  9458.  @Ava-pq6om  I know he likes worker ownership. I was referring to the policy platform he's running on, which he isn't that strong on worker ownership compared to Corbin (as an example of another left-leaning moderate). I'll stand by my points about Warren being right of center, and my general point about it being good rhetoric to point out how moderate said platform is (which is also very true), but I also stand corrected on right of first refusal in terms of his record. TY for the links. I'll look at the others in more detail later
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  9459. #manufacturingConsent
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  9460.  NotGonnaTell MyName  What you're missing is that Biden will basically guarentee a Trump 2.0, who will be worse and oversee us flying right past the climate change deadline. Trump is a symptom. More of the disease will do the opposite of treating it. What will put us in a better position to win in 2024 (because that's our last chance before things get so messy that this year will look like nothing).
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  9461. If you really believed in stopping the motivation for illegal immigration, you'd be focused on companies hiring them, not this ridiculous witch hunt of the powerless. Efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants directly generally only allow companies to exploit them more (often lowering wages that are lower than minimum wage). That said, you will likely end up needing to issue more very short-term visas come harvest time, because there simply aren't enough temp workers that are both able and willing to do that in all areas, and not all crops can be harvested by machine yet.
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  9462.  @linkplays2952  the US spectrum where "left wing" means "often to the right of Reagan" and "right wing" is "overt fascism" is BS and shouldn't be used, obviously.
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  9463.  @Schaubnation  capitalism redistributes wealth and the "free market" is a myth
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  9464.  @linkplays2952  Israel, Immigration, need more? And no, the majority of GOP politicians now are outright fascists. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. You're just upset about me not limiting myself to the US Overton Window.
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  9465.  @linkplays2952  foreign policy? Immigration? And no, the majority of GOP politicians now are outright fascists. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. You're just upset about me not limiting myself to the US's BS Overton Window.
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  9466. Just as conservatives build a political ideology out of the appeal to tradition logical fallacy, so do "centrists" build an ideology around the golden mean fallacy.
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  9467. Yay, exposed the right and got the library newer copies of the books. Thank you dumbass.
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  9468. It was always going to get worse before it got better, hopefully the rigging of the 2016 elections (with both the Dem primary BS, and interstate crosscheck) followed by a Trump presidency is the wake up call that gets this country off it's collective asses to actually get real change.
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  9469. Right-wing "libertarians" stole everything they have, even their name. Real libertarianism is on the left. Right "libertarianism" is just conservatism that's not willing to admit what it is.
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  9470. ​ @flowerpixel it makes perfect sense when you realize that the only standards conservatives have are double-standards.
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  9471. Look, someone that understands the point they were trying to make about the degree to which we actually care about different things!
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  9472.  @filonin2  "no one" is untrue. YOU don't, and are projecting how childish you are and trying to hide behind a selective populism. You are the problem they were protesting.
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  9473.  @Gmex_ONE  thanks, but I'm not interested in following your deflection from your claim being the exact opposite to the truth and you being unable to defend it.
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  9474. (Non-Islamic) Right wing terrorists have committed more attacks within the US than even Islamic terrorists in this millennia. All other terrorism combined from ecoterrorism to Antifa to black nationalists doesn't even come close. There is no equivalency in hate or unreasonableness when the worst the worst the left has is antifa sometimes falling into the "he who fights monsters" problem by using facist tactics, and the right has actual NAZIS! I'm getting really tired of making the distinction between Nazis and those spreading propaganda/providing cover for them due to money/lolz (rather than ideologic agreement) only to be called unreasonable by those same people.
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  9475. Think that's bad? Look at their previous coverage where they used video and photo editing to make him appear in worse health: https://youtu.be/iuHlWe_aydE No I'm not making that up!
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  9476. We weren't reliable before Trump and we won't be again until we're no longer a defacto oligharchy.
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  9477. Lysergic Casserole my understanding is that fuel cells are the most efficient way to use that fuel and that it was problems with the fuel itself (production costs and other practical concerns) that was why we weren't looking into it seriously. Always interested in being proven wrong though, if you've got some sources showing otherwise.
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  9478.  @outsky20051  and what followed Obama and his all-talk, no-convictions style of politics....oh yeah, one of the worst right-wing demogogues in US history. That was no coincidence. We need real progressive politics, not Warren.
