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@LucyStarfire
Orange is the new black.
Sorry, it's just better.
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@thett3
lol I don’t mean a good person just a good candidate. Like I said it’s weird bc he self sabotages a lot but 2-1 for the presidency of the United States is not nothing
In the land of the blind, the one eye man is king supreme.
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@Savant
Well in 2020 he was the president, so I'd give him a 2-0 record here.
Lol being president isn't a primary autowin. See Biden 2024.
Also Teddy Roose, Peirce, and Filmore.
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@Castin
The greatest recurring irritation to me in games is when an ugly armor has high stats and the coolest looking armors are paper. Ugh.
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@Sidewalker
Anyone remember this, he said it 53 times during the campaign.
Remember when last week Trump said he wasn't going to go after farm workers last week and MSNBC called Trump a liar?
Then the next week he said he would go after the farm workers and MSNBC called Trump a monster?
Nobody cares.
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@Double_R
This is just bigotry dressed up as a rational objection.
You mean a national objection, and yes, it's okay to reject cultures outright. Our country was founded on rejecting a culture of monarchs, bigoted as it was.
No, our ridiculous asylum laws invited them.
What law says we HAVE to catch and release instead of remain in Mexico? I'm gonna need a big citation here.
If only there was a way to address our asylum laws.
Like elect a president that enforces them? That was already done.
Propaganda and the weaponization of current US law by republicans is why most legal brown people, along with most of MAGA think people like me are crazy
Real life is always going to be stronger than propaganda. Legal brown people at the border want to assimilate, not send their taxes and kids to schools that tell them they don't have to learn English as much as before. They don't want to send their kids to schools that tell them English is optional or to pay taxes into systems that bend over backward for people who broke the law to get here.
They didn’t pay, fight, and sweat for citizenship just to watch their neighborhoods transform into no-go zones. They want structure. They want standards. And they sure as hell didn’t sign up to be lumped in with those who skipped the line and now expect the system to cater to them on their dime. This is a culture war, and this culture war is colorblind. You're either American or you are not. Maybe you were not one of those coastal elite brown people that saw their tax dollars go up in smoke watching line jumpers get free rooms at hotels while homeless Americans shivered in the streets. But that's also another reason for the 80-20.
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@zedvictor4
Close, but no cigar.
All government is authoritarian. So when they call a president "Authoritarian"....it's just redundant terms to a normal person.
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Menkin said Jesus was a downright moron.
“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”
“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable.”
-HL Mencken
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For the farm workers, nannies, carpenters, etc. who are here working and contributing, leave them alone. We have better things to worry about.
Like Thett said, it's their non-assimilating culture that Americans worry about, and your backward thinking is what causes American schools to assimilate to the kids of illegal migrants, hurting the opportunities of the kids of both legal immigrants and Americans. it's not anti-kid to say that parents who knowingly break the law and impose burdens on public systems need to be held responsible. The schools didn't invite them. The teachers didn’t ask for overwhelmed classrooms. The cities didn't ask to pay enormous amounts for bilingual sei certified teachers. And local American families shouldn't be the ones constantly asked to adjust and sacrifice while Washington shrugs. They wanna work and contribute, there is a legal way to do that in a way that doesn't break social services for all Americans and their kids. Cause it aint just schools, it's everything.
You want fairness? Then we should start by making sure American kids and the kids of legal immigrants aren’t sacrificed on the altar of someone else's chaos. That’s not hate, it's just common sense bro. That is definitely one of the major reasons most legal brown people think you are crazy for thinking you can continue down this road. 80-20, and you are on the 20 side.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Safest place in all of LA is a bookstore.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
And you know you can't vote properly without the proper NBA footwear.
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@Sidewalker
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whats worse is the tech tree late game allows you to make alien alloy shields with double the health of a human alloy shield....google doesnt have it so might not get nerfed...
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@Castin
Oh and then there's Xenonaughts2...I let that one stew in my wishlist for a year and grabbed it when it's on sale. At least that early access is 90% done. It's a fun game, great nostalgic throwback to the 1990's Xcom game. Maps are fun, graphics are true to the original. Gameplay is good... there's just this one little problem...I always find a way to break the damn algorithm. They added in a soldier class that can hold a riot shield, and that shield has 2x more health than any soldier, so you can essentially take 3x more damage. So instead of getting a diverse mix of shotgunners, heavy gunners, grenade launchers, snipers, and riflemen....I was able to beat all the missions on the hardest difficulty with an assault crew of all shieldbros with a pistol. Google didn't even have anything on that, it just came to me. Well maybe when it's finished, they will fix the balance...but I feel like I ruined my 1st time experience....again....
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I'm so angry that all the good games came out years after the Covid blackhole of time. So now all my library is stacked with early access games...and I don't want to wait years for the release of course.
