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Data driven findings on police responses to left versus right wing protests.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...an-aberration/
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... and your little dog too.
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Penultimate Amazing
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[Schwarznegger blasts Trump and GOP congressmen ..with Conan Sword in hand.
https://deadline.com/2021/01/arnold-...ge-1234670532/ |
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Uncritical "thinker"
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Penultimate Amazing
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That's one. Do I think there were/are Trumpists in our military? Absolutely. But I have heard Trump and Flynn vilified by General after General. What worried me was how Trump was changing the military. How he was changing advancement to rewarding support for him as opposed to being performance based.
Democracy got very lucky. I believe had Trump won reelection democracy in the US was doomed. Trump is entirely incompetent in building but he and his administration were semi competent at division and destruction. He was putting a hammer to Military hierarchy. Down the road you may be right. Trump needed more time. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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That is quite the speech - direct Youtube version here
Thank God HE'S not a fascist. I'd be tempted to follow him myself... |
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I'll just leave this here.
The Left Has Gone Insane [reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout] ETA: This level of disconnect is alarming, but I'm afraid it's real. ETAA: I found a better thread for this now that it's too late. |
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The Clarity Is Devastating
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set. "...just as a magnet attracts iron filings, "[shemp is] a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality." - Shakespeare |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Location: Canada, eh?
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"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before." "Evolution and Ethics" T.H. Huxley (1893) |
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Okay, how about the Dems get an impeachment from the Republicans in exchange for amending the constitution to let Arnie run.
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"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before." "Evolution and Ethics" T.H. Huxley (1893) |
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https://twitter.com/Tucker5law/statu...94043382910981
Nice tiktok video of one of the selfie terrorists finding that he's now on a no-fly list |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Maddow has a hypothesis that if GOP Senators just don't show up at the impeachment trial, 2/3rd vote of Senators on the floor could have Trump removed. It probably won't happen, but I can still hope.
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Winter is Coming
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Naturalism adjusts it's principles to fit with the observed data. It's a god of the facts world view. -joobz When I give food to the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist - Hélder Câmara |
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Penultimate Amazing
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New footage of the insurrection showing a Capitol Policeman being beaten by Trump supprotes. One of them uses a Trump Banner to beat the cop with.
Donnie and his followers love the police.... BTW today Donnie finally lowered the White House Flag in honor of the policeman who was killed on Wendesday. He sitll has not called the guy's family. (though both Biden and Pence have). Disgusitng. While I was writing this, with CNN one, I just heard a reproter aks a congressman why it took Trump so long to lower the llag and he nailed it in one sentence. "Because Trump IS A Bad Person)" |
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Mistral, mistral wind...
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I'm tired of the bombs, tired of the bullets, tired of the crazies on TV; I'm the aviator, a dream's a dream whatever it seems Deep Purple- "The Aviator" Life was a short shelf that came with bookends- Stephen King |
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Sanity is overrated. / Voting for Republicans is morally equivalent to voting for Nazis in early 30's. |
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I might have retweeted that a few times. It's even better than Elizabeth
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Evil Fokker
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I knew at least one of these guys would bawling around a camera once they realized that actions have consequences.
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Evil Fokker
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In other news related to the fallout from this. The PGA is severing ties with Trump and his golf courses. Maybe they’ll be back once Deutschbank seizes them.
https://www.nj.com/sports/2021/01/pg...ider-says.html |
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Yahtzee: "You're doing that thing again where when asked a question you just discuss the philosophy of the question instead of answering the bloody question." Gabriel: "Well yeah, you see..." Yahtzee: "No. When you are asked a Yes or No question the first word out of your mouth needs to be Yes or No. Only after that have you earned the right to elaborate." |
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"You have done nothing to demonstrate an understanding of scientific methodology or modern skepticism, both of which are, by necessity, driven by the facts and evidence, not by preconceptions, and both of which are strengthened by, and rely upon, change." - Arkan Wolfshade |
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