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Do Ungrateful people deserve charity/welfare?
'Deserve' is a strange word to throw around. I'm aware that the Left Wing throw it around a lot as well.

'deserving', 'inherent right to' and many such phrases are wielded by people of varying agendas. I'm a bit too pragmatic to buy into that shit.

To me, it's about the best win-win endgame for society. THAT is why I am left wing and also why I prefer the state to take care of its poor rather than relying on conventional, random spurts of charity.


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@Vader
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@zedvictor4
There is nothing connecting having regular sex to sexual harassment, do not confuse the two things.

You can be sexually active and completely refrain from sexually harassing a person/people. Conversely, you can be sexually celibate and sexually harass a person/people.
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@fauxlaw
I'll tell you what's stupid, aside from the immorality and over-the-top cynicism of your stance.

What's stupid is thinking that your 'clever' Trump would ever pay hush money unless he had indeed sexually harassed these victims. Surely, your genius Trump would not have wasted money in hushing accusers who couldn't cite dates, times and actions which he could prove wrong or cast sufficient doubt on. I wonder why he pressured several different accusers to accept his hush money... Maybe, no... Definitely because he damn well did what they're saying.

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@fauxlaw
Are you that stupid that you are defending sexual harassment and going so far as to not only defend hush money usage in such cases but to insult and vilify the ones who were coerced into taking it?

If this is your honest stance, you're not someone I wish to be friends with off or on this website.

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@Puachu
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@Danielle
So you are anti-Israel?
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Natural Herbal antidepressant (not an ad) St. John's Wort
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@fauxlaw
The cause can be physical, hormonal and in my case there was and is both (is, not was alone, as it's lifelong). If you knew more about my ancestors and genetic predisposition to not be the happiest person, as well as how my childhood affected me (and many others) you'd realise it isn't something to do with a 'weak mindset'. It wasn't easy for me to admit either, that there's an element that's entirely physical/genetic and outside of my control but I guarantee you that my body and brain in their totally default state are unhappy and very gloomy, it's bearable but 0% pleasurable. Admitting this was a huge step for me, caffeine is part of what I call my medication if we're being precise but this thing has helped me a lot and I only recently came across it.
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From the perspective of Romans and Hebrews at the time, was Jesus a cult leader?
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@fauxlaw
How is this a 'what if' scenario? It's more asking about history (especially as you believe Jesus was real and in the flesh).
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@FLRW
This also occured to me, the Romans ran everything back then, there is no way they simply let the disciples keep an unscathed, unaltered series of scriptures to pass down generations and have rewritten verbatim. That's not Roman Modus Operandi at all.
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Why Are There 300 Sextillion Stars?
Because NASA fancied saying there are and Roscosmos saw no reason to fight it.
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@Stephen
What is that battle something I have to have read about?
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@Stephen
Why/how did Romans then end up founding one of the oldest forms of Catholicism?
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From the perspective of Romans and Hebrews at the time, was Jesus a cult leader?
I welcome people of many perspectives to post their view on this thread's title.
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Natural Herbal antidepressant (not an ad) St. John's Wort
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@EtrnlVw
Ah he's a raw meat diet advocate, I know another of his school of thought (other guy is much angrier and hostile about it, in terms of his approach to modern science and the world). I'm not sure I buy all of what they're saying, especially not the anti-vax angle but I definitely understand the argument that we evolved eating and healing via natural plants and raw meat so genetically we can't deny that we're capable of surviving like that.
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Natural Herbal antidepressant (not an ad) St. John's Wort
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@EtrnlVw
I will. Some people who mock alternative medicine have no clue how we originally discovered what medicine is when we only had herbs at our disposal.

I am open-minded for sure, actually I am weary of just how powerful they can be (and have experienced it first-hand as I'm a very sensitive guy to biochemical things). Are you saying he sells mixtures or gives advice how to mix them ourselves?
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The Earth, is in fact, not flat
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@Theweakeredge
Are you aware what gish gallop is in debating?
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Natural Herbal antidepressant (not an ad) St. John's Wort
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@EtrnlVw
Is in he agreeing? Or what plant(s) does he recommend? It's a very long video.
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@Barney
Why would you post all this publicly with your names attached?

If you and him both posted this publicly then idk what to say. I learned to basically share 0 controversial views on social media with my name attached, to each their own I guess.

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Natural Herbal antidepressant (not an ad) St. John's Wort
I am someone who has been dealing with chronic 'low mood' as well as anxiety my entire life, especially once I was a teen. I have tried therapy/ies and medications but I do confess to not having tried many long enough or trying enough variety to truly talk of the good of this vs that.

