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@ludofl3x
So you have no opinion on this topic. Noted.
Lots of people here literally repeat exactly word for word what they hear on the media, but that should not stop anyone from having an opinion on what was said.
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@ludofl3x
Being busted sucks, bro. Go back to posting the youtube links, at least those are clearly not your work. Phony douche
Lol, like I give a shit about "clout" on an anonymous site. I know exactly zero people here and nobody knows me either. Your attacks are dumb.
I have never and will never cite anything here. Either reply or don't. That's what the site is for. To bounce ideas around, not clout. Go back to facebook and get some followers with actual info instead of anonymous people on a debate site. It's clear that's what you want.
Maybe go to match.com and get a friend. Either way, I really don't care about "citation rules" on an open anonymous forum.
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@ludofl3x
Do you have an issue with our shared opinion?
Or do you only use your brain if you can identify the people who are talking, even on an anonymous forum?
How about chilling with the appeals to authority and address the content. Just a suggestion.
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@bmdrocks21
Oro just called you gay as an insult. Curious
Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy.
-Elon Musk
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Our ruling class evinces no interest in an immediate end to Russia’s war. They are as indifferent to Americans security as they are to continued death and destruction in Ukraine. Their willingness to risk Nuclear War to achieve regime change in Russia is the same NeoCon depravity that led to endless, pointless, catastrophic wars in the Middle East, Central America and Southeast Asia. Suffering in Ukraine, Europe and the Global South caused by what our Politicians call a “proxy war” doesn’t concern them. Global hegemony, gas and oil sales, and our defense industry’s profits are their agenda. They, who have attacked twenty-five countries over the last sixty years, aren’t all that different from Vladimir Putin.
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I will most certainly blame Poland if they declare war on Russia.
Then I will Blame USA for staying in a deathpact with NATO.
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Spending 60 billion to keep the Bank of DC open in Ukraine is one thing, Dead Americans because Poland triggered the NATO protocol is another thing.
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@Double_R
Clearly you do, but I don’t really blame you. Defending Donald Trump is the most absurd and incoherent thing any individual can attempt to do, so you clearly have no other card to play other than pretending you don’t understand the difference here or why it matters.
Will you please kindly fuck off with the Trump TDS shit when responding to me, unless I actually talk about Trump (which is almost never after he pulled that lockdown bullshit). I can speak for others on this site that misrepresenting other's words makes you a weak and detestable yellow person to talk to. It's also a violation of the COC to misrepresent someone as well. Consider yourself warned.
Elections are not held in place of the courts
They most certainly are. Elections can lead to the repealing or creation of laws that make pending or expected court cases irrelevant. Courts only apply the law, elections create the law. When the courts fail, the ballot box succeeds. Not sure why you would want to make such a simple concept so complicated here....
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@TWS1405
in the White House with direct ties to our greatest enemy, China,
Honestly, Washington DC has done far, far more to fuck the average person over starting with the negligent sabotage of the nation's energy grid and then forcing producers to bankruptcy through the negligent Covid protocols that did nothing to "save lives" in the end. But the lobby class got ultra rich in the meanwhile (big pharma, weapons contractors, green energy lobbyists, and also fossil lobbyists as the destruction of the energy grid means destruction of competition and mass buyouts.)
If this is what "saving democracy" looks like, we probably don't need this version.
China couldn't have asked more out of DC these last few years.
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@Double_R
so the same standards cannot be applied to both
Which is why we have elections when we can't wait for the courts.
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@Double_R
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize that Trump is guilty of various crimes. But when one is emotionally invested in refusing to accept it, this is the only card left to play.
Do you trust the legal process?
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@ILikePie5
Lol
Imagine if a cashier took days to give you change, your boss waiting months to give you a paycheck....
Guess we are just too impatient, right?
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I think McConnel wanted to lose for 2 reasons, he hates the anti-neocons and he knows next year will be a bad recession.
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@sadolite
And laws against free speech seek to take that responsibility away and hand it over to the government.
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@TheUnderdog
Speech is moderated by perceived microaggressions at the moment.
Suppressing speech because it may be found defamatory in a court of law is a descent into a pre-crime dystopia.
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@Public-Choice
You have to wonder if Democracy has evolved to nothing more glorious than televised wrestling.
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@zedvictor4
If you want to end your life with a bunch of labels instead of people around you, that's your mojo. Me, I don't plan on being that alone.
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@Public-Choice
Special investigations into political opponents? Indicting the opposition? This isn't democracy.
This has been going on since 2016, not news.
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Oh really. In when did that happen exactly?
Lol...
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@PREZ-HILTON
does not think increasing the supply of labor and decreasing demand would lower wages.
What do you expect from a voter that thinks printing more dollars increases real wages.
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@zedvictor4
I'm not telling you to be a jerk, just observing.
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Over 10,000 civilians killed with indiscriminate artillery. This is what Americans are suffering a recession for.
Funding a nation that broke the Minsk agreements just to resume killing civilians.
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@bmdrocks21
For my answer, I’ll quote you:
If you answered Biden or Democrats you are an idiot.
Badum tiss.
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Bringing the supply of labor into balance will not “depress” wages. It will stabilize wages.
Error 101. All labor is not the same quality, and won't have the same "stable" wages.
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@zedvictor4
Sometimes you're shrewd and sometimes you're trumpster.
Sometimes people wish you were dead, doesn't mean you have to say it out loud in a stream of conscious rant.
