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@Lair77
It was an monochromatic echo chamber (i.e. age 15-30, male, libertarian). But I liked it.
But do you have to disqualify senior citizens. Their opinions maybe less relevant but they want to be liked too.
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@Public-Choice
--> @ShilaI mean. The study didn't find it cooled off. The study didn't find that at all. In fact, it found it persisted. I think this is because many Twitter accounts are bots.Also, ICYMI, liberals are just as hateful as conservatives on average. [1]Liberals tend to want to silence everyone who disagrees with them just as much as Conservatives do. [2]Personally, I try not to do that. And that is one of the reasons I have decided to stick to this site even though it is very close to a liberal/center-left echo chamber lol.I also have liberal friends, and I welcome their comments. The thing I have tended to notice, though, is they often do not welcome mine. Some do. But most don't.The same thing is true with my conservative friends. Some welcome it. Some don't.SOURCES:
So you are equally ignored by both liberal and conservative friend. Why don’t you take the hint your comments are not appreciated?
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@Lair77
With tuition costs increasing faster than wages, it's less of a value than it was decades also. Also, it's less effective at setting people apart. In the past, if you had a college degree, you were among a small percentage of people. Now, there are many people with them.Imo, college is worth it if:
- You know what you want to do.
- You're majoring in something that's in demand (<10-20% of majors).
Rising tuition costs make high school performance more important. Someone with a high GPA in high school has access to scholarships. If I had an offer between taking a $200k loan to go to Harvard vs. going to a public university for free, I would easily take the latter.
Unlessyou are comfortable competing with blacks and latinos for minimum wage jobs, college is the way to go.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
You understand neither the meaning of what a troll is or what a tried-and-true racist is. I am neither. You're just an intellectual coward when it comes to the truth about some black Americans, and the divisive rhetoric of race and racism in this country as well.Lol. The enlisted guy from the Army loves the “intellectual coward” line. You know all those enlisted guys were paid the big bucks because the were such intellectuals. And he’s the least racist guy you could ever meet, except for Trump of course.
America withdrew from every country it went to war with (Vietnam, N’Korea, Afghan, Iraq, Cuba) in disgrace.
That is no different than Trump withdrawing from his businesses and filling bankruptcies.
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@3RU7AL
--> @badgerShe's been there forever. Part of the furniture I guess. Kinda like you are here. I rarely read your posts. When I do, I don't think much of them. Actually if I were to pick one of you to die, it'd be you, but I'd prefer you both lived forever. Or something.seriously, what policy impact is this going to have ?
If King Charles screws up. The monarchy will be damaged beyond repair.
Just look at the damage Harry and Meghan have caused.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
--> @ShilaFirstly.' stands whith arms open 'bring it in big fella. A quick hug.You reply was WELLLLLLLL below par. With a note added made for a hint of , ( talking to yourself in the third )Picture me hurting real real bad like from that powerful rebuttal.Ouch.As a fellow Catholic for the last 3 - 4 mins i am going to forgive you for that my brother.If you are having trouble with me changing from one religion to the next. May i suggest you pic it with the transformers noise.
How to hug a convoluted person who has his head between his butt cheeks?
Call timeout. Take your licks and start all over again.
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@badger
The entire point of machine learning is turning correlations into predictions. It's very legitimate science that produces seriously impressive things. There's no fallacy here, you're just dumb. I don't even know why you'd be so indignant about this. Colder the country, the more suicides too.
You are turning poor comprehension into predictions.
JULY 23, 2018
Stanford researchers find warming temperatures could increase suicide rates across the U.S. and Mexico
By comparing historical temperature and suicide data, researchers found a strong correlation between warm weather and increased suicides. They estimate climate change could lead to suicide rate increases across the U.S. and Mexico.
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@Lair77
--> @RationalMadmanNothing of the sort. No corruption, no escalating any war. Just good old Biden and his racist gaffs, not to mention inability to hold a coherent speech but that never held Trump or Bush Jr. back.1) Yes, all 3 presidents have had gaffes. Bush, Biden and GW Bush. But Biden didn't get us into a 2 trillion dollar war in Iraq. Nor did he try to overturn an election and start an insurrection.2) Gaffes are literally at the bottom of the totem pole politically. All that really matters are your executive actions and legislative accomplishments. None of what you wrote here takes away from his accomplishments.3) What happened 5, 10, or 20+ years ago isn't relevant. As president, I only judge them for what they do during their presidential term.
