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  1.  @musicalnote9584  I think they would prefer that israel get off their land
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  2.  @thecoolaidman3369  Uhh that's pretty bad for a disease, especially since it spreads so quietly before you even show symptoms. 1% means 3.3 Million Americans dead. But go ahead, live your life lmao Also don't forget that more people will die indirectly, since all the hospital beds and ventilators are taken, other sick people are less likely to get the right equipment on time. And no one said forever. Just until we get a vaccine, or stop the spread. You think anyone actually likes being stuck indoors? We're doing it because being bored is preferable to being sick or dead.
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  3. Firstly, it's very unlikely that we, the people, actually "run the show." Politicians need to make money and keep their jobs, and "donations" by corporations do that much better than a silly vote. Money rules, not law. Not you. Secondly, the idea that your semi-automatic can stop the force of the U.S. military, is a fucking joke. What is a civilian-grade weapon going to do against an Abram? Or against a military grade weapon, for that matter? The classifications exist for a reason- civilians with the capacity to defend against the national military makes a very unstable country- one that can't defend your right to carry a weapon, period. Stop being delusional. Gun restrictions need to be implemented based on type, and self-control of the customer. Or you can continue to support a status quo that lets children die. Your choice.
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  4.  @TANK0113  Yeah, same with Brazil, Aus and Russia. The pattern is that they're all getting way more out of control at around the same time
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  5.  @Go4Noctis  Yes, they are different things- but I'm talking about the premise behind the comparison. Both autism and deafness are physical (because even mental differences have a physical element- neurons) disorders that some find to be a blessing rather than a curse. Then, they fight against a cure for that disorder, because they happened to like what they got. Completely unaware that some people wish they could be neurotypical- not out of self-pity, but from a genuine desire to process emotions, have a relationship, etc.
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  6. WizzMills If you say that it's "shocking", I'm assuming that you don't entirely believe it. Now, if what I've said is true, and you don't believe that the West is backing up Maidan, why are you proposing that the opposite situation is any less shocking?
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  7.  @StoneCoolds  Actually, it's not "good honest people"— it's necessity. Countries with fewer resources tend to do better (the notable exception being the US and China, but both are able to achieve this with technology, overcoming the natural barriers of a large territory). It's usually the countries with lots of good resources that suffer, because their leaders see an easy, quick way to make lots of money. Any other country would do the same, but the leaders in countries with lot type resources are forced to actually be effective— or else they get killed, or their country dies.
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  8.  @findlaytej5432  Ffs, the money taken away isn't the police's last feed dollars. It's money spent on things that aren't needed for their day-to-day duties. Riot shields and armored vehicles are cool but outside of current events they're barely ever used. No one's saying we should reduce the number of police, just take away their shiny toys. Give the jobs they're currently doing (with no qualifications, like mental health checks) to people who actually know what they're doing. And leave law enforcement, to the law enforcement.
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  9. @Jay in LA No, and even if that were true, the Russian respect national monuments- the Soviets zealously protected wildlife in Russia and the satellite states. China would just turn it into a tourist attraction, like the Mormons want to. Plus I don't think turning the country into a banana republic and overthrowing its president is a reason to be grateful to the U.S.- it already ruined Guatemala long ago
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  10.  @Shenzhou.  Free of charge? That's not a good argument. Just because something is free, doesn't make it good. And yes, in America they do teach about American history, but they don't do it behind barbed wires, and they teach the perspective of many different people, not just the English who came there first. And many are ashamed for destroying the Native culture, which cannot be replaced. I hope the Han people make the choice not to repeat their mistakes.
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  11. Shit, earliest I remember is when it was an 'alternative' media company reporting on mushrooms and North Korea. How long ago was their magazine phase?
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  12.  @thetruthchannel349  Actually, they were. The human migration into America that occurred 30,000 years ago was unbroken and (those migrants which would become) Native Americans were its first and only inhabitants until the arrival of the Spanish.
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  13.  @JimmyKillem69  Most signatories to the list aren't squeaky clean. The Paris accord isn't a club for the already successful btw, it's a commitment by the countries to reduce, proportionally and then numerically, the number of coal and gas plants they use. China of course isn't going to adhere as closely as, say, the Netherlands, but it's still making huge changes to its energy consumption. It's the largest producer of solar panels in the world right now.
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  14.  @darrellandsondraholden9457  Yes. Stop spreading your influence and control. Leave these people alone.
