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#3281 |
Heb ei fai, heb ei eni
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"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996 RIP |
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#3282 |
Muse
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Bubba - I seem to recall you're fond of QAnon. What are your thoughts on this?
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#3283 |
No longer the 1
Join Date: Apr 2007
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I see to my annoyance that this USAian Q nonsense is turning up in civilised countries.
On Saturday we had a "protest" by the Usual Suspects (including the Mad Dentist and son) against, well everything; lockdown restrictions., masks, vaccines, the usual bollocks. Present were a pair of nutters claiming that nine thousand people went missing in Ireland last year and that most of these, and especially babies, were being killed and harvested for "adrenochrome" to keep RTÉ celebrities "looking young"2. The corpses were buried under the new National Children’s Hospital3. The two were wearing matching hoodies emblazoned with a slogan: "RTE sold there[sic] souls"4. 1. Though surprisingly sans the GoD squad. Maybe they weren't invited, or were preparing (badly) for their day in court. 2. Obviously not working too well. 3. Which might speed construction. 4. And yet people still oppose my plan for mandatory floggings for public typographical errors... |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Republic of Ireland
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Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive? ...love and buttercakes... |
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#3285 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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I love this world, but not for its answers. (Mary Oliver) Quand il dit "cuic" le moineau croit tout dire. (When he's tweeted the sparrow thinks he's said it all. (Jules Renard) |
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#3286 |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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(CNN) - Information provided by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warns of increased chatter among extremists, including members of the Three Percenters extremist group, discussing possible plots against the Capitol on March 4, a date that conspiracy theorists have focused on, according to sources familiar with the matter.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/polit..._p1yDNdSuTxtKk |
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#3287 |
Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Massachusetts, USA
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#3288 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: I live in a swamp
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People you would think would be grateful and loyal to their country, engaged in seditious conspiracy and betrayed their nation by attacking Congress on January Sixth. The Trump hotel in DC did a record on in-room dining on the 5th and 6th. We can't dismiss the enemy as just poor whites. Successful people also attacked our values and way of life that day. No one living in a trailer park ordered room service in Trump's hotel that night.
It's worth studying how people with everything became so disloyal over the last five years. |
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Philosopher
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Location: Massachusetts, USA
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#3291 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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You'd think so, but perhaps it's because you're actually thinking and actually concerned about truth.
The people in question have been brought up on the belief that they and their kind are what makes America great, catechised on the exceptionalist myth by the false history of their schools and their leaders, and now their chosen leader has inflamed them with easy lies: that their dominance, the gift of God himself, is threatened by invaders and freeloaders and imposters, literally cheaters and thieves, followers of false gods who threaten not only their deserved gains, but their very cultural identity. They are loyal. Its just that it's to a lie. |
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I love this world, but not for its answers. (Mary Oliver) Quand il dit "cuic" le moineau croit tout dire. (When he's tweeted the sparrow thinks he's said it all. (Jules Renard) |
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#3292 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2008
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I’m waitin’.
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#3293 |
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#3294 |
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His mother seems to be nearly as kooky as him. Also interviewed:
https://twitter.com/LaurieSegall/sta...99159125819398 A lot of evasiveness and downplaying the severity of his crimes, and ultimately it comes down to that they think the election was stolen, so it was ok to attack the Capitol. |
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#3295 |
Philosopher
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney Nova Scotia
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Caption from and old New Yorker cartoon - Why am I shouting? Because I'm wrong!" |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 31,919
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If the Q folks believe that March 4 is the proper and legitimate date for a presidential inauguration, how do they feel about Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017?
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#3297 |
Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,697
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Hey, Qanon dolts: your infantile fantasy is still just that; and you’re still an ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers.
You’re also as un-American and un-Christian and just plain aggressively stupid as they come. |
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#3298 |
Skepticifimisticalationist
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Gulf Coast
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Welp, there's March 4th been and gone. So when's the next Definitely The Right Day This Time, resident Qs and Q-adjacent posters?
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#3299 |
Fiend God
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In a post-fact world
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#3300 |
Troublesome Passenger
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 18,846
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OVAH!!!
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#3301 |
Winter is Coming
Join Date: Mar 2008
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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 They for example thought that slavery was perfectly fine, absolutely OK, and then they didn't and what is the point of the Catholic Church if it says "Oh we couldn't know better because no one else did" THEN WHAT ARE YOU FOR? - Stephen Fry |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Cum catapultae proscribeantur tum soli proscripti catapultas habeant. |
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#3303 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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Oh no, it's far far crazier than that. If I recall, it has to do with a theory that the US was turned into a corporation in the 1800's or something, and the army something and fearless leader will be sworn in as the first real president since Grant or something, somehow not worrying that this means he wasn't really president last time. Or something. I probably have it wrong, or at least not wrong enough.
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#3304 |
ETcorngods survivor
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#3305 |
Official Ponylandistanian National Treasure. Respect it!
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Ponylandistan! Where the bacon grows on trees! Can it get any better than that? I submit it can not!
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
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How about the Fifth of November? We could have fireworks!
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