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@RationalMadman
Well, the people who defunded the police, which did happen in many places where people voted for less authority
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@RationalMadman
well people can vote for less authority such as defunding the police.
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@RationalMadman
I'm not voting lol. Not unless there's a sane option. Maybe if Biden gets replaced I will vote for them.
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@Sidewalker
There is nothing normal with being forced to suppress risk assessments just because in some cults "bigotry and discrimination is evil"
It's absolutely normal to discriminate, even if you are bigoted toward MAGAS. It's just more productive if discrimination is based in reality rather than indoctrinated propaganda.
It keeps the majority safe....
lol, no, it just keeps far-left propaganda safe from scrutiny. And the far-left is only about 25% of America. Far from any definition of a majority.
Kids 20 years from now are going to wonder how people willingly engaged in some ridiculous behaviors and beliefs such as promoting people on the basis of the color of their skin and which hole they have sex with. And make no mistake, the modern LBGTQ movement is not at all about acceptance, but about promotion. They are like rainbow colored Jehovah's witnesses, only your house gets burned down if you do not answer the door.
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@RationalMadman
True, but democracy without authoritarianism is indistinguishable from anarchy.
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@RationalMadman
no, it doesn't mandate tyranny, but it does mandate authority.
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did you get a rooster? you don't have to get one, but they can be fun.
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@Double_R
It was within the margin of error. Democrats still lost ground.
How is that grand Biden campaign strategy going?
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@Intelligence_06
While I work with about 100 students, mostly seniors, they are all in special education, so they would not be interested or comfortable debating in such an open and unforgiving setting. I could maybe talk to some of my peers and pitch the idea to them though for the other students.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's not a one-off poll. Trump's numbers have been climbing steadily for months as he campaigns from the courthouses. There is most definitely a shift in the public opinion on this, especially as censored info about Jan 6 gets strategically leaked out by the GOP. This was always going to be the problem with hanging your hopes on a kangaroo court select committee's year old version of the events.
This is why I asked Historybuff a few days back if the DNC might change their campaign strategy, and he admitted they probably will not. This means Trump will probably win by default. I'm not happy with another 4 years of Trump, but the alternative is far worse.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Former President Trump holds a 6-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, new polling shows, even as the Republican frontrunner faces mounting legal woes.
A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found Trump with 48 percent to Biden’s 42 percent in a head-to-head race, with another 9 percent of registered voters unsure who they would back between the two.
Even if Trump is indicted in one of his legal battles, the polling suggests he could still defeat Biden.
If Trump is convicted of trying to influence the 2020 election results in Georgia, he’s still the favorite to win, with 52 percent to Biden’s 48 percent.
If he’s convicted for inciting the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, his lead extends to 8 points, with 54 percent to Biden’s 46 percent.
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@Double_R
Also, the most recent harvard/harris poll has Trump up 8 points EVEN IF TRUMP IS FOUND GUILTY of inciting the Jan 6 riot.
Doesn't matter if you are right about this, the people are gonna elect the Orangeman anyway.
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@Double_R
Lol, guess you agreed with the rest of what I said then.
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@Mharman
I think I spent up to 2 hours on one vote once :(
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And this is why we can't have nice things.
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@Double_R
Sad as it is that I have to say this - these aren't the same thing.
Why are you sad to admit what someone says in front of a camera doesn't represent actual negotiations? Did you really think Biden wanted to start a war with Putin or Xi Xin Ping? Obviously not after 3 years of nothing.
Did you think Biden actually wanted to haul the Crown Prince into a court for killing Kashoggi? Obviously not. After 3 years of nothing.
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@RationalMadman
A lot of Americans will vote for more inflation and national borrowing. Being in debt is part of being American.
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@WyIted
No, lol, Even though most of my students are seniors, I'm not allowed to do anything like that outside of school.
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@n8nrgim
is because they regulate costs
In the real world of the economics of supply and demand, there is no possible way to regulate costs without also regulating services, whether intentional or not. And this principle isn't just limited to healthcare. Rent control is a proven example of this.
If you want more bang for the buck, there is only one solution. Remove the middlemen, remove red-tape, and provide choices. Government management fails to do any of those things. Especially a government as corrupt and unresponsive as ours.
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@n8nrgim
That study is a broken link. I want to know if there's longer times for elective surgeries or emergency medical care. These are the wait times that really matter. I really don't care about longer wait times to see a GP for non urgent healthcare when you can get the same thing done by the next available NP which is trained to handle 99% of all healthcare issues. Usually you can get an available NP in a few days at the most for non-urgent healthcare. At least where I live.
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@n8nrgim
with better wait times there
Source?
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their wait times aren't generally worse there... there're generally better.
source?
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@n8nrgim
i admit fifty thousand aint a lot,
It surely is not considering the natural death rate is about 3 million Americans every year. In percentage terms: that's about 1.5%
Considering the massive cost to 100% of the people to have government manage mandated health insurance, (again this is health insurance, not medical insurance), is this cost really worth it to provide the level of healthcare that affects so few people a year?