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  9479. It's been revealed that the DNC supported Trump behind the scenes with the intent to push the GOP so far right that the voters would even support a candidate as shitty, corrupt, and right wing as Hillary. This is just them tripling down on that strategy to keep the overton window moving further right.
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  9480. Truth
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  9481. Well there are whip swords...and those are terrifying to anyone not in mail (& if you have any sense, that includes to the person holding it)
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  9482.  @Greenplanet949  sounds like someone needs disowned from your family. I say this as someone who's family has disowned a member before for atrocious behavior.
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  9483. Itorca fairly sure those laws wouldn't hold up anymore. There are plenty of state laws on the books in the US that are flat out unconstitutional, but just haven't been removed technically.
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  9484. Faux News and the Corporate Newspeak Network are garbage? 😲
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  9485.  @thishandleistacken  there is no left establishment.
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  9486.  @thishandleistacken  the establishment Democrats are center right Wall Street is adamantly opposed to even a left-leaning moderate like Bernie.
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  9487. If just half the country actually got off their asses and voted blue we would have won in a landslide. Unfortunately the sane are just a fraction of Dem voters which are all-together just a fraction of the population.
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  9488.  @fgsaramago  as automation continues to underbid human labor more and more we are going to have to make the choice between increasing amounts of socialism in our economy (including a UBI) or some kind of cyberpunk dystopian hellscape. That's just the reality. The modern age is merely a transition period. Preserving the status quo is impossible, and I'd much rather the future be controlled democratically than by whoever owns the most machines.
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  9489.  @fgsaramago  I'm a socialist-leaning social democrat, actually (not that I expect you to be able to tell the difference), and no, that's not a cop out as I take more critisism for that stance by making basically no-one happy. Do you acknowledge the inevitable consequences of automation though?
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  9490.  @fgsaramago  yeah, no, also refusing to answer questions so...
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  9491.  J S  it's not in his blood. Don't give him that excuse. He's a pathetic excuse for a human being all on his own.
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  9492.  @maryhalverson5713  counterpoint: We know the msm colluded with Hillary to push Trump in the Republican primary and that they like what he does to their ratings. Are we sure what their desired effect is?
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  9493. We need to slow the slide towards fascism by voting against every GQP politician we can while we're still allowed to, but that is all a vote for a corporate Dem is. Taking the foot off the accelerator pedal as we speed towards fascism. FFS get out there in the primaries and local elections. Everyone here spends more time talking politics on social media every year than the longest line at a polling place. Voting is not the most effective form of political advocacy, but it is the best return on time invested. If you've the time to read this, you've no excuse to not vote every chance you get.
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  9494. ​@chingiskhan4709 as if the people who are anti-labor are ever truly anti war.
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  9495. Proud Manarchist which is a shame, as NIT has no advantages over UBI and several problems, but yes, you are correct.
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  9496. ​ @BobDole274 they're worse than complacent. They're complicit.
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  9497.  @Ann-tl7qq  truuue
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  9498. Would you like some content (creators) linked to you?
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  9499. Your dad's a fascist. Accept that reality and reassess if you want him in your life while he votes to destroy your future.
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  9500.  @anthonyseta4566  just fyi, the person you are responding to is literally a Nazi pedophile troll that makes the rounds of a bunch of channels.
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  9501. These are very good suggestions
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  9502. Thomas Riley don't insult dildos like that. It's pronounced "douche" (or "facist" in some regional accents)
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  9503. paulo aguiar idk, but you're going to want to start by specifying which crusade you're talking about if you want an answer as that's a wide time period. (1st crusade was still using mail, for example)
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  9504. I'm sure people have heard of fish sticks, though.
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  9505. Domestic terrorism
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  9506. It's not. Just basic social democracy at most.
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  9507. It's almost like the government doesn't actually care about privacy and has ulterior motives for going after tiktok.
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  9508. Yeah, rather than trying to kill as many kids as possible with their last moments, they could bunker down and get in a standoff with police until a SWAT team comes in and uses their training, equipment, and numberical advantage to outfight a highschool kid (or the kid gets talked down by a police negotiator). I fail to see the problem there.
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  9509. Nucc'd this x100
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  9510. Not everything is earned, but our opponents are the class of people who've earned fuck all in their life, so don't know what hard work is.
