Youtube comments of Gabe (@gabetalks9275).

  1. This is one of the best examples of "all kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids" I've ever seen.
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  2. Everyone knows that sightings of UFO's and aliens instantly reducing everyone's camera quality to 144p if not making the cameras disappear entirely is an unbreakable law of the universe, so of course there's no footage lmao.
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  3. Imagine participating in mocking a religion and exposing children to nudity on international television, and still thinking you're the victim. If this happened in any other circumstance, they all would've been arrested and registered in a heartbeat.
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  4. Fortunately, progress is being made in North America. Both Minneapolis-St. Paul and Atlanta have abolished parking minimums, Portland banned single-family zoning, Hoboken has become a model for North American traffic calming, and Jersey City has gone all-in on bike infrastructure. They even turned their main street into a pedestrian plaza. It gives me hope that these steps can be the start of a continent-wide transformation.
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  5. It's amazing to me how mid-20th Century humanity collectively made all the wrong decisions possible. We traded sustainability, beauty, and urbanism that was once working wonders for everyone for greed, ugliness, and segregation. Even when the economic bubble is bursting and the planet is being rapidly destroyed for short-term profit, we still continue to destroy ourselves in name of greed and hatred for our fellow humans. It's sickening.
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  6. Honestly, it should be illegal for parents to forcibly put their children into the entertainment industry. Denying your child their right to their freedom to choose their own destiny and basically giving up your custody of them to complete strangers with obscene levels of power is straight up abusive. Most of these child stars never choose to be in entertainment industry. They are forced into it by their parents who just wanted to make money off their kids, only to wind up spending more time with their bosses than their own families.
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  7. One thing that I've noticed about our culture is that it wasn't until recently that the general public has started to even acknowledge the past. I remember growing up as a kid that our culture looked upon the older generations as fools with outdated technology and outdated beliefs. Replacing the old with the new was seen as progress, but we were too arrogant to realize that our ancestors had wisdom that was worth learning from. If we've been building beauty and walkability since ancient times, is there not a reason for it? I remember one of my school teachers talking to our class about how outdated trains are because they're slower and the routes are predetermined. I don't even remember what grade I was in, but I just looked at the photos of old trains in our history book thinking that was such an obvious conclusion, not even realizing that we once boasted the greatest railways on Earth, even by today's standards. Something that should've been passed down us with great pride was looked down upon as "outdated" and reduced to mostly forgotten history. It infuriates me when people say that America is "too big" for rail when the entire continent was already fully connected by rail over a century ago. Please continue this series. We need more Americans to know just how much was truly stolen from them.
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  8. Even if games could still be preserved digitally, we still should never phase out physical media. Fans love to collect and there's a certain magic to owning your game and opening the box that simply pressing A will never be able to replicate. This goes for all forms of physical media as well. Not just gaming.
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  9. Only in America can transit be punished for the incompetence of drivers who ignore railroad crossing signs.
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  10. It will never cease to amaze me how the US and Canada became so convinced that bulldozing our towns and cities was progress. If "urban renewal" requires mass urban destruction, then the goal was never urban renewal in the first place.
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  11. The only thing more amazing than seeing his boldness is the fact that he actually pointed his constituents to learn from Europe. That is so egregiously rare here in the US. Whenever you point out something Americans lags behind in, American exceptionalism is usually the immediate first response you get. "We can't do that here. This is America. We're different." It's so refreshing to actually hear an American political leader not only say we should try to learn from Europe, but even go a step further and say that we can learn from Europe.
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  12. This is reminds me of how people call wearing clothing and hairstyles from a culture that isn't your own, "cultural appropriation," even though the members of said culture see someone of another race wearing their clothing and hairstyles as flattering because they love it when foreigners take a genuine interest in their culture. Also, mixed-race people exist.
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  13. Splatoon is one of the most underrated shooter franchises. It's so fun and unique. And Anarchy Battles are absolutely insane.
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  14. The more L's YouTube takes, the more confident I am that YouTube's monopoly on content creation is doomed to collapse eventually. YouTube needs a competing platform. The only reason they do any of the shady things they do is because they know that they will get away with it due to their being no platform that's big enough to compete with them.
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  15. This is Nijisanji levels of favoritism mixed with murder threats. It can't get much worse than this. The fact these people are immune from consequences means that Twitch as a corporation is in support of political violence. This is so much worse than just a moderation issue. This is actually dangerous. Dangerous to democracy in fact.
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  16. My favorite talking point of modern feminism is how the backlash to "strong female characters" is because of misogyny instead of it being because they're Mary Sues like 80s action movies and anime aren't loaded with strong female characters that are actually universally beloved because they're well written. Lycoris Recoil dominated 2022 for damn good reason. Men love badass girls.
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  17. Detroit's embrace of urbanism is also contributing massively to its revival. They're tearing down one of their downtown highways and turning the land back into the mixed-use residential area that it once was. This is a trend that will more than likely continue as Detroit sees the benefits of what they destroyed back in the 50's.
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  18. Driving is only freedom if you have the right to choose not to if you don't want to. If car dependency is mandated by law, you aren't free. You're being forced to drive whether you like it or not.
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  19. ReThinkNYC needs to win. Not just because the original Penn Station is one of America's most iconic and important landmarks, and an artistic treasure, but also because the station needs that massive space. Hochul's plan is just a renovation and expansion, which isn't enough, because MSG is still taking up the vast majority of the space. Transit needs to be the priority. Not built around an arena.
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  20. Watching a monopoly crumble to ashes is always a beautiful sight.
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  21. Compared to what other cities like St. Louis, Kansas City, and Detroit suffered, I think Cincinnati still walking out of it with some of their heritage still in tact is a lot more hopeful of a fate than most other American cities.
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  22. You're probably an X rank saying this, aren't you? It's always the monsters that say they suck lmao.
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  23. Hololive and VShojo in contrast are the gold standard for how to run a talent agency. Nijisanji has no idea how badly they've ruined their reputation. Selen is friends with several other talents in rival agencies, and by proxy, the agencies themselves. All it's going to take now is for just one of them to announce a collab ban on Nijisanji and they're doomed, which I think is very likely now.
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  24. Invading Mexico to "stop the cartels" would just be another Iraq-style genocide. Anyone who seriously thinks that innocent Mexican civilians won't be massacred in mass as a result of being in an active warzone is delusional. And the fact that Hegseth says that the military is in the business of "fighting and winning wars," rather than protecting the country is very telling.
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  25. We're actually cancelling people for bs they said about 30 years ago. He probably doesn't even remember this joke. This is how bad cancel culture has become. At this rate, we're gonna be cancelling senior citizens for what they said when they were teenagers that they've probably forgotten about. What a shameful joke. Everything, literally everything that could've gone wrong with these games, has gone wrong. This hurts so much to watch.
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  26. This is what happens when you condition an entire country into believing that it can’t happen here. Even when it is happening, openly, right in front of their eyes, totally mask off, they’ll still find any excuse to explain it away because they’re unable to accept the fact it really is happening.
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  27. Yet again, Charlie is introducing me to more famous online personalities that I've never heard of.
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  28. The FTC needs to file way more anti-trust lawsuits and start breaking up these monopolies immediately. Unfortunately however, I doubt the political will to allow that to happen will come anytime soon. These corporations have now outgrown entire countries. They have so much lobbying power, that the politicians who should be protecting us from monopolies are now more accountable to those monopolies than the people. It's undermining democracy and replacing it with oligarchy.
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  29. I hate this new era of retail. We used to have so many retail giants, but ever since Amazon and Walmart took off, they've monopolized the entire industry. I miss having competition.
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  30. "She tried shoving a chainsaw down her pants." Men: That's just suicide with extra steps.
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  31. The A.I. industry is the embodiment of "you spent so much time thinking about whether you could, that you didn't stop to think if you should." These tech bros want to erase humanity's humanity, creativity, and purpose, and reduce us to the useless chair slaves in Wall-E where the robots do everything for us. This A.I. revolution is far more dystopian than it is beneficial to the world. Never forget that the vast majority of these new "innovations" were never even necessary to begin with. This is just the agenda of corporations to erase the workforce in the name of the almighty dollar.
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  32. LA, NYC, Toronto, Sydney, Barcelona/Madrid, Paris, London, Milano/Cortina, Tokyo, Calgary, Salt Lake City, Innsbruck, and Athens are all just a few cities that would make a great list of permanent hosts to cycle through. There's definitely more potential host cities that I haven't mentioned though.
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  33. Reminder that Elon said that regulations shouldn't exist. Disasters like this will become commonplace as regulations are gutted, allowing corporations to prioritize profit over people. Beoing planes falling apart mid-flight is just the beginning.
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  34. It's amazing to me how Joanne collected literally every single piece of credible evidence against Ian, including his entire laptop, gave all of it to the police, only for the them to a blind eye. How does the mere suggestion of "child sexual abuse" not set off alarm bells in your head, let alone a mountain of credible evidence proving said crimes? I hope every single one of those officers were fired and never sniff the uniform ever again. You have to be a psychopath to look at what Ian did and refuse to prosecute him. And the fact that they refused multiple times for several years, only to wind up arresting Joanne for trying to do what they should've done just tells me that they were complicit with everything.
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  35. California does not have a water security problem. They have a water management problem. LA used to have so much water that they once had constant flooding. Then, they covered the LA River in concrete, and now it's mostly dead. They had the 9th largest freshwater lake on Earth, and they drained it for agriculture. Now they're draining the rest of their state's rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers so that they can feed more crops, so now, they're pulling most of their water from the Colorado River until that's drained next too. California has had more water than most entire countries could ever dream of, but they waste it like its an infinite resource. This is why we need to transition away from monoculture to permaculture. We need to use our water much more conservatively so that we always have plenty in times of crisis. If we don't start doing that now, then we won't have any water left for anything, let alone fighting wildfires.
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  36. This is why AI art needs to be banned.
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  37. That, and/or they unironically think that saying yes is consent. You'd be surprised how many guys seriously think that both saying yes or being silent equals consent.
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  38. Summary of New York politics: >Problem exists >Do everything possible to avoid addressing the problem. >Finally address the problem several years, perhaps, even decades too late. >Drag your feet for several more years to decade before doing anything to actually fix it and blame your laziness on cost. >Finally resort to a half-ass penny-pinching solution that doesn't even do anything to fix the problem while still somehow costing millions or even billions of dollars anyway because you procrastinated for so damn long that the problem is now way bigger than it would've otherwise been had you just fixed it sooner. >Repeat cycle And as you can see, the New York DEC is still perpetually stuck at Stage 2.
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  39.  @alinaross1008  Unfortunately, being historic doesn't mean anything. Does it have the infrastructure and sustainability? Because only major international cities have that. I doubt Romania has that.
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  40. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to realize that anything that's sustainable environmentally is also sustainable economically by proxy. Density creating more economic output than car dependency, agroforestry producing higher yields than monoculture, green energy never running out while oil one day will. It's called sustainability for a reason.
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  41. California is notoriously wasteful with their water. I am confident that there wasn't even enough water to even build those reservoirs.
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  42. America: "One nation under God" God: Commands restorative justice and loving thy enemy America: Ya'll hear somethin'?
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  43. If we want to start farming abundantly and sustainability, we must transition from monoculture to permaculture. Permaculture allows to farm more crops on less land, and in a sustainable way that restores the ecosystems that monoculture has destroyed. Monoculture destroys our freshwater supplies, erodes our soils, and kills our insects, which slowly destroys our airable land and leaves with no water left to feed our crops or ourselves. It's an endless creedy cycle of self-destruction that only benefits the chemical and big tech industries. We desperately need the urbanism and permaculture movements to team up if we want to create a truly sustainable future.
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  44. Pixiv will take over if Twitter dies.
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  45. Because it's the kind of letter an insecure edgelord would love, which is perfectly in character for Elon.
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  46. On today's episode of this administration continuing to be an embarrassment to the country...
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  47. Now we need to force MSG out and rebuild Penn Station so that the block south of Penn Station isn't totally destroyed. Not only would it destroy homes, businesses, and even a historic 1872 Church, but creating another dead-end terminal at Penn Station would completely defeat the purpose of building all this new connectivity.
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  48. The fact that the highest court in the nation has basically total immunity is absolute insanity. If they're automatically guaranteed a lifetime of power, then they have no reason to honor the responsibility of wielding that power. They just have free reign to abuse it however they'd like as much as they'd like. Supreme Court justices should have term limits and be voted on by the public.
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  49.  @monkeylemur  Not true. There are insane players that use sticks control. When I peaked in Splatoon 2, I was quadruple S+, and I only used stick controls. I only started to rank down after I started playing the game less and less after the last Splatfest. Lost the momentum I had. Sucks because I really wanted to keep that flex lmao.
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  50.  @Mynipplesmychoice  This ain''t hustle bro. He is exploiting and controlling his kid for money. No different than family vlog channels. Everything that kid does is what his dad tells him to do. He's not allowing him to have any agency of his own. He's the type of parent who pressure his kids to conform to what he wants his kids to do, rather than letting them choose what they want to. Imagine if this kid ever loses interest in football. His dad will just shame him into continuing football against his will. You really think the kid just blindly following his dad's orders is such a great thing? Well, just wait until he gets older and needs to become independent. He won't be able to, because his dad has conditioned him to rely on him for everything. Oh yeah, and he's also shipping his 9 year old child with a grown ass woman. Some "hustle," am I right?
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  51.  @ww-uq8ls  Considering that there cameras everywhere nowadays, I find it hard to believe that aliens could defend against that.
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  52. In the 1960's, it was the British Invasion. Now, in the 2020's, it's the Japanese Invasion.
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  53. This absurd level of self-entitlement is costing me brain cells.
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  54. He's not denying who he is. He's just not letting his sexuality determine his joy and identity, because us Christ followers' joy and identity is found in our Savior. Not ourselves. I think being single forever just like the Apostle Paul and still being full of joy is courageous and should be applauded.
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  55. It's strange to me why oil companies are still so resistant to decarbonization. Geothermal energy and heating requires the same fracking expertise that fossil fuels do, so these companies could easily just change business models and still make billions without having to change their workforce. And the earlier they jump on it, the bigger the profits they'll make when it inevitably goes mainstream in the near future too. Fortunately, Chevron and Exxon are starting to see the writing on the wall and have started investing heavily into geothermal energy and heating.
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  56. The sad part is that because downtown is now a historic district, the city has become heavily gentrified. The city is currently unaffordable to everyday American. All the more reason to make this a trend. And I don't think those modernist buildings are bad at all. They have unique symmetrical form with masonry facades, which is way better than brutalism and glass monoliths.
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  57. You make a video on Charleston, South Carolina. The city has implemented an architectural review board, so the city has preserved its old architecture and is building its new buildings in that style. As a result, it has become one of America's most desirable and fastest growing cities. However, it unfortunately isn't affordable due to places like Charleston being very rare to find here in America today. I think it would be nice to highlight a success story that isn't in Europe for once.
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  58. Hololive and VShojo in contrast are the gold standard for how to run a talent agency. Nijisanji has no idea how badly they've ruined their reputation. Selen is friends with several other talents in rival agencies, and by proxy, the agencies themselves. All it's going to take now is for just one of them to announce a collab ban on Nijisanji and they're doomed, which I think is very likely now.
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  59. We've been saying "just one more lane bro" for the past years, yet we still never learn. Building an entirely new bridge when you can just renovate the existing one is stupid. Just think of the amount of homes that will have to be bulldozed in order to make this happen.
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  60. The DOE ensures funding for special needs students and protects them from being kicked out of school. Before Carter created the DOE, it was common for special needs students to be kicked out of school. As someone with Asperger's and ADHD, resource classes are what allowed me to become an honors student. Up until 5th grade, I couldn't keep up with the class because I've always had a hard time focusing. Dismantling the DOE would ruin the lives of millions of children with special needs. Education is a right. We need the DOE to hold every state accountable in order to ensure that special needs children aren't discriminated against and denied the quality education that they deserve.
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  61. I'm so sick and tired of boomers thinking that they are owed your respect simply because they're old. Respect is earned. It doesn't matter how old you are. If you're an asshole, then you deserve to be treated like the asshole that you are. Simple as that. And the fact that they are so spoiled from growing up in the most prosperous era in history makes it even more infuriating.
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  62. Florida did the right thing by raising the minimum age of social media use from 13 to 16 and automatically deleting all accounts hosted by kids under that age. Social media should not have such a dominant influence in our children's formative years.
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  63. You could also just make the corporations publicly owned like in Switzerland.
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  64. The IOC needs to stop being greedy. Choosing one permanent host city would defeat the purpose of the Olympics, as the purpose is to celebrate world cultures. You can't explore and celebrate different nations with a permanent host.
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  65. Reminder that these are the same people complaining about "woke ideology" being shoved down our kids' throats. Edit: Yes, obviously, both sides are bad. Just pointing out the obvious hypocrisy.
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  66. It's so refreshing to see Detroit embracing its heritage. Most other cities would look down upon their old buildings as "obsolete" and tear them down for something. It's so nice to see leadership that actually respects their city's history for once. Meanwhile, in the New York metro area, we've torn down so many historic buildings, you could write a whole book about all of them. I'm young, and even I mourn the loss of them. Especially Old Penn Station.
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  67. As someone with Asperger’s and ADHD, ADHD is very much real. Especially since people with ADHD usually have other disorders like autism. But yet, despite having both of these disorders, I’ve never needed to take any medication for them because neurodivergence is a spectrum. The degree to how mild or severe anyone’s psychological disability is varies from person to person.
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  68. It doesn't matter how big of a Michael Jackson fan you are. You always have to be objective. I'm a huge anime fan, but I'm not gonna pretend that the sexualization of women and minors in anime isn't a problem that plagues the medium. That'd be incredibly irresponsible of me. That mindset of yours is not only biased, but it deliberately attempts to dismiss, rationalize, and dismiss his crimes if he's ever proven guilty. That's a dangerous mindset to have as it allows people of high status to get away with crime, just like with Cardi B. Someone who drugged and sexually abused two men and has still yet to receive any justice for it.
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  69. Well ladies and gentlemen, it's time to add The Promised Neverland to this list
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  70.  @chrisbarry9345  Land value tax would be better. It would force them to lower rents so that they always occupants in order to pay the tax, it'll force them to build denser, and it would force them to actually use the properties they own instead of just letting them stay empty at luxury prices.
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  71. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand that a border wall is perfectly fine so long as there are dedicated points of entry. We have multiple major cities on or near the border for them too. El Paso and San Diego could literally be the New York and San Francisco off the southern border if a proper border wall was built. That would be so much more practical than just letting the wall be totally open and unregulated.
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  72. Jokes are supposed to have a punchline. Flat out calling Puerto-Rico a floating island of garbage is not a punchline. It's a statement. You can even hear the disgust in his voice when he delivers that line. It sounds like just mentioning Puerto-Rico sickens him.
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  73. Just when I thought that I couldn't lose anymore braincells...
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  74. I've been saying this since the beginning. This is all the IOC's fault. They are the ones forcing Japan to hold the games now, rather than postpone them to 2022, while doing absolutely nothing to support their COVID crisis and hogging 96% of the Olympics profits. Japan's only profits come from ticket sales, and now Japan just spent 26B for absolutely nothing in return. Reform the IOC.
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  75. Imagine if this starts a new tradition of the two nominees holding a golf match during the summer of every election year.
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  76. Rent control may sound like a solution, but it just makes it worse. When landlords can't raise the rent, they just stop building market rate units and shift to building a wave a luxury units. Then, when all the middle class residents are priced out, instead of continuing to sell the units, they'll just bulldoze them for more luxury units. This is exactly what happened to San Francisco when they passed rent control back in the 90's. Stopping investors from buying up units doesn't help either because when Rotterdam tried that, while it increased the homeownership rate, the decreased rental supply caused the rents to surge, which still wound up fueling more gentrification. We need to recognize that this housing crisis is first and foremost, the result of our zoning laws. The landlords and investors are reacting to it because the manufactured scarcity has put the rich and the working class is a bidding war for the limited supply. We need to get rid of single-family zoning and parking minimums, replace our current tax system with a land value tax, and allow apartments up to 6 stories instead of just 2 to only need one staircase.
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  77. They need mental help if they're that obsessed with a theme park.
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  78. True Christianity is not organized religion, but an intimate relationship with God. Organized religion is legalism, which is the doctrine of the Pharisees, the ones who murdered Jesus.
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  79. This sure did age well with the new microchip for detecting COVID having been announced now hasn't it?
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  80. 100% agreed. I think people overhype classical architecture as the only possible form of beauty. It's a pretty elitist and pretentious stance to take. There are plenty of modern styles that are beautiful. Art Deco immediately comes to my mind. It's the style the Empire State Building was built in. And don't forget the iconic New Formalist Twin Towers. Sometimes simplicity can be beautiful.
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  81.  @manoftherainshorts9075  Why does the population matter? Culture is culture. What's the sense in making a tier list of which ones are more important than the others?
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  82. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined Plz put Zoom video boards in the stands.
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  83. Rotterdam tried capping the amount of units investors can buy in order to give homeowners a better chance. The increased homeownership rate decreased the rental supply, causing rents to surge further, thus accelerating gentrification even more. This housing crisis is a result of our zoning laws first and foremost.
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  84.  @KanyeTheGayFish69  Yet Hochul's plan is going to be at least $7B. I understand that MSG is legendary, but the unfortunate reality is that the original Penn Station should've never been torn down in the first place. Transit is more important than a sports arena, and MSG is taking up the vast majority of the space, making it very difficult to fix Penn. Hochul's plan is built around MSG, which exactly the problem. Sports arenas should be around transit. Not the other way around. I refuse to believe that that narrow street level alleyway is going to provide enough capacity necessary to serve New York. New York needs the space of Penn Station. And besides, Penn Station is an iconic landmark in its own right that deserves to exist alongside of relocated MSG. The Hudson Yards still has vacant space, so that's where ReThinkNYC wants to move it, which is only a few blocks west of Penn Station. Edit: Actually, I've discovered that ReThink actually wants to relocate MSG one block east of Penn Station on Broadway at Herald Square, right behind where Hotel Pennsylvania was, which would honestly be even better, because rebuilding Penn Station would mean rebuilding the full vision McKim had, including rebuild the Hotel Pennsylvania, and connecting the hotel and MSG directly to Penn Station via an underground pedestrian tunnel. Penn Station is already being connected to the Herald Square stop via an underground pedestrian bridge, so why not link them all together?
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  85. He's not denying who he is. He's just not letting his sexuality determine his joy and identity, because us Christ followers' joy and identity is found in our Savior. Not ourselves. I think being single forever just like the Apostle Paul and still being full of joy is courageous and should be applauded.
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  86. "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." - Matthew 24:11
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  87. ​@Deploracle That's exactly the problem. Profit over people. Profit should not come at the expense of workers and the general public. That only endangers the health and safety of workers and locals, and causes ecological disasters. So much for that quick profit now that all of that money is gonna wasted on cleaning up this mess that should've never occurred in the first place.
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  88. The fact that American prisons are corporate slave labor, fight club, torture chamber dungeons segregated by race, with the police actively participating in the violence, instead of rehabilitation is heartbreaking.
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  89. Probably because he's leaning against the wall
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  90. Back when the Olympics were in the 90s, the IOC used to only take 6% of the profits. The current IOC structure is glorified, corporate slavery. The IOC literally never lifts a finger to support their host cities in any way. Today's IOC is the reason the Olympics are in danger of going extinct again. Thomas Bach needs to drastically reform the IOC and how it handles the Olympics if the Games and host cities are going to survive.
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  91.  @Little_Bryan67  Definitely not the Philippines. The only cities that are prepared to do that are major international cities. Because only cities have the sufficient pre-existing infrastructure to host the Games, and those cities are only locating in major first world countries. That's why all of the major sports tournaments are always in cities like LA, NY, London, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo.
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  92. This video is honestly so refreshing. I keep seeing this very prevalent sentiment that if it's not Beaux-Art, then it's ugly. It's so nice to see architecture starting to be seen as a form of local cultural expression again, rather than just something that needs to be either extremely grand or "innovative" solely for the sake of being different. There's actually another example of a city prioritizing traditional beauty in the US. Newburyport, Massachusetts. Modernists were beginning to bulldoze their historic downtown into a car-centric mall until the residents rallied together to save it. They rebuilt their downtown for pedestrians and made restoring the unified colonial character of the neighborhood a priority. The Rural Urbanist made a great video about it, and there's even a documentary about it.
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  93. If you run of energy to keep swimming, then the best thing you could do would be to just float in place.
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  94. Ideally, we should be replacing our tax system with land value tax. Property taxes are a regressive tax that tax the poor more than the rich. By taxing the land that the properties stand on instead of the properties themselves, the burden of taxation will be shifted onto the rich. Not the working class.
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  95. The last time America imposed a universal 100% tariff on all imports into the country, it caused The Great Depression because every country selling to us started selling at a loss, forcing them to implement their own 100% tariff to make up the difference. It created a chain reaction of the entire global trade market bleeding money. Yet Trump promised to bring this back at the RNC at a time of high inflation and a shrinking middle class. What could possibly go wrong?
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  96. The US Government takes L's in everything bro 💀
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  97.  @kahdkjasoigfuoiywi  Rio is no where close to Tokyo's level. Japan is the world's third largest economy. Rio is just a major city in a borderline third world country. They're in two completely different stratospheres.
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  98.  @Vaultboythefightingmachine  You mean people like this Karen? Got it.
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  99. I will never understand how 10 year olds can be capable of such heinous crimes.
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  100. The IOC needs to be reformed. The IOC never lifts a finger to support their host cities, yet they swoop in and steal most of the profits. Ever since the 2000's, the IOC has been favoring grandeur over practically, and the IOC picking Rio over Madrid, a city that's actually capable of hosting the Games for the 2016 Games is proof of that. The IOC needs to built a strict criteria that every host candidate must fulfill in order to be eligible to run. Not a permanent host, but a permanent list of eligible hosts.
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  101. No. The Olympics hit their prime in the mid-80s - 2002 because back then, the IOC didn't hog up all the profits and host cities were actually smart like Barcelona and Salt Lake City.
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  102. I'm relieved that the Bears are staying in Downtown Chicago. That's where public venues belong. Suburban venues completely disconnected from their cities in barren asphalt deserts are an obsolete mistake. The suburban experiment is dead. Bringing back density and walkability is the future.
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  103. I will never get over how scummy it was of Moses to run the Dodgers out of Brooklyn. Moses hated transit because it benefited the poor and non-whites. I am convinced that the reason why he tried to force them to move to Flushing Meadows where the Mets are is because he hated how diverse and unified the Dodgers' fanbase was and sought to destroy that by any means necessary. A true premium scumbag indeed. All of those World Series championships that they won in LA should've belonged to Brooklyn full stop. Brooklyn was robbed of their community, rich baseball history, one of sports' greatest cathedrals, a piece of their pre-NYC heritage, and their dynasty all thanks to one racist tyrant and his supreme unelected power greater than even the governor's. The Giants were goners thanks to the Yankees, but the Dodgers could've stayed.
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  104.  @Ligmamonkey  Throughout Hololive's entire existence, they've only lost 4 long-running members. Rushia, Coco, Sana, and Mel. And two of them were terminations. And Mel was still sent off amicably. So Hololive has only had 2 talents graduate since its founding in 2017. Meanwhile, Nijisanji has a new graduation every single month. That speaks for itself. Btw, Hololive talents get 50%, while Nijisanji talents only get 1-2%.
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  105.  @hecrosegreat3943  Just because someone says yes, that does not mean that they consent. Often times, people say yes out of shock and fear of what will happen if they say no.
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  106. Pixiv will quickly take over as the new main platform for artists if Twitter dies. It's been getting really popular in the West recently too. So fortunately, the artists on Twitter aren't totally screwed. They have a viable backup option.
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  107. For those who don't know, Kamala Harris is bi-racial. She's half-Indian, half Jamacian.
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  108.  @KanyeTheGayFish69  I think going the extra mile to restore the original landmark is very important because it serve as a bold urbanist declaration to the whole nation that transit matters and is a priority deserving of 1st class infrastructure. Building Penn Station around MSG sends the message that transit is secondary to sports arenas. Rebuilding the original Penn Station as it once was sends the clear message that transit is what's most important.
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  109. Restoring the presence of old architecture is important because old architecture is an integral part of the heritage of our neighborhoods. They're the visual representation of all the previous generations and serve as their legacy. It's not just because they're more beautiful than postmodern structures. It's what they represent. By leaving old architecture in the past, we're robbing ourselves of our heritage. Heritage is one of the reasons why people are so drawn to old architecture in the first place. It gives community a sense of place that international style cannot because those architectural styles are unique to that corner of the world, which gives the community a stronger sense of identity and pride. For example, whenever you see brownstone rowhouses, you immediately know it's Brooklyn. They're an integral part of the borough's charm because its unique to Brooklyn, much like how Art Deco is uniquely American which is why it's been making a resurgence lately. Granted, I don't think the modernist buildings here are ugly. They're simplistic, but they're still symmetrical and colorful. Symmetry is the most important element for good architecture, so I don't see anything wrong with those modernist apartments. Brutalism however, now that's hideous. Brutalism just completely disregards all sense of neighborhood character and artistic fundamentals.
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  110. You lost me at the end of your comment? You're mad that we're betraying Ukraine because of him, yet you'd still vote for him again? Really? Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.
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  111. Honestly, I'd take it, because unlike America, Denmark would actually be willing to grant us independence.
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  112. It's so refreshing to see an actually genuine YouTuber apology for a change. You're ability to be so introspective is genuinely inspiring. Thank you so much for this. ♥️
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  113.  @ArtemisiaUwU  Yeah. Portraying The Last Supper as a pagan festival while exposing two sets of balls to children on international television. That's not the clap back he thinks it is.
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  114. Blame the IOC for hogging all of the profits while never lifting a finger to support their host cities.
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  115. I'm so proud to be a New Jerseyan right now
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  116. Tokyo is one of the biggest international cities in the world. It'll definitely be used afterward.
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  117. The fact that Sneako says that children being sexualized "isn't unusual now," and that only people complaining about it, aren't Gen Z just proves that he sees p---philia as normal and being represented by Cuties. He clearly likes it for far more sinister reasons.
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  118. ​​ @dangercat9188 I'm also white passing. Everyone thinks I'm white until I tell them I'm Puerto-Rican. Americans just can't comprehend the fact that a hispanic/latino person could be any shade other than brown.
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  119.  @LuperSame  The Amish settlements were built before cars existed, so their communities are walkable. Our modern zoning laws, make it illegal to build anything other than suburban sprawl which makes transit unusable, requiring a car in order to get around. Transit and micromobility require density because they rely on economy of scale in order to be viable transit options. If everything is low-density sprawl, then cycling distances become way too long for them to be usable, and almost everyone is too far away from a transit station. This is why car-centric suburbs never have their own train stations. At most, the school bus will drive through there, but that's about it.
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  120.  @KanyeTheGayFish69  Just because Penn Station died decades ago does not mean that people aren't still mourning its loss. I'm young, and even I mourn its loss. The original Penn Station was a masterpiece of the arts and architecture. It's not "outlandishly ornate." It's art. Going by that logic, Grand Central Terminal was a waste of money, which we all know is factually wrong.
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  121. He seems like the kind of clown that would hit the default dance as run away the second he actually encounters someone to assert dominance.
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  122.  @förtñitę0666  The US alone has a population of 325M. And those 14M sales are the global sales. That's nothing on an international level. Most of those sales are from those who played Splatoon 1, diehart Nintendo fans, and Japan, because Splatoon is a nationwide phenomenon over there. Splatoon has still yet to reach the same level of popularity that it has in Japan worldwide.
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  123. You can thank the Puritans for raising entire generations of Americans into believing that worth is a blessing for morality and sign of divine favor from God. This is why people worship billionaires. We've been groomed into associating wealth with morality, intelligence, and divine blessings. When you realize this, it's not surprising that it was America that invented the televangelist and consumerism. Wealth isn't just a status in America, it's a moral virtue. It's seen as proof that you're a well put together person who deserves to be rich. Not just someone with good fortune.
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  124. Because a redefinition of gender and sexuality has massive societal implications. The issue is broader than just about individuals lives. It's about how the redefinition effects other people's lives and their values.
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  125. "It's just stuff" Ahh yes. A dead loved one's ashes are just "stuff."
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  126. And that's the Law of Equivalent Exchange
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  127. Not really
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  128.  @nigelmarvin1387  I don't like that idea, because it's limits the options of locations. Plus, the whole point of the Olympics is to celebrate different nations and culture. Choosing permanent hosts undermines that. What Olympics need to be more sustainable is to reform the IOC. They're way too greedy. They don't lift a finger to help the host cities, but they hog almost all of the profits from their work, leaving the host cities to suffer the economic burden. The other step is to establish a strict criteria that must be met in order for a city to be eligible to host an Olympics.
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  129. This is why you don't base your vote on culture war issues. Culture is formed by society, independently of the government. Policy reflects the culture. Not the other way around, so voting for Trump to fight culture war issues accomplishes nothing. Actual working class issues however, like Medicaid, are policy issues, so voting for policy is what's most important.
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  130.  @4evertrue830  I actually blame the IOC for doing nothing to support the host cities, yet hogging almost all of the profits for themselves. They literally do nothing to hold the games, yet they take all the money. Their greed is insane.
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  131. Unfortunately, she isn't. This is becoming normalized. This nonsense gets 100k+ likes on Twitter.
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  132. That's a very unChrist-like thing to do. Just saying.
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  133. He's not denying who he is. He's just not letting his sexuality determine his joy and identity, because us Christ followers' joy and identity is found in our Savior. Not ourselves. I think being single forever just like the Apostle Paul and still being full of joy is courageous and should be applauded.
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  134. While I'm glad that beauty is making a comeback, I don't think it's impossible for modern structures to be beautiful. The Empire State Building, the Twin Towers, the Sydney Opera House, and the Eiffel Tower are all masterpieces of modernism. Art Deco has even been making a comeback in NYC recently.
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  135.  @NickMesiano  MSG is over 50 years old, yet recently got a glowing renovation back in 2013. It's still as good as new, but ultimately, transit takes priority and destroying Penn was a crime against the arts. Plus, since MSG is still a modern arena, they can reuse the current MSG's assets if they relocate it. Same seats, same jumbotron, etc, but in a new MSG. Edit: ReThink's design for their relocated MSG is actually inspired by MSG ll, and just like the current MSG, it has a circular roof, so they could straight up rebuild the current MSG interior layout, but with a classical facade. It would be like MSG never left.
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  136. Rent control will just make the problem worse. If landlords can't increase rates, then they will just stop building market rate units altogether and start building luxury units, and then bulldoze all the remaining market rate units for more luxury units once the middle class priced out. This is exactly what happened to San Francisco in the 90's when they passed rent control. The solution is ending single-family zoning and getting rid of parking minimums. The scarcity of housing is artificially created by our wasteful use of space.
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  137. ReThinkNYC's plan is exactly that. The revered architect Richard Cameron is behind the plan.
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  138. Losing New Orleans is going to be so tragic because New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. It's history and its culture will all be lost. Sure, they can migrate the city up North along the Atchafalaya River, but the historic location will still be lost, and of its old historic buildings will be lost to the ocean, which is going to be so incredibly sad.
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  139. What Paris is doing is nothing new for the Olympics. Historically, most Olympic host cities keep most of their venues. Athens and Rio are outliers. It's not building and spending money that's the problem. It's how cities are building and spending that money that's the problem. London is constantly hailed as one of the gold standards for how to host an Olympics despite building way more than Paris is, and still being the 2nd most expensive Olympics of all-time 12 years later at $14.9B. More than double what both Rio and Athens spent combined. Because London built and spent wisely, and actually had a post-Games plan, making the Games actually worth the cost. And they aren't alone either. Barcelona and Sydney, two other cities also hailed as model Olympic cities despite both spend more money than both Rio and Athens as well.
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  140.  @TheDwightMamba  I think we need to tax land. Property taxes are a regressive tax that taxes the poor more the rich, and the overwhelming majority of a property's value comes from the land it sits on. By only taxing the property, the rich can make money by simpling own property and doing nothing with it, profiting off the wealth generated by the working class of the area. Tax the land and burden of taxation shifts to the rich.
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  141. Rail is literally the Swiss army knife that will fix almost all of our country's problems. - Need an alternative to driving that's faster, higher capacity, and more efficient for better land use and less traffic? Build trains - Need to reduce your carbon footprint? Build trains - Need a form of transit that's cheaper due to less demanding maintenance? Build trains - Need to make the cost of travel cheaper for the working class? Build trains - Need to better connect cities and regional neighborhoods for more economic prosperity? Build trains - Need more middle missing housing for affordability and less car dependence? Build trains - Need mixed use zoning that helps small businesses thrive? Build trains No matter what problem is it that we need to fix, it always comes back to trains.
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  142. "And then it proceeded to scream faggots at a deafening pitch for hours and hours." 💀💀💀😭😭😭
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  143.  @KanyeTheGayFish69  Grand Central is more than just a stopping point. It's a gathering place and one of New York's biggest tourist attractions, and that's because it's a monument to the people. Penn Station should be the same way. The fact that New York is one of the few American cities embracing urbanism can make it a pioneer for a nationwide embrace of urbanism, which desperately needs to happen. This is not a preachy, self-righteous ambition. It's putting our priorities back in proper order.
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  144. The world does not revolve around cars. Cyclists are commuters too. It's better to give them dedicated bike lanes so that they don't get run over by cars. New York is a dense walkable city. Making it car friendly only benefits people who don't live in the city at the expense of those who do.
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  145.  @organizedchaos4559  Why "lmao?" Those cities are among the most prepared. Tokyo and NYC have most of the necessary infrastructure, especially since Tokyo is this year's host. Athens has all the venues, but they're abandoned. Making them one of the permanent hosts will allow the Olympic venues to be revitalized and actually used. And Innsbruck is a 3-time Olympic host with all of the venues necessary already existing and upkept since their first Olympics in 1964, just like Salt Lake City.
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  146.  @nerd2814  The two-hour stage rotation is necessary because certain weapons suit different stages better than other. For example, high range shooters and snipers thrive on wide open stages, while mid range weapons on denser stages. Removing the stage rotation will force players into matches where they will outclassed by the other weapon types that have a clear advantage on those stages. You're supposed to chose your weapons to suit those stages, just like how you change your weapons in ranked battle to suit the current battle mode.
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  147.  @dickriggles942  Brazil has an incredibly weak economy, so their nation was never prepared to host to begin with. Beijing didn't do much make their games sustainable. I should've clarified this, but the Olympics should only be hosted by major international cities with sufficient infrastructure and a stable economy. It won't be sustainable if those two conditions aren't met. Japan meets these two conditions, but the IOC screwed them over because they're greedy as hell.
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  148.  @luiscastanon6399  I think what makes this question a bit more complicated is discerning whether you supporting LGBTQ rights is supporting and enabling the sin or free will? Because the motto of the movement is that it's ok, and that the very opinion of the opposite is bigotry in itself, so does supporting the LGBTQ movement mean that you are supporting and enabling sin? Or is it supporting free will? I think this is what makes Christians uncomfortable about supporting the LGBTQ movement because it feels like we're willingly letting people go to Hell without making an effort to save them, and instead cheering it on. Like if an LGBTQ person ends up in Hell, don't you think that they would've wished that LGBTQ was outlawed that Christians warned more in this life? Because it's eternity that matters. I think this a more difficult question than people think.
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  149. Yes, Peter was crucified upside down. He requested to be crucified upside down because he declared he wasn't worthy to die the same way as his Savior.
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  150. God bless KyoAni, CloverWorks, and WIT Studio for actually caring about their employees.
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  151.  @kiplingbassil  In other words, you're just assuming that the father is evil, solely off the basis that he's a Baptist preacher. What an assumption lmao.
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  152. Animation is at a turning point, and this is only just the beginning. Spider-Verse not only revolutionized 3D animation, but it proved to everyone that animation is for everyone. If any other studio pitched a Spiderman movie, they would've pitched it as a live-action movie because the stereotype is that animation is only for little kids. Into the Spider-Verse broke that stereotype because it's primary audience was teenagers, which was unheard of for Western animation. This is why anime has become so popular. The demand for more adult animation, and the nostalgia for 2D animation are rising here in the West, and I think Chainsaw Man is going to be the next big breakthrough piece of animation. It has perfected the art of blending 2D and 3D animation with today's technology and polish. A technique not seen since The Prince of Egypt way back in 1998.
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  153.  @baronvonjo1929  The reason why Charleston is so expensive is because cities of its kind are a rarity in the US. Compared to most other states, South Carolina is one of the most affordable, so there's no reason why the same shouldn't also apply to Charleston if most other American cities were built like it.
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  154. This is a bit unrelated, but the location of New York at 6:07 is incorrect. New York is right across the Hudson River from Northern New Jersey. Not Lake Ontario. Idk if that can be edited after it's already been uploaded, but I just wanted to point that out.
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  155. He's a climate change denier. Not even most conservative voters would agree with that position.
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  156. That's so true! It's often just one's personality. There's a young hockey player in NJ who was always a tomboy, played ruff, and hung out with almost only boys, and she just eventually let that make her believe that she's a boy and transitioned. She based what sex she was purely off of cultural stereotypes, and nobody acknowledges how problematic that is.
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  157. If you can't survive without watching porn, then you are addicted, because that sounds like it's the case. You don't need to watch porn in order to masturbate. If you're sexually and psychologically healthy, you should be able to masturbate without it. Addiction exists on a spectrum. Just because you don't have a severe addiction, doesn't mean that it's not an addiction. And besides, porn distorts your perception of love, your beauty standards, and it fetishes sexual behaviors that are either unhealthy at best and dangerous at worst, so it's best not to even bother playing with that fire at all. Play with fire long enough and you will eventually get burned. Trust me, you will be so much happier, fulfilled, and healthier both sexually and psychology without porn in your life.
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  158.  @marcusalexanderhunke3291  Infill construction is filling in vacant or underused land. This highway didn't do that. It only destroyed a once beautiful and humane neighborhood.
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  159. This reminds me of the Japanese animators getting paid below minimum wage.
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  160.  @redsoxu571  A lot of modern Japanese homes are made in the style of old Japanese homes, so it's not entirely accurate to say that they don't gravitate towards their historical architecture. They just readapted it to a modern standard, particularly to resist earthquakes. That's the main reason why people gravitate towards those homes in the first place. The old wooden homes would just crumble to pieces if an earthquake hit.
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  161. Extremely underrated comment
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  162. I'm not blindly trusting a rushed vaccine, especially if the one that gets approved is the one made by Bill Gates, because his polio vaccines in Africa have only led to a surge in polio rates and sterilizations there. Considering that's he's a eugenicist who wants to depopulate the Earth to end the poverty crisis that he could fix at literally anytime by simply opening his billionaire wallet, I doubt that's a coincidence. I'm waiting awhile at first to see how the result pan out. Show me the stats first, and then I'll trust it.
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  163. ​ @MicahWayne  Yes, because that's the most powerful position he's ever held, and that understandably scares victim. There's a reason why YouTubers who get exposed for grooming often get exposed when they're at their peak.
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  164. We've been building 15-minute cities since ancient times. But you don't see any examples of Oxford anywhere else because lockdown zones work against the goal of 15-minute cities. The whole point of a 15-minute city is to have everything you need within walking distance of every housing unit. If you're on the edge of your lockdown zone and you can't access the corner store on your own block, then that's not a "15-minute city." That's surveillance. If you wanna see shining example of truly great 15-minute cities, look any other dense city that isn't Oxford.
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  165.  @barnacles1352  That's complete nonsense. If that was the case, than the Gospel would be an exclusive legalistic club and Jesus would have rejected the sinners in His ministry. Claiming that loving thy enemy has an * is fundamentally anti-Christian. Jesus literally said "I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."
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  166. I actually saw a student led "aCtiViSt" page for female rape victims and it literally said that believing in innocent until proven guilty makes you a rape apologist. Innocent until proven is literally how justice and due process works. And it's in the Constitution.
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  167. If Anaheim ever moves, they will more than likely move down to San Diego because San Diego is one of the biggest and most untapped markets in North American sports without an NHL team right next to Orange County, as well as the fact that it's a huge hockey market. Their AHL affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, is consistently near the top of AHL attendance.
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  168. Companies exist to make a profit by any means necessary, even exploitation. Governments exist to ensure the well-being of the people, often times at a financial loss. For example, the MTA always operates at a financial loss, but it doesn't need to make a profit, because the economic boom the subway creates makes the investments worth it anyway. A company however, just wouldn't build the transit at all, because they don't care about the local economy or the upward mobility about the neighborhood. That's not in their interest. Their only interest is making money.
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  169.  @jayl5032  Infamous is more like it
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  170. I would argue that women shouldn't even to change jobs in order to get higher pay. Teachers and nurses are already underpaid, and it's caused a mass exodus from the profession. We need a massive resurgence of unions. Our wages are being cut to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-rich. Teachers and nurses are public servants who deserve to be paid fairly for it.
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  171.  @pierrecimarra3695  Of course, but I think people obsess over how ornate a building is. It doesn't have to be. The old colonial towns of the US are also beautiful and they aren't grand by any means. I also really love that iconic New York brownstone.
