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Happy National American Indian Heritage Day. (This year Nov. 23rd)
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@secularmerlin
National Indian surrender day....the meek inherited the Oklahoma earth...
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Why would a good God create natural selection?
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@Mopac
Is natural selection evil?
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Why is it a problem that Trump attacks the press?
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@dylancatlow
"When everything one says is a hyperbole, the truth disappears."

-Greyparrot
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Why would a good God create natural selection?
Why did a benevolent God create the natural laws that ensure the strong inherit the earth?

Does he just hate disabled people?

Are disabled people evil?
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How do the meek inherit the earth?
I totally get the whole carrot-on-the-stick platitude thing. It's what every leader promises....


But if you are going to offer something nice...why offer soil? 

This reminds me of Charlie Brown.


"I got a rock"

Whatever...meek and weak people still end up inheriting mass graves while the strong fertilize their civilizations on their bones. It's a matter of history.
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Why is it a problem that Trump attacks the press?
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@dustryder
You're a racist. Accept it with grace.
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Are you left of center or right of center?
Far liberal..I really could care less about left and right.
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Why is it a problem that Trump attacks the press?
It's scary because he says fake news is the enemy of the people.

Who gets to decide what is fake news?
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How do the meek inherit the earth?
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@Castin
Yes, the platitudes are very lovely.
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How do the meek inherit the earth?
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@Castin
I'll enjoy my cryotube tyvm.

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How do the meek inherit the earth?
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@EtrnlVw
The earth is a pretty hostile place for most life.

I'd rather inherit a hot tub and a house.
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How do the meek inherit the earth?
In mass graves.
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All Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter.
There are no pure races anywhere on the planet. Everyone is a mutt.
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Nationalism is racist
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@mustardness
Also, why do you have to be racist against Cesar Chavez for wanting to be an American?
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@KingLaddy01
Socialism nukes countries over time like Venezuela. No outside force is necessary.

It just needs to be eradicated from the schools so that people stop destroying their countries with archaic philosophies that don't work.

Wealth is created through investments and profits, and not manual labor as Marx stupidly stated.

I can punch a brick 24 hours a day for the rest of my life, and not generate a penny of wealth for anyone.

But it's LABOR DOH...LAAAYYBOOOOORRR...
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Nationalism is racist
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@mustardness
Tijuana Mexico is full of racist nationalists as well apparently.
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@Tejretics
nationalism then was a strategic calculation to unify people. 
Should people be unified and be required to assimilate into a national culture?

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@Tejretics
It's used to divide people and causes oppression on ethnic/religious lines. 
Should evil cultures be oppressed?
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@Tejretics
Nationalism divides cultures, not people.

Not all cultures are created equal.
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@ethang5
Gandhi was assassinated by someone just like him. An Indian equivalent of antifa.
I suppose some Indians would prefer remaining a British colony than to admit Nationalism was a good thing.

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Abortion Has Now Been Eradicated
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@Alec
Do you support Child Protective Services?

It's not an extreme measure to take custody of a child from an unfit mother, whether it's from her home or her womb, both of which are hers alone, especially if the child's life is in danger.
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@Tejretics
Interesting. I thought Gandhi was up there with Abraham Lincoln as national heroes.


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AMA: Virtuoso
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@David
I have mixed feelings on the embassy move.
Talk oh virtumensch of music.

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AMA: Virtuoso
are you upset with the Jerusalem embassy move?

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---Star Trek DS9 Mafia: DP3---
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@Buddamoose
There should be a rule that no dayphase can ever end unless everyone makes at least 1 post.


3 people didn't even bother to post this phase.
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---Star Trek DS9 Mafia: DP3---
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@Buddamoose
I feel ya.
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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
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@Plisken
This is a turing test question designed to have you think outside of the box rather than answer the scripted dogma answers.

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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
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@FaustianJustice
This is the correct answer.
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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
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@Plisken
Answer the OP question please.
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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
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@ResurgetExFavilla
Don't be silly. Haiti won its independence in 1804... only 30 years after the USA. Since then it has been very isolated.