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  9511. Considering Russian forces fired at a (reportedly non-critical) building in another powerplant, unfortunately "insane" seems to be on the table 😔
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  9512. """""Liberal"""""
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  9513. White Trash and we're going to ignore all of Donald Trump's jingoistic rhetoric like "take the oil" and his promises to commit war crimes (thus making him swing between being anti-interventionist and an even more extreme war monger than Chaney)? Are we going to ignore how he nearly got us in a hot war with a nuclear power (which easily could have spilled over into China and triggered WW3)? What about how during the election he asked multiple times why we couldn't use nukes (which is especally alarming considering how much more erratic and harder to control he is than Clinton)? No, you're just going to pretend that Trump was an anti-war candidate and that that means everyone on the left is pro-war because many begrudgingly voted for Clinton (which I'm not among, btw). Dude, you need to step away from politics for at least 6-12 months and try and detox off the koolaid you've been drinking (and get a therapist ahead of time, because the withdraw will come with a pretty severe existentialist crisis)
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  9514. The Russians are welcome to about face, march to Moscow, and take care of their real enemy any time they want. If they choose not to, the consequences are on them.
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  9515.  @anomalocaris2593  sorry but you're full of shit. The views of the American people have _zero- statistical correlation with government policy (meaning we don't, defacto, live in a dempcratic country) and Trump has some pretty extreme disapproval numbers. You may as well hate North Koreans for Kim. It would make more sense.
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  9516. Warren is talking better. I'll give her that, but Obama talked well and then normalized most of Bush and paved the way for Trump.
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  9517. The arms that need to be twisted are the millions upon millions of comfortable moderates.
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  9518. Cultural conditioning to see all problems as self-inflicted, to not seek collectivist solutions, and to see ever needing help as something to be ashamed of.
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  9519. Fascists don't really suffer from cognitive dissonance. Words are just tools to acquire and exercise power to them and any negative feelings from that are projected onto political enemies/scapegoats. The card says moops https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
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  9520.  @63saruman  from the network that photoshoped Bernie to make him look sick? No, this is exactly what I expected.
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  9521. You forgot the quotation marks around "Democrats"
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  9522.  @m.g.3913  eh, I wouldn't be surprised either way. He is dumb enough to believe his own propaganda a lot of the time. Who knows.
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  9523. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman Any "Democrat" who supports the "war on drugs" is complicit in undermining of democracy in the US.
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  9524. It's very simple, about 1 in 6 Americans is a fascist and most don't vote.
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  9525.  @andreakae4211  wow, you really have a top-knotch open mind there. You clearly made it through the whole series and didn't just stop before the end of the first part. /s See this exactly the Trump-like willful ignorance of letting your own ego blind you that I was referring to. Thank you for the demonstration.
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  9526. Nice fantasy, but voting eligibility tests are disastrous in practice.
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  9527.  @lilithdekatzethethird1290  idiots like you that can't even be bothered to look at how such things have already been abused in history, much less their potential for abuse yet to be realized or the flaws in the IQ system? Ever hear of the Dunning-Krueger effect? ('Cause your understanding of political systems is middling at best)
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  9528. Guys, GWS is a known troll. He just takes breaks from using that name here to wait for people to forget about him
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  9529. Kin Cain ...ow my brain...
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  9530. I'm not saying that going completely hands off would be better (we don't need this place to become a chan board), but sometimes when they get involved, they do so just enough to make things worse and would be better off just giving channel owners and viewers more tools to handle this kind of thing themselves via better delegated modding powers. But yes, it shouldn't be this hard for them to deal with. Of course, the last time they did something with comments, the system started auto-hiding completely innocuous comments that didn't even come close to TOS violations seemingly at random while leaving much of what they were apparently trying to block alone, so idk how much I trust them to competently handle anything but instances so extreme they actually put a real person on it.
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  9531. Kyle doesn't read YouTube comments, btw
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  9532.  @kamifuujin  a vote that will not pass doesn't mean anything more than the list of co-sponsors. Your argument is invalid. Have a nice day.
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  9533.  @Metonymy1979  they're obsessed with ad-homs.
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  9534.  @INMATE2468  Corporate "Democrats"* Until they own up to rigging their own primary and fix the problems they get put in quotation marks always.
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  9535.  @raymondrogers3929  a PragerU viewer wants to call others suckers? Lmfao!
