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So I'll debate flat earthers, big foot people, holocaust deniers, etc... etc... on principle
Will you debate against an advocate of pedophilia. Is there any place where you would disagree with them and be able to debate them
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@zedvictor4
No, he actually advocated for increasing legal immigrants. He thought it was too tough to immigrate to the United States legally. He looked to reduce illegal immigration not reduce total or legal immigration.
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@zedvictor4
That doesn't make sense. We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Jesus saved an adulterer from people who wanted to judge her for her son, he drank wine with tax collector's and whores.
It's just not what the Bible teaches nor is it what your average practicing Christian does
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@badger
American football sucks btw. What a dumb sport.
Reported for homophobia
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@n8nrgim
it's consensus science that where there's more guns, or more people have them, that there's more murders than places that dont have guns.
Less rapes break ins and strong armed robbery though when victims remove the only equalizer particularly feeble old people and women
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All these bans miss the points. Banning free speech because it can lead to radicalization, banning guns because they can kill. I am honestly not sure how the conservatives went from being reactionaries in the 80s to liberals being the antifreedom reactionaries now
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@Greyparrot
At least in Australia the stuff is from a lot of Chinese people buying them in person to sell to people in China at a significant mark up.
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@zedvictor4
And try not to cough when the Vicar/Priest/Pastor or whatever is telling you that you have all been naughty boys and girls.
They actually tell you that you were created in God's image. The closest it gets to calling anyone bad is saying that we are imperfect, but only a narcissist would be offended by that
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@Stephen
These 7 reasons do not stop the pastors and priests from putting worshipers on a giant guilt trip with a tinge of fear thrown in and a promise of a ticket to heaven and everlasting life.
It's debatable as to whether tithing is biblical or not. I believe it's a nonsense interpretation of the bible. However I have never heard of a church claiming tithes give you eternal life or a ticket to heaven. The closest you get is the claim if you are saved, you want to give with joy in your heart
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@Polytheist-Witch
Yeap I didn't know of any church you have to pay to go in and sit down for service. Jewish Temple didn't either.
I know. I was referring to how a lot of them make money for operations as opposed to tithes.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
$300 bucks im up on jesus
I guess you owe him than.
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As far as weightlifting, I would say ideally if your interest is in increased longevity than keep it to 2 days a week. More muscle mass is hard on the heart. The heart doesn't know the difference between muscle and fat. 20 lbs of muscle is the same as 20 lbs of fat to the heart.
Running has been proven to extend human longevity, but to reduce the likelihood of dying running which happens to a lot of runners, I would keep it to 45 minutes a day. It might be a good ideal to keep that at 3 days a week just to be safe. That is just guidelines for people who care more about life expectancy than physical fitness though.
So the purpose of weightlifting in the above example would be to prevent muscle and bone loss as you age, not build muscle. Technically you would still build muscle lifting 2 days a week, but once you go to 1 day a week, you might as well not even lift.
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@RationalMadman
I think it is just a rare genetic heart defect found in a lot of Indian men. It usually occurs when they are young and have sex for the first time and it happens a handful of times each year. It's been studied a lot, but I have just barely dug into it and only out of morbid curiosity
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I have never been to a church that expects cash. Though, They teach tithing a lot. I think the ideal of a membership like a lot of Jewish Temples have is better, but it would never take off in Christianity.
I remember when I was in foster care, I was taken to a Catholic church and they were annoying with tithing. They passed the collection plate around like 7 times in one service. One time for the tithe, maybe another time to have something fixed maybe a 3rd time for some other random things.
Even catholic churches are likely to be less annoying now. A lot are taking money from text or online so most churches have an envelope in the back of the seat in front of you and a box somewhere to slide it into.
Usually any sort of little speech about tithes is preceded by stating if you are new to please not give or that if you are not a Christian yet to please not give.
You can also go for years and never give a dime. Nobody will even know or judge you. I am only speaking of Christian churches I have never been to one of a different religion, though I really want to.