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  172. Imagine calling suffering a human right instead of a tragedy. What a horrible take.
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  173.  @Voltair101  3 weeks is way too short. This country is way too big to tour around in only 3 weeks. It's hard to gain an audience in such a massive country in only 3 weeks. 3-6 months is reasonable. But 1.5 years is absurd.
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  174. Even small towns were dense and walkable with streetcars before big oil and big auto ruined it. The core principles of good urban planning are universal. They aren't exclusive to just cities.
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  175.  @organizedchaos4559  Tokyo is only failing as a host because COVID completely screwed them over, and the IOC continues to sit back and do absolutely nothing to help them. Athens fell apart because the 2004 venues were abandoned. If the Games came back to Athens, then the abandoned venues can be revitalized and revive the Greek economy. Also, I think NYC is more prepared than people think. They have most of the venues necessary already existing in the city, which is rare. Most hosts have the Games out to neighboring cities. The farthest the Games would have to spread out in an NYC games is the NJ city area and Long Island. Also, Beijing and Moscow would definitely be on the list.
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  176. What we need is permaculture. Monoculture requires the overconsumption of water and the destruction of the ecosystem. Argroforestry is how the Native Americans grew crops for centuries before we arrived.
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  177. Tokyo is one the biggest major international cities in the world, so they're venues will be reused.
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  178. The difference is that almost half of Rio is impoverished and their village is a bunch luxury condos. Tokyo is one of biggest major cities in the world in the world's third largest economy. Tokyo's will be full.
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  179. Idk why this common sense logic is so complicated for people to understand
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  180. @beach_lion  That's not what neurodivergent means. Neurodivergent means anyone who has neurological disorder or disability. And the severity of them varies from person disorder. This is why autism is called Autism Spectrum Disorder. Because there are various different types of autism more severe or more mild than others. People with ADHD struggle to focus, but everyone's attention span is still different. Neurodivergence doesn't invalidate the existence of ADHD. It just makes everyone's experience with it different.
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  181. This is just a band-aid solution. No matter how many plazas you build, MSG still dominates the vast majority of the space, and this plan does nothing to improve the actual train station. Beautifying Penn Station is only half of what needs to be done. ReThinkNYC's plan gives us the through-running that we need, as well as bringing back the original, which is far more beautiful than this scam.
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  182. I'm amazed that this dude and his entire cult hasn't been arrested yet.
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  183. I honestly appreciate that you chose to say "get help" instead of wishing death upon people.
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  184. It's landmark status wave revoked after the renovation since it was basically an entirely new stadium. The only thing that was left was the outter facade.
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  185.  @HC-qc5rp  Being an artist is a job. Most artists are freelancers that rely on Twitter to get commissions. This is how most anime is made. Almost of the animators behind the anime you watch is made almost entirely by animators on Twitter that will soon lost their jobs and connections thanks to Twitter dying.
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  186.  @guest6114  I thought her name was Jennette McCurdy. Not Jennette Pucket.
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  187. Pixiv will quickly take Twitter's spot as the new main platform for artists if Twitter goes under. Pixiv gets way more traffic than Art Station and DeviantArt.
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  188. @Oldschoolrules123  It kinda does though. In the overwhelming majority of the US, your only two housing options are either a single-family home or an apartment tower. The missing middle is called the missing middle for a reason.
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  189. Tulare Lake did not cover the entire Central Valley. That was an ancient inland sea that was formed by glacial melt and eventually naturally drained out to sea. Tulare Lake was located in the San Joaquin Valley as a remnant of the ancient ocean. The farmers built canals that drained the lake throughout the farms of the Central Valley, which desertified Southern California.
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  190. Imagine hoping that the Parisian taxpayers suffer because of the ceremonies. The taxpayers are blameless here.
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  191. "Zach has a perfect and won't understand anything about mental health." Stress eating is dangerous. That's how food addiction starts. You're just proving his point.
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  192.  @amk4956  Agroforestry actually requires less labor because it grows a diversity of crops on smaller plots of land instead of giant fields of just one crop. This restores biodiversity, saves freshwater, and creates a much more sustainable agricultural system. Monoculture requires pesticides that are killing the very insects out ecosystem relies on in order to get rid of all the pests that monoculture attracts. This irony leads to agroforestry producing higher yields because every plant complements each other, natural pollinators help support them, and agroforestry is less vulnerable to weather patterns and ecological disasters. Basically, a more sustainable ecosystem can sustain higher yields more consistently than the monoculture farms that are now losing hundreds of acres of land to drought every year. Andrew Millison is a great YouTube whose channel is dedicated this if you're not familiar with him. He's a certified permaculture designer who teaches at Oregon State University.
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  193. I don't understand why highway capping wasn't done so much sooner. So many of these downtown highways are below street level. If Kansas City simply capping their downtown highways on day 1, the urban decay that followed would've been far less severe.
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  194. Why put a 1% federal property tax on homes bigger than 5000 square feet when you can just implement a land value tax? A land value tax is far superior than a federal property tax.
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  195. Don't forget the restaurant industry throwing out perfectly good food because it isn't "fresh enough."
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  196. ​ @Bigguy5588  A parent's number one goal shouldn't be to make their kid rich. It's to raise a good person. And besides, there are many ways to get rich. Why doesn't the dad just teach his son entrepreneurial skills if he wants him to be wealthy so bad? Yet instead, he's forces his kid to adopt an identity that his dad created for him so that he can milk his kid for money for himself. This is no different than family vlog channels. The kid has no personal agency whatsoever. He's being conditioned to rely on his dad for everything, so he's going to know how to be independent once he gets older.
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  197. This is why we need Walz as VP. It'll be his gateway to hopefully becoming president one day.
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  198. A lot of the people commuting into the city for work take the commuter trains, so it's more likely that suburbanites will opt for park and rides on their way to work from now on.
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  199.  @ReznaQay  Because they don't actually care about equality. If they really did, then they wouldn't be trying so hard to villianize people. They'd just treat people equally.
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  200. Honestly same. That title just feels so uncomfortable. Like, they didn't just rebrand the advertising, but they also changed the title to a blatantly sexual term. Like, nobody calls anyone other than a partner "cutie," so why 11 year olds bro? 😭
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  201.  @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep  Exactly. It's nothing, but pure greed. Years ago, the IOC used to only take 6% of the profits and let the host cities thrive off the them. But today, they take like 96%. The IOC never does anything to help for the games or help the host cities in the slightest. They just hog all of the money made off the backs of their labor and economic burden. It's basically legalized slavery. Everybody thinks that it's the cost and sustainability that's a problem, but that's only part of it. The main problem is the IOC being extremely greedy while picking hosts that aren't infrastructurally nor economically strong enough to handle them.
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  202.  @ChrisGoldie  What are you talking about? I've never heard of black women getting fired for wearing braids. Hair is just hair bro. The origin of the style is irrelevant. It's not copying anything. Hair only has significance in specific contexts, like traditions, but other than that, who cares?
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  203.  @nerd2814  I base whether I like a game, based on the game itself. Plus, whether the online is as inconsistent as Splatoon 2's will not be determined until the game is released. I only played a handful of matches near the end of the testfire, but I never had a connection issue. And besides, the testfire is meant for improving the game before release, so we'll see if the online is better this time.
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  204.  @sharktiger4919  They aren't. X Rank, Salmon Run, League Battle, and Clam Blitz all debuted in Splatoon 2. Splatoon 3 is introducing the franchise's first online lobby, Tricolor Splatfests, the ability to play Anarchy Battle online with friends, and more customization options than any of the previous two games combined. And all three games have introduced new weapons, specials, stages, and gameplay mechanics. You straight up don't know what you're talking about if you actually think that they're all the same. The fact that all three games are similar is a strength because that gives it a consistent style for fans to grow accustomed to and expect from the franchise.
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  205.  @Classical19821  Are you an American by any chance?
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  206. He's not denying who he is. He's just not letting his sexuality determine his joy and identity, because us Christ followers' joy and identity is found in our Savior. Not ourselves. I think being single forever just like the Apostle Paul and still being full of joy is courageous and should be applauded.
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  207. I don't think "weird" is the best word for them. "Two-faced" is more like it.
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  208. Kamala was at least the incumbent VP. Musk on the other hand is a political outsider who simply got a position because he glazed Trump hard enough for it.
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  209. ART is just a gadgetbahn. ART strips away the two advantages that make trams great. Electrification and rails. One of the main reasons why road infrastructure is so expensive is because of the wear and tear from the weight of vehicles, creating unsafe damaged roads with potholes. Rails eliminate this issue because steel on steel is more durable. And it's faster.
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  210. ​​ @androgynousmaggot9389  This is basically what they're saying. They're saying that him apologizing is pointless because it doesn't mean anything, which is basically saying that he has reason to apologize at this point when he clearly very much does.
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  211. Bathrooms are a standard on all high speed trains.
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  212. The Republican Party needs to be reformed. Even whipping everything clean starting from scratch if necessary. The fact that American Christian culture has criminalized voting Democrat as "heresy" is not only dangerous, but textbook facism.
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  213.  @thatonemessyartist1760  But the Bible said that he made them man and woman, not infinite genders. And in Matthew 19, Jesus described marriage as the union of a man and a woman. I just don't see any Biblical evidence for the Bible supporting LGBT.
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  214.  @c0lutch  No. Property tax values only tax the property according to the value of the property. You know how the rich frequently buy properties, do nothing with them, then sell them for millions? It's because most of a property's value comes from the land it sits on, so even though the properties they own are falling apart and abandoned, the value of the land they sit on continues to rise, thus increasing the value of the property by proxy, allowing them to sell it at inflated prices. Tax the land instead of the property itself, the rich will be forced to build more housing or else it will be a net less for them. And since the larger the properties, the higher the tax, it will incentive them to build density, creating more density and economy of scale.
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  215. There's actually a growing movement to rebuild Old Penn Station. A proposal created by local advocacy group ReThinkNYC have created designs and renderings of a rebuild Penn Station by three architects, and it has the support of other architects and the National Civic Arts Society. I really hope it's successful. The destruction of Old Penn Station was a crime against the arts. A heinous act of public vandalism.
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  216. ​@patmac1280 Western support is the only reason why Ukraine still exists. Protecting our Western allies and the rules-based international world order benefits us far more than just saving some money. You have to invest in prosperity, and protecting your allies is an integral part of that. Having allies means having strong trade partnerships and stronger national security. The stakes of not defending Ukraine go far beyond just money.
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  217. Very disturbing fact: A UK woman was actually arrested for praying IN HER HEAD in public. She did not audibly say a single word, but because she had her eyes closed and her head down, it was still deemed offensive just because it looked like she was praying. It takes a special kind of insanity to label the mere act of praying in a so called free society offensive.
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  218. Employment was at a record low under Trump and his tax cuts for the rich are what has enabled the mass corporate consolidation that's happening right now in every industry. More monopolies means higher prices thanks to lower competition. And now Trump wants to double down on those tax cuts. It'll only make inflation worse. To make it even worse, Trump wants to put high tariffs on all foreign imports. Last time we tried that, it caused The Great Depression. Try doing that again today, especially in today's economy, and see what happens. It will be ugly. Very, very ugly.
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  219. They can't it was an anime original ending. It's reboot or bust and as someone who has finished the manga. The manga ending is WAY better. So much is different, not just ending. The character development is way better. Kilik, Oz, Kim, Jackie, and Harvard all become part of the main group too. Black Star vs Mifune Round 3 is WAY better than the anime version. And the anime missed out on some of the best fights in shounen.
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  220. Jesus warned of false teachers rising in the last days. The status of being a pastor is just a level of theological education.
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  221. Yet another example of the fact that it's not building that's the problem. It's we're building that's the problem. London and Sydney also had to build a lot, and London is still 12 years after the fact one of the most expensive Games of all-time, yet nobody complains about London's price tag because it was actually worth it.
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  222. That's the complete opposite of what MLK said. Instead of judging people based on the content of their character, we're judging people based on how privileged or victimized they are.
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  223. Madison Square Garden could very likely be relocated soon. The arena sitting right on top of Penn Station is making it impossible to modernize the station. It's so imposing, that the support beams for the arena sit on the track platforms. The MTA, NJTransit, and Amtrak all came out together united and say that the arena and Penn Station are no longer compatible. There's also a grassroots movement called ReThinkNYC that's pushing to rebuild Old Penn Station with modern ammenities, and it's gaining popularity in the city. Community Board 5 actually forced MSG's recently renewed permit to be shortened from 10 years to only 5 years. Dolan wants a permanent permit, yet the previous 10 year permit was already a rejection of that, and the condition of that permit was that MSG was supposed to use those 10 years to find a new location so that the MTA could actually rebuild Penn Station to modern standards, yet Dolan and MSG are hellbent on refusing to cooperate. The railroads, transit activists, and even the residents of New York City are all putting the pressure on to MSG, so expect new arena discussions to start ramping up within the next 5 years. MSG's future is not as certain as most think.
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  224. I'd strongly consider voting for Harris/Walz if I were you then. Almost all of the biggest issues we're facing right now are all connected to the housing crisis in at least some way. Density supports small businesses, makes housing more affordable, generates far higher economic output than low-density suburbia, it makes our country less lonely by giving us more third places, etc. I could go on and on.
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  225.  @manoftherainshorts9075  Gatekeeping with clothing and hair people and cannot wear is not what will protect their cultures. Spreading awareness about those cultures and their traditions is what will protect them. Clothing and hair overlap between cultures. For example, everyone of all races wear braids and buns. If an endangered culture also wears those hairstyles, does that mean that nobody else is allowed to wear them? Giving certain cultures priority over others perpetuates racism whether you realize that or not.
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  226.  @huverdoose  No, we're not. We're human beings of inherent individual value with intelligent thoughts and emotions. You really gonna tell me that a human life is in any way equivalent to a tiny, insignificant little cell? Really?
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  227. Idk how I feel about that. If they wanted her to stay, then that proves to be that it wasn't a termination worthy situation because the leak was self-contained. It didn't spread like Rushia's leak did. And Mel has always been a very sensitive person, so I feel like Mel wanted to leave was just her feeling emotional in the moment. I don't think Hololive going through with it so quick when emotions were so high was a good idea. It makes me question whether or not Mel's judgement was truly sound or not. I wish she was just suspended, because even though I never watched her content, she always had a big presence in Hololive, and just her status as being one of their senpais to the younger talents was really comforting. I feel really bad for Advent because they never got the chance to meet Mel.
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  228. The world does not revolve around cars. Cyclists are commuters too. It's better to give them dedicated bike lanes so that they don't get run over by cars. New York is a dense walkable city. Making it car friendly only benefits people who don't live in the city at the expense of those who do.
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  229. The whole point of building density is too much owning a car unnecessary. The only reason why everyone drives is because of sprawl. Density the country and the need to drive no longer exists because public transit will be way more favorable at that point.
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  230.  @GreenHornet553  All the railroads that use Penn Station have recently put out a statement saying that the station and MSG are no longer compatible. The arena takes up the vast majority of the space, leaving little room left to improve the station and especially its service. Just look at Old Penn Station from a practicality point of view. It was designed for optimal pedestrian flow, and only serviced 350k passengers per year at its peak. Penn Station today services more than twice that today in a cramp basement with a maze of confusing alleyways solely because the arena is taking up almost the entire footprint of the site. In fact, this video is outdated now. Hochul's plan from this video was recently scrapped because it would tear down the ice coolers for the Rangers, which just further proves my point. Listen, I get that MSG is iconic, but what's more important? Transit or nostalgia? The residents know the answer to that question, which is they recently voted to only gave MSG a three-year permit under the condition that they relocate soon. MSG has been torn down and rebuilt in different locations three times before already. Moving MSG now wouldn't be any different. In fact, ReThinkNYC's plan wants to move MSG to Herald Square on 33rd and 34th, which would actually preserve its connectivity to Penn Station. Hochul is building a pedestrian tunnel linking Herald Square Station to Penn Station, so moving MSG just one block east would be ideal. We need to just accept the fact every sports venue will reach its expiration date eventually. Age will even catch up to Wrigley Field and Fenway Park park one day. It's an inevitability that we need to be prepared for, so when transit is it stake, we might as well get ahead of the game on that because eventually in the coming decades, it's gonna need a replacement eventually. So, I don't care about what Dolan wants. He's an arrogant billionaire who can wipe his tears with his dollar bills for all I care. This city belongs to the people. Not him. What the people need is far more important. That's the why the residents have to vote for it.
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  231. This podcast is such a blessing and a breath of fresh air. Thank you Joe.
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  232. If Ukraine successfully pulls this off, this will easily go down as one of the greatest national and military victories in history.
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  233. Did you know that California almost passed a bill to ban the sale of Bible, calling it a "book of hate and lies?"
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  234. Somebody makes to make an animation of a Biden vs Trump anime fight. We already got the Biden Blast. It's time to complete the lore.
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  235. The fact that American Evangelicalism has normalized and propagandized the majority of the American Church to believe that voting Democrat is heretical, is textbook idolatry. The far right Evangelicals literally believe that Trump is divinely anointed by God. They basically worship Him. If you were a Christian that said you were voting for Biden, immediately, you'd have an army of Evangelicals questioning the legitimacy of your faith and salvation, telling you that you've fallen away and need to repent. If you call out a Democrat politician as evil, the American Church will say Amen, but if you call out a Republican politician as evil, the American Church cancels you as a heretic. It's sickening.
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  236. The cope from the LAPD is insane. Hollywood is notorious for being one of the biggest buyers of human trafficking, and it's based in LA. And the US is the world's largest buyer of human trafficking. The location is way too convenient to not be a real plea for help.
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  237. This reminds of the enormous underground tunnels in Japan. They make Chicago's system look like a dwarf by comparison.
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  238.  @r1ght1left1  You do realize that single-family zoning didn't exist until the auto-boom, right? Before that, cities grew organically and were full of housing diversity. Single-family homes have always existed since we were colonies, but the difference between our historic districts and today's neighborhoods is that you didn't have zoning restrictions making it illegal to build a duplex next to a single-family home and a corner store on the same block. Cities should develop organically instead of being enslaved to these rigid, top down, big government regulations. They've created artificial scarcity, made most other housing illegal, and have killed small businesses almost everywhere across the country. Creating neighborhoods full of Mom and Pop shops is objectively better for this country than basing our entire local economies around big box retail monopolies.
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  239. It's amazing to me how the Republican Party, the party of trusting everything in the hands of the free market, doesn't trust the free market to adapt to green energy. They talk about green energy being so expensive as if costs are always set in stone and don't naturally go down as the supply increases, one of the most basic fundamentals of economics. And this isn't even mentioning how expensive cleaning up after climate disasters is. It's almost like it's not the energy costs that they're fighting for.
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  240. The one of the only people to have survived the plane impact
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  241. The world does not revolve around cars. Cyclists are commuters too. It's better to give them dedicated bike lanes so that they don't get run over by cars. New York is a dense walkable city. Making it car friendly only benefits people who don't live in the city at the expense of those who do.
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  242. When you're taking about the Olympics, every saved dollar counts. With how ambitious the original design was, it probably would've been even more expensive.
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  243. I have a strong feeling that these psychos are going to attempt to assassinate Biden
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  244. Bro, where the hell did all these Nazis come from?
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  245.  @MrMarinus18  Rent is not wealth extraction. That's absurd. Rentals have always been an integral part of the housing market for generations because they're more accessible to the lower class and retirees. The reason why rent is so high is because of artificial housing scarcity caused by single-family zoning, mandatory parking minimums, and restrictive building codes. The whole reason why the missing middle is missing in the first place is because it's illegal to build in most places in the US. Almost of the missing middle housing you find today has just been grandfathered in. This is the biggest cause of housing crisis. We treat space like it's an unlimited resource, but it's not. And the added burden of car dependency has basically become an additional tax that strips every American of their freedom of movement. Building mixed-use transit oriented development and legalizing front yard businesses would work wonders for local entrepreneurs and upward mobility.
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  246. There's actually an interpretation of the theory of evolution that teaches that evolution has set variables with guaranteed outcomes. Therefore, if aliens do exist, then it would make sense that they look like us under that framework.
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  247.  @Caveirazul  This is an insanely bad take. Rio was one of the biggest disasters in Olympic history. Tokyo was a financial disaster because Tokyo overbuilt their venues and they had an extra year of operating costs on top of no spectators thrusted onto them, but at least their venues are still in use long-term. And Paris only had to build one new venue for the Olympics. Everything else is being held in pre-existing facilities. Meanwhile, basically all of Rio's venues are now abandoned, and they had to bulldoze slums just to build them all in the first place.
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  248. Adopt ReThinkNYC's plan! Rebuild the original Penn Station! Rebuild Hotel Pennsylvania! Move MSG to Herald Square! Don't demolish an entire block of homes, businesses, and a historic Church just to serve some greedy real estate developers!
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  249. Let's hope and pray that it sparks a movement within the industry.
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  250. That's a horrible idea. If landlords can't raise the rents, then they will just stop building market rate housing altogether and shift to building luxury units instead. And then when all the middle class workers are priced out, they'll just bulldoze the units for more luxury units instead of continuing to sell them. This is exactly what happened to San Francisco when they passed rent control back in the 90's. Wanna see that happen on a national scale next? Because that's exactly what will happen if we that. Rent control is basically gentrification speedrunning.
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  251. They're just entitled 🤣
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  252. North Jersey has a population of over 7M people that's currently only being served by one tunnel in and one tunnel out, both of which are old and falling apart. If you seriously think that this is a project that isn't needed, then you simply aren't paying attention.
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  253. This is why I'm doubter. We've had so many sightings over the years, and yet not a single one of them can be photography at least slightly visibly. We have HD photos from as old as the 90s, yet we still can't get a single HD photo or video in this digital age when everyone has HD/4k smartphones? That's sketchy bro.
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  254. You seem to be describing HOA suburbs more than cities tbh.
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  255. The one with the ventriloquist doll and the wax figures are also masterpieces.
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  256. I don't see how. YouTube has a mix of big left wing and right wing channels, so it's not like Asmongold coming to YouTube would be game changing. He'd just be fitting into an already large community of political YouTubers.
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  257. The anime's director confirmed that he taking it in an original director right after S1 ended. Shirai was just brought in for damage control.
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  258. Sarajevo's venues were destroyed during the bloodshed of the Bosnian war and genocide. Sarajevo was ground zero of the fighting, so the Olympic venues unfortunately became casualties of the war. Also, Munich would be a great Summer Games host because they wouldn't have to build anything. They still have all of their 1972 venues in use, which is a huge win and advantage for them.
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  259. It's all the IOC's fault.
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  260. It's depressing how America used to have the greatest railway network in the world only for it to be completely destroyed in only a heartbeat by corporations, manufactured consent, and racism. Back in the early 20th Century, before the auto and oil lobbies monopolized transit, you could take a train from anywhere to anywhere. Even by today's standards, it puts every modern national railway to shame. Heck, the Lackawanna Cutoff in NJ is what invented high speed rail, yet we abandoned it while Europe and Japan embraced it. We had no idea how good we had it until we destroyed it. Just imagine how advanced and connected our railways could've been today had we not bulldozed them in the name of "progress" and "modernity."
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  261.  @kiwikiwi2483  Jesus is also a God of justice precisely because He is loving. Love does not equal approval. Obedience is not judgmental and legalistic.
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  262. "Judges should be ruling. They shouldn't be dictating what you're supposed to be doing." The whole point of a judical ruling is to set the legal limits for what you can and cannot do. He just wants the judges to be loyal to him like SCOTUS is.
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  263. ​ @eannadefaoite  He seems to be more a social democrat. Social democracy is just capitalism but more highly regulated and with a welfare safety net, which aligns pretty accurately with Robert's views. So sick of people calling literally everything European socialist simply because it's contrarian to America. It's so simple-minded. It's so refreshing to finally see someone isn't "America bad, therefore capitalism bad."
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  264. Define love then. Because love and approval are not synonyms. Telling someone the harsh truth so that they can be saved from hell is itself an act of love. Not warning someone of their sin is just like calling someone intolerant for pulling that person back from the edge of a cliff, saving their life. "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them." - Ephesians 5:11
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  265. If it's any consolation, he's going to be locked up until he's 85.
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  266. @delftfietser  You aren't forced to cycle in The Netherlands either. The Netherlands is actually consistently voted one of the best countries to drive because car traffic is separated from transit and cycling infrastructure, making car trips smoother and faster. The main difference between us and The Netherlands is that cars aren't used for everyday tasks. They're used for family roadtrips, so they store their cars in underground parking garages while we bulldoze entire neighborhoods just to build parking lots.
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  267.  @Atrail_Mckinley4786  Even if you replace the bridge, that still does not justify widening the highway. Not only would it induce more car traffic like it always has, but as pointed out in this video, it will just make the Lincoln Tunnel bottleneck even worse. The Lincoln Tunnel only has two lanes. Just imagine how awful the traffic of trying to squish a packed multi-lane highway into just two narrow tunnel lanes. If you think NY/NJ traffic is already hell now, then just imagine that. And that's not even mentioning the amount of homes that would have to be destroyed to make that happen. Think about it. Displacing people to build the roads that are supposed to connect said people. Especially in a housing crisis on top of that. The oxymoronic logic of that is mind boggling.
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  268. @doujinflip  Online shopping would not have nearly as much power if it weren't for suburbanization, so that would be nice.
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  269. What are you even proposing? We already have tunnels and the MTA and Amtrak already have Penn Station. And MetroNorth is already in Rockland County. Rockland County is north of the Bronx in the Hudson Valley. You don't cross the Hudson River to get to Rockland County. And if you want a direct connection to Buffalo, restore the Lackawanna Cutoff, which connects to NJT by proxy, NYC.
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  270. I hope every American citizen understands just how dangerous of a precedent this sets for every future president going forward.
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  271. New York should also build more more halfway homes and have them gated from the rest of the neighborhood. That would reduce the public's anxiety quite a bit. If the convicts are good residents there, then they can move into regular housing. There has to be some avenue for criminals to reintegrate back into the society because for too long, America treats criminals like they're born evil and are predestined to always be evil no matter what, which is self-defeating. If you drill into someone's head that they're irredeemable, unreformable monster, then they wind up believing that and see no point in actually trying to change. If you tell someone that there's actually a better path in life and that they actually are capable of change, then that would change lives for the better. This is too scary for most people to admit, "good company brings good character" applies to criminals too. When the only company they have is other criminals, the only example they have to follow is crime. Criminals need examples of reformed criminals to look up too instead of only being surrounded by repeat offenders for their entire lives.
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  272.  @epicwolf  LA is already booked for 2028, and SoFi was confirmed to be the host venue for the ceremonies.
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  273.  @anirudh_s17  The water getting pumped to LA is not worth killing the river itself, even if it's for flood management. There are far better and far more sustainable ways to protect against floods than killing your region's biodiversity, like putting bioswales all over your streets and parks. And concretizing the river makes it impossible for the aquifer underneath the river to refill, so even if you're still pumping the water to LA, it's still a net loss of water because you've sacrificed the aquifer, which holds way more way than just the river by itself, in the process.
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  274.  @davidr.walters371  I don't understand a word you just said. 💀
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  275. Imagine replacing the name of a WWl allied soldier with a fascist.
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  276.  @taz8808  LA, are you serious? LA 1984 has been long revered as one of the most successful Olympics of all time. LA has every venue necessary. Montreal on the other hand was managed extremely poorly.
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  277.  @luiscastanon6399  Tysm. I find this very helpful because I'm not sure how to approach this issue legally. God bless you brother.
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  278.  Remember Lord Jesus Pray the Rosary  I never said that I support abortion. I was just defining what they meant they called themselves pro-life, even though they're pro-choice.
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  279.  @samuelsilva8364  The irony is that walkable neighborhoods are the most livable, so that would actually be a good thing.
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  280. While it's great that America is finally embracing walkability and transit again, not only is this going to destroy so much of the little remaining rural land that hasn't been suburbanized yet, but the fact that this entire city is going to be built on land entirely owned by the top 0.1% is incredibly dystopian. Imagine if they bought up all the land in our big cities.
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  281.  @manamanathegreat  The SAVE Act which Republicans are trying to pass requires a birth certificate as proof of citizenship in order to vote, which will effectively strip married women and trans people of their right to vote because they change their names.
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  282.  @ajasadisu5188  Pretty much. They're basically holding an economic slavery campaign. Hire another nation pour out of the money, labor, and resources for you, but you take all the profit. This is why the games back in the day when they only took 6% of the profits, were not only successful, but have strong legacies to this day. Something Athens, Sochi, Rio, and Beijing could only dream of.
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  283. They really should build a dome over it
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  284.  @bufnyfan1  Damn, I really hope so. The Chargers and Clippers should never have moved. They only moved because of greedy owners itching to cash on the far bigger profits in LA.
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  285. The level of denial on display here is truly impressive.
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  286.  @arnaud4588  There are a lot of people who are conditioned since they were little to think that it's normal because they grew up in neighborhoods where that is normalized. I have family like that sadly. They said middle schoolers dating 18-19 was extremely common where they grew up, so they never questioned it.
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  287. That's what "all." Having a traditional view of marriage and wanting a genocide of all lgbtq people are two very different things. The obvious doesn't always need to be explicitly brought up by name to made clear. Because, you know...it's obvious.
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  288. Matthew Vines is academically dishonest. He ignores other verses in the scriptures like in Matthew where just says: "Have you not read that He who made them in the beginning made them male and female? >>For this reason<< a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to His wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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  289. If that's all he wanted, then he wouldn't have incited a coup attempt to maintain power. Trump wants to be a dictator. He's a con-artist. He doesn't need to be President to make bank.
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  290.  @ashantinyongo7632  The Bible is not a fairytale. That's just your opinion.
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  291. "The Bible says to just love." Define love then. Is love approval? Because that's foolishness. God isn't a just an easy going nice guy who validates everything we do. God is also a God of justice. He has laws precisely because He is loving. That ignorant strawman of "just be loving" is classic Bible cherry picking.
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  292. Kamala is half-Indian, half-Jamaican, so yes, she is black.
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  293.  @Lejeron  WWlll thanks to Trump's imperialism towards our allies.
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  294. Because they're complicit
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  295. I can already see the documentaries opening being the "I'm going to kermit suicide" meme with the dramatic suspenseful music and the elaborate editing.
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  296. Personally, I don't think their reasoning for the letters was totally illogical. Often times when predators get caught, there were clear warning signs that everyone either missed or ignored. A good example of this is John K. I think it's likely that they wrote these letters because they only had positive experiences with him, and thus, questioned if he was truly guilty or not.
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  297. Christian Nationalist American exceptionalism, "they're poisoning the blood of our country," Trump pledging to round up immigrants into detention camps and end birthright citizenship. How is it that nobody is seeing the parallels after all of this?
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  298.  @kjr3210  My friend, we're not called "to live your own truth." We're called to live God's truth, which is written in His word.
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  299. It's absolutely insane how these people complain how the green transition is stifling the economy because it's so expensive while being completely unable to comprehend the costs of not transitioning. You really think cleaning up ecological disasters, rebuilding entire cities destroyed by more frequent natural disasters, and ending the housing crisis with mass climate migration will be cheap? These people seem to think that oil is an unlimited resource. It's not. We only have 47 more years worth of oil left. What will we do then if we don't transition now? Will completely destroying the climate and causing a mass extinction have been worth it then? They keep yapping about the economy like it's the only thing that matters. There are in fact other issues worth worrying about.
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  300. @ZeusAVI  There are very few neighborhoods in this country left that haven't been bulldozed for the car, so the only ones are unaffordable due to the high demand. You shouldn't have to uproot your life just for basic liability. The foundations of good urban planning are universal wherever you live. You should be able to walk to a corner store regardless of where you live.
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  301.  @daltongalloway  That was because of the population boom at the time. Not because of the roads. Space is a limited resource, so building with borderline rural density everywhere is only wasting that space. This is why we have a housing crisis. It's because we've legislated the means to provide enough supply out of existence.
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  302. Pixiv will take Twitter's place if Twitter goes down.
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  303. It's not even the colleges teaching them this. I'm from deep blue NJ and I've never seen anyone talk like this at my university. These are just the kinds of people who "educate themselves" through social media. They're just blindly following dogma. This video has to be cherry picking out the idiots to at least some degree.
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  304. What we really need is an AI software that can scan anything in order to determine whether it's fake or not, and imbed it into everything. Kind of like those "I am not a robot" things, but for determining whether something is real or not.
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  305.  @bart_u  There's a growing movement to rebuild Old Penn Station. A proposal created local advocacy group ReThinkNYC have created designs and renderings of a rebuild Penn Station, and it has the support of architects and the National Civic Arts Society. I really hope it's successful.
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  306. ​ @noMediocre777  Has it ever crossed your mind that you're just one of the lucky ones? Look around you outside your own little bubble. The cost of living is higher than it's ever been. Groceries, healthcare, education, housing, car ownership, everything just keeps getting more expensive. And yet despite this, our wages have stayed almost exactly the same. Struggling to survive in an environment like that is not a result of laziness. You're just dismissing and invalidating people and their struggles because you're too afraid to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which helps no one.
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  307.  @BovadaTechnologies  How do you know that nobody rides a bike? Are the bike lanes protected? Is the network expansive enough to actually be useable? Or are you so busy driving that you simply never notice all the cyclists because you aren't looking? Provide actual verifiable data to back up your claims.
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  308.  Juliana Maio  I want to understand her point of view. Is that a crime? Nobody here was offended except you. I said I understand where she's coming from.
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  309. Congestion pricing is a standard practice that transit agencies all over the world implement. That's not the issue. It's the MTA constant laziness and penny-pinching. They have so many that must be done, but stubbornly drag their feet on them because they don't to bother spending the money to complete them, resulting in the projects getting even more expensive due to their laziness, which just makes the MTA even more lazy to finish those projects. The MTA runs the subway the same way Jon Fisher runs the A's.
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  310.  @raaaaaedits  Brisbane and Sydney are far apart from each other. So is Melbourne as well. Maybe it's possible, but all three of them are Olympics cities (Brisbane being all but confirmed for 2032), so Australia has plenty of tools to work with. Edit: Brisbane is now officially the 2032 host.
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  311. Saying that Sydney is one of the few Olympic success stories is misleading. Disastrous Olympic hosts are only a recent phenomenon due to Games growing in size and becoming so much more extravagant over the years. Overall, most Olympic host cities have historically been successful. Even all the way back to 1976, Innsbruck, Barcelona, Atlanta, Lake Placid, LA, Lillehammer, Albertville, Salt Lake, London, and Vancouver were all tremendously successful.
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  312. Nothing says corruption like an illegal immigrant oligarch hostily gaining totalitarian control over the world's most powerful treasury.
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  313. Apartments are not inherently bad for families. Multi-family apartments are apartments whose units are large and spacious to accommodate families. They're very popular in Eastern European.
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  314. ​ @theodorcth5711  Strawman argument. Social democracy is not socialism or communism. It's capitalism with a welfare safety net. Big difference. Also, healthcare is a public need, therefore it should be free. Paywalling healthcare just blocks the poor from receiving the life-saving treatments they desperately need. Nobody deserves to die from a curable disease because "muh they're lazy." That's insanity. Poor people are human beings too. Private prisons are run by greedy corporations who want to milk as much money out of you as possible. They hook you on drugs for every little thing, even when you don't need them, with debilitating side-effects that keep you coming back for more drugs and the cycle continues, prolonging your sickness instead of actually treating it. They charge you like $200 for skin-to-skin contact with your newborn child. I could go on and on about how evil our current healthcare system is.
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  315. Well, it is a global summit, so obviously, you'd have to fly there. What do you expect them to do? Take the train across the ocean?
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  316.  @Daniel_Zhu_a6f  I'm not talking about slavery. I'm talking about urban planning before the automobile.
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  317.  @MahdiDahir  Wrong. Tokyo poured their labor, resources, and billions of dollars into these Games, all for the IOC to sit back and do absolutely nothing to help them, then come in and take all of the profit, leaving the host city behind to rot. The IOC being greedy is the problem. Back when the Olympics were in their prime, they only took 6% of the profits and those Games were widely successful.
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  318.  Suave JAE  Well, there's actually deeper reason for it. For one, us Christians want to save as many souls from hell as possible. So one major question that needs to be asked is, is supporting LGBTQ rights supporting free will or enabling and celebrating sin? Where's the boundary line? And it seems that the LGBTQ movement's agenda is the opposite. You see, the LGBTQ movement isn't simply asking for marriage and trans surgery. It's demanding that all Churches and Christians renounce the scriptures validate their lifestyles, subscribe to the idea that there are multiple genders and use pronouns, and perform same-sex marriages, all which go completely against scriptures. You see, with the way the culture is shifting, the only way Christians will be allowed to have religious freedom and not be cancelled as "intolerant," they'll have to be force to renounce the Bible and its authority, and actively practice and teach heresy. It's not as simple as respecting one's beliefs. It's our definition of love, tolerance, and acceptance, and that problem is the false idea that love equals approval. And that ideology is dangerous.
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  319.  @NeilHaskins  Which will conveniently be more tax breaks for the ultra rich and mass deregulation for corporations.
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  320.  @danielfarfudinov3193  And he was probably wondering how he didn't see it
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  321. Amen
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  322. The EPA is necessary for preventing corporations from destroying the environment.
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  323. The impact of suburbanization on young people has never been more apparent, yet it's easily the most overlooked. The lack of third places that walkable communities provide is what allows people to socialize. Car centric suburbia locks you under house arrest until you're old enough to own a car and the third places are so far away, that nobody meets anyone spontaneously anymore. Why drive 30 minutes to the nearest shopping center or restaurant when you can just order everything from Amazon Prime and DoorDash everyday? Our infrastructure is literally built to encourage mass isolation. I cringe so hard every time I hear someone say, "good fences make good neighbors," because that's just the nice guy's way of saying, "stay away from me and never talk to me and maybe I will tolerate your existence." And yet, people love to complain about how kids never go outside anymore because they're glued to their devices, even though we are actively encouraging them to keep doing exactly that.
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  324. "We're facing an affordability crisis, so lets build 70,000 new homes, and only make less than half of them affordable. This is a great idea. Please trust us."
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  325. The UK isn't the only free country on Earth though. The UK being stupid does not make America special. It just makes the UK exceptionally stupid. No other free country on Earth will arrest you over speech like this. Hell, the UK actually arrested a woman for silently praying in public. She didn't even audibly say a single word either.
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  326. Cars don't buy things. People do. NYC is a dense walkable city full of public transit and bike lanes, which unlike parking, is scalable. Businesses consistently make more profit the more transit and micromobility is prioritized over cars for this very reason.
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  327. I will never understand how gaming corporations can't understand that nostalgia sells. Making old games accessible would make them far more money than locking them away ever will because not only will gamers always come to old games for nostalgia, but they're a lot of new gen gamers like me who never got to experience the older games, yet desperately wants to. These corporations are completely oblivious to the fact that there new gamers every single day who will never get the chance to play these old games.
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  328. @sarahphillips8987  The government serves as the majority owner of multiple health insurance companies that all compete with each other in a hybrid model between socialism and capitalism, ensuring that they don't deny claims and actually provide good service, while also still allowing profits to be made for the minority owners. It essentially forces the companies to be held accountable to the government.
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  329. Hyperloop is just a worse version of high speed rail. It doesn't matter if hyperloop is faster than high speed rail because the hyperloop is an individualized pod, while a high speed train is a high capacity train, so high speed rail will always move way more people, way faster, and way more efficiently.
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  330.  @700K-pp9wm  We are under colonial occupation and that's a fact. We are US territory who citizens are denied the rights the citizens of the 50 states have, while neglecting it economically and in times of crisis like with Hurricane Maria. That's the definition of colonialism. So no, I'm not "crying." My culture and heritage is being Americanized and assimilated by the United States, and now the US is trying to finish the job by making us a state. We cannot allow that to happen. Just look at what happened to Hawaii. It's going to happen to us next if we don't preserve our culture.
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  331.  @700K-pp9wm  Ok, firstly, I said I was white passing. Not white. White passing means I just look white, even though I'm not. Also, are you insinuating that the only reason why Latin America is poor is because they didn't oppress them correctly? Because that's eerily similar to saying: "We're not white supremacists. We're actually just correcting the Africans' savage ways." You're basically saying that Latin America is hopeless without the intervention of the white man.
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  332.  @waterbottles393  Most animators are freelancers. Especially in the anime industry. So yes, they actually do. Their Twitter timelines act as their portfolios.
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  333.  @shawnokeefe1580  Suburbs don't need to be car dependent, and tailgating isn't exclusively a suburban thing. The built form of a neighborhood doesn't erase the tailgating culture.
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  334. "Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." - Matthew 16:24 Following Jesus is not comfortable. Following Jesus convicts us of our sins. If we just wanted to feel good, we'd just give into our flesh and deny Christ as our Savior, and King, and to that I say, no thank you.
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  335.  @ayoubali1082  Honestly, here in America, the general consensus I see is that Jesus is a republican. I rarely Christians here that aren't either passionately or straight up extremely 100% Right. It's ridiculous.
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  336. That sounds like satire because it's not even a topic worthy of debate lol
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  337.  @lalak2157  Land value tax replaces property taxes, along with most other taxes like income tax, sales tax, and VAT. The point is to tax land instead of property because the overwhelming majority of a property's value comes from its location, yet we don't tax the land. We tax the property according to its condition, so the poor are inventive to live in poorer conditions in order to avoid being taxed more if their property was in livable condition. It's a regressive tax. I highly recommend you watch BritMonkey's video on Georgism.
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  338. It's almost poetic that Jesus does a lets play of John Christian on Easter Sunday.
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  339. Had it not been for COVID, these games would've been one of the all-time greats. Please just postpone them to 2022. The Olympics are an event that should always be held to its max potential. Team Japan deserves their home crowd. The athletes deserve to be with their families. The world deserves to gather in Japan. The Games deserve to actually be a festival worthy of celebration. My disappointment and anger over how little the IOC cares about saving lives as well as the heart and soul of the Olympic movement all for the sake of greed is immeasurable.
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  340. Blockbuster should've followed Funimation's business model. Offering both streaming and physical distribution.
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  341.  @pedroyeverino2394  Jesus died to save us from the bondage of our sins so that we could be saved. What do you mean no?
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  342. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." - Matthew 16:24 Just like a good Earthly father, God loves us, but also has laws. If you love God, you'll obey His commands. Using God's love as an excuse to keep sinning cheapens and takes advantage of God's grace. It's like apologizing to your parents, then immediately continuing to deliberately disobey them while calling your parents hateful, intolerant, and judgmental for not validating your blatant, unrepentant sin. And that's heretical.
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  343. It's not just to save fish. It's to have enough water available to feed crops and prevent the rivers from overflowing during rainfall and causing flooding. The fires were already contained too because it rained, so he released the water for nothing.
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  344. Well, this aged well lol
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  345.  @neah9060  That's just a band-aid solution that solves nothing. One of the biggest reasons why porn is so mentally damaging is because it's so unrealistic. That lack of realism winds up distorts your perception of reality. It's best to just avoid porn entirely.
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  346.  @lostinthecityofbooks6711  I'm aware of that. That's why I think that all host cities must fit a strict criteria of existing infrustrature with a stable economy. But most importantly, the IOC actually giving the profits back to the host cities.
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  347. For all of the smoothbrains yapping about how no charges were filed, 77% of all sexual crimes go unreported. No charges being filed does not discredit allegations. Just look at all the YouTubers who get exposed for talking to minors and yet never go to prison.
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  348. I thought it was a dog when I saw the thumbnail 💀
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  349. ​ @Tryp-j9d  Bro just said he's 56 and used to drive drunk in his 20's. Sean Higgins is 41. Can you read?
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  350.  @juanhaver6584  We already pay for those things with our taxes. The problem is that we've overbuilt our roadways to such an egregious extreme, that all of our tax money is going into maintaining all of these roads, leaving everything else that actually matters with nothing, but pennies. Ever noticed how the highways are always smooth and expanding, while everything else is crumbling? It's by design. America also fully taking in that supremacy of the military coke doesn't help either.
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  351. Freedom is having the ability to choose how you get around. If car dependency is mandated by law, then you have freedom to choose. You're being forced to drive against your wishes.
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  352. You're joking right? How is leaning on someone's neck for 9 minutes while he's saying that he can't breathe over and over in any way justifiable? Explain yourself.
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  353. Wrong. The New Testament is the collection of the writings of the Apostles.
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  354. ​ @drecognis  Was about to comment this 💀💀💀
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  355. Send this to every Evangelical that calls you a heretic for voting Democrat
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  356. @nope-87-12x  Tax breaks aren't the be-all and end-all of saving money. What's the point of paying lower taxes if you get nothing out of them? People constantly say that free healthcare will raise their taxes, but what's more expensive? Insurance and thousands of dollars for every single appointment, or a tax increase? Sometimes, the tax increase means you save money.
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  357. The Great Reset will be the Ministry of Truth, aka, the Beast of Revelation
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  358.  @bills5009  It’s all fun and games until it finally happens though.