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  9536.  @johnrobi0  I'm as far left as you can get while still technically being a social democrat with heavy sympathies for democratic socialists and anarchists. I'm not giving away shit because I don't have to hide my political affiliation like you do, fascist. I can openly state and defend my politics in polite company because my politics aren't repulsive to everyone with a functioning moral compass like yours.
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  9537.  @johnrobi0  look up the paradox of tolerance. Yes, we're intolerant of fascism. That used to be something we could all agree was a patriotic American stance and I don't think that changes just because you loosers decided to put one in the Whitehouse. We're not even getting into the irony of a fascist criticising someone else's rationality.
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  9538.  @johnrobi0  I can do you one better. See Lawrence Britt's & Umberto Eco's lists of 14 characteristics and "palengenetic ultranationalism" for 3 definitions of fascism Trump is a textbook example of...or you can just look up "Trump Nazi Facebook ad" if you need an unambiguous single example to illustrate that even he knows full-well what he is. Not that I think this is anything but you playing dumb. Btw, you're projecting again, and projecting part of one of one of the 14 characteristics for good measure.
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  9539.  @RichO1701e  so you're willing to support a dictator as long as they aren't as bad as another dictator? That's the logical extension of what you're saying. Shall we debate wether Hitler or Stalin was worse too, or would you like to actually support democratic government? We can sit here and tally up estimated war crimes, human rights violations, and death tolls, and yes, if limited to 1-2 presidential terms, Hillary's long list of black marks would likely come up shorter, but that misses the bigger truth that the greater evil is the one that rigs your elections and tells you to choose between Hillary and Trump in the first place. Btw: if Hillary had targeted black voters for disenfranchisement instead of millennials (if, for example, the "super predators" bit came out earlier and hurt her more), would we even be having this conversation? No, people would say "well, she stole the primary from them, and then treated them with utter contempt, so of course they didn't turn out in the general" but hey, I guess millennials are just an acceptable target undeserving of real rights to you.
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  9540. You certainly don't help someone trapped in addition with drugs controling their lives by making them feel more powerless and without personal agency, but AA makes that disempowerment step 1
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  9541. If you have the production, logistics, and reliable machinery to outgun your enemy armored vehicles 5-to-1, use it. If you don't and are fighting WW2, look around and ask yourself "are we the baddies?" https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU
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  9542. Facebook's doners? As in people that donate to Facebook?
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  9543. spider redips irrelevant. The population could be 100% Christian, but our constitution explicitly founds us as a secular nation This is pretty basic stuff.
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  9544. Yeah, ugly as the weapons are, this is a big "lesser evil" situation and they're not even using them on a foreign country. Saving lives means ending the war sooner.
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  9545.  @gaybroshevik4180  dial it down, please. MSM is morally bankrupt corporatist propaganda, but no need to scare people off with that kind of rapid fire replies.
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  9546.  @bkk115  I'd say the change really happened around a decade ago, but that manchild certainly kicked things into high gear.
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  9547. Our current for-profit banking system is just fraud upon fraud upon fraud. This is the absolute minimum necessary to address this problem.
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  9548. For the same reason that he wants an armored car. He's worried about getting attacked by revolting peasants in a near-future cyberpunk dystopia (perhaps minus the full cyber part)
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  9549. Daily reminder that reactionaries do not care about what is true. They only care about what helps build a power hierarchy that puts their in group at the top.
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  9550.  Kenneth Bachman  not to mention Hitler using Christianity as a justification for the attrocities he committed in his book, public speeches, and private meetings or his alliance with the Vatican. Did he mix a lot of peganism in? Sure, but so did most early medieval Christians. Even if someone were to somehow argue that he, himself, were an athiest and just pretending, that still means that Christianity made the population more agreeable to fascism and genocide. That doesn't help the case for Christianity in any way as it still leaves it as a tool to get good people to do evil things.
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  9551. The only thing that's degrading here is Ben.
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  9552. Removed one swamp only to bring in another? Seems kinda pointless. Mosquitoes suck less blood than politicians and lobbyists.
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  9553. Back to the OP's point, we have a candidate that no one has ever heard of (other than being Starbucks' CEO) threatening to run as a spoiler and deliberately trying to push Bernie toward taking positions that would compromise his election chances. They project just like Republicans because they are Republicans, regardless of what letter is after their name.
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  9554. Actually, abortions are more of a white, middle-class thing....I'll let you piece together the reasoning behind that.
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  9555. ​ @dansnow4230 completely untrue and endlessly debunked.