What I can tell you is that St. John's Wort (a powerful flower-based herbal remedy) is extremely good at stabilising my mood in ways nothing has been before. I am aware that you wouldn't notice that by me on this website as I appear hostile at times but combined with habitual deep breathing and regular meditation, this has made me never once 'lose it'. I'm not saying I need it for that, you can attribute that success to me but without it, the baseline mood is lower and more anxious.


Do not take this if you're pregnant, on menopause medication or other antidepressant medication. Other mood stabilising medication can potentially work in harmony with it, so research carefully.
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@Bringerofrain
You did admit being a populist can go with genocide. The Cambodian case is an extremely left-wing mutation of populism and if you support Cambodian Communism, you've made my case for me about which of us is the delusional one.
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@bmdrocks21
Populist voters care about that, populist politicians care ONLY about keeping the rich rich (but they are simply selective about which 'rich'). I've never see a populist who doesn't end up absolutely corrupt and benefitting an elite group of rich and powerful sociopaths. If you find me one, just one, I will reconsider what I think populism is.
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@Bringerofrain
So you're a Marxist?
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Trump's Twitter Promise
Knowing you, this isn't the full story and you're just posting this to feel good about yourself at the expense of someone who had been your friend until this particular disagreement.

I've spent enough time interacting with you to know the word and concept of 'friend' and 'respect' don't mean as much to you as they do to most people. I also don't get why you needed to share this with everyone who you already know are going to ask 'ooooh which debater was that?' 

I'm not saying I agree with 'other guy', however if this was a private PM and you were the initiator as this implies, I think you knowingly baited him more and more as things progressed, knowing he heavily supports Trump until finally he reacted to you.

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@Bringerofrain
In America, in particular, you can't distract one away from the other since racial lines of conflict are also linked to classist lines of conflict. The fact that poor caucasians are naive enough to vote into power the party that hates them the most (Republicans) is something that is largely their own fault via wilful ignorance. I've never come across a working-class caucasian in a highly developed caucasian-dominant nation whom votes the right-wing party of their nation, that doesn't display many signs of being unwilling to learn about politics and history of their nation (let alone the world).

I am of course speaking in hyperbole, there probably are a few exceptions to the rule, however the general rule is more down to them than the media they choose to ignore and call 'evil brainwashing'.

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@Bringerofrain
It's a glitch that is to do with text boxes and android's chrome browser. I experienced this too with different websites. It takes me to the last tab I had open (or site I was on) it doesn't even necessarily need to be a debate art subsite. It acts whenever the text box is held down on for me and I hope it gets fixed soon, I have no idea what the catalyst is but basically it either requires me to fully close all tabs and reopen the web browser or it never has a problem and I can't work out why.
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Democrats vs Republicans
Do you even realise that privatized prisons have financial motive to engineer fights and turmoil inside of prisons to keep meeting their bottom line (sentence extensions)? There's so much wrong with how America's justice system treats the poor first of all but on top of the capitalism aspects, which include completely underfunded and undertrained public defendants being up against extremely rich law firms (that's true in other nations at times but at the very least the speaker inside the courtroom tends to be decent if they're public defendant/barrister).

When you talk about dying to violent cops, that doesn't begin to understand how differently a black gets treated when pulled over for speeding, than a caucasian, there is documented proof (if you trust anecdotal evidence and don't assume they're all lying) of a pattern of being more aggressive and actively suspicious in both stop-and-search activities as well as how readily and harshly a cop pulls over and punishes someone for driving slightly above the limit. Even in general, blacks get mandhandled much more aggressively, almost like a ragdoll (as happened with George Floyd) with their face pressed hard against the ground or window, while caucasians in particular (there are other races and mixes than just those two) get treated passively and politely. This has to be fixed and runs throughany different layers/levels of law enforcement and bias, including even the sentence harshness itself, which is the most documentable and irrefutable proof that blacks gets harsher punishment for the same crimes, consistently. This was in fact the first and foremost thing BLM could argue from a concrete and undeniable statistics angle rather than anecdotes, which kept getting unfairly doubted and dismissed. There is also the unforgivable aspect in reverse, where when blacks are victims, especially if they're killed and/or assaulted in a 'rough area', justice is rarely pursued far enough to get convictions even when it's blatant who did it, but the evidence is often circumstancial. It is actually this side of BLM that enabled LGBT who weren't racially discriminated against to unite and see parallels. This gave the left-wing in all nations a big boost and is a huge reason why in all highly developed nations except the US, a shift towards the left wing and liberalism was seen from the 80s towards early 2000s then somehow as things approached 2012, some nations had their alt-right trick people with propaganda into bullshit like Brexit in the UK and Trump and all he stood for, in the US but it didn't succeed until the next election (for either). It's unclear what exactly caused this because immigration was already happening but only became a big deal because of domestic terrorists who claimed to be Muslim happened to be wrongly associated with immigrating refugees (which literally didn't commit a single act of terror, to my knowledge). This lled to a ton of fake news and dosgustingly racist undertones in right wing propaganda that has led to somehow anti-racism being seen as the villainous movement. It's not just stupid, it's quite frankly disgusting. The OP in this thread and the past two you've made are all pretty childish and morally reprehensible. You don't have a clue how much worse the right wing is because you haven't spent a damn good minute of your life researching why BLM and LGBT claim to be victims and what it's been like fighting for their rights vs what there used to be and even still is, in terms of prejudice.
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@Barney
If I did this you'd say it was spamming.
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n * 6 + or - 1 = Hexagons Two Radii
Ebuc, I am going to say something that I promise you is not said with malice but I admit it is slightly insulting.

