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15th January 2022, 09:30 PM | #121 |
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17th January 2022, 10:40 AM | #125 |
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Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal (Moličre) A pedant is a man who studies a vacuum through instruments that allow him to draw cross-sections of the details (John Ciardi) |
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17th January 2022, 08:11 PM | #130 |
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17th January 2022, 08:26 PM | #131 |
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The thread for stupidity from GQP politicians who don't have their own thread
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18th January 2022, 07:08 AM | #132 |
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18th January 2022, 09:27 AM | #133 |
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18th January 2022, 09:40 AM | #134 |
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Basically how many problems across wide swaths of society really boil down to "You can be wrong, even intentionally, and never face any consequence or indeed any reaction at all because of it?"
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20th January 2022, 09:54 AM | #136 |
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McConnell said the quiet part out loud again.
In response to (valid but that's neither here nor there) complaints about their blatant vote suppression efforts McConnell said: "Well, the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting at just as high a percentage as Americans." |
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20th January 2022, 11:45 AM | #137 |
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20th January 2022, 01:13 PM | #139 |
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Even if you give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant "African American voters are voting at same percentage as white voters", he would still be wrong.
In 2016, 58% of white people voted, but only 56% of african Americans did. In 2020, the gap was even bigger: 64% of white voters, 59% of African americans. (The only years when a higher percentage of african americans voted was in 2008 and 2012, when they were able to select someone born in Nigeria ) See: Statista |
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20th January 2022, 01:14 PM | #140 |
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Well that's exactly what he was doing. Saying something offensive to distract from the fact that he was wrong.
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20th January 2022, 01:22 PM | #141 |
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In our continuing coverage of "You said the quiet part out loud..."
Mark Peake, a Republican State Senator from Virginia, openly admitted on the Virginia Senate floor that intended purpose of a proposed "rEligIouS FrEeDoM" bill was to protect the discrimination of gay people under the law.
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And again we're going to, I think, have more and more of these moments. The Republicans want to say it. It kills them that they have pussyfoot around it. They want to go "I'm wrong, I'm hateful, but I'm power and you can't stop me." |
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31st January 2022, 01:53 PM | #143 |
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Come on it is not to just discriminate against gay people, it is also to discriminate against the jews.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-them-services Exactly as intended. Jews need to know what Tennessee thinks of them. |
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31st January 2022, 02:35 PM | #144 |
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I haven't read the text of the Bill, but it would be ironic if it ended up like Louisiana allowing state vouchers to be used for religious schools and being horrified to discover that Muslim schools were eligible. "It was only supposed to apply to our religion." "I'm sorry, but this is a Wiccan-run business and your beliefs are unacceptable to us." |
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I wasn't asking 'people' for this; I asked one person who claimed that we could know how right wingers interpreted Glenn Beck's painting. I said that racists (yes, I know, not all right wingers are racists) would not necessarily tend to express their racism in public but would among those of like mind as in private groups. He said those closed groups were plentiful on the internet and we could read them. I asked for links to any of these groups. None was.
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1st February 2022, 06:15 AM | #149 |
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Well, that one person doesn't appear to be in this thread, so why bring it up here?
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It's also coming really close to saying that the ability to discriminate against people who don't follow their religious beliefs isn't just the point of the law, but the point of the religious beliefs. I mean, at some point even the religious need to understand the difference between a law that's a shield for their beliefs from undue interference and one that makes their beliefs a sword to wield against others.
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5th February 2022, 12:54 AM | #156 |
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Rand Paul: Yeah, I know he's a Libertarian, but let's face it: he's just as crazy as the majority of the current crop of GOP Congressmembers are:
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