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  359.  @misspikapika7972  "Let anyone who wishes to be my disciple deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow Me." - Matthew 16:24 "Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'" - John 3:5-8 "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." - Romans 6:1-4 Yes, did call us to repent and be born again. Do not be deceived.
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  360.  @blazingkhalif2  How is that racist? Being loyal to both your nationality and your ethnicity is a very common sentiment to have. I'm proud to be an American, but I'm also Puerto-Rican and wish for my people to have independence. We've been under colonial rule for over 500 years now. We're overdue for it. Being an American doesn't mean that you must support everything America does. There's a reason why American citizens protested the invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. Because they were unjustifiable invasions that caused the unnecessary bloodshed of millions. And don't forget that war crimes are always committed during wars. If America invades Mexico, you're going to see the 2nd coming of the Mai Lai Massacre against the relatives of American citizens. Mexican American have every reason to revolt against the US over this.
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  361.  @yuzan3607  Not everything needs to be complex in order to be beautiful. Simplicity can be beautiful too. They'll probably grow on you over time. And they aren't glass cubes. Those are actually small steel beams that divided the windows into very small sizes. The architect behind them, Minoru Yamasaki, did that on purpose because he was afraid of heights. The beams start in in the shape of gothic arches above the lobby, then go straight up.
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  362. The worst example of this I've seen is NY getting rid of resource classes because they "racially segregate students" and "leave the students of color behind the white students." That is going to ruin the education of so many children because the purpose of resource classes is not to segregate students. It's to slow down the pace of education for academically struggling students and especially neurodivergent students. I was in resource classes from 5th grade through high school. If I didn't have them, my education would've been ruined because the classes would've moved to fast for me to understand anything. Neurodivergent students need resource classes so that teachers can accomdate their disabilities in the classroom. And on top of that, removing resource classes implies that minorities are inherently stupider than white students and thus the white students need to have their education dumbed down to accommodate it. How New York cannot see how removing resources classes is dangerous blows my mind.
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  363.  @bingus4901  Now you're just putting words in my mouth that I never said. Having a mental disability does not invalidate the other self-evident facts that give every human life its inherent value.
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  364. We don't need medications. We just need people to be patient with us. Schools are not interactive enough, and people assume that we're lazy and unmotivated for struggling to focus.
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  365.  @Ramschat  Sustainable farming produces higher crop yields. The only reason why it hasn't been implemented is because of the influence the chemical industry lobby that makes billions off the pesticides and herbicides that they use. If it's sustainable environmentally, then it's also sustainable economically. Monoculture is what's draining the Colorado River dry. The writing is on the wall, and the Southwestern US is about to see it fully manifest.
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  366. @delftfietser  You say it like 8,000 isn't a lot of money by itself, nor are you factoring in the cost of gas, maintenance, and insurance. All of which are required in order to drive a vehicle. Why should I spent so much money just to travel when I can just pay a fare, buy a bike for way less, or just use my own two legs, which are free?
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  367. @bb1111116  Yes, but good urbanism shouldn't just be limited to a handful of big cities. The fundamentals of good urban planning are universal. Even rural small towns used to streetcar lines before big auto and big oil stole them from us.
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  368. I think there a lot more guys in your boat then we would like to admit. Myself included. I used to be an incel in high school. I've since changed since then, but the guilt still lingers with me. This is why we need to educate our adolescent boys about consent and boundaries so that they don't develop dangerous behavior without anyone telling them why it's wrong and stopping them. It's terrifying how parents seriously think that educating our kids about consent in any capacity is "grooming" and "sexualizing our children." Like, did they never date their classmates when they were in school? Obviously they consented with each other to some degree, even if they didn't lose their virginity. How is possible for these idiots to live on this Earth for as long as they have without realizing how dangerous this world really is? It's not about "grooming" and "sexualizing" your kids. It's about safety. Ignorance is dangerous and these idiots want to keep our kids ignorant.
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  369. The Democrats remaining hellbent on promoting Biden, even though he's clearly mentally unwell and universally hated by everyone was a catastrophic mistake that never made any sense since day 1. There are so many other Democrat candidates available that would easily generate so much more support and confidence from left wing and anti-Trump conservative voters, yet for some incomprehensible reason, the Democratic Party still remains hellbent on promoting the one guy who cannot form a single coherent sentence, even the polls are clearly showing that it isn't working. And the fact that Biden was elected with the expectation that he would be a one-term president doesn't make it any better either. It's like they're trying to throw the election on purpose at this point. It's infuriating to watch. This single decision by the party is what's setting up this election to have probably the worst voter turnout in history. We're absolutely cooked going into next year.
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  370.  @snakedogman  That's completely wrong. Art Deco is an early modern style.
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  371.  @williamsnike452  Look at our military budget compared to literally everything else. If you want to create good public services, you have invest in them. They're not just gonna fall out of the sky into your lap. Finland has had the best education system in the world for years now and their taxpayers pay approximately 15B per year for it. I think it's safe to say that the investment is worth it. Meanwhile, here in America, we have schools that are so poor, that they rely on oil companies for almost of their funding.
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  372.  @williamsnike452  "I don't care about your kids nor my neighbors." That attitude is exactly why this country is falling to shit. I know it's a funny meme and all, but it's true that we live in a society. We're supposed to look out for the whole country. Not the few lucky rich people like yourself who can actually afford private school. Good for you and your kids, but turns out, moving is expensive. But you're obviously too self-centered to see that or care.
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  373. @eos_2366  You must not be familiar with permaculture then. The whole of permaculture is biodiversity. Growing a diversity of crops together instead of wasting acres upon acres of land on a single crops, leading to freshwater waste, soil degradation, and the mass extinction of our insects and the poisoning of our bodies from pesticides and herbicides. Nature is meant to compliment each other, but monoculture goes completely against this. Growing crops through biodiversity, allowing the crops themselves to support each other allows you grow higher yields on smaller land plots, bringing the farms closer to the cities and saving the rest of the freed up land for rewilding.
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  374.  @aaronjefferson279  The funny thing is that ReThinkNYC wants to move MSG to 34th and 33rd Street at Herald Square, and Herald Square Station is being connected to Penn Station via a pedestrian tunnel, so if MSG moves there, MSG will still be connected to Penn Station, so it's literally win-win for everyone. Dolan gets to keep his connectivity to Penn Station, while the public gets a functional train station and an iconic American landmark and masterpiece of architecture that should've never been torn down in the first place back. There are literally no downsides to this. There's absolutely no reason why the city should not be jumping on this, but sadly, NYC as usually prioritizes kissing the asses of the rich over what really matters.
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  375. I doubt it's Trump. He's too hated to be the antichrist. I think he's an accomplice though. I'm expecting the antichrist to be Jared Kushner. The antichrist is going to the man who establishes peace between Israel and Palestine, and he's the mastermind behind the peace deal. That man will appear as the Jewish messiah, and Jared is Jewish.
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  376. The reveal that Charlie went to a Tampa Bay Lightning game has single-handedly made my hockey-loving heart soar.
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  377. The irony of these people claiming that they're fighting the good fight to protect women and children while simultaneously lacking the self awareness to realize that their selective outrage towards people of color only protects white predators.
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  378. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to realize that sustainability isn't an inconvenience. It's a better quality of life. And if it's sustainably green, than that also makes it sustainably economical, so it makes no logical sense to resist going all in on it. We're currently relying on harmful limited resources to sustain ourselves, yet green energy is not constrained by them and is good for us. Who wouldn't want to cash in on that? It just doesn't make any sense not to. It's a guaranteed win-win for everyone.
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  379. Because the denser the area, the more cramped it is. The denser the area, the higher the traffic, and the more turns you have to make.
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  380.  @hjp84  Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, Nagano, Sapporo, Seoul, all come to mind.
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  381.  @ramisama88  There's a very big difference between having an opinion and inciting violence. Inciting violence is an act of terrorism. Having a shit take doesn't harm anyone. It just makes you a clown.
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  382. "bUt tHeY rEsiSTeD aRrESt," the police after dropping the bomb probably.
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  383. @ That's not going to help much when you consider how terminally car-brained we are. Choosing your own middle school and high school is only practical when you have walkability and viable alternatives to driving. Without those two things, the distance between most schools and the economic barrier to owning a vehicle for poor families (one used car costs more than the entire annual income of a low-income family of four), both make traveling outside of your school district impractical because would be forced their kids an even longer distance, there's no transit or bike lanes for the kids take themselves to school, and kids can't drive until they're 16.
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  384. Saying yes is not consent. It's very easy for predators to manipulate someone into complying against their will.
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  385. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:16-18
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  386. Armed neo-nazis in Missouri actually threatened a local library with violence if they did not ban the "Who is Fredrick Douglass?" children's book. Fascism is coming back in full force now.
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  387. Love and approval are two different things
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  388. He was an Ancient Jew, which is very different. The Ancient Jews were awaiting the first coming of Jesus, which was already fulfilled, but the modern Jews rejected Jesus, and are still awaiting their Messiah. But do not be deceived, for the Bible warns that the antichrist will come as the messiah of the modern Jews, establishing temporary Middle-Eastern peace, before betraying them and persecuting the Christians, God's people.
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  389. ​ @theodorcth5711 If he was miserable and sulking everyday, you'd call him pity begger, wouldn't you? You can't change without learning to move on. Being given a 2nd chance at life is something that should make you happy and motivate you to become a better person.
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  390.  @TheL1arL1ar  The stage rotation is necessary in Splatoon because certain weapons are better suited for certain stages. Randomly generating what stage the match takes place on would only lead to certain players have a clear advantage over others. You're supposed to switch your weapon every rotation.
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  391. You know you've failed when r/sounding and r/eyeblech is asserting the moral high ground.
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  392. No, it doesn't. We just need to get of our restrictive zoning laws and building codes so that it's actually legal to build housing. Co-ops alone doesn't solve the problem. We need a mass wave of housing diversity.
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  393. The solution is obvious. Build mixed-use transit-oriented development again, and replace our current tax system with Georgism. Eliminate most taxes and replace them with a single land value tax.
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  394. He's not denying who he is. He's just not letting his sexuality determine his joy and identity, because us Christ followers' joy and identity is found in our Savior. Not ourselves. I think being single forever just like the Apostle Paul and still being full of joy is courageous and should be applauded.
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  395.  @jlust6660  Sustainability is the goal. In my opinion, Salt Lake City is all but a lock for the 2030 Winter Games for that very reason. Innsbruck, Austria is also a major candidate.
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  396.  @Nephelis  From an infrastructure and cost saving perspective, Paris has been a success at least. Also, they didn't actually introduce any of the competitors incorrectly. That's how they're referred to in the Olympics because that's their official name. People just call them North Korea for short. The truly egregious example is Taiwan being called "Chinese Taipei" to keep China from throwing a tantrum.
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  397. Because most people are carrying those documents around with them. What if your belongings or even your car get stolen and all your documents are in them? What if they get damaged? Most people keep them safely locked away either at home or at the bank.
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  398. Whenever I think of VR chat, I always think of that glorious video of the army of Padorus swarming the chat room.
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  399. @vc6984  Actually, it would create an economic incentive for the agriculture industry to finally abandon monoculture for permaculture. Monoculture has done so much damage to both the environment and public health. Transitioning to sustainable agriculture is a must if we want to create a truly sustainable future.
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  400. ​ @araucanoraptorargentinus3973 Nah. The Thrashers brand needs redemption. Atlanta's probably gonna buy back the Thrashers trademark from Winnipeg.
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  401.  @BluelandErris  "We have gathered here today to celebrate the size of this W."
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  402. Coming soon to America's "migrant camps."
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  403.  @supremogeno3344  We're called to follow God. Not the Church. The Church leaders of Jesus's day, the Pharisees, were the ones who murdered Jesus. So an allegiance to a religion rather than a relationship with Jesus is pretty absurd.
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  404.  @livid7447  He's not denying the reality of what he's going through. He's just choosing not to act on it. There's a big difference between acknowledging your sexuality and choosing to commit your life to celibacy, and straight up denying the reality of your sexuality. Because the later is lying to yourself, but he wasn't doing that. He's honest about his sexuality and that's very healthy celibacy. It's not repression unless you try to convince yourself that you aren't straight, and that's not healthy.
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  405. Still waiting for Long Gone Gulch to finally get a S1 trailer.
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  406. "A family home should be the bedrock of your financial life." That statement is the real reason why housing is so unaffordable. We have been conditioned to think that living in a single-family home is the only ideal and valid way to live, and that anything else is substandard, which just isn't true. Not everyone needs a single-family home because not everyone needs that much space, and renters tend to like not having to worry about utilities and renting gives you greater flexibility to move than homeownership does. Every type of housing has its pros and cons. Not everyone rents just because it's cheaper. A lot of time, people rent because they prefer living in dense neighborhoods along with the pros that come with renting. If we really want to fix the housing crisis, we need to humanize renting, ban single-family zoning, and legalize missing middle housing. Rentals are homes too! The lack of housing diversity is what's manufacturing artificial housing scarcity. That's the whole reason why the investors are buying up so many homes. They're taking advantage of the artificial scarcity that our zoning laws create. Blaming investors and landlords simply because they're wealthy misses the real root of the problem and even makes it worse. In San Francisco, they passed rent control to ban landlords from increasing rent. The result? Instead of rents dropping, homes were bulldozed and replaced with luxury housing in order to replace the profits lost from rent control. It made the problem worse. In Rotterdam, they banned investors from buying up a certain amount of homes. While it did increase the homeownership rate, the decreased supply of rentals increased the price of rent, feuling gentrification. The investors and landlords are not the villains here. They're simply reacting to the consequences of 1950's car-centric suburban zoning. That's the real root of the problem. Until we fix that, nothing will change.
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  407. Neither is. Pride and power is. Money is just the means to gain said power, thus growing pride.
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  408.  @peppapigtheories5266  I'm pretty sure it's in Acts, so it is canon.
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  409. The fact that they can't reschedule the game is so unfair to the athletes. Imagine working so hard for what has been your whole life at that point, to get to the State title, and it suddenly gets ripped out of your hands out of nowhere with no chance of getting it back. When I was in marching band in high school, the State Championship got cancelled and postponed to the next week all four years in a row. If USBands can do it, so can the NJ Athletic Association. This is ridiculous.
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  410.  @Thisissilly222  God is love and God is joy. Our source of love and joy come only from the Holy Spirit as He is the author of love and joy. God is unchanging (Malachi 8:8). He is always eternal peace, therefore God always satisfies. If we place our source of joy in ourselves or worldly things, we will be dissapointed because circumstances change and we sin and dissapoint ourselves, so our joy will fluxuate as well. Placing your joy in Christ alone secures your peace.
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  411. Situations like these are also a product of how the US and Canada design their roads. Driving is a largely subconscious activity. People will instinctually drive however they feel comfortable, regardless of what the speed limit actually is. Wide roads make people feel comfortable speeding on a local road. Now multiply this by building the entire country around the car, and drivers become very entitled and believe that they own the road. People like this person are the kind of people to victim blame pedestrians for not looking both ways. Heck, the auto industry even went so far as to invent "jaywalking," a concept that doesn't even exist in other countries, just to victim blame pedestrians for "getting in the car's way." There's a reason why reckless driving and car accidents are rare in Europe, yet as common as a house fly in the US and Canada.
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  412.  @keithj6251  How could a religion who's Messiah and almost all of it's figures are Middle Easterns and Africans???
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  413. Honestly same bro. His videos always start off neutral only to quickly devolve into "left bad, right good." He's not even subtle about how his political biases completely influence and determine all of his takes.
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  414. Having a low corporate tax rate is actually a bad thing because it creates monopolies, which leads to mass price-gouging, which artificially creates inflation. The only employees that are actually receiving those bonuses have to be just the corporate employs because most Americans here are not getting those. Instead, they are getting their salaries cut while the profits skyrocket.
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  415. Mormonism is not a sect of Christianity. There is no Joseph Smith in the Bible, and its doctrine contradicts the scriptures. It's a cult that steals from Christian theology in order to appear legitimate and authority.
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  416. Economies have always been regulated by the government. If government is not allowed to govern, then what purpose does the government serve? The government is supposed to play referee in the game of corporate competition. Price-gouging is an anti-competitive monopoly tactic, so banning it is not communist.
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  417. Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet, and I already miss Biden. We are actually living in a South Park episode.
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  418. Don't worry. Sapporo is currently the frontrunner for the 2030 Winter Olympics. They'll get their 2nd chance to welcome the world soon enough.
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  419. This is what a poor, privatized education system does to a society. When the best education in the country is locked behind a paywall, you create a massive gap between the educated and the uneducated, which leads to the educationed sounding stupid to the ignorant, and thus, creating a massive wave of anti-intellectualism, which has a fatal consequences for everyone.
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  420. Yes, you can be proud of both your country and your ethnicity. They are not mutually exclusive.
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  421. The fact that support for Russia is surging in the West is absolutely terrifying and incredibly dangerous. Thank you so much for making this video. The timing of this could not have been more important because this is definitely going to inspire more countries like Serbia to go back into manifest destiny mode. Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to the West. She might as well be a Russian spy. The fact that she's our next director of national intelligence has me very scared for the West's future. At this point, I'm just bracing myself for the US to betray Ukraine and switch to Russia's side completely pretty soon because Gabbard is very clearly anti-Ukraine.
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  422. Rent control actually makes housing affordability even worse. San Francisco tried it, and instead of it reducing rent, the landlords just bulldozed the homes after the residents left, and then built luxury housing in their place, rapidly speeding up gentrification to the point where six figures in San Francisco is now considered "low-income." Florida actually dodged a massive bullet by banning it.
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  423. I will never understand why we closed Ellis Island and Angel Island. Immigrants were legally processed on the spot there for years and it worked just fine. Why get rid of that? We have the solution sitting right there collecting dust, yet we don't use them. We need mainland immigration stations like Ellis and Angel Island along the southern border as well.
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  424.  @alexraissis2157  It should have a transit connection at the very least then.
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  425.  @MrMarinus18  If rent is wealth extraction, then so are taxes, which I think most people would agree is an absurd take. There's nothing inherently evil about rent. This housing crisis has been caused by housing diversity being legislated out of existence. Housing diversity doesn't stop at just a diversity of housing types, but also a diversity of price payments with a balance between rentals and ownership because both renting and owning have their pros and cons. For example, rentals give you more flexibility to move if you'd like to (this is especially practical if you work in a field that requires you to move around a lot), while home ownership is only practical if you're going to stay in that same spot long-term.
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  426. Love and approval are not one in the same thing. What makes someone homophobic is not whether they are affirming or not, but rather how they engage with the culture. Calling them pedoes and their sexuality a lifestyle is just ignorance. We must be slow to speak and quick to listen. Most of the Church today is just don't listen at all, quick to attempt to be right, and call anyone that isn't a conservative a heretic. That's the problem with the Church today.
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  427.  @tuxedoelle196  People really think that love and approval are one in the same. Love does not self-validate. It convicts. Our generation needs to learn the true definition of love.
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  428. Abba Father, I pray for revival in Europe to stop the rise in paganism and lead them to Jesus, so that all the world may have a Great Awakening. All glory to you Father, and thank you for continuing work in the hearts of many all over the world. Father God, I pray that you bless whoever is reading this and lead them to you, in Jesus name, Amen. To whoever is reading, God loves you unconditionally. <3
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  429. We could've had JFK and RFK back-to-back each serving two terms. We were robbed. This country would've been so much better had they lived.
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  430. A brother sent this to me right the harvest came. I have reaped terrible consequences. This is by far the most convicting video I've ever seen in my life.
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  431. The fact that most babies with special needs and disabilities either get aborted, abandoned, or thrown in foster care regardless of whether they're planned or not is so disgusting. I just can't wrap my head around it. It's just so astronomically ableist. The very fact that that man had to make that box is just so sad.
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  432. It's meant to refer to a living a life of unrepentant homosexuality. But sadly, the stereotype that gay people are inherently premiscuous is there today. 😔
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  433. It's the main point of entry for foreigners, so it's not surprising
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  434. The alternative is taxing the hell out of businesses, so congestion pricing is a way better way of funding the MTA since it doesn't tax everyone while also reducing traffic. The world does not revolve around cars. NYC is a transit city, and it always has been. Getting rid of congestion pricing only benefits suburbanites who don't even live in NYC. Why should people who don't contribute any taxes to the city get priority in the city? It's not fair to the residents of the city. New Yorkers should come first. It's no different than putting America first.
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  435. All I wanted was to live a normal life. Just like every kid, I always dreamed of owning my own home and starting a family. Yet not only has the American Dream been dead for years now, but now I have to worry about the secret police executing me for "treason." Why is everything so bleak now? It's not fair.
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  436. The FBI using cp as bait was so unnecessary. All they needed to do was create a fake link to open said material and embed an IP finder into it, and boom. They instantly doxx themselves to the FBI in mass. Problem solved.
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  437. This guy is a massive sexual abuse scandal just waiting to happen.
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  438. If the Christian Nationalists successfully achieve their goals, that would be the biggest threat to Christianity since the crusades. Entire generations of America would be raised by religious trauma. If there's anything that can kill the faith, it's that. Not the "woke mob."
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  439.  @ar.6968  Fight the New Drug
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  440. It's amazing to me how the American people couldn't see that this was an ethnic cleansing plot a mile away when Trump made ending birthright citizenship and invoking the Alien Enemies Act to round up immigrants into "migrant camps," openly proposing to repeat what FDR did to Japanese Americans to immigrants, cornerstones of his campaign. Those aren't dogwhistles. They are blatant whistles. It's not a coincidence that MAGA tried to label legal non-violent Haitian migrants as "illegals eating pets." They were deliberately setting the precedent that all non-white foreigners, regardless of whether they are here legally or not, are illegal simply because they don't belong here. This is not surprising to anyone who was truly paying attention.
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  441.  @cpinkelman8807  Pork being banned was part of the Levitical law that was created solely to separate Israel from its pagan neighbors. And that law was fulfilled and killed off through Jesus's death and resurrection. And what does that have to do with this? You said it yourself. It "also" says to not eat pig. In order for it to be "also," than that must mean that it does in fact condemn it. Are you disregarding the commands of the scriptures? Yes, the verses found in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans, and Corinthians are mistranslations. And the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is about gang rape and inhospitality. However, in Matthew 19 when Jesus was asked if it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason, Jesus circles back and answer with a definition of what marriage is. And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” In other words, marriage is based on the uniqueness of man and woman.
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  442.  @user-pp8ru6uu1s  It's true that God creates everyone in His image, but when we betrayed God and brought sin into the world, that is also what brought disease, disorders, disabilities into the world etc. In other words, many of us are born perverted and sinful dispositions. They're inherited throughout humanity just like genetics. However, our worth is not determined by these things, because our worth and identity is in our Father. Being gay is not who someone is, it's how they are. Being gay is not a sin. Acting on it is.
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  443. I mean, America treats identifying with the right-wing as a basic prerequisite to be a Christian. The general Christian stereotype here.
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  444. According to Pew Research Center, Trump has a 51% disapproval rating. Just look around you. All the backlash to the Trump administration on the internet since the inauguration mixed with protests in every city of the country for the past several days straight makes it obvious that this administration is not popular. Especially with groceries and gas continuing to skyrocket.
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  445.  @minotaurmikeftwmike7712  Density doesn't mean that you don't get a yard. What it means it that the front and backyards aren't so oversized and manicured.
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  446.  @-Nick-T  America does not have a land value tax. It has property taxes. Property taxes tax the property itself, yet what we should be taxing is the land that the properties sit on, because that's where a property's value comes from.
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  447.  @-Nick-T  No, it's not. They're two separate things. The lack of a land value tax is what allows the rich to make money off of property they do nothing with. Because while the value of the property goes down, the value of the land goes up, thus allowing the rich to buy some and then sell them for inflated prices.
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  448. The problem is that the list that we have right now doesn't prove anything. As they said, the names that are here are just that are mentioned in passing in the courtroom. It's not actual evidence.
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  449.  @loganleroy8622  High speed rail is just one piece to the puzzle. America needs to densify. Abolish single-family zoning and start building missing middle housing. Abolish parking minimums. Build a bike network. Tear down the highways that bulldozed our city centers, and reinvest the money that normally goes to maintaining those giant roads into local transit with dedicated rights of way. If our cities are made walkable, than your concerns are no longer an issue, and trains provide the incentive for that due to their ability to scale to capacity. This is why the few metro areas in the US with subways like New York, Chicago, Philly, Boston, the Bay Area, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are always dense walkable cities. There are a few exceptions like Atlanta, LA, and Miami, but Atlanta recently abolished parking minimums, and LA recently abolished single-family zoning and is having a transit construction boom.
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  450. The IOC should postpone them to 2022 and cover the damages for Tokyo, because they're too greedy for that. They're too thirsty for those broadcasting numbers that will inevitably be doubled to the lack of spectators. Clearly taking advantage of the pandemic at Japan's expense.
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  451. The fact that Elon is still worshipped by so many people can traced back to the Puritan settlers who believed that wealth was a blessing from God for righteousness, and poverty, a curse from God for wickedness. We've been groomed into thinking that wealth is a sign of divine favor, and that thus, the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor. This is why nothing changes.
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  452.  @bisky-z3s  Hopefully the power manages to stay on.
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  453.  @Nyyre  Firstly, the Gospels were not written in Greek. They were written in Hebrew/Aramaic. Secondly, your argument is a stretch. If that was the case, then Jesus wouldn't have said "for this reason." For this reason ties the binary genders to the definition of marriage. Jesus is saying that we have marriage because we are male and female. That's far more consistent with the scriptures. Especially when you consider all of the Bible's other verses on sexual ethics.
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  454. The school's aren't the problem. It's just that people here choose to deny facts and live in their butthurt bubble of ideology instead.
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  455. There are two Lenape's in NJ. Lenape Valley in Stanhope, and Lenape in Lenape, NJ. Stanhope is in North Jersey, while Lenape is in South Jersey.
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  456.  @thechurchofsymmetra8247  It's not gatekeeping. It's what the Bible commands (Matthew 16:24).
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  457. S2 already aired like 2 years ago now you know?
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  458.  @_Cetarial  You've got issues if you seriously think trying to hold a giveaway event is deserving of a life sentence.
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  459. Seeing Oprah and the Clintons at the DNC angered me so much. That's when I knew how unserious the Democrats are. The RNC kicked out one of their members because he was caught texting a minor. Then, the DNC immediately follows that up by inviting three people who who've been exposed for participating in Epstein's ring to campaign with them. That's a horrible look.
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  460. I'm still waiting for the Democrats to stop ignoring us
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  461. One of the most depressing scars of the war was the destruction of Sarajevo. The images of the ruins of the 1984 Olympic venues, places with were once gathering places of not just Bosnian, but global unity, now reduced to decaying graveyards from the war are so haunting. What used to be the Olympic stadium, is now a cemetery for the victims of the war.
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  462. 4:17 Nobody is deemed worthy of Heaven. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We are only saved by Jesus' sacrifice by grace through faith alone (Romans 3:23-24, Ephesians 2:8-9).
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  463. This is why independence is the only valid path forward for Puerto-Rico. We cannot allow the same cultural genocide that Hawaii has suffered to happen to our people next. The US has abused us far worse than Spain ever did and now they're saying the quiet parts at loud about us. Bending the knee to our oppressors, completing the colonization process would be the ultimate, most shameful failure in our people's history.
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  464. Ya'll really think this man is joking like he hasn't been boasting about needing a third term since 2020. Eisenhower is mourning in his grave right now. He and all his men died for nothing.
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  465. Yet he's hosting the 2022 Olympics. 💀🗿
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  466. As great as it is that walkability is in demand again, the fact that these billionaires are taking other people's properties from them and then suing them for refusing to sell to them so that they can force their project through is absolutely dystopian. There's nothing to celebrate about billionaires owning an entire city all by themselves and setting the precedent that they can just take other people's property freely. Rural America is already dying because of sprawl. Creating a desert of walkability out in the farmland instead of building it in the cities where it belongs isn't exactly the win many may think it is.
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  467. You shouldn't need to wrap all of your causes in patriotic paraphernalia in order for them to be justified. MLK's marches didn't carry American flags either, yet very few would argue that they weren't legitimate. Covering in your causes in American flags when we're all American doesn't make you a "patriot." It's just signaling to the whole country that you see yourselves as more "American" than your countrymen. I don't need to carry the American flag at any protest because I already know I'm a proud American. I don't need to use the flag as some certificate of proof of that.
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  468. ​​ @ringofdreal1374 Wealth is not a virtue. Musk being a rich tech bro doesn't make him fit for political office.
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  469. Corporations should not be held accountable to their shareholders. The consumer should be king above all else. Shareholders don't care about the consumers. They only care about money, regardless of whether or not it comes at the consumer's expense.
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  470. Sustainability benefits everyone. Take urbanism for example. Conservatives (the traditional ones anyway) get their thriving neighborhoods of local pulling themselves up by their bootstraps entrepreneurs, while liberals get to finally destroy the automobile and big oil monopolies. Everyone wins. The only reason why this isn't in universal bipartisan agreement is because of identity politics.
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  471. You definitely lack the context behind why they were left out. It was very common back in the Ancient World for people to make fake scriptures in order to capitalize on the Bible's fame. These scriptures were discovered to have been written in eras completely different than what the text describes and preach blatant heresies of the scriptures. Just look at the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas is the complete opposite of the Jesus portrayed in the Bible.
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  472. It's not a coincidence that this suddenly begins after congestion pricing is finally implemented. The MTA would never be able to afford these needed infrastructure projects without congestion pricing.
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  473. How long is the EU going to stay in denial before they finally accept the fact that the US has officially switched to the evil side? This administration isn't pro-peace nor pro-Ukraine. It's openly anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia. The US has betrayed the West. We are, sadly, Russian allies now. Just watch. Pretty soon, we'll be sending aid to Russia.
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  474.  @therealspeedwagon1451  There are Westerners on Pixiv, and even are continuing to move there as the platform's popularity increases. Except a incoming surge of Westerners to the platform as Twitter implodes.
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  475. Why would God allow anyone to go through this? Your son's resilience and earnestness to use his disease to help others is why. Your son being able to life in peace despite his circumstances is why. God is the only one who can turn a mess into a masterpiece. "In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart for I have overcome the world." - John 16:33
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  476.  @benjaminvleugels5609  The Twin Towers weren't Art Deco. They were New Formalist.
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  477. Rent control just makes the housing crisis worse. When landlords can't raise the rents, they'll just stop building market rate units in favor of luxury units, then bulldozing the remaining rate units when the middle class is priced out, which is exactly what happened to San Francisco when they passed rent control back in the 90's. Stopping investors from buying up properties help either. Rotterdam tried that, and while it increased the homeownership rate, the decreased rental supply caused the rents to skyrocket, further fueling more gentrification. This housing crisis is first and foremost a product of single-family zoning and parking minimums. They need to get rid of them in favor of mixed-use development.
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  478. Well, this comment sure did age well didn't it?
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  479. I dream of the day when North America finally embraces urbanism. Imagine if we converted car parking garages in NYC into art deco and brownstone bicycle parking garages with modernist murals. It would be a dream come true, an in American style.
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  480.  @CasualCommuter_  That's not what infill development is. Infill development is redeveloping underused or vacant land. For example, buying out the abandoned factory and replacing it with housing.
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  481.  @CasualCommuter_  There's nothing wrong with the condo developments either. The problem is the lack of the missing middle.
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  482.  @Maksie0  You completely missed the point then.....
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  483. That's not necessary. Most Olympic cities keep most or all of their venues. The only cities that didn't are Rio and Athens. Even Sochi managed to revive their Olympic Park after reviving it. The key to fixing the Olympics is actually very simple. 1. Use university campuses instead of building Olympic villages from scratch. Salt Lake used the University of Utah, Atlanta used Georgia Tech, and LA is using USLA and USC. 2. Use temporary venues and public venues. The mistake that Rio and Athens made was that they built literally all of their venues as permanent venues. A consistent pattern with every successful Olympic host city is that they all use a lot of temporary venues instead of permanent ones. 3. Extend the duration of the Olympics. You won't need to build as many venues if the Olympics were longer. With so many sports in the Games nowadays, constricting to only 14-16 days is stupid. Spread it out so that you can refuse the same venues over the course of the whole month. 3. Have a post-Games plan. London tore down three temporary venues in the Olympic Park and replaced them with parks, housing, and schools, and now the neighborhood is thriving.
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  484. "They're not the majority, so their vote shouldn't count." That's not how democracies work.
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  485. @kenth151  One used car still costs more than the entire annual income of a low-income family of four. And the tariffs are only going to make them more expensive.
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  486. @bb1111116  That's only if their city is dense. Good luck trying to cycle or take transit in cities like Houston or Phoenix.
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  487.  @Atrail_Mckinley4786  You just widen a tunnel. Tunnels are fixed to be a certain size or highly pressurized to keep the water out. You can't just cut open the size and add more lines. That's not how physics works. And again, that would just create more induced demand, and just think about all the buildings that would need to be demolished in Manhattan just to accommodate all the new lanes.
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  488. When I was in middle school, my social studies teacher told my class every year when we'd have our annual civil rights history lessons, that he saw a billboard on the highway in Indiana that read, "Beware. You are in Klan territory. The South will rise again." This was in the 1970s. Now, they're back. They never gave up on that promise.
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  489. The Bible is not a fairytale. He's just twisting the scriptures to push bigotry and eugenics.
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  490. Every country has its own laundry list of war crimes. Calling Japan a bad country today over what happened almost century ago is pretty unfair to the country and its people. It's not the citizen's fault that they're ignorant. It was written out of their history books.
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  491. The fact that Chinese businessmen might actually give TikTok to Elon is terrifying. Handing over the flow of information into the total control of a single oligarch is not only a threat to freedom of speech in America. It's threat to free speech for the entire world. And Elon has political power now too. If Elon and the US government start colluding to censor the internet, the whole world suffers.
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  492.  Gaussianform  Japan was prepared since the start. They're just being heavily screwed over by COVID and the corrupt IOC.
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  493. ​ @skatinemcee  Our teachers suck because we don't invest in our education system. You can't a quality education system if there's a teacher shortage due to egregiously low wages. You won't get good teachers if you don't pay them what they deserves, because all the smart people will work in other higher paying fields leaving the school system with all the less qualified options.
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  494.  @mattcoccopuffs  Isolationism isn't going to help us. The events of the geopolitical world will inevitably effect us as well because today's world is so connected. If we stop supporting Ukraine, Russia will take advantage of that and Ukraine will fall, which would undermine the West's legitimacy and destabilize the current world order in favor of a new might is right geopolitical order. The consequences of that would be catastrophic because it would set the precedent that if you're powerful enough, you can do whatever you want to any other country and face no consequences for it.
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  495. @eos_2366  That's a flawed assumption. Density follows demand, and the demand in the cities. Not in the countryside. Urbanization will lead to people flocking back to the cities. Not the cities spreading into the countryside. Suburban sprawl is the real threat to rural America, and suburban sprawl is a direct result of us rejecting urban density in favor of low density sprawl.
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  496. Mark my words, Trump is going to take this case to the Supreme Court with the unitary executive theory as his argument of defense against these courts, and they will rule in his favor because they are loyal to him. Not the country. Then, Patel will send the FBI to arrest those judges who tried to stop Trump and Elon for "treason." That's the day our democracy is truly dead.
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  497. Felix better be the main character XD
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  498. IOC is going 2021 or bust, which is asinine. The Winter and Summer Games used to always be in the same year, so why can't they just postpone it to 2022? The dreams of thousands of athletes and an entire country moment of national pride in the spotlight is at stake.
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  499. Trump is delusional if he seriously thinks that Canada is just gonna let American troops sail through Canadian NATO waters to Greenland without resistance. And he accuses Zelenskyy of gambling with WWlll. The projection is insane.
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  500. The downfall of urban America is the ultimate example of the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." We literally destroyed all of our cities and with them, our heritage, what were once the greatest transit networks on Earth, locked our economy behind a auto and big oil lobby paywall, and manufactured an artificial housing crisis that is now spiraling us into our 2nd Great Depression just to get rid of all the black people, and even that was a failure. Was it worth it America? It's truly poetic. By stubbornly clinging to hatred, we are literally destroying ourselves from the inside out, and yet even now, we still haven't learned. 38% of the country still thinks that non-white immigrants are a threat to our culture. Let that sink in. After almost 60 years of integration, we still haven't learned anything. That's the most disheartening thing about this. People calling this great evil good.
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  501. I used to love Asmon's commentary. I respected and even agreed with many of his center-right takes, but now he's turned himself into a walking Trump campaign ad. He went from being a centrist to being openly partisan while still claiming to be a common sense individual. It's frustrating to watch.
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  502. Electrified rail utilizes third rail because it's green and more sustainable unlike diesel or batteries. The third rail provides a constant flow of power, so it's the standard worldwide.
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  503.  Juliana Maio  I think that mentality is exactly why it hasn't happened yet
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  504. Pixiv will quickly take over if Twitter dies, so you can always jump ship there if Twitter dies.
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  505.  @Datoda  The problem is that most social media platforms aren't friendly to artists. TikTok is a video platform, so still image posts don't exist there. And Instagram crops its images into cubes, so artists are limited to only a few aspect ratios, or else you can't post your art there. On top of that, the Instagram algorithm has copied TikTok, so all the posts that get promoted are just TikTok reposts on Reels instead of photos, which completely undermines the whole reason for the platform's existence.
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  506. And this is all started with the assassination of RFK. America's downfall to fascism has not been rapid. It started with Nixon and The Moral Majority, which RFK's assassination handed the White House to, which directly led to the rise of Reagan. Then, the coffin was opened when Bush stole the election from Gore and started the War on Terror. MAGA nailed it shut.
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  507. The fact that Trump was so quick to mention how Russia is losing so many men first, but had to pause before mentioning that Ukraine was also losing mention second is so telling. He would never have bothered to even mention Ukraine if this wasn't a press conference. The mask fell for a moment there.
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  508. He's just making the point that anyone who breaks God's laws, no matter how big or small they are can be forgiven and saved.
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  509. Meanwhile, the Cascades have done little to nothing to prepare themselves for their upcoming megaquake and tsunami. Good luck.
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  510. God wants to us to have faith and confidence in our salvation based on the what the word of God says. We shouldn't have to question our salvation.
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  511.  @chrissonofpear1384  God is a Father, but He's also a King, and King's judge. God allows evil to exist because true love cannot exist without choices, and choices bring about evil. Imagine if God hard-wired us to love Him. That's be manipulation and slavery. Not love.
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  512.  @chrissonofpear1384  The ability to chose between good and evil. God didn't force Adam and Eve to eat only from the tree of life. He told them not too, but still gave them the option to.
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  513. This is a stretch. It's one thing to stand with Israel's right to exist (a fact that far too many people deny), but completely dismissing the suffering of innocent lives by saying that they deserve to be exterminated simply because they (Palestines) are "terrible people" broadly are two completely different statements. Those unhinged reactions wouldn't been a loud minority. Not the universal backlash Asmon received here.
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  514. We could bring back the date and time text to our cameras, but AI will probably just replicate that too.
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  515. The whole appeal of Neuro-sama is self-aware, so that's why it's accepted. People watch Neuro-sama so that they can send crazy chat messages to make Neuro-sama's program break and say unhinged things because it's funny. It's completely different from an AI actually trying to emulate a real human being. Neuro-sama's popularity is quite literally a big joke.
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  516.  @ronanstephens1597  Ask Japan for help. They clearly know what they're doing.
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  517.  @Nite2012Mare  Thank you for being the first person in this entire comment section with functioning brain cells.
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  518. It's pronounced [Sah-d].
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  519.  @apinezstats2237  Singapore would be a far better host for that region of Asia.
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  520.  @liamirilia6993  I think Salt Lake City is all but a lock for 2030. Salt Lake City's venues, and even their mountain courses have been left completely untouched since 2002. They're the most prepared city by a long shot. But yes, Toronto would be a fantastic host city. But I could also see it being a team up of multiple cities since Ottawa and Montreal are nearby.
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  521.  @macniesful  The documentation will be a birth certificate, and married women often change their last names.
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  522. @FOURSTAR50  Yeah, because we actually have the DOE. Without it, we'll be going backward in time.
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  523. @robinward2179  Prove it then
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  524. The reason why Japan doesn't have a homelessness crisis is because their loose zoning laws allow them to build more than twice as much as housing as there are people in Japan. Meanwhile, here in the US, 75% of the US is zoned exclusively for single-family zoning, manufacturing artificial scarcity while also leading to the lucky few who can afford a home being overhoused due to the average size of houses growing into McMansions over the past 60 years. Combine this with the fact that parking minimums and density being made illegal basically everywhere, and car ownership has become a mandatory tax that even the middle class is struggling to continue affording. One used car costs more than the entire annual income of a low-income family of four. That's insane. If we want to combat homelessness, the first thing we need to do is to abolish single-family zoning and parking minimums, build missing middle housing, embrace public transit and micromobility. Housing first units are illegal to build in the vast majority of this country, so we can't even hope to follow Finland's example unless we change our zoning laws. Humans have been building walkable communities since the dawn of civilization, and there's a reason for that. It's long overdue for us to let go of our automobile realism and realize that because car dependency and "jaywalking" are just a recent inventions made up by the auto and oil lobbies to monopolize transit and by extension, control the quality of life of every American.
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  525. Trump changing how he treats Canada based on who they elect is so Putin-like.
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  526. 10:12 Finally. Clear footage.
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  527. The global temperature has rapidly increased since industrial revolution. By 1.5 degrees, which is significant change. When I was a kid, it used to be cold every morning in September. Now in 2024, we had summer weather going into November. And I'm young. The climate is supposed to change naturally over the course of millions of years of years. Not less than 30. You're living under a rock.
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  528. Meanwhile, Americans: "It's the poor's fault that they're poor. They're lazy."
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  529. Gates made polio vaccines that only led to more polio and mass sterilizations. Him and Melinda are openly pro-depopulation. 100% not a coincidence.
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  530. Never forget that Bernie all 55 counties in West Virginia, yet the DNC still called Hillary as the winner. Someone in the background had to hold up a sign saying “Bernie won all 55 counties” as West Virginia was being called to let the American people know the truth. Our democracy is gone. America has fallen.
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  531. You can tell just by how that guy talks that he's the type of the person to groom someone by lovebombing. He's already trying to use compliments to manipulate her out of her current relationship. That's dangerous possessive behavior. Major red flag.
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  532. The rally's title being the "Pro America Rally," which is almost identical to the MAGA slogans, with all the American flags and a deified founding father as the backdrop for the stage is parallels this to MAGA with terrifying accuracy.
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  533.  @woofawoof7616  I believe the Bible is God's Word and that Jesus is the Messiah. The Christians are the true Jews as God teaches. Jesus is the Messiah of Old Testament prophecy that you've been waiting for. Please read God's Word and see the light before it's too late.
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  534. Let's not kid ourselves here. Trump is not trying to shrink the federal government in order to cut down the bureaucracy. He's trying to cut the size of the federal government so that the government is too small to resist him.
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  535. Even if Omegle was adult only, it still should've never existed. Not every sexual predator is a pedophile, and it's not just pedophiles that use it. Serial killers could also have a field day with that site.
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  536. The anime skipped the entire middle of the manga. Pick up the manga from Chapter 38. That's right from where S1 left off.
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  537. New York has a lot more greenery than you would think. There's A LOT of parks throughout New York. The parks are one of the hallmarks of the city. And the residential areas are basically suburbs with lots of tall trees, grass lawns on top of that.
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  538. To be completely fair, Patrisse Cullors admitted in an interview back in 2015 when asked about people accusing them of not having a clear ideological framework that herself and her fellow Black Lives Matter are "trained Marxists." However, this does not mean that the entire movement should be cancelled because the movement is led by the American people. Not a trio of literal communists. It just means that we need to think harder about the policies we are advocating for.
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  539. That's not true. Most Latin Americans are mixed. The term for Latin Americans with a mix of European and Indigenous DNA are called "mestizo," which make up 70% of all Latin Americans. The remaining 30% are descendants of the indigenous people and African slaves who didn't marry with any Europeans. There's even large Asian minorities along the Latin American Pacific Coast.
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  540.  @0megaWarrior  It's because they think that their victim being gay means that they have no concept of what a heterosexual interaction is, so they expect them to be indifferent to heterosexual harassment and violence since they aren't attracted to you. They see homosexuality as permission to prey on you because they think it'll make you more submissive to them.
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  541. The racetrack was already permanently closed down, so it's still better off getting torn down to build a new neighborhood of missing middle housing.
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  542. God doesn't want anyone in Hell. It's why he sent Jesus to sacrifice himself for us and defeat death by rising again. It's proves that God loves everyone unconditionally and equally. Everyone has their own sins. The only way we go to Hell, by choosing to not follow Jesus.
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  543.  @1SouthernRaj  Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world. It doesn't have to be used to major international events. Even if they're never used for that, they'll definitely be used.
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  544.  @jlust6660  Paris and Los Angeles were already awarded the 2024 and 2028 games back in 2017
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  545.  Suave JAE  It already is in a way, as I just explained
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  546. Montreal has the highest cycling rate in North America despite getting the most snowfall, so it's not the weather that's the problem. People will cycle if the bike lanes are properly plowed.