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  9556. commie12 akk depends on the brand of socialism. UBI with privately run (though of course regulated) buisnesses are probably best for the kind of innovation you're talking about, as it will be largely done by people that love it and would gladly do it with little-to-no external rewards if they didn't need to worry about living expenses.
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  9557. @Dawid XCX nope, it still means the same thing. The harm done was done by MRAs telling people that a term designed to help men and the idea that went with it were an attack on masculinity itself. You want to see who's hurting men? Look in a mirror.
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  9558. Counterpoint: what kind of person is most likely to ask for a promotion? Maybe that system isn't exactly the best.
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  9559. Very true. Unfortunately, so many Boomers reacted to that by trying to steal their kids childhoods and futures to make up for what their childhood lacked. Look at participation trophies. They only exist because of parents wanting to vicariously live out getting a mantle filled with trophies by trying to live out a second childhood through their kids....and then the generation who was given them and never wanted them gets mocked and stereotyped over it by the generation who demanded them and stole their own kids' childhoods. To anyone reading this, you don't have to be a perfect parent, but it IS your responsibility to end the cycle of abuse.
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  9560. Trigger another cold war and the MIC will love you forever...or at least until we go extinct in thermonuclear fire.
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  9561. They have learned to externalize as much of that cost as possible.
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  9562. I haven't been able to listen to a single speech from any establishment politician. I usually can't get through more than about 7 minutes of their BS before I just get sick of being lied to so much I have to walk away. (Usually it's more like 3 minutes of tolerance, though)
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  9563. Safety rules are written in blood.
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  9564. If only there was some way people could make more involved debunking replies to these videos and have them seperated from the bunch of text comments below. Perhaps having them be in video format and call them "video replies" and have the community be more self-correcting as a free market place of ideas. But it's not like anyone's figgured out how to make a website do video replies /s
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  9565. Frankly, they were probably just fired because they were young and Biden is ageist. Everything else is likely just pretence.
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  9566. The problem is that his religious views are inseparable from his philosophy. Take an issue and dig deep enough and it eventually comes back to thiesm. He starts with a belief in God and then reasons from there, and every flaw in his ideas can be traced back to that issue. You can't really set his religious beliefs appart from the rest of his ideas.
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  9567.  True Perfection  are you sure? He seems to be showing the signs of vampirism to me.
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  9568. That's Faux News (not that we can expect fair coverage from the Corporate "News" Network or MSDNC)
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  9569. And a longer neck (compare 1:01 to other humans), and inhuman mannerisms and sense of ethics...I'm glad I'm grounded in reality or she, alone, would convince me of the existence of lizard people instead of just an anomaly...but still we have people in the comments section trying to say she looks like a man and imply she's post-bad-op trans while she goes after lgbt people...cause you know, her Adam's apple is so distracting that she must be a man /s and they can't notice the rest or the implications of what they are saying themselves.
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  9570. Sometimes the assosiation sours my ability to enjoy something but I'll enjoy whatever media I like, though my willingness to pay for it and/or praise it in public in any way that benefits the artist may be significantly affected by atrocious behavior. My enjoying a piece of media need not mean helping its creator's finances or popularity in any way, meaning it won't have any way to cause even the slighest bit of harm or reward the person in question in any way.
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  9571.  @zesky6654  we need at least 50% in 1 decade and we need to do that with technologies we have right now. That's going to have to involve mass transit, as a side note, but certain people like Musk want to divert our resources away from what needs to be done to crossing our fingers for techs that may be decades away, and digging tunnels so they don't have to share with the working class that disgusts them so much.
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  9572. Tbf, it's not just Republicans. The media pulled the same narrative on Bernie and liberals ate it up hook, line, and sinker. It's a problem with everyone right of center.
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  9573. Do you mean an interesting take on the Scandinavian/Germanic mythology or something else?
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  9574. @Milos Radenovic by "magical creature" do you mean Odin (who was later jumbled up with the Christian patron saint of prostitutes)?
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  9575. Nah, I can think of multiple sword strikes which could count as indirect fire. Not hard at all, actually.
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  9576.  @GAnonymusG  that's what's called a non-sequitur. Congrats.
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  9577.  @GAnonymusG  another non-sequitur and a false accusation of a fallacy. Are you incapable of addressing what I actually said, or just unwilling?
