Forum: USA Politics
13th November 2023, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 2,020
Views: 99,175
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Forum: USA Politics
26th January 2023, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 211
Views: 9,397
AFAICT, mike's "crowd" is Keith Olbermann, who...
AFAICT, mike's "crowd" is Keith Olbermann, who did tweet that Dungy should be fired from NBC. I can't find any other examples of anyone else calling for that, though I'm sure mike will have enough...
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Forum: USA Politics
24th January 2023, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 211
Views: 9,397
Interesting how we've gone from "sin" to...
Interesting how we've gone from "sin" to "science!" but, ok- is there any scientific evidence for a heterosexual gene? Anything that points to a conclusion that everyone is "born straight" as a...
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Forum: USA Politics
24th January 2023, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 211
Views: 9,397
Is just an excuse, a rationalization, to...
Is just an excuse, a rationalization, to marginalize or otherwise subjugate and control behavior. The in-group "loves" the sinner in much the same way some folks use the term "Well bless your...
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
31st December 2022, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 363
Views: 34,367
Are you seriously arguing that people here have...
Are you seriously arguing that people here have been fooled by a "television show" that you think worked on them because it worked in some movies you saw? I believe this is technically referred to as...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
19th December 2022, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 3,998
[Pedant mode]
William IV was actually George...
[Pedant mode]
William IV was actually George III's third son- the second son was named Frederick, the Duke of York, who died before his older brother (George IV), having left no legitimate issue,...
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Forum: USA Politics
12th December 2022, 03:09 PM
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Replies: 1,214
Views: 63,519
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
10th December 2022, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 2,880
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd December 2022, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
That is kind of a necessary part of the CT...
That is kind of a necessary part of the CT mindset that the GOP seems to have adopted as policy, though- seeing the conspiracy as such a given that it's not possible, or even needful, to show...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
2nd December 2022, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 2,548
Views: 366,090
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Forum: USA Politics
7th October 2022, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 886
Views: 41,745
When all else fails, there's the resort to the...
When all else fails, there's the resort to the "Scott DesJarlais defense" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_DesJarlais#Sex,_abortion,_and_drug_scandals) (Wikipedia)- "god has forgiven me." It has...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st October 2022, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th September 2022, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 125
Views: 4,958
Stay safe, man- from someone who went through...
Stay safe, man- from someone who went through Katrina (and a lifetime of other, lesser storms, including Camille), and understands that being on the NW quadrant of a hurricane is the worst place to...
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Forum: USA Politics
20th September 2022, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
19th September 2022, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 1,340
Views: 233,994
An old sci-fi (loosely speaking)* classic, Jack...
An old sci-fi (loosely speaking)* classic, Jack Finney's Time And Again. A commercial artist living in late-1960's New York City joins a government project for time travel and ends up in 1882 NYC....
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
21st August 2022, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 363
Views: 34,367
Anybody who thinks it's possible to have a...
Anybody who thinks it's possible to have a productive, or even rational, conversation with Yankee should read this old ISF thread (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=341275)...
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Forum: USA Politics
19th August 2022, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 3,333
Views: 174,559
A lot of Donald Trump's behavior can be...
A lot of Donald Trump's behavior can be understood if you think of him as George Costanza in the White House-
It's not so much that he doesn't actually understand the wrongness of the actions...
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Forum: USA Politics
16th August 2022, 02:26 PM
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Replies: 3,394
Views: 231,460
It's true that for most rational people, the...
It's true that for most rational people, the rational reaction would be to applaud the idea that nobody is either above or below the law. I suspect, though, that, for the intended audience (the folks...
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Forum: USA Politics
9th August 2022, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: USA Politics
27th July 2022, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 3,394
Views: 231,460
Well, in this context at least, never mind...
Well, in this context at least, never mind imitation- thievery is the sincerest form of flattery. :)
Also, it seems to me that "it's not a lie if you believe it" carries a sort of implicit...
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Forum: USA Politics
27th July 2022, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 3,394
Views: 231,460
From that article:
I guess it shouldn't...
From that article:
I guess it shouldn't surprise me that it would take someone like Trump (who, as President, was in a position to know that his lies were lies) to seriously invoke the Costanza...
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Forum: USA Politics
26th July 2022, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
4th June 2022, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 3,385
Views: 310,760
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
25th March 2022, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 449
Views: 30,610
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
24th March 2022, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 449
Views: 30,610
That little bit is pretty amazing in its own...