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  547. Idk if it's just me, but even if it's is a good movie, I still have a hard time getting involved without King T'Challa. King T'Challa's arc and the original Black Panther saga was Boseman and Couglar's baby, so erasing all of what Boseman helped leave behind feels like it does more to erase Boseman's legacy than recasting him would've. I wanted to see Boseman and Couglar's original vision come to life. I think if Boseman were still here today, he'd say the same thing. Even if the transition to Shuri is smooth, the timing is just so premature and forced, that I can't get into it.
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  548. Following Jesus is not a religion. Religion is legalism. Following Jesus is an intimate relationship with the Messiah. The happy ending the world needs is Revelation 22.
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  549. The fact that NYC has no trouble building luxury housing in mass, yet drags its feet trying to build even market housing, let alone affordable housing tells you everything you need to know about the city's priorities now. Billionaires Row shouldn't exist. It is the ultimate symbol of NYC turning from a city of immigrants to a city for the rich. Any city with its priorities in order would force MSG to move so that they could rebuild Penn Station. Instead, Governor Hochul wants to bulldoze the entire "blighted" neighborhood around Penn Station and turn it into Vornado Realty's campus of office towers. It's the most blatant act of corporate bootlicking from a politician being painted as "transit-oriented development" I've ever seen.
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  550.  @supremogeno3344  That "man who lived thousands of years ago" died for us on the cross and rose again three days later conquering sin thank you very much. Don't ever tell me that Jesus was just a man. He was God in the flesh.
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  551.  @masterqui-gonjinn90  "Let anyone who wishes to be my disciple >>>DENY HIMSELF<<<, pick up his cross, and follow me." - Matthew 16:24 Jesus wants us to make Him Lord, not our desires. We are all born sinners with fallen desires. That's why we need Jesus to be our savior in the first place. Refusing to put God first because of something we want rather than what God wants is idolatry.
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  552.  @supremogeno3344  Not exactly. Our fellowship with other believers should be dictated by God's Word, and God's Word commands us to have the wisdom and discernment of the Holy Spirit. The Bible commands us to hold each other accountable in fellowship and to rebuke each other when we sin. That requires wisdom and discernment from our own personal time with Jesus. This is critically important because that is the key to discerning the difference between true believers and teachers, and false believers and teachers. Our personal relationship with Christ is always the priority because that's the only thing that will save us and guard our hearts and minds from sin and deception. Going to Church will be meaningless when we die because going to Church is not being transformed. Get in the Word my friend. That is where all the answers to your questions lie.
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  553.  @supremogeno3344  Ask God to speak to you personally, and get in His Word again my friend. If you seek Him with your whole heart and are patient, He will answer your prayers and questions. I'm praying for you. God bless you my friend. 💖
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  554. Mike Lawler is so terminally car-brained, it's aggravating. Bike lanes don't "narrow the lanes." They create viable alternatives to driving. It's called induced demand. If driving is the only option available, people will drive. If bike lanes are available, then people will cycle, freeing up space in the cars lanes, benefitting drivers ironically. Cars aren't naturally the default. We used to be a nation dominated by streetcars before big auto and big oil sabotaged it. All of those cyclists are commuters too. Bicycles aren't just for recreation. New Yorkers like their bike lanes. They wouldn't be building them if they didn't want them. And New Yorkers have been warming up to congestion pricing as their seeing the reduction in traffic and noise. This goes completely against Trump supposedly wanting the states to take care of themselves. Which is it, Donald? Do you really want New Yorkers to take care of themselves, or do you only want them to do so when it benefits big auto and big oil?
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  555. The fact that this Congresswoman is putting so much more focus on Trump's birthday than Flag Day just says everything.
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  556. Thank you so much BBC for being the only mainstream outlet to stand in solidarity with the persecuted Christians!
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  557. They'll have to get through Sapporo, another previous host. I think Japan's gonna really want to rebound after being totally screwed over by COVID.
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  558. Pixiv will quickly take Twitter's place if Twitter goes under.
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  559. This aged well lol
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  560. Monorails are just a worse version of trains. We need high speed rail. Not monorails.
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  561. Do you have any idea what the American soldiers did to the Vietnamese civilians. They massacred, tortured, and rape the civilians, including children as young as toddlers. Burning their villages to the ground. And fired chemical weapons at them that still cause birth defects to this day. The chemical companies that made them were also granted immunity from prosecution by the US.
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  562. @d8zvevoh879 If you seriously think Canada of all countries is a communist regime, then you clearly do not know your history. Stop using buzzwords you don't understand.
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  563.  @OK-mv4ih  They're probably one of those sociopaths celebrating the terrorist attack because of Dragon Maid.
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  564. Rage Against the Machine's entire discography, especially Bulls on Parade, are going to become massive protest anthems if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act and declares Martial Law. Shout by Tears for Fears is also another perfect anthem for the resistance.
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  565. It's not the presence of a city that causes the heat island effect. It's automobiles combined with the large asphalt roads that car centric cities have that cause it. In dense cities where the streets are narrow, the streets are protected by the shadows and by the trees, and less exhaust fumes are in the air due to there being less being driving everywhere.
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  566. Valve is a prime example of why the Supreme Court's ruling that companies are accountable to their shareholders was one of the most catastrophic mistakes this country has ever made.
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  567.  @OsirusHandle  That's still an extreme reaction by the court. Buying a company just to destroy your competition is conspiring to monopolize your industry. This is partly how the automobile took over. Car companies bought up the streetcar lines and tore them up so that everyone was forced to drive. They should've ruled that buying a company just to destroy is anti-competitive, but ruling that all companies are universally obligated to serve their investors like slaves is an idiotic ruling. It discourages pro-consumer practices and innovation.
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  568. Japan wants to postpone it to 2022, but the IOC's lust for hogging 96% of the profits from Japan's labor and spending is just too great.
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  569. When Trump says "peace through strength," he's not talking about standing boldly for freedom. He's saying that because America is the strongest country on Earth, we're entitled to the right to bully everyone else to do what we want them to do and use military force against them if they do not comply. To quote his RNC speech, "greatness is our birthright." A motto of national arrogance.
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  570. But wait, Americans can't afford their military tanks-I mean SUVs anymore.
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  571.  @lars2894  No. We need to tax land rather than the properties on the land. Property tax is a regressive tax that taxes the poor more than the rich. The overwhelming majority of a property's value comes from the land it sits on, so taxing the land instead of the property shifts the burden of taxation upon the land owners, aka, the rich. Also, the fact that you don't see how giving the state unlimited power of all land is recipe for authoritarianism is pretty concerning. Give the state that much power and they will definitely get drunk on it.
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  572. Thank you friend
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  573. NYC has subways, buses, and bike lanes, all of which can actually scale to capacity while cars cannot. The only reason why drivers dominate transit is because we've designed our country to be that way. Redesign the streets and roads to prioritize transit, and people will switch to taking transit. Amsterdam used to have car infested streets and is now a cycling utopia today all because of simple street and road design changes.
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  574. "Arguably shouldn't" is a massive understatement.
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  575. When I was a kid, it used to be cold in the mornings of September. Now, in only less than 30 years, we're getting summer weather into November. That's not normal bro. If you're such an expert in doing your own research, then plz share your proof to me exposing how you're somehow smarter than real scientists.
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  576. "We ignored it because the economy was doing really, really well." This is the depressing realization the MAGA movement has revealed to me. Humans will support literally anything if their pockets are full and they benefit from it. Just like when Hitler rose to power, it wasn't Nazism that made the people fall in love with him. It was him fulfilling his promise to fix the German economy mixed with his aggressive nationalism that galvinized the German public's support for the Holocaust. If the strongman saves the economy, then surely he must be right about the "enemy within," right? Never tell yourself, "I'd never do something like that." Everyone tells themselves that. Even the German public in the early 30s must've said the same thing to themselves before they started volunteering to help the Nazis. Underestimating what you're capable of, thinking you're naturally good is the most dangerous game of playing with fire there is. We must keep speaking and resisting before the radical minority becomes the majority. By then, it'll be too late to stop it.
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  577. Being bi and being a Christian are not mutually exclusive. You can be bi and still be a Christian, especially considering you're bi. You have it a lot easier than other LGBTQ people by comparison since you can still have a straight relationship.
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  578. This is a great, but the fact that the new tunnels being built will demolish the entire block south of Penn Station is ridiculous. We need to force MSG out so that we can not only rebuild Penn Station back to its former glory, but also save all the residents and businesses there from being forcing out and protect the historic 1872 St. John the Baptist Church there from being demolished.
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  579.  @DJezdic  It's not even Democrats specifically. It's just people who are terminally online. I can guarantee you your average Democrat doesn't think like this. I know because I'm from a deep blue state. This video is definitely cherry picking to some extent. It has to be because these people wouldn't be so universally hated if it wasn't cherry picked.
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  580.  @Miss_Loving  Mom and Pop shops are not price-gouging. The corporations that are consolidating in mass into monopolies that have anti-competitive control over all of our industries now are price-gouging. We are now living in a 2nd Gilded Age, and corporately induced inflation is the inevitable result of that. We are currently experiencing what the 1920's America experienced. Teddy Roosevelt than implemented high taxes on the rich and strict anti-trust laws to prevent a 2nd Gilded Age from occurrence, but Reagan, Bush, and Trump all slowly chipped away at all of his policies, so now, we're back to where we started all over again. This economic crisis is nothing new. It's the result of decades of build up. 2008 was just the preview. COVID was just the spark that popped the bubble.
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  581.  @DoobeeKind  sigh 💀
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  582. @Grasshopper.80  The point is that foot traffic is what generates revenue for businesses. Not cars. Cars drive past businesses. People walk into businesses.
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  583. So let me get this straight. If you file a false police report, you can be punished for wasting the police's resources, but if you lie in court, you don't. Make it make sense.
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  584.  @maplemiles3381  The IOC is going to have to rely on major cities like Tokyo to host the Games since most others can't handle it, so they just might. But after 26B spent, the IOC better open their wallets and support Japan because they single handedly ruined what should've been a shining moment of national pride. Instead, it turned into an international embarrassment for the country against their will.
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  585. The fat lady was wearing halo and the framing is exactly the same as the painting. And don't forget the golden calf statue and the white horse. The intent was obvious. And still doesn't justify to public nudity in front of children on international television.
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  586. ​ @Deimos-rj7kl You'd be surprised how common it is for someone to call you an illegal and tell you to go back to your country for simply having an accent and being non-white.
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  587. The difference is that they didn't donate any money to her campaign like Musk wants to, and they don't control the flow of information like Musk does.
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  588. Tokyo was awarded the Games in 2013
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  589.  @kensmith5694  That's scary
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  590. Morality and values are rooted in theism
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  591. To be fair, that's probably because Euro 2020 is taking place before the Olympics. Once the Olympics start, than it'll be the talk of the world.
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  592. The irony of these self-professing "anti-racists" being blatantly racist against Russians because of the actions of their government. Meanwhile, Artemi Panarin, a Russian winger for the New York Rangers is vocally anti-Putin. Holding everyone of a specific group responsible for the actions of a few is ironically, the excuse that's always used to justify genocide. 0 self awareness.
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  593.  @SMCwasTaken  Ok, but what does this have to do with protecting victims? Protecting victims is a community effort. Where are you going with this?
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  594. Japan is actually one of the most irreligious countries in the world. Most of the Shinto/Buddhist traditions that Japan embraces today are just traditions passed down as part of their heritage.
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  595. I'm surprised you didn't mention hydrogen power, ammonia power, geothermal power, hydroelectric power, and urbanism, because those seem to be the most feasible and sustainable ways to decarbonize based on this video.
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  596. East coast earthquakes are so small, that there's very little risk of them ever being damaged by an earthquake.
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  597. ​ @daviejz6698  Lol, no it's not. It's 3 and a half hours away from Miami in the suburbs in a parking desert. Sports venues belong downtown, or at least, close to it it. Most of South Florida's population is around Miami, so that's where they should be. Last time they were in Miami, they had a full house every night. Now, they can't get anyone in the seats unless they're winning.
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  598.  @daviejz6698  Auston Matthews is a Mexican born from immigrant parents, so that argument is weak. Hockey needs a lot more diversity, so putting the team in a thriving Latin American community would be amazing for the sport. I wanna see a Puerto-Rican get drafted into this league one day so badly.
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  599.  @MrMarinus18  What I'm trying to say is that you make it seem rent is an inherently evil thing that shouldn't ever exist.
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  600.  @candy_torchic  It's hard for me to keep my controller steady, and my camera consistently aligned.
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  601.  @candy_torchic  Have you watched any tips and tutorial videos? Have you toggled your stick sensitivity? And what gear and weapons are you using? Because it could just be small things that are holding you back.
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  602.  @macyanne3536  Lifestyle is the wrong choice of words.
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  603. Doubt it because Cosby is actually guilty
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  604. As an American, Pollieve talks like your typical neoliberal oligarch-bootlicking Republican. Pollieve would become Canada's Ronald Reagan. Mass austerity that would turn Canada into an oligarchy, paving the way for autocracy. Even his talking points about regulations and taxes are exactly the same as Trump's. Pollieve may say he'd never allow Canada to become the 51st state, yet his politics perfectly aligns with MAGA's. They're even copying MAGA's campaign strategy by using demonizing inflammatory slogans to refer to their political opponents. I am convinced that Pollieve would sell out Canada to Trump and Elon in a heartbeat if it meant that Pollieve got to be Governor of Canada. He just looks like a pure opportunist to me. But again, I'm an American, so maybe I'm (hopefully) wrong.
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  605.  @Zac15  An open primary wouldn't likely been an open convention. Meaning, they would've picked their candidate on the spot, which would've been just as awful as riding with Harris because it would've left the Democratic Party even more divided and for way longer. Many voters would be happy that x person that go nominated, but many others would also be pissed that someone else was snubbed because it was all decided in one night and likely without their input, but rather the party deciding for them like how it used to be back in the 50's.
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  606. "Peace through strength" is just code for "might is right."
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  607. I think this video underestimates just how much damage low density suburban zoning has done to the housing market. In the US, about 75% of the entire country is zoning exclusively for single-family homes, which not only manufactures artificial housing scarcity, artificially inflating the cost of housing, but it also leads to overhousing. In Toronto, one of the most expensive cities on the continent for example, thousands of homeowners have more rooms than they actually need because the suburbs are zoned exclusively for single family homes, meaning that residents who don't need a single family home are being forced to pay for more than what they need due to all other options being made illegal. Add the corporate monopoly of car dependency being forced upon every North American, which locks your right to participate in society being an auto-industry paywall that is unaffordable to the average person, this makes housing dramatically more unaffordable. How are you supposed to get a job and hold it down if you can't even afford to take yourself to it? The boomers bulldozed almost all of our public transit, so now everyone is screwed. This is why treating rentals as substandard housing isn't the answer. Rentals are an essential avenue of housing access with its own pros and cons, just like homeownership. If we really want to fix the housing crisis, the first thing we need to do is abolish single-family zoning and parking minimums (America has over 2B parking spaces despite only having a population of 365M. All of which are paid for by your taxes. Let that sink in.) and move towards a mixed-use, walkable, transit-oriented future, full of housing diversity where everyone has true freedom of movement. Cracking down on landlords and investors will only do so much. I'll give you two notable examples. Back in the 90's, San Francisco passed rent control to stop landlords increasing the cost of rent. The result was a flat rent that was even more expensive than before, and when the residents left, the landlords bulldozed the homes and replaced them with luxury housing, thus even further accelerating gentrification. And in Rotterdam, they recently banned investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market, and while it did increase the homeownership rate, the decreased rental supply caused the rents to even further skyrocket, which still resulted in more gentrification.
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  608. Am I the only one who sees this as an overreaction? Dropping a game because the character isn't sexy is so stupid to me. I don't like her design either, but everything else about the game looks great. Are we just completely ignoring that now? Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is what I'm seeing from the backlash here.
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  609. I see the r/atheism users still refuse to touch grass to this day.
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  610. Artists: "Like to draw for fun" Their art:
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  611. Isn't the UK the only country in the free world to have such draconian speech laws? I've never heard of anyone getting arrested over speech outside of the UK. Usually, the only times you see someone with police at their door over online comments is if they're inciting violence or plotting a terrorist attack of some kind.
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  612. Trump's "peace through strength" is just code for "might is right." Trump, just Putin, thinks that the weak must submit to the strong. And to this administration, all of our ally are just weak welfare queens leeching out of us. Not friends to collaborate with and support.
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  613. When hundreds upon hundreds of people all have prophetic "hallucinations" that come true and link together from generation to generation across millennia consistently like they have, than they're not hallucinations.
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  614.  @jouaienttoi  Stop dooming. The rich want you to be a doomer because that'll make you more accepting of the status quo.
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  615. I don't get why Summer Olympic cities insist on even building Olympic Villages at all when they almost always have university dorms available. LA, Salt Lake, and Atlanta all did this, and it worked out very well for them. Especially since those universities already have training facilities available right there on the campuses. Paris just wasted billions that they didn't need to spend.
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  616. Has this woman never heard of urbanism? Walkability, micromobility, and transit are what fix traffic. Cars are the reason why we have traffic in the first place because individualized transit is inherently inefficient at moving large numbers of people.
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  617. The vtuber community isn't that sus lmao. Predators are everywhere. It's not unique to the vtuber community. Pinning this on one community in particular just turns a universal problem into a war for absolutely no reason.
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  618. @Shorizzo My point is that unless the abuser is just plain evil for sake of being evil (because sadly sadistic people like that do exist), attraction to minors is cultivated and needs to be psychologically treated. If people just continue to dismiss what causes abusive people to abuse, then we'll never be able to stop/prevent abuse. It'll just continue to be an endless cycle. Of course this doesn't represent all perpetrators, but it explains enough of them. Also, FTND is a non-profit, non-legislative anti-porn movement.
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  619. In order to create a truly sustainable agricultural industry, we must transition from monoculture to permaculture. The monoculture and chemical use of the current system is dangerous to both humans and the ecosystem. Agroforestry not only restores ecosystems, but also produces higher yields than conventional farms because those ecosystems are far more resilient than monoculture. Embracing permaculture would also return the power of farming back to the local farmers, dismantling the big tech and chemical industry monopolies.
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  620.  @me-yeahcar-oh8668  So if you know that the Word of God condemns LGBT, why do you deny the scriptures then? That's heresy.
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  621.  @cpinkelman8807  Define a good person then. Is it a nice person that tells people what they want to hear, or is it someone who tells him the harsh truth and warns them of the consequences of their actions because love them and care for them and don't want them to go to hell. Which one? There's no in-between here.
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  622. Everything you said is correct except for the part where you claim that ethnic enclaves have very little interaction with each other. That is completely false. Ethnic enclaves may congregate to bring a piece of their country to ours, but cities are still melting pots and generally pretty close-knit. If you live in Chinatown, but work an office job, go to town hall meetings, and even just interact with all the outside visitors to the local businesses, you'll be interacted a lot with people outside your community. Ethnic enclaves being totally segregated is only true in a historical sense due to Jim Crow policies, but today, ethnic enclaves mostly serve as a vessel for immigrants to share their native culture with their new country through cuisine, artwork, among other things made by the touch of a real native of their homeland. That's the biggest charm of them. The cultural expressions there are very authentic. A sharp contrast from the typical Americanized interpretations that we're accustomed to.
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  623. ​ @fluffyyote  13-14 to be exact. She's 15 by the end of the light novel.
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  624.  @Rws4Life  Yessir. Ritsu and Azusa are the best girls.
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  625.  @Rws4Life  Azusa, Ritsu, and Ui have always been my favorites. Azusa's arc is the most compelling to me, Ritsu's genki personality is something I need in my life, and I wish I had a sister like Ui.
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  626.  @Rws4Life  Ui is the best sister anyone could ever ask for. Also, Jun is criminally underrated. If only K-ON High School got adapted. She deserved so much more screentime.
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  627. This comment section has killed my hope for this country. An unelected oligarch is usurping the elected Congress to hack into our personal information, cut our benefits, and ruin the lives of thousands of people just doing their jobs, and ya'll are celebrating. Just wait until SS, Medicare, and Medicaid are all cut, and suddenly, your parents and grandparents aren't covered anymore. The delusion is insane.
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  628. Queensway is not a park project. It's a transit obstruction project. Queenslink also provides park space to the area, so there's no reason not to build Queenslink. Thank God it received federal funding. The lengths this country will go to suppress transit is sickening.
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  629. Ian Watkins is one of the few people worthy of death, so no, he is not where he needs to be yet.
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  630. This is terrifying for two major reasons. Firstly, war always comes with war crimes, and considering that America has a huge black/latino population, with Mexicans being one of the largest groups in that demographic, these war crimes will be committed against the relatives against American citizens. My biggest fear is that if we invade Mexico, we will soon see the 2nd coming of the Mai Lai Massacre, and heavily motivated and justified with racism on top of that. If there's anything that will push America into a 2nd Civil War, it's this. Secondly, this would also ruin US-Canadian relations. Canada remembers the War of 1812 very well. If the US is willing to invade its neighbor and ally, than Canada will lose trust in the US and become afraid that we will invade them a 2nd time. Especially since the GOP sees Canada as a "communist authoritarian state," so I think it's likely that the US will try to "free" Canada to "protect democracy" next as they've done with numerous countries in the past. This invasion proposal is really looking like code for manifest destiny. These republicans are probably itching to finish the conquest that their ancestors couldn't. They aren't even hiding their facist dreams anymore.
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  631. Yeah, because a 6-3 Republican supermajority will definitely be fair and unbiased. That makes perfect sense.
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  632.  @Malxer  Congratulations. You just proved his point.
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  633.  @mariannebarker795  They should've installed geothermal heating. Green A/C is a thing, but Paris is just cheap.
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  634. Trump supporting forcing an election on Ukraine is even worse. Russia is notorious for rigging the elections of its neighbors. Trump is now going to overthrow Zelensky and replace him with a Russian puppet who will then hold a referendum asking the Ukrainian people if they want to be annexed by Russia will suspiciously end with an overwhelming "yes." Another US-backed regime change. So much for being an "isolationist."
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  635.  @TheWetMinority  You do realize that someone can be both Indian and black at the same time, right? Is this really your first time discovering what being bi-racial is?
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  636.  @r.c.8268  Does she really need to flex her patriotism? We're all American already, and she's running for President of the United States. Her status as an American is already self-evident. I don't want to hear her glaze the country while dressed in red, white, and blue. I want to hear talk about policy. Holding a flag is just superficial compared to that.
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  637. The polls are tied. There's no desperation here. Just two boomers not understanding what kids today like. Not the end of the world tbh. Nobody's going to vote against Kamala and Walz because they don't know what video games the youth today plays. That's irrelevant compared to what really matters.
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  638. Just to put in perspective how massive this contract is, LeBron's contract is worth $97M, and McDavid's is worth $100M. xQc is now being paid the same, if not more money then two of the greatest generational athletes of all-time. Absolutely insane contract.
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  639.  @loganleroy8622  The success of the Sun Belt isn't going to last because more people are moving there than there is housing being built due to single-family zoning, which creates artificial housing scarcity. Because of this, the cost of housing in Texas has already risen significantly. Low density sprawl just isn't sustainable. That lack of density is why the trains are so infrequent. Because they're not invested in, and the sprawl leaves most residents too far away from transit stops to use them.
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  640. Transit and bike lanes boost profits for businesses far more than parking spaces do because they are scalable while parking spaces aren't.
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  641. There is no way this wasn't an attempted murder. All the officers were white, the woman they arrested was the only person of color there, and they were in the middle of nowhere at night with the whole road to themselves for miles to pull her over, yet they conveniently pulled her over on the train tracks, conveniently right before a train showed up. Platteville Police Station has to be in on this if they're giving them paid vacation for this. We've seen this happen over and over and over again, and nothing is changing. This is not a bug in the system. It's by design.
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  642.  @IMajst3RI  Ahh yes, dense streets that have existed since the dawn of civilization, solar panels and wind turbines, electric trains, and restoring ecosystems that we've destroyed for greed are all just buzzwords and not totally real things with tangible consequences. You're extremely clueless.
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  643.  @feretidkn3951  That's the best complement I've gotten in awhile lol
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  644. The fact that these same people who virtue signal about "protecting our freedoms" don't see the dystopian irony of them purged the entire administrative state of their opponents and replacing them with those loyal to the president. This is a hallmark of every dictator from Stalin, to Mao, to Castro, to Hitler. And to make it even more ironic? Stalin, Mao, and Castro were communists.
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  645. They should've been postponed to 2022, but the IOC is too greedy for that
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  646. Pixiv will take Twitters place. It's an amazing art site without the cancer of Twitter. It's been quickly rising in popularity lately too.
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  647. I don't get why everyone just assumes that aliens have to be these super intelligent superbeings with reality defying tech that have visited us frequently since ancient times. I think it's far more realistic to think that aliens are just like us. Regular intelligent beings with regular tech in galaxies so far away from each other, that they also are wondering if they're alone in the universe.
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  648. Considering how politicized the DOJ is now, I'm fully expecting Trump and all his buddies and loyalists' names to be redacted while all his political enemies' names remain, so that he can weaponize the files to push the lie that Democrats are all pdfs to stoke more culture war outrage for his political gain. The DOJ is now being run by Trump's own lawyers. Anyone who seriously thinks that the files won't be severely tampered with is delusional.
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  649. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:16-18
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  650. If LA continues on this path, their 2028 Olympics are going to be a massive national embarrassment to the whole world. LA is one of the cities that foreigners associate with the "American dream." If this is what our "American dream" is, than we've truly failed as a nation. I can't imagine being a foreigner having this idealized perception of Hollywood, only to see it in this state.
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  651. The answer is God as the worldly things will all pass away
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  652. This is what happens when an entire society is socially engineered to associate wealth with morality. How many more Epstein's and P Diddy's is it going to take for us to finally realize that poverty is not a "moral failure?" It's a policy choice. Banning homelessness is the most out of sight, out of mind "solution" you could possibly choose.
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  653. @ You can't rewrite the ecosystem to your benefit. The Soviets tried that and it led to worst ecological disaster in modern history. The draining of the Aral Sea.
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  654. One of the most dangerous aspects of the left is that they complain about social justice and human rights being politicized, but they're the ones doing it the most. The entire motto of the left is that they're the party of love, acceptance, equality, and inclusion. When you declare that social justice and human rights are the cause of a political party, and not basic human decency and common sense, you are therefore declaring that anyone who votes right is subhuman. And that's a gross oversimplification of politics.
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  655. The most infuriating thing about this is that these wildfires always get significantly worse year after year, and yet still, climate deniers refuse to face reality. I am now convinced that they'd knees deep in denial, even if the AMOC collapsed and their beachfront is reclaimed by the sea. The commitment to willful ignorance makes me wanna my rip my hair out every time.
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  656.  @Junokaii  cough*Rio*cough
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  657. Chicago was robbed so dirty
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  658. ​ @Lemonlollipop01  Building walkable cities with electrified public transit, and switching from fossil fuels and monoculture farming to green energy and permaculture farming.
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  659. This is elite sarcasm lol
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  660. "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12. These are not aliens! They are demons! Jesus is coming very soon! We're at the end of the last days! The Bible prophecies that the last generation will the generation where Israel becomes a nation! A Biblical generation is 70-80 years! We're currently at around 70 years! It's almost time! Repent, for the Kingdom is at hand! We're in the last decade of human history!
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  661. Actually you have it wrong. Conservatives head Jesus's command to deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow Him. Progressives however twist the scriptures into arguing that denying yourself is actually judgmental and hateful, and thus attempting to justify their sins.
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  662.  @rxvz663  Hasan is Saudi Arabian bro.
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  663. If only anime licensing and distribution wasn't a convoluted mess
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  664. What makes the incompetence of the MTA even more frustrating is just how lazy they are. Anyone with common sense can clearly see that the IBX should be a subway, yet the MTA is building as a light rail, making the service worse and unable to be extending into the Bronx or Staten Island, just because they didn't want to bother widening one tunnel and moving some wires. Not only does NYC spend way too much for basic infrastructure projects, but those egregious prices are actually cost saving measures for a worse project than what you would get anywhere else in the world.
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  665. The humanity of art and content creation is everything that makes it art and content creation. When you strip it of its humanity, it's no longer real. It's just fake. A lie that steals and copies from real artists for a quick cheap buck. These tech bros really watched Wall-E and decided that that was the ideal future for humanity. We need to stop this before we reach a point of no return.
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  666. You're one of the lucky ones then, because not everyone is that strong mentally.
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  667.  @the_aesthetic_city  The plan is a counter proposal to Governor Hochul's corrupt "urban renewal" plan that's going to bulldoze the entire neighborhood around Penn Station, along with 10 historic buildings, and replace them with boring glass office towers. The plan unfortunately is already underway, and historic Hotel Pennsylvania, one of the last surviving remnants of the original Penn Station is already gone. But fortunately, the plan is stalled because the investors are pulling out due to high interest rates and lack of demand for office space. Plus, Madison Square Garden's lease over Penn Station expires this June, and Manhattan Burrough Council, meaning the public, has voted against renewing it's permit. Other proposals for a new or improved Penn Station have been made, but ReThinkNYC's is definitely the most popular one. Not just because Old Penn Station was an iconic national landmark and artistic treasure, but also because ReThinkNYC hopes to unite all the tri-state area railroads into a single unified regional rail network with full regionwide through-running. As for MSG, they've proposed three spots to relocate it. The Port Authority Bus Terminal, Hudson Yards, or right across the street from Penn Station at Herald Square on Broadway.
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  668. If trucks are what you care about, fight for the more spacious and fuel efficient flat beds to be brought back as well as for the bans on kei vehicles to be lifted. The more fuel efficient the vehicle is, the cheaper it is, and kei vehicles are being imported now because they're so cheap. And because they're more fuel efficient, they produce far less carbon emissions. There are literally no downsides to them.
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  669.  @_Cetarial  Your delivery did not sound sarcastic at all.
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  670. America is reaching its breaking point. Whether it's cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, Trump ordering the invasion of our allies, or his tariffs causing a 2nd Great Depression, we are just one final straw away from a violent revolution. Be prepared, my fellow Americans. We're about to suffer our own Tainamen Square Massarce. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
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  671. ReThinkNYC is trying to do exactly that. They're a grassroots organization, so do donate to them if you can.
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  672. MAGA Christians can easily recognize a new-age Christian as a wolf in sheep's clothing, but when that wolf puts on the same clothes as them, not only do they not recognize the wolf, but the sheep marvel at the wolf's strength and willingly give themselves over to the wolf, thinking that the wolf will protect them instead of eating them.
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  673.  @supadave422  Ban the short-term rentals then. Short-term rentals aren't real housing. Short-term rentals just turn housing into hotels. That's completely different than blocking investors from buying up actual housing.
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  674. Rent control is a bad idea. If you cap the rent, the landlords will just convert the houses into mansions as a loophole to dodge the rent cap. This is what happened to San Francisco back in the 90's.
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  675. Lack of humanity? Nah. This is just another example of humanity at its finest.
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  676. Tbh, they might try to bully her for being a freak because she likes snakes 💀
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  677. I don't understand everyone is so convinced that aliens always have to be genius superbeings with reality defying tech. They're probably just regular people with regular tech just like us in another galaxy also wondering if they're alone like we are. Isn't that a far more realistic theory than always needing to come to the sci-fi conclusion?
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  678.  @joseph1150  HOA's, regardless of their reason for existing, still fly directly in the face of freedom. There is absolutely justifiable reason why a corporation with a board a local Karens should have any control over the properties of homeowners. If you buy a house, then you should be able to do whatever you want with it, no questions asked. It's nobody else's business. But not in HOA's. Not only do they have authoritarian control over everything you can do with your property, they have authoritarian control over everything you can do in your own neighborhood, and if you don't comply, they'll fine you, seize your property, and sell it behind your back. If a state or federal government did this, there'd be a riots in the streets, but because corporations and Karens can get away it, everyone deludes themselves into calling it "freedom" and "law and order." This double standard is total insanity.
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  679.  @svettnabb  No. You see, recently, Rotterdam banning investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market to try and give a homeowners s better chance. The expectation would be that the cost of become our affordable. It has the opposite effect. The Increased percentage of homeownership decreased the percentage of rentals in the neighborhoods, causing rents to even further increase, thus causing the overall income of the neighborhood to rise even further. It actually accelerated gentrification. Oh The Urbanity has a great video about it.
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  680. The IOC desperately needs to be reformed. The current system is literal slave labor. They force the host to spend all of the money, build all of facilities, and pour out all of the labor, just so they can steal of your profits. Back in Atlanta 1996, the IOC only took 6% of the profits, and look at how successful those games were. One of the best of all time. Screw the IOC. They've ruined the games.
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  681. Maka is one the most underrated and underappreciated shounen protagonist.
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  682. Don't worry. He'll established the Trump dynasty so that can continue ruling this country from his grave.
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  683. Your argument assume that cars are naturally the default form of transit, even though less than half of all New Yorkers drive. Most of the car traffic comes from suburbanites who don't live in the city.
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  684. At this point, I am fully convinced that the internet is making people stupider by the minute.
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  685. Cars don't buy things. People do. Transit and bike lanes are scalable. Parking is not.
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  686.  @Jean-v7r  Wrong. People drive when is the most convenient option. Make transit and cycling viable, and a lot will switch. Cars are not the default.
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  687. ✨ The alt-right and ANTIFA are both evil ✨
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  688. "Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution. Donald Trump is embodying the values of our founding fathers." This single statement proves that MAGA is a fascist cult. The idea that the dictator is the living embodiment of the nation and its people is what sets fascism apart from regular authoritarianism. Stalin was a strongman, but he was never seen as the embodiment of the USSR. The USSR changed hands numerous times. Stalin and his successors were just the means to spread communism that the people deemed strong enough to do so. Hitler, Muosolini, and Franco, however, paraded themselves as the ultimate manifestations of their nation's nationalism, divinely anointed with the destiny of being their nation's messianic savior. This is how Trump sees MAGA. He's not just leading America. He's saving America. He's not just the President of the United States. He literally is the United States in the flesh. You can hear in how Jack Posobiec talks about Trump. He describes the mandate the American people gave him as being placed on his head, like a crown.
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  689. The reason why California needs to ration its water is because they're using more water than the rain can naturally replenish. If they drain ever more water, the aquifers will dry out, making the soil even drier than it already is. On top of this, overconsumption of the Colorado River is draining the river so much, that it doesn't reach the Mexico anymore. Sucking up more water won't help.
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  690. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." - 2 Timothy 1:7. God's love is always unconditional, just like the love of any good father. He accepts you as you are. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior, and he'll save you and transform you, giving you a new heart and mind. God bless you my friend. UwU
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  691. I have a really bad feeling that I'm get drafted to fight our allies and that I won't come back home. All I wanted was a normal life, but now I have to worry about how much time I have left because of this warmongering dictator.
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  692.  @jackieronaldwayerston6723  The Winter Olympics are in February, and the Summer Olympics are in July. So no, they wouldn't clash.
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  693.  @MrSmith0128  So this universe and life have no meaning and are just some gigantic and convient accident. This universe had to have been created by something that always existed before time, in other words, God. And just look at how orderly the Earth is, from how the world operates to our sense of morality. It can't possibly be a coincidence. Only God can explain the questions that science can't answer.
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  694. HOA's are the biggest oxymoron I've ever seen. Here in America, freedom and personal ownership are the two biggest things Americans care about, yet HOA's stand in total opposition of that. HOA's have authoritarian control over you and have the right to seize your property and evict you if you ever dare to disobey them or stop paying rent to them for the house you already bought. That's the kind of dystopian system you'd expect from a totalitarian state. Not the land of freedom. There's a reason why The Truman Show is set in suburbia. This level of social engineering is by design.
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  695. What we need is term limits. Not age restrictions. Implementing age restrictions just bares someone who is smart and fit for the job, but old from candidacy, simply because they're old, which isn't fair either.
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  696. Paris only had to build 1 permanent venue. Everything else was already there.
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  697.  @patsk8872  Paris only needed to build one new permanent venue because they already had all the facilities available. Everything else is temporary venues. The most successful Olympic hosts always use temporary venues. Athens and Rio built everything permanent, so now they're all abandoned.
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  698. The 14 Characteristics of Fascism (Dr. Lawrence Britt) 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. Supremacy of the Military 5. Rampant Sexism 6. Controlled Mass Media 7. Obsession with National Security 8. Religion and Government Intertwined 9. Corporate Power is Protected 10. Labor Power is Suppressed 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections Do any of these sound familiar to you? Let's see if YouTube won't auto-delete this again.
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  699.  @gregorymalchuk272  Comparing the standard of living of the Dark Ages to the modern world is one of the biggest apples to oranges comparisons I've ever heard.
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  700. The 4chan thread of one of Epstein's former employees exposing everything he was forced saw and participated in always comes to my mind whenever I see scandals like this now.
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  701. Mail-in voting is opt-in. You can't receive a mail-in ballot unless you request one. And plus, people have schedules. If you're working on election day, it's likely that you won't make it the polls in time. It's simply way easier to just drop off your ballot in the mail box before heading to work.
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  702. Forgiveness only comes with accountability
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  703. The only thing that scares me more than Christofascism is knowing that all Christians will become targets of violent revenge for it. Please, Church, wake up. This isn't just a threat to democracy. This is a threat to the Church itself.
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  704. I'm just waiting for the vaccine to cause mass sterilizations and an even greater surge of COVID just like in Africa with polio. Made by Bill Gates, the depopulationist.
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  705.  @RobbieStacks90  First time I've ever heard the word "braggadocio" in my entire life.
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  706. Cyclists not using the bike lanes is usually caused by poorly designed transfers. For example, going from one street with one way bike lanes on each side of the street to suddenly a two lane bike lane on only one side of the street.
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  707. @metalsteel5631  Every federal agency manages certain public services. For example, the Department of Education manages the distribution of student loans. The Department of Energy manages our energy supply. The Department of Transportation manages our highways and Amtrak. Etc, etc.
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  708. Nah. NYC. We're ready now. We have 4 major sports arenas, one of the biggest convention centers in America, lots of public space to utilize for temporary venues, NYU and Columbia University's dorms right in the heart of Manhattan to serve as the Olympic Villages, and the best transit network in North America. Our geography is also suited for it. We have multiple beaches in the city as well as throughout the surrounding region, along with mountains in North Jersey and the Hudson Valley.
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  709.  @philobetto5106  Rose colored glasses are a hell of a drug
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  710. Our country is not 250 years old yet. We'll be hitting our 250th anniversary in 2026.
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  711.  @bloatedcow1361  Dr. Evil, is that you?
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  712. You can thank car dependency for that.
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  713. The pastor comparing this to Trump's assassination attempt perfectly shows what's wrong with the Church. They see Trump as a holy martyr of Christian values, even though Trump embodies every sinful vice imaginable. This is the danger of Christian Nationalism that most don't recognize. Oppression is a cycle of violence. One day, the resistance to Christian Nationalism will eventually conclude that the only solution to it is to exterminate the Church as an act of vengeance if the Church does not change course. Today, the Christians are asking the immigrant question. Tomorrow, it'll be the athiests asking the religious question. This attack, unfortunately, is only just the beginning.
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  714. Finally. At long last, Ruri Aoki's father has been revealed.
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  715. I'm looking forward to the 2nd Great Depression Trump is about to cause. Our culture has been conditioned into venerating wealth as a sign of divine favor for being a moral, genius visionary. But that deception will finally be shattered for good once this oligarchy crashes the economy. It shouldn't have to come to that for us to realize this, but we brought this upon ourselves.
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  716. Actually, it's called, finding his identity and joy only in Christ, and sexuality. If you've never heard of Jackie Hill Perry, Christopher Yuan, or Sam Alberry, I highly suggest you check them out.
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  717. You do realize that 5th Ave existed before the car did, right?
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  718. I'd be shocked if Lake Placid actually wins that big when Austria and Switzerland are much closer options. It would suck to go all the way across the world to see the Olympics and with one of the flagship events on the other side of the world.
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  719.  @pietervoogt  I think the idea that buildings can make you depressed is honestly ridiculous. Yes, they're boring, but you can't tell me what with a straight face that the brutalist building down the street gave you chronic depression. Yes, traditional architecture should come back, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This "modernism bad" mentality is just pretentious and elitist. Not everything needs to be grand and ornate in order to be beautiful. Simplicity can be beautiful too.
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  720.  @pietervoogt  The problem I have with your argument is that you seem to think that the definition of beauty is objective. It's not. Beauty is subjective. Also, no. Buildings don't cause suicide. That's absurd. People commit suicide because they're already depressed and feel they have no way to escape. Imagine someone committing suicide because of trauma, addiction, and/or bullying, and then blaming it on the brutalist office building next to their house.
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  721.  @pietervoogt  I'm not saying that traditional architecture should be disregarded and that everything should stay ugly. But I think the distain that people have for anything that's modern solely because it's modern is really toxic. Modern architecture can be beautiful and creative. Holding to a totally anti-modernist extreme just suppresses the freedom of expression of artists everywhere. Also, while it's true that anything in life can have multiple causes, I don't the ugly office building down the street is the last thing a suicidal person would ever be concerned about. A suicidal person is desperate for the intimacy of people to help them, love them, and support them. Not an ornate building. The beauty of a building has no effect on what a person is suffering behind closed doors, so you putting ugliness right next to extremely serious things like abuse and addiction as a cause for suicide is honestly really insulting to people battling depression.
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  722. ​ @koga115  Congestion pricing is supposed to provide that funding.
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  723.  @Ekraelum  The fact that your culture openly embraces the stereotypes for fun is so wholesome. :3
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  724.  @bingus4901  Definitely inherent
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  725. Unfortunately, what these companies are doing is not illegal. These companies are exploiting a loophole in the 1st Amendment. It only protects against censorship from the government. Not corporations. And thanks to the Reagan administration, our corporate regulations and anti-trust laws have been severely weakened. Fixing this will require massive reforms.
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  726. 1:25 Because you have merged your faith with a political party, and because of that, you're praying for your biases to be fulfilled, rather than God's will.
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  727. Me in the middle of binging Haikyuu, simping for Yachi-chan seeing your pfp: 👁️👄👁️
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  728. Ironically, it would force the farmers to adopt environmentally friendly permaculture farming, which requires significantly less land, over the conventional mass forestation, chemical poisoning of the environment, and the mass extinction of insects via pesticides that are current agriculture system still uses. Embracing vertical farms, hydroponics, aquaponics, and seaweed farming would also go a long way.
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  729.  @katenewberry7017  Jesus is not a religion. Jesus is an intimate relationship. God bless you my friend. <3
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  730. That bus network and Brightline West will be the biggest advertisements for public transit that the US has gotten in generations, so I welcome it. Once the residents see how great efficient public transit is, they're not gonna want to let it go.
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  731. Bring back Teddy and RFK too.
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  732. The 1904 Olympic Marathon is comedy writing come to life
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  733.  @ericdew2021  This isn't true. Most Olympic cities have successfully preserved their infrastructure. While most go over budget, the long-term benefits and profits that come from saving the infrastructure make up for it in the long-term. Salt Lake, Sydney, Barcelona, Vancouver, London, Albertville, Lillehammer, and Nagano are all perfect examples of this. Looking at just the price isn't the end of the story like most media outlets say it is. The long-term price is far more important, which isn't nearly as negative, so the media ignores that part. The reporting on the Olympics has been incredibly dishonest.
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  734.  @OscarOSullivan  That would be inhumane for obvious reasons. The Olympics are a sporting event. Not a homeless shelter.
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  735. Because just like any city, New York has good areas and bad areas. People move to New York for the good residential areas nowadays like Williamsburg, Astoria, South Brooklyn, College Point, and Staten Island as a few examples.
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  736. Hyperloop is just a worse version of high speed rail. It doesn't matter if hyperloop is faster than high speed rail because the hyperloop is an individual pod, while high speed train is a high capacity train, so high speed rail will move more people way faster and more efficiently.
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  737. I don't understand why we won't just reopen Ellis Island and Angel Island. For generations, those two islands processed immigrants on the spot, making it very easy to immigrate to the US legally, so unsurprisingly, it worked just fine. But then we decided to close them down because reasons, and now we're wondering why immigrants are having such a hard time coming over legally.
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  738. Being anti-Chinese government is not racist. It's anti-communist. It's anti-oppression. Know the difference. China is taking over the world through a monopoly on the global economy. If China wasn't a superpower, the entire world would've surrounded China immediately and wouldn't hesitate to go to war with China if they had to to stop China's suppression of freedom not just in their own borders, but worldwide. But now, everyone knows what China is doing. Studies show that their genocide has likely already surpassed the Nazi genocide, but nobody is doing anything because they literally own the entire world. Nobody can stand up to them now because all China has to do is stop doing business with everyone and nobody will be able to survive anymore. It's gotten so bad that it's reached the point where independent business from other countries are submitting to China.
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  739. @delftfietser  Just look at any historic footage of any US city, and you will see that America was bulldozed for car. Not built for it. Cars can exist in any density you put them in because they are fast and don't rely on economy of scale. Micromobility and transit, however, do rely on economy of scale because bikes are much slower than cars, and transit is only viable if enough people live within walking distance of the transit stops. It's literally impossible to create viable alternatives to driving without densifying the country and taking some of the 18 lanes away from the cars. When all the space in the country is dedicated solely to cars, you've gotta take space away from cars in order to make space for other modes of transit.
