Forum: USA Politics
7th March 2024, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
Apologies for the delayed victory lap.
Re: ...
Apologies for the delayed victory lap.
Re: Trump has not been indicted for insurrection
No, it's not. We can say OJ Simpson committed double-homicide even though he was acquitted. We know...
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd March 2024, 02:11 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd March 2024, 02:09 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
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Forum: USA Politics
1st March 2024, 03:06 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
If Trump were barred from running, then the...
If Trump were barred from running, then the political consequences would not be minor.
You're assuming the truth of your understanding of the Constitution, which, will in all likelihood find...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st March 2024, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
I am not arguing the law. I said the...
I am not arguing the law. I said the Constitution's age requirement, among other things, is objectively silly and anti-democratic. This 18th-century holey document is not my North Star. It does not...
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Forum: USA Politics
29th February 2024, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
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Forum: USA Politics
29th February 2024, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
This is just mind-boggling. How difficult is it...
This is just mind-boggling. How difficult is it to bite the bullet? You just have to admit the ends justify the means. Or that in this case, something is more important in your hierarchy of values...
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Forum: USA Politics
29th February 2024, 06:05 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
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Forum: USA Politics
29th February 2024, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
So what is the difference between using and...
So what is the difference between using and abusing the law? I agree with those contending #Resistance Liberalism seems like a rehash of Cold War Liberalism. There's a pretzeling illogic to using...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th February 2024, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 629
Americans are too ignorant for constitutional...
Americans are too ignorant for constitutional reform. It's not just C-Span callers, or Trumpists. For years, people have said dumb **** like, "This is a republic, not a democracy." Parliamentary...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
15th February 2024, 03:23 PM
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Replies: 191
Views: 3,766
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
15th February 2024, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,990
People want to blame the inanimate object, but...
People want to blame the inanimate object, but paroxysms of violence like in KC could happen just as well with knives. It's easy to imagine a almost two-dozen bystanders injured in the cross-stab....
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Forum: USA Politics
10th February 2024, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
Anybody But Cheeto von Tweeto thinking is...
Anybody But Cheeto von Tweeto thinking is pervasive. Like many here, I would not be surprised if there were significant bloodshed in Trump's second term, but I expect that to settle down by his third...
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Forum: USA Politics
28th January 2024, 11:45 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
As far as the Constitution is concerned, sure....
As far as the Constitution is concerned, sure. And as far as the Constitution is concerned the census for 1850 is legitimate despite slavery and Three-Fifths. A perennial issue in Puerto Rico is...
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Forum: USA Politics
27th January 2024, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 12,566
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Forum: USA Politics
23rd January 2024, 11:26 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
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Forum: USA Politics
12th January 2024, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
Yeah, this is Duverger's law. The structure...
Yeah, this is Duverger's law. The structure (first-past-the-post/plurality voting/single-member district/winner-take-all) dictates a two-party system. I enjoy bashing Democrats, but the party...
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Forum: USA Politics
11th January 2024, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
Is that democratic though? Primaries were...
Is that democratic though? Primaries were largely a response to a more fundamental problem (and an ineffectual response at that). I would be OK with parties selecting their candidates in...
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Forum: USA Politics
7th January 2024, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
5th January 2024, 12:01 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
You sound like an ambulance chaser with this...
You sound like an ambulance chaser with this weak, lawyerly language. Two is "a number of times." What are your cases? Anti-war socialist Victor Berger was twice denied his seat under Section 3. The...
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Forum: USA Politics
5th January 2024, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
4th January 2024, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
The Second Amendment is the anti-standing army...
The Second Amendment is the anti-standing army amendment. It was about how the militias would be constituted, funded, and controlled. Today it's essentially a dead letter. Ironically, Americans who...
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd January 2024, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd January 2024, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd January 2024, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd January 2024, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
1st January 2024, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: USA Politics
1st January 2024, 11:39 AM
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Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,018
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th December 2023, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 134
Views: 3,803
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th December 2023, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 134
Views: 3,803
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Forum: USA Politics
7th November 2023, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 1,572
Views: 39,969
The election is a year away. I'd still guess...
The election is a year away. I'd still guess Biden has a better chance of winning than Trump, but this is like Clinton lamenting she's only ahead by a few points when she should be up by 50. Trump...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd November 2023, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 6,002
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st November 2023, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 6,002
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th October 2023, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 6,002
From Wikipedia:
"Boycott, Divestment and...
From Wikipedia:
"Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led[6] movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. Its objective is to pressure...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th October 2023, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 248
Views: 6,002
Is it anti-Semitic to support Zionist ambitions...
Is it anti-Semitic to support Zionist ambitions to secure "Greater Israel" because goat-herder fiction prophecizes that this will lead to the return of Christ, who will insist Jews convert or suffer...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
25th October 2023, 09:26 PM
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Replies: 3,335
Views: 181,650
Even if true, and it's not, this is the kind of...
Even if true, and it's not, this is the kind of apologetics that might be used to defend Saudi Arabia's anti-blasphemy law: "Very few people are actually executed." One of the main problems is the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th October 2023, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 3,335
Views: 181,650
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
13th October 2023, 01:46 AM
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Replies: 3,919
Views: 294,617
Until last week, I understood that Israel was a...
Until last week, I understood that Israel was a defiant, lone democracy surrounded by almost two dozen Muslim dictatorships. That had been a frequently parroted talking point to justify atrocities...
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Forum: USA Politics
11th October 2023, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,471
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th September 2023, 02:21 AM
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Replies: 492
Views: 13,766
Why weren't as many people stealing Kias and...
Why weren't as many people stealing Kias and joyriding seven or eight years ago? The cars have long been vulnerable. In fact, back then, they were even more vulnerable. Human beings are monkey-see,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st September 2023, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,602
The Youtube algorithm has decided to boost the...
The Youtube algorithm has decided to boost the below clip from Robert Sapolsky's phenomenal series of lectures on human behavior. He makes a similar argument, as I recall, in his book Behave.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th September 2023, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,359
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th September 2023, 02:58 AM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,359
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
7th September 2023, 02:37 AM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,359
The usual artless dodge. One goes with the...
The usual artless dodge. One goes with the evidence at hand, and proportions their belief to that evidence. If Person A says, "I believe most Americans, if presented with this event, would conclude...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th September 2023, 01:58 PM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,359
I was commenting on this specific case. Most...
I was commenting on this specific case. Most Americans support police reform.
Poorly argued, as usual. As far as I know, there are no national polls on Young's death -- although there are...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd September 2023, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,359
Ordinary criminals maybe. All of the evidence...
Ordinary criminals maybe. All of the evidence suggests that Young had intended to steal alcohol. Some articles say she set the booze down in the store because she had been caught. Reportedly,...
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Forum: USA Politics
24th August 2023, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 177
Views: 4,206
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
24th August 2023, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 227
Views: 6,546
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Forum: USA Politics
24th August 2023, 12:55 AM
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Replies: 177
Views: 4,206
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th August 2023, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,602
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