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  9578.  @GAnonymusG  it does not follow from the lesser of 2 evils voting being what got us here the voting for Trump (the greater evil) helps us. Learn basic logic please so you can stop being so embarrassingly stupid.
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  9579.  @GAnonymusG  _which is irrelevant to what I said. Can you stop being an idiot for like 2 minutes?
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  9580. Congratulations You are just as complicit as the people who voted for this.
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  9581. ​ @LarryDaLobstah we're all tired. Tough shit. Get over it.
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  9582. There are CC now so you could turn the subtitles on, mute it, and read to get the full info.
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  9583. I think it was his staffers tbh, but saying "my campaign is run by Nazis but don't worry, I'm not a Nazi" isn't really reassuring...and as Kyle said, the fact that we're not sure it was hackers is pretty damning on its own.
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  9584. Well, I won't blame any politician who didn't have access to that classified information, but that's not all politicians.
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  9585. Ha!
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  9586. The US pushes all countries to our south to taking War on Drugs policies, and a lot of the money that caused the cartels to become as big as they are came from the US. There are plenty of countries in this hemisphere that would be legalizing if not for US pressure.
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  9587. Neither, his marching orders just changed. Maher is, and has always been, a tool for the establishment dems. His job is to dirrect the anger of the left and define the left-most position of the Overton window. In the early 2000s his job was easy, as all he had to do was get people angry at Bush and the GOP and it was expected that would get people falling in line behind the dems. Now with the rise of the real left, he needs to balance attacking the GOP, deflecting from dem failings, seeming reasonable to some leftists to draw them into the propaganda, and shutting out ideas and ideologies the establishment can't abide by making them seem entirely radical (even if they're not). Case in point, right now, he's trying to fight against the (true) ideas that Hillary was a terrible candidate and that she's actively doing things that harm the party. Can you get much more of a mischaracterization than saying she's 'sitting at home like a grandma' when she's trying to at least play kingmaker for 2020?
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  9588. If we had decent highspeed rail in this country, the BS the TSA puts people through would be enough to drive most airlines out of business because they'd loose about 90% of their customers within a year.
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  9589. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UZUhRdD6U Net Neutrality in the US: 2017 Update (Vihart) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oInAlTKlw64&t=311s Ben Shapiro debunked by a network engineer on net neutrality. (Scott Hunt) https://gizmodo.com/senate-reconfirms-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-for-five-more-y-1819084578 How about you start here? And yes, some companies did violate Net Neutrality rules, but removing those rules will only encourage the practices that destroy competition. Contrary to what you may have been told, some regulations are in place to ensure growth by preserving healthy competition. Case in point: anti-trust laws.
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  9590. because our politicians (especially Trump) like Saudi Arabia's $
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  9591. The rule of law is dead. Force is everything.
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  9592. Good
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  9593. The dems and gop hurting the country for political maneuvering causing a government shutdown is news at this point? I mean it's not so common that it would be wrong to cover it but let's be honest here.
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  9594.  @AlsadsajsAlsadsajs-vl7th  it means exactly what it says: making money without actual, active work.
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  9595. Hal Jordan some "feminists" are really just misandrists reguardless of what they call themselves. I don't find 'feminism' a useful term with how many things it means to different people preferring less misunderstood terms like egalitarian and humanist for those that want equality (let's face it, there aren't many championing gender equality that are opposed to other equality anymore) and "misandrist" for those that actually hate men. Call things exactly what they are. But as many have said, kinda irrelevant since it's most likely just a bunch of largely irrelevant misandrist Hillbots making a big noise about nothing.
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  9596. It doesn't even need to be that high. Just make it so that it's slightly below reasonable returns on investment and pair it with a steeply graduated estate tax and you've gone a long way to checking the tendency for inequality to increase exponentially. I mean, you probably can go further, but you might start pushing the wealthy to make more and more risky investments, which may not be what you want.
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  9597.  @SR-lh4rm  notice that your reply is just an argument from incredulity followed by a blatent strawman of what I said? That's a really bad sign that deep down you know what you're saying is a load of BS and you're just trying to rationalize a position you got to entirely on emotion.
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  9598. There is no way to be alarmist about this issue. Look up Lawrence Britt & Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of fascism. Look up "Cultural Marxism" (aka "Cultural Bolshevism"), the origins of the "War on Chirstmas" scaremongering, and the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory and realize Faux News has literally been running whitewashed Nazi propaganda on repeat for decases! Look up "Trump Nazi Facebook Ad". Jan 6th was our Beer Hall Putch moment. The most "alarmist" position is the most accurate one. It can happen here. NEVER AGAIN!
