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Palestine Terrorist Attacks
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Anyone who picks a side as a 'pure victim' with Israel and Hamas doesn't understand the full story.
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Anyone who picks a side as a 'pure victim' with Israel and Hamas doesn't understand the full story.
Israel are not innocent. People need to stop assuming they're just innocent victims defending their so-called homeland. They ripped apart a community and slaughtered many against the wishes of 6 Islamic cultures/nations/peoples to declare that as their homeland, with assistance from US and UK. They have since killed many, minors included and not always in retaliation AT ALL. I can positively tell you they had no fucking genuine reason to kill and make homeless the recent Palestinians they have so far other than sheer arrogance and abuse of power over what was never their capital (Jerusalem) until Trump stuck his nose in to say 'fuck you' to Palestine and Iran.

You also should not for a single second think Israel is the only aggressor and issue at hand. Hamas are legally in charge of the Palestinians by brutal Mafia means of control. They throw PLO leaders off buildings if they don't cower to Hamas and are recruiting, brainwashing and blackmailing any detractors which includes teens and even young boys as well as pregnant women. Stop thinking when IDF sometimes do things it's never in proper defence. If you knew what Hamas does in terms of human shields and child/teen soldiers are and investigate most (not all, most) instances of IDF harming it's in retaliation and defensive maneuvers.

Hamas explicitly state they will never negotiate with nor recognise the existence of Israel as a state (as PLO used to say themselves but got blackmailed to stay true to when they considered alternatives).

Now, we have an ultra-conservative ruthless Netanyahu who also won't negotiate. This is getting worse and worse from both sides.

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Lil Nas X - A Future Generational Artist
Give me a Lil Nas X song or this:


I pick this any day.
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Lil Nas X - A Future Generational Artist
I mean if you're gonna like mediocre rap, I don't see how Lil Nas X is too be or too good, he's just 'meh'. 

If I were into lyrically mediocre rap I'd dig gucci mane, future, gunna, lil baby, uzi vert etc

Nas X... Idk...

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Coal - AMA
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@thett3
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@Theweakeredge

Please all three answer this article with your take on it if you want. I'll only post this once to avoid spam, link to my post here with the orange number in the top right (right click it and copy link address) if you want.

I am not that pro-trans that I'd support this athlete's medal, I will say this now and officially. To me that is a direct interference between feminism and trans-rights and I will side with feminism there out of fairness and bigger picture issue.
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Alcohol
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@Timid8967
working from home
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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Vader
No, that's another issue as well though.
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Coal - AMA
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@coal
In a world without media, how does a populace stay reliably, regularly informed of important events of any kind?
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Coal - AMA
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@coal
Do you identify as a right-wing pragmatist, is that the correct way to sum up your position?

Do you feel your sexuality (which I presume is still homosexual) has caused you issues both with family and with your personal political outlook, religion etc?
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ARGUMENTUM ad POPULUM: I declare a thumb war
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@oromagi
I don't care, telling me you'd electrocute my testicles is also off the table but you got away with it. if it's in forum games no moderation it seems.
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Trap is For Those Who Like EDM Music, But Lack The Attention Span for Delayed Gratification?
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@Reece101
I listen to EDM, especially Trap EDM that is literally my fucking genre of pure love. the pop music I like is either blues stuff or Trap EDM stuff usually (sometimes soft indie stuff but that's usually blues vibe as well).

These are some of my alltime fave jams:


These all incorporate many trap EDM elements
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ARGUMENTUM ad POPULUM: I declare a thumb war
Topic: This forum thread is immoral like-farming
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The MADA mask
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@fauxlaw
You are the one threatening women with assault. Imagine doing this with a hijab on a Muslim woman. You will know real backlash then.
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Within Movies do You Put Yourself in The Protagonists Shoes, or Are They Dissociated From Yourself?
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@Intelligence_06
Haven't watched enough, really began to bore me in season 2. I kind of rooted for the protagonist yeah but it wasn't my type of thing. Everyone is an asshole in that series, there is nobody to root for.
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The MADA mask
If you said that to my mother in front of me, I'd go to the fucking store staff and be willing to let you rip it off just to report  you to the cops for genuine assault not just threat. Who the fuck do you think you are threatening a woman to assault her as some fucking joke then preaching about your first admendment right?
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The MADA mask
If there is a true physical war between MAGA and MADA I would rip my own MADA mask off my face and spit because that is the real assault.

^ this is speaking in hyperbole, we are not in a physical war please consider this for legal and sanity-based reasons.

The mask protects you from her spittle, you imbecile.
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Trap is For Those Who Like EDM Music, But Lack The Attention Span for Delayed Gratification?
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@Reece101
Not really, I blocked you for a reason and you didn't even apologise.

