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Old 9th June 2022, 09:02 AM   #121
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie B View Post
I think they might say, “It’s a good thing we included a straightforward provision to repeal or modify any Amendment, or add new Amendments, in order to keep up with changing societal norms.” The problem right now is that “the people”, through their representatives, don’t support repealing or modifying the Second Amendment in sufficient numbers to make it happen. A single word change from “the right of the people…” to “the right of the militia…” would do it. I just don’t see it happening any time soon.
Not if the SCOTUS says any private group calling itself a militia... qualifies as a well regulated militia.
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Old 9th June 2022, 09:06 AM   #122
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Originally Posted by lobosrul5 View Post
Not if the SCOTUS says any private group calling itself a militia... qualifies as a well regulated militia.
If they are well -regulated, they should be able to provide a membership list - just forward it to Homeland Security
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Old 25th June 2022, 02:06 AM   #123
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This has been a pretty solid week for this platform.
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Old 22nd May 2023, 08:40 PM   #124
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She's back, and has added Flat Earth nonsense to her repertoire:

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Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash."
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/s...77910959730688
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Old 22nd May 2023, 08:55 PM   #125
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Old 22nd May 2023, 09:03 PM   #126
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And I've been following him around for decades and got a couple of autographs. Doesn't talk much.
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Old 22nd May 2023, 11:00 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by shemp View Post
She's back, and has added Flat Earth nonsense to her repertoire:

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Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash."
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/s...77910959730688


I'd love to hear her explanation as to why ships don't fall off the edge of the world and airplanes don't just fly off into the black void.

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Old 22nd May 2023, 11:39 PM   #128
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
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I'd love to hear her explanation as to why ships don't fall off the edge of the world and airplanes don't just fly off into the black void.
I've seen those explanations. They do not, under any sane circumstances whatever, hang together logically. Or even illogically. It is just a child-like fantasy that things work like in self-created unicorn-rainbow-fart fairy stories. There really is a door to Narnia at the back of the cupboard (or wherever).
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Old 23rd May 2023, 05:21 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
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I'd love to hear her explanation as to why ships don't fall off the edge of the world and airplanes don't just fly off into the black void.
Are we sure she's a flat-earther? She just said she sees globes and they are used to brainwash people. Maybe she has uncovered globegate.

And shouldn't some of these people actually be brainwashed? They seem to have a lot of crap in their brains.
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Old 23rd May 2023, 05:24 AM   #130
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I'd like to hear a flat earther explanation about why you see the sunlight on the tip of a mountain/tall building first at sunrise and last at sunset.
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Old 23rd May 2023, 07:30 AM   #131
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
I'd like to hear a flat earther explanation about why you see the sunlight on the tip of a mountain/tall building first at sunrise and last at sunset.
You're able to see a bit over the edge of the flat Earth.

Same reason I can see more of the wall behind the TV if I stand than I can if I'm seated.
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Old 23rd May 2023, 08:36 AM   #132
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Originally Posted by shemp View Post
She's back, and has added Flat Earth nonsense to her repertoire:

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Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash."
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/s...77910959730688

Person holding globe: We all live in the same world.
Kandiss Taylor: Well I don't!
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Old 23rd May 2023, 08:49 AM   #133
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If the globular Earth is a vast conspiracy of all scientists, historians and a brainwashed population, would you trust your mother? Buy her a bus ticket to a city a few thousand miles away, phone her at noon and ask her where the sun is in the sky where she is. Would she lie to you?
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Old 23rd May 2023, 10:20 AM   #134
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The fact that this nut job is a GOP district chair says so much about today's GOP. The insane asylum really is being run by the inmates.
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Old 23rd May 2023, 11:06 AM   #135
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
Are we sure she's a flat-earther? She just said she sees globes and they are used to brainwash people. Maybe she has uncovered globegate.

And shouldn't some of these people actually be brainwashed? They seem to have a lot of crap in their brains.
Isn't it because globes show that the US is not 100X larger than all other countries?
And shows other countries exist when they should not?
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Isn't it because globes show that the US is not 100X larger than all other countries?
And shows other countries exist when they should not?
It shows that the USA isn't at the centre of the earth.
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Isn't it because globes show that the US is not 100X larger than all other countries?
And shows other countries exist when they should not?
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It shows that the USA isn't at the centre of the earth.
Globes, and indeed maps and atlases, show that other countries exist, full stop. Places she has never heard of, like Canada and Mexico. And Africa and Asia and Australia, and more besides. And so many oceans! Why, there's a whole imaginary world that she never knew existed!
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Old 24th May 2023, 07:21 AM   #138
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
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I'd love to hear her explanation as to why ships don't fall off the edge of the world and airplanes don't just fly off into the black void.
The former is because the Illuminati/shape-shifting alien reptiles/Girl Scouts of America maintain constant patrols around the Antarctic ice wall, sinking anyone who gets too close, harpooning the survivors and feeding them to their ferocious, GMO guard penguins.

The latter is because of the crystal dome, duh.
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It is nice to be reminded that I still don't miss Warp12.
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Flat earthers, sure why not. ~~~~Trump and Desantis arguing this point.~~~~ Ah fantasy my friend.
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Flat earthers, sure why not. ~~~~Trump and Desantis arguing this point.~~~~ Ah fantasy my friend.
No contest. Trump's earth will be the flattest earth ever seen. Not many people know this, but he flattened it himself.
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Originally Posted by Foster Zygote View Post
The former is because the Illuminati/shape-shifting alien reptiles/Girl Scouts of America maintain constant patrols around the Antarctic ice wall, sinking anyone who gets too close, harpooning the survivors and feeding them to their ferocious, GMO guard penguins.

The latter is because of the crystal dome, duh.
I stand corrected.

Girl Scouts are paid by the pharmaceutical companies selling appetite suppressant drugs because they want to keep us fat with their oh, so delicious and irresistible Samoas, shortbread, and Thin (?!)Mints! Damn them to hell!
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Flat earthers, sure why not. ~~~~Trump and Desantis arguing this point.~~~~ Ah fantasy my friend.
Teach the controversy
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No contest. Trump's earth will be the flattest earth ever seen. Not many people know this, but he flattened it himself.
He's so fat all he had to do was fall down!
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:Seth Meyers voice: Oh we love our flat earth, don't we? We have the best flat earth, much better than those other flat earths of the **** hole countries. When I was President, we made it the flattest earth on Earth. Don't believe Ron DeRoundEarth when he says he can make it flatter!
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It really comes to something when you have someone in your party even more idiotic and despicable than Trump and DeSatan.

Good going Republicans. You did a good job.
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