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  9599. Define "adults". It's mostly manbabies that are the problem here.
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  9600. In between movies may I recommend Heather Dale's song "The Maiden and the Selkie" which completely inverts almost everything about this story structure. https://youtu.be/SR7QTKe1D7Q Not a perfect redemption of it but a fun and interesting subversion.
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  9601. Es D we still have a few peaceful avenues to persue before we get to that stage. They better hope they fail to stop the growing peaceful revolution, or the subsequent violent revolution will prove JFK's words on the issue true.
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  9602. That's what happens when generations let corruption run unchecked through their entire lives. Looking at you boomers.
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  9603. Bush violated the ban on missile defense systems (which helped end the cold war) and started putting them in Eastern Europe (along with a Nato buildup to defend them), Obama got us into a proxy war with Russia in Syria, and Trump did this. It's less about getting Trump out as it is about getting right-wing hawks out reguardless of whether they have a D or R next to their name. This has been brewing for a long time. Trump's just the idiot that made it obvious.
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  9604. Because the center of our Overton Window in the US is center-right They are right wingers. The entire establishment is on the right.
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  9605. liquidminds well, from their point of view, being able to get lower prices for big pharma doesn't hurt, and getting control of those rare earth metals would be a nice move on the global chess board against China, so it's not all about illegal drug trafficking. Of course there's also the Military Industrial Complex motives and generally trying to destabilize the region as a power play.
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  9606. Politicians should be really careful with this BS. One of the main differences between a democratic country and a dictatorial one is how much force its political figgures are removed with. See multiple exterminated royal families for the extreme example of where this leads.
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  9607. It's not that Trump isn't worse than Bush (He is. Give him time. The only thing getting in his way is incompetence) but rather that the corporate dems are trying to redefine the political spectrum as having Bush in the middle so they can be nearly as bad, while calling themselves "progressives" and everyone to their left "radicals" So long as we keep voting for the lesser evil, both parties will keep taking a step to the right every election and redefining what the "center" is and excluding more and more of the population from political discourse.
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  9608. MusicIan423 what do you call an anti-semetic facist?
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  9609. Depends if they're permanently linked with a chain most likely. May be able to count the vibe as 1 if the attachments couldn't be used as toys on their own...
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  9610. O'Neil cylinders>terraforming
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  9611. Brian Williamson the scary thing is that if they think it might be run of the mill malware, they're likely running windows....wtf!?
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  9612. It's not about solving anything. The idea is to decrease the number of deaths when it does. Mitigation and solutions are different things.
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  9613. You still live on the same planet. You think you're safe? Think again.
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  9614.  @thedissidentleftist6997  newspapers are struggling or going digital, NASCAR it more regional than age-based for it's demographic, and golf is largely a class, not generational thing and its customers can absolutely afford to pay more to play at golf corses....I think I'm genuinely missing your point.
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  9615.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  ah yes, the vaccine...which are actually a bunch of vaccines, produced in all sorts of places over which Trump never had control of...that's your conspiracy theory???
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  9616.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  blatently false.
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  9617.  @kinalbrien6357  no, his comment was stupid. You do defear corona virus by throwing money at it by paying people to stay home for example. The stock market isn't the economy. The economy is the organization, production, and distribution of goods and services. In a time of crisis, when the economy is being organized to deal with the crisis and moving to limit the production and distribution of non-essential goods and services, of course investors, interested in their short-term profits are going to move their assets from stocks to other things. Nothing you can do is going to stop that and if they weren't doing that it would be a sign of an even bigger problem. This stock-run market economy isn't an immutable law of reality.
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  9618. Typical center-right authoritarian BS holding a double standard for state actions which skirt terrorism's strict definition only on the technically of it being done by a state, aka someone using special pleading to preserve the status quo against all reason, aka a conservative...and when the Overton Window is far enough right that "centrists" are conservatives, that's a recepie for disaster.
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  9619. Bu-dum tshhh
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  9620. What's the difference between a news station which hires hosts who knowingly tow the corporate line, and one which hires people too out of touch to realize they are and firing them when they get a clue? Effectively nothing.