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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.Oh ya, that’s so so offensive to use the term Latinx. Biden is practically the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.Cherrypicking.RationalMoron is more like it.This is offensive and toxic, good dramatic example of how to offend people, I see you take after Biden.
That was Lair77 you were addressing. He must have offended you with his typo.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
--> @ShilaI didn't say remain a atheist.I dont have to not not believe in god.You dont go from christian to atheist.Being a atheist fells like nothing until you are asked and or realize you are what they consider a atheist.Im a atheist now.And now i am a Muslim.Buttttttt watch me become a Christian.And I'm a Christian.10And a 9.And a 8.And a 7654,3,2,and a 1.' Catches breath 'See that shlt. I too like to live dangerously.Inter denominational.Multi denomination at once.I crouch down , place my head between my kness.Then i simply tilt foward.Well thats how i roll.
So you are flexible enough to pray to any religion. You posted, “I crouch down , place my head between my knees.”
You can even hold your breath when you see your shit. You posted, “Catches breath ' See that shlt. “
But we can see you have a problem talking with your head between your legs.
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@Public-Choice
No mention of Trump’s banning on Twitter that set off a public uproar as tempers exploded.
->@ShilaYup. Tooooootally not relevant at alllllllllll
'Massive rise' in hate speech on Twitter during presidential election
Tempers cooled down after Trump announced Truth Social his new Trump media.
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@Lair77
Definitely. Paul Volcker, fed chairman in the early 80's, aggressively reduced interest rates. It caused a sharp recession in 1983, but the economy recovered in 1984.The question is: Do we do it quickly and have a severe but short recession? Or do it slowly, and make it take a really long time for the economy to get back to normal?
I hope the economy doesn’t slip into a recession. The democrats will be blamed for overstimulating the economy with all those handouts.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
--> @RationalMadmanTrump actually forced this to happenTrump and Pompeo made a terrible deal with the Taliban, released 5000 Taliban prisoners, and cut a deal to withdraw that Trump later said he would not have followed through on, putting more American servicemen in danger.
It was a controversial move by Trump to pull out of Afghanistan. Trump raised the military spending budget to 738 billion dollars, at the same time wanted all the troops to come home. Trump even pulled out NATO troops from Germany. Because Trump wanted to use the troops to overturn the election results of 2020.
“ President Donald Trump reportedly inquired about an idea raised by his former (and now pardoned) national security adviser, Michael Flynn, that the U.S. military be deployed to overturn the results of the presidential election—a claim shot down by his advisors at a meeting where the president appeared to embrace increasingly fringe notions about his election loss.”
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@Lair77
No amount of "Trump never said the n-word" cancels out the fact that he sides with hategroups.
There is no doubt Trump is a white nationalist and racist. But he is better at dividing white people. Look at the way he has divided the two political parties Democrats and Republicans when both parties are majority white.
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@Lair77
I'll easily contend with progressives, conservatives and independents alike.
- Multiple presidents have intended to get out of the middle east and instead use resources to rebuild our own country's infrastructure. Biden is the only who actually did it.
- 100 accomplishments in the first 100 days.
- Biden passed significant pieces of legislation in a narrowly divided Congress. Most other presidents with significant legislative achievements have done so with a comfortable majority, but it takes political skill to negotiate with a 50-50 Senate.
- First president in history to pass significant legislation toward climate change.
- First president in history to actually pass legislation to negotiate drug prices with Medicare.
That is an incredible achievement considering how slim a majority the democrats have in both house and senate and how fractured the political parties are.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
-> @ShilaUmmm, yeah .I'd be a Christian , Muslim jew scientologist..Spanning across three holy booksWell 4 actually, dianetics is it ?Plus, i just took Allllll the good shlt from each of them and just put the out dated gay hate / slave owning / magical bullcrapIve looked into the ease of which one can ummm " become " a Christian. And the other groups.Unfortunately I can't be jewish. And to be jewish you have to do the ( oddly not so easy ) singing chanting from the book thing.ButttttThe absolute ease of which i can be a Christian and or Muslim, its incredibly easy.Watch me shila.And. Powwwwww.See that.' I am right now a Christian 'I will remain a Christian until i send post.Oh anddddddddd i am also a Muslim.And you know this how?Because. ....... I SAID I WAS SOOOOOO I AM.This ease of which i can be a christian from most of the denominations . may want to be addressed.Peoples could actually just like say they are a Christian.And get this.....Get this.They could like say they are a Christian and not even be a Christian deep down inside.Can i get a Allah akbar , amen, and whatever the scientology lot do. ( Alien overlord )Alien ,Allah amen akbar. ( thats my chant. )On sending this post i will transformed back into my dead atheist self.Good day.
