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@ILikePie5
What is a woman?
"I can't answer that"
-KENTANJI BROWN JACKSON
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@ILikePie5
USA is also one of the few countries that treats suicide the same as gun violence.
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@Incel-chud
There's some sick people on the left that celebrated the destruction of the middle class with the Covid lockdowns saying "the rich" deserved it.
As if destroying upward mobility is ever a good thing for the poor.
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@ILikePie5
They guy supports Pelosi's party. You can't take him seriously.
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@Incel-chud
Another honest and factually correct assessment.
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@bmdrocks21
Well it’s the current year, and the things he passed are no longer PC.
Exactly. For "progressives", the only History that exists is revisionist history. When a Democrat in power threatens to write you off for being on the "wrong side of history" it's literally accurate. Fortunately, people are sick of the regressive tyrannical threats and ready to make a change in 2022.
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@thett3
Bill Clinton has a pretty negative reputation among young people on the left. Because it was the post Reagan era he governed pretty much as a centrist…and he really might be a rapist. The Epstein stuff is a huge problem that’s never been addressed
I guess, but I assumed the ratings were on leadership, not celebrity status.
Trump would have gotten a B if he could’ve accepted his loss and not landed many of his most gullible followers in federal prison and cost republicans the senate during his tantrum. If he had acted like an adult his entire term he would get an B+ (he would also still be President.) Most of the stuff he actually did I liked, but I was so incredibly tired of doing mental gymnastics to defend the man.
I think it's predictable how he refused to lift a finger stop the left from destroying itself. Case in point, the left is in such a tailspin to do anything to maintain power, they take the stance that anyone that opposes them is an insurrectionist and cannot legally run against them for power positions. Essentially that is a call for an armed civil war since there are no legal democratic alternatives to resist the left. Trump had too many axes and chips to forgive the left and come together.
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@bmdrocks21
yours is my ratings... I'm surprised at how low even Democrats rate Clinton.
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The primary objective is for society to end up as long-term happy and healthy as possible,
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@FLRW
How dare the only Black man disagree with others not the same skin color. Get in line darkie. Get back in line.
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@ILikePie5
As if Trump wasn't already the most objectively investigated president in American history. People know exactly how many pubic hairs were compromised with his sexual conquests...down to the pubic hair
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@bmdrocks21
For instance, we did have a Republican administration (2 years of which we had majorities in both the House and Senate), yet tech censorship got much worse.It is a bit reductionist to say, but Republicans in many ways are just "Democrats lite".
In my view, they both have similar goals when it comes to restricting liberty. Voters really have no other options.
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@FLRW
Well, at least democrats don't take bribes from foreign countries.
Guess Biden isn't a Democrat then.
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@bmdrocks21
I'm sure there are instances like you point out, but the overall balance seems to indicate individual liberties are being lost as more and more individuals are being coerced into fewer options. More permissions are required to pursue happiness.
Yeah a kid has the freedom to ingest whatever drug the pharmaceutical companies advocate. How about a child's freedom to operate a lemonade stand? Nope, not in Democrat states. How about a Child's freedom to go maskless or helmetless? Nope.
How about a Child's freedom to opt out of public education? Nope.
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Under every recent modern Democrat administration, individual liberty has been slashed, and the standards of living for the average American have regressed.
Prove me wrong.
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@FLRW
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell
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@3RU7AL
well said
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@FLRW
Yeah! damn those people that question your infallible FDA temples of worship.
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@Lemming
There's also the idea that trade creates partnerships and alliances.
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@Incel-chud
Cut all unnecessary red tape and keep necessary redtape. Making it so life saving drugs can make it to market faster, and so it is cheaper to bring drugs to market, allowing more companies to attempt to do so, and advancing medicine at a faster exponential rate.
That should only happen with a concurrent removal of all litigation protections currently enjoyed for having FDA approval.
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@Incel-chud
That's not even the worst of it. If the FDA can't review all the documents in under 75 years, why the fuck are we trusting them to make policy decisions on information they admit they don't have the staff to review?
FDA says the vaccines are safe...but they admit they won't know for sure until 75 years from now due to staffing shortages???
That means nobody in the FDA has read most of the research to date. Only 2 years of a projected 75 years to examine the data.