So I am playing Bellwright, pump about 100 hours into building a massive world where I have a farming village of about 20 ordinary people and a military base of 30 people all with massive strength. I fit them all with the best weapons and armor available to the medieval period, and am able to defeat hostile patrols on the highest settings. So i get into the questing, and it's super fun, I like the story...and then all of a sudden...no more quests....just like that..and I frantically search google...did I corrupt my game? Nope. Google says it's "early access"... now I feel like I am in the middle of the prom, dancing my ass off, and my date left me.....
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@Castin
Now i feel compelled to launch a stream of conscious rants about the videogames I am playing.
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@AdaptableRatman
I'm just explaining why most Americans consider this an 80-20 issue. It goes far beyond logic and rhetoric. Nobody should be forced to feel like an outsider in the country they were born and raised in. Maybe the Irish are okay with that, but not most Americans. Rhetoric and postmodern slogans will never change that.
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@thett3
Frankly, I am just tired of the logical arguments.
I am really done at the point when immigrants refuse to sing the national anthem in English at a ballgame for any reason.
That's a hostile takeover of American culture and I will unapologetically resist that. I get that we stopped enforcing assimilation since the 90's, but that earns a big fuck you when you think you can force your culture on me and force ME to assimilate into your backwards culture. I never asked for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LdYZiKDIh8
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@MayCaesar
I think democracy only becomes a real problem when the government gets so powerful that your day to day freedoms depend on government whims. In a smaller government, neither democracy nor tyranny would matter much. When those American freedoms get redefined by centralized interests is when tyranny of the majority becomes a personal individual issue.
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@Savant
i think i could add something to this point of yours...a flat sales tax, in fact, would (relatively) be more progressive because the current tax system carves out all sorts of exemptions for rich lobbyists regardless of the stated marginal rates, so in comparison, a flat and fair sales tax would be far more progressive.
Wealthy elites and their lobbyists consistently oppose a flat, transparent, fair tax system. The simplest explanation is that they’d end up paying more under it. Occam’s Razor applies here: the most straightforward reason the rich resist a flat or fair consumption tax is because the current system, despite high marginal rates on paper, is riddled with exemptions, loopholes, and deductions that benefit them only. If they were truly paying their fair share now, they wouldn’t consistently be spending millions lobbying to keep the system as is. The resistance of establishment elites is the clearest signal that a flat tax would actually close the loopholes and force tax compliance. A tax system that actually enforces a fair share.
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@thett3
I work with kids all day long, it sends shudders to think grown adults actively support the mass torture of kids.
And it’s not like we didn’t have this crap on the shelves before the Biden illegal immigration wave.We did and it was actually cheaper somehow.
Because Americans were mostly still pulling their weight. All the imported child labor in the world can't support fat Americans when they decide work is beneath them.
People focus on this issue being about just migrant exploitation, but that's just a symptom of American moral decay. This is really about the breakup of the work ethic of a nation where you have generations raised to believe that work is beneath them. People have lost that cultural expectation that everyone should collectively contribute to the survival of the society of a nation, and not outsource that job to people completely disconnected from any obligation to your own country. Remittances to Mexico are far greater than any benefit Americans squeeze out of slave labor, it's the fall of Rome all over in slow motion. A disconnect of duty, importation of slave labor, the destruction and replacement of everything the nation was founded on.
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@thett3
I hate Trump too, I would have never imagined I would ever vote for essentially a 90's Democrat, but here we are. That's the choices we get with the current decay of America. It's either get behind a big technocracy in the spirit of a 90's Democrat, or the complete annihilation of everything the country was founded on to be replaced with whatever culture survives the illegal migration.
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@Sidewalker
That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier”
Nothing screams peace like shooting Antifa in the face with 2000 national guard rubber bullets. Now the whole country can get behind that wall of peace, unified against left wing terrorism. That’s the kind of unity you get when lawlessness meets accountability.
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@thett3
An overwhelming majority of the country is furious about the presidents immigration policy.
I found the comments from The View and MSNBC about the South African refugees totally mask-off, and disgusting. And that was only about 50 refugees!
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Cool, now ask AI what uncontrolled lack of assimilation does to a nation.
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@Double_R
Our positions do not resemble each other. Mine is a combination of pragmatism and human decency, yours is one of bigotry and indifference dressed up as reverence for the rule of law.
So you had no problems carving out exceptions for South African whites?
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@LucyStarfire
It triggered.
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Partisan nonsense????
There’s no U.S. law that says we must let in illegal border crossers if they claim asylum. There's no law that requires USA to grant temporary visas while claims are processed either. the idea that we’re somehow obligated to hand out legal permissions people normally spend weeks to years earning just because someone says the magic word “asylum.” I've heard it 100 times from Homan: 8 U.S.C. § 1325 makes it illegal to enter between legal ports of entry, and asylum seekers are legally supposed to wait at those ports of entry. Biden’s catch-and-release policy actually directly undermined existing federal law, which requires asylum applicants to be physically detained while their claims are processed.