I urge you to go to some services for various Christian churches. You won't feel pressured to join. I'd use Google reviews to avoid accidentally going to a weird church that might love bomb you when you walk through the door for example. You'll walk in and out safely even than but who wants to be that uncomfortable for the 60-90 minutes you'll be there.
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@RationalMadman
It's a serious problem in India actually and probably why ilikepie is a virgin. He is playing it safe
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At least double R put more effort into strawmanning conservatives.
I would say ideologies he doesn't agree with, but honestly just whatever the party tells him to believe he does. He would probably have a stroke trying to figure out his ideology if Democrats were divided on an issue 50\50.
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Gnosticism is clearly correct about the God of this Earth being imperfect.
Why did this non Spiritual Christianity win out over gnosticism?
Why did this non Spiritual Christianity win out over gnosticism?
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You can literally die from ejaculating. It is very irresponsible to suggest no fap is a bad ideal. It wasn't a bad ideal for the people who would have ejaculated and died. https://scroll.in/article/1015880/even-the-young-can-die-during-sex-finds-a-new-study
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@Double_R
. Did you not say what I quoted from post 36? Is there no difference between declaring that the US will stand by it's commitments vs "threatening China"? In English, does the explanation following an answer not tell you what the answer means?
Semantics. Both mean the exact same thing.
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@Double_R
Reacting to a tragedy by talking about what we can do to prevent such instances in the future isn't just common sense, it's what politicians get paid to do.
It's really not. Policy making with emotion instead of letting emotions settle makes for bad policy. You're actually conflating looking for and solving problems with responding emotionally immediately following a tragedy.
The only way they come to the table is when the democrats and the public drag them to the table kicking and screaming. They don't want to talk about this, so "now is not the time" is as clearly BS as it gets
Part of the problem is that a lot of these liberal politicians literally want more kids to die so they can continue to pass guns laws. It's actually really sick. We know that the laws they propose won't reduce instances of death in mass casualty events at all. Statistics prove this.
Please explain your logic here. I would love to understand how passing laws that make guns harder to get is a bullshit defense against the phenomenon of deranged individuals getting their hands on guns.
Honestly it's not effective at preventing mass casualty events. It may reduce mass casualty events by gun. There are still ways to commit mass casualty events and if people don't use a gun it can be even more effective.
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1. You could poison a bunch of food in places like 7-11s they put hotdogs on a roller easy to access, and you can likely hit up 200 gas stations and kill up. To 100 people before anyone realized what was happening in time to prevent further damage.
2. You could set off a fire alarm in a convention center where 1000 kids are there for a national cheerleading competition and then mow them down outside with a car. Perhaps more effective than a gun and you are already in a getaway vehicle so you may be able to do it multiple times.
3. You could lock the doors at a retirement home and burn it down.
These are all things people would do with a gun ban, so mass murders would likely get worse.
Those were off the top of my head, if I really planned out a mass casualty events I could likely have a higher death count than the scenarios above.
Without a gun they would resort to the above. Let's be honest though, a gun ban wouldn't work at even keeping guns out of People's hands. A lot of guns in California were shipped from South America and are bootleg guns. They work. You also have zip guns which you just need a few basic household items to create. We also have 3D printers that can make automatic weapons I can give links to how to create one with a 3 d printer if you want.
I get a feeling you already know this though and are a piece of shit who loves seeing kids die in mass shootings so you can push gun laws that you know for a fact will not reduce mass casualty events even a tiny bit. In fact given what the alternative methods I mentioned above are, they could actually make mass casualty events more deadly as option 1 and 3 can take out 100 people at a time and can be repeated a lot before a person is caught and stopped.
Instead of focusing on ineffective policies to lower mass casualty events we should actually focus on effective policies
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@oromagi
As a rapidly shrinking minority party, the GOP is objectively the more divisive. Strategically, their only hope for continued relevance is to split the Democratic party into 2 factions.
That would never happen. Democrats are basically a hive mind while the Republican party is a big tent of ideals.
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Let me hydra with speedrace, everyone is going to think he is guilty unless I defend him.
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@n8nrgim
your own article says your data is skewed.