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  740. The anti-urban sentiment in this comment section is sickening. Cties, suburbs, and the countryside are supposed to work together in a close-knit symbiotic relationship. Urbanites and ruralites both work very hard and have community. The difference is that when people live in large groups, they become more collectivist and see social services as essential for caring for group, while ruralites tend to be more individualistic due to the smaller communities. Neither of these perspectives are wrong because they both work in tandem with each other. Local entrepreneurs pulls themselves up by their boot straps by starting their own small businesses in cities, and policies like universal healthcare and free college are objectively good and benefit everyone equally, regardless of where they come from.
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  741.  @Atrail_Mckinley4786  Protests have stopped highway expansions from being built multiple times before. If complain didn't have the power to change that, then Robert Moses would've successfully slashed 3 major highways slashed through it already.
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  742. ​ @chikkipop They never said that they were a creationist, so where are you getting that from?
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  743. Two reasons: - Racism and classism are still very much alive in the white evangelical Church. This is why you get called woke when you even so much as mention minorities and the poor. They don't want to admit that their movement isn't really about Christ. 2. They can't separate Christian power from Christian liberty. They are two separate things, yet to the Christian Nationalist, they are inseparable. The Christian Nationalist's version of The Great Commission is turning America into a theocracy by any means necessary, while the true Christian's Great Commission is to spread the Gospel. The Christian Nationalists think that without acquiring political power, their faith will die. They have the weakest faith of all Christians. The Christian movement was designed to endure through any government under any circumstances and it has for thousands of years. But once the poor and minorities are finally being given upword mobility, this flies out the window to them.
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  744.  @TimSpangler-v9i  Because creation can take any form. They said that God created the universe. They never said how. There are plenty of Christians out there who believe in evolution.
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  745.  @chikkipop  bubsie44. I don't know their gender.
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  746.  @TimSpangler-v9i  You completely missed my point. Creation and creationism are two different things. You're putting words in their mouth.
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  747. Can we just appreciate how amazing JJK's girls are. No Sakura's in sight thus far.
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  748. You're not stupid. You were manipulated.
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  749. This is why we need land value tax.
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  750. ​ @marcusalexanderhunke3291  (1) The highway didn't just destroy aesthetics. It destroyed a ounce walkable area. (2) Wide high speed roads are dangerous to pedestrians, making it dangerous to be outside of a car. Highways do not belong in cities. This is how you create hostile environments that cause accidents. Highways are supposed to circle around the city like in most other countries around the world so they don't interfere with pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. (3) Aesthetics aren't just for the privileged. Beautifying places is an essential component to making them beautiful. There's a reason why greenery is important for public health. (4) This highway was built decades before Amazon even existed, so you can't blame Prime for it. Also, freight rail and cargo bikes exist. You don't need to truck everything around. (5) Highway expansion was championed in the name of personal freedom for wealthy white suburbanites in segregated white only suburbs. Where do you think all the wealthy white people went during white flight? This is why cities were redlining. To systemic deny funding to low-income neighborhoods of color and give it to the wealthy white suburbanites instead. Ironic how you preach about protecting the privileged and stopping gentrification while completely failing to recognize that these highways were deliberately designed to bulldoze low income neighborhoods of culture and separate them from the rest of the city while the banks blocked the sales of suburban homes to people of color and stripping their freedom of movement by destroying our public transit networks, forcing them to only be able to get around via a personal car that poor people cannot afford. Locking your freedom of movement behind an auto industry paywall that mostly only wealthy white suburbanites can afford sounds an awful lot like gentrification to me.
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  751. "Respect all beliefs, except Christianity." - Westerners
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  752. ​ @lilysanchez2090 It's because we've overbuilt and subsidized car infrastructure so much, that we've trapped ourselves in an endless ponze scheme trying to repay the debt for it with money that we don't have. Money that could've gone to things that are actually important like our schools, healthcare, environmental protection, housing, social security, and public transit. It's an endless of self-destruction masquerading as an infinite money glitch lying to the American people by giving us all the false promise of prosperity.
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  753. My dude, it's comedy. Comedians are known to make cruel jokes. Do you have any idea how many bad jokes comedians make on a regular basis? And they were much more tolerable back in the 90s. Grow a spine.
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  754. The New York City subway is still one of the best in the world, so I'd say they still took a W.
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  755.  @lordmanatee439  New York's subway was built in the British era, so the Dutch didn't have any influence over it.
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  756. Guys, just because Trump spoke at a Heritage Foundation conference and hired numerous Project 2025 writers to his cabinet, it doesn't actually mean he knows anything Project 2025. The cope is insane.
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  757.  @floverdan5180  The San Joaquin Valley is near Coachella Valley though, right? Same general area?
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  758. Just a reminder that they got a longer sentence than many sex offenders do. That's the American criminal justice system for you. Either ignores crimes or gives them a slap on the wrist, yet when they finally decide to do something right for once, they resort to barbarically draconian punishments. There is no in-between. Absolutely pathetic.
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  759. The problem was not him taking a side. A religiously charged and historically complicated war is always going to have varying opinions. The problem was Asmon literally saying that he doesn't care if Palestinians are being genocided and that "they're terrible people" and very generalized terms. That is obviously a very sadistic and racist thing to say.
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  760. Joe needs to get Sam Alberry, Christopher Yuan, and Jackie Hill Perry on the podcast
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  761. ​ @meowoasdgjoiagjoi By walking, riding their bikes, and taking transit. There are in fact more ways to get around than just driving.
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  762.  @takadadaisuke6454  The IOC has a stranglehold over the games. Even if the government wanted to postpone them, they can't because the IOC are the ones with a say in whether they go forward or not, which is really twisted. The Japanese government is being forced to be apologists for the IOC against their will.
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  763. It's honestly terrifying how increasingly common it it's becoming for people to genuinely think that no means yes. That's a special kind of narcissism to think that the only way someone could ever say no to you is unless they're playing "hard to get." This guy boasts about well he thinks he understands women, yet refers to them as females like they're subhuman. He's dangerous.
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  764. ​ @Kratos1902  It's not a threat. It's a warning. We tried isolationism during WWll, and it led to Pearl Harbor. It's impossible to be the world's dominant superpower and not be involved in international affairs. Even if this war doesn't take American lives, it will still effect economically because the US dollar is still the world's reserve currency and wars always effect supply chains. This is what Zelenskyy is talking about when he says that we will feel it eventually. We can delay getting involved as much as want, but eventually, the reality of this crisis will force us to get involved whether we like it or not.
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  765. You have to opt-in to receive a mail-in ballot, so yes, it's impossible to receive one unless you, the voter, request one.
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  766. I don't think Trump's 51st state threats are just a distraction. Trump is openly supporting Russian imperialism, planning an ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and is even trying to pull US troops away from Taiwan, handing them over to China. If he wasn't serious about his imperialist ambitions, then he wouldn't ally himself with imperialists. America's modern borders were formed by manifest destiny. We invaded Quebec in 1812, and we stole over half of Mexico's territory in the Mexican-American War. Both wars aimed to conquer Canada and Mexico in totality. Trump threatening to invade our allies is proof to me that he aims to finish what 19th Century America couldn't. The total conquering of the entire North American continent. Christian Nationalists would especially love that because manifest destiny is built on the idea that God ordained America to conquer all of North America. Don't underestimate Trump's threats, because Trudeau isn't. He said that Trump's threat to take over Canada is real off camera for good reason.
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  767. An oligarch hostily taking over a government agency is not an audit. Musk has now gained control over the entire country's funds. You really think he's ever gonna let that power go?
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  768.  @tastypops6083  Georgism my beloved
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  769.  @stephenhood2948  You do realize that both can be true at the same time, right? You're woefully naive if you seriously think that the system is so perfect. Politicians and corporations do not give a single shit about you. If they can rig it to exploit you for power and profit, what makes you think they won't? Capitalism is not immune to corruption simply because it's not socialism. That's childish logic.
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  770.  @neal_rigga90  Just because America has done it before, doesn't mean that we should suddenly accept it as ok and continue the trend. There's a reason why the American public protested the Vietnam War.
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  771. I actually audibly chuckled when I saw the title. Lmao.
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  772. @Joey-ct8bm  Vertical farms have limitations. You can't grow all crops vertical. Mostly crops like lettuce, while crops like potatoes and carrots have to be buried in soil. And good luck growing a pumpkin vertically. Vertical farms don't restore the ecosystem either. They just consume a lot of energy that could be saved via permaculture. This isn't to say that vertical farms don't have a place though. Aquaponics are a great way to farm fish sustainability, which is essential for protecting our oceans. Vertical farms would also allow groceries stores, businesses, and anyone without a yards to grow their own crops, which is a huge boon for decentralization. And it would allow cold climates to have their own agriculture industries. But they aren't the future. They're a part of the future, but they won't become the new standard. Plus, the Saudi get all of them "freshwater" via desalination, which is harmful to the oceans because the waste is pumped back into the ocean and sinks all the way to the bottom, harming the wildlife down there. And terraforming Mars is a whole different beast than terraforming Earth. Two completely different planets with two completely different climates. I doubt we'll each even reach Mars soon. The logistics of that are beyond insane. It just sounds like a tech bro pipe dream to me.
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  773. It's so sad how true it is that body positivity is only for fat people eating themselves to death. These people yap about all bodies are beautiful only to shame short and petite women as "pedo bait" for simply existing, thereby saying that any woman who doesn't look like a supermodel is unlovable and undeserving of the right to feel beautiful and attractive.
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  774.  @Loj84  Rent control deincentives landlords from building market rate housing in the first place. If they can't raise the rents beyond a certain point, then they'll just build luxury units that go for at least 1M. Again, this is exactly what to San Francisco when they passed rent control back in the 90's. If you don't want to happen on a nationwide scale, don't pass rent control. It's a false promise.
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  775.  @HiDefHDMusic  That's because of single-family zoning. The overwhelming majority of California's housing market is nothing but single-family homes, which manufacturers artificial housing scarcity. Get rid of Euclidean zoning and parking minimums, and California will have a housing boom, but NIMBY's are too high on that "housing is an investment" juice, so they would rather die than approve the construction of more housing.
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  776.  @HiDefHDMusic  This is such a horrible take. Why do you think it's such a popular state? Because it's a desirable state. In every country, there are going to be stand out regions that everyone flocks too and California is one of the biggest ones due to the industries that are concentrated there. It's California's responsibility to accommodate that housing demand, and it absolutely can. They just don't want to. Imagine how much housing California could build if three quarters of it wasn't million dollars single family homes. The entire state's housing market is basically nothing but McMansions. We're living in a housing crisis. Telling people to just leave is stupid because the lost of living is skyrocketing everywhere due to our zoning laws manufacturing artificial scarcity everywhere. Pretty soon, the Sun Belt is going to be unaffordable too because suburban zoning can't meet the demand coming from the surge of movers to those states. Give it a few more years and they will wind up like California and New York.
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  777.  @mohamedsaid9416  That's environmentally damaging because it pumps brine into the ocean. Brine is a water with twice as much salt as water, which sinks to the sea floor, making it dangerous to undersea life. We need to adopt permaculture principles in order to restore and protect our freshwater supplies.
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  778. Imagine if this happened in Australia 💀
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  779. Or a Polo Grounds shaped stadium.
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  780. "Breath free" - said as over half a million people are dead
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  781.  @alicianelson1252  *Almost gone. Cases are declining, but still high. In other areas like Japan, they're rising. And there's a new variant from the UK going around. Things are looking up for Olympics now, but lets not call it too early.
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  782.  @alicianelson1252  Where did you get that from? Give me a source.
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  783.  @alicianelson1252  COVID first showed up in October of 2019 in Wuhan. It's spread globally because China ignored the spread. So yes, COVID has been out and about for over a year now.
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  784. This is just more proof that the fear of big tech is not some alt-right boogeyman that big tech loves to circlejerk it as. These media companies have the power to rewrite history and control the entire world with their fake news and algorithms.
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  785. Bro, I'd go back 😂😂😂
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  786. He's also calling all Christians misogynists.
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  787. "Never been a financial success is complete misinformation." Salt Lake, LA, and Calgary were all financial successes. And the long-term benefits that the cities that kept their venues (Salt Lake, LA, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Sydney, Nagano, Lillehammer, Albertville, Barcelona, Munich, Atlanta, Innsbruck, Lake Placid) makes up for the debt because the venues actually remain in use. Even Torino kept all of its venues except for the bobsled track. And if Tokyo didn't get screwed over by COVID, their Games would've also been reversed as a success.
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  788.  @dheerajb1883  At least the highlights are still here
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  789. Because they would undermine the global nature of the Games. Part of what makes the Games special is the fact that every Olympiad celebrates a different nation and culture. We need a list of permanent hosts to cycle through, not just one.
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  790. Just make sure that the Gundam robot doesn't strike a pose, otherwise a giant 50ft explosion will be set off behind it lol
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  791. NYC already has way too many parking garages. Car infrastructure is a ponzi scheme and we're seeing that now with parking garages literally falling apart to the point of collapsing all over the city.
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  792. Zuck may be an evil rich asshole, but at least he's not a whiny insecure man child who challenges people to fights for no reason. Musk is clearly the challenger here, so I'm expecting Zuck to just go along with it and beat his ass to shut him up. It would be incredibly satisfying since everything he does is either an ego stroke, or a worse copy of something that already exists.
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  793. If only COVID didn't ruin everything, these would've been one of the best Olympics of all time no doubt. I really hope they get pushed to 2022. Japan just can't handle this with COVID, and the Olympics should always be held to their fullest potential.
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  794. If your trans or a married woman, birth certificates don't count because you've already changed your name.
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  795. Didn't know Charlie's skin could tan harder than Azusa Nakano's. That's impressive.
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  796. @roundtheworld2702  Obama and Biden didn't betray the West, illegally gut federal agencies, illegally purge the federal government of non-loyalists, rig the courts in their favor, literally declare themselves to be kings, or make fun of crimes against humanity to the American people's faces. The worst thing both of them combined did was Obama's drone strikes, but at least he didn't ethnically cleanse an entire Gaza so that he could turn it into his own personal resort town.
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  797. Atlantic City is in NJ. Not NY.
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  798.  @agrape2887  Definitely a logical explanation 💀
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  799.  @arminskols1998  Honestly. I don't understand why nobody considers the possibility that aliens might actually not be a super advanced 999IQ race. They could be similar in knowledge and tech to us for all we know. Heck, there's plenty intelligent life younger than us as well. It would not surprise me one bit if these UFO's are just test models of the US military's attempts to create their very own Star Trek Enterprise. And it would make sense too. Area 51 was created to test military aircrafts, and guess where most of these UFO sightings always are? The American Southwest, which is conveniently where Area 51 is located. I find it hard to believe that aliens would almost exclusively visit the US and nowhere else.
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  800. @TonyMontanaDS  Yes, but they're wasting it. That's my point. They should have more, but they don't.
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  801. @TonyMontanaDS  In the reservoirs that have already been built. But what about all the other natural waterways currently suffering from drought?
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  802.  @chrissonofpear1384  Wrong. We are saved by Jesus's death and resurrection. He took the punishment that we deserved on the cross for us and defeated the death were doomed to. We are saved only by grace through faith alone, not by works. No other way (Romans 3:23-24, Ephesians 2:8-9). "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) Notice that Paul writes "believe in your heart." God wants doesn't just that we are already saved freely by grace through faith alone, a gift that we cannot earn, but He wants us be assured and confident in our salvation. Having faith in our salvation is trusting and having faith that God is always with us and that our souls are safe in His hands. That's why Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Nobody comes to the father, but through me (John 14:6).
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  803. ​ @chrissonofpear1384  Luke 13:24 is referring to unbelievers and false disciples. The lukewarm Christians that continue to live in sin, taking advantage of God's grace, thinking that they are saved, the legalists like the Pharisees that think that we are saved by works, and the unbeliever that denies Christ, but thinks that they deserve Heaven because they're a so called "good person," which doesn't exist (Romans 3:10). 1 Corinthians 3:13 is referring to the Great White Throne Judgement, where all unbelievers will face eternal punishment to different degrees according to their works. The very fate and judicial system they chose. And it won't be pretty.
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  804.  @chrissonofpear1384  Idk what you're referring to here...
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  805. I think that instead of establishing a permanent host city per continent, there should be a strict criteria of sustainability that every city campaigning to host city must fulfill in order to be eligible to bid. Basically, a permanent list of eligible cities, rather than set host cities. The reason I suggest this is because the Olympics are a celebration of global culture. There are numerous cities that are capable of hosting a successful Olympics if they're managed correctly, so going in this direction will allow for as many cultures as possible to have the spotlight while avoiding an Athens 2004/Rio 2016-esque disaster. The IOC also needs to stop taking hogging almost all of the profits from the games and let the host city prosper off of them.
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  806. MAGA supporters want Trump to become a dictatorship. That's the problem. He has successfully convinced them that the entire government itself, aka, literally all check and balances on presidential power is just the "deep state" trying to stop him from "saving America." He has successfully convinced his followers that he's a messianic savior of the country who needs absolute power in order to be strong enough to crush the all-powerful deep state. He even said himself in his 2016 RNC speech, "I alone can fix it." It's why MAGA is so obsessed with strength. They love Trump being of how strong he is. The more Trump gets away with, the more his support grows because it further convinces the American public that the deep state is out to get him. Just like in Star Wars, democracy is about to die with thunderous applause.
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  807. Our ignorance and entitlement is the true virus. Plz do so. Our country is cursed.
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  808. Christians don't face as many hate crimes, but they do face a lot of social persecution.
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  809. This is why we cannot allow Puerto-Rico to become a state. If we become a state, it will be the same as surrendering to our oppressors. It will complete the total assimilation of our national identity and culture. There are already Americans who say, "you're not Puerto-Rican. You're an American." America doesn't see us a real ethnicity nor a real country. To them, we don't even exist anymore.
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  810.  @westernsavage2313  Are you an insinuating that people only watch vtubers to perv on them? Because that's a low IQ take.
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  811. Following Jesus is not a religion. It's a relationship.
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  812.  @Maksie0  Religion is legalism. Following Jesus is a relationship because we cannot earn our salvation. Our salvation is a free gift paid for by Jesus taking the punish for our sins. Religion expects you to be perfect, which is impossible.
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  813.  @gidd  I'm referencing the Japanese bullet train
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  814. I can't even begin to imagine how apocalyptic the devastation could've been if all 64 kilograms achieved fission.
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  815. @Wheres_my_Dragonator  Climate change is the direct result of our negligence to our surroundings. The belief that mankind is supposed to fight and tame nature instead of listening to nature and working with it is one of the dumbest concepts ever invented by humans. It completely goes against our evolution as a species. The whole reason why California needs to ration its water too is because the farms are rapidly draining the aquifers, with not only puts California's freshwater supplies at risk, but also makes their soil drier, increasing the risk of wildfires.
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  816. @obsession_gaming  This is why California needs to ration its water. More consumption means drier aquifers and drier soil.
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  817. @kennymichaelalanya7134  I doubt that's true. Maybe in total if you add them it up globally, but locally, not even close. Aquifers are also limited. They only have as much water as the soil takes in, and that water is being rapidly depleted because we're using too much water. You can see it happening in the Tulare Lake basin. The ground is literally sinking by entire feet every year because the groundwater is disappearing. And that's really bad because once the aquifers run empty, the gap underground that once held the water shuts and it can never absorb water again. This is why we need to transition to regenerative agriculture. Learn from how the Native Americans managed to farm their crops without running out of water.
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  818.  @MontyD  Not if you create a list of permanent hosts, which would definitely including coastal cities like LA.
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  819.  Gaussianform  I'm not wrong
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  820.  @ma.theresalavina7162  Nope. This threads is addressing the Olympics.
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  821.  @desert8517  Um...why? We're one of the most prepared countries. Besides, LA is already booked as the 2028 host city so go cry a river lol.
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  822.  @jammagno-tagapaslangngmgac2679  They hosted the Youth Olympics I think, so I think they can host them.
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  823. @KPOP FANATIC Seoul is the capital of South Korea and the host of the 1988 Olympics.
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  824.  @flash012234  Beijing will definitely be on that list and I absolutely hate it
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  825.  @flash012234  Yeah, definitely Munich
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  826. Unfortunately, the only thing more contagious than measles is idiocracy. This is the inevitable endgame of nationwide anti-intellectualism folks.
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  827. This is total misinformation. There are several more host cities that still use all of their venues. Nagano, Calgary, Innsbruck, Lillehammer, Lake Placid, and Albertville all being the most recent examples.
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  828.  @pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042  Thank God someone understands. Everyone's saying to choose a permanent host because Business Insider can't say anything other than "it's expensive" and constantly circlejerking on Athens and Rio, which defeats the whole purpose of the Olympics.
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  829. I honestly really like Pete's work as the transportation secretary. I think it's best he stay there. As for the candidate, I would love any combination of Roy Cooper, Phil Murphy, and Bernie Sanders.
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  830.  @GojiraSamurai  Roads are not racist, but where they were built was. When the Federal Highway Act was passed, the highways were deliberately built through low-income neighborhoods of color in order force them out of the city. Once thriving black wall streets were quickly robbed of that built up generational wealth that would've been passed down to their children had it not been the highways destroying their neighborhoods. And that's not even getting into how car dependency locks your freedom of movement behind an auto industry paywall that's become too expensive for even the middle class to afford anymore.
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  831. MAGA is a cult. Every Republican politician who has opposed Trump on anything gets immediately outcasted from the party. Trump demands absolute loyalty and will fire anyone who does not blindly obey him. This is how dictators rise. The resistance in the US government is weak and crumbling.
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  832.  @Mwoods2272  The IOC is insanely rich. Japan needs the money more.
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  833. "The videos don't show the whole story." Explain how a kid crying after they followed your directions, threatening to tear a family apart, and hitting someone with a stroller doesn't tell you everything you need to know then?
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  834. Bruh, WHAT!? 1k dollars!? Just donate $5. Trust me, the donations from the congregation will add up.
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  835. You say it like there's any explanation the lawyer can use. Even his lawyer knows that he was cooked before he was even arrested.
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  836. This comment section is a fine example of how quickly "I support immigration, but it needs better checks and regulations" gets drowned out by a flood of nazis regurgitating Great Replacement Theory talking points. It's so aggravating because these people constantly poison the discourse by trying to racialize the issue instead of actually solving the problem.
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  837. Reminder to all American soldiers: You serve the flag. Not Trump. If you're ordered to attack European peacekeepers, you have the duty to disobey.
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  838. @ Yes, but special needs kids require special accommodations because they have learning disabilities, yet instead, we've got scumbags like Matt Walsh claiming that ADHD doesn't exist and that it's just laziness. We now have an administration that doesn't recognize the existence of intellectual disabilities and being hostile towards any attempt to recognize them and help these kids get the education they need.
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  839. ​​​​ @hariseldon3786  It's not just about losing services. It's about losing oversight. Blue states might protect neurodivergent students and teach civil rights history, as they should, while red states might rewrite their textbooks to lie to the students how the Civil War was fought over "state's rights" and kick neurodivergent students out of school like they used to be and get away with it, because there's no DOE to hold them accountable for the most basic of responsibilities anymore.
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  840.  @398robin  Your son is lucky to have a bus run through his neighborhood. Most neighborhoods in the US don't have that because we bulldozed our once people-centric neighborhoods for cars. We're so backwards.
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  841. >Has visible abs >Is fat somehow Breaking News: Being wide and being fat are two completely different things.
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  842. @mrcpaddler  The idea than mankind is supposed to fight nature in order to survive is one of the dumbest concepts we ever created. It completely goes against how we evolved as a species. Nature is designed to work for our benefit. We're supposed to work with nature in order to preserve our natural resources.
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  843. ​@david33mtrb Teddy Roosevelt and JFK were great populist presidents.
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  844. Good for you for being strong and trying to be the best partner you can be for your girl. I'm proud of you. :)
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  845. *Not enough housing We need to upzone the entire country and bring back the missing middle.
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  846.  @dozzer009  More people creates more demand for fewer supply, thus increasing the cost of housing.
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  847.  @dozzer009  Yes, I did. But you can't blame the housing crisis on just one thing. Our zoning laws are the biggest contributor because they create artificial scarcity.
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  848. It means she has personality traits that are typically masculine. In other words, she's a tomboy.
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  849. @morganhillfightclub2996  Elon Musk is not a genius. All of his "inventions" are just worse versions of things that already exist. Like hyperloop, that "bus" (it's a glorified taxi), the Tesla tunnels in Vegas, and the cybertruck. The Tesla tunnels are just a subway network without the trains, hyperloop only holds two people per pod while the shinkansen can carry over 1,300 per train, his "bus" is just a mini van with a futuristic aesthetic, and the cybertruck has terrible visibility, handling, very little storage in comparison to literally any other vehicle, a stainless steel exterior that literally rusts, sharp edges that literally cut you, and it has no rear view camera. For such a genius, the average truck is a way better. You'd the real life Tony Shark would be smart enough to build a window that doesn't crack at the reveal. His inventions only exist to serve rich people. That's why they have such little capacity. Because only rich people who want to pretend their fighting for sustainability can afford them. And besides, even if he is a genius (which he's not), it doesn't matter. The world's richest man having that much political in the palm of his hands is never a good thing. That's him total unelected control over our government. That's not intelligence. That's corruption.
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  850. It will never make sense how using "best ever in the history of our country" and "worst ever in the history of our country" as your frame of reference is such a convincing argument to people. It's so vague. Give me specific comparisons. Saying best or worst ever just leaves what to the best or worst used to be totally to the imagination of the voter.
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  851. Egypt is making the same mistake Rio and Athens made. Building every permanent to be permanent is a disaster in the making. There's a reason why every successful Olympic city utilizes temporary venues.
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  852. In America, the innocent and minor offenders suffer far more than those who commit heinous crimes.
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  853. USAID is necessary to US soft power. It gives us friendly relations with other countries, as well as crushing diseases that could eventually reach our soil. With USAID down, China is now going to fill the gap of foreign aid.
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  854. All of these videos are so obviously fake lmao
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  855. They should've postponed them to 2022 and make the rich IOC businessmen open their deep wallets and support Tokyo, but the IOC would rather hog 96% of the profits like they did in Rio. Blame the IOC. This is all on the IOC.
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  856.  @maplemiles3381  Walking away from 26B without a profit is far expensive than a 2nd delay.
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  857.  @RandomOldPerson  There are pros and cons to every type of housing. Not just single-family homes. For example, renters don't have to worry about utilities have more flexibility if they want to move, which is beneficial if your job requires to you move. Not every has a family. Not everyone can afford a house. Not everyone wants a house because lots of people prefer downtown life. We need missing middle housing to create housing diversity, giving Americans actual options. It's ridiculous that there's so different housing types, yet in most places in the US, you can only pick between a house or an apartment tower.
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  858.  @j340_official  Honestly amazed that NYC has never hosted an Olympics. That's a crime against sport.
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  859. Just like any city, New York has good areas and bad areas. But what makes the stereotype of New York being a dumpster stand out so much more than other cities is the fact the dichotomy between the good areas and the bad areas. The good areas are amazing, while the bad areas are actual hell. And there's actually way more good areas than you may think. New York is also mostly residential, despite what the towering icon that is Manhattan would lead you to believe.
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  860. They're trying to gentrify every inch of NYC. The city government has made its stance very clear. No poor people allowed anymore. They're still huffing that Robert Moses coke over 60 years later. It's disgusting.
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  861. Nothing will be worse than the Nazi Games. Even Athens and Rio will still retrospectively be worse because Tokyo has the advantage of being one of the world's most major cities in the world's third largest economy, so Japan will definitely sustain the venues post-Olympics.
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  862. Next time you hear a conservative evangelical quote 2 Timothy and say, "if you don't work, you don't eat," call the poor lazy, never forget that Jesus said, "blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the Earth."
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  863. I will never understand rich people man. They spent their money on the dumbest things imaginable. I thought Trump's solid gold toilet was the dumbest rich person thing I've ever seen, but they just keep getting even stupider and stupider. The only reason why these things exist is just to stroke their egos. That's it.
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  864. You people really can't see the positive in anything, can you? Our Congress just unanimously united together to officially make the bald eagle our national bird in a political climate where both sides are convinced that the other is unamerican and hates our country. Can't ya'll at least see that as a reason to be happy for once?
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  865.  @woofawoof7616  Who's Eliahu? Ancient Jews were Old Testament Christians. Modern day Jews are the Jews that rejected Jesus. Read the Bible my guy. The Old Testament believers are always referred to as Jews.
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  866.  @muymuy777  What your relationship with Christianity truly like? Dead legalistic religion, or an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ? Because it's was the religious Pharisees that crucified Jesus, not the athiests. The former leads to death and the latter to life.
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  867. @Benjamin Wulf Yes it is
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  868.  @Krano229  It's literally Biblical, but go off
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  869.  @possiblycurryddork  The Pharisees are the ones that forced Pilate to order him be crucified, even though even Pilate said he was innocent. It was all the Pharisees.
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  870.  @possiblycurryddork  At the persistent request of the Pharisees. Pilate even says that he finds no fault in Jesus and doesn't want to punish him. He only does it because the Pharisees begged him too.
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  871.  @possiblycurryddork  The Pharisees had Jesus crucified because they knew he was the Messiah, and Jesus being the Messiah threatened their power. Even if the Pharisees and Sadducees hated each other, they both loved one thing. Power. And if Jesus was the Messiah, they'd both lose it. So it makes sense that they'd teamup to crucify Him.
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  872.  @possiblycurryddork  If you read the four Gospels, you will see that He fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the OT, and the Pharisees knew it, which is why they hated Him and constantly challenged Him. Because His divinity threatened their power. That's why they crucified Him, even if it contradicts their beliefs. Because they're hypocrites, just as Jesus called them. They only care about their pride and power. The Pharisees requested that Pilate have Him executed. They didn't personally crucify Him.
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  873.  @possiblycurryddork  The biblical messiah is the permanent sacrifice for the sins of the world, who was Jesus. The prophecies, particularly in Revelation that the antichrist will bring false world peace and exalt himself as temple in the temple, then double cross the world 3 and a half years later and persecute the Church.
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  874.  @catofthecastle1681  Explain how then. Because you say it like believing in the Bible is a crime.
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  875. A just peace is not peace at all. It only emboldens Russia to go for a round 3 at some point down the line. Russia would not have dared to invade Ukraine in 2022 if Ukraine didn't fight back in 2014. Letting Russia walk out of this war with more Ukrainian territory means that the imperialist genocide was worth it in the end for the aggressor, which only endangers the free world. You have to drive the aggressor out of Ukraine entirely in order to discourage further aggression and turn the Russian public against Putin. Putin will loose his grip on power if the thousands of men who sent to the battlefield died for nothing.
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  876. John Lennon abused his wife and kids. He does not belong in the same sentence as these great men.
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  877. ​ @KanyeTheGayFish69  They plan to relocate MSG to the Hudson Yards and connect it to a massively expanded Javits Center.
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  878. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a piece of artwork. Probably some 3D rendering or something. But this... This is mesmerizing, yet extremely weird to look at. It's looks both real and animated at the exact same time.
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  879. Hell is literally apart of Bible theology
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  880. Virgin New York Democrats vs Chad New Jersey Democrats. This is unironically how it works. I am not taking anymore slander from New York when this clownshow is running the city. New York Democrats are busy letting crime run rampant, taking bribes from foreign diplomats, being perennial sex pests, shutting down congestion pricing because a few rich people in the Hamptons threw a tantrum, even though the actual city that's implementing the congestion pricing wants it, and claiming about there not being enough transit and housing, refusing to build anything because they'd rather penny-pinch than invest in their citizens. Meanwhile, New Jersey Democrats are building housing in mass, expanding the transit, and making college more affordable. The contrast is so night and day, it's aggravatingly comical.
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  881.  @durteedan7836  Yeah, it could be like Mario Kart 8, everyone votes on a stage and the winning stage is randomly selected, from there, everyone gets to choose to their weapons and gear. That would actually be a killer matchmaking system.
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  882.  @durteedan7836  Not even close. None of Salmon Run, X Rank, League Battle, Open Anarchy Battle, and the online lobby existed in Splatoon 1.
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  883. The insane amount of high quality Backrooms animations on YouTube are so much better than most modern Hollywood horror films, it's not even funny.
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  884. MAGA is a cult, so they can't recognize a dogwhistle when they hear one. Strongman worshippers think strength and overwhelming dominance is everything. To them, strength and liberty are one in the same.
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  885.  @y0w0suke-yosk-87  Don't you have glasses if your eyesight is that bad.
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  886.  @annacummins3725  How do you know they're on private planes though? For all we know, they could go just be flying business class. Regardless, when you have to travel across the globe to a summit, flying is inevitable. This is companies are investing in hydrogen power so that we run our planes on hydrogen one day. And besides, cars emit more carbon emissions than planes do because people drive everyday while people only fly on occasion.
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  887.  @lieutenantpepper2734  Over 40% of Rio's population is poor. Not the case with Tokyo. Trust me. Japan is smart.
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  888.  @lieutenantpepper2734  The government is being forced to promote the games against their will. The IOC holds all of the power to cancel or postpone games, not the host, which is twisted. The government couldn't cancel the games, even if they wanted to. Also national support has nothing to do with whether the Japanese people can afford to new apartments.
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  889.  @lieutenantpepper2734  That's exactly what the IOC is. Every host city signs a contract with the IOC which basically gives them all of power. I mean really think about it. The IOC, the board of corporate billionaires forces another country to poor out all of the money, labor, and resources, just for them to swoop in, take 96% of the profits, and leave the host nation to rot. Sounds a lot like corporate slavery to me.
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  890. I'm ok with Bibles in school libraries, but not in the classroom. Keep them in the libraries so students actually have the free will to choose to read them. Otherwise, you're just pushing people away from the faith instead of saving souls. There's a reason why John says that conversion can only come from the heart. Forcing kids to read the Bible won't make them believe it.
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  891. ​ @jessy8a10  Yes. The reason why the meaning of term changed is because Latin Americans started calling themselves "latinos/latinas" as a way to distance themselves from Europe.
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  892. History is going to resent our generation for actually being stupid enough to believe that oligarchs were fighting for the working class. That's the kind of delusion you'd expect to see in a South Park episode. Not real life.
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  893. You can be patriotic for both your heritage and your country. They're not mutually exclusive. Them being Chinese Americans doesn't make them any less Chinese. It's Chinatown, their Chinese community. Of course they're going to wave the flag of their ethnic homeland in their own ethnic community.
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  894.  @sethdickson94  You can be proud of your heritage without supporting your government. Are they supposed to be ashamed of their Chinese ancestry because of the actions of their government? By this logic, we should ashamed to be Americans because of the slave trade, the Native American genocide, putting Japanese people in concentration camps, and committing some of history most gruesome war crimes in Vietnam. Yet you'd rightfully call me stupid for arguing that, right?
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  895.  @irazak9186  My brother in Christ, Chinese people have been migrated to the US since the 19th Century and most of them do in fact speak English. Migrants dodging the law to come here wasn't an issue until recently. Your hostility towards Chinese migrants has suspicious more to do with the fact that they're Chinese, and a lot less than whether or not they came here legally.
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  896. ​ @Classical19821  Because suburbanization was built on redlining which cut off government funding to any neighborhood that was majority of color and made it illegal to sell mortgages to anyone of color. HOA's also excluded anyone of color from moving in. This is why suburbs are still overwhelmingly white to this day. You probably wouldn't know that if you weren't American since this is was a uniquely American thing.
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  897.  @unconventionalideas5683  No, it most definitely wasn't. All of this was spearheaded by the perfect combination of corporate greed, classism, and segregationism we've ever seen over the past century. We destroyed our cities and gentrified them, destroyed the environment, and manufactured a housing crisis solely to keep the "undesirables" out so that the the rich could thrive at the next generation's expense. Let that sink in. We live in a world that is so desperate to avoid so much as breathing the same air as the "undesirables," that we are actually willing to literally destroy ourselves just to preserve that. It's so pathetic and sad. Just wait until Gen Alpha finds out the motivation behind what caused climate change.
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  898.  @Daniel_Zhu_a6f  ...Strawman... I'm referring to the actual urban form of cities. Not working conditions.
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  899.  @dancotterman1267  How on Earth did you come to the conclusion that I'm talking about Russia?
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  900.  @westelaudio943  Because they still incorporated stone into the structures, often encasing the steel beams underneath the stone. Postmodern structures on the other hand, which are built with only steel and concrete however, are deteriorating very fast.
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  901. Importing foreign labor is actually very common practice in the construction industry because it serves as the free trade of expertise. Take California HSR for example. One of the main reasons why it's still not even close to done almost a decade since construction began in 2015 is because nobody in America knows how to build high-speed rail. So normally, foreign workers would be brought in in order to teach the local engineers how its done so that the local engineers can pass their newfound knowledge onto their pupils. But California HSR banned any foreign workers from the projects in order to "protect" American workers, resulting in construction dragging to a snail's pace because now everyone has to learn how to build a high-speed rail line as they build it, which ultimately hurts the taxpayer and the government's finances because time is money. Sometimes bringing in foreign labor is actually necessary.
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  902. If you're waving swastika flags with an "America for the White Man" banner while armed with an assault rifle, that goes far beyond freedom of speech. That's an open threat of violence against the people. Those neo-Nazi would not feel emboldened enough to carry weapons if they didn't feel that they'd be justified in carrying out racial violence with the ability to get away with it.
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  903. Not all change is good change.
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  904.  @JustlyBean  Our joy and identity is found in our savior, Jesus. Not our sexuality.
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  905. Amen. So happy that this is one of the top comments. Praise God. <3
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  906.  @XavierQuin  Of course He never intended that, but that's a result our fallen nature. We all inherit sin due to the fall.
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  907.  @jlust6660  It's not, but it is the most practical
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  908.  @ketunky3056  That's a big lie bruh. Action sports and ice hockey are huge. 💀
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  909. @Benj Smith Productions Agreed. And the key to doing that is by reforming the IOC.
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  910. The officers should've arrested him and confiscated his devices. He obviously has illegal porn on them, which is grounds to arrest him.
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  911. This is what happens when you let idealism get in the way of progress. The reason why rent is so high in New York is because there's a lack of supply. Increasing the supply of housing, even if its market rate, decreased the scarcity and thus, rent city-wide becomes cheaper. Plus, the developers who build the building need to make some kind of profit, so making it 100% affordable just isn't economically feasible. This isn't like Billionaire's Row, which only exists to kiss the asses of the ultra rich in a city desperate for affordable housing. This is housing for the everyday New Yorker, and we needed it yesterday. Not when the activists decide that they approve of it. Also, reserving a portion of the housing to survivors and victims is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. For one, being anywhere near the WTC is already traumatizing enough, so having them live there is completely tone deaf. And two, what makes you think that they will specifically choose to live in Manhattan? The NYC metro area spans across three states, yet you expect me to believe that manufacturing more artificial housing scarcity in case they maybe chose to live there solely for moralistic pandering is good idea? Hell no. Those units could be better housing people who actually need to live in Manhattan.
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  912. Christian Nationalism isn't just a threat to non-Christians. It is also a threat to any denomination of Christianity that doesn't align with their's. These people believe Catholicism is demonic. They went to turn America into Franco's Spain.
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  913. The sad thing is that I and many others would've avoided her because we wouldn't be able to tell if her skin condition was some contagious disease or something.
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  914. Yet another reason to love Japan
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  915. They should build a dome over that sandcastle to protect it from the rain.
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  916. It's amazing to me how all of you think this is proof that the election is rigged when Republicans are paranoid about mail-in ballots being fraudulent. This was probably a Trump supporter throwing out a bunch of "fraudulent votes" under the giese of keeping the election "fair."
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  917. Well, this video aged like milk...
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  918. This video completely ignores the fact that our zoning laws and parking minimums create artificial housing scarcity. It assumes that a single family home is the only type of home that exists. We need more missing middle housing.
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  919. As someone who has these, it feels like a tight right band wrapped around your left eye multiple times over as your veins are about to burst. It's excruciating. And they're frequent. Like, on a near daily basis. The eye doctor said that I should outgrow them by my mid-20s.
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  920.  @Philippecastro427  It's alright. I'm fine. :)
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  921. The reason why disasters and disease exist is because when we ate from the tree of knowledge we invited sin into the world, and it poisoned it, separating us from God, making it no longer perfect. That's why Jesus sent His son to bear all of the world's sins on Himself and take the punishment for us and defeat death three days later, so that we could no longer be trapped in that sin and inherit eternal live through a relationship with Jesus Christ, our Savior. God has already responded to disasters and disease. It's just not in the militarist sense that you'd imagine from a God, because have a relational God. God is our Father. Not a genie. This is why he allows evil to fester, because a good Father gives His children the free will to choose to follow Him or not, make the right and wrong choices, and reap the consequences of their actions, letting them learn on their own. As Jesus taught in the Parable of the Sower, we reap what we sow. Tyson is approaching His questions from the wrong angle and searching for the answers in the wrong places. The true answers he seeks lye in the Word of the God, Amen.
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  922. ​ @vcvortex6356  That's literally what the Bible teaches. God is not a genie. God is our Father. If he just snapped away our problems, what would we learn? And what would we have to gain? "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." - Romans 5:1-5
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  923.  @vcvortex6356  Evil you say? And fake? Well then, how so? Because historical records and archaeology confirm that the events of Biblical history or true and accurate. And how the universe is too divinely designed to have possibly been an accident. Mathematics says that the odds of a universe like this existing by accident is one in billions upon billions. Practically impossible. And Newton's Law of Gravity can actually rewind cosmic history all the way back to a single point of creation. You'd have to have more faith to believe that the universe is an accident, than that it was created by God. And how is the evil? How could a God who sent his only begotten son to take the punishment for our sin, which we could never repay, and rise again three days later, making our salvation a free gift that we can't earn, freeing us from eternal punishment possibly be an evil God? Jesus died for you knowing that you may never even love Him. Now that's beautiful.
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  924.  Kanha the third  God exists outside of the universe in eternity. He has no beginning nor end. The Big Bang Theory was created by a Catholic priest, and it uses Newton's Law of Gravity to rewind cosmic history all the way back to a single point of creation. Who's on the other side of that portal? That's the only logical explanation because this universe itself needs a source of creation, and the only way a starting point for the beginning of everything could possibly exist is from an eternal source that has no beginning nor end.
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  925.  Kanha the third  God's outside the universe. He's in eternity. It's in a different dimension.
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  926.  Kanha the third  I already told you. God is eternal. He lives in eternity. He no end nor beginning. The only logical conclusion to the beginning of the universe, something that has a beginning and isn't eternal, is for the source to have been something eternal with no end nor beginning. It's beyond our human comprehension.
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  927.  Kanha the third  No, I do know, and I just explained it. How can an order universe that isn't eternal and carries information possibly exist by creating itself? That's notion is intellectually absurd. That's like trying to explain how the device you're typing this one came to exist from a purely naturalistic theory. Try and describe how your phone or computer created itself? Everything that is created needs a designer. I already said this before. The Big Bang Theory was created by a Catholic priest, and it's about the gradual expansion of the universe by using Issac Newton (a devout Christian who believed science proves God creation)'s Law of Gravity to trace back cosmic history all the way back to a single point of creation? It's a portal. Who's on the other side of the portal? God. The only source of creation. This is why the universe continues to expand because God is always creating. Even advanced mathematics proves that the probability of this kind of universe existing the way it does is 1/10 to the 120 power. In other words, 1 in trillions upon trillions. You literally need to have more faith to believe that the universe is an accident than to believe that God created it.
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  928.  Kanha the third  A simulation? 😂 How?
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  929.  Kanha the third  Bro are you trolling? This is way more absurd than naturalism.
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  930.  Kanha the third  Bruh... Ok, your turn for evidence then lol
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  931.  Kanha the third  Where? lol XD
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  932. This is far worse than I could've ever imagined. Not only is this gonna be another regime change from a so-called isolationist, but Russia is notorious for rigging the elections of its neighbors. This is how Crimea "voted" to be annexed by Russia.
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  933. This is strange for me, but totally unsurprising given the state of our education system. Every year up until my senior year of high school, 9/11 was always talked about as the subject of that class in at least one of our classes on that day. Mainly our history classes.
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  934. Criticizing the current state of your country is not in any way similar to hating your country. Blind obedience to the nation is only expected under authoritarian regimes. If the right to protest is considered "anti-American" to you, then you simply aren't on the side of true freedom. Plain and simple.
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  935. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin has p-tapes on Trump. We already know that he was a participant in Epstein's ring, and Trump has had close business ties with Russia since the 80s, so the Russians probably know more about his connection to Epstein than we do. Trump probably even invited some Russian oligarchs to join him on Epstein's island.
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  936. Even if Trump was chosen by God, that doesn't make him immune to criticism. There's a reason why the kings of Israel were under God's judgement whenever they sinned. But today, Trump's "anointing" frees him of all accountability.
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  937.  @velvetrest4566  Why? Because I'm not a nihilist and have the peace of the Lord?