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it would take 75 years to process that particular FOIA request at present staffing levels and current output rates
So an FDA that is supposedly staffed enough to justify draconian mandates isn't staffed enough to publicly release documents? I call bullshit.
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In a recent protest, only one protester showed up dressed in a rainbow flag.
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@TheUnderdog
That's a much more convoluted defense for squelching vaccine efficacy data for 75 years than I could fabricate alone.
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@Double_R
The thing that really gets me is, what do conservatives believe?
I have no clue. Some days they seem to believe in an all overreaching government and other days they pretend to care about individual liberty. You would have to ask a conservative.
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So the FDA which the government used as a basis to lock people away and deprive of liberty to supposedly save life and to mandate the injection of questionable chemicals and mutilation of human bodies has been actively trying to suppress the truth.
And this is why people don't trust the government.
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@coal
I am a huge fan of Sowell, as he was a true progressive in every sense imaginable, but he was smart enough to question the outcomes.
Much like Moynihan. Most people know next to nothing about these 2 people.
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Everything in that list was implemented with a more expansive government and more central planning.
Especially the things on the list dealing with finances.
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Why do all progressive movements regardless of the nation result in more central planning and more authority?
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@FLRW
To keep killing Black Babies under legal no-fault abortion choices? umm ok I guess?
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Oligarchy is never progressive. Even if it is Communist, it is very conservative/regressive if you analyze what gets done.
if you listened to 2022 leaders, all mandates from the oligarchs are progressive.
Now, get back in your truck and make me a sammich. Or I will declare you an enemy of the state.
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@FLRW
I agree. What a great way to increase the Democratic base. 75% of women requesting abortion in the US are in poverty or in the low income bracket. The poorest 12% of women account for almost 50% of abortions and the poorest 30% for 75% of abortions.
The vast majority of abortions are black babies too.
If Republicans have their way with Roe v Wade, America will be a Black Nation within a few decades.
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Lots of false dichotomies in this thread.
People can be against all 3 sets of oligarchs and be for none of them.
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@thett3
Since Many in my family are doctors and lawyers, I can tell you many services are not money transactions. For instance, one lawyer got a new back deck patio custom built in exchange for legal services. Zero taxes involved.
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@FLRW
I'm pretty sure Jesus himself said give Caesar his due, but God demands something other than money.
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@zedvictor4
So check out the World and show me a Nation that is not ordered by authoritySo we basically have democratic authority and order, or tyrannical authority and order
Anti-authority doesn't mean anarchy either. Do you need help here?
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@zedvictor4
Anti-authoritarian doesn't mean pro democracy. That's why he dismissed your post.
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@FLRW
Putin got Trump elected to bankrupt the USA.
And I suppose Putin got Merkel elected to bankrupt Germany's energy production as well?
Guy is a fucking genius I tell ya.
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@TheUnderdog
Also the 92% Eisenhower tax wasn't really designed to tax the rich. It was designed to force rich people to comply with government regulations in order to take advantage of tax shelters, effectively laundering money into the politicians coffers to create tax loopholes. It was simply a personal money making scheme for politicians that ensured they could maintain a monopoly of political power.
Not one person actually paid that rate. Not even Eisenhower himself.
In 1948, the highest marginal tax rate was 82.13%.
Eisenhower wrote a book that year called "Crusade in Europe." The book was published by Doubleday, and Eisenhower received an advance of $635,000.
The Treasury Department ruled that since Eisenhower was not a professional writer, this book was marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax (25%) on the advance, and not the income tax. This favorable ruling saved Eisenhower about $400,000.
The only real winners of a tax code that is 10.s of thousands of pages long are the politicians. Americans rarely see but crumbs of that after the red tape is done filling the war chests.
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@TheUnderdog
Should I go on about what Hitler did to the Jews for the sake of economic normalization?
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Oh...also Russia tried this too and suffered enormously.
"Now we have the opportunity to carry out a resolute offensive against the kulaks, break their resistance, eliminate them as a class and replace their production with the production of kolkhozes and sovkhozes." A decree by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on 5 January 1930 was titled "On the pace of collectivization and state assistance to collective-farm construction." The official goal of "kulak liquidation" came without precise instructions, and encouraged local leaders to take radical action, which resulted in physical elimination. The campaign to "liquidate the kulaks as a class" constituted the main part of Stalin's social engineering policies in the early 1930s. Andrei Suslov argues that the seizure of peasants' property led directly to the destruction of an entire social group, that of the peasant‐owners.
