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@K_Michael
It would be propaganda if the opposition was silenced to have that youtube video up about it or make their own Netflix series against its narrative and agenda.
I disagree with this definition of propaganda. Plenty of people on the internet talking about how much they hated their experience in the military, but those go navy ads I get are still propaganda.
Cool, so if that is literally all GP means in the thread's title, then this thread is basically saying that the anime Naruto is a shonen anime. Okay, thanks for telling us that.
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@Mharman
I am saying if we're running with this overly literal very (ironic term) libertarian application of the term 'propaganda' then let's appreciate that even with more severe versions, Trump relied entirely on it.

This is why in every single fucking debate that Trump is in, he needs to shout down his opponents and bully them, interjecting and babbling like the entitled brat he's always been. The moment he shuts up and lets the other speak equally to him, they floor him even in said debates to a more astute observer and yes I'm dissing the intelligence and comprehension levels of anybody who firstly thought he won the primaries and secondly thought he won the presidential debates either time.

Russiagate hasn't been debunked whatsoever, in fact Hunter Biden being linked to Ukraine and the way this war escalated is all pointing to the direction that there actually was somehow a 'taking sides' ethos going on there and that Russia actually was sided with Trump. People keep saying 'why didn't they invade while Trump was in power', they expected him to win the second term first of all and secondly, it benefits them to have a president in the US who won't cooperate, this way he looks like an economy-sabotaging warhawk for intervening so that he can appease his left-wing caring voter base who don't want him (Biden) to be a spineless coward vs a tyrant.

I am not interested in discussing further on that topic. I have looked into patterns enough to say I buy the idea that Putin's Kleptocracy and Trump had ties and that his (Trump's but also of course Putin's) opposition saw the Russian invasion of Ukraine coming many years back and had made moves trying to ensure it wouldn't go down, clearly not successfully.

You see 'corruption' and you always think evil but when you're against scum like Trump, Bushes and Reagan, you need to play their game to some degree. Don't even begin to pretend it wasn't the right-wing that were corrupt first, it is entirely a right-wing idea to be corrupt if you actually understand what libertarian capitalism enables. 

As for 'propaganda' when you see the media against Trump your narrative is 'omg big bad elites against Trump'... Trump is an elite, he's as elite as they come. He was born and raised a spoilt white-supremacist (meaning he is severely racist) scumbag and will die that, just with more fame and wealth.
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@Mharman
You right-wing guys throw this term propaganda around a lot. Trump's entire political success was due to propaganda.
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CALLING ON DEBATEART: the biggest contest you have ever seen
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@Vici
I think that between a prochoice vs prolife individual, the prolifer should be incapable of finding that insult you just hurled as justifiable and okay banter.
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@Vici
That insult is not only vile on its own but is the same thing you pretend to be disgusted by when you pose as pro-life.
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@Mharman
Lol, so you have to advocate for the side you do not believe is good or correct in order to speak for the one you support, as a private showbusiness LLC or corporation?

Sounds like tyranny to me but you do you.
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the essence of life.
Okay, let me take a stab at it.

Judaism: Sticking to one's own ethnicity and being loyal to it, ensuring the Jewish people excel.

Hinduism: This was a colonised amalgamation of Shaivism, Vaishnavism and pagan outliers, the underlying message is to celebrate the chaos and journey that we are on and do good if you can.

Daoism/Taoism: Aim for balance, be the one to flow as life naturally leads, leaving drops of good when expedient and not the one to constantly force too much benevolence or too much malice.

Christianity: Embrace all people and give, use guilt and the approval of others as the mechanics of the moral compass.

Islam: Discipline, fear and undying loyalty to Allah and fellow Muslims but unlike Judaism, aim to spread it far and wide to other ethnicities, do not stay insular.

Most Japanese-originating Religions, especially Shinto: Actions define us, not words or emotions.

Buddhism: Discipline and minimalism above all else, shut up and give to your community or end up reborn instead of in Nirvana.

Sikhism: Be natural and respectful of nature to the extreme, be hairy as you can get away with, ready to slay the beasts that may seek to impose against nature.

Wicca and most neopagan religions: Today the sun is out, let us dance, today the moon is out, that is okay we will sacrifice a goat and have an orgy, preferably a lesbian one.

Thanks for reading.
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the essence of life.
The only one you got properly correct in a one sentence summary was Islam.
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When will the Capitol burn?
They believed they finally had a sympathizer in the White House and an administration that would enact policies to match their anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and racist ideas,” the report stated.

