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@RationalMadman
Reluctantly so. I was really hoping you were ready. You'll most likely win this so I am hoping maybe being challenged will get you to do some introspection so you are ready when you most likely win
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@badger
Merry Christmas bro
I mean, I don't see anything like that on the left.
It's more funny from the left, you really should look for it. Like I try to keep tabs on the fat positivity movement. I guess you could argue it's apolitical, but it's hilarious none the less and worth keeping tabs on that sort of left wing antagonism.
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@RationalMadman
If you suspect someone of malicious intent you should think about the reasons why. You shouldn't call them out.
In fact you should generally assume your suspicions are wrong and treat them under the assumption they are working with good intentions.
This is diplomacy. You aren't God, you don't know what is in the heart of another person. You assume they have good intent until absolutely proven wrong beyond any reasonable doubt.
This doesn't involve being fake nice in any way. It is merely behaving as you want to be treated. You don't want somebody to assume malevolent intent with you, don't assume it with them.
I want you to surround yourself with a good team and promise to work on being a better person so I can drop out of the race. This is very inconvenient for me.
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@Greyparrot
We like apple pie also
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@Greyparrot
They voted 80% to join Russia so they should be allowed political autonomy
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@IwantRooseveltagain
They don't have a veto proof majority in the house and Senate, so their only job is to slow down the destruction of the country.
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@SkepticalOne
That's basically a cope. In verses near by I believe it mentions incest and men in drag. I think if it merely meant abuse it would have likely also mentioned heterosexual couples and probably not made the differentiation. This is if memory serves correct
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@Athias
What makes you think that these are the ingredients to Socialism/Communism?
His view is what he personally has seen with the CPP and his interpretation of that
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@BrotherD.Thomas
He was most likely groomed so thank you for helping him. Something like 70% of homosexuals were sexually abused as children. (It's how they reproduce), so in all likelihood his catholic up bringing is why he is in his current predicament.
I am praying for him.
#prayerwarrrior
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@ILikePie5
The fact he has all this against him and he was still a better option than the democratic candidate isn't flattering to them
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White people should not buy melatonin from the vitamin section anymore because it is cultural appropriation
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A lot of studies seem to show about 4 actual American ideologies that compete for 2 parties
1. Moderates such as Bush or Clinton would be in this party
2. Evangelicals people like pat Buchanan would be in this one
3. Socialists like Bernie Sanders
4. Libertarians like the Pauls
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Heaven isn't really talked about much if any in the bible. It looks like the laws he gives to the Jews are consistent with capitalism more than communism.
Your claims seem to be self refuting. You acknowledge that socialism needs perfect incorruptible humans to work and then seem to insinuate Christians should want a socialist society.
Why should Christians want a socialist society which according to your claim requires good humans when the current society has good people (according to God's standards" few and far between?
Your claims seem to be self refuting. You acknowledge that socialism needs perfect incorruptible humans to work and then seem to insinuate Christians should want a socialist society.
Why should Christians want a socialist society which according to your claim requires good humans when the current society has good people (according to God's standards" few and far between?
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@YouFound_Lxam
A lot of people also forget that heterosexual men are also forbidden to fuck men
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@Stephen
All history documents need a healthy dose of skepticism.
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@Sidewalker
Why don't you like your sister?
Why do you call her twisted?
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@Stephen
Isn't it more suspicious that the other gospels match so well than it is mark is different in many ways.
If you have 5 different people writing a witness report to an event, they shouldn't match let alone people witnessing 30 years of events.
I would think if anything this gives mark more credibility than the rest, particularly since his account mentions less miraculous events.
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@SkepticalOne
In fairness, the Bible didn't prohibit homosexuality until 1946 with the RSV translation. "Biblical" condemnation of LGBTQ is a modern invention.
I think in several places it condemns men from laying with men. It's not a condemnation of homosexuality to say it, it's more a condemnation of homosexuals caving to their urges, but I don't think it started in 1946.
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@Greyparrot
We don't have accurate data now. They are starting to conflate whites with Hispanics as some sort of woke attempt to obscure crime statistics.