In contrast, Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" (Migrant Protection Protocols) was perfectly legal. It followed 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(C), which allowwed DHS to require fence hopping noncitizens to wait in Mexico during proceedings. Trump upheld due process without encouraging mass illegal entry or rewarding lawbreaking like Biden dis.
That kind of partisan nonsense?
Biden wasn’t "in accordance with the law.", certainly not those laws Homan often cites. He, or his staff handlers, purposefully dismantled enforcement mechanisms and replaced them with lobby funded loopholes. That’s how you get a migrant assimilation crisis. That aint compassion, that's crony in action. I get you guys are armed with emotion and flowy rhetoric, but the purpose of the executive in a functioning government is to execute the laws, and the law is the law.
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Rome literally fell because it stopped asking immigrants to become Roman. Once Rome had a critical mass of people who lived in Rome, but had no Roman values, that was the inevitable collapse of a great nation.
So it's not really immigration that's the real issue. It's the assimilation that is the issue, which is impossible to accomplish with illegal migration.
Waving Mexican flags in the streets, singing the anthem in Spanish....
What's funny to a lot of people is that most legal immigrants, even racist ones like DoubleR, still want legal assimilation because they are much more American then Mexican. Especially near the border, they also know firsthand the reality of the violence and chaos of Mexico that most coastal brown racist people rarely get exposed to.
Illegal immigration isn’t a race issue. it’s a cultural cohesion issue.
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An American Jury found Trump, President of the USA.
Trump won on that appeal as well. Democracy is the highest authority in the land. No Kings in robes. No oligarchies of TDS Manhattan juries. No legal necromancy of limited statutes can supersede American Democracy.
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Fake judges didn't sentence Trump because then he would then no longer be a criminal after the appeal.
The real judges then elected him as president.
And when Americans saw the show trial, the weaponized court, and the desperate smear...
They handed down their verdict: President Trump.
Trump won on that appeal. Democracy is the highest authority in the land. No Kings in robes.
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@fauxlaw
Trump didn't end a bipartisan immigration bill, he ended a bipartisan amnesty bill.
Huge difference with far separate consequences.
Calling it a bipartisan “immigration bill” blurs that law and implies broader consensus than actually existed. Calling it a “bipartisan amnesty bill” makes Trump's political resistance much easier to understand, even if you don’t agree with it. It's like labelling people who overstay visas as "undocumented" when the opposite is true, as a visa IS in fact, documentation. Clarity comes with honesty.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
A great example of a coronavirus outbreak that truly petered out is SARS-CoV-1, the original SARS from 2002–2003. It never spiraled into a global crisis because it was contained early and aggressively. Governments in East Asia and Canada implemented strict quarantines and travel bans. As a result, only about 8,000 people were infected worldwide, with around 774 deaths, before the virus was completely contained by mid-2003. The outbreak ended before the virus had a chance to mutate into more contagious or evasive variants. No Delta, no Omicron, just SARS, then gone. There was no half-stepping, no 5 year long trickle of human hosts. The response was decisive before the virus could turn into a permanent fixture.
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Are lockdown effects ‘killing more people than Covid’?
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@WyIted
I love how DoubleR's doing the typical "mah both sides" gaslighting to suggest only Republicans have ideological purity tests when it's totally clear a Democrat assassinated another Democrat purely on the basis of Ideology.
Crooks also assassinated Trump on the basis of abstract ideology, probably from hardcore Msnbc programming. Republicans just want people to be normal and do normal things like obey the laws get along, and stop fucking shit up, and stop pissing on the ideas that made America. No weird purity tests required. Just normal shit.
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@AdaptableRatman
I'm a moderate libertarian. I am okay sacrificing some liberty for essential security, but not essential liberties for some security. In the spirit of Ben Franklin.
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a priest that turned violent. That's it.
That's a funny unintended autocorrect :D
I'm talking about Trump's actions, such as federalizing the national guard over the governor's objections,
Under 10 U.S. Code § 252–254, If Trump declared that there was domestic violence, the governor's permission is not required to federalize the national guard.
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@AdaptableRatman
You need strong, 'shut up and obey' baton in hand approach to every singke business owner to stick to the letter of the law on minimum wage etc.
That's actually happening now.
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@AdaptableRatman
That is likely not the same. They probably are decent both in self cleanliness and how they treated you.Try doing it for a local supermarket's washroom.
I don't think you really understand what kind of mess an oil rig creates in a small confined space with double shift rotations and drilling mud. But that's not important anyway.