Islam is itself a fascist religion both theologically and politically via Sharia. So, Nazis being anti-Islam benefits the stupidly naive left wing who openly embrace the religion without knowing its teachings, roots and nature once it starts to spread within a culture.

I took the time and effort to study Islam to prove Islamophobes wrong, all I ended up realising is that there is plenty to be phobic about if one is a left-wing progressive that wants liberty and democracy in their culture and nation.

Not all immigrants and certainly not all cultures (with their ideologies attached) are good for a nation, many come from highly fascistic conservative cultures, if any side should believe in well screened immigration more than the other, it should be the left wing.

We can agree that if I said these things irl or online with my full name etc attached right here, I would be a cancelled popsicle melting under the ire of cancel culture. That has nothing to do with left or right wing politics and everything to do with irrational tyranny fearing a voice of reason and bravery.
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@Public-Choice
Thanks for your 2 cents. Care to compare the lies of each?
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Voting Policy Is In Need Of A Rewrite
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@whiteflame
I will only participate and take the bait here after the more important MEEP separating the entertainer role from the moderation-balancer role and tweaking to make it harder for mods to just veto the president's decision (and wave it away) are done.

I am actually not necessarily running this year at all, the role as it is is worthless.

After that, maybe we can finally enact the History subforum's implementation.

You will find that responsiveness from leadership and admin and proactiveness from userbase are a snowball yin and yang type thing. The less you reciprocate, the deader the site becomes. I am saying this noting that the site became much more alive literally in the past 2 weeks because Supadudz, yourself and Barney are suddenly very active and are pushing events that get activity going.
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@whiteflame
That arrogance is why it stays flawed.
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@Greyparrot
I am not sure if you think you are being ironic and clever here but you are unironically the oppressive side here if you want that show banned.
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@Greyparrot
Hang on a second, GP. It would be propaganda if the opposition was silenced to have that youtube video up about it or make their own Netflix series against its narrative and agenda.

That is just an opinionated series, I think Obama can openly admit that it has opinions and not solely facts.
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@Public-Choice
Yes but I want it stricter, not less strict.
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@Public-Choice
Leave me out of this beef.

I am on the other side or wanting to change voting policy than you and the status quo both are.

What passes as a valid vote is a pisstake, you can twist it any way you want if you are smart enough or... eloquently dumb enough.
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Good music
Two of modern chill female-vocal pop stuff I enjoy.

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Hall of Fame Upcoming
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@Barney
@whiteflame
Bsh1 misformatted the URLs, because the word participants changes to profiles for the homepage of one's profile


Please have my hall of fame link be my profile, it is a broken URL at the moment.

For Virtuoso and Ragnar, you may want to link to the new user profiles.

You can edit bsh1's post by backdoor editing.
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
Ehyeh, I am already hassled by people like you. Nasty people exist regardless of one's rank on a website.

They also get to participate if they obey the rules.

We are all villains in someone's story by the age of at least around 15 and onwards.
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@Double_R
Hitler did not personally order all the cancelling eeach other, in the end the Nazi people, not just staff, began embracing iy due to the influence it yad and they were peer pressured to feel disgust at any talk of free expression and harmony with Jews, LGBTQ and the disabled etc.

One person alone cannot control a whole population, there are ripples and waves of influence. Kim Jong-Un is unironically eorshipped in North Korea and rebels are seen as devilish. The more you cancel your opposition, the more that the average citizen will irrationally assume they have no side to the story worth listening to nor that they have reformed later.

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Hitler was also the pioneer of what we now know as cancel culture, as in organised censorship of all media in a nation.

He also enjoyed abusing verbally (to instil others to abuse physically) and relishing in the agony those he saw as evil.

You have more in common with him than pretty much any other member here.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Truth teller to the DNC, leaves Democrat party.
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@TWS1405
Whatever, yours is superior. I will never question anything you say.
You need to work on your grammar. 

TWS you clearly didn't read the link and failed English at school.