How much of the bullshite Deb-8-a-bull , did you eat to believe you could switch religions so easily and still remain an atheist?
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@Public-Choice
--> @TWS1405The burden of proof is on you to define terms for your argument. Not on me to supply them.But since you decided to go with merriam-webster:Race: any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry.Multiracial: composed of, involving, or representing various racesRacism: a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular raceSo... let's break this down now. Most black people in America are multiracial. This is because the ones here are mostly descended from slaves and were either raped by, had romantic relationships with, or later on down the line married someone of a differing race.This means thsy most black people fail to fall under definition one because they have inherited physical traits from at least two "races."So what this means is that most black people in America fall under "multiracial."This is important because the third definition of racism means that there must be a belief that tangible racial differences that produce a superior species.But in order for people to believe this, there first has to be ACTUAL tangible differences between races. Once again, most black people are not actually black, they are multiracial.So this means that black people cannot truly be racist toward other white people because they, themselves are also partly white. Therefore there is little actual existence of "black people" who can be racist because there are very little actual black people.Now, a multiracial man can be racist for sure. A multiracial man can hold racist beliefs. But, since the vast majority of black people are not even black, then arguing that "black people" are racist is really, REALLY stupid and illogical.But now let us further unpack the definition of "race." Everyone of a particular race must share a similar ancestry.Merriam webster defines ancestry as: line of descent : LINEAGEAnd Lineage means: descent in a line from a common progenitor.So, from this we can determine that the definition of race means all those who descend from one common ancestor. Therefore, what this REALLY means is all human beings are one race. This means that there is no such thing as a "black race" or a "white race." We are all one race because we all have a common ancestor.So what does this mean? It means that the REAL definition of racism is people who believe humankind is superior to other kinds. So, therefore, can black people be racist?On all counts, no way especially NOT to white people. Because they are both the same race, and therefore the definition of racism does not apply to the favoritism or other things that supposedly exist.So, therefore, it is logically impossible for people to be racist toward other people because of the definitions of these words. To be racist toward other people would claim that mankind has multiple ancestors, which is impossible due to the current research proving otherwise. [1]Now, it IS possible to be hateful to other ethnic groups, as ethnicity and race are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. But it is impossible for people to be racist.Also, your single poll is not representative of the sample group and therefore fails basic methodological testing.SOURCES:Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
America has the largest African diaspora of 47 million outside of Africa. That is why racism is highest in America which has 235 million reported whites that has to share the country with such a high number of blacks.
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaGuns are not the problem, human beings and their attitude towards their fellow man is the problemGuns are the problem in America. Read the study.Roughly 33,000 Americans every year are killed with firearms (homicides, suicides, and accidents).In the abstract, it's hard to appreciate just how catastrophic this death toll is. So we made a chart to make things more concrete. It compares the number of Americans killed by guns between 2001 and 2013 to the number of Americans killed by war, AIDS, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined during the same time period. It turns out that guns killed more Americans than all of those horrors put together:If the 2nd Amendment was to arm Americans to kill Americans. It is working. The American civil war killed over 750,000 Americans.The tool (e.g., guns) is not the problem, human beings and their attitude towards their fellow man is the problem. Their behavior. Their mental state. Their belief system. Their self-esteem (and confidence) or lack thereof. Their fear or lack of fear of punishment or how they hurt others (i.e., suicide).An inanimate object cannot harm anyone or anything until it is wielded; and when wielded, it is the behavior, mental state, attitude, belief system, self-esteem or lack thereof, and whether or not they fear punishment or the consequences of utilizing that tool that determines how that tool is wielded and utilized that's the problem. Not the tool in and of itself that cannot do anything without the wielder.
The military uses guns to kill people. More Americans die from guns than hands, feet, fists.
NRA even admitted the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun. Either way guns are more efficient.
