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Circled nothing is still nothing. "Nothing will stop the U.S. from being a world leader, not even a handful of adults who want their kids to take science lessons from a book that mentions unicorns six times." -UNLoVedRebel Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong |
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It has been relatively stable many times, but in this context I would cite Iraq under Saddam.
ETA: I think the U.S., and yes, Obama, was naive about the Arab Spring. ETA2: And while I think Israel has a right to exist, it's been a handy boogeyman for riling up Arabs & others. This has served Israel's purposes at times, too. A territorial dispute became a proxy for a much larger, more intractable conflict. ETA3: A separate thread would be good. I'm sure I have a lot to learn. |
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The point is that the people who are rejecting comparisons to the holocaust are taking positions that would have applied to when there were still options to it happening and would have encouraged it.
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Circled nothing is still nothing. "Nothing will stop the U.S. from being a world leader, not even a handful of adults who want their kids to take science lessons from a book that mentions unicorns six times." -UNLoVedRebel Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong |
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Roughly speaking, I cited the second Persian Empire, when I was thinking of the first Persian Empire. I may have also cited the timescale of the Sasanid. In my defense, I had been researching Sasanid swords recently.
If I didn't know the difference, I would not have felt as stupid. That I full well know the difference and said the other one, that made me feel stupid. |
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Circled nothing is still nothing. "Nothing will stop the U.S. from being a world leader, not even a handful of adults who want their kids to take science lessons from a book that mentions unicorns six times." -UNLoVedRebel Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong |
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Which would match with the abuses claimed in this article: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opi...n-13418679.php
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Baylor is in good company. Look at all of the respectable internet sites that show the image above.
ETA - Stormfront was on the list after I clicked "next," but you get the idea. |
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Interesting how it implies both that oppression is just how White Countries are, while also implying that non-white people seek out oppression. Or is it implying they aren't oppressive, because look who wants in - as if no one sought out the opportunities to succeed in another country despite knowing that there would be a new country they would have to fit into. In either case, it is a blatant attempt to normalize oppression. Then again, consider the source.
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The hook nose on the guide sign is a also a nice touch, helping to remind us that it is The Jew who is orchestrating the emigration. Just in case someone is looking for a community center to shoot up.
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Guess not. I don't believe in the CT that jews are behind mass immigration, I couldn't find a more tasteful image to get the point across.
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Surely someone posting Nazi cartoons in lieu of an argument wouldn't be engaging in binary thinking.
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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You know, I'm no Trump fan either. But to seriously believe that Trump is gonna have actual concentration camps like Hitler did, is a whole new level of delusional.
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Or the British ones.
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Why would anyone defend Trump at this point - on anything?
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"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious." - Bastiat, The Law |
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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Gonna point out here that the numbers are being written on migrants by the charitable organization Casa Del Migrantes, not US government employees. They could have handled it better but we're talking about a charity that's trying to provide aid to a lot of people in a hurry so I'm inclined to cut them a little slack.
Info here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/take-numb...210835939.html Carry on. |
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Which camps and when for hitler? We certainly do have concentration camps by the historic definition dating back the the Boer war. And yes in popular culture the difference between concentration camps and death camps is rather muddied but they still fit the definition.
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"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious." - Bastiat, The Law |
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