You NEVER use the latter 2 which is exactly what the link teaches you, Sadolite was spot on.
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NOT GUILTY verdict in officer involved shootings death of Pamela Turner
he correct question is this: what are the civilians doing to get shot?
No, that doesn't explore why they're doing it. Simple minds rarely get to root causes though, they tend to just lash out and blame (on both sides of politics). Greater minds seek to empathise and find long-term rehabilitations and solutions to big issues and only one side of politics does that, whether the right wing admits it or not.
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The Impossible Game
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@Vader
Magic
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MORAL DILEMMA
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@Athias
This OP only tackles people who pick a side, this is a habit in both threads.
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Platform development
Ignore that, it was my Windows sounds reacting to me interacting here.
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
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@Vici
Stolen valour is a pretty disgusting thing to do, even if we all know you're lying.

I guess this was playing into bmdrocks' question but what you said isn't funny. Barney actually served as a military medic in a war.
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@Mharman
The reality is this:

As is, I will never ever be anything here other than a user to my last day on this site. The only way to even begin to prove to others and especially the mods that I can maintain a professional working relationship with them is to be something official.

At the moment I have a passive 'thing' where I help them spot alts or long-term threats and such and while you admittted to be wrong with Shila, I of course have had wrong calls on alts (I ask them to check etc). The current way I interact with them is more like I'm a useful nuisance to whiteflame and Barney. The only way to change that is to have a dynamic where they realise I could actually be more trouble than I am and to be less of a nuisance than they ever expected. They don't realise we already have such a relationship and they don't realise how well I interpret the rules and neither do most members of the website.

It is fine by me to never ever be that. I literally am fine never being involved with the mod side of things (shit's a bunch of teacher's pet stuff anyway), I am here to be useful and I could be a lively event host but hosting events for a dead website doesn't really mean shit. I'd want a team, a group that regularly organises stuff and switches the host-member around so that the previous hosts get to be participants in the tournaments and events.

We can't foster that kind of thing without a jumpstart from the now-present President role, otherwise people think 'am I stepping on the President's toes'.
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Platform development
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@DebateArt.com
the 'dings' you've introduced are quite irritating...
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
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@ILikePie5
@Mharman
@Lemming
@bmdrocks21
@Public-Choice
Would you support separating the 'leader of official events' here type role from the mod advisor role?
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Quid Pro Joe tries to bribe Saudi Arabi
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@Greyparrot
Iran has its own issues to deal with right now, it helps to keep your taste in News international.
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Quid Pro Joe tries to bribe Saudi Arabi
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@Greyparrot
Nothing says you love democracy like brown-nosing dictators.

Keep up the good work Parrot. First Putin, now the Prince of Saudi, who is next?
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
You are free to speak your mind, Pie and free to speak mine too, it would seem.

Enjoy championing whatever it is you want.
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SUBPOENA for TRUMP, WARNINGS for DEMOCRACY
Let us hope the paper trail is still covered in the shit stain it was left by.
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NOT GUILTY verdict in officer involved shootings death of Pamela Turner
And what are police officers and society doing to help cops be seen as friendly protectors that have a code in the eyes of the predominantly black communities in US?

That, TWS, is the real root cause and real solution.
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MORAL DILEMMA
To me, there isn't much difference.

The only difference lies in how widespread their ideology can become and the types of people who will buy into it.
Same reply from me.
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Platform development
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@DebateArt.com
Did you hack me?
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
No, he has not said that and certainly not multiple times.

RM notes that severe harassment and bullying will entail emotional harm and be bannable if the qrongdoer shows no progress towards reform, whether RM is the target or not.

Pie, if you wish to lie about me, I can defend it even in first person if I want.

I can think of plenty of worse presidential candidates than me but of course it comes down to opinion and priorities.

I am not sure what you are trying here but if this is covert anti-campaigning preparing the stage for your own campaign, you just look dirty doing this.

If you honestly cannot think of a 'worse president ever' then I will be surprised. Who could be worse than Airmax was? Entertain us.

For the record, I can think of some who may be worse, I am just curious how I am one of them and the worst ever.
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
That is alright for you to believe, Ehyeh. I cannot say more until I campaign, if I do. That is the rule.
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
Ehyeh, who would you trust to make you a sandwich here?
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Right wing politics
I wasn't exactly a nice person on DDO, including to you, which was wrong.  
You were actually a nicer person then than now. 
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@Shila
Biden worked for President Obama. He is aware of the high standards Blacks set for themselves and others.

Joe Biden has a decades-long habit of making overtly racist remarks, taking discriminatory positions and cavorting with known racists—things that would get anyone to his political right tossed out of polite society. But being on the left must make it okay.