Remember how they said George Zimmerman was a white supremacist?
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@thett3
it’s almost always done by people with mile long rap sheets who are just released again and again and again until they finally kill.
The problem is mostly isolated to young black males so really we could say around 6% do 60% .
Part of the problem is judges and prosecutors who feel like they need to make up for demographic differences by lightening the sentences of minorities. They never seem to think they can make up for the difference by being harsher towards whites who commit these crimes, which though a bad response to those disparities l, is certainly better than letting dangerous people reofdend before they get a chance to reflect on why they got in trouble
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@Greyparrot
Atthe height of the gangland prohibition wars, white and black people learned to be careful around Italians. Is that racist?
I don't think so, even if you shuffled the races around. I think liberals would generally disagree though
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@thett3
The media sure as hell doesn’t report on it and I’ve seen people banned from social media for staging factual information
That doesn't help the situation and ai assume it is due to hidden liberal racism. They are usually racist in ways that coddle black people and treat them like babies and the problem is almost exclusive to limousine liberals.
I don’t think it’s fair to call conservatives racist for “ignoring” a problem that they aren’t really told about in detail and don’t see at all in their personal lives.
That's fair. I believe that limousine liberals prefer to work on these problems behind the scenes because their bigoted assumptions about rural whites is they will get a racist interpretation from the facts. (A projection)
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@Double_R
In other words, if you accept that gun violence is mostly committed by black people and you accept that gun violence is the result of "bad guys with guns", then by extension, you must accept that black people are just far more likely to be bad.That belief is by definition, racist.
I don't think so.
I think you can say something like 1% of white people are bad and 5% of black people are bad, without being racist.
I mean it isn't sexist to say that 75% of pedophiles are male.
What's more useful to ask is how can we help the black community so they aren't so affected by gun violence.
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@Double_R
Imagine thinking that the guy who rose to political prominence by calling Mexicans rapists and calling for the banning of all Muslims is not a racist.
That isn't a very generous interpretation of what he said. I urge you to actually listen. A generous interpretation would be that he was saying that many criminals take advantage of immigration policies or areas where border security is failing.
As far as the Muslim ban, it never happened. He looked at I think about 7 countries where terrorists were. More likely to come from and implemented additional screening before allowing them into the country.
These are basically 2 things that Democrats would generally agree with but they are overfocused on their interpretation of his words.
You are being manipulated by bullshit hyperbole.
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@YouFound_Lxam
We need to focus on the planet more than our economy
What happens to the economy if the planet is destroyed?
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@Greyparrot
Going to go out on a limb and say the words "many" and "Predominantly" are not in your vocabulary.
Not only that, but those are not neat little boxes, but broad often overlapping boxes with such a wide meaning that millions of different personality types can exist within them.
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@zedvictor4
So do you think that you are an unethical product?
Correct
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@oromagi
Further, the GOP has far less tolerance for independent thought or action.
That can't be true. Liberals are even cancelling Bill Maher now for taking the sensible position that maybe 7 year olds with manchausen mothers shouldn't have their penises cut off.
Nobody is allowed to question anything outside of the official ideology in that regards with liberals. You see the same thing with the attacks on Jordan Peterson who is quite obviously a liberal.
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@Sidewalker
Oh, what a big surprise, it's the Democrats fault
I am suggesting there is plenty of blame to spread, as there usually is.
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@thett3
None of that changes what the op is saying, which is essentially that gun violence disproportionately affects African Americans and that is why a lot of people find it easy to ignore the problem when discussing the 2nd amendment.
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Dear Americans, in all states, cities and communities, all those who value freedom
This is rich coming from a guy who shut down media companies for being critical of him, tried to have a political opponent arrested and most recently banned christian churches for apparently having political opinions that differ from his.
Look, I don't know if that war is just or if it's in America's best interest to help the Ukraine or not,. But what I do know is that guy could give a shit less about freedom.
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@oromagi
I blame Republican tolerance for, even celebration of Trump's outrageous, blatant corruption of Americans values.
George Santos is also to blame right, LOL?