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  15.  @MrDavicovic  What's a fairy tale is a man in the sky who came down and "breathed" life into a clay figure. Then, the entire human race comes from them, even though their children siblings. That leads to genetic defects, and no one would survive past 10 generations. It's biologically impossible. We can observe people who actually did that- like the Hapsburgs- and it doesn't ever end well for them. So, "Adam and Eve" couldn't have existed, or the human race wouldn't have. The Creation Myth is the biggest joke I've ever seen. Where does Cain's wife come from?? that book has so many inconsistencies and plot holes it's a miracle, haha, that people were duped into following its Bronze Age cult.
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  16.  @MrDavicovic  Yes! Now you're getting it! We're extremely similar to apes. Why would God make something so special similar to another completely unspectacular animal, I wonder?? It's because we are apes. Our biological function is to survive, like any other organism. Our 'purpose' is something we create and find for ourselves. Why are you so desperate to think that the whole meaning of the universe revolves around you? That's just sad.
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  17.  @lamarmcalister2449  That list isn't exhaustive, and what does that prove exactly? The idea behind a wall between church and state isn't for the state to zealously guard your right to faith, it's to stay out of religious matters altogether. Jefferson wanted them separate.
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  18. It is awful, that's why Rome stopped doing it lol. It was so inefficient that Augustus had to replace it with a publicly-funded system. Even with the history right in front of their face, Americans refuse to learn anything useful
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  19. Yeah it's sort of like some people (of which I'm not part, just saw this on a Tumblr post somewhere) don't want there to be a cure for deafness because it's discriminating against "deaf culture". Some people can't grasp the idea that, even if they made something useful out of it, their disorder is still a disorder.
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  20.  @maselala  Well, I don't think it can be classed as strictly eugenics if the premise is actually curing people. Eugenics was the idea that some people (races) were to be promoted and others were to be prevented- or outright killed. No one's saying we should harm autistic people, but give them the option to become neurotypical, should they so choose.
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  21.  @TheShowThatSUX  We also produce $20T in value per year, and hundreds of millions goes into the pockets of insurance company CEOs, because the government refuses to negotiate medical prices with them on behalf of the people. Not to mention the hundreds of millions more that are being hoarded offshore by greedy rich fucks. The rich don't have to pay taxes, but we do. We absolutely have the money— if they'd play by their own rules.
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  22.  @scruggs6633  Yes, they are. At least from the social point of view. I don't see liberals pushing prayer and creationism in schools, setting up Ten Commandment statues in courthouses, blocking access to health clinics (not just for abortions, but because they don't want people using contraceptives), teaching abstinence without proper sex ed, opposing gay marriage, opposing nonwhite political representation, and spreading their asscheeks open for the rich in the assumption that they'll 'invest in the economy' instead of taking the simpler route of just taking the tax-cut money... We might have an "overbearing" economic view, but at least we aren't busybodies obsessed with what goes on in others' bedrooms, or whether or not we take Adam and Eve Studies 101...
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  23.  @Dan16673  Actually, it in some ways did. The term Karōshi ("overwork death") only first appeared in 1969, and became more prevalent in the '80s. The modernized pace of life of Japan, fueled by government investment into infrastructure, architecture, firms, etc, had introduced a new level of work stress the Japanese hadn't come across. That aside, it doesn't matter who "tells them" that they should or shouldn't be proud of something. I just wanted to show you that being homogenous doesn't solve your problems. And praying that America does the same will not produce any results. Nobody addressed my other points. Poland ranks 46th in the world on happiness, and they're disproportionately "pure" in terms of racial makeup. Plenty of mixed countries have high happiness levels, as well. This indicates that there is little to no actual benefit from being a homogenous society. There is simply no causation or even correlation.
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  24.  @yakub3962  It does, but that's not the cause of this crisis. Long before the migrant crisis, housing prices were rising. More and more wealthy people saw housing as an investment (they actually bought more, not less, in 2008 because everything became so cheap). They hold the houses empty, waiting for the value of the property to rise.
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  25. Idk, kids were bullied lots before, too— even more so from the 60s-80s. But there weren't as many shootings, so what's changed since then?
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  26.  Mendoza Juan  I could ask the same of you. Why do you get to define personhood for someone else? Body parts =/= alive. If you've ever seen a corpse I think that would be clear. Try asking yourself if you remember what it was like before you were born. Do you remember pain and suffering as a fetus at 1 week old?