When I read posts like your OP, the sheer fact you dedicated all the time and effort to make something that noone on the forum will understand except for you, makes me physically laugh out loud in a genuine sense.

I honestly want you to know that there are other users I don't always care about the threads of, so this is not about making you feel bad. I just truly find the fact that you post here, a non-physics-expert forum about your deep quantum theory stuff and literally type out dots and bolded numbers to illustrate your ideas in the text format all yo explain something that is gibberish to almost (if not completely) all of us who will read, it.

So, thank you for the comedy but I beg you that if you want to change from making soem users laugh and others be extremely bemused that you break down what you truly mean in a clearer, written format in plain English not text-design illustatrions.
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Democrats of DART: Who is your nominee in 2024?
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@ILikePie5
Ok, I don't see how I am truly defeated by that but okay.
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@ILikePie5
There seems to be confusing variations of how it's being explained. My new understanding is that a company named BioNTech which is the German one, joined with US company Pfizer to then end up distributing put of Belgium. I am actually confused but regardless it's not a Trump-only approved thing. Harris wasn't proved hypocritical.
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@ILikePie5
Please prove to me that I am ignorant here.

I am under the impression that Pfizer was a joint project vaccine between Germany and Belgium that Belgium ended up the official distributing nation of. Please prove to me that it's of US origin or whatever.

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@Bringerofrain
To avoid you succeeding in your asinine sidetracking here, remind me which questions Pence defeated Harris on, let's call the vaccine one a tie.
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@Bringerofrain
What shortcuts are you talking about? Are you am antivaxxer now? You think her comment was childish because she would take it if Biden, her trusted running partner, would advise to take it?
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@Bringerofrain
They trusted a Belgian vaccine (not sure if the Oxford one is being distributed much in US). This was approved by the EU and UK already had tested the Belgian one on their populace without severe immediate aode effects shown (ironic as UK ended up inventing the only internationally sold rival vaccine at present).

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@Greyparrot
He unironically recoe ded people to take malariaedicone amd later on, bleach, injected intl their bloodstream to cure covid-19. I guarantee you, had the media not fought hard against it, people who are diehard trumpites would potentially have died from bleach injection. Evem if they weren't, that's their leader, the President, advising to do it. Stop making a joke out of it.
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@Bringerofrain
No it isn't, I absolutely understand where she's coming from there. Trump would genuinely push through a fraudulent undertested vaccine to get in people's good books, without any qualms. He's a sociopath bordering on psychopath. I completely understand her answer there. I wouldn't trust jack shit from Trump.
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@Greyparrot
The rest are in the closet about affiliating with KKK or go by names like proud boys
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@Bringerofrain
She defeated Pence on every single question, can you give one where it was even close?
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@Bringerofrain
 Am I literally the only Biden supporter that can see that it is extremely obvious he has dementia. 
I wouldn't use the word 'dementia' as such, but he definitely has had one too many strokes, is waaaay too elderly and aged to be handling the daily stress, pace and mental complexity that a President has to, regarding very tough decisions and meeting-dialogue which vary from moderately tough to severe (nothing is easy or mild).