It critiques the presentation of the data not the raw numbers themselves.
Their critique has me reconsidering my premises though.
I wonder if we can look at the demographics of people who commit gun violence to see if we do have a gun problem here or is something else a better predictor of the types of people to commit gun violence.
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@3RU7AL
America has highest guns per Capita which everyone knows so here is the mass shooting list
Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway — 1.888
Serbia — 0.381
France — 0.347
Macedonia — 0.337
Albania — 0.206
Slovakia — 0.185
Switzerland — 0.142
Finland — 0.132
Belgium — 0.128
Czech Republic — 0.123
United States — 0.089
Austria — 0.068
Netherlands — 0.051
Canada — 0.032
England — 0.027
Germany — 0.023
Russia — 0.012
Italy — 0.009
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@Double_R
The entire point of government is to be the means by which society solves its problems. Mass shootings in America is a problem. Democrats are not politicizing this, this is a political issue.
There are countries with less guns per Capita than the United States and a higher per Capita rate of death to mass shootings. The problem is not a single fun law would reduce death by mass murder even an iota.
Easily the most disingenuous of them all. If not in the aftermath of a mass shooting, the very thing gun control laws are mostly aimed at deterring, then when the hell is the right time to talk about this? When have republicans ever came out and said “ok, let’s talk about this issue now”. Never happened.
I actually was a democrat while you have never been a republican. This is why I know you are being disingenuous here. Everyone knows we can make more rational policy decisions when they are not emotional reactions. I was a democrat during the Bush Whitehouse years and all of us were warning that letting the heat of the moment decide policy decisions was not as good as just waiting until we could think calmly about what needs to be done.
Bush was being an opportunist when it came to creating the surveillance state and it was sick. Just like politicians currently using the most recent mass shooting to get bills passed that won't actually reduce mass shootings in the future.
The problem is mental health
Correct that is a stupid thing it's them knowing it's a bullshit argument like democrats knows gun grabbing is bullshit as a defense against another mass shooting.
Arming teachers really would have prevented a lot of deaths, but you know it is a stupid talking point. Most aren't going to want to teach with a gun on their hip. No policy maker actually suggests this though. It's pretty much a strawman because people heard a distant relative mention the ideal offhand one time and we're offended
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@Mharman
Put me in the place of the last person to confirm their role PM
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I already did a thread a while back, showing why corporations promote gay culture, because gays are historically more likely to spend a lot of money. Here is some other evil shit corporations do and you guys let them get away with.
1. Pretend there is a worker shortage, so they can depress wages, and have the training of their workforce subsidized by the government. You'll especially see this in industries where employers are pissed that they have to pay coders 180k or truck drivers and nurses 80k.
2. Promote massive immigration, so that way they can depress wages.
3. Promote women in stem, something most women don't give a shit about, so they can increase the worker pool and depress wages.
4. Go on capital strikes and pretend they have to shut down because they are paying employees too much as a long term strategy to fuck over workers.
5. Prop up mom and pop businesses in public when regulations are targeted only to big business as proof a law is meant to harm the little guy. Like laws that gave an eviction moratorium to help people when government shut down businesses in the pandemic, was painted as beating up on the mom and pop landlord.
6. You'll also see corporations spend massive amounts of money to plant news stories to brain wash the public into thinking things like "maternity leave will make it a liability to hire women"
These corporations are always making soft threats like that or automation. These threats have little impact on thinking people who realize the simultaneous lies of "we have a worker shortage that will fuck us over in 5 years" and "everything will be automated in 5 years" is self contradictory.
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It's because the left needs a victim class to pander to and because the right is reactionary.
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I like how everyone ignored my reads on Mharman dp1, the only person I had a strong scum read on, and within 5 posts of dp2 I had white flame figured out. I would bitch about being vigged, but my presence wouldn't have secured those lunches anyway because you guys will talk yourselves out of obvious lynches
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How did you guys fuck this up. This was very obvious. I will have to read through and see what happened.
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@RationalMadman
Nope, you asked to have people PM you and assist you with doxxing him based on a notion that he is a closet pedo.