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  938. Unfortunately, we are allies again, but for all the wrong reasons.
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  939. @Ptolemy 1 It's not same for everyone though
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  940.  @livid7447  Your welcome. God bless you my friend. 💖
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  941.  @supremogeno3344  np my friend💖
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  942.  @eugenekey7876  Our joy, peace, satisfaction comes from the Lord. If we need anything other than Jesus to feel complete, than an idol we've built for ourselves. He's holding because understands that. It's about self-control.
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  943.  @subtleleaf1269  The Bible was not written my a Church. It was written by the Apostles and Prophets throughout the ages.
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  944.  @4evertrue830  The only reason it's currently 26B is because of the extra year of operating costs due to the postponement.
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  945. Jesus died on the cross and defeated death just to be in an intimate relationship with you, knowing that most will never love Him. What an incomprehendable love! That's more than enough reason to give my whole life to Him. I'll be praying for you. God bless you. <3
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  946. Both of these things can be true at the same time, you know? Humans are not separate from nature. Our actions do effect the environment around us. It's funny you say that we sin against though because you aren't wrong. God's first command to Adam was to cultivate the Earth, yet we destroying it the name of greed. Truly a reep what you sow moment. Imagine walking into someone else's house and casually completely destroying the entire place while just expecting the homeowner to fix it themself like an entitled, self-centered fool. That's how you climate deniers treat God.
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  947. School Days is one of the worst series in media ever created. Not just the ending.
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  948.  @jerrymazic  The Chinese populous has been propagandized by the Chinese media. The fact that the government has re-written the Bible to be pro-communist, and the Chinese Christians need to worship with the true scriptures smuggled in from other countries in secret or underground should tell you all you need to know.
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  949. Don't forget Finland will want their old borders back. Particularly for having Zyborg back.
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  950. I miss home videos. The kinds of family videos that were made for the family. Nowadays, family videos are almost always made as a script for social media. Not for the private family nostalgia trip that it used to be. It takes away from the joys of life. Imagine going on a road trip, but instead of actually spending time with your family and savoring it, you waste it being with you can use it to exploit your child for money and social media engagement. Instead of going on road trip, they might as well go to a theater club. Seeing actual family videos in 2021 is watching an ancient relic from the past now.
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  951. Did the kid still get to go to college?
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  952. Bro, ONLY 50-60!? I'm quaking at what's considered "a lot" in Australia. Australia's wildlife is hellish. 😭
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  953. Deepfake technology is just another example how big tech is trying to spiral humanity into a cyberpunk dystopia. The amount of sinister things that these kinds of technologies can be used for should everyone terrified. They're even trying to create brain chips now. What's next? Actual mind control? At this point, probably.
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  954. I wouldn't be surprised if this the spark that causes the next Great Depression. We've been on track for one for years now.
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  955. ​ @jamesaston410  Reminder that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  956. ​@eleSDSU Christianity played a vital role in the advancement of science before anti-intellectualism became mainstream. And the Civil Rights Movement was pioneered by Christians.
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  957. COVID numbers have gone down to the point where masks are no longer necessary anymore. That's why there aren't any mask mandates in place anymore. Not even the employees are wearing masks. If this was 2021 on the other hand, then I'd fault him for not wearing a mask.
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  958. So why won't Putin step down after his 26 years as president and hold free and fair elections in his country?
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  959. I don't think it's the fact that the community gave a deadline for the protest as much as how short it was. Only two days is barely a protest. Protests take months to make progress. Not 48 hours.
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  960.  @katuni08  Well, it is a disorder because the ADHD brain structure is completely different. ADHD brains are smaller than the average brain and lacks dopamine for responding to stimuli, leading to ADHD. What neurodivergent kids need are resource classes that accommodate for their symptoms. Those classes are what allowed me to become an honors student.
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  961.  @gageh89  I think you responded to the wrong person bro
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  962. Europe being a largely atheistic culture is one thing, but having atheism being taught like it's a proven fact and that religion is obsolete like that blasphemous bus sign is absolutely ridiculous and absurd.
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  963.  @johndhodhi1371  What's he saying is biblical and you know it lol
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  964. I wonder if the American people will continue to be weak and not rise up when our cities are covered in smog again.
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  965.  @Deadsea_1993  That's wild. Does that mean that Andrew was Scottish though?
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  966.  @paladinheadquarters7776  Wut?
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  967.  @ivrxr86  Upon taking office on day 1, Trump signed an executive order instructing Noem and Hegseth to do a 90 day study on whether invoking the Insurrection Act would be necessary to speed up his mass deportation operation. 90 days from January 20th is April 20th. And Noem and Hegseth are sycophants, so they will obviously say yes because that's what Trump wants to hear.
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  968.  @cuve_ae  That housing structure you're referring to in the backyard is an ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit), and they are legal to build in certain neighborhoods. They're increasing becoming legalized as a way to increase density and build more missing middle housing.
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  969. Lets not beat around the bush here. This is being proposed solely for political reasons. Bousselot just wants to increase Iowa's number of electors. He doesn't care about the population of Southern Minnesota. These expansionists aren't considering the damaging ripple effect this will have across the country. Having states splitting along urban vs rural lines will destabilize the country from within. This is precisely why I'm opposed to DC statehood. Never before in our nation's history has their ever been an independent city-state in the union. Make DC the first, and suddenly, every state will start splitting themselves into urban city-states and rural states.
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  970. I don't understand why we're so hellbent on just letting anyone come into the country when Ellis Island and Angel Island are sitting right there collecting dust. We should've never closed them down. Reopen them and process the immigrants right there on the spot. That's how it was done for generations and there was never any problems. Now, we suddenly decided that due process is racist for some reason. This is what happens when you turn everything into a race issue and let altruism supercede common sense.
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  971. As someone who actually believed the Democrats throughout the pandemic, I feel so embarrassed and stupid seeing all of red states doing so much better than the blue states now. It's nauseating and I feel dirty.
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  972. Mixed used stadium development is smart because it actually makes the price tag of the worth it. Creating a business district right next to the city's premier entertainment venue prints money for the local economy. Especially when those districts are walkable and near public transit, which they probably are if they are in their in the city center.
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  973. ​ @magical2604  Because America has a two-party winner takes all system. We literally can't do that, even though we want to.
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  974. Delta Center hosted figure skating and short track speed skating for the 2002 Olympics, so the obstructed views weren't as big of a deal. The Maverik Center, home of the ECHL's Utah Grizzlies, is where Olympic hockey was held.
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  975.  @yFortuna  What do you mean by building-high?
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  976.  @RavenMyBoat  Georgism Supremacy
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  977.  @simonmaduxx6777  Doing nothing is not getting rid of single-family zoning and parking minimums.
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  978. She isn't wrong, but that's a result of racial profiling and mass incarceration. Racists will yap about how it's because they're naturally more violent though. I've lost count of the amount of times I've watched a news report about a violent crime committed by a black person and the entire comment section is flooded with "13%" over and over again.
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  979. It's not just YouTube's war on adblockers that's infuriating. It's the fact that they keep increasing the amounts of ads that play on videos. I wouldn't be so annoyed with YouTube requiring me to watch ads if I was still only getting the 5-10 second add roll. Now, I'm getting a full minute of unskipable ads just from clicking on a video. This isn't even counting the ads during the videos.
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  980.  @FantasticMrFrog  They should've installed geothermal heating. Green A/C is a thing, but Paris is just cheap. Green roofs and aerodynamic floor layouts for natural cooling would've also gone a long way.
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  981. Because the Republicans are masters at weaponizing culture wars to mask their blatant oligarchic fascism ambitions.
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  982. Trump apologists not understanding the difference between alleged and convicted whenever people get deported will always make me rage quit. They were not given a trial. The only evidence we have that they were actually gang menbers is "bro trust me."
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  983. Just like with every other industry with mass corporate consolidation nowadays, most of this money is probably going into the pockets of the higher-ups.
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  984. It's insane to me that Trump has been openly pledging to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to round up immigrants into concentration camps, the exact same thing FDR did to Japanese Americans, since the campaign trail, and yet still, somehow, the American people cannot see what's really happening. Don't be surprised when millions of these people go "missing."
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  985. The DNC betraying Bernie is going to go down in history as the the greatest mistake this country has ever made. American politics would not be in the dire state that it's in had he been elected President. Everyone wanted him to be president, but the establishment stole him from us.
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  986. 2:20 I have...many questions...
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  987. @whatroads4x4 It is on the news, but not all news blows up. A lot of the time, many important news report get suppressed or go ignored until it gets mass shared across social media. Given the amount of stereotypes that come with being a majority, most people are probably just ignoring this, thinking this is privileged propoganda.
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  988. Imagine thinking clothes made of pixels are actually worth something.
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  989. Who else wants to bet that the reason that man was spying on that family is because he's a child predator trying to find a way to get close to their kid?
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  990. She's half Indian, half black.
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  991.  sallybrookner4158  These are the same people complain about how we're too focused on race btw. Obsessing over someone's race is only bad when you're denying a person of color's race apparently.
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  992.  @DebbieKing-h5u  Nice deflection. If I'm wrong, then prove it yourself before you make a baseless claim without any evidence.
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  993. There's just one problem with that. The military is full of Trump cucks.
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  994.  @barslaf  God never disowned you for not believing in Him. Quite the opposite. After we sinned, we were trapped living in sin. The only way to be saved in the Old Testament was to be perfect, but that's why Jesus came took on all of the sin of the world on the Cross and took our punishment and death that we deserved and defeated it three days later on Easter. If God didn't love you unconditionally beyond your comprehension, than he wouldn't have bothered to send His one and only begotten son just so he could reunite with you. God bless you my friend. <3
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  995. That gorilla is about to become a harem protagonist now 🐐
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  996. There's another disturbing element to this. The return of manifest destiny. 1800's America was convinced that God had chosen America to conquer all of North America, and with the separation of Church and state under attack right now, it would not surprise me if this is "destroying the cartels" nonsense is just code for finishing what the original manifest destiny movement couldn't. Every Canadian should be worried about America interfering in Canada's elections to get Trump loyalists into Parliament next if he wins the election again.
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  997. It's incredibly terrifying how Trump has successfully convinced his base that he's either right or everyone else is out to get him. They don't even realize that they're trying to sabotage a free and fair election. They're genuinely convinced that it's impossible for Trump to lose because they're genuinely convinced that they're the "moral majority."
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  998. Subscription streaming has become so much worse than cable. At least with cable, you actually get access to everything for the price of one.
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  999. Good luck fighting the wildfires this summer without the Canadians' help. This is also just more proof that climate change is real btw.
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  1000. ​ @dennisg4053  Source: Bro trust me
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  1001.  @apeekintime  The solution is to build more transit-oriented development then. Not loosen voter registration laws. That's like trying to remove a beehive from your house by bulldozing the house.
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  1002. They skipped the entire middle of the manga. It's trash.
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  1003.  @mrnoro9574  If you somehow still managed to enjoy this trainwreck of an adaptation, then you're going to absolutely fall in love with the manga...and become 10x as salty towards S2 in the process lol. But still, PLZ read the manga. Goldy Pond is one of the best arc in fiction I've ever experienced.
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  1004. ​ @Mynipplesmychoice  "and give up the power!?" Thank you for outing yourself as the abuser you really are. It tells everyone everything they need to know about you.
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  1005. YES!!!
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  1006. I don't know how you can call this a rap battle when there's literally no beat whatsoever. It's not rap if there's no rhythm. It's just a middle school roast battle at that point.
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  1007. My favorite is "you see, he doesn't have a lot of status. He doesn't understand these things," which is one of the most classist things I've ever heard. He's equating wealth to intelligence.
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  1008. Schumer really still thinks we're in 2000s politics where you can reach across the aisle. MAGA is the party of the oligarchic christofacism. There is no middle ground when you're fighting extremism. Voting to pass the total destruction of Medicaid solely for the sake of being bi-partisan is beyond idiotic. It's irresponsible.
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  1009. It could be because our gravity is different than theirs.
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  1010.  @haashemmalik216  He's one of only two who survived. The other was a firefighter. Was Brian Clark a firefighter?
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  1011. ​ @newagain9964 Trump withholding aid from California unless they change their voting laws to benefit him is absolutely motivated by malice.
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  1012. If the adults were struggling to walk, then the kids must've been flying like kites.
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  1013. I really hope Tokyo uses Zoom video boards in place of in-person crowds. Japan may still be knees deep in COVID, but this is still the Olympics. We still need to bring the world together somehow and Team Japan absolutely deserve their home crowd.
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  1014. She sounds like the kind of person that you could confide in with anyone. She's the kind of person that I hope I can become one day.
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  1015. @Ramzan Because less than 10% of Japan has even gotten their first shot.
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  1016.  @WardofSquid  Japan deserves to celebrate their own games. Team Japan deserves to be cheered on by their own country. The athletes deserve to be with their families. Everyone deserves better. This is unfair to everyone, all in the name of greed. And the IOC knows that they're taking advantage of the pandemic for profit. Now they're monopoly over the broadcasting profits is going to skyrocketing with the would've been spectators now forced to watch the Games via TV. Total corporate scum. The IOC is a bunch of slaveholders. Force another country to pour out all of the money, labor, and resources, then come in and steal all of their profits and leave the host city to rot. Absolute bull.
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  1017. What I don't understand is how the CIA regularly spys on the entire population, yet somehow these viral videos of predators getting caught on the open internet aren't immediately caught. Like, how is it possible that not a single CIA agent sees this. Heck, even a local police officer can easily see this when they open YouTube. This is the equivalent of walking into the court room with a giant flashing neon sign saying, "he's a predator," yet somehow, they still can't see it.
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  1018. Trump: "I'm presbyterian" Also Trump: "*I don't need to ask for forgiveness. I just try to make it rights. I just go to Church and eat the bread and drink the wine.*" In other words, you're trying to be saved by works, which is worldliness. That's not faith. We're saved by grace through faith alone (Romans 3:23-24, Ephesians 2:8-9).
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  1019. The word "loli" simply refers to a prepubescent girl, or a female with childlike qualities. "Shota" being the male counterparts. This is a very general definition, so these characters aren't problematic if they aren't sexualized. Renge, Klee, Eri, and characters like them are good examples of this. "Lolicon/shotacon" is when lolis and shotas are lewded, which is totally different. That is what you should really be concerned about.
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  1020. Considering the fact that Republicans are paranoid about mail-in ballots being fraudulent, I think it's the opposite. I think we're going to see a lot of Republicans throwing out valid mail-in ballots under the giese of keeping the election "fair."
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  1021.  @HaveanOreshnik  You should see the other reply sections in this comment section. There are some with entire chains blaming the riot solely on black people.
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  1022.  @HaveanOreshnik  Are you insinuating that black people are naturally more violent than white people?
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  1023. Lets be honest here. The cop knew it wasn't a gunshot. He just wanted to make up an excuse to shot him. Psychopathic behavior.
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  1024. All these racists in the comments crying 13% like Bundy, Gacy, Dohamer, Scully, and Epstein and Maxwell aren't all white, but ya'll love to gloss over them. Hilarious.
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  1025. Lets just call this what this is. Voter suppression. "Illegal immigrant" according to the Trump administration is anyone who isn't white, as we're seeing with ICE profiling people of color and deporting them without due process. And what does this order mean for citizens who don't have a driver's license? For many young people, their school ID is the only ID they have. And if the SAVE Act gets passed, married women and trans people will lose their right to vote because it will require a birth certificate in order to vote. Trans women and married women who've changed their last names won't have a birth certificate that matches their identity, which will render them invalid at the polls.
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  1026. I would love it if Governor Murphy ran for President. He's been great for New Jersey. He's provided so many grants for college and university students, and has invested heavily in NJTransit and green energy. All three of those things are key issues that Democrat care about a lot and he has a proven track record of success in all of them.
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  1027. ​@canman5060 No, you're not. They're waving the Mexican flag to show pride in their ethnicity because MAGA is being antagonistic towards our southern ally, threatening them with invasion and tariffs, and racially profiling people of color as "poisoning the blood of our country" as legal migrants, undocumented migrants without criminal records, and dreamers are all getting detained by ICE. MAGA is lying when they're saying that it's just violent criminals. A dreamer was just detained in Florida and is now being deported, even though Trump pledged that he would fight for dreamers. You need to keep in mind that a lot of Mexican Americans still have family in Mexico that would be in danger of being killed in the crossfire of a US invasion.
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  1028. I don't think that's going to help. A.I. creates its images, videos, an artwork by pulling from content that already exists on the internet. This is why artists are trying to get A.I. art banned. Because it's a form of legalized art theft. Using A.I. to create hyper-realistic bait material would require the generator to pull from actual cp in order to create the images and videos, which wouldn't be much different than what the FBI did here.
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  1029. I would've thought that bots promoting cp was just bait to catch predators.
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  1030. The most sickening thing about this is what Trump and Vance is literally telling Zelenskyy to his face that they're nothing without us and that they need us. "Why don't you say thank you that the almighty USA is coming to the rescue to save you pathetic helpless weaklings" is basically what JD is saying. Not only is that American exceptionalism, it's also imperialist mentality.
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  1031. Finally. An actual YouTuber redemption arc. We desperately need way more of these good endings for a change.
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  1032. We only have a fraction of our oceans mapped, and only know a fraction of the marine life out there that actually exists, yet we're still wasting billions trying to colonize Mars, which is never going to happen.
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  1033.  Static  At this rate, we should lock ourselves in a box and hide from humanity. That's the only way woke people won't get offended.
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  1034. Typical American news media blaming transit, even when the driver is at fault. When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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  1035. The Dutch have plenty of wide roads with resting points in between, so it's fine. They make traffic flow better and safer, because pedestrians won't be forced to sprint through all 8 lanes at once. Plus, many of those lanes are dedicated bus lanes. If this was your typical American stroad, Seattle would make all 8 lanes for cars without a buffer in-between.
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  1036. Where are my fellow pro-lifers at? Plz rise up! I feel like I'm the only one who's been talking about this since it happened.
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  1037. It actually wouldn't be nearly as big. Yellowstone doesn't even rank in the top 20 most dangerous volcanoes in the US, while Mt. Saint Helens ranks at #2.
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  1038. Seeing the mainstream media actually criticize the Democrats for once is so refreshing. I legitimately cannot recall a single time in recent memory prior to this video where the Democrats were the ones being criticized.
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  1039. Just one problem with that, fascists have a history of being very popular with the masses. All over the internet, I'm still seeing MAGA supporters celebrating this coup as fulfilling what they voted for. "Getting rid of waste" at the expense of law and order.
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  1040.  @kensmith5694  How would they get their hands on an atomic bomb???
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  1041. Even if Canada and Mexico were caving to Trump, that's still not a win because that's the opposite of diplomacy. That's just might is right antagonism towards your allies. We should be making deals with Canada and Mexico. Not forcing them to submit to us.
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  1042. For those who don't know, the Muslims aren't the only ones being oppressed. China has other independent states like Taiwan that are being oppressed, and Christianity is also under attack because religion at large is banned. Bibles have to be smuggled in from other countries. And they're using the RFID chip (Mark of the Beast) to track all of its citizens and is now almost a fully cashless society. America's silence towards this is deafening and it's infuriating. The rest of the world needs to stop being cowards and do something. Imagine refusing to stop the Nazis because you relied on them for trade. This is exactly what's happening right now.
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  1043. You say it like rentals aren't real housing. That's complete nonsense. We need more housing diversity. Not cracking down on rentals. 75% of our housing market is just single-family homes and nothing else with no missing middle outside of cities.
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  1044. @NexusKin  Only when Larry Fink finally buys the White House will the American people finally realize that we don't live in a democracy anymore.
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  1045. The reason why Europe needs the support of the US for any peace deal they propose is because the current international is built on international cooperation. However, sadly, it doesn't seem like the US wants to continue to peaceful world order it created.
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  1046. Norway Try To Take An L: Impossible
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  1047. The media should not be endorsing candidates. Their job is to be impartial. Just like how the media used to be in the 50's and 60's when Walter Kronkite was America's reporter. When the media endorses a candidate, it's no longer news media. It's just propaganda.
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  1048. ​ @archives2876 They're saying that it's stupid that a child who grows up to discover that they're gay is labeled a child predator for simply being gay while the hoard of conservative pastors who are unable to stop touching kids on a regular basis are constantly being protected and blaming their victims while still being hailed as shining beacons of morality.
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  1049.  @Jurassicpoop432  I never said that this law wasn't necessary, you know? I'm just saying that bias is a real thing. The average gay person isn't a predator. That choir cannot speak for the whole community. Predators will just co-opt anything for their own benefit. Just look at how purity culture in the Church has been used to call young girls "harlots" insinuating that they "were asking for it" and "deserved it." So can you plz chill with the throwing the word pfile around so loosely? Using it so loosely like that just waters down the meaning of that word.
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  1050. Thank God someone finally said it. Now, because of the UK's stupidity, everyone's going to see urbanism as some tyrannical agenda instead of common sense policies.
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  1051.  @twsartadventures3660  They actually do help. Individualized transit is woefully inefficient at moving large numbers of people, so building your entire country around that is a never-ending spiral of increased traffic, constant road maintenance that's making our cities and suburbs poor, and urban planning that forces everyone to live in a single-family home and drive everywhere for every basic task against their will or else. That's not freedom, and it's not sustainable. Everyone has the right as a citizen to choose how they want to get around and live in whatever housing they want to live in. Climate change is catching up to us fast, and we're all going to run out of oil one day. Car dependency isn't the futurama on wheels that everyone thought it was back in the Mid-20th Century, and the consequences of car dependency are now rearing their ugly head. The problem isn't 15-minute cities. The problem is the Oxford city government. I've never seen any other urbanist city implement such an asinine and authorization form of 15-minute cities in my life before. The whole point of 15-minute cities is having everything you need within 15 minutes of every housing unit. Creating lockdown zones completely undermines this because everyone living on the edge of their lockdown zone is blocked off from accessing the amenities that are within 15-minutes of them. Actual brainrot.
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  1052.  @kevin15776  15-minute cities aren't supposed to have lockdown zones. That's just the idea of the Oxford city government. A 15-minute city means that everything you need is within 15 minutes of every housing unit. Creating lockdown zones completely undermines that.
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  1053.  @tinyrockyplanet8953  15-minute cities aren't supposed to have lockdown zones. A 15-minute city means that everything you need is within 15 minutes of every housing unit. Creating lockdown zones completely undermines it blocks you off what's accessing things that are probably right next to your home. This why no urbanist city other than Oxford creates lockdown zones. Oxford is just stupid. That's all this is.
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  1054.  @kathleenpearson-dh9od  That's a ridiculous suspicion. We've been building 15-minute cities since ancient times. Oxford creating lockdown zones actually works against their goal because the whole point of a 15-minute city is having everything you need within walking distance of every housing unit. If you're the edge of the lockdown zone and you're not allowed to walk to the corner store on your block, then that's not a 15-minute city. That's mass surveillance. This is why you don't see this in any other city in Europe. Because it's very clearly a stupid idea.
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  1055.  @kathleenpearson-dh9od  Exactly what it sounds like. What's your point? I already explained that this is not the norm for 15-minute cities. No other 15-minute city outside of China is implementing these policies.
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  1056.  @kathleenpearson-dh9od  The restricted zones being implemented in Oxford.
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  1057.  @kathleenpearson-dh9od  Um, no. 15 minute cities have been a thing since ancient times. It's called walkable, pedestrian centric city planning, and it's nothing new. The name 15 minute city comes from the fact that everything you need is within 15 minutes of where you live, which is way more convenient that you're ability to get around locked behind a mandatory auto industry paywall. Pedestrian centric development is also better because it creates third places, which creates a strong sense of community, and foot traffic is always way better for commerce than giant asphalt deserts that only big corporate brands can afford, killing small businesses. And the economy of scale that public transit provides reduces congestion. One bus can hold 60 people. Break them up into 60 cars, and you've back up for hours. Oxford breaking up the city into 15 minute zones completely defeats the purpose of a 15 minute city because of you're on the edge of the zone, you can't access the things that you're supposed to be able to access.
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  1058. The A.I. revolution is the epitome of the quote: "you spent so much time thinking about you could, that you never stopped to think if you should." These tech bros want to reduce humanity to the useless chair slaves in Wall-E. No purpose. No jobs. No artistic integrity. Just replacing humanity and all the things that make humans human with robots. The A.I. revolution is not innovation. It's dystopian. Most of these A.I. inventions were never necessary, but it sure is convenient for those in power since they won't have to pay any salaries anymore.
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  1059. Plz don't turn this into a religious debate. The topic at hand goes beyond religion. Church leaders are never divinely anointed, unless they're chosen by God to be a prophet. Becoming a religious leader is merely a career choice. It is the job of said leader to embody the laws they profess to believe in. If they sin, then that's on them, and nobody else.
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  1060.  @SevenPr1me  My point remains the same. This is not a God debate. This is about protecting our children from predators. Shifting the topic to something completely different only distracts from that. Humans are not robots that follow God's every desire. We have the free will to make choices and suffer the consequences. How about instead of blaming God for all of our problems and calling Him evil for not bailing us out of the consequences of our own actions, we just take self-accountability and not molest kids. It's a pretty easy moral standard for even most unbelievers to accomplish.
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  1061.  @SevenPr1me  That problem is not unique to Church. There are predators everywhere in many different positions of power. They're protected everywhere, regardless of whether they're a pastor, CEO, politician, etc.
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  1062.  @SevenPr1me  Because even if Church represents Christ, it's still led by humans. Not everything that claims to be from God, is not actually from God. Wolves in sheep's clothing? Humans and the institutions they create are not suddenly infallible because they give lip service to Jesus. There are a lot humanitarian organizations that use activism as leverage for their shady practices or worse? Does that make activism bad? No, it doesn't.
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  1063.  @SevenPr1me  It's not mental gymnastics or excuses. It's just a fact of reality. You can't expect humans to suddenly become perfect and somehow being immune to falling into sin, simply because they believe in God. That's just not realistic. Humans will always be sinful beings, believer or not, which means, believers will fail. It's simply, an inevitability of life.
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  1064.  @SevenPr1me  It's not God's job to police our every word and action. God owes us nothing. He is the Creator and King of the Universe. He gave us His law. If we disobey it, then the consequences are ours to bare, because they are our sins. Not God's. It's not God's job to bail us out of the consequences of our own actions. You want to see less abuse happen? Stop molesting people. Simple as that. It's not hard to do.
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  1065.  @SevenPr1me  No, it doesn't. God created the perfect world that we so badly ask Him for in Eden, then we rejected it so that we become gods ourselves. God gave us our wish. We became our own gods, just as we so desired, and clearly, we are not fit to be gods. Then, he saved us from judgement by sending His son to die for us. We humans are merely reaping the consequences that we asked for. I'm not debating this further. This is delving into a theological war, and that's not going to be fruitful.
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  1066.  @SevenPr1me  I'm not debating theology with you. Been there, done that, and I'm not doing it anymore. This never goes anywhere. We're done here.
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  1067.  @SevenPr1me  This has nothing to do with being afraid to have my ideology challenging. I'm always questioning my beliefs. This has to do with the fact that I've been in these kinds of debates before, and it never goes anymore. It's almost always just two people yelling at each other for days about why they're wrong. It's just emotionally draining and publicly humiliating. So I'm not going to deal with it anymore. This has gone on long enough. I already said that this debate is over, twice over now.
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  1068. The seal made me so happy. I wanna pet a seal now. 😭💖✨
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  1069. "We'll have it fixed so good, you'll never have to vote again." Trump is not joking. He's only presenting it as a joke to plant the thought in his followers' heads. Then, he'll keep repeating the "joke" until suddenly, it's not a joke anymore.
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  1070. Meanwhile, the fact that we've actually reached the point where people seriously think that assisted suicide is ethical and a human right is so infuriating. Assisted suicide just confirms all the fears and insecurities of the suicidal. It's basically saying "I agree with you" when someone says that the world would be a better place without them in it and that nobody will miss them.
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  1071. Hyperloop is just a worse version of high speed rail. It doesn't matter if hyperloop is faster than high speed rail because the hyperloop is an individual pod, while high speed train is a high capacity train, so high speed rail will move more people way faster and more efficiently.
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  1072. Yet another brilliant and practical idea that industry will never allow, even though it would make them more money in the long run.
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  1073. There's a very big difference between combating racism in the workplace and forcing diversity. Diversity should form organically. Once it becomes, it just fuels more racial tension.
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  1074.  @jooptablet1727  But Norway is investing millions into hydrogen and ammonia power, so it's gotta be possible.
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  1075. Don't let the flame die out Australia. Please, don't.
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  1076. Building and spending isn't the problem. It's how cities are building and spending that's the problem. London 2012 is the 3rd most expensive Olympics of all-time. It cost $15B after going 76% over budget, which was significantly more expensive than even Rio, yet nobody complains about that because the money was well spent thanks to London actually having a smart post-Games plan. And that's a pattern among every city that hosts a successful Games. The IOC should also be forced to contribute to the money and labor. It's ridiculous that the host cities and their workers should be paying all the bills and doing all the work building for their own event just for all the billionaires in Lausanne swoop and steal all of the profits that they deserve. Sounds like white collar slavery to me.
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  1077. God: "For it is appointed unto man to die once and then the judgement." Bethel: "We resurrected the dead." For the last time. The Holy Spirit does not give you superpowers.
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  1078. We need to stop treating wealth as a moral virtue. This that anyone deserves to be rich or poor comes from the Puritans. They believed that your wealth was a direct reflection of your morality. Under this heretical framework, the rich are blessed by God with wealth as a reward for their righteousness, while the poor are cursed by God with poverty as punishment for their unrighteousness. This is where America's classism and obsession with "self-made" billionaires comes from. It's been deeply embedded in American culture since the colonial era. It's generational and it must.
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  1079. The IOC has made it clear it's 2021 or bust, which is completely asinine. I don't understand why the IOC is being so stubborn. The Winter and Summer Games used to always be in the same year prior to 1994. It's nothing new, so just postpone to 2022 if they can't have limited attendance. Why is that so hard? There are athletes with dreams and an entire nation awaiting their big moment of national pride at stake. Cancelling the games all together and pushing Japan's big moment all the way back to 2032 which is over a decade away is so unfair to all of them.
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  1080. Considering that neither Democrat voters and donors alike want Biden nor Harris, we're likely going to see a primary race leading up the convention. Wouldn't be surprised if the DNC gets pushed back a week or two so that they can give the voters time to pick their candidate. Right now, we're less than 4 weeks away until the convention. I find it hard to believe that that's enough time for the voters to pick their new candidate.
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  1081. It would be a win for Ukraine if the terms of the deal weren't so lopsided in favor of Washington. Trump wants 50% of all of Ukraine's minerals on top of control over their sea ports. At thar point, it's no longer a trade deal. That's economic colonization. Zelenskyy is now cornered between two aggressive world powers trying to take control of his country. On top of that, Trump and Putin want to force an election on Ukraine, which is dangerous to do right now because 20% of Ukrainian land is under Russian control, and the Kremlin is notorious for rigging the elections of their neighbors. Trump is paving the way for Putin to replace Zelenskyy with a Russian puppet who will immediately hold a rigged referendum asking the Ukrainian people if they want to be re-annexed by Russia, which is exactly how Crimea was annexed.
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  1082.  @daviejz6698  Regardless, it's still 1 hour and 10 minutes away from Miami proper which is way too far away. The city is the urban core of the region. They're limiting their reach by playing in Sunrise and making it way too difficult for Panthers fans across the Miami area to reach them.
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  1083.  @alexraissis2157  They should turn on of the lanes into a bus lane connected the arena to both the north and south of the metro area.
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  1084.  @FischerFan  When did I say anything about introducing DEI to the sport? All I said was that the sport needs more diversity. Not that it should force diversity. Putting the Panthers in Miami will naturally introduce the sport to the latino community and introduce the sport to more latinos. You don't need to go woke to increase diversity. You just need to generate interest by introducing the sport to non-whites. One of the main reasons why hockey isn't going mainstream in the states is because of the lack of diversity. People want to cheer for athletes they connect with and join communities that they connect with. It's hard to fit into a community and connect with it when that community is almost totally homogeneous. This why Auston Matthews has had such a transformational impact on the game. He's inspiring more latinos to pick-up the sport because for most latino kids, a non-white in the NHL was unheard of to them. This is why hockey is stereotyped as a white man's sport. It's stereotyped as a sport that isn't for everyone, even though it very much is and always should be.
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  1085. Cities are places to live in. Not parking lots for suburbanites. The whole point is encourage more walkability and transit ridership.
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  1086. I don't see Korea reuniting unless the Chinese government collapses. If the CCP collapses and gets replaced with a Western-friendly democracy, then that would leave North Korea doomed, because not only is communist China their only formal ally and trade partner, but a pro-Western China on their northern border would also leave them surrounded and vulnerable to being invaded and conquered pretty easily. Especially if Russia collapses and China is able to reclaim Outer Manchuria, eliminating the small border North Korea shares with Russia.
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  1087. What annoys me the most about this whole pandemic is the shear lack of consistency. If you want to go the Sweden route for herd immunity, than just say it plainly and stop crying about mask/vaccine propaganda. If you want to lockdown, then stop changing the science every 5 minutes and stick to some protocols.
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  1088. The only reason why the DOJ would fire judges for no reason is because they want to round up people without a giving them the right to a trial. If that's wasn't what this is really about, then why else would ICE stop reporting on the amount of people being deported. The only reason is because they don't want us to know, and considering the fact that they're being sent to Gitmo...
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  1089. I think Swarm would hit harder. Make it sound intimidating. Venom is also great for that too.
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  1090.  @esantiago837  Both the MLB and NFL have teams both named the Cardinals, so it can work.
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  1091. The Third Reich never ended. It just migrated to America. Not Argentina.
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  1092. What aggravates me is that while Asmon now recognizes that celebrating Palestinian genocide was a horrible thing to do, he still doesn't recognize what drove him to become desensitized to it in the first place. I doubt he would've celebrated it before he started consuming anti-immigrant propaganda on a daily basis.
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  1093.  @macyanne3536  Facts
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  1094.  Luke martin jr  The Word of God = The Bible
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  1095.  Luke martin jr  Then what? You mean specific verses for something?
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  1096. Establishing permanent hosts undermines the global nature of the Games. The whole point of the Olympics is to celebrate the nations and cultures of the world, so giving one or two lucky countries all the spotlight permanently would be unfair to the rest of the world. What should do instead is force the IOC to help and pay and build for their own event. Currently, the host cities pay all the bills and does all the building only for the IOC to steal all the profits. Establishing permanent host cities would just punish the host cities for the IOC's blunders. There are far more cities capable of hosting the games right now than most realize. Instead of overbuilding, use college dorms and temporary venues. Very simple fix.
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  1097. Electric cars are only part of the solution. We need to bring back electrified public transit and walkability, and keep investing in green energy.
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  1098. @ I'll look for it. But it's on video, so you can probably find it if you search for it.
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  1099. @ The sudden uptick out of nowhere is too conveniently timed to be a coincidence. Three plane crashes, a train on fire, and now factory exploding in just three weeks? What's next?
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  1100.  @pjj5840  The post-war economic boom was built through government programs like the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, so that's cap.
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  1101. @AEM-7_943 Nothing you just said is even close to accurate. The railroads haven't been relevant in this country since the 50s. 70% of Americans drive, and most of our freight is trucked. Regulations are necessary for preventing predatory monopolies that exploit the working class and undermine democracy. All of the most infamous robber barrens of the Gilded Age (Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockerfeller, and Carnegie) all heavily invested in railroads, and used their unelected power to buy politicians and rewrite the laws of the government to their benefit before Teddy Roosevelt waged war against them. Now we're repeating that history all over again with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. Regulations are also essential for ensuring safety standards are met, and that the environment isn't destroyed for profit. Without regulations, we'd be seeing train derailments causing hundreds of deaths every week while the railroads start dumping their waste in the rivers again.
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  1102. Christian here. Isaac's sacrifice is actually not about giving everything to God. Sure, that's part of it, but not the main lesson. It's actually prophesying the coming Christ because God stopped Abraham with the cry of a lamb. That whole story is actually telling us that God was going to kill humanity as punishment for our sin, but instead, He chose to send His son, Jesus, as the sacrifice, taking the punishment for our sin in our place. God stopped Abraham to demonstrate how precious we are to Him.
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  1103. This is far worse than I could've ever imagined. Not only is this another regime change from a so-called isolationist, but Russia is notorious for rigging the elections of its neighbors. It's how Crimea "voted" to be annexed by Ukraine. Trump is setting up Ukraine to have a pro-Russian puppet president installed who will then hold a public referendum on whether Ukraine should join Russia that will conveniently end with a landslide yes.
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  1104.  @TimMurphy41  He wants to rename the gulf because he wants to control the entire gulf. It's the nine dash line bullshit all over again.
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  1105.  @MultiSpeedMetal  So what you're saying is that stopping illegal immigration is worth starting an imperialism campaign.
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  1106. I nominate Smitty Wurben Yeagerman-Jensen as the name of the cat.
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  1107. Because waterfronts are important public space for any city. Parisians shouldn't have to travel outside the city to go for a swim. It's better for the city when that's possible in the heart of city. It also makes the river safe for birds and fish, which is obviously very important.
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  1108. Ginger discovers that landmarks are supposed to look old. That's the whole appeal of Wrigley. The fact that its a preserved relic of history frozen in time.
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  1109. This reminds me of the Ravi Zacharias International Ministries scandal. They're eeriely similar. Left me heartbroken.
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  1110. I don't understand why these people insist on altering already established characters instead of simply creating new characters. If you want a gay spy in a James Bond film, just create a new gay side character for the film. Problem solved. There's a reason why Marvel created the Spider-Verse instead of changing Peter Parker's race and backstory.
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  1111. Infrastructure is good example of why H1B VISA's are necessary. Take high-speed rail for example. H1B VISA's would allow foreign engineers to train American engineers in how to build high-speed rail, and from there, their American pupils will pass on their newfound expertise to their new American hires. This is how major infrastructure projects are typically built around the world, but California HSR blocked foreign workers from the project, resulting in the project falling years behind schedule and souring millions over-budget because the California workers have to teach themselves how to build high-speed rail as they go along.
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  1112. I say a student run "aCtIviSt" account on Instagram that was supposed to be fighting rape culture. They made a post of a list of different things that make someone a rape apologist, and they put if "you believe in innocent until proven guilty" as one of them. Innocent until proven guilty is literally in the Constitution. The fact that this false belief that reverse bigotry doesn't exist is toxic, but so trendy, and it's terrifying.
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  1113. Patriotism is not blind loyalty to everything the country does. If protest is considered anti-American now, then you simply do not believe in free speech. Protest is what started the American Revolution.
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  1114. She's half-black. Her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican.
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  1115.  @Spiritof_76  Or you could just... let people believe what they want to believe and leave them be. Theism is not opposed to evolution either. There are plenty of Christians out there who believe in evolution.
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  1116.  @stanfordite1  I doubt they'd have interest in that after so many years since then.
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  1117. These people also love to bastardize the argument that obesity of often a result of genetic disorders, but those circumstances are exceedingly rare.
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  1118. The IOC never lifts a finger to support their host cities, yet they hog almost all of the profits. And most of those cities aren't prepared to host an Olympics. The only way to fix the Olympics is to force the IOC to spend money and take less than half of the profits, and create a strict criteria of sustainability that every host city must fulfill in order to be even eligible to campaign for the Olympics.
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  1119. 2D animation is so much better than 3D animation. 2D animation has such a unique life and potential variety of style to it that 3D animation can only ever hope to replicate. The Prince of Egypt was already using 3D objects in 2D animation back in 1998, and Japan has been doing it for years now. It's time for 2D animation to have to resurgence it needs and for the West to unleash its true potential.
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  1120. ​ @ronmastrio2798  It's inevitable either way. Russia and China want what they want regardless of who's president.
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  1121. I thought Onision was already arrested years ago. The fact that he's not only still a free man after single-handedly turning himself into a neon "I'm a child predator" billboard, but also still has an online presence is so disappointing to me.
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  1122.  @auberginemanproductions1608  Believing that the personification of evil is liberating for them is still dangerous enough. Portraying the devil as a good guy is still gateway in the occult, which should be avoided at all costs.
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  1123.  @agent_277  I know that, but that doesn't change the point that they see Satan as a hero. That itself is bad enough. If you can sympathize with him, than what's stopping you from worshipping him as a god? The last thing society should embrace is the idea that Satan is a symbol of love, goodness, justice, and freedom, which is exactly what is happening. Which is why witchcraft is skyrocketing in popularity. This romanticized version of Satan is causing him to be viewed favorably by the public.
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  1124.  @abednegokurio9244  No, it won't, because it will be forced to innovative and outdo YouTube. It won't have the luxury of getting comfortable and lazy like YouTube has become. YouTube doesn't take any criticism seriously because it doesn't need to in order to maintain their monopoly on content creators. But if another smaller platform like Odysee explodes, or a new platform shows up and immediately bursts in popularity like TikTok did, then YouTube will be forced to actually listen to criticism and fix their numerous issues. YouTube thinks that they are too big to fail, so they're kicking they're feet up and laughing. Blockbuster did the exact same thing, and now they're irrelevant.
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  1125. All of ya'll claiming that Gaetz is being targeted by the left are just glossing over the fact that Gaetz resigned from Congress 2 days before the documents exposing his trafficking of underage girls were supposed to be released. He did that to protect himself. The timing is his resignation is more suspicious than the timing of these allegations coming back. If I either knew something or was a victim myself, I'd also be terrified if a guy with human trafficking allegations was just appointed head of the DOJ. Of course that would motivate people to speak up. Release the documents if Gaetz is innocent. If he has nothing to hide, then they wouldn't have to fight to get the documents released.
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  1126. @straightjacket3.519  Reminds of the undaming of the Klammath River. Sometimes, daming rivers does more harm than good. We can't rely solely on hydropower for green energy.
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  1127. @virtuosomaximoso1  This is why need to transition away from monoculture to regenerative agriculture.
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  1128.  @teetheluchador  Self-love is selfishness. True love is self-sacrifice.
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  1129.  @RavenMyBoat  Land value tax is 100% part of the problem, but establishing a land value tax won't create density unless the zoning codes are changed to allow for it, and parking minimums are overturned. Getting rid of parking minimums would also lower rents further since housing developer wouldn't have to force renters to pay for the garage.
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  1130. This whole video feels when your life flashes before your eyes while overdosing on acid.
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  1131. They made multiple designs for the WTC and literally every single one looks hideous.
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  1132. Land value tax is so superior, it's not even funny. Henry George was right. Property taxes are regressive taxes.
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  1133. As someone who is a Christian, much of it is disappointment because they're now instantly afraid for their souls and don't know how to respond. At least, that's how I tend to react. ;w;
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  1134.  @Rimikshi  God created us with the free will to disobey Him because if we couldn't it'd be slavery and possessive love. But when we did disobey Him, we were all automatically destined for Hell. That's why God sent Jesus to take the punishment of our sins so that we didn't have to go there. Salvation is a free gift. Consider it a pre-prepared backup plan. You can't earn it because it's impossible to be perfect. The only way you go to Hell is by sending yourself there by choosing to reject Jesus.
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  1135.  Mackenzie Jade  Love and approval are not the same thing. Jesus commanded his disciples to deny themselves, pick up their cross daily, and follow Him. The word repent is a verb. We must turn from our sin. Salvation and God's love and grace is not a free pass to sin. That's taking it for granted. This is why Jesus didn't just say to adulterer, "neither do I condemn you" and call it a day. He immediately said to her then, "now go and sin no more."
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  1136.  @loverfall  Your identity is in Christ Jesus, not your sexuality. Don't define yourself by your sexuality.
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  1137.  @lizsun261  Love and approval are not the same thing. Jesus commanded his disciples to deny themselves, pick up their cross daily, and follow Him. The word repent is a verb. We must turn from our sin. Salvation and God's love and grace is not a free pass to sin. That's taking it for granted. This is why Jesus didn't just say to adulterer, "neither do I condemn you" and call it a day. He immediately said to her then, "now go and sin no more."
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  1138.  Mackenzie Jade  What are you implying? Forgiveness isn't a free pass to sin. The word "repent" literally means to "to turn around." We must turn from our wicked ways, otherwise, we're taking advantage of God's grace. Forgiveness is not a free pass to sin.
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  1139.  Mackenzie Jade  How does following God's commandments a death trap?
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  1140. ​ Mackenzie Jade  Sinning may be a part of life, but the whole point is to avoid sinning as much as possible. If you aren't committing ourselves to God's commandments, than you aren't a disciple because in that case, you've never repented. Also, Jesus described a marriage as between a man and a woman in Matthew 19.
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  1141.  Mackenzie Jade  As I said before, the word "repent" literally means to turn away. God calls us to live righteous lives. It's what the Holy Spirit is for, so that we could be made new in Him. Asking for forgiveness and refusing to turn form your wicked ways is the equivalent of lying directly into God's face and expecting to just take it. Why would He forgive a dishonest repentance? If you disobey your parents, and you say you're sorry, and that will never do it again, yet continue to not change at all from before you asked for forgiveness, what reason do your parents have to forgive you? Your apology is a lie. 1 John 3:6-7: “No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.” 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Matthew 6:13 “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” James 4:7: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. " Luke 9:23: "Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me." Luke 14:27: "And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple." My friend, truly repent of your wicked ways, for the kingdom is at hand, for you are not a disciple and were never saved. Jesus is returning very soon. Do not harden your hard, or the day will soon come where it'll be too late for you. Life is very short and tomorrow is never guaranteed.