The fact when he smiles, only half his face moves most of the time and that he is the age he is and even the fact he recently lost his son, in fact he has experienced losing a child twice. I am certain that what he truly wants, if he didn't have to 'live up to expectations' of people close to him and 'make them proud' is to relax and enjoy the family and friends he's got left, quietly retiring. He is doing this out of a huge urge, perhaps to stop Trump (because Biden was the Democrats' statistically most probable candidate to win that election with that silght edge for swing states thanks to how Centrist and failure-lacking he was while working under Obama and in general).

I hope the guy does his best, it's all we can ask of him. I do believe Trump did develop dementia as his presidency went along and what we saw at the end there was a very troubled old man who genuinely can't grasp how deeply embarassing and stupid he appeared while calling the election a fraud and being the whiny sore loser he accused many of his rivals to be in the 2016 election and onwards.

Biden has a chance here and so far is doing very well. Let's hope he keeps it up and if he does feel too neurologically and/or physically fragile to fulfil his role, there's no shame at his age of admitting it and resigning, I'm absolutely certain Kamala will make a fantastic candidate, as would/will Warren. It's not just the amazing feat of America having a female leader, it's that Harris and Warren can genuinely hold their own in debates in ways I've almost never seen a candidate do before, their ability to answer eloquent, sharp and accurate in spite of the speed, is very refreshing and is an energy and non-pushover image that the Democrats need to get back. At the moment they are seen as the sappy snowflake party, they should aim to make it clear that while they care more about the mental welfare of the vulnerable, they are by no means 'easy to push around' in a debate format in any sense, a true alpha male/female protects the weak in their pride/pack.
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@Bringerofrain
Everyone is a playable character, real life has no concrete stat or win condition other rhan perhaps net-calm and/or net-joy.

We all play our role, some are more outside the norm than others. Being consistently normal is not proof you aren't thinking, it just means you agreed or that the things you're thinking about and focusing on aren't really to do with politics and philosophy.

I agree with you that politics and philosophy actually objectively matter but I also understand that some level lf ignorance and focusing on what is happening on a day-to-day basis can help keep oneentally healthy to get by happily and calmly enough to stay stable.

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@Bringerofrain
Am I am NPC?

Btw if people are NPCs to you, you're probably narcissistic, schizophrenic or both.

For those who are confused, NPC refers to non-player characters that are automated in any game, especially in online roleplaying games.
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@bmdrocks21
Do you know what Nazism will have done to people? Don't think for one moment you have a high horse to sit on.
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will trump run and/or win in 2024? what's your prediction?
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@zedvictor4
No, it doesn't all depend on that. Republicans hate him with a burning passion for the utter hysteric fool he made out of their party at the ending of his term (a lot of them already resented him by that point). His conspiracy theory shit and egging on a ton of rioters to the white house was the straw that broke the camel's back, he's vermin among cats if he dares dip his toes in their water again, fish to the sharks.

He fucked his whole career and family's reputation, noone except white supremacists or sociopathic businessmen who don't care what heat Trump brings to associate with, are going to deal with him and his family from now on.
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@David
@Barney
Please read this thread properly. What we have is a non-satirical comparison of anti-oppression groups being able to express their ideals compared to groups that both act and speak with absolute malice and hatred for races and creeds other than their own.

This thread, if it doesn't violate the Code of Conduct, is objective proof that the CoC needs a better policy.

I am unable to report because you took away my ability to flag posts. I am publicly asking you to come to this thread and state your official position on it. This is deeply disgusting, it's not even trolling and it's not funny. Alec is literally, uncomedically and with serious intent comparing BLM to the very group who have, in their pussy-ass disguises, terrorised and ensured remaining oppression hit the black people and frankly anyone who has stood in the KKK's way. Neo-Nazis are not just using 'freedom of speech' they are actively rioting in the White House itself, we are talking about people who would gun down the actual government in the name of their racist agenda if you let them convince enough people it was okay.

I do not give the slightest bit of a damn if this is me being a SJW cancel culture libtard. I am proud to be. This is wrong, it needs to be taken down. I don't find it funny and there are dead black people, impoverished mothers and fathers who can barely bring their children food on the table, let alone a decent education between each child having a part-time job just to make ends meet and much more, thanks to KKK, Nazis and anti-abortion laws, who are not and if they are alive, would not be happy about this shit at all.

It's not funny, it's 0% positive and if this is what the first amendment is about then I think the first amendment needs 'amending'.
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We should legalize being pro life, we should legalize being pro choice, and we should legalize being in the KKK. 
Just, WHAT the FUCK kind of jump is that?


WHAT the FUCK?!

The KKK's ideology and actions both are absolutely 100% violent and toxic; merciless to the highest degree.

You have no idea what you are even talking about, just stop typing.
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