Other countries have mentally ill people too. But America sets the record in people killed by guns.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
--> @3RU7ALRCV IS DEMONSTRABLY SUPERIORThat may be, but it doesn't change the fact that relative ignorance of the dynamics in this case was intentional and led to a result the majority of the voters do not approve of.I don't say it should be repealed, I'm just saying it was a trick and the democrat candidate knew it was the best/only way for a minority politician to "win".In more concrete terms, if the voters don't know how to use RCV it is simply a way to split the opposition vote. I think it's safe to say they've learned to pay attention now.Do you support mail-in ballots in Alaska?Not when a biometric blockchain and early voting is an option.please explainWell you were in the thread where I expounded upon it. Everything I described is possible now. It would of course require a small part of the stolen money to be routed to an actual software/hardware engineering team instead of money launderers but it is possible.
How can an election be certified if the election rules keep changing?
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@Ramshutu
In no particular order Tejerertics, whiteflame, RationalMadman, SemperFortisDebate is about being able to argue any point, and I think these people are able to do that really well.I wouldn’t classify Oromagi, myself or Barney as noobsnipers - as much as people who are really, really good at arguing points they think are right. That is a skill in and of itself, but less in keeping with traditional “good at debate”
You highlighted their talent for arguing, they are really good at arguing points they think are right.
But are they capable of agreeing when they think they are wrong?
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@Public-Choice
FROM THE STUDY:FindingsThe prevalence of hate tweets was lowest at moderate temperatures (12 to 21°C) and marked increases in the number of hate tweets were observed at hotter and colder temperatures, reaching up to 12·5% (95% CI 8·0–16·5) for cold temperature extremes (–6 to –3°C) and up to 22·0% (95% CI 20·5–23·5) for hot temperature extremes (42 to 45°C). Outside of the moderate temperature range, the hate tweets also increased as a proportion of total tweeting activity. The quasi-quadratic shape of the temperature–hate tweet curve was robust across varying climate zones, income quartiles, religious and political beliefs, and both city-level and state-level aggregations. However, temperature ranges with the lowest prevalence of hate tweets were centred around the local temperature mean and the magnitude of the increases in hate tweets for hot and cold temperatures varied across the climate zones.InterpretationOur results highlight hate speech online as a potential channel through which temperature alters interpersonal conflict and societal aggression. We provide empirical evidence that hot and cold temperatures can aggravate aggressive tendencies online. The prevalence of the results across climatic and socioeconomic subgroups points to limitations in the ability of humans to adapt to temperature extremes.FundingVolkswagen Foundation.LINK:
No mention of Trump’s banning on Twitter that set off a public uproar as tempers exploded.
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@TWS1405
09.07.22 06:58PM--> @ShilaShilaThe death stats show Asian countries (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Korea) have lower death rates than western countries. So even though western countries claim higher efficacy than the Chinese vaccine, their vaccines are actually resulting in more deaths.You cannot rule out those administering the vaccines in the west might be less qualified than their Asian counterpartsYou're just full of non-sequiturs today.Doesn't take much to be qualified to stick a needle in someone's arm.I am one person among 340,000,000. Having never been afflicted with Covid, I am far removed from such unsubstantiated ignorant criticism.The death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself. ~ New Studies Confirm The Vaxxes Are Killing And Injuring People In Too Large Numbers (allnewspipeline.com)Read your own post blaming the death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself.You clearly paid no mind to the link I put in my response. Here it is again.
Read your own post blaming the death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself.
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@TWS1405
--> @Shila@ElliottTongue piercing, the idea of kissing a girl with a large metal bolt through her tongue I find totally repulsive. But sadly my days of being a total babe magnet are long past.The metal bolt is to discharge any static buildup during oral sex.Not true; not true at all.SexTongue piercing is often touted as a sexually stimulating accessory, according to The History Of. Many people claim that it enhances oral sex. Many varieties of tongue rings are available with attachments intended for sexual purposes. ~ Purpose of a Tongue Ring (leaf.tv)
How people try to discharge static electricity.
You could always purposefully discharge yourself every once in a while. If you carry a metal object like a coin, key or paper clip around with you, and touch it to something metal in your house, any electrons stuck to your body will flow through the metal and away, preventing the “jumping” effect that causes a shock
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaRoughly 33,000 Americans every year are killed with firearms (homicides, suicides, and accidents).In the abstract, it's hard to appreciate just how catastrophic this death toll is. So we made a chart to make things more concrete. It compares the number of Americans killed by guns between 2001 and 2013 to the number of Americans killed by war, AIDS, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined during the same time period. It turns out that guns killed more Americans than all of those horrors put together:If the 2nd Amendment was to arm Americans to kill Americans. It is working. The American civil war killed over 750,000 Americans.Guns are not the problem, human beings and their attitude towards their fellow man is the problem
Guns are the problem in America. Read the study.