You're pulling this geocrap isolation out of thin air, because America was never considered purely an isolationist nation from 1776 to the present. American policies historically shifted from one to the other while wealth steadily increased. Isolationism therefore is clearly not a correlating variable to the generation of national wealth.

Most importantly, there exists zero evidence, (even if America was supposedly an isolationist nation) that it was the MAIN cause for America's dominating wealth status, especially when compared to other indigent nations that emerged in the Americas around the same time that were actually historically considered to be isolationists.

Points for attempting to appear clever though.

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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
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@ResurgetExFavilla
So why isn't Haiti an economic powerhouse then? It's pretty isolated geopolitically....
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Turing test. Slavery or Capitalism?
America developed from a struggling collection of colonies to the wealthiest nation in the world mainly due to....

1) Capitalism...or...

2) 100 years of Slavery.


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@Tejretics
I'm Indian and I think nationalism is generally bad, in the US and in India. However, I didn't say that either, so not sure where you're getting that from.
Did you think Gandhi was wrong for being a nationalist?

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The eradication of socialism from the universe.
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Abortion Has Now Been Eradicated
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@3RU7AL
It's ok. I heard Afghanistan is asking Bolsonaro to come add some barbed wire after his presidency is up.
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@3RU7AL

Dump their unwanted babies on the temple steps.
Guess it's time for the aliens to come in and eradicate us with a superflu. The universe doesn't need parasites like humans.
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trump's immigration rhetoric is overblown
What so you expect from a media that describes enforcing laws as fascist and racist..
and ignoring the laws as being historically presidential?
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@3RU7AL
It would be pretty funny if we had to ask permission to invade someone else's country.
It's called immigration processing...it's a new trend.

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I would like to publicly apologize to Eternal
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@EtrnlVw
yay
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trump's immigration rhetoric is overblown
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@linate

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trump's immigration rhetoric is overblown
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@ethang5
Apparently Mexico has had enough of the "caravans"



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Abortion Has Now Been Eradicated
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@3RU7AL
I wonder what the Aztecs would have done?
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@Plisken
Well, the Aztecs died before they could advance beyond human sacrifice, so it's quite possible America will die too if it cannot advance as well.
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@3RU7AL
And probably at little risk to unfit mothers seeking obsolete abortions.


It's like science has moved on from 1200's medicine bloodletting with leeches somehow...
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@3RU7AL
You're so behind the times. Scientists have already developed artificial wombs that can grow a person from conception. Testing went to 2 weeks before ethics cut the experiment short of developing a full "human"....


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What is a Utopian state?
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@keithprosser
People are not naturally productive when needs are met. Starvation or the threat of starvation, or the threat of the loss of liberty and conveniences is what motivates the vast majority of people to be productive. Only a rare few are genetically predisposed to work and add productivity to society after all needs are met (the super wealthy)...People will literally drop their pitchforks in the fields if they believe they can get all their needs from an endless breadline.
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Can the expression of controversial political ideas threaten another's safety?
It's sad that people today equate different thought perspectives as actual violence.

People and societies can not grow in an environment of groupthink.

George Orwell predicted this future.
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Can the expression of controversial political ideas threaten another's safety?
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@Maher
What is your idea of safety? Safety from cognitive dissonance?
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What is a Utopian state?
I'd be willing to compromise on the voting requirement which would permit voting if you currently serve in the military, or were discharged after at least 4 years without a dishonorable discharge, or pay at least a 5% income tax in any year before an election cycle. A constitutional amendment where a government can only spend so much GDP on welfare in any given year would be added. The current system that allows people with absolutely nothing invested in the country to vote has directly led to the situation we have now where we have trillions of dollars of national debt; and a huge, bloated, wasteful government in charge of charity. America's democracy needs to work like a stockholders meeting. Only people who have something invested should be allowed to vote. Taxation with proper representation for a change.
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What is a Utopian state?
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@triangle.128k
A state with a system where only home owners and their spouses are allowed to vote. A state where you are penalized for forcing a child to grow up in a single parent family. A state that erases the commerce clause in the constitution and replaces it with a hands off clause to eliminate crony capitalism. 

Just these 3 things would eliminate 90% of the current problems America has.
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