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  27.  @Grilledhotchips  They can change, they just need structural reform— a big upset and throwing out the corrupt class of politicians from both sides of the aisle.
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  28.  @ApoBeef  Not really. It barely qualifies as a city. Doesn't even crack 1M residents. All red state "cities" (minus Texas, where they're blue dots in a sea of red, and New Orleans, which is older than Louisiana itself) are sprawling, empty blocks of asphalt with no downtown.
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  29.  @АндрійКовальчук-о8ч  Because the agreement was kept private for decades, and has only now been de-classified, _after) the U.S. got what it wanted through lying. Surely you can read English, yes? These are American documents, conversations between Soviet Foreign Minister Эдуард Шеварднадзе and Secretary of State James Baker. Read the 2nd paragraph on page 3: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=4325678-Document-04-Memorandum-of-conversation-between Baker guarantees Шеварднадзе that "there would, of course, have to be iron-clad guarantees that NATO's jurisdiction of forces would not move eastward." Or the conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Baker? https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=4325679-Document-05-Memorandum-of-conversation-between Page 6, 2nd paragraph: "If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction of forces for NATO one inch to the east." Read the American documents, and tell me they're "Russian propaganda." Go ahead, do it. Try and convince yourself. You're the one who's been fed propaganda. You might not like Russia, but that doesn't make America perfect just because they oppose Russia. The false promises were known to the U.S., England, France, and Germany. They were just kept private because it would make them look bad. Of course the diplomats would deny it. You believed them?? You're as naïve as a child, then. Silly Ukrainian.
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  30.  @ethan20559  Lol, you're not too bright, then. Most of them either got lucky (gold rush, oil boom, shale boom), or are the descendants of people who got lucky (children of hedge fund managers, bankers, descendants of slaveowners in you're from the South). Plus, why should you benefit from someone else's hard work? I thought that was socialism? But when your family does it I guess that's okay?
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  31.  @stephenjames7262  Debate teaches rhetoric, not what to think! If you're backed up against a corner, it's almost never because you don't recognize the way it's being asked, it's because your viewpoint has no answer to that question!
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  32. Ffs I thought this was the one thing we were doing better at than Brazil :(
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  33.  @thetruthchannel349  That capitalized stuff was off-topic. Answer the question. Or are you afraid, in the back of your mind, that you've left a gaping hole in your beliefs? Either you can hate the caravan and Israel for trying to take land that's been rightfully conquered by someone else, or you can support Israel and the caravan for taking back their native land. Pick one. You can't have both without admitting something vile and horrible about yourself.
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  34. @Michellle Foucault XVI Use your little fingers to send me the source. You said it, so prove it. Burden of proof is on you. Or I'll just assume you're a filthy, racist liar, and we can both move on.
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  35.  @LeahBeth_1997  Fetuses aren't alive. Not until 22 weeks. Sorry. Science doesn't care about your religion
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  36. Thank you for the worldwide perspective on the virus, at the moment it can feel like you're trapped and can't do anything so it's nice to get a broader sense of the development of the virus.
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  37.  @Sneed_formerly_chucks  You're going to have to provide proof here. Unless there is documentation (audio, visual, transcripts, etc) of politicians meeting and discussing her as a political tool, then you're simply wrong because there is no evidence. And why is telling girls to aspire to achieve their goals condescending?? You're very confused. Even if it doesn't help, I'd prefer my children and grandchildren spend the last few centuries in a world not filled to the cbrim with gasoline fumes and coal dust. Trump's intentions for America will only harm its citizens. Do you people forget that we used to have lead in the water, and asbestos in our paint? Or CFCs in hairspray? Why give all that up just to prove to one girl that you're "in charge?"
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  38.  @eldridgedavis  I mean, China's pretty diverse, and Japan (before 1950s) was too— Kyushu and Okinawans were separate people with a separate history. It's not diversity, it's extremism. Although diversity can lead to extremist elements finding their way in, a homogenous society can also be extremist, so it's not exclusive to countries with many races.
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  39.  @Overquoted  This again? Do I need to pull out the quote? The separation of church and state was created to keep religion out of governance. Its adherents aren't the target; the degree to which their piety affects their lawmaking is.
