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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 11:40 am
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Replies: 44
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| Puzzled why you assume he'll win in the general election, unless it's by winning a 35/33/33 plurality which would seriously impugn his credibility as the Peoples' Choice. Repeating an earlier post in this thread “In the OP I opined that if the other candidates stepped aside, Mamdani might lose to S... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: America’s birthday in the era of Trump 2.0 |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 10:38 am
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| A personal reflection: This is not the first time the 4th of July that has occurred during a time of division, during a time America was flawed, and during a time of pessimism. There has never been a fourth of July when this was not true in one way or another. I grew up during the Vietnam era an er... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 8:54 am
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| I don’t expect a Mamhandi mayoralty to be openly antisemitic or thinly disguised antisemitic. I expect him to show up in support at scenes of antisemitic incidents etc. He will do this without giving up core anti zionist principles. OTOH I do expect some people to interpret his election as a signal ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:03 am
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Replies: 786
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| If true the below is the unfortunate but predictable result of the change discussed above. The last sentence should not be taken as a claim that any more then a tiny minority of people opposed to Israel support this type of thing. Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob Pounded on Do... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 11:48 pm
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Replies: 786
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgxlqxuU5Ag This is part of an earlier prediction of mine based on the assumption that zoomers will still be anti Israel when they take power. I mentioned as possibilities of a navel blockade and enforcing a no fly zone over Israel. “As for Western Jews the fall of I... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: SCOTUS to hear cases about trans athlete ban laws |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 4:36 pm
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| Supreme Court takes up state bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider whether states can prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports, setting up a high-profile clash that could have far-reaching i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting outside Chicago nightclub |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 4:26 pm
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| 4 killed, 14 wounded in Chicago mass shooting outside River North nightclub Four people were killed and at least 14 others were wounded in a drive-by mass shooting outside the Artis Lounge nightclub in Chicago's River North neighborhood on Wednesday night. Chicago police said around 11 p.m., a dark... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: "Big Beautiful Bill" passes Senate |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 12
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| House passes "big, beautiful bill," sending it to Trump's desk in 218-214 vote The House on Thursday passed the signature piece of legislation of President Trump's second term, approving a massive bill that includes trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts while ramping up funding fo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Event held to address neurodivergence misconceptions |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 11:56 am
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NINfan wrote: Sounds interesting! Did you attend?
No. It was held about 150 miles from where I live |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Bible banned from Texas schools for being sexually explicit |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 10:45 am
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Replies: 108
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| Err on the side of keeping religion out of public schools. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What’s your political compass? |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 9:51 am
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| Test 1 - Very slightly left on the economic scale, moderately libertarian. Test 2 long version Federal unity - neutral Moderate Democratic globalist isolationist - neutral militarist pacifist - neutral Equality Markets - neutral Moderate Secular Moderate Traditional Assimilationist Multiculturalist ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: dementia |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 9:23 am
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| I would advise seeing not only regular doctor but psychiatrist because a lot of the symptoms you wrote about are symptoms of depression. Autistic burnout also comes to mind. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A diagnosis story unexpectedly becomes two diagnosis stories |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 8:47 am
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| Amy Schumer on Her Tribeca Doc ‘Room to Move’: ‘We Want to Destigmatize Autism’ After watching Alexander Hammer’s “Expecting Amy,” a 2020 docuseries about Amy Schumer‘s difficult pregnancy, Jenn Freeman’s life changed. In the series, Schumer’s husband, Chris Fischer, is unexpectedly diagnosed with ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: RFK JR dated view of Autism |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 8:25 am
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Replies: 81
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| RFK Jr.: CDC Data To Be Public For First Time In Autism Study Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC will publish large amounts of data for researchers to sift through related to possible causes of autism, during an interview published today with Tucker Carlson. &quo... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Aspergers --> Spectrum change |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 4:35 am
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Replies: 34
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| I dislike it when people accuse us Aspies of being ''supremists'' for not feeling like we identify with autism even though we were diagnosed with Asperger's which is supposed to be a form of autism. It's really offensive when they compare us to racist white supremists. We don't think we're ''better... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Jews Turned Out for Trump in 2024 in Unprecedented Numbers |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2025, 11:48 am
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| A new study from the Pew Research Center demonstrated that more Jews voted Republican and fewer voted Democrat in 2024 than in 2020, bolstering claims that U.S. Jews are moving to the right Republican Jews hailed findings from the Pew Research Center affirming that Jewish voters played a significan... |
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