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@RationalMadman
Yes the same file...sorry
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@n8nrgim
but if we do nothing on healthcare, people die, or get neglected.
Dr. Sowell wrote an entire essay on this. He noted the difference between health care and medical care. Before Obamacare, everyone had access to the emergency room for medical treatment where the state would subsidize if you were too poor to pay. So no, people won't die or "get neglected" for lack of "medical care."
Healthcare isn't the same thing as Medical care. One is a commodity, the other is a necessity.
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@n8nrgim
defense and healthcare are morally and existentially necessary,
Maybe so, but proxy wars for profit at the expense of the poor and big pharma lobbies at the expense of the poor are neither moral nor necessary. Both of which would have disappeared if libertarians ran the country.
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@WyIted
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@WyIted
What the crazy TDS judge was suggesting was that every real estate loan applicant should always use the valuation of the tax collector's assessment over a bank assessors valuation. If that was the case, either literally nobody would be able to secure a loan to purchase real estate, leading to a massive market undervaluation, or the property tax rates would have to drop significantly to compensate for an accurate market tax assessment in line with the same market value an interested bank would assess.
No matter which way you look at this, it's a clusterfuck decision that will have lasting damage on the New York real estate market.
This is such a classic "baby with the bathwater" moment that brings to light the horror dystopia TDS has the potential to create.
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@WyIted
Who is the victim of Trump Valuing Mar a Lago at 17 million.
The Bank at the trial testified that:
1) The Bank made their own assessment of the property
2) the loan was paid back in full
3) The bank made a ton of money from the interest payments
4) The bank would have loved to do business again with Mr. Trump
So yes. A victimless crime.
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@Best.Korea
You want to get your opponent's pawns lined up in a row.. the more pawns in the same row, the better. Even if you can't retake the pawns immediately, its a death sentence eventually for all pawns on the same row
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@Sidewalker
Beware, the Orangeman cometh.
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@Sidewalker
@WyIted
Uneven political discretion with the law is a feature of a dying civilization, not a bug.
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Key takeaways:
1) Businesses rely on rule of law to have a safe and stable place to do business.
2) State officials have encouraged rogue judges to torch the rule of law by targeting political rivals such as Trump and Musk for victimless process crimes.
3) This sends a signal to all businesses that the "rule of law" only applies to Democrat supporters in those states.
4) O' Leary calls these states "loser states"
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@WyIted
What is the point of letting them kill off so many young men in the Ukraine if we don't attack anyway.
Apparently, Ukraine didn't pay 2% to the USA. NATO says 2% is required to pay for boots on the ground. So that's probably the going rate for global war.
Burisma sent 10% to the big guy, but that's just paying Biden's electric bill.
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@WyIted
Right, I don't get it. How does letting NATO skate by with 1% hurt Russia in any way while threatening them to pay 2% helps Russia in any way?
And like I said before, it's not like America needs an excuse such as Russia actually attacking a NATO country for USA to wage war with Russia anyway....
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@ADreamOfLiberty
That seems more believable.
Article 3 states that NATO member countries must make appropriate efforts to develop their individual defense capabilities. While Article 3 does not say countries must spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense, member nations pledged at a 2014 summit in Wales to move toward that figure within a decade.
According to NATO's own rules https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm
Seems like NATO members not fulfilling the terms of the alliance are the ones ultimately destroying their own position in NATO by not honoring the agreement. Not that having a formal agreement ever stopped USA from meddling in proxy wars with Russia with or without NATO's consent.
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@Double_R
said he would encourage Russia to attack our NATO...
This sounds like a partisan talking point and not an actual quote. People can't take you seriously if you are going to ague in fanfiction speak.
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@Double_R
When a party's support for a presidential candidate dramatically increases because that candidate was indicted on 91 felony counts... It's probably a cult.
Hypothetically, if Trump in 2020 asked the DOJ to assist in criminal investigations into Biden (let's for the moment forget Trump was impeached for doing that with Ukraine), would that make you dramatically support Biden less, or dramatically support Biden more?
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I saw that. He reminds me of Sowell, a data driven guy.
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@RationalMadman
running the country so well?
Because collectively, a group of 100 average people is better equipped to deal with the infinite possibilities of unintended consequences than 1 super smart expert in a specialized field or one super rich Billionaire.
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@sadolite
Sorry, that was supposed to be in response to RationalMadman saying it was an Ad Hom.
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@RationalMadman
I support a government run by the people, not the lobby class.
The people would have never created 10,000 pages of what really should have been called "insuranceCare"
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@RationalMadman
I find it hard to believe you would willingly support the lobby class and billionaires.
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I don't support any legislation crafted by lobbies and the billionaire class.
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You guys do realize all 10k pages of Obamacare was written by the insurance lobbies......
Since when did insurance lobbies care about the poor?
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@FLRW
Well, Trump did keep a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand.
You mean Trump can read?
I know you love to worship your favorite scoundrel, but this is taking it way too far, Mencken.
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@sadolite
Attacking a political talking point = Ad Hom
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