Roughly 33,000 Americans every year are killed with firearms (homicides, suicides, and accidents).
In the abstract, it's hard to appreciate just how catastrophic this death toll is. So we made a chart to make things more concrete. It compares the number of Americans killed by guns between 2001 and 2013 to the number of Americans killed by war, AIDS, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined during the same time period. It turns out that guns killed more Americans than all of those horrors put together:
If the 2nd Amendment was to arm Americans to kill Americans. It is working. The American civil war killed over 750,000 Americans.
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@TWS1405
Why do people insist on ad homming me with "(he has) an unhealthy obsession and negative view on black people..."????There is NO obsession or a negative view of black people. What I have tried to do, and consistently try to do (which gets me kicked off social platforms) is get others to engage in these discussions precisely for the reasons you outline below:You see, you do understand perfectly well why I keep bringing up these topics. They are uncomfortable discussions, but why? Because we have been conditioned to be uncomfortable for fear of being called a racist to shut you up.I am not afraid, because I [know] I am not a racist. When I am called that, it just means the one calling me that is a denialist and an intellectual coward.Truth =/= racism. Facts =/= racism.Bringing up tone, ill-perceived idea of another's attitude, etc. etc. is just one excuse after another to deny those truths and facts because those truths and facts scare those on the left. Meanwhile, as you said, there is the obvious double standard where it is perfectly okay to do the exact same thing directed at white people (specifically white males) carte blanche, even when the complaints being made are not factually accurate, as you so aptly pointed out. However, blacks and other POC are off limits per the left, the key element of that double standard.
300 years of slavery and it took a civil war to abolish it where over 700,000 Americans died.
Racism is hardwired in the American DNA.
Black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The researchers examined 5,494 police-related deaths in the U.S. between 2013 and 2017. Rates of deadly police encounters were higher in the West and South than in the Midwest and Northeast, according to the study. Racial disparities in killings by police varied widely across the country, with some metropolitan areas showing very high differences between treatment by race. Black Chicagoans, for example, were found to be over 650% more likely to be killed by police than white Chicagoans.
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@TWS1405
-> @Avery-->@TWS1405Being called a racist in that context is designed to silence your free speech.Rather than contend with your arguments, they'd much rather attack you personally so that you're too scared to speak out, lest you receive social and sometimes physical backlash.And you're so stuck. You know that people evolving in different environments is going to make the races different at the biological level, but you can't begin to say that because you'll be called a racist.That's precisely the response you've seen so far from Progressives. They don't want to contend with the argument that: "Today, 99 times out of 100 in politics, the word “racist” is used purely for political reasons without any regard to whether something bigoted was actually said." Instead, they will attack you personally or the way in which you said something, and either way they will call you racist.Spot on! Thank you.Thing is, I am not afraid. I cannot be silenced. I am not afraid of the truth that I am putting forth; leftist progressives are, as you so aptly pointed out here.thett3 even understands this but still thinks the same, oddly enough.Truth may hurt the left, but it's still the truth, nonetheless.
300 years of slavery and it took a civil war to abolish it where over 700,000 Americans died.
Racism is hardwired in the American DNA.
Black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The researchers examined 5,494 police-related deaths in the U.S. between 2013 and 2017. Rates of deadly police encounters were higher in the West and South than in the Midwest and Northeast, according to the study. Racial disparities in killings by police varied widely across the country, with some metropolitan areas showing very high differences between treatment by race. Black Chicagoans, for example, were found to be over 650% more likely to be killed by police than white Chicagoans.
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@Tejretics
--> @oromagiWhat is your reaction to India's Joint Military exercises with China in Russia this week?I’m not sure it’s very high impact (and potentially reduces risky tensions with China), but I’m really concerned about India’s willingness to continue treating Russia as a major military partner in the aftermath of the (illegal, illegitimate, and immoral) invasion of Ukraine.
Indi has a cyber advantage because of the number of Indians employed in the IT industry in America. But the
Joint Military exercises with China in Russia are necessary to improve its military preparedness.
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@RationalMadman
--> @AveryShall we explore the posts of the users Mesmer and MGTOWDemon and see your opinion on if they are racist or not?I can go one by one if you like. :)
Please introduce us to your list of racists. It might offer us a clue ir rationale behind the madman.