If you were running against this guy in an election, wouldn't you have had someone dig up this dirt on him?
Not saying it would have made a difference. I did see that one candidate literally had a stroke which impaired his ability to cognitively function at even a middle school level get elected, his opponent was a known con artist though.
Would you as a Democrat running against that guy, do at least one attack and attacking his heterosexuality or any of that other stuff you brought up?
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@Greyparrot
I know you are talking in jest here, but honestly it is a bad thing that there are people in black neighborhoods trapped in their houses because of the violent conditions. Particularly vulnerable to communities like the elderly.
I do think a strong police presence could help in a lot of situations, so you aren't completely wrong, but it isn't enough.
It isn't fair that a child has to worry about being accosted catching the school bus in the morning. Just like it isn't fair that the elderly in these communities are often prisoners in their own homes.
A strong police presence will help in one regard, but there is a very difficult cycle to escape from at play here that will just keep drawing more and more people into a culture of violence.
Let's just look at one reason someone in that type of area would have a gun they shouldn't.
Anyone who has lived in the ghetto, knows that often pitbulls not used in dog fighting are abandoned. These are very dangerous dogs and a kids only defense may be sneaking his uncle's gun into his backpack everyday for the walk to the bus stop. Now you have a ton of emotional teenagers with guns. This scenario is just one of many.
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If anyone cares here is my breakdown of the positives and negatives of this candidate
Positives
- Lots of energy will be a very active president
- Campaigned early and displayed. Character for doing so
- Fights for the little guy. You can depend on him to have his heart in the right place
- Has a pre established budding relationship with the mod team and could be a good advocate based on that
Negatives
- Doesn't play well with others in a position that requires a lot of diplomacy and team building.
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@RationalMadman
You never ever asked airmax these types of questions
I asked him for a lot of assurances before I dropped out in PM.
I know how to spot a real friend or not, on here I have none for now
That's good. You can't really know how many of us are well enough to know if we would make good friends in real life
The role is solo, no team is happening. If you want to work with me, you're welcome to, after I win but you get no official anything.
I just would like to see a team because I think it would demonstrate your ability to be diplomatic. Some other people have shown concerns about your diplomacy skills and it would put them at ease as well, I assume.
I honestly don't know what I could help you with, other than what I am trying to help you with now as we talk.
I know you alluded to me trying to vy for a title or something, but honestly I just want to see you build your own team with the people you want on it. Hopefully people that balance you out. It doesn't look like you have an interest in doing so. I hope you change your mind.
You can keep pretending I'm being defensive and paranoid,
Just defensive. Drop the ego.
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@Best.Korea
For the past 2000 years, they have constantly preached that the end is near. They still preach it today.
Near is a relative term.
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@oromagi
- It is not known how many other Republican candidates won seats without any apparent vetting or background check.
You can blame the voters or the party,, but how was this not brought up by other people trying to win that seat?
Did they just not want to win bad enough or did he run uncontested or something.
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@Greyparrot
I have mixed feelings about that. Like Elliot ness was an alcoholic. What was he thinking going after alcohol distribution and manufacturing? Seems like a hypocrite
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David and Barney who had completely fucked me over personally and who I came to realise had no idea what they were doing and strongly needed guiding a lot.
I don't agree with the modding philosophy of Barney or David, and I think you know how David's actions affected me.
I hope you work on your diplomacy though. You truly have a lot to offer but if you can't be more diplomatic, it's going to mean you accomplish less of your agenda as president than you could otherwise.
Even whiteflame who you are complimenting it almost seems like the compliments are back handed, though I am sure you don't intend them to be.
You say he isn't a natural born leader. Personally I can't tell you if he is or isn't. I know I am a natural leader. He seems to take perhaps a more collaborative approach to leadership, which is probably good here, but ultimately I hope you really start thinking through what you type, even if that means you have to type less often.
You can be a great asset to the community as president, but only if you can really lead this community. It involves more diplomacy and a better ability to pull people together instead of using divisive language.
I know you have a great heart, which is what we need in a leader. I know you have a ton of great ideals which I would like the mods and the community to give the time of day. I just hope you can also work on diplomacy.