This entire thread is toxic as fuck but it wasn't me who reported it.

Your thread is essentially saying that the purpose of EDM is to not be dancable or listenable and torture and tease the listener and that only those who endure shitty overly long buildups are 'real EDM fans'.
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Trap is For Those Who Like EDM Music, But Lack The Attention Span for Delayed Gratification?
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@Reece101
Firstly Trap EDM is Trap EDM, Trap music is a form of rap that largely is what people call mumble rap (gucci mane is a pioneer of trap).

If you mean Trap EDM, the answer is maybe. In my experience hardstyle and dubstep are far worse than trap and have even less delayed gratification but other styles like techno and chill lo-fi are slower paced.
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Euthyphro's Dilemma
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@Theweakeredge
If it is neither, then what is it? Please inform me on the apparent third option
Well it depends on the situation lol. Mostly Utilitarianism will be a general framework. Regardless, an act is never good because God ordered it nor is God ordering because it's good.

God has many more motives and intelligent reasons to order us to do whatever, than simply it being good (even if the Abrahamic god were real, this is true). Conversely, the act isn't ever good due to God ordering it, that is logically incoherent. If that's what 'good' is then all acts god doesn't order are evil or neutral, none can be good.

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Vegan Dilemma....Is it OK for vegans to feed their Eagles meat?. Or should they not keep Eagles?
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@zedvictor4
You are conditioned yet you deny you are susceptible to outside influence... How were you condotioned then?
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Within Movies do You Put Yourself in The Protagonists Shoes, or Are They Dissociated From Yourself?
In Money Heist, I rooted against the Heisters early on. I was an enigma viewer because I loved the character Arturo that everyone hates apparently. I really loved his badass and ruthless stance but as things progress across Seasons 3 and 4, I changed and began to root more for the protagonist(s) and definitely don't love Arturo anymore (he does something unforgivable).
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Within Movies do You Put Yourself in The Protagonists Shoes, or Are They Dissociated From Yourself?
In Peaky Blinders, I rooted for Thomas Shelby in Seasons 1 and 2 but eventually found him despicable and someone I badly want to see lose and suffer as things progressed and are still progressing (series isn't over).
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Within Movies do You Put Yourself in The Protagonists Shoes, or Are They Dissociated From Yourself?
In series, as opposed to movies, I am almodt guaranteed to root against the protagonist and for a supporting character or even antivillain type.

One of the only series where I found truly that I related to and rooted for the protagonist was The Blacklist and Saul's spinoff series from Breaking Bad (Better Call Saul).
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Within Movies do You Put Yourself in The Protagonists Shoes, or Are They Dissociated From Yourself?
It depends on the movie.

In Harry Potter movies, I often found I put myself a lot more into Ron's shoes than Harry's in most scenes with both.

In a movie like Ip Man and subsequent iterations, I do heavily root for Ip Man.

In the Dark Knight I found extreme empathy and rooting for Bane despite expecting to root for Batman. I even related more to Catwoman than Batman, who (Batman) I think was acted quite poorly in that movie.


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I think another school class found debate.art...
Once banned for multiaccounting, all would be able to read the association between the accounts in the moderation log thread.
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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Theweakeredge
they can just make a new, anonymous account outside of the classroom
That violates site policy and can get all their accounts banned. It at minimum forces them to dox themselves to the site mods (and admin since the owner owns all PM and IP data).
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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Theweakeredge
Wrong. You're assuming noone does and if many classes encouraged this it would force those that do, not to be able to.

I am not assuming everyone does, I do know some will.

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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Theweakeredge
Anyone who resents them IRL could dox them to an enemy or two on here and vice versa IRL.
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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Theweakeredge
And reveal to their whole school their personal private opinions they may not want to expose?
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Knowing how to see
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@fauxlaw
Shame you don't know how to see.
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Knowing how to see
Love to see you see the beauty in Joe Biden, a man you claim to resent.
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Rest in Peace Kentura Miura
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Vegan Dilemma....Is it OK for vegans to feed their Eagles meat?. Or should they not keep Eagles?
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@zedvictor4
If you are not seeking to justify your eating and usage the fruits of of animal-suffering and death, then what is this thread about exactly?
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Trip to Germany
Sorry, I didn't see this thread.

Check out the entire Bavaria, it is exactly the vibe you describe without being hostile to tourists. It's also extremely unique in its history, it was originally its own nation but the Germanic people (then Prussians) and Bavarians saw a mutual benefit in uniting against the Austro-Hungarians and Bavaria didn't care to secede later on.
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I think another school class found debate.art...
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@Theweakeredge
I don't. Imagine if you are in that class and typing anonymously here, you'd have to admit who you are to the mods, get your main account temp-banned and potentially expose yourself severely, not just to the mods themselves but others.