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  40.  @Omar_E11  "wE hAd nO iDeA" The West has had decades of experience to draw upon, why don't Americans ever learn? Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, Guatemala, all happened before Libya. The U.S. just doesn't understand nation-building, fundamentally, because it has never seen true hardship. Its land is easy to govern (flat, arable land with many rivers). It can never get through its thick skull, the fact that other places require strong, centralized, often brutal control to keep the territory from falling apart. Progress happens slowly, and the Americans are like impatient little children. The Obama administration just needed an enemy to grandstand against, one that threatened their economic interests, and it chose Libya. Yes, Gaddafi was a brutal dictator. But he was the best that country had, and if the Americans were so thoroughly unaware of the difficulties governing a massive desert, then they should just stay out of others' affairs.
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  41. susclik Дожа если это произошло, Россия могла бы вести переговоры в 1991 г. и легально взять или од купить Крыма од Украины. Договор в Ялте был такой, что в обмен за ядерные бомбы изготовлено в Советской Украине, Россия официально признает территория Украины, Крым включон в это. Она должна была тогда что то сделать.
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  42.  @laurenz4528  WASP whining intensifies
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  43. Write letters to your local representative and/or the President. I'll get a friend to translate into Spanish for me, maybe a Western voice will be heard
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  44.  @Adam.G.Trapper  Хахаха, росли этой книги, которое вы меня написали, я почти полностью уверен что в из Лвова. Я никогда не слышал, даже от белорусов, ненавидящих Россию, что Москва - это «орда». Такие идее я только услышал в Украине, что бы могли себе устроить какую-ту национальную историю, отдельную от русской.
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  45.  SirVixIsVexed  LOL LOL LOL LOL Am I speaking with a person, or a broken record player? It doesn't really help your credibility, if you were looking to convince me of anything. You remind me of me, at 12. Anyway, "LOL So what?!" So, a justification is all you need. Irrespective of religion, history has shown us that religious dogma has little impact on the behavior of any single adherent. Conquistadors slaughtered millions of natives who resisted the spread of Christianity throughout the Americas. Secular ideas haven't fared much better. Stalinism and Maoism have eradicated tens of millions and warped entire societies. Why can't you understand that the capacity for murder and conquest is not bound or even amplified by religion? Even Buddhists have committed (rather, are committing) genocide, in Myanmar. Scriptural text can and will be interpreted to a society's will. Islam is no exception to that. You ignored the fact that they were capable of maintaining stable, peaceful societies on their own. Needlessly? You're making a strange distinction— which areas did the Muslims need to conquer? Why did Europe need to conquer that land? "Taking back" is bullshit. Just because a region has people practicing your religion, doesn't make it yours. The Middle East wasn't even a part of Europe geographically. To be frank, I found that last part rich, considering how much of the world Christian Europe would go on to conquer, colonize, and ruin. As for the Westboro Baptist church, stop dodging. My point wasn't their scope, but the capacity for people to become extreme regardless of ideology. I'm aware that all countries currently issuing capital countries are Muslim. Australia and Britiain did the same not long ago. Again, religion plays a smaller part than historical context. And as for your last thing, I don't even know what to say. That's just completely the opposite of true. It's leftists that try to justify Islam being a 'normal' religion. It's usually rightists who can't see it as anything but a death cult, which certainly won't encourage Muslims to see your side of the story. They're doing the grueling work of de-radicalizing an entire Tori tomb religion, so please let them get to work. If you wanna keep speeding garbage go ahead, but we need to finish up. This either goes somewhere or it doesn't.
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  46.  @tahy59  That's not a good thing. The unipolar world is ending soon. China will counter the US in every way. And the US has never been about spreading democracy. During the Cold War (and even now, look at Evo Morales), they would overthrow any democracy that wasn't convenient to them. They use the WTO as a weapon against smaller countries and threaten to sanction anyone who doesn't cooperate with their political interests-- this trade is not free. Their wars aren't even defending Americans. The 9/11 bombers were mostly Saudi, yet they invaded.. Afghanistan? Iraq? The US should have taken the war to Saudi Arabia. The real reason they do all of these things is because they don't want any rival powers threatening their money or their power. But thankfully this will end. Very soon.
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  47. sync232 You mean the government that protects you so you can uphold those rights? What do you think China would do with this land if the U.S. military disappeared one day?
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  48.  @sudarshan3965  Freudian skip, I guess
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  49.  @teepee8479  As opposed to.. what? Name me one decent Republican "city". Fort Worth? 😂
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  50.  @hambone4984  Most of the foundational, but boring things, yeah.
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