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  1142. Hyperloop is just a worse version of high speed rail. It doesn't matter if hyperloop is faster than high speed rail because the hyperloop is an individualized pod, while a high speed train is a high capacity train, so high speed rail will always move way more people, way faster, and way more efficiently.
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  1143. I really want to see Trigger make a Splatoon anime. It would make for an amazing half slice-of-life, half sports battle anime, with the underlying overarching spy plot since the main character would probably be one of the agents, and Trigger is the perfect studio to adapt the series. The art style, the fresh aesthetic, the character designs, the zaniness of the series, the bright vibrant colors, the amazing and wildly expressive character animation, and the absurdly wild and creative action. It's a match made in heaven. We already saw the greatness that they created with Cyberpunk, so why not Splatoon next?
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  1144. Most people are severely underestimating how much single-family zoning, mandatory parking minimums, and restrictive building codes are to blame for this. The forced low density manufactures artificial housing scarcity, and the added burden of car dependency has stripped most Americans of their right to freedom of mobility. Don't let Wall Street distract you from this fact, because that's the biggest cause of this housing crisis. Building mixed-use density and build transit. Make the missing middle no longer missing.
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  1145. Well, they can't control hold totalitarian rule over you without your body
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  1146. It's insane to me how Americans can be so scared of authoritarianism, yet simultaneously support giving HOA's authorization power. We've been constantly told since we were kids that suburbia is a place where individuals can be themselves, and own and control their own property, yet the reality is that its just a wannabe Truman Show where everyone is forced to blindly obey the script against their will. Yet we're somehow delusional enough to call that "freedom." Hyper-individualism when it's convenient for me. Hyper-collectivism when it's convenient for me. HOA's need to be banned nationwide. Their existence is incompatible with a truly free society.
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  1147. Not only does this go against free speech, but this is also a death sentence to anyone trying to use Twitter professionally who doesn't pay the monthly subscription. Imagine how many freelance artists are now going to have their careers stolen from them because they didn't cough up another subscription on top of all of their other expenses, just for them to be allowed to have a voice.
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  1148. Pick up the manga from Chapter 38
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  1149. Ahh yes. The classic "the Bible commands us to stone people to death" strawman. Pierce Morgan clearly doesn't understand the ceremonial laws, just like the rest of the skeptics. The ceremonial laws were temporary laws that were rendered obsolete through Jesus' death and resurrection.
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  1150. This is why manga is vastly superior to comics
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  1151. Reminder that there are 3 House special elections coming this April. 2 in Florida, 1 in New York. We can take back the House a year early.
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  1152.  @illfyouup  That is not how it works. All races come in all shades. Just look at Latin Americans. You will find latinos that are both light and dark due to generations of racial mixing. My complexion doesn't make me white. My ethnicity is what makes me white. Perhaps I am half-white. I don't know. But my grandparents on both sides were from Puerto-Rico, so I'm definitely not fully white. I am at least half Puerto-Rican.
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  1153.  @michaellombardi5831  Rainwater harvesting is something environmentalists have been fiercely advocating for, not against. There are so many permaculture channels with entire videos with millions of views talking about the importance of rainwater harvesting.
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  1154. That's when you master the art of waging and weaponizing culture wars.
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  1155. Cities are the most unaffordable areas in the world right now due to the high housing demand, so you're claim that all city folk are rich with disposable income is totally false.
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  1156. When I was in high school band, I learned the Windows XP startup and shutdown just to troll everyone in the band, and it became an instant inside joke. It was great.
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  1157. And Elijah Wood warned about a 100 strong cult secret society that has incredible power over Hollywood.
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  1158.  @crimsaara3653  Pixiv. It's an amazing art platform dedicated entirely to art, but without the cancer of Twitter.
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  1159.  @some9846  Pixiv fits that quota. It's quickly become the new big art platform. It's an animated platform dedicated solely to art without the cancer of Twitter.
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  1160. Pixiv is going to quickly take over the title of being the premier platform for artists. It's an amazing site dedicated solely to art without the cancer of Twitter.
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  1161.  @leeroy4399  I'm not a bot. I just had to copy and paste this over and over again because cities always oppose congestion pricing until they see the benefits of it after it's implemented. It's either congestion pricing or taxing prices into bankruptcy, so I think congestion pricing is the better option.
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  1162. @MichaelPittman-dd5tq Sports venues belong downtown so the Royals moving downtown is objectively a good thing. Moving public facilities back to where they belong is one of the first necessary steps to densify. It's time to bring back the jewel box ballparks.
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  1163. Rich people investments are literally just flexing the absolute dumbest wastes of money imaginable unironically solely because the price tag is high. This reminds of that apartment in Billionaires Row with so many bathrooms, I lost count, even though only one person is living in it. These guys are the kind of people who will blow tens of millions on a pure gold toilet, even though the only purpose it serves is exactly the same as the peasants toilet.
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  1164. They're so desperate to frame Peterson as an intolerant alt-right bigot. Instead of asking him real, deep questions, all they asked were left-wing political narratives. Shame on you NBC. Trash journalism.
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  1165. Madrid should've gotten it. Neither Chicago and Rio had the infrastructure for it, while Madrid did. Rio only got it because of bribery and because the IOC just really, really wanted that "first South American Olympics" so badly, that they ruined the city just to get it.
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  1166.  @Bongaboi151  NYC 2040. Trust. (I'm coping so hard 😭🙏)
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  1167. Astoria is one of NYC's most bustling residential areas, so I think it's likely that Astoria will be a benchmark stop if the expansion to the Bronx finally surfaces.
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  1168. The tongue actually grosses me out. I'm imagining that thing popping. Oh good lord. 💀💀💀
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  1169. ​​ @Unberable  How did she not get arrested then? Shouldn't they be asking what age the fan is, and if they consent to this. Because it seems like she just picks any random person, doesn't say anything, and then proceeds to seduce them completely by surprise.
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  1170. All of these concerns just boil down to car brain. Stadiums are a regional gathering space. Regional gathering spaces belong downtown. Prioritizing transit is just a good city planning. There's nothing stopping those Commanders fans from tailgating in the park. There's no rule that says they can't. You don't need to tailgate in a parking lot. You can just set up your tent and barbeque in the park and leave your car in the parking garage. Literally a skill issue. And besides, block parties are great for communities, so tailgating on the city streets would actually be a good thing. It would be a weekly neighboring gathering that also supports local businesses.
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  1171. Project 2025 should have every American terrified right now, so... yeah...
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  1172.  @fusion360music6  The plan was drafted by Trump's associates, so yes it does. The plan is for the next Republican president, regardless of who that may be.
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  1173.  @charlotte7268  Politicians can lie... Just because Trump says he's never heard of it, doesn't mean he's telling the truth.
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  1174.  @coastaku1954  MSG being on top of the station is a hindrance to its service. Get your priorities in order.
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  1175.  @BigBlueMan118  The plan is to have these tunnels terminate at a new terminal under the block south of Penn Station instead of actually bringing into Penn Station. It's because the MTA refuses to adopt through-running that the block south of Penn Station is at risk of being destroyed. We need ReThinkNYC's plan.
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  1176.  @BigBlueMan118  The problem is that the pillars that hold up the arena rest on the track platforms and the ceiling is very slow. It's too cramp to do any construction for that with the arena in the way. This is why the MTA, NJTransit, and the LIRR all came together to declare that MSG and Penn Station are no longer compatible.
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  1177.  @sergeykuzmichev8064  The pillars that hold up the arena rest on the track platforms and ceiling is very low, so it's impossible to do any construction for through-running with the arena there. That's why the MTA, NJTransit, and the LIRR all came together to declare that MSG and Penn Station are no longer compatible.
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  1178. Stadiums don't get nearly as much use as most buildings. It barely hosts any events nowadays. All of big events in Montreal go to the Bell Centre before Olympic Stadium. It's collecting dust and falling apart while bleeding money for the taxpayers. It needs to be torn down. The legacy of that stadium will always the unprecedented debt it thrusted upon Montreal as sad as it is.
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  1179.  @ar.6968  Np :3
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  1180. The Catholic Church is a heretical cult. Their traditions and beliefs contradict the Bible on numerous levels.
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  1181. This is why people are flocking into the country illegally. It's actually easier to be allowed into the US by crossing the border illegally without the government even running a background check on who is coming into the country. Law-abiding citizens with background checks get the cold shoulder but criminals are allowed to sneak in and be entitled to asylum while they're backgrounds remain a secret. Make it make sense America. Please.
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  1182. Twitch gonna shut down their whole platform on the first day of F.L.A.R.G. 💀🤡🇪🇸
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  1183. ​ @APPLP1E  "Part-Christian, part atheist" The word you're looking for is agnostic. Someone who isn't sure what they believe in.
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  1184.  @ev4n_scence  No. Agnostic means that you're open to the idea of God, but you aren't sure if he's real or not, while atheist are convinced that there is no god.
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  1185. Have you forgotten that vaccines take years to make, but this one was rushed in under a single year while being made and funded by the same people, particularly Bill Gates, that made a defective polio vaccine in Africa that only made everyone even more sick, and caused mass sterilizations and birth defects back in the pre-pandemic world when they weren't being rushed. This vaccine has a VERY chance of being an absolute disaster. I'm not taking the risk. I'm waiting for the first results, and I encourage you to do the same thing.
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  1186.  @Monster12255  If the vaccine backfires, which has happened before, you'll be wearing a mask for twice as long.
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  1187. The irony is that DEI was created by the same oligarchs that the left is trying to fight against. They're shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this DEI agenda because it's just their tool to manufacture division and social unrest as a distraction from the fact they're the real enemies, yet the left has fallen right into the hands, giving the alt-right the chance to hijack it and use it as a tool to manufacture resentment towards integration.
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  1188. Jesus to bold and proclaim His name to the whole world and have faith in the face of persecution. Brother Matthew's friends must be unashamed to stand for applaud Matthew and stand for the Gospel, otherwise they'll be weak and unprepared for The Great Tribulation.
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  1189.  @sam-gulch  The Bible banning of pork was part of the Levitical law created solely to separate Israel from its pagan neighbors. That law was fulfilled by Jesus's death and resurrection. Homosexuality is condemned by Jesus Himself. When asked in Matthew 19 whether it was lawful to for a man to divorce his wife for any reason, Jesus circled back, and answered with the definition of marriage. "And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”" - Matthew 19:4-6.
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  1190.  @user-pp8ru6uu1s  Matthew 19:4-6: "And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Jesus Himself declared marriage to be a heterosexual union. And the satanic temple has openly declared that they will "fight to the death for LGBTQ rights." This is pretty straight forward here.
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  1191.  @user-pp8ru6uu1s  Just because I hold to what I believe to be the biblical definition of marriage, doesn't mean I want them suffering LGBT-antagonistic violence.
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  1192. When Trump says "peace through strength," he's not saying to stand boldly for freedom. What he's actually saying is "might is right." To quote his closing line from his RNC speech, "greatness is our birthright." In other words, America is entitled to greatness because we're strong, so we have the right to bully anyone into submission to us because they're weaker than us. And if they don't submit, they're the aggressors, actually. This is why Trump says that it's "very unfriendly" of Denmark to not give us Greenland. It's not because we need Greenland. If Denmark is our ally, then we don't. It's because we "deserve" Greenland because we're "greatness is our birthright."
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  1193. I don't see how the UFC and WWE mix. The WWE is a scripted spectacle, while the UFC is an actual competitive fighting league. This merger sounds like it's going to mutually ruin both leagues, as well as killing MMA's chances of being inducted into the Olympic program, which the UFC has been clamoring for for years.
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  1194. Source?
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  1195.  @Chunky.monkey69420  Because was 19 and the girl he was exchanging nudes with was only 17. That's not that big of an age gap.
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  1196.  @ReznaQay  Because their goal isn't actually equality. They're just using oppression as a crutch to justify getting revenge against their "oppressors." These people love to cry and bitch about how we're bigots for calling out their bullshit, yet if that were the case then why is it that art like Spider-Verse, Bloom Into You, and Avatar so so beloved? Because they don't have to vilianize people in order to give actually good representation, and their creators aren't pretentious, narcissistic virtue signalers who hate their own audience.
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  1197.  @ReznaQay  It's because "you can't be bigoted against x people" is just their excuse to get revenge against their "oppressors." If they truly cared about equality, then they would simply stop villianizing people and start treating everyone equally.
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  1198.  @trorisk  Use your eyes. You can see two pair of exposed balls. And who cares if they can make fun of Christianity? Just can because you can, doesn't mean that you should. Especially at the Olympics when the whole point is supposed to be unity among people of all beliefs and backgrounds.
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  1199.  @hopelessromantic3786  Vancouver and Philly are sweating right now
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  1200.  @KrummyBrinkleJr.  Said nobody other than your racist ass
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  1201.  @NotDaveGahan  I'm from the US. And I think that if he hold a liberal mindset of religion, we start to be looser with the laws and we don't stay true to them, which is bad, it's been showing. Here, if you take God's Word seriously and remain firm in it, you're viewed as an extremist. America doesn't take religion seriously. Most of the people here are just Churchgoers at best.
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  1202. This isn't the first time a preacher openly defended a predator. John MacArthur, one of the biggest pastors in the world, publicly excommunicated a woman and her kids from his Church in front of the entire mass for reporting her husband who psychological, psychically, and sexually abused both her and her kids to authorities and had him arrested because she "refused to forgive him or show grace to him" after she reported the abuse to the Church only to receive nothing but victim blaming and being told to just deal with it. He literally victim blamed and shamed victims of unimaginable abuse, many of whom were literal children in front of a live audience. This happened several years ago and still to this day, his position of power has remained unphased and he's still worshipped a valiant soldier against the woke mob. Unsurprisingly, he is also a megachurch pastor with egregious amounts of wealth who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. He also tried to both-sides the Charlottesville riot and victim-blamed the poor by saying "if you don't work, you don't eat" btw. So yeah, he's a hypocrite, an abuser, a manipulator, a classist, and a racist. How that guy still has a platform is beyond me.
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  1203. The Portland rioters are burning stacks of Bibles now, using the false excuse that it supports slavery. It doesn't. It's referring to indentured servitude. Marxism seeks to cancel religion. This is not a coincidence.
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  1204. Banning assault rifles and banning all guns are two different things. There's a very big difference between being legally allowed to own a weapon and having the proper restrictions in place to prevent lethal from falling into anyone's hands. Most countries allow you to own a gun, but they require you to get a permit that proves that you aren't a threat to the public. America is the only country on Earth that does not require a permit and is conveniently the only country with mass shooting every week.
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  1205.  @adrenjones9301  And yet, we're the only country with more mass shootings than days in a year. An issue that is borderline non-existent in most other developed countries.
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  1206. The old design is needlessly over the top. Building it would be unwise.
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  1207. Should've been postponed instead
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  1208. Watch as Trump immediately signs an executive order invoking the Insurrection Act to dissolve the government and declare himself king just hours after the court sides with him. We are now in the final days of democracy.
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  1209. Religion is a cult because it's driven by legalism. Faith is an intimate relationship with God. You're asking the wrong questions.
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  1210. This is what happens when you defund the police. Right before Cuomo defunded the police, NYC was the safest it ever was in like 50 years. As soon as he defunded the police, 1970's New York immediately made a comeback. If you want to stop mass incarceration, just reform the police. Defunding them just prevents them from doing their job properly.
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  1211. There are only 5 English versions that are considered reliable by the Church. The KJV (King James Version), NKJV (New King James Version), ESV (English Standard Version), NLT (New Living Translation), and the NASB (North American Standard Bible). So, it's actually a choice between just 5. Still going to be a self-defeating headache regardless though.
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  1212. “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,' and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh so they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” - Matthew 19:4-6
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  1213. If recognizing the evil of Nazism and and learning from history feels like a personal attack towards you, then that speaks for itself. Only a Nazi would see Holocaust Remembrance Day as a day of white guilt. "Nazis bad" is not a sentiment that any normal person would consider an attack on white people.
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  1214. @孫悟空-r7w  October 13th is Indigenous Peoples Day, so yes, we do have a holiday to remember them.
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  1215. America's relentless arrogance is very soon going to bite itself in the ass.
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  1216.  @Frostthescottishfold  And that makes destroying your alliance and burning you and your allies' economies is a rational response how?
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  1217. Considering the fact that Republicans are paranoid about mail-in ballots being fraudulent, I think it's the opposite. I think we're going to see a lot of Republicans throwing out valid mail-in ballots under the giese of keeping the election "fair."
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  1218. When Biden won in 2020, I thought we were finally rid of him. Yet thanks to Biden betraying his promise to be a one-term president and DOJ being weak, Trump comes back again. He's like a cockroach. No matter how much you throw at him, he always gets away it unscathed, and all it does make him more appealing to people because it validates his persona of a strongman holy warrior facing persecution from the woke anti-American degenerates. How long is it going to take before he finally faces literally any consequences for anything? Every time I see Trumpers celebrate him as "Teflon Don," I want to flip a table. That's exactly the fucking problem. No president should be invincible like that. He's above the law and that's dangerous.
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  1219. Sarajevo was ground zero for the Bosnian War, so the venues inevitably became casualties of the bloodshed. The bobsled track was actually used to score weapons and bury fallen soldiers. There's also a bunch of mines still planted all over it. As a result, the bobsled track has become a sacred burial site that's not to be touched.
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  1220.  @SohanDsouza  No, it wouldn't. Rotterdam tried that and the decreased rental supply caused the rents to rise even further, raising the overall income of the neighborhoods. In other words, more gentrification. Oh The Urbanity has a great video on it.
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  1221.  @-Nick-T  The point is to tax only land. Not the property.
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  1222.  @youtubesucks1499  No. Tax land and get rid of all other taxes. Only tax the land. Not the properties themselves.
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  1223.  @youtubesucks1499  By eliminating all taxes except one, you're relieving people of taxes. Not burdening them with them. Establishing a land value tax means no more property taxes, no more sales tax, no more income tax, no more VT, plus a citizens' dividend.
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  1224.  @youtubesucks1499  You're not getting it, so I'll this explain to you: https://youtu.be/smi_iIoKybg?si=zFgickff0WWA4CZA
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  1225.  @cynicalcindy1434  We absolutely need to listen to Henry George and go all-in on land value tax. It benefits literally everyone. Liberals get density, transit, and housing while eating the rich, and conservatives get almost no taxes whatsoever.
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  1226. The EU didn't donate to her campaign while Musk wants to donate to Fareige's campaign, and having the guy who runs the biggest social media platform on Earth, the guy who controls the algorithm, openly supporting political candidates, that's not only a threat to foreign elections, but a threat to the flow of information. And that effects the whole world. The flow of information is now in the hands of a single man. There is nothing good that can ever come out of that.
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  1227. This gives me hope. This is proof that the majority of the country isn't brainwashed sycophants. This is a good sign because it means that if Trump orders the military to do something illegal, the majority of military will honor their duty to disobey.
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  1228. One of the easiest ways to raise my blood pressure is to show me photos of Old Penn Station vs current Penn Station. It hurts so bad man...
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  1229. Notice how all she talks about is what you want to do, rather than protecting others? It's selfishness and entitled.
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  1230.  @ThisisKyle  Except it's not. The polls are tied with Kamala leading in the Rust Belt. Actually look at the polls again.
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  1231.  @dumplingshakes22  She wants to ban assault rifles. Not all guns. Hand guns are not assault rifles.
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  1232.  @Ken-j2u  "Yeah, the data is totally wrong because my feelings say so." That's not a realistic assessment at all. Especially when you consider the fact that social media engagement doesn't accurately reflect the polls because of echo chambers and the fact that the mostly only the most passionate of voters ever bother commenting. Manufacturing has had a huge resurgence under Biden while manufacturing jobs were dying under Trump, so Harris leading in the Rust Belt actually make perfect sense. Those manufacturing workers in the Rust Belt are going to be the x-factor in this election. Even if Harris losing every other swing state, all she needs is Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all of which are Rust Belt states and the election is her's. This race is actually a lot closer than you think.
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  1233.  @BigHailFan  That was before Biden dropped out. Harris has been polling better than Biden.
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  1234.  @debadattagiri9483  We're not violent. This isn't the Capital riot or the Inquisition. This is people being banned from sharing their faith.
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  1235. Fun fact: If the games get cancelled last minute, then Tokyo will automatically get the 2032 Olympics. Paris, LA, then post-COVID Tokyo in a row will save the Olympic movement.
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  1236.  @ms1414  Well, considering that a last second cancellation is very possible and the IOC already said that Tokyo has first dibs on 2032 since they were supposed to host before any of these cities, I can't help but question if the IOC will push Brisbane back.
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  1237.  @ms1414  I honestly just hope that the Games are pushed to 2022. Pushing Tokyo back a whole decade would just be so unfair to everyone. Everything is already ready, so they should be held sooner rather than later. The World Cup ends in July, so they can just hold the Olympics in August.
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  1238.  @jakehayward1993  The Winter Olympics are held in February, while the Summer Olympics are held anytime between June-August. They wouldn't conflict at all. Prior to 1994, both Winter and Summer Games used to be in the same year. It's nothing new. The IOC would be stupid to cancel it outright for that reason.
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  1239.  @jakehayward1993  They can absolutely be in the same year. The IOC should be more concerned about the games conflicting with the World Cup, not the Winter Games.
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  1240. I've always hated the idea of picking a permanent host. That completely goes against the global celebration of cultures that the Olympics is built on. There are far more capable host cities than most people realize. London, Sydney, Salt Lake, LA, Atlanta, Barcelona, Vancouver, Nagano, Calgary, Albertville, and Lillehammer were all tremendously successful.
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  1241. Bill Gates made polio vaccines for Africa and studies show that it only led to a spike in more polio cases and guess what? Mass sterilizations!!! Bill and Melinda Gates are openly pro-depopulation!!! And now he's working on the COVID-19 vaccine!!! That is most certainly not a coincidence! Vaccines have been successfully used for public health for decade now without microships just fine. The only reason for them are two things and two things only: Power and control. China has already pushed microships on all of its people to create a cashless society, and has connected these chips to satellites for total surveillance of society. Revelation 13:16-20: "And he shall make every man, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, take a mark on either their right hand or their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom, Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666." The patent code for the RFID chip, aka Mark of the Beast, is "060606" And the Third Temple in Israel, which is prophecied to be the temple of the antichrist is already almost complete! 2 Thessalonians 2:4: "Let non one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." The man of lawlessness with appear to be the messiah of the Jews, but will pull the ultimate double-cross against them and become worse than Hitler. Bible Prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes! Wake up before it's too late! We're getting closer and closer towards Jesus's return every day!
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  1242.  @zhodraa  What are you talking about? I'm saying that this is all Bible prophecy in the making.
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  1243. For everyone wondering why they're pumping freshwater into the ocean, never forget that this is the same that drained the 9th largest freshwater lake on Earth in only a few years just to feed some cotton farms. California is so impressively inept at managing its water supply, it's infuriating. California has more freshwater than most entire countries, yet they waste it like it's an infinite resource.
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  1244. Montreal Olympic Stadium is one of the greatest examples of why overbuilding is never a good idea. People love to blame the Olympics for Montreal's. But my response to that is why was building such an unnecessary and overly complicated cable roof necessary? It wasn't. All Montreal needed to do was to build a normal stadium, and so much debt could've been avoided.
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  1245.  @christiansaint-pierre5360  Ok, but why the unnecessary and overly complicated cable design? Anyone with common sense would've used the normal sliding retractable roof instead.
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  1246. I do not wanna know how the sound designers for Made in Abyss got the sounds for... that thing in Season 2... If you know, you know.
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  1247. Call me a party pooper, but I'm not too happy to see Nikacado finally lose 90 pounds only to regain that weight with a pizza mukbang. If he really wants to improve his health, he needs to put a stop to the mukbangs altogether. Losing weight, then regaining it, then losing it again is still dangerous. It puts a ton of stress on your heart especially.
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  1248. Transit and bike lanes are scalable while parking is not. Cars don't buy things. People do.
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  1249. The problem with this deal is that it forces Ukraine to give away 50% of all it's minerals on top of control over Ukraine's ports. That goes beyond deterrence. That's economic colonization. Why should Ukraine be giving us 50% of their minerals? 20% to us with another 20% to the EU so that they can rely on Ukrainian oil and gas instead of Russian oil and gas would be way more fair to Ukraine. It's their minerals. They should hold control over most of them so that they can have some independence again.
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  1250.  @yoshipham1941  Yeah, in February 🗿
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  1251.  @IMajst3RI  It's called investing in green energy, electrified public transit, walkable neighborhoods, and environmental restoration. You know? Smart things.
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  1252.  @IMajst3RI  Solar and wind are not the only types of green energy out there. Nuclear, geothermal, tidal, hydro, etc, all exist. And the fact the EV don't help that much is priceless why we need to build more electrified transit.
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  1253. Fixing the dilemma of host cities is not an issue of money, as much as it is an issue of infrastructure. The IOC needs to make it a policy that only cities with the sufficient wealth and infrastructure in countries with strong enough economies can be allowed to host a games. Because those are the only cities that are prepared and ever have successful games. That's why those host cities always have the most memorable games. It doesn't have to only be previous hosts either. NYC has never hosted and already has enough infrastructure to host an Olympics because they're such a major city, which has only increased significantly since their 2012 bid, so even they are eligible. We just need to make a list of as many capable cities as possible in order for more cultures to be given the chance to host, and create permanent Olympic Villages in each city as they rotate, because if the Villages become housing, than the cities will have to build a whole new village every time they host.
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  1254. I’ve had Honey for years now and I’ve shopped a lot from multiple different stores. Not once have I ever received a coupon code that actually worked for me. Easily the most useless browser extension I’ve ever installed.
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  1255. People always say that Trump is stupid, but that's false. He's an evil genius who's a master at manipulation. You can't be stupid and somehow be smart enough to successfully groom the entire country into literally worshipping you and reshape the entire Republican party into a cult of personality revolved around you at the same time.
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  1256.  Real Napster  More people watch it than you think
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  1257. I don't see anything irresponsible or dangerous in AI bots sexually roleplaying. They're just bots. They can't hurt anyone. This is all on the parents for neglecting their child's mental health and basic firearm safety.
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  1258.  @mike-i5u6b  The whole reason why our air quality improved from what it once was in the 70's is because of environmental regulations. Trump wants to abolish the EPA and slash environmental regulations. Don't be surprised if our cities are suddenly covered in smog again.
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  1259. It doesn't matter whether or not that scene from Not All Boys Are Blue is about sexual abuse and not intended to be erotic. Sexual abuse, let alone any form of sexual activity for that matter, are subjects that is not appropriate for elementary school students because they are prepubescents. That's a subject for teenagers and older.
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  1260. It doesn't matter whether or not you believe Trump is the next Hitler or not. That still doesn't justify political violence because it destabilizes democracy.
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  1261.  @JimBob-pg4ig  No. We need a candidate that the party can actually rally behind. Nobody in either party likes Kamala Harris. If she stays, the voter turnout will be abysmal, which only helps Trump.
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  1262.  @JimBob-pg4ig  I highly doubt that. Kamala is too aggressive of a personalize for that. We need someone with charisma to counter's Trump's aggressiveness. Without that, it'll just a screaming match between them like Biden vs Trump in 2020.
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  1263. The prosperity gospel heresy is one of the worst things to ever happen to the Church. This is what happens when wealth gets perverted into a moral virtue. The Church has been manipulated into being convinced that these are the righteous people blessed with this wealth as a reward for honoring God while the poor are shamed upon as lazy and evil, and seen as cursed with poverty as punishment for it.
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  1264. The detail of brick and mortar retail is proof that walkability is necessary for retail to thrive. Sears, Kmart, Montgomery Ward, JCPenny's, and Macy's all started out as storefronts before the automobile created the unsustainable model of the suburban shopping mall.
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  1265. It's insanity that anyone actually believed that one man would magically lower prices in one day. That's the kind of promise only a charlatan would make. This is how dictators rise. They promise to be larger than life miracle workers who will single-handedly solve all of the nation's problems. They're all lies. Don't fall for it.
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  1266.  @6226superhurricane  Why do people love to throw around the death penalty like it's candy so much? Bruh, take it easy.
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  1267.  @6226superhurricane  You said he can't shoot him if he's unconscious. Aren't you implying that you want him shoot?
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  1268. The amount of people defending this is scary. An unelected oligarch from a foreign nation was just given totalitarian control America's fund. You're delusional if you can see how bad that is.
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  1269. All of ya'll calling this desperation from the Harris/Walz campaign are exaggerating. The polls are tied. This is simply just another instance of boomers not knowing what trends kids are into these days, and that's not a big deal. Nobody going to vote against Kamala and Walz because they don't know video games the kids like these days. That's irrelevant on election day.
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  1270. The brain is neuroplastic. It can reprogrammed through training. It's very difficult, so it takes a long struggle of strenuous effort, but it is possible. I understand that fear though. The fear that you've permanently broken your mind before you've even had the chance to ever be normal is a crippling existential dread, but let me tell you, it's absolutely possible to overcome it.
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  1271. America has always been a racist country. Jim Crow was not overturned into the late-60’s and interracial marriage was not legalized until 1973. The alt-right has never been able to let it go. Ever since America integrated, they’ve been trying to undo all of that progress. And the scars of all those decades of segregation and systemic racism are still being felt today. Trying to get America to finally let go of its racism and truly integrate is like pulling teeth. Never in my life have I ever a country more stubbornly racist and classist as the United States. Germany de-Nazified very quickly and even Japan, despite the pardons, de-militarized very quickly. Meanwhile, is still unwilling to let go of its racism 52 years since segregation ended. That is aggravatingly depressing.
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  1272.  @LooneyNuke  The Peanuts Movie is an 11/10 masterpiece. I watched it in theaters twice. To this day, it's the only movie I loved so much, that I had to go back to the theaters to watch it again.
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  1273. How are you supposed to tell who is legal and who's not just by looking at them? Even people with accents can be legal documented immigrants.
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  1274. If you can't survive without porn, then you definitely are addicted. An addiction is when one particular thing takes over your life and you lose the ability to control yourself and resist it, which is exactly the case with you. Most people who have an addiction want to quit, but don't know how to. Your desire to quit is not what determines whether you're addicted or not.
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  1275. I don't want to get drafted. I don't want to get drafted. I don't want to get drafted. I want to live and have a future. I'm so scared right now man.
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  1276. Pioneers would probably be the best name for that since they pioneered continent wide rail in North America.
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  1277. To me, it looks like Ukraine is trying to pull forces away from the East and go around the stalemate in order to surrounding the Russian forces in Donbas.
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  1278. Reminder that ICE stopped reporting the numbers of people being deported and they're all being sent to Gitmo, a concentration camp off the US mainland. I'm just mentally preparing for all those immigrants to suddenly go "missing" at this point.
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  1279. 65% of Democrats didn't want Biden as the nominee, yet he only became the nominee because the entire party rallied behind him. Every candidate who tried to run against him was suppressed.
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  1280. How funny is it that the mainstream media is desperately trying to portray him as a victim. Even from an Annihilationist perspective, Hell still exists. Eternal reward without eternal punishment is not justice. Yes, this man is a heretic.
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  1281. This immigration crisis is just more proof that closing down Ellis Island and Angel Island was a catastrophic mistake. The entire immigration process was done right in those facilities, on site, and it worked for generations. Then, America put up more red tape to block more legal immigration, causing the islands to be shut down. I think most Americans today wish they were still open. It's far better than having them clog hotels, that's for sure.
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  1282. This is why I'm passionately against Puerto Rico becoming a state. The Europeans have been suppressing our culture and stealing our land from us for hundreds of years. It's long overdue for Puerto Rico to finally become their own nation. The current situation Puerto Rico is in, is a strategy by the US. To make Puerto Rico think that they need us and make us want to become a state. It's manipulation, and we cannot allow that to succeed. Protect Puerto Rico and their culture! Give Hawaii their independence back!
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  1283. I'm not denying that Tim Ballard is a hero for what he does, but man this is a horrible take from him. Predators are everywhere regardless of political affiliation. The Church is predominantly conservative and look at how many sexual abuse scandals get exposed there year after year. Purity culture is basically conservative equivalent of "she was asking for it."
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  1284. This reminds me of The Blowing from iCarly
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  1285. She's just made it a lot harder for herself to get funds if either she or one of her loved ones actually get cancer for real. Now, nobody's gonna believe her when she actually needs the money.
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  1286. I was really hoping that Dr. Phil was playing some FPS or anime game on Twitch while making hip tweets about it, but I was not disappointed.
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  1287. They should. Even with Biden ramping up anti-trust enforcement, Reagan weakened our anti-trust laws so badly, that it's now so much more difficult for us to actually fight these monopolies. The most the FTC has able to do at this point is rule that Google is a monopoly, but do nothing about it, and delay the merger of Kroger and Albertson's indefinitely. That's already bad enough, but this is a war on the arts. Letting the oligarchs get their filthy hands on the arts is beyond dystopian.
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  1288. Another irritating consequence of this is that now people are going to see New York as proof of why transit shouldn't get built when its actually a policing issue. Not a transit issue. If the rest of the world can be while being transit-oriented, then it's not a transit problem. It's an America problem.
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  1289.  @generaldejo7823  We need a list of permanent hosts. There are plenty of other European cities capable of hosting like Milano x Cortina in 2016, Barcelona x Madrid, Innsbruck, Paris, maybe even more.
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  1290. That would undermine the global nature of the Olympics. Half of the point of the Olympics is to celebrate different cultures. We need a list of specific permanent host cities. LA, London, Paris, Tokyo, Milano x Cortina, Barcelona x Madrid, Salt Lake City, Innsbruck, NYC, and Toronto are all just a handful of potential host cities.
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  1291. Kamala has closed the gap between the Democrats and Trump, so I don't think it's desperation. I think it's just a boomer trying to connect with the young people, but not knowing who the right the person for that role is. She probably just thought, "hey look, a Twitch streamer. The kids like streamers these days."
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  1292. Most people don't recognize how dangerous Christofacism really is. The Christifascists are convinced that America is the new Israel. God's chosen nation, which naturally gives America the divine right and authority to "judge" the nations of the world, and we have military bases in every corner of the world to make that happen. There's a reason why the Christofascists very often have crusador helmet profile pics. They want to turn America into a crusador state that will "spread the gospel" by any means necessary. This is why Elon said that the US should "liberate" the UK. They also think Canada is a communist regime, and we all know America has historically dealt with communist countries. These invasion threats are 100% serious.
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  1293. You say "four-eared cat" I say "biblically accurate cat" We are not the same
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  1294. The American Southwest's pattern of suburban development and monoculture farming is a huge part of why water resources are so thin. Suburban sprawl consumes far more water than dense mixed-use development because less water utilities need to be built. And monoculture farming is extremely water intensive and destructive to the ecosystem. Permaculture methods, especially forest farms, are restoring water supplies while simultaneously growing more crops with less water.
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  1295. The ability is *coronavirus
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  1296. "This is a veteran issue. This is not an immigration issue." He's wrong. If he were white, he would've never been deported in the first place.
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  1297.  @viktorluvbikskog9389  You say it like multi-units aren't homes. 75% of our developed land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes and nothing else. We need housing diversity.
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  1298. Lets all hope and pray that one day, Korea will be reunited. It would be this generations Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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  1299. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:16-18
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  1300. ​ @trublacking8572  He literally opens the video by saying it's not a disorder and just a personality type. That's cope.
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  1301.  @petrichor259  With the current system in place, yes, which is why the IOC and Olympics' strategy must be reformed, but not at the expense of globetrotting, as the true heart of the Olympics is its global multicultural nature. Confining the Olympics to one permanent host would undermine that. The IOC needs to expand on Olympic Agenda 2020, and establish that all candidate cities must meet a strict criteria of sustainability, meaning cities with sufficient infrastructure, transit, and a stable economy. Historically, it's always been those cities that have the most successful games, and there plenty of cities that meet this criteria. Even cities that have never hosted like Toronto and New York.
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  1302.  @takadadaisuke6454  The Japanese government ignores the voices of the Japanese government because they literally can't. COVID has spiraled Japan into their worst recession since WWll, and the postponement has now made Tokyo 2021 the most expensive Olympics of all time at 26B. And an outright cancellation would be even more expensive. Meanwhile, the IOC is sitting in their rich corporate chairs doing absolutely nothing to help their host cities, including Tokyo, yet coming in to take 96% of the profits and leave Tokyo with the crumbs. It's literally slave labor. Tokyo is literally screwed no matter what now. The IOC will not allow another postponement. So either Tokyo hosts without fans, robbing them of their main and only sizable source of revenue, the ticket sales. Or they cancel them and lose well over 26B for absolutely nothing in return, while the IOC loses absolutely nothing. Tokyo is literally totally screwed no matter all because of the IOC not being willing to spend the costs that they should be spending rather than Tokyo. Hosting now is what will do the least amount of damage to their economy. SCREW THE IOC! Corporate shills!
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  1303. This "Church" is not a Church. It's a cult. They are Pharisees, which are self-righteous legalists who condemn people for their sin and tell them that God hates them for it without any forgiveness or redemption, without even bothering to acknowledge the log in their own eye. These were the religious leaders that crucified Jesus. And He called them the children of Satan. If Jesus really hated anyone, than He wouldn't have sent his only son to take the punishment that we deserved on the Cross so that we could be saved by grace through faith alone. Yes, Jesus we are called to have wise discernment and call out sin, but God is also a father, and a good father does not abuse his children. Preach the truth in love. It's as simple as that. And nobody has the right to execute other than God.
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  1304. This has got to be the dumbest election in NYC history. On one hand, a guy who's a Republican in everything but name who took bribes from a foreign diplomat, and on the other, a sexual predator with terminal car-brain, in the America's densest city of all places, who single-handedly undermined the MTA and ran Andy Byford out of town. And yet, somehow, New Yorkers have the memory of a goldfish and are immediately backing Cuomo. This city is cooked.
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  1305. @lauramcgarr5554  He wouldn't be under investigation if there was nothing. You investigate people in order to acquire evidence to pursue charges. You can't just dismiss an accusation so easily. That's how you perpetrators get away with it. People not taking accusations seriously.
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  1306. Hopefully the city can financially recover and bring back its arcades and night life.
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  1307. ReThinkNYC is planning to do exactly that. They want to connect it to a massively expanded Javits Center.
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  1308. Imagine being happy the world's richest oligarchs has seized total control of your personal information, including your social security, and the entire country's finances. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1309. @daveytandtheplacetobe7561  Because giving a single man who just so happens to be the richest man on Earth uncontrolled access to the treasury departments' finances and the personal information of millions of Americans is obviously dangerous?
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  1310. The amount of people here defending Cosby and Chauvin is gravely disturbing. 💀🗿
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  1311. Finally, the resistance is starting to rise up. It's enough yet, but we can't submit. We're Americans. We can't allow ourselves to be so weak.
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  1312.  @markavellimedina2857  Yes, I did. Particularly because I'm smart enough to not poison my brain with TikTok.
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  1313. Bernie better have security protecting him everywhere he goes because in an oligarchy, true populists are their number one targets. I hate to admit it, but I have a very bad that Bernie might not be with us for much longer. They're gonna start fighting back much more openly after what Luigi just did.
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  1314. Idk who Timmerie is, but Lila Rose is more of political activist figure, so Idk if she'd fit in well here.
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  1315. New York Harbor is now cleaner than its ever been. The birds and fish are back, and even a humpback whale was spotted there once, so the Hudson is probably clean too since they're connected.
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  1316. This iconic arena can be saved by renovating it and repurposing it into a sports venue that the NY/NJ metro area lacks, like an aquatics arena, a velodrome, or a skate/bikepark arena.
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  1317. Dawg, if stealing a box of mail is all it takes for you to dehumanize someone, then yes, you're way too harsh. There are many far worse things those dudes could be doing.
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  1318.  @WompWompWoooomp  That still doesn't make someone subhuman though. This tame compared to many worse things that they could be doing.
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  1319. Ok racist
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  1320. Transit-oriented development is the future and Chicago is a dense, walkable city, so the parking lot won't be nearly as big anymore. I think they will likely extend the L to it.
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  1321.  @MrToradragon  Honda started out as motor bike company before they started making cars, among many other things that aren't even related to the auto industry. Just because a company thrives in a certain market, doesn't mean that they can change markets. Oil companies have the advantage of already having the skills to pioneer geothermal energy and heating into the mainstream. They just refuse to do it because they're stubborn fools who are allergic to change.
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  1322.  @Amaling  Most of our water waste comes from conventional farming methods. We need to go all-in on permaculture and vertical farms. Vertical farms are typically operated in warehouses. Just look at all the abandoned malls and big box stores that could easily be converted into sustainable farms that are far closer to cities than most farms today are. And just imagine how much water we could save if we invested in rainwater harvesting.
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  1323.  @AppalachianMountaineer1863  The regulations are not what's causing the rise of huge vehicles. It's the fact that the auto and oil industries lobbied to keep SUV's and pickups exempt from CAFE standards. CAFE is fuel economy. The bigger the vehicle, the more gas is required to run it and the faster it burns out, meaning more money for the oil industry. Remove that exempt status and the auto industry will be forced to go back to making small trucks again.
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  1324. Pick up the manga from Chapter 38. It's light years better than the anime.
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  1325. ​ @jaredf6205  That's not true. You can still get ads from the opposite party trying to persuade you to vote against your party.
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  1326. That dog shelter is a sneak peek of Heaven
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  1327. If you're convinced that it's impossible for your guy to lose unless it's rigged, then you don't believe in democracy. You only believe it's fair unless your guy wins.
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  1328. If you laugh at someone barely managing to not kill himself, then you're a psychopath. Straight up. People like him in power are why bullying, harassment, and bigotry are so normalized.
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  1329. My question is why we can't send them straight up to the US on freight rail, package them in the US, then transport them on freight rail across the country.
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  1330. The dumbest part about New York putting all those immigrants in hotels is that they have Ellis Island sitting right there collecting dust.
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  1331. The Bible condemns homophobia
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  1332. Imagine being a lifeguard, but swimming is against the rules 💀🗿
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  1333. The fact that he continues to talk shit after being directly confronted by the dad, after cat-calling a random girl on a street. You can tell that he's the type of person who doesn't check a girl's age before he starts making moves on her.
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  1334. The goats standing on people's backs: "I see no god up here. OTHER THAN ME."
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  1335.  @UnkklRico  Ok. Explain how then.
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  1336.  @Sneedmeister  The raw unfiltered racism here is insane.
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  1337. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:16-18
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  1338. Rotterdam tried banning investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market, and it caused the rents to skyrocket due to the decreased rental supply. This is housing crisis is a result of manufactured scarcity via single-family zoning and parking minimums.
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  1339.  @StrifeA217  Bernie is not a socialist. Americans think that anything public is socialist, but that's just not what socialism is. Universal healthcare and free college don't seize the means of production. What Bernie advocates for is the same Keynesian capitalism that built the post-war middle class. It wasn't until the rise of neoliberalism with Reagan that all of those programs began to be rapidly dismantled.
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  1340.  @GenieHermoso  There were a few that tried, but the entire party rallied behind Biden, so they were completely suppressed. Technically it was a primary race, but in practice, it really wasn't. This is why 65% of Democrat voters wanted him gone.
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  1341. If only she had the self-awareness to realize that men would not feel compelled to hurt women in the first place if they weren't so ignored, ridiculed, and hated by these feminists. These feminists are the reason why redpill exists, and if this continues, the harm these women are afraid of will only get worse. It's a never-ending cycle of hatred.
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  1342.  @dozzer009  They renovate them, then sell them as "new" homes.
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  1343.  @NEPAAlchey  That's a horrible analogy because if a product that kills the consumer were popular enough to make enough millions, all the consumers would wind up dead, leaving no revenue stream left. Corporations wants their customers coming back. Not dying. The reason why pushing unhealthy foods works is because it gets people addicted to their product for a long time.
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  1344. Seems like rent control only works when there's already enough affordable and public housing on the market to forces rents down citywide. When rent control was passed in San Francisco, landlords just stopped building affordable housing in favor of luxury housing. As soon as residents moved out, they would either bulldoze the buildings and replace them with luxury units, or renovate them into luxury units that all started at $1M each. You might say that banning investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market will help in this situation, but when Rotterdam tried this in select neighborhoods, the decreased rental supply caused the rents to rise even further. The solution is simple. Flood the market with housing diversity.
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  1345. The solution is a tote bag. The problem is that terminally online people who are obsessed with following trends insist on buying dozens of them per year when they only need one for their whole life.
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  1346.  @Mr_Jamin007  If you're buying for a family, you'll probably only need around 4 at best.
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  1347.  @Mr_Jamin007  Obviously they can break, but they're usually very durable and fit a lot.
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  1348. Stopping investors from buying properties doesn't work because the decreased the rental supply will just raise the rents even further. Rotterdam tried that, and that's exactly what happened.