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Vegan Dilemma....Is it OK for vegans to feed their Eagles meat?. Or should they not keep Eagles?
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@zedvictor4
In the past, especially in colder climates, the answer is no.

At present, if you consider the vitamins and supplements we can either take or have knowledge to balance out the diet in other ways to compensate for the lack of meat, milk+eggs and fish, you are wrong. (the answer is yes now).

If the excuse isn't nutrition but that you like the taste or that your parents insist on it and you don't want to be alienated at family events or in daily life if you live with them then that's your burden to bear (or mine or anyone's who says it). Don't make false excuses.
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Could demons ever successfully invade planet Earth?
But I will say no or they would have done it by now
And how do you know they haven't?



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want feedback on a poem
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@SirAnonymous
Doesn't it say hero and not knight? 

Regardless the main heroine is a female, that is true, so I wonder why he refers to her essentially as the sidekick to the hero though.

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want feedback on a poem
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@SirAnonymous
@Theweakeredge
How can you swap the roles when the Hero is by definition meant to be in the role of the one doing the rescuing?

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Which Game do You Find More Difficult, Chess or Poker?
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@Reece101
Chess is more difficult to get medium-good at but poker is nearly impossible to be perfectly good at whereas in Chess that's at least theoretically attainable.

Poker is an artform as much as it is a science, Chess is 98% science and logic, 2% art and creativity.

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Likes appreciation
I can like someone's post and still think they're the things you said people call you.

Not saying you are, just not understanding the idea here.


There's intelligent members that rarely post stuff I like and vice versa.
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debateart doc
Disagree completely. Word is probably the best but isn't free. Google Docs are a fantastic free alternative and have almost as many features.
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Theweakeredge AMA - Reboot
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@TheUnderdog
In african capitalist nations the core government's cops are largely a very basic and corrupt bunch of bribe-hungry, blackmail-happy guys.

This is not racism, it of course happened everywhere and still happens in nations that aren't properly developed against blatant corruption (as opposed to subtle corruption which no nation is fully immune to).

The reason I want to focus on nations like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia etc is because what you need to then know is these nations basically are your utopia gone wrong, since you're a severe right-wing Lib-sided individual (notice I stated Kenya, not its neighbouring Uganda or Tanzania which aren't Liberal in comparison).

What happens when your core cops are like that and you embrace, rather thab resist it, is over time everyone that can afford it hires private security workers as their personal cops. You may ask 'but what about arrests and court cases'... You're just getting shot or scared off most of the time by the private cops, however the sheer irony is that the public cops work based on greed. You literally will be treated worse even in the car itself on the way to the jail solely depending on the money you can give them (but if you're local, black and look dirt poor they tend to realise you can't afford to bribe them and are a local so they tend to have sympathy only in those cases).

You need to grasp that in these nations and even the more conservative ones around them, you have a situation where a door can be unlocked and you're let free if you grease the right palms whereas you can be arrested for doing nothing wrong if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time if you refuse to pay them off. This isn't some joke, this is the natural resukt of being wilfully lax on cop culture in a nation and underfunding the department paying them shitty wages, they literally NEED BRIBES to feed their families and afford a roof over their heads.



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Political Correctness
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@fauxlaw
How are you lumping in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore together? Those three nations are all different to each other (Thailand is least like the other two has a very unique culture and political landscape).
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Political Correctness
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@MarkWebberFan
Lol, Singapore isn't close to NK unless you're being racist about it.

Indonesia is much closer to NK than Singapore is, The authoritarianism isn't in the same league at all.

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Political Correctness
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@MarkWebberFan
For example, a country like singapore has no common ground with the rest of the western world. 
Actually Singapore is one of the closest Asian nations to Western culture, only Japan and South Korea are closer I would say.

That aside, PC is political correctness and Asia and the Middle East enforce it with ferocity, that is for sure. 

Say something politically incorrect for their conformed opinions and views and you're done, fired overnight and branded a worthless scumbag, even your own family will turn on you at times.

You think I don't know? I do know. The only things that change are what are and aren't politically correct, there is political correctness everywhere but don't for a single second think the western world is most ridiculous with it, they are in fact the most merciful with it at present.

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Some of the most fucking phenomenal FLOW masterpieces.
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@Athias
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what are the coins?
Wow he has contributed a lot.
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Why did God make humans the most sexually sensual species if lust is a sin?
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@fauxlaw
If there is no 'try' then failure can't be a good teacher.
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