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  9621. My point (largely in agreement with yours) is simply that whether the talking heads have genuinely drunk the koolaid or not is irrelevant when the network as a whole displays dishonest intent. If I had half the budget they do, I could pick any nonsense position (upto and including flat earth bs) and find a bunch of people who believed it and pay for coaching enough to make them presentable, and another bunch of charismatic charlatans willing to argue any position if I paid them enough. Not only would it be nearly impossible to tell the difference, but it would be pointless as the starting point of me wanting talking heads spewing my brand of BS and the ending point of me getting that would be identical. Thus, any attempt to claim any of these people are "honest but in a bubble" should be shut down instantly with "it's irrelevant because their bosses aren't and even if it was true, they didn't end up in that position because they would speak the truth"
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  9622. ​ @michaelgallagher7020 given the damage I saw working at a hotel and the effort it must have taken to make it, I'm not surprised. Bullet-proof sounds entirely proportionate to what some guests are like.
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  9623.  @RCenal  that can be realistic under some circumstances though
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  9624. Yeah, bioavailability is important. I'm not as up on protein bioavailability, but I do know that getting at least some saturated fats in your meals is important for the absorption of some vitamins and that they need to be in your stomach at the same time to get that effect (iirc because the vitamins are fat soluble, and the body it better able to absorb them when they're clinging to the fat molecules than just dissolved in aqueous solution without fat). Likewise, making sure you're getting some of both kinds of fiber in every meal can help the digestive system in general (whereas both no fiber and getting exclusively high amounts of insoluble fiber can make it harder on your digestive system to absorb the full nutrition of what you're eating). I don't know of any reason the different amino acids would need to be eaten together in the same meal for absorption, but the general idea of bioavailability is still important and a good reason to have your meals be more mixed in the types of foods in them (rather than say, getting all your grains in one meal, all your meat in another, etc). I am curious what kinds of things could cause problems with absorbing protein if you don't mind sharing.
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  9625. BikeLion "Each parent knows their child best" As nice an idea as that is, it's just not true. There are a lot of dumbass parents out there to put it frankly.
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  9626. Far before then...and yet the ones who shout about that have been the only people to ever degrade culture.
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  9627. ​ @Ceegeebee23 they're waiting for that to be their excuse to declare martial law, and don't care about public disapproval.
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  9628. Yeah, this isn't even an altruism one. Clearing out our warcriminals would be doing this country a great good. If we could, there'd be a lot more than Trump heading to the Hague for trial.
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  9629.  @memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724  yeah, metaphors can only stretch so far, but we really need to start using soft power to strengthen democratic institutions around the world rather than hard power to destroy them when their self-determination conflicts with US-connected business interests. I understand all international politics is just about power and national interests, but the persuit of our short term interests isn't exactly a good long-term strategy. Trying to stay an imperial power forever will cause our collapse, and if our main objective is just to stop a world being dominated by China, we're really, really going to get a better return on our investment by helping countries strengthen their own ability to protect their self-determination than trying to control everything ourselves. Whatever oil profits we secured have not remotely come close to being worth all the fallout from overthrowing Iran's former government. Even in a strictly self-interested perspective maintaining good relations would have been preferable to the quagmire we've dug ourselves into in the middle east....and fuck, we'd be able to align with them instead of Saudi Arabia, which means Saudi Arabia remains a poor backwater unable to fund and arm groups like Al-Qaida like they do and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. Just because things like principles and friends don't really exist in geopolitics doesn't mean constantly pursuing short-term gain at the expense of others like a psychopath isn't fucking our future over endlessly. Seriously, the people who started this shit with Iran are all dead and we still haven't learned the lesson of "hey, maybe destroying democratic governments isn't exactly a winning long-term strategy if for no other reason than authoritarian regimes tend towards having conflicting interests that cause problems later and in the meantime they're a constant drain on political (and often other) capital."
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  9630.  @Shutchohole  talking about people, not corporations
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  9631. +
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  9632. Ice Doggo there was a long period of isolation
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  9633.  @riverdean7  I just hope you're at least consistent with your rejection of medical science and committed to never going to see any doctor or take any medication that doesn't come from the homeopathy isle no matter how sick you get. Don't come crying to the people who believe in the science you reject when your dangerous delusions become inconvenient for you. Take personal responsibility and accept the consequences no matter how bad they may be.
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  9634.  @BigMamaDaveX  *slow clap* well done! Very well done!
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