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  1349. That's an Obama quote. Not a Hillary Clinton quote.
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  1350.  @StoneCorazon  For corporate jobs yes. But not for any other job, no. Workers have getting salaries cut for years and are being intimidated and fired for trying to start or join unions. Not all job fields have been as stable as those high ranking industry jobs.
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  1351. I saw an analogy that's so true. Americans think it's freedom to sleep with a rifle under your pillow to protect yourself, but isn't true freedom not needing one? It's the same thing here. Is it freedom to not where a mask or not need it? The less you wear it, the more we'll need it. Look at the stats. It's not hard. Every other country that wore masks no problem has flattened the curve. A mask is literally just a piece of fabric. It doesn't infringe on anything. Get over it. Ya'll are just butthurt, selfish, and in denial.
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  1352.  @lordofanime7540  No, because the anime original ending ruins her character arc
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  1353.  @EteKurona  Indeed. Also Tsubaki and Patty are delightful.
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  1354.  @lordofanime7540  Deku is a great character. Don't diss Deku.
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  1355.  @EteKurona  Tsubaki is best girl, Maka is a warrior queen, and Patty radiates dank Reddit meme energy. And don't forget best Mom Marie. Soul Eater has a GOAT'd female cast.
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  1356.  @lordofanime7540  You just sound irrationally petty for the sake of hating a popular anime, solely because it's popular because everything you just said is objectively false. MHA is loaded with great, well written characters, two of the best arcs in shounen in MVA and the War Arc, great world building, etc. Also, not every character has to be a dynamic, ultra complex character in order to be a good character. Flat characters can be good characters too. For example, Riko is my favorite character in Made in Abyss precisely because of how subtle her development is. There's a reason why stories that rewrite the genre are rare to come by. Because there are few people on the level of guys like Hajime Isayama. So what if MHA isn't anything particularly new? That doesn't automatically make it bad. If that's how you judge anime, than your taste in anime is going to be needlessly limited.
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  1357.  @lordofanime7540  Cliche doesn't equal bad. It's how that cliche is used. Deku doesn't have to have a super deep arc in order to be an interesting character. Also, My Villain Academia and the Paranormal Liberation War Arc are both legendary arcs.
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  1358. This is how dictatorships rise. Frame checks and balances as the enemy within, creating a justification for the President seizing authoritarian power. It's not "I want" absolute power anymore. It's "I need absolute power in order to fight and defeat the deep state" now. And to make it even scarier, Musk now has access to the personal information of millions of people, which they weaponize to hunt down and silence descent.
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  1359. ​ @exignorant9293  Lmao, anti-Semites always find a way to blame the Jews for literally everything. The Jewish people have one of the most conservative cultures on the planet, but sure go off bro. He may be Jewish, but he's not religiously Jewish and he's from the liberal West rather than the conservative Middle East. Get a grip.
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  1360. Rent control will actually make the housing crisis worse. San Francisco tried it back in the 90's, and instead of it lowering rents, the landlords bulldozed the homes after the residents left and replaced them with luxury housing to make up for the lost profits. So the solution must be to ban investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market, right? Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. Rotterdam recently tried that, and while it increased the homeownership rate, it decreased the rental supply, causing rents to skyrocket. In other words, both attempts to limit landlords and investors made gentrification even worse. The lobbyists are right here. This is an issue of supply. Our zoning laws make it illegal to build affordable, mixed-use, missing middle housing in 75% of the country, manufacturing artificial housing scarcity, and thus, a bidding war for the limited supply. Investors gravitate to the landlords that make the highest profits, so if you manufacture artificial housing scarcity, the landlords will increase the rents because the scarcity makes the housing more valuable. The landlords and the investors are simply reacting to the crisis caused by our zoning laws. These activists have no idea what they're really bringing upon themselves. They're self-sabotaging themselves and they won't realize it until it's too late. The true key to fixing the housing crisis is banning single-family zoning in favor of transit-oriented development, banning parking minimums, and replacing our current tax system with a land value tax. Establishing a land value tax would also force landlords to actually take care of their property because being taxed for a building that's falling apart would be a net loss for them.
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  1361. Meanwhile, the US is sleepwalking into disaster with the Cascadia Subduction Zone just waiting to snap any day now.
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  1362. The "protesters" in Portland are actually burning stacks of Bibles in the name of justice twisting it out of context and claiming that it's justified because it "supports slavery" while chanting "George Floyd." The irony and stupidity of it is that the Abolitionist and Civil Rights Movements were led by God, and George Floyd and his family are Christians. Christianity saved the Americans of color from the carnage pushed by the pro-antebellum false prophets. How fitting that Black Lives Matter Inc. is an openly Marxist organization and Karl Marx labelled religion a threat to society. And then you look at how unfairly the Church is being treated during this pandemic and the agenda is even more clear than it already is.
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  1363. In order for Trump to actually become a dictator and advance his dictatorial ambitions, he'd need to use legal loopholes and convinced the Republican Congress to vote in favor of it. He won't be able to do it if the Republican coalition can't unified. Basically, we're barely holding by a thread now. We're already an oligarch with Musk have enough economic and political power to threaten the Congress members with him funding their election opponents in order to do his bidding, but if the resistance in Congress completely crumbles and becomes totally loyal to the President, then we won't be a democracy anymore, because at that point, they'll only be accountable to Trump and his oligarchic cronies then the electorate, only serving them and not the people. We could still have elections, but just like in Russia, they'd be rigged and opposition would be suppressed, if not assassinated, so we'd only be a democracy in name only.
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  1364.  @krazykatlady4500  I had no idea that that tornadoes happen in the South. Are they new, or are have they always been common? Because tornadoes up here we're rare until recently. Last one until a few years ago was back in the 80s before me and my brother were even born.
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  1365.  @blitzn00dle50  Streets are for people. Not for cars. Transit and micromobility is far more scalable than car dependency.
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  1366. Oxford's own policies actually work against 15-minute cities. The whole point of a 15-minute city to have you need within 15 minutes of every housing unit. If you're on the edge of your lockdown zone and blocked from reaching the corner store on your own street, then that's not a 15-minute city. That's a surveillance city. It's not even necessary to either, because density makes using cars unnecessary. This is why you don't see these totalitarian policies in any other urbanist city in the free world.
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  1367. The skydiver is crazy. He wasted a perfectly good parachute just to take the chance of the second one failing and killing himself killed. Being extreme is not worth your life.
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  1368. I am convinced that the guy recording is in the closet. No way a shirtless dude would catch your attention so much to the point where you feel compelled to record it and give you that intense of a reaction if you aren't gay. He's probably just deflecting because he got caught in 4k. Unless he's a puritan, which wouldn't surprise me either.
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  1369. This is insanity. Giving these to anyone suffering from suicidal thoughts is just validating their torment. We should telling them that life is actually worth living, that things will get better, and that they actually can be happy. By letting someone take their own life, you're robbing them of their right to a happy life and subjecting their loved ones to s lifetime of trauma and grief. I cannot believe society has fallen so far that actually support this now.
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  1370. This is why need to go all-in on vertical farming. California would no longer have to worry about water consumption or weather for crops because everything would grown indoors and with 94% less water. Also, doesn't Southern California pump in much of their water from the ocean? New York City does at least.
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  1371. I think you're undervaluing how special and important an international celebration of culture and diversity really is. In this day and age, we desperately need something like that to keep going strong.
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  1372.  @carolr7823  The bastardization of "neighborhood character" is just a dogwhistle for keeping your neighborhood socioeconomically segregated. We're not falling for that anymore. Neighborhood character comes from architecture. Not housing types.
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  1373.  @yossiallen3316  The facilities were not neglected. They were destroyed in the Bosnian War. Sarajevo was ground zero of the fighting.
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  1374. ​​ @daredevilx0816  But all of the Republicans are totally 100% innocent 100% of the time, right? That's definitely in touch with reality.
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  1375.  @iskanderkhan5980  I was talking about the government, yet not even that is true. China does currently.
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  1376. This is why independence is the only valid path forward for Puerto-Rico. We cannot allow the same cultural genocide that Hawaii has suffered to happen to our people next. The US has abused us far worse than Spain ever did and now they're saying the quiet parts at loud about us. Bending the knee to our oppressors, completing the colonization process would be the ultimate, most shameful failure in our people's history.
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  1377. It would not surprise me one bit if these UFO's are actually top secret spacecrafts that the military has been spending these past several decades developing and testing. When they finally get revealed, they could wind up being an arsenal of Star Trek Enterprises come to live, which would explain why UFO sightings are disproportionately in the US.
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  1378. Another plus about Dandadan is that it's a battle shounen with a female lead. The only other battle shounen I can remember with a female lead is Soul Eater, so Momo just being part of the main duo is so refreshing. Cute girls doing cool things are in demand.
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  1379. Political instability is the perfect environment for strongmen to arise who will promise to be the savior of the nation. As Trump said himself, "I alone can fix it." In other words, Trump doesn't want to be dictator. He needs to be a dictator in order to save America. But a free country would never give up their freedom unless you make them afraid. That's why he always fearmongers about the "enemy within." By convincing the people that their democratic institutions (like the free press) and their countrymen (immigrants) are the real enemy, you create a justification for the need of a strongman to fight that enemy. This is why Americans support Trump even more the more he's prosecuted and the more he's attacked by the left and the West at large. Once the public is convinced that the strongman is the savior of the nation, any attack against him is considered persecutions by the enemy within. This is why Christian Nationalism constantly use "no weapon formed against you shall prosper" in reference to Trump. In other words, America has fallen. The more radical and unhinged Trump becomes, and the more the rapidly shrinking resistance pushes back against his fascist ambitions, the public will only grow to love him even more because they'll just become even more convinced that he's fighting for them rather than for himself and the rich.
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  1380. I have a scary story in regards to shootings. One morning when I was in high school, as everyone was walking into the school, there were officers at the front door and some teachers there too. As we, the students, were walking in, they immediately told us to run into the nearest classroom with our heads down. We immediately went into lockdown, and nobody knew what was going on. But we were all scared that we are about to become the next mass shooting. Fortunately for everyone, nothing happened, but later that day, word spread that there was a shooting threat. There was an angry kid in our school that year, and the rumor was that he was the one who made the threat and was planning it. Nobody was surprised. Everyone was suspicious of him. However, that kid said that it was his old classmates from his old school that faked the threat to frame him because he was on their shit list. In retrospect, I don't believe that, because soon after that incident, he moved. Even I was suspicious of him. He always looked like he was ready to snap. He constantly had an angry death stare on his face at all time and quick to lash out at people. Nobody at my school ever saw him again after that. I have since graduated, but I just hope that if he really was planning something, that he never comes back for round 2.
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  1381. The fact that being forced to drive everywhere for everything with all housing options other than a single family being banned in most places is considered "freedom," but being given the freedom to be able to get around without the need for a car with a diversity of housing options is big government tyranny, is automobile realism at its finest.
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  1382. @Jean-v7r  Bikes are accessible to everyone. It's even common for rides to carry their children in cargo bikes. The only people who can't cycle are wheelchair users, yet they can just drive their electric wheelchairs in the bike lanes anyway. Montreal is proof that people will cycle if you clear the bike paths when it snows.
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  1383. Bold of you to assume that the system won't find the officers not guilty because they're white and she isn't.
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  1384. I believe that. Several of the insanely dangerous chemicals that America allows are banned in Europe. RoundUp being the most famous example.
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  1385. The fact that the Supreme Court is so loyal to Trump, that they gave him immunity for all official acts, means that they will now rule in favor of Trump no matter what. If this goes to the Supreme Court, consider it overturned already.
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  1386. @vikasprakashjoshi2090  >Someone is legally in the USA, so will his son or daughter become a citizen? Yes, that's exactly how birthright citizenship works. The 14th Amendment was based on the "sou li" principle, which states that anyone born or naturalized in the US, and subject to the jurisdiction of US law, is a US citizen. The amendment was written this way because the slaves not having citizenship was used as a legal loophole to oppress them. And it was reinforced by the Supreme Court in 1898 when Chinese immigrants gave birth to a son in the US, and the Supreme Court ruled that anyone born or naturalized in the US, regardless of their parents' nationalities are also citizens. Birthright citizenship also applies to children born to American parents abroad as well.
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  1387. The fact that this word is becoming increasingly rare to hear in American Churches is gravely concerning. Trump's Bible does so much worse than just imply that American legal documents are divinely inspired scripture. It's saying that America is the new Israel, and that being Christian is an integral part of the American identity, which by proxy makes Christians the masters of America and any American who isn't Christian unAmerican, and thus, an enemy of the state that must be fought against, defeated, and eliminated. This is what Christian Nationalism looks like, and anyone who knows their history should be able to clearly see that it is a fascist movement. Fascism is defined as an extreme authoritarian nationalism that believes in a master group that seeks to oppress and eliminate demonized "others." This describes Christian Nationalism perfectly.
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  1388. The Democrats need to back someone other than Kamala. If there's one thing AOC is right about, it's that the donors don't want Kamala either, and why would they? Trying to get Republicans and independents to vote for Harris is like trying to convince a Democrat to vote for Vance over Trump. Why would anyone vote for Biden's sidekick if he hates Biden? We need a fast primary race.
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  1389. I don't believe this was an accident. They're only starting with the immigrants, and their targeting of legal residents for dissent is proof of that. Soon, they'll start sending all the "deep state agents" and protestors to Gitmo.
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  1390.  @josephgriffin2388  Nobody is beyond redemption. If someone wants to atone and get a second chance, they shouldn't be forced to live in fear of being tortured to death.
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  1391. New York is a dense, walkable city. Nobody needs a car in New York. Especially not in Manhattan where the subway connects to literally everything.
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  1392. Paris is only building two new venues for the games. They barely spent anything. And Paris isn't the only city with sufficient infrastructure to host the games either.
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  1393. Aside from the National Stadium, the Gymnastics arena, Volleyball arena, and Field Hockey stadiums are all going to remain permanent venues. They're the 3rd largest economy. They'll recover from this.
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  1394.  @harisnaufal3259  No, I read it in an article. It's officially confirmed that the many of Olympic venues will now be permanent venues.
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  1395. Fight crime. Not transit.
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  1396. Hindus have the right to convert to Christianity if they chose to. Let Christians share their faith.
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  1397. A storyline where the police didn't kill someone for no reason. You love to see it.
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  1398. I'm relieved that they separated eSports into their own separate Olympics, but this program is so out of touch. We need actual competitive games making up the program.
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  1399. At this point, most of the climate damage comes from the US and China, and the cultural tides are shifting on climate change, so I'm hopeful that we can fix this mess.
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  1400. Imagine being a wife and seeing your husband go up there, not knowing what's about to go down.
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  1401. Big oil is America's ultimate omnipresent supervillain. Car dependency, the suppression of green energy, plastic waste, indoctrinating our schools with oil industry propaganda, and now the destruction of entire ecosystems is all the fault of big oil. Take your pick of any of the several crisis we're facing right now and big oil pretty much always has something to do with it.
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  1402. This whole list sucks. TPN S2 near the bottom? And under shows like a Godzilla anime with bad CGI? And where's Kaguya-sama S3, Made in Abyss S2, Re:Zero S2:P2, Steins:Gate S2, Yuru Camp S2, Non Non Biyori S3, Attack on Titan S4:P2, Chainsaw Man, Nagataro, and so much more?
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  1403. Pardoning the leader of one of the leader of one of the largest cybercrime rings in history solely because his politics align with yours is such a dangerous precedent to be setting. Trump is basically saying that if you stroke his ego enough, you're above the law. It doesn't matter if he was over-sentenced or not. The fact is, he got a full pardon. That's insanity. And this is coming from the so-called "law and order" president who campaign on protecting Americans from migrant crime. What's gonna happen if a gang or a mass shooter buys a weapon off of a website he's running and it leads to the American that Trump swore to protect being killed? What's gonna happen if someone buys fentanyl off a website he's running, the very drug that Trump swore to stop from crossing the border? If there's anyone in this country that has the connections to the very gangs that Trump spent his whole campaign railing against, it's him. The hypocrisy is insane, and the message here is very clear. Anything is permissible so long as you have the "correct" opinions. This country just continues to find more ways to become even more cooked by the minute.
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  1404. Elon wants the personal information of citizens so that they know who to round up when it's time for them to start purging the country of political dissent.
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  1405.  @user-vm1rr6gx9v  He was barely able to say "I can't breathe." He said it with the shortest of breath humanly possible. And again, he was suffocating his neck for NINE MINUTES. There's a limit to how much weight and time one suffer when being suffocated. Also, here's another stupid question for you. Why did Chauvin have to kneel on his neck? Out of all the things he possibly done, why did he chose to suffocate him, even though he wasn't a threat? Please stop gaslighting. It's disgusting.
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  1406.  @jasonlewis5603  Thank you for having common sense
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  1407.  @coaroas9243  Absolutely none of what you just said changes the fact that a man was leaning his knee on a man's neck for nine minutes straight. Why do you feel the need to passionately defend such an obviously heinous act?
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  1408.  @user-vm1rr6gx9v  Having functioning eyes is not indoctrination. If you watch the video, you can clearly see that he's leaning on his neck for 9 minutes. This is none debatable. You can't watch that video with a straight face and say it wasn't murder because it was so obvious that it was. You're either a racist, completely stupid, or wilfully choosing to be ignorant and live in denial.
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  1409. This is a pretty simple-minded approach to thus issue. The issue isn't the investment, but rather, the fact the IOC has had a history of cities that aren't capable of handling an event as big as the Olympics. The IOC needs to create a strict criteria of having a sufficient amount of already existing infrustrature that every bidding city must meet or order to be allowed to bid. The cities that fit this criteria, such as LA, Sydney, London, Paris, Tokyo, Salt Lake City, have all had the most successful games in history. And even cities that have never hosted the games before like Toronto, and NYC fit this criteria and could absolutely put on a fantastic games. Picking cities that are prepared to take on an event as big as the Olympics isn't just about either, but about the legacy lasting long-term, which only cities like the ones I just mentioned are capable of sustaining. Most Olympic hosts cities attempt to accumulate instant profits, which will never work and only bring disaster. Hosting an Olympics requires a futuristic approach.
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  1410. Identities politics has ruined the Democratic Party. It's gonna happen. Just watch. And when that happens, the Democratic Party will officially collapse beyond repair. Every argument that they have against Republicans for sexism will immediately evaporate the night that happens. The Democrats will have absolutely no voter base left after that.
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  1411. Hyperloop is just a worse version of high speed rail. It doesn't matter if hyperloop is faster than high speed rail because the hyperloop is an individualized pod, while a high speed train is a high capacity train, so high speed rail will always move way more people, way faster, and way more efficiently. Routes like Tokyo to Osaka already exist with high speed rail, how is an individualized pod going to be any better than a super long train that can carry way more people?
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  1412. The reason why New York refuses to arrest people is because they're afraid of being called racist. Nevermind the fact that people are getting murdered and assaulted on a regular basis, they're racial minorities, so holding criminals accountable is suddenly racist now.
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  1413. Calgary already approved the construction of new arena, so the Flames are way ahead of you here.
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  1414. I am a simple man. I see anime, I click, and I like. Greetings fellow people of culture. UwU
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  1415. So, you the painting of George Washington crossing the Hudson River? It's so massive that it covers the entire wall, but it's completely uncovered. No fence or anything. You can walk up so close to it, that you can touch the canvas. I was on a middle school school trip and just tapped the canvas with my finger, and I thought to myself: "This is a disaster just waiting to happen. Whoever is in charge of managing these artworks is an idiot."
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  1416. If they clapped, it would've validated the male karen's tantrum, so definitely not.
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  1417.  @GravityButterfly  You're replying to the wrong person.
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  1418. This is the same psychopath this funding and pushing the RFID (Mark of the Beast), chemtrails (now officially revealed by NASA as "cloudseeding"), and mass depopulation. This guy would Thanos snap us if he could. You're really going to trust a vaccine made by this guy? Bill Gates is a software engineer, not a doctor. The only reason he has to get involved with this is to push his own wicked agendas. And he's a billionaire, and everyone knows that the only way people become billionaires is by rushlessly manipulating and stepping over others. It only takes around 30B to end all of the world's homelessness. This crazy fool could end all of right now by simply opening his wallet, but he is hellbent on not doing so. That should be VERY, VERY telling to all us. Wake up sheep. Don't fall for this propaganda.
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  1419.  @luckysues6293  Again, Bill Gates is a billionaire. It only takes about 30B to end of the world's poverty and hunger. Bill Gates gates has far more than that. He could end it right now, by simply opening his wallet, but he won't. Charities don't mean anything when you're that rich. For people like him, giving away millions is like giving your friend 20 bucks. There's no need for him to openly support eugenics in order to fix the problem that any of the billionaires out there, not just him can fix right now. There's only one reason. Less people = more power because there's less people to resist you. And did you know that Gates's polio vaccines in Africa have actually led to more people getting infected? Not a coincidence. And now he's working on COVID-19's vaccine? That's not improving anything. And he's not simply talking about vaccines, he's working with major corporations to make the vaccines. Gates is not a health professional. It's extremely naive to entrust our public health to billionaire chroney capitalists rather than certified health professionals.
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  1420.  @luckysues6293  Actually and Zuckerberg are in fact doing the research neither of them are qualified for with Johnson & Johnson
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  1421. ​@j.t.8685 Dismantling agencies that protect workers, consumers, fund schools, and foreign aid that gives us soft power and protects us from diseases is not waste. They are all necessary. And if they are "waste," usurping Congress is a dangerous precedent to set. Elon is an unelected oligarch, and only Congress has the legal right to determine the budget. It's baked into the Constitution. Trump and Elon are violating the Constitution by doing this.
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  1422. The difference is that Mount Rushmore is carved into the face of the mountain. The Crazy Horse monument is tearing down half of the entire mountain for the sculpture. The difference is staggering. Not saying that it shouldn't be completed, but to say the impact won't be far greater than Mount Rushmore's impact is simply absurd.
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  1423. Just more proof that Marvel is far superior.
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  1424. I think this is just the military testing out new drones, but not wanting to reveal the details about them because it would be leaking classified information that would jeopardize a strategic advantage in combat. There's an article by the NJHerald back in the 2013 about how New Jersey was selected as the test sight for new drones, so to me, that's probably what this is. There's already historical precedent for classified military aircraft test flights being labelled as UAP sightings. People thought the new military fighter jets being test flown high above commercial aircraft from Area 51 during WWll were alien spacecraft. It would not surprise me one bit if the UAP sightings we've all seen over the years is actually just the military testing aircraft made using top secret anti-gravity technology in their quest to build an American Starship for space exploration like Star Trek.
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  1425. Me a New Jerseyan with the need for speed: Are you challenging me?
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  1426.  @xafbxmoto269  BAKA!!! In NJ, the speed limit is an illusion! If you aren't going at least 15-20 over the limit, than u slo boi. And on the highway, there is no speed limit. It no longer exists. Get on our level of car accidents! I shall congratulate in the most NJ way possible if you! With a whole box of fresh bagels! >:3
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  1427.  @xafbxmoto269  Pretty sure Wawa is far superior to that bag of Cali bud, but go off lol XD
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  1428.  @Joel-s1c6d  NJ: Am I a joke to you?
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  1429.  @xafbxmoto269  Ahh, you're missing out. You have my Fs.
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  1430.  @xafbxmoto269  Perhaps
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  1431. 0:09 Um...Mike...The first evangelists after Christ's resurrection were women...
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  1432. Petition to federally classify fart fetish as a mental illness
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  1433. God bless Tim Ballard! <3
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  1434. The logic behind killing Harambe is basically: "Gorilla strong. Therefore, must be aggressive. Must kill." It's illogical.
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  1435.  @SweetStuffOnMonarchLane  Term limits keeps things fair. You can't bend the roles solely to give liberals an advantage. That's not how democracy works. Supreme Court justices should be elected in by the people with mandatory term limits and a required set of balance to prevent the court from being lopsided like it is now. Having Supreme Court justices be appointed by President or the Congress is what leads to the ruling presidency being allowed to stack the courts in their favor. And those justices have no accountability because they know they're guaranteed the position for life. If they had term limits, then they would feel so comfortable undermining democracy. They do it because they know they're a protected class with almost total immunity, so they know that they will almost always get away with it.
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  1436. I honestly am and why shouldn't we? 💀
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  1437. Rest in Power you soldier for the Lord Jesus 🙏🙌💖
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  1438. The next total solar eclipse after this one won't be until 2079, so most of us today will probably be dead by then.
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  1439. Blackwater declaring themselves to be crusaders exposes the ultimate danger of Christian Nationalism. These people believe that America is the new Israel. God's chosen nation. This framework naturally gives America the divine authority to "judge" the nations of the world. And we have military bases in every corner of the world to do just that. The situation could not be more dire right now.
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  1440. The 14 Characteristics of Fascism (Dr. Lawrence Britt) 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. Supremacy of the Military 5. Rampant Sexism 6. Controlled Mass Media 7. Obsession with National Security 8. Religion and Government Intertwined 9. Corporate Power is Protected 10. Labor Power is Suppressed 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections Do any of these sound familiar?
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  1441. The 14 Characteristics of Fascism (Dr. Lawrence Britt) 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. Supremacy of the Military 5. Rampant Sexism 6. Controlled Mass Media 7. Obsession with National Security 8. Religion and Government Intertwined 9. Corporate Power is Protected 10. Labor Power is Suppressed 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections Do any of these sound familiar?
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  1442. If you read the 14 Characteristics of Fascism, you'll see how all the pieces for a fascist dictator to rise promising to save us all from the economic and geopolitical crisis we're living in are already falling into place.
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  1443. Can we get an F in the chat for would've been top tier waifu Petra? I miss her. She would've been best girl. ;^;
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  1444.  @LauriSuoranta  Shareholder skill issue. They're the ones that chose to invest in the company. Don't make an investment you'll regret if you don't want to lose money. It's the corporations' fault if they suck at their job. Especially because more often than not, what the shareholders want is at odds with what the consumer wants and workers' rights. Just look at how Nijisanji exploits their talents so that the shareholders can make more money and how that has directly resulted in the mass boycott of their company, causing their stock price to tank.
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  1445. Because basically almost all of those new developments are luxury housing. If NYC was truly serious about fixing the housing crisis, then Billionaires' Row wouldn't exist. I see far more articles about new luxury penthouses being built in Manhattan than I do about affordable housing ever being built anywhere in the entire city. The only places in this entire metro where affordable housing is actually being built are the Jersey side and the Hudson Valley.
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  1446.  @FlamesCagney  Oh, I know that this is just a scheme for the rich. But what's even worse is that this cities is going to be built on land entirely owned by the rich. Imagine if the rich bought up all the land in our big cities. That's essentially what's happening here, and it's incredibly dystopian. Billionaires owning and running entire cities over the working class themselves with an iron fist. Their greatest wet dream is finally becoming a reality.
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  1447. Eating a vegan diet isn't going to magically teach people empathy. Our prisons need counselors and to improve the overhaul of the prisons. Not just the food.
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  1448.  @Cucumberflavoredmustard  Ok, but still, why stand on line for hours when you can drop off your vote in a mailbox? It's just way more convenient that way.
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  1449. This guy just watched a man get murdered, and he's smiling. He's definitely a psychopath.
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  1450.  @sw5114  I really hope ReThinkNYC wins the fight to rebuild the station. It's a long shot, but it's worth fighting for. Hopefully, they can rebuild Hotel Pennsylvania along with it too. They already want to move MSG to Herald Square, so hopefully rebuilding Hotel Pennsylvania as well is also involved in their plans.
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  1451. A.I. is quickly erasing humanity's purpose and well, our humanity. These tech bros want to turn humanity into the useless humans in Wall-E where the robots do everything for us.
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  1452.  @Some247Guy  No, it doesn't. A.I. art and A.I. music just copy the work of real artists. This A.I. is not a revolution. It was never necessary. This is just a dystopian movement by tech bros to replace humanity with robots and reduce humanity to the useless chair slaves in Wall-E, where our creativity, purpose, and our very humanity itself is made obsolete in the name of the almighty dollar.
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  1453. ​ @primalblissco  In Finland, their housing first apartments are basically rehab centers. The residents there receive care while they're living in their apartments.
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  1454. Ironic that nimbys idealize single-family suburbia as a place of individuality when you can be evicted for daring to have your front lawn 1cm too high or painting your front door the wrong shade of the same color. How delusional do you have to be to think that's "freedom?" Nobody should ever have the right to tell homeowners what they can and cannot do with their own property that you bought with your own money and punish them for not obeying them. HOA's are nothing more than greedy white collar authoritarian regimes run entirely by power-hungry Karens who force you to pay rent to them, even though you own your own home. That's the real "communist takeover" that we should be fighting to get rid of. HOA's should be banned nationwide.
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  1455. So basically, instead of getting rid of the single-family zoning laws that have created artificial housing scarcity, Trump wants to protect them and roll back federal land protections that will rapidly increase deforestation. And he wants to give the billionaires that are deliberately building less to keep home prices high another massive tax break. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1456.  @Rommie26  Immigration would be a minimal factor if our zoning laws weren't so draconian. Ironic coming from the party of big government. Mass suburbanization was a top down initiative, but don't tell them that.
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  1457.  @Rommie26  Yes, but overestimating its impact to the point of using it as a scapegoat isn't helpful either, which is what car dependency defenders often do.
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  1458. I strongly urge ever Puerto-Rican citizen to vote for independence. If Puerto-Rico ever becomes a state, they will suffer the same cultural destruction that America inflicted on Hawaii.
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  1459. Russia now has new ammunition to use against the West, all thanks to some snowflake who threw a tantrum because he lost an argument on a Minecraft Discord server. Nice going dumbass.
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  1460. One major factor that people are underestimating is the political and economic instability of the US. Socialism is rising in popularity here, especially among the youth, and the alt-right has made a resurgence with their attempted coup. According to a survey conducted by the NYT, most Americans today are in favor of splitting the union along party lines for the first time since the Civil War. On top of that, decades of corporatism, political incompetence, and infrastructure neglect have put the US on the brink of it's greatest economic collapse since The Great Depression. America's division and crippling economy gives China, Russia, and North Korea a huge advantage over the West. Because if the US economy collapses, this new age Axis Powers will have a real chance at victory. We can't find our military without money and infrastructure.
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  1461. Having dementia certaintly doesn't make him stupid tho
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  1462. Based K-ON pfp
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  1463. Soul Eater's Baba Yaga Castle Arc from the manga is INSANE!
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  1464. I can just hear the car brains seething in their suburban homes victim blaming the cyclist for the driver's fault already from miles away.
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  1465. Nintendo is an out of touch boomer that when handed a sack of pure gold on a silver platter, they throw it out in exchange for something worse in every conceivable way for the most illogical reasons imaginable. Spotify is by far the biggest music streamer in the world being officially used by literally everyone, so of course, that's totally off limits for Nintendo, for no reason whatsoever.
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  1466. ​ @MrBao-yt7bk  Kash Patel is actually funded by Russia and China, so yes, he actually is. He's selling us out to satisfy his dictatorship wet dreams.
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  1467.  @tylerm3m3  K-ON is peak fiction
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  1468. It all comes down cost vs benefit. Access to public transit is the most important necessity for lifting people out of poverty, so if congestion pricing improves transit service while providing more funding for those transit services, then the poor benefit more than they lose because better transit gives them more access to jobs. It's not different than how free healthcare leads to better healthcare and quality of life. Would you rather pay thousands a year for insurance that can just deny you care whenever they want? Or, would rather pay more taxes in exchange for always receiving the care you need guaranteed? Paying more taxes for better service is obviously the better choice because you're getting your money's worth. I'd happily pay a congestion toll if it meant that the streets are quiet and the traffic is gone.
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  1469. @dued6024  Transit is scalable. More ridership means more political and public support for better and more frequent service. One of the main obstacles to transit expansion is the belief that nobody takes transit anyway. Congestion pricing incentives people to take transit, which changes everything.
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  1470. Musk pledged to fund Farage's campaign and the AfD, so Musk actually is interfering in European politics.
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  1471.  @walterengler5709  Sustainability isn't the problem. It's the execution. Going green does not require sacrificing our quality of life. Geothermal heating is a green alternative window air conditioners. Using building layouts that circulate the air so that the interior cools naturally. Installing green roofs so that the greenery on the roof shields the inside of the heat. This isn't an issue of control. This is simply an issue of Paris being cheap. The vegan diet is indeed also stupid. Athletes follow a strict diet, so ruining it is bad for the athletes.
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  1472.  @walterengler5709  Green roofs are pretty simple to install on top of any house, and even if the layout of modern homes support the ancient air circulation tactics, anyone can switch to geothermal heating. That has no bearing on the home. Geothermal heating systems are box air conditioners that rest on the floor with pipes of water circulating underground for natural water based cooling. If we can make that market viable the same way solar and wind are now, then that'll go a tremendous way. Window air conditioners suck out the hot air push outside, warming the climate even further. Geothermal heating systems would eliminate this entirely. Even just planting trees along streets to reduce the heat island effect and give the homes shade would cut down on the need for A/C. And besides, with this crisis we have right now, this is the perfect opportunity to build all the new homes we need to build sustainably. It would kill two birds with one stone.
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  1473.  @walterengler5709  I think we have reason to be more optimistic than that. Solar and wind became affordable way quicker than anyone expected and geothermal requires the same fracking expertise that the oil industry requires, so a transition to geothermal would be smoother than most think. Bringing back local manufacturing would also help bring costs down because it would knowledge and expertise in-house. This is part of the reason why building transit is so expensive in America compared to other countries. While other countries build everything within their borders via local manufacturers, we have to contract overseas manufacturers to build our rolling stock and send it across the ocean to us. Building green energy infrastructure within our borders can help make it more market viable.
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  1474. @doc4lady  That is not true at all. The post-war middle class was built through public services and welfare. It wasn't until Reagan came along and start massively defunding all of our social services, and rolling back regulations, anti-trust laws, and taxes for the rich that everything started to fall apart.
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  1475.  @ChienaAvtzon  NYC today is a lot more prepared than 2003 NYC. We have more facilities than over before. Just let me cope. 😭
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  1476.  @ChienaAvtzon  The new guidelines for host cities has rejuvenated interest for hosting the games because it encourages host cities to spread out the games regionally like how Italy is spreading the 2026 Winter Games across Northern Italy. Hosting the games regionally instead of cramming the games all into immediate area of the city makes hosting the games a lot easier because keeping the games locked to the host city incentivized host cities to build venues that they don't need to build just so that they're either in the city or closer to the city, which obviously isn't sustainable. The NYC region has the means to spread the games out as well. For example, mountain biking in Vernon, NJ, and canoe/kayak slalom in the Poconos in PA.
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  1477.  @ChienaAvtzon  Ahmedabad has infrastructure, and it's not true that no cities are interested. Istanbul, Seoul, Toronto-Montreal, Chengdu-Chongqing, Budapest, and Florence-Bologna-Rome are all bidding for the 2036 Games.
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  1478. Or maybe the driver should yield when they see pedestrians.
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  1479. After LA '84, the Opening Ceremony will probably be focused on cinema and jazz
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  1480. @Claxington They'll also burn stacks of Bibles along the way
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  1481. ​ @rmiller334  Schiff has been fighting way harder than Schumer and Hakeem recently.
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  1482. @c87kim  Yes, it is. His job is determined what's legal and illegal. If he declared that it's illegal, then that means he's telling you that you can't do this.
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  1483.  @314TOMMO314  Is that really true? Because Nazis hate LGBTQ people.
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  1484. ​ @skyecommander2169 I don't think the parent is to blame at all. Intersections have multiple directions of traffic, so it makes sense that would want to keep his eyes on his kids. If he looked to the left, some other lunatic could've came in from the right and still hit her anyway. Ultimately, it's the driver's responsibility to not drive wrecklesly. If that kid ran into the side of the car, she'd be fine, but the car ran into her, she'd likely die. The people piloting the multi-ton battering rams should have the shortest leashes.
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  1485. Just like a true chad harem protagonist
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  1486. My Dad told me about a story he heard of a dude who tried to smuggle in a gun by shoving it up his ass. Yes, I'm serious.
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  1487. It's amazing to see US finally realize that there are other modes of transit than just cars.
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  1488. It's always been illegal for non-citizens to vote. You can't even register to vote without proof of citizenship.
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  1489. 4:54 Missed the opportunity to use the Spongebob time card.
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  1490.  @mklite  The Trump campaign and Project 2025 have openly stated that the destruction of single-family zoning would "destroy the American family," and so, they blame the housing crisis on immigrants.
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  1491. Trump is not the antichrist. I think there's stronger Biblical evidence to argue that it's Kushner. The antichrist is prophecied to be the man who establishes false Middle Eastern peace as ploy to appear to Jews as their Messiah, and persecute the Christians who rebuke him. Jared Kushner is the mastermind behind the peace deal, and his building number is 666 in giant numbers on the side of the building. Trump is just one of his minions paving the way for him.
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  1492.  @johndonahue3162  Yeah, but there's one thing you're forgetting. The antichrist will have to appear pro-Israel at first, and the way he comes onto the scene is exactly the same as how the modern Jews believe describe their "messiah." The antichrist will first appear as the Jewish messiah who establishes peace and prosperity to Israel and the Middle East. Jared Kushner fits that description quite nicely. And his building number address is 666 in giant numbers on the side of the building, along with the fact that Trump's face is on the Third Temple coin next to the imagery of King Cyrus and guess what? A turtle dove, which symbolizes peace. Pretty sketchy.
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  1493.  @YvonneWilliams-g9r  Laughing... What a compelling argument...
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  1494.  @awfulolaf  Just more proof that we need to transition away from monoculture to regenerate agriculture.
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  1495. I clicked on this thinking it was satire. I'm terrified that it's real. If protecting our small pearls is hard and painful enough, imagine having a soccer ball sized balls. Bro. 😭💀
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  1496. We've been in a constitutional crisis since Merrick Garland decided to let Trump get away with attempting to overthrow our democracy.
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  1497. Did you even see the videos of the tsunamis absolutely leveling Japan? Saying that some radiation particles getting released into the air was more catastrophic than entire cities literally getting swept away by the ocean is an insanely delusional take.
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  1498. ​ @JustKyzuuh  People don't just become homeless because they wasted their opportunities. A lot of them go homeless because they lived pay check to pay check and suddenly, be it something like a car crash, an injury that put them in the hospital, or something as getting let go from their job and can't find another one that they wind up on the street. Life hits people with curveballs at the worst possible times and if you're putting over half of your income into just barely being able to afford rent only to have to suddenly start paying thousands of dollars in medical bills and car insurance that you can't afford because you got into a car crash, then you're screwed. Now imagine being victim blamed for being homeless after experiencing that. That's what we're dealing with here.
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  1499. Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000 were both incredibly successful, so Brisbane's shouldn't be any different.
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  1500.  @user-gu9yq5sj7c  I hadn't considered the effect architectural beauty has on people in that way before, so thank you for that. But yes, variety is important, because I constantly see people saying that anything that isn't ornate is ugly unironically as if being grand and ornate is the only form of beauty that exists.
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  1501.  @aidanfoley6463  He sounds like a troll to me
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  1502. I don't think most people truly realize the danger Christofacism poses to the world. The Christofacists believe that America is the new Israel. God's chosen nation, which would give the America the divine authority to "judge" the nations of the world. And they have military bases in every corner of the world to make that happen. There's a reason why they have Crusador helmet profile pics. They want to turn America into a crusador state that will force a religious revival by any means necessary. When Elon said that the US should "liberate" Britain, take that threat seriously. They're already showing how serious they are towards our neighbors. There's no such thing as too much territory to an imperialist.
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  1503. Giving priority to transit is not what destroys businesses. In Boston, both customer traffic and profits actually increased when they pedestrianized their streets, so it's definitely not the lack of parking. Cars just sit on the sidewalk taking up space, while bike lanes create a constant uninterrupted flow of costumers. It can't be because of pedestrianization because it doesn't make any sense why it would benefit Boston, as well as many other cities across America, yet only damage the Bay Area. Whatever is happening to the Bay Area is unique to them. If lack of parking space for loading is an issue, then they should pave parking spaces specifically for loading.
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  1504.  @mikeg3439  Well, the OP is blaming the decline of businesses here on lack of parking space, which just isn't true. Study after study has repeatedly proven otherwise. Stopping crime is a policing issue.
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  1505.  @1988merkur  Competently designed transit has its own dedicated right of way, so assuming that the light rail has its own dedicated lane instead of sharing the lane with cars, then traffic be an issue. Light rail has the advantage of economy of scale. You can extend a light rail to carry more passengers far more than a regular bus can. Grocery delivery trucks should have their own dedicated parking spaces. That is a standard in every pedestrianized city, so if San Jose isn't implementing that, then their city planners are stupid.
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  1506.  @redlobster4841  Are those bike lanes protected? Or are they just painting gutters on the side of the road? Because drivers never respect the bike lanes when their isn't a physical barrier separating the bike lane from the rest of the road. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen drivers drive and park in the bike lanes as if they're some 2nd class form of transit that doesn't deserve any respect. I remember one time I was in Newark, and the bike lane along the sidewalk was filled with parked cars, yet drivers wonder why cyclists never use them. Only in North America can a driver complain about cyclists not using their bike lanes while simultaneously treating their bike lanes like they don't matter are just car lanes painted green.
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  1507. Rent control will actually make the housing crisis worse. San Francisco tried it back in the 90's, and instead of it lowering rents, the landlords bulldozed the homes after the residents left and replaced them with luxury housing to make up for the lost profits. So the solution must be to ban investors from buying up a certain percentage of the housing market, right? Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. Rotterdam recently tried that, and while it increased the homeownership rate, it decreased the rental supply, causing rents to skyrocket. In other words, both attempts to limit landlords and investors made gentrification even worse. The lobbyists are right here. This is an issue of supply. Our zoning laws make it illegal to build affordable, mixed-use, missing middle housing in 75% of the country, manufacturing artificial housing scarcity, and thus, a bidding war for the limited supply. Investors gravitate to the landlords that make the highest profits, so if you manufacture artificial housing scarcity, the landlords will increase the rents because the scarcity makes the housing more valuable. The landlords and the investors are simply reacting to the crisis caused by our zoning laws. These activists have no idea what they're really bringing upon themselves. They're self-sabotaging themselves and they won't realize it until it's too late. The true key to fixing the housing crisis is banning single-family zoning in favor of transit-oriented development, banning parking minimums, and replacing our current tax system with a land value tax. Establishing a land value tax would also force landlords to actually take care of their property because being taxed for a building that's falling apart would be a net loss for them.
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  1508. The most disheartening thing about this MAGA cult has made me realize is that people will support literally anything so long as their pockets are full. When Hitler first rose to power, he didn't act on his ambitions right away. Instead he promised to the German people that he would fix the economy in four years, and he did. That combined with his aggressive nationalism and retaking of the Rhineland is what made the German people fall in love with him and become devotedly loyal to him. He promised to be the messianic savior of their nation and he gave them the hope of that by filling their pockets back up, so surely, whatever he says must be true and whatever does must be right is what they thought. They didn't support the Holocaust because of Hitler's propaganda. That only deepened and amplified their support for him. The initial reason why they believed that propaganda and support him was because he satisfied the people's greed. They knew what was really happening because it's a known fact that German civilians would oust their Jewish neighbors to the police, but they didn't care about they were benefitting from Hitler's reign. And now it's happening again with MAGA. "Who cares if Trump is trying to end democracy, suppress dissent, start an imperialist conquest, round up immigrants into 'migrant camps,' end birthright citizenship, and pardon insurrectionists? So long as I'm rich, then that's all that matters. He said that 'I alone can fix it' and promised us a '2nd Golden Age,' so we need a strong dictator in order to 'save America,' so his fearmongering lies about the 'enemy within' must be true," is how the masses think tragically. That's what really scares me this presidency. If Trump actually succeeds at fixing the economy, then the American people will become loyal to him and believe anything that he says. Then, he can do whatever he wants without resistance.
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  1509. Joe, just please end this Spotify deal already. It's so agonizingly obvious that you're simping for the left to protect yourself from being censored and cancelled. You've been one of the only voices of nuance left on social media. So please, while you still have the chance, keep it that way.
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  1510. I actually suggest the arena should be renovated and repurposed into a different type of sports venue that the NY/NJ metro area lacks. Turning it into an aquatics center, velodrome, or a skate/bikepark arena are all great options.
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  1511. That fact that Anohana, Your Lie in April, A Place Further Than the Universe, and The Promised Neverland aren't on this list is criminal.
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  1512. Shrinking the lanes slows down drivers, which decreases the potential for collisions. Especially with pedestrians and cyclists.
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  1513. This gets even scarier when you realize that these labs exist all over the world and will likely get destroyed if WWlll breaks out, meaning all of those virus will be released at once. That would be an apocalyptic disaster. Especially if the nukes come out.
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  1514. RJK Jr. should be ashamed of himself. JFK wanted to nationalize healthcare before he was assassinated, and he fought against the military industrial complex to avoid nuclear war. And yet, RFK Jr. is actively standing against making healthcare a human right and is aligning himself with a man who's threatening to invade our allies.
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