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@Best.Korea
Safe and sound of course.
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@hey-yo
Here is a good article if you like to read
Free speech means that people other than the candidates get a narrative too.
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@hey-yo
Part of the M-F-Act was that unions could not run ads supporting or condemning any politician. Which meant it was OK for one person to like put up fliers or walk around with a bullhorn, but you couldn't have like 5 people pay someone to do that for them.
That would have made existing media platforms the lords of what propaganda could be pushed and what politician could be supported or attacked.
Woulda been a huge win for establishment DC if those restrictions on free speech were upheld.
Not that they didn't muzzle that speech anyway as the Twitter files showed, regardless of the failure to make it illegal to band together to speak out against establishment DC.
M-F was probably one of the most anti-union bills ever passed.
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@hey-yo
Luckily, there is only one Justice still on the S. court that voted against the 1st Amendment. (Sotomayor)
Could have been pretty bad if that precedent was set.
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@RationalMadman
We thank you.
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@Best.Korea
America is a country that can be defined in a single word: "azofotosofgoefef".
That is America today.
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@RationalMadman
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@RationalMadman
Someone who doesn't receive corporate welfare.
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@RationalMadman
Politics should be argued from the side you believe in for the cause you believe in.
The common person has no side that believes in their causes in today's US politics.
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But the government making everything themselves is sustainable.
It's more sustainable than the current system where the rich steals from the poor.
But you are arguing a straw man anyway since the vast amount of corporate welfare isn't even used for "feeding the military" or anything else useful.
We don't hire private paramilitaries to completely replace the military. That's because a corporatocracy isn't sustainable.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
All censorship is disinformation and propaganda. Has Covid censorship taught us nothing?
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@hey-yo
There's a lot of people on the left that want to end the 1st amendment.
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@Sidewalker
So create government farms with government workers to grow food for government troops.
The current corporate welfare system isn't sustainable. Stealing from the poor to give to the rich can't go on forever.
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@IlDiavolo
You cant ban the 1st amendment which guarantees lobbies reelecting the politicians that provide corporate welfare.
The only solution is to ban corporate welfare.
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@Sidewalker
you think not letting the government buy the materials and products they need
If the government "needs" something, create a non-private government department that does it instead of private companies. There is no need for corporate welfare.
Tell me why we need corporate welfare again.
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@IlDiavolo
It's a problem when rich people are purchasing both parties. The main incentive they have to purchase politicians is because corporate welfare exists.
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Very simple solution.
A constitutional amendment to prohibit the government from distributing corporate welfare with tax funds. Taxes may only be spent on government organizations and can never be spent on private organizations. As a follow up to this rule, Any federal taxes levied on private corporations must be applied evenly to all corporations in America with no fear or favor.
The only corporate lobbying that will then have a reason for existing will be for business regulations.
If the public wants to end ALL corporate lobbying in D.C., then there needs to be a Constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress from regulating private business, either relegating that duty to the states, or to the courts via tort law.
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@Best.Korea
It's when you act sufficiently enough to appear concerned that people won't question you when you do nothing about it.
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@Best.Korea
Heard a neat term today.
Performative outrage.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's tempting to agree with you, but there is history of free civilizations that still extinguished themselves.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
ChatGPT disagrees.
"Based on what we know about evolutionary biology, a moral system that promotes cooperation and social cohesion is more likely to be adaptive and persist over time than one that does not. This is because cooperation and social cohesion can increase the likelihood of survival and reproduction within a group, leading to the spread and persistence of cultural practices that promote these qualities. Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that the persistence of moral systems is dependent on their fitness, in that moral systems that are more adaptive and promote fitness are more likely to persist over time."
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@ADreamOfLiberty
The only morality that is truly objective is one that based on evolutionary fitness. All other forms of morality are doomed for extinction.
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@zedvictor4
Though I'm sure that his carers keep a close eye on him.
There's only so much they can do.
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@zedvictor4
I think the human species is going the way of the horse and buggy sadly. That's evolution for you.
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@RationalMadman
I guess anything can annoy anyone.
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@zedvictor4
A plate of gratitude is always satisfying.
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@Sidewalker
How is that a problem?
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@Sidewalker
Sure, as long as it's done at a gun free venue so those pesky victims don't interfere.
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@Sidewalker
Hay! Don't shoot the messenger!
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@Sidewalker
Practically speaking, if gun control can save tens of thousands of lives, I'm thinking that trumps the rights of the hobbyist who loses his right to target practice, or hunt, or whatever legal use that the gun culture is saying is worth so many thousands of lives.
And the other side is saying gun ownership can save 100,000+ lives. They are thinking that trumps the rights of the gun grabbers.
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@PREZ-HILTON
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@PREZ-HILTON
Correct. Defending yourself with a gun shouldn't be classified as "gun violence" because you are not violating anyone.
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@PREZ-HILTON
What's wrong with people being harder to victimize?
It's really puzzling why he can't accept that most violence in this country doesn't happen with an aggressor with a gun.
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@Double_R
It's also common sense to consider not just the lives it saves but also the lives it takes, especially when many of the lives saved were only in danger in the first place because of the product you are crediting for saving lives.
These are your words. I am not fabricating your words.
What I said stands. If you don't care to refute something I say just ignore it.
I totally disagree that most or even "many" rapes prevented with a woman with a gun were prevented against a man with a gun.
If you wanna die on that tree, source me some facts before the usual nonresponse.
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That's literally what they're elected to do
100 percent disagree. I'd say most of the people on the left elect a person for the very reason to change the laws and to defy bad ones. The border for example.
Blindly following the laws usually gets a politician unelected.
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@sadolite
He might be claiming Trump has advanced dementia almost as bad as the current president even though he was smart 40 years ago.
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@SkepticalOne
Maybe you are not familiar with John Edwards, but all the campaign finance charges were dropped the moment he agreed not to run again.
Trump is the antithesis of Edwards, Trump is running on an anti-swamp agenda, so Trump is more likely to run not less. It's just so baffling why people continue to fall for his game after 7 years.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Just wondering, how do you auto correct...
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Asufutimaehaehfutbw
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@PREZ-HILTON
Don't respond to him please. Ty
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@SkepticalOne
If you really thought the law worked and was fair, John Edwards would be in prison right now on the same exact charges.
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@SkepticalOne
Well I can't afford to ignore the polls that say otherwise.
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@SkepticalOne
So you're willing to risk Trump as the next president to preserve the rule of law? I don't see this as a win.
The law can recover.
The country may not.
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@SkepticalOne
I am just asking really a simple question to you guys. How important is it for you to never have to worry about Trump again. If ignoring Trump is the only way to truly get rid of him, why isn't that important to you?
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@SkepticalOne
Absolutely nobody but the victims of the most pernicious propaganda will believe the system holds government accountable if Trump is the only person out of the entire Federal Government to be held to the standard.
They system is on trial here, not Trump.
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@SkepticalOne
What direction? Making Trump a martyr? The reason why Hillary isn't a contender for the next election is because nobody talks about her. Nobody indicts her, nobody lets her live in their head. Why can't you guys simply shut your fat mouths just for one year and let Trump go into obscurity? All you have to do is ignore the man and he will go away, yet you are dead set determined to make him way more important than he has a right to be. Not worth in my book.
If you guys know he is a con artist, why the hell are you letting him play you?
Baffling.
I swear, sometimes i see people on the left and it looks like a deathcult.
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