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@K_Michael
-> @ebucActually the most educational thing I've seen on this site. Props for having the balls to discuss it here even if it doesn't get any traction.
But he didn’t colour the balls. So the four colour theorem cannot be applied.
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@TWS1405
— > @ShilaHillary was cleared even by James Comey.Bwaaahaahaahaaa!!!! Comey didn't clear her. He doesn't have the power or the authority to clear her. In fact, he said she did do wrong but likely no "reasonable prosecutor" would take the case. It was a BS excuse and you know it!!!Trump was impeached twice.Witch hunt twice.Trump Org to be charged with tax fraud. NY.Until then, this is a meaningless statement of desperation.Georgia investigating election fraud by Trump.Witch hunt.Jan 6 committee investigating trumps efforts to overturn 2020 election results.Witch hunt.FBI/DOJ investigating criminal obstruction of Justice by Trump and stealing classified documents from National Archives.None of the documents are classified. As POTUS he has the blanket authority to declassify anything he deems fit.Trump university fined 25 million.No, it wasn't.Trump accused of sexual assaults by some 25 women.Most proven false, some recanted, and none carried the weight of a formal investigation leading to any formal charges and indictments.Not only has the Trump Foundation shut down for its misconduct, but the president has been forced to pay $2 million for misusing charitable funds for his own political gain.Who hasn't misused funds for their own gain?Your desperation is loud and clear, as is your intellectual cowardice.
So you believe Trump is a Witch. And all this is a witch hunt even according witch Trump.
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@TWS1405
--> @Shila-->@ebuc..." very day, on average, 316 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.Every day, 210 people are shot and survive.
- 95 are injured in an attack
- 10 survive a suicide attempt
- 90 are shot unintentionally
- 4 are shot in a legal intervention
Every day, 106 people die from gun violence.
- 39 are murdered
- 64 kill themselves
- 1 is killed unintentionally
- 1 dies but the intent is unknown
115,551 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, or by police intervention. "....This does not include all of the big guns/weapons used in war.This is why America goes to war so they can kill others. When there is no war Americans turn on each other. The American Civil War was a good example of American culture.That is not to say there aren’t others that would love to kill Americans. But the stats you provided make that unnecessary. Americans have an amendment right to own and use guns. It appears to be workingNon sequitur and Kettle logic fallacies.
Roughly 33,000 Americans every year are killed with firearms (homicides, suicides, and accidents).
In the abstract, it's hard to appreciate just how catastrophic this death toll is. So we made a chart to make things more concrete. It compares the number of Americans killed by guns between 2001 and 2013 to the number of Americans killed by war, AIDS, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined during the same time period. It turns out that guns killed more Americans than all of those horrors put together:
If the 2nd Amendment was to arm Americans to kill Americans. It is working. The American civil war killed over 750,000 Americans.
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@Tarik
:33PM--> @ShilaIf you had a response you would have offered it instead of pretending I didn't say everything I did so you could bring back a year old debate in order to not have to address what I said.Seriously? Don’t act like there’s no common denominator between what you recently said and the “year old debate” that I brought back up, that referral was exactly that a reference/me simply addressing what you clearly have been ignoring. Now, I didn’t like bringing it back up anymore than you did reading it again but you only have yourself to blame by using circular reasoning. If you hate this trip down memory lane so much you can simply nip this in the bud by omitting the *subject to* argument from your diatribe but clearly you find it essential otherwise you wouldn’t have said it, so this notion that I don’t address what you say is just utterly false in fact I notice it even more so to refer to the original place this circular argument even started.
A sighted person having seen sunlight can understand how instruments are used to measure its brightness.
A blind person having never seen sunlight will be further confused when told about the different levels of brightness and how numbers are used to represent these levels.
That’s like giving a blind man a torchlight and taught how to use the on/off switch. How does he know when to apply it?
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@Stephen
-> @ShilaGod did not give animals or birds control of their environment. They are totally dependent of nature. Bu5 humans have dominance over their environment.Nope. Just one recent 21st century example; Two thirds of Pakistan was flooded just weeks ago; many people lost their lives and properties were totally destroyed and lost for ever. So, it is not just animals that have no control over their environment, we humans just like them, are at its mercy. Stop talking bullshite.