That little bit is pretty amazing in its own pitiful way. What you're essentially saying is that "the perps" are deliberately lazy and sloppy in their methods because they know nobody is going to do...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
23rd March 2022, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 449
Views: 30,610
It is sort of fitting, though, that a CTist who...
It is sort of fitting, though, that a CTist who thinks she has solved a "psyop" solely by looking at photographs of people would also think her methodology is buttressed by quoting a fiction writer...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
15th March 2022, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 573
Views: 41,110
I think Emre quite literally and seriously does...
I think Emre quite literally and seriously does not understand why we don't need to wait seven more days to see that the whole Nemesis thing is primitive nonsense- if there was anything there, we'd...
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Forum: USA Politics
15th March 2022, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
(Shrug) Romney, for one. Kasich, who used to be...
(Shrug) Romney, for one. Kasich, who used to be governor of Ohio (no idea what he's been up to lately), Hogan of Maryland, even Liz Cheney. As I said, I might not agree with them on their ideas or...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
15th March 2022, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 449
Views: 30,610
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Forum: USA Politics
15th March 2022, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
There are still some thinking conservatives in...
There are still some thinking conservatives in the party who aren't such slaves to that sort of inertia; I guess we can still hope that, at some point, they will assert themselves forcefully enough...
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Forum: USA Politics
15th March 2022, 04:48 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
It's the sort of "think about it!" idiocy that...
It's the sort of "think about it!" idiocy that your average dumbass who calls in to pontificate on right-wing radio would think was a clever thing to say. And therein, I think, lies a big part of the...
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Forum: USA Politics
15th March 2022, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
7th February 2022, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 4,240
Views: 290,470
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Forum: USA Politics
1st February 2022, 04:52 PM
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Replies: 2,977
Views: 209,055
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
28th January 2022, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 229
Views: 12,746
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
24th January 2022, 07:36 PM
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Replies: 229
Views: 12,746
(Shrug) Okely-dokely then; far be it from me to...
(Shrug) Okely-dokely then; far be it from me to argue with someone who's so determined to make himself look so foolish by essentially agreeing with the thesis that Smith made the whole thing up but...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
24th January 2022, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 229
Views: 12,746
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
23rd January 2022, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 3,457
Views: 213,283
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
18th January 2022, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 616
Views: 92,589
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
26th December 2021, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 3,709
Views: 178,690
"Kit the investigative reporter" doesn't even...
"Kit the investigative reporter" doesn't even seem really all that necessary to Tom's "theory"- until you realize that it isn't a theory at all, but only a rosary ritual in which all the beads need...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
26th December 2021, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 3,709
Views: 178,690
For someone who pretends that it's the...
For someone who pretends that it's the "Covidists" that are adhering to a religion, Tom sure does have his own Scripture that he's sticking to through thick or thin. Evidently that silly line about...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th December 2021, 08:49 AM
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Replies: 3,457
Views: 213,283
"God commanded it!" isn't an answer either- by...
"God commanded it!" isn't an answer either- by definition, "this is a miracle" isn't an explanation, it's a placeholder for the absence of one. All you're doing here is the same thing creationists...
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Forum: USA Politics
14th December 2021, 03:07 PM
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Replies: 174
Views: 14,487
:thumbsup: <--- There's one you've earned. ...
:thumbsup: <--- There's one you've earned. Seriously, good job, very Trumpian- all you did there was to act exactly as I guessed you would. And are continuing with it, I see- very comical (at...
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Forum: USA Politics
14th December 2021, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 174
Views: 14,487
You know what would have been better than this...
You know what would have been better than this childish sputtering? Show us how it's done- show some evidence for more than just the handful of cases, something more empirical than anecdotal evidence...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
14th December 2021, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 3,497
Views: 236,688
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Forum: USA Politics
14th December 2021, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 174
Views: 14,487
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Forum: USA Politics
14th December 2021, 12:24 PM
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Replies: 174
Views: 14,487
*Shrug* Given the fact that the sort of voter...
*Shrug* Given the fact that the sort of voter fraud that Republicans are always going on about is so rare that anecdotes are really the only kind of evidence you will ever see for it (as opposed to...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2021, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 3,457
Views: 213,283
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2021, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 3,457
Views: 213,283
Thanks for that, Scorpion. Heydarian- wouldn't...
Thanks for that, Scorpion. Heydarian- wouldn't you agree that there's a pretty big difference between accurately translating a verse from one language to another, hoping the meaning you want can be...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th December 2021, 03:30 PM
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Replies: 698
Views: 46,880
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