He pretty openly admits he is, but avoids saying the actual words. You might point to people like athias who are just dumb teenagers that don't know better and fantasize about fucking older women say the their should be no age of consent, but when there is an actual pedo on the site promoting the harm of children under the guise of wanting to fuck dogs, it doesn't bother you.
Even people that are sick enough to fuck animals, don't obsess over it like this. They don't obsess and spend every waking moment thinking of it, like pedos think of children
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This is some serious trump derangement syndrome. This guy can't even not think about Trum in an incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock
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@FLRW
Saying you have the urge to hit somebody, is not as bad as actually hitting somebody.
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@Dr.Franklin
The winner was determined before the show started, but yes he should have been escorted out of the building in handcuffs
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@RationalMadman
That's a hilarious stance from you, given what you did to two people recently
The only thing I can think of is calling ADOL a pedophile. I defended his right to promote pedophilia here, something that 90% of people would want him banned for, if he was more open about his views. I merely requested that we shed the veil of pretending he is talking about fucking dogs, when it is clear he means children
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@Vader
Fr tho...there's accounts of him being a PoS in Fresh Prince to the old Aunt Viv
I kinda dismissed that until recently. He also had an incident where a comedian at the red carpet touched his leg and he came close to attacking him.
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@RationalMadman
I have heard people point out that he was laughing until Jada told him it wasn't funny, and she has him on a leash. Women tend to get men in trouble this way, but he is ultimately in control of physically attacking someone
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@oromagi
To be fair I think Chris rock did not want to press charges, but it probably shouldn't have been his call
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@RationalMadman
I do not understand why WION even got banned they probably said something negative about an Islamic regime if I could guess.
You'll continue to be pro establishment and parrot their bullshit until you wake up.
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Surprised nobody has posted about this yet, but will Smith is a bitch. I have been to a comedy show where an attendee has 3rd degree burns on their face and the comedian was giving him shit for it, and he laughed hysterically.
Chris rock makes a hair joke, and tries to trink Jada like a normal human. What we all want when we are sick by the way, and will acts like a sissy and smacks Chris Rock.
Chris Rock handled it better than I would have, and I am surprised at how much of an alpha he looked like in front of a tearful Will Smith.
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@Nyxified
Be careful replying to adreamifliberty. He is a pedophile who is trying to attach himself with the LGBT movement
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YouTube only caved because there was a fuss. If they would have quietly been deplatformed, they would still be gone. Google is still evil. You should see the channels taken down because of fake copyright strikes or other nonsense who challenge the judgements and always recurve a copy and pasted reply with the TOS in it, that they never violated
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@RationalMadman
This is why I warn leftists about promoting censorship like they do. It's used to censor conservatives and then when the spotlight is gone they start going after anti establishment leftists.
You've made this mistake yourself, but yes it was applauded when they targeted anti establishment right wingers, but now they are quietly going after left leaning people and it is not even known.
This is exactly why you should defend the censorship of others, because it will lead to your own censorship. I feel like you won't learn the lesson here though, because you will still cheer for the deplatforming of views you don't like.
You are so close to waking up, but something is holding you back, maybe it is because you bought the brain washing of this left vs right programming, not realizing that both sides are being played against the middle
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@FLRW
Raised more people out of poverty was my claim. Thanks for providing context though
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Here is a portion of the article that shows the liberal hatred of the wealthy is an emotional response. A comment that admits Reagan helped poor people, but spins it as bad because rich people had better lives as well.
. When John F. Kennedy was President, he had supported tax cuts on the theory that "a rising tide lifts all boats." The validity—and limitation—of this belief was demonstrated in Reagan's second term, when millions of poor people, many of them Latino or African American, saw their incomes rise above the poverty line. At the same time, however, wealthiest Americans and corporations benefited most from the economic expansion,
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Relevant quote
The Reagan boom raised more people out of poverty than any similar boom since World War II,
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@RationalMadman
@FLRW
He lifted more out of poverty than any prior president and it wasn't with this low IQ approach of
"Derp let's just give poor people free money to fix economy"
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