I can tell you one thing that will prove your diplomacy skills and ease the minds of voters. If you can start building a team around you that can help you once you win and perhaps even before you win.
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@Castin
You do know his child was attacked in part to people stalking his plane?
The man I think is pretty apolitical, but I can see him changing his opinion on doxxing after it puts his family in danger, and just for reference, he has always banned people for doxxing, but just took his own personal security less serious than he should have
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@Double_R
Any suggestions of how we can reduce gun violence in black neighborhoods, without harming people's general right to possess fire arms?
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@RationalMadman
I am the only one who since the start of the 18th EST (I assume it was from EST time) to now, has run clearly, open to feedback, criticism and all sorts.
That goes a long way to show you are open to criticisms and want to be honest with people.
I am also familiar with your carpet-pulling tactics, you can keep asking your question intended to screw me over with what I answer, this time it will absolutely not work.
I don't think you know my intent. I really want to support you.
Believe it or not, last time I didn't want to run. I was looking for a way to support you, but you kept attacking me and being on the defensive. I felt compelled to run and perhaps it was wrong to do so.
I am asking you questions here because I want to support you. I am also asking them publicly because I am sure there. Are people who have the same questions as me.
I want you to stop being defensive. You seem to be unaware of people's motives and assume things. I am not trying to trap you. I am trying to gauge whether I should help you or not.
I can tell you I won't run this time at all. I hope nobody runs against you either.
I liked your first response to me. You seemed to soften some of those sharp criticisms of people you may need to work with, and hopefully you continue to work on how you view and talk about other people.
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@RationalMadman
People are. Generally selfish. I think you made a good case for yourself, but why should people vote for you? How will you benefit them?
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Hold on. Why am I tagged?
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@RationalMadman
I am so sorry for the dull travesty that was Airmax.
I don't think Supadudz is that wise or fit to lead the website in the position he is in.
Mike the guy barely interested to be loyal to his promises to revamp and update the site
These are all of your quotes just in the opening post.
Your role as president may require you to work with all of these people. You mentioned more people in other posts in this thread.
I can accept that you are human and imperfect, but these types of insults are very clear character flaws. It's a shame also, because it somewhat obscures the fact that you are a very empathetic guy and you also have a great history of fighting for the little guy.
Do you plan on doing anything to work on that character flaws, so I can feel good voting for you?
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@ILikePie5
Literally anyone would be a better President than RM. His “realization” of free speech is a scam and a lie.
RM isn't running to be a mod, and I don't think he can persuade any of the mods to change their modding philosophy.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Let's focus on the following part of Trump's statement
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work,
What do you think the above sentence means in relation to the experimental stuff that he was talking about?
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@Lemming
I'm not brave enough to risk jail,
The principle is what's important, besides that you risk jail everytime you leave the house. It is doubtful you memorized millions of pages of law books and it's also doubtful you can reasonably do anything to prevent being falsely accused of a crime.
Also wouldn't feel good conning people, probably.
Get over it.
Hm, I'm also a bit lazy, perhaps,
Correct. Just get better at fighting it. If you aren't working from the moment you wake up until you are asleep, you are lazy.
Also can't think of any ideas, paths, that I think are winners
Read my response to RM. Go into sales, if you are a pussy who can't conquer social anxiety, take an IQ test. A legitimate one. If it is 130 or above go ahead into tech. You might be able to get away with doing it with an IQ of 120. If you have an IQ below that and can't conquer social anxiety go into the trades. Learn a trade and then try to turn your trade into a business and steal your bosses clients.
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It doesn't look like he said ivermectin cures COVID either. I just read that article. In fact that is generally just a straw man of people who decided to take very mild doses of ivermectin in general as a preventative measure, not even to stop COVID but as a way that they thought may help give them lesser symptoms if they did catch it.
Everybody who supported ivermectin was basically saying. Take it in a responsible manner and maybe it will reduce your symptoms if you catch the disease as some studies seem to indicate. Nobody at all said it was a cure for Covid or a replacement for vaccinations
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