God has sent great floods before. But here he saved the majority of Pakistanis unlike Noah’s flood where he destroyed the Jews.
God saying "have dominion over all the animals" simply makes us an apex predator. Tell me; how does a human in his natural state go about having dominion over a frenzy of great white sharks in their own domain? Or just one great white shark?Shark hunting by humans is actually driving the sharks extinct. Shows humans are masters of the sea.Stop it ffs. So, you can stay under water without coming up for air longer than a whale or a dolphin, can you?
Scuba divers out manoeuvre sharks.
And you didn't answer my question>> Tell me, if we humans are so adapted to the NATURAL world, why is it we lost our natural fur coats only to have to hunt down and kill other animals for their coats?God made Adam and Eve bare naked so he could ogle at their nakedness.So, are you saying that humans didn't evolve from apes and that humans in their natural state have always been naked?
That is why God noticed their naked bodies and grew obsessive.
Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.The verse 3:21 of Genesis says different.Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins and clothed them.But either way, according to the contradictory bible, it was either God or themselves that made artificial covering for these two earthlings. Which is not their natural state by any means.
After banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden they were no longer protected. God then tried to protect humans from the prying eyes of angels. Bu5 even here god was unsuccessful.
Genesis 6:1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
It is strange why you'd only have one religion.I mean pick just one.If you are a member of Three religious groups ya more moral. Durrr.I'd join like four.
Shouldn’t you follow your own advice and at least pick one.
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@Greyparrot
--> @AveryWe generally accept dolphins being more intelligent than humansI sure don't. What are you basing that on?Well some conjecture that they have larger brains and that equates to intelligence. We could also argue Marx was intelligent, yet his ideas directly led to the deaths of 30 million Russians, millions of Cambodians, and god knows how many Chinese killed.I wouldn't consider Marx a particularly smart man despite his IQ.Bobby Fischer was also batshit crazy with his politics despite being the best chess player to ever live. Intelligence is extremely relative.
You just gave two examples where dolphins are more intelligent than humans.
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@oromagi
--> @Public-Choice-->@oromagiThat is why you'll find that Title as the first line of my post.Except it wasn't...Your title left out "expected to."
- No I didn't. You are reading an article from Article from Aug 15th, before Weisselberg pleaded. I am using an Aug 18th article, after the Weisselberg's plea became fact. That should be obvious.
And in the original article, you know, from the Associated Press, that I linked to, (since you didn't even cite a link for your original post) they linked to a NYT article.
- same deal. I assume your outdated article doesn't link because it is outdated.
fact check it, like I normally have to do when you claim things, because, as usual, you got the facts wrong.
- Sorry man. By any measure, your sourcing here and elsewhere is fucked up. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I am just saying you suck at checking your facts.
Maybe he has a reason for not sucking your facts because you are admitting you are not perfect.
Allow him to check your facts instead of sucking at it.
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@Double_R
-->@TarikHave any support for that assertion?It's common sense. If you had a response you would have offered it instead of pretending I didn't say everything I did so you could bring back a year old debate in order to not have to address what I said.
A sighted person having seen sunlight can understand how instruments are used to measure its brightness.
A blind person having never seen sunlight will be further confused when told about the different levels of brightness and how numbers are used to represent these levels.
That’s like giving a blind man a torchlight and taught how to use the on/off switch. How does he know when to apply it?
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@Wylted
07:19AM--> @Double_RJust read this article. It better explains the concept than I can. https://fee.org/articles/the-perils-of-positive-rights/
One would assume positive rights are good and negative rights bad.
But to an American the opposite is true.
Abortion (Roe V. Wade) was seen as positive for 50 years then turned negative by the Supreme Court.
Some might see a need to redefine positive and negative.
But what was declared as settled law is not unsettled.
We should leave English to the British and let the British do our translations.
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Good grades does determine intelligence. It is one way to measure intelligence.There are always a few exceptions to the rule. But standards are not built on exceptions.
Einstein did not get high grades but he was able to continue his education till he found what he was most interested in. He then demonstrated his higher intelligence in his field of work.
Einstein's Education
According to popular lore, Albert Einstein was a poor student. It is true that he did not earn top grades in every subject, but he excelled at math and science, even though he skipped classes and had to cram for exams. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle," he wrote, "that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Einstein taught himself geometry at the age of 12, wrote his first "science paper" at age 16 and received his Ph.D. at the age of 26 in 1905—the same year he published four groundbreaking articles in physics.
