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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do US leaders want to attack Mexico? |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2023, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 44
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| But then Trump commandeered the GOP and took it in a nativist, xenophobic, racists, and isolationist, direction. And he still rules the GOP. So...no changing direction soon...even if all the other of their candidates can see that it is taking them off a cliff. Ironically, Trump has pulled record nu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do US leaders want to attack Mexico? |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2023, 2:03 pm
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| Ugh, such a good example of the GOP tripping over their own dicks, Mexican immigrants would be natural allies for them if they'd stop being stupid about them. They're gaining with Latinos in spite of themselves, but they could do so much better if they got smarter about it. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: That slippery word "woke" |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2023, 1:53 pm
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Replies: 150
Views: 5,602
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2023, 2:16 pm
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Replies: 101
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| Just on this point because it's a fairly simple matter of fact: the Gender Identity Development Service based at the Tavistock Centre in North London is being closed because it was overwhelmed with demand from across the country, and it is being replaced by regional centres across the country. It h... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk endorses antisemitic tweet |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2023, 2:09 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I don't always agree with Elon and I certainly wouldn't have endorsed that tweet, but he really does have all of the right enemies. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Right / left political shift and Israel |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 9:35 pm
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Replies: 22
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| It would be like if the above groups all told the American public to drink Coca Cola, but then Coke fans act like Pepsi is less successful because the impartial, meritocratic market has spoken (forgive me for the soda analogy). But Coke is objectively better than Pepsi, government thumb on the scal... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 9:33 pm
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Replies: 101
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goldfish21 wrote: Thanks for highlighting what’s wrong with these people. So ridiculous that they’re hyper focused on hating the left instead of doing anything beneficial for the country.
Dismantling the left would be fantastic for the country. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk endorses antisemitic tweet |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 8:46 pm
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 8:45 pm
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Replies: 309
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naturalplastic wrote: Exactly. I was talking about American society. And its voting blocs, and subcultures. Regular folks. Not tiny criminal cells.
I was also talking about subcultures, and radical chic is and was a real thing. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: FBI Charge rapper for lyrics |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 8:43 pm
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Replies: 6
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old_comedywriter wrote: Apparently he threatened the president, other government officials, minority groups, relatives, and schools.
This is no joke.
Under American law you can do all that and more, some of the most important caselaw actually involved threats to the president. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk endorses antisemitic tweet |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 1:23 pm
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Replies: 19
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Are you in favor of discrimination against Asians when it comes to college admissions? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
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Posted: 17 Nov 2023, 1:19 pm
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Replies: 101
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| I hate to disappoint people, but the vast majority of conservatives could care less about trans stuff, it's only become a flashpoint due to the aggression with which it has been pushed into the mainstream by the left and the ferocity that even good faith questions about the medical evidence are met.... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2023, 11:40 pm
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Replies: 2,115
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| As far as I can tell, this would not be acceptable to the vast majority of Palestinians, nor would it be acceptable to the vast majority of the world's Muslims to allow this to happen. (Nor, I suspect, would it be acceptable to the Catholic Church to allow all of Palestine's traditional Christians ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2023, 11:39 pm
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| I googled "soyjak Chad" just now, and saw some stuff about "memes," but I am totally lost as to what these memes are all about, much less their relevance to the issue at hand. And I suspect I'm far from the only person here who is unfamiliar with whatever online subculture these... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
| Dox47 |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2023, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 309
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| I remember how it was. Back in the Sixties Americans were rather solidly pro Israel. Everyone applauded their victory in the Six Day War of 1967. But as the Seventies kicked in, one group of Americans, American Blacks, began to break ranks, and began to identify with the Palestinians of the occupie... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk endorses antisemitic tweet |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2023, 11:20 pm
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| How in the heck are the ADL anti-Asian??? I think the logic goes something like "they support programs such as affirmative action that discriminate against Asians, so they're de facto anti Asian", words to that effect. I think it's a reach, but I'm generally not fond of the ADL, they real... |
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