Just a few days ago, while lamenting the difficulty in convincing many Latinos and blacks to take the COVID vaccine, he committed a series of racially charged blunders that barely registered in the corporate media’s consciousness.

Biden white-splained that Latinos in America resist vaccinations because “they’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”
This statement makes the insane assumption that all Latinos present in this country are illegal aliens subject to expulsion. It never occurred to Biden that more than 60 million Latinos are actually American citizens, according to recent census figures.

While insulting such a sizable segment of our population, Biden actually went further. He referred to this group of people as “Latinx,” which is a term invented by woke academics who objected to gender-specific words in the Spanish language.

Just 3% of Latinos use “Latinx” to describe themselves and less than a quarter have even heard of the term, according to the Pew Research Center. Many find it to be an offensive bastardization of the Spanish language.

Here, Biden is almost certainly unaware of what he’s saying and has simply repeated what a liberal on his staff has instructed him to say. But there are plenty of examples where Biden should not receive the benefit of the doubt.

In the same breath as his “Latinx” comment, Biden lectured about the fears that blacks may have of the vaccine, attempting to point to historically shameful episodes when they were subjected to inhumane medical experiments.

“They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,” Biden said.

In this, he confused legendary World War II fighter pilots with a long, notorious governmental study of syphilis among black men—the Tuskegee Experiment.
It does not take much effort to imagine the media’s reaction if Donald Trump had mangled so many racial issues in one press conference.

Examples dating back to his campaign for president (and earlier) abound.

On Charlamagne Tha God’s popular morning radio show in May 2020, Biden infamously asserted to the largely black audience that if they were unsure of whether to vote for him or Trump, then “you ain’t black!

Then in August 2020, Biden told a gathering of black and Hispanic journalists that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.

Taken together, these statements clearly suggest that Biden believes all black people think alike.

In the same interview, responding to a question on whether he had taken a cognitive test, Biden angrily fired back with the suggestion that the black reporter was a drug addict.
“That’s like saying you . . . before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not,” Biden said. “What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?

Put these words into Mitch McConnell’s mouth and try to envision how long he’d be allowed to remain in the Senate, let alone in a leadership position.
But Biden has been getting away with this for years.

In 2010, he warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”

In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”

In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”

Of course, he infamously worked with segregationist senators to oppose that mandatory busing, which decades later led to the strongest moment in Kamala Harris’s campaign for president, when she blasted him as having personally impacted her as a young girl.

And over the course of his entire career, he had kind words to say about staunchly segregationist senators.

Any one of these statements or episodes would have been enough to sink the political career of any conservative in Washington, D.C., against whom tenuous accusations of racism are commonplace and occur almost daily.

But Joe Biden, who has a lifetime of them, is now president of the United States. On some days and in some ways, it must be good to be on the left.
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Moral ambiguity vs intense fanaticism
To me, there isn't much difference.

The only difference lies in how widespread their ideology can become and the types of people who will buy into it.
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r/amitheasshole-related 4chan greentext poses an interesting question
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@thett3
The reason for abortions is often to protect the offspring from a life of being unwanted, neglected and worse abused.

There exists no 'safe' foster care method in most countries that even happen to have such a service (less developed nations even lack foster care and it's much more everyone out for themselves).
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Are all shootings on tv shows inherently racist?
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@Athias
The mixed race people and non-black non-white people would matter actually.
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Are all shootings on tv shows inherently racist?
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@Athias
You are correct, Shila's result is wrong.
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@Athias
There are three issues here:

  1. The word 'over'with the 45k
  2. The word 'more' likely being probably erroneous as Shila probably meant 'as' likely.
  3. That ethnic and racial mixes and identities other than caucasian and african or Caribbean blacks exist.

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@Athias
4*9k = 36k

45k-36k= 9k

His mathematics is correct except you are correct that other racial pedigrees and mixes exist, meaning he has overlooked something.

To make clear what he did:

45 000 ÷ 5 = 9 000
this established the amount that would be multiplied by 4 for the black deaths if only pure whites and pure blacks exist.

5 ÷(4 + (4 ÷ 4)) = 1

1 × 9 000 = 9 000

The error made was statistically assuming he was dealing with a population that consisted either of whites or blacks, exclusively.

He also ignored the 'over' but that helps him out, not hurts him, given the other error.

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I do not believe that Shila is a bot. I agree with the muting for toxicity only.
Lmao
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Update Regarding President Airmax1227 (10/12/22)
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