On 30 January 1930, the Politburo approved the dissolving of the kulaks as a class. Three categories of kulaks were distinguished: kulaks who were supposed to be sent to the Gulags, kulaks who were supposed to be relocated to distant provinces, such as the north Urals and Kazakhstan, kulaks who were was supposed to be sent to other areas within their home provinces. The peasantry were required to relinquish their farm animals to government authorities. Many chose to slaughter their livestock rather than give them up to collective farms. In the first two months of 1930, peasants killed millions of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and goats, with the meat and hides being consumed and bartered. For instance, the Soviet Party Congress reported in 1934 that 26.6 million head of cattle and 63.4 million sheep had been lost. In response to the widespread slaughter, the Sovnarkom issued decrees to prosecute "the malicious slaughtering of livestock" (хищнический убой скота). Stalin ordered severe measures to end kulak resistance. In 1930, he declared: "In order to oust the 'kulaks' as a class, the resistance of this class must be smashed in open battle and it must be deprived of the productive sources of its existence and development. ... That is a turn towards the policy of eliminating the kulaks as a class."
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@TheUnderdog
If you have not read Harrison Bergeron...I fully recommend.
In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.
One April, 14-year-old Harrison Bergeron, an intelligent, athletic, and good-looking teenager, is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel Bergeron, by the government. They are barely aware of the tragedy, as Hazel has "average" intelligence (contextually meaning stupidity), and George has a handicap radio installed by the government to regulate his above-average intelligence.
Hazel and George watch ballet on television. They comment on the dancers, who are weighed down to counteract their gracefulness and masked to hide their attractiveness. George's thoughts are continually interrupted by the different noises emitted by his handicap radio, which piques Hazel's curiosity and imagination regarding handicaps. Noticing his exhaustion, Hazel urges George to lie down and rest his "handicap bag", 47 pounds (21 kg) of weights locked around George's neck. She suggests taking a few of the weights out of the bag, but George resists, aware of the illegality of such an action.
On television, a news reporter struggles to read the bulletin and hands it to the ballerina wearing the most grotesque mask and heaviest weights. She begins reading in her unacceptably natural, beautiful voice, then apologizes before switching to a more unpleasant voice. Harrison's escape from prison is announced, and a full-body photograph of Harrison is shown, indicating that he is seven feet (2.1 m) tall and burdened by three hundred pounds (140 kg) of handicaps.
George recognizes his son for a moment, before having the thought eliminated by his radio. Harrison himself then storms the television studio in an attempt to overthrow the government. He calls himself the Emperor and rips off all of his handicaps, along with the handicaps of a ballerina, whom he proclaims his "Empress". He orders the musicians to play, promising them nobility if they do their best. Unhappy with their initial attempt, Harrison takes control for a short while, and the music improves. After listening and being moved by the music, Harrison and his Empress dance while flying to the ceiling, then pause in mid-air to kiss.
Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, enters the studio with a ten-gauge double-barreled shotgun and kills Harrison and the Empress. She threatens the musicians at gunpoint to put on their handicaps again, but the television goes dark. George, unaware of the televised incident, returns from the kitchen and asks Hazel why she was crying, to which she replies that something sad happened on television that she cannot remember. He comforts her and they return to their average lives.
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@TheUnderdog
Society would actually be better off if we subsidized the most able productive people in the world instead of the opposite.
Imagine a world where the best athletes had to wear weights equal to 93% of his body weight around his neck.
Imagine a world where The smartest writers had to tear out 93% of the pages they wrote.
Imagine a world where Einstein had to take sleeping pills 93% of the time he was awake.
How much worse off would society be for that meaningless action?
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@TheUnderdog
Cambodia tried that. Equalizing the wealth of everyone leads to a Luddite existence. It's inevitable.
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@coal
essentially a power-struggle between neoliberals in Washington and Putin over control of the European natural gas market.
What is so weird is that this isn't being shown on any news network, be it right wing or left wing media. It's like the truth is being censored across the board.
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@ILikePie5
Rm needs to make me a new profile pic now that most of the sane people on this site dropped the flag pic.
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@ILikePie5
RM probably thinks Jordan Peterson is right-wing, LMBO
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one government does not allow for the natural evolution of the human species.
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