The point is I would have gotten paid a lot less if there was a way to get illegals to do the work. And I probably wouldn't have been offered the job in the first place as an American.
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@AdaptableRatman
Lol, I have though, on a jack-up barge. I got paid 150 dollars a day to mop, scrub showers and toilets, do towels and laundry for the Halliburton contractors out in the oil rigs on the gulf of Mexico, because the coast guard won't let undocumented workers on vessels in the USA.
I hope that educated you a bit.
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@AdaptableRatman
In places where they cant get slave labor, the American janitors are pretty well paid.
In places where elite employers can’t exploit a steady flow of under-the-table tax free, low-wage labor, American janitors, landscapers, and low labor service workers are actually paid quite well. Americans get benefits, union protection, and a level of social dignity that comes with legal employment. The whole “who will clean your toilets?” narrative collapses when you realize it’s only treated like a crisis in cities when the system built on exploiting people is threatened. When you remove the exploitation, Americans are more than willing to do so-called “dirty jobs” as long as they’re paid fairly. But nobody wants to talk about fair wages when Americans are involved. The real issue isn’t the work. It’s the class of elites who want exploitable servants without accountability and want cheap labor without social or legal consequences.
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@AdaptableRatman
I just take offense at the whole "who is gonna clean your toilets?" It reeks of the classism that elite Democrats have exploited for personal gain for decades. Normal people really don't give a fuck about who is cleaning their toilets, but these elites are the loudest and most in your face.
I think it is better to assimilate but that is a pipe dream.
The law states that it should be reality. If not for authoritarian presidents ignoring the assimilation laws of a democracy for the sake of lobby dollars.
Don’t talk to me about empathy when you treat immigrants like disposable labor and the democratic laws from Americans like obstacles. That’s not compassion. That’s exploitation with a smile.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Lockdowns arguably killed far more people because we artificially lengthened the mutation period for the virus.
Lockdowns were intended to “flatten the curve,” protect hospital surges, and buy time for vaccines that were not really vaccines (you still were exposed, virulent, and contagious.) But viruses evolve based on opportunity, and by slowing the spread in a patchy, drawn-out way, we gave SARS-CoV-2 more opportunity to mutate under pressure. The result? Multiple waves, more dangerous variants (Alpha, Delta, Omicron, etc.), and a longer global exposure period. Some elderly people actually fought off the 1st strains only to die to Delta years later! a strain that might well never have existed if we'd have let the virus burn through faster and build population-level immunity early....
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Mashpees also didn't vote for free healthcare for illegals. That's why radicalized Marxist Democrats assassinated them too.
Obviously. Cause every past injustice or tragedy can be retroactively tied to modern progressive talking points.
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Maybe Democrats should learn to be afraid of violent Marxists. That might get them to dodge bullets.
Especially Democrats that vote along the same principles as MAGA. (Americans before Illegals)
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@Sidewalker
Oh! so you are a MAGAT now if that's what passes for a person that wants to assassinate Trump and Democrats protecting Americans from Illegal Invaders....
MAGA will destroy MAGAT, so you might want to find a new crowd.
There’s a possible motive here: both of these individuals voted in a way that clearly angered Democrats. When you consider the Tim Walz connection, including the No Kings flyers reportedly found in the suspect’s car, it starts to look less random. Honestly, just apply basic logic. The modern left has spent years fanning the flames of political hysteria, shouting "Jan6 is worse than 911"...“Trump is a dictator” and “Democracy is dying.” They’ve normalized the idea that “resistance means revolution,” justified violence, and turned every mundane political disagreement into a hyperbolic existential crisis.
Now, we’re seeing the real-world consequences of that kind of rhetoric. I give credit to the Democratic officials who are willing to stand up to this thuggery. That takes courage. Trump gets called a wannabe gangster, but the left has built a political culture that encourages real street-level radicalism while pretending to defend democracy. I’m proud of people who reject that.
You know, my father served in WWII. He fought Nazis in North Africa and on the Italian peninsula. And I believe he’d be proud today at those willing to speak up and fight the modern authoritarianism that’s trying to cloak itself in fake moral superiority. The reality is, if you scream for years that your political opponents are literal Nazis, eventually someone mentally unstable is eventually going to believe you and then act on it like we have already seen. That’s the cost of this insane, apocalyptic style of political discourse. And now, it’s obvious: Democrats are scrambling to pin this on MAGA, because they desperately need to deflect from a clear, growing pattern of left-wing violence because they want the chaos. They want the violence.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
As long as it works, collective public action can grow to 99% of the economy for all I care.
They will get it right.....this time....
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Democrats Call For Slavery, brag About Having Illegals Work For Low Pay And NO BENEFITS,
They're EVIL.
Who will do these jobs? ME. I clean my own toilet. I cook my own food. I mow my own grass. I launder my own clothes.
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