Mind your manners.
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@zedvictor4
Recession is just a concept relative to over expectation and under appreciation.
There isn't a lot to appreciate in DC besides the architecture and art work.
And I would chill on the ad-homs, limey. People are usually people.
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@Sidewalker
Yep, politics has definitely ended for you. Enjoy the recession bro.
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@ILikePie5
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@FLRW
I'm sorry big booty Pelosi is out of a job.
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@PREZ-HILTON
For a lot of people, politics began in 2016 and ended with Trump losing in 2020.
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Only because cray cray Pelosi be bye bye
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Small drillers don’t matter when it comes to influencing the price of gasoline
I don't give a shit about the price. I care about the supply. And you have no answer for why independent drillers are not drilling right now.
Mike Oestmann, CEO of private-equity-backed Tall City Exploration, said "he isn’t concerned about running out of inventory but estimates the costs to drill a well and bring it online are up about 40% over past year(2021) because of soaring costs for material and labor"
Oh whoopsie, did Biden accidentally break something again? whoopsie doodle doo
So these small oil companies go up to him and say "Yo Joe, you know that whole lockdown and then paying people to not work plus printing trillions and devaluing the dollar that kinda screwed us...can we like, get some relief on permit costs or something?"
Old Joe: "Nah, we good, but I heard Exxon was hiring, I might know a guy"
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Ya, that’s not the problem- the small independent oil drilling companies. They totally do not dictate the price of oil and gas
Very true, so why are they not drilling since, as you say, small independent drillers can't lower the price of oil by drilling?
Obvious answer is obvious, even to a jarhead.
A quick lookup showed you can lease an oilwell yourself for a few hundred thousand a year. Your very own oil well. Why are you not doing that if you think you can make so much money right now?
Obvious answer is obvious.
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and can provide additional information to further verify voting eligibility,said Debra O’Malley, Galvin’s spokesperson.
There is a MASSIVE difference between the word "can" and the word "must"
That sentence is NOT a set procedure to determine if someone lied on the 2 check boxes. It's an excuse for why there isn't one.
“They send over a batch of registrations each night to our office, which are then distributed to the appropriate cities and towns for local election official review and certification,” she said by email. “The RMV has a record of what evidence of lawful presence has been provided and removes from those batches anyone who hasn’t provided them with a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport, or U.S. naturalization papers.”
Well this seems like the only policy that has some teeth, although it seems pretty easy for some to slip through by mistake. Turning the RMV into a branch of the immigration and naturalization government service can't be what most people expect as a reliable or competent policy. Especially if there are social justice activists working there to undermine the rule of law.
Still, actual reported instances of any non-citizen vote in 2020 is zero, as far as I can tell.
As expected when there are no reliable procedures that don't rely on discretionary words such as "can" instead of "must"
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@Public-Choice
I would ask every person who says "oil companies can drill, they just choose not to because it makes more money," to apply for a small business loan, go through the very expensive permit process, and then explain as a small independent oil driller exactly how not drilling while still making loan payments is in any way profitable.
If you were to also tell the bank of your business plan, explain how you could possibly be granted a business loan for not drilling?
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@RationalMadman
Oh god, the cringe...
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@RationalMadman
possible. both sides are doing the false flag strategy after Jan 6
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They are choosing not to drill to drive up prices and profits
Most jarheads can understand how much more expensive it is to drill in 2022. We can make an exception for you though as a special case.
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So what I gathered from the article is that the "procedure" to making sure American citizens are enrolled to vote consists of 2 check boxes. One to state you are a us citizen and the 2nd box to state you are a resident.
So what is the "procedure" when an illegal invader checks both of those boxes, whether by mistake or intentional?
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We need more workers. We need immigrants.
So import slaves, ok
We need corporations to do their jobs, not to try to make more money by producing less like the oil companies do.
Making money by producing stuff is their only job.
Capitalism is failing...
Crony Capitalism is still in full swing with the recent subsidies to corporate green energy and the shutting out of the competition of fossil energy.
We need the war in Ukraine to end.
Politicians and corporate government contractors do not.
Farmers get a lot a money and support from the government. Is this money going in their pockets or helping to lower prices?
Both. But it's along the lines of the broken window fallacy as we don't know how much lower prices for non-subsidized goods would be if farmers were free to grow what they wanted to without the financial incentives from the government.
We haven’t built a new refinery in the United States since 1973. Maybe the government should buy and operate one or two to keep the oil companies honest. It would be run like a public utility.
Unlikely as then politicians would lose their jobs for "destroyin da planet"
It's the same reason NEPA restrictions are never rolled back.
Also the same reason no modern Nuclear plants are not considered.
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So how do we bring supply and demand back into balance?
drill baby drill.
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With increasing wages, low unemployment...worker shortages....
Lol, the ramblings of a madman.
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@TWS1405
Obviously Hitler is to blame.
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@cristo71
This is the kind of Democracy we saved this election.
Removing party affiliation next to the names on the ballot could fix a host of issues in this country.
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Instead of asking what's worse, ask what is better...lowering inflation or pretending it does not exist?
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last time we had inflation this high was under Reagan
You misspelled Jimmy Carter.
You may recall the last time we had inflation this high from Carter and then brought into control was under Reagan, although Volker was no Janet Yellen.
Sounds like you want another Reagan/Volker team again. I never thought you wanted to make America great again. I just thought you wanted to burn down half of the country.
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