Even as a teenager, Einstein had already developed a profound mistrust of authority. He questioned not only his teachers but also long-standing mathematical and scientific "givens," such as ancient Greek rules of geometry and laws of physics established by other scientists. Ironically, Einstein's queries and resulting breakthroughs eventually turned him into an authority himself.
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@oromagi
--> @Public-ChoiceThe actual title of the article is "Trump Org. CFO expected to plead guilty in NY tax case" [1]That is why you'll find that Title as the first line of my post.Additionally, there was no primary source document linked to in the entire article, only other AP News articles and one New York Times article.No need. I am not sourcing a debate, I am starting a conversation with a news clipping. AP News is credited and anybody wishing to verify can just google the headline.Furthermore, the New York Times article that was linked to also failed to link to any primary source document.You are hallucinating again. No NYT articles were referenced or linked to in this post.This is all, therefore, hearsay [2] and not actual proof of anything.It's not a debate. It is a news clipping. Only the very lazy or the very dumb would have any trouble verifying the article or its contents.
Trump files 6 bankruptcies. The tax fraud and evasions will soon be exposed by Trump ORG CFO.
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaThe death stats show Asian countries (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Korea) have lower death rates than western countries. So even though western countries claim higher efficacy than the Chinese vaccine, their vaccines are actually resulting in more deaths.You cannot rule out those administering the vaccines in the west might be less qualified than their Asian counterpartsYou're just full of non-sequiturs today.Doesn't take much to be qualified to stick a needle in someone's arm.I am one person among 340,000,000. Having never been afflicted with Covid, I am far removed from such unsubstantiated ignorant criticism.The death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself. ~ New Studies Confirm The Vaxxes Are Killing And Injuring People In Too Large Numbers (allnewspipeline.com)
Read your own post blaming the death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
--> @ShilaOnce again statistics is wielded by those who don't know the rules.More likely given the same circumstances or more likely per total population? No doubt the number you quote is the later. There is no contradiction, and the in-circumstance statistic is more relevant since it speaks to the presumption you expressed.
TWS1405 was trained in law enforcement. His incompetency is expected.
Black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The researchers examined 5,494 police-related deaths in the U.S. between 2013 and 2017. Rates of deadly police encounters were higher in the West and South than in the Midwest and Northeast, according to the study. Racial disparities in killings by police varied widely across the country, with some metropolitan areas showing very high differences between treatment by race. Black Chicagoans, for example, were found to be over 650% more likely to be killed by police than white Chicagoans.
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@Tejretics
-->@ShilaThat is two financial reasons you admitted made you pick an American University.This argument is pointless, but you’re misreading what I said.Debt forgiveness is a possible financial reason. But it’s not a reason for me -- i.e., it is a possible reason that someone might make a decision, but it was not a reason I considered.“For the same cost” is barely a financial reason. Because the point is it’s an equal cost, not cheaper -- in fact, it’s actually a bit more expensive to study in the U.S., even with my aid package.
How you see how you see American universities are better. when your basic comprehension is so poor.
(1)For the same cost is a financial reason. You even agree,(2) debt forgiveness” -- which is one possible financial reason,
That is two financial reasons you admitted made you pick an American University.
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaThe majority of blacks are democrats.The 2016 campaign ended with a surprising and inconclusive outcome: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote comfortably by 2.87 million votes, but lost the Electoral College to Trump.So more than 2.87 million Americans voted for Hillary than Trump.Non-Sequitur argument.Notwithstanding, he carried far more states than she did; and as a result, he won the electoral college. She lost. Deal with it.But Trump is a one term president. Twice impeached and criminally investigated for tax fraud, election sedition, obstruction of Justice and conspiring to compromise national security.Hillary warned the republicans about Trump.BTW Bush W. also lost the popular vote to Gore.Trump being a one term president means nothing.The impeachments were a witch hunt, completely fabricated.Sure he may have been investigated, but never charged and convicted. Again, more witch hunts from the left because they cannot stand an outsider being on the inside.Hillary compromised national security. She was a clear and present danger to our republic. Both Clintons are.
Hillary was cleared even by James Comey.
Trump was impeached twice.
Trump Org to be charged with tax fraud. NY.
Georgia investigating election fraud by Trump.
Jan 6 committee investigating trumps efforts to overturn 2020 election results.
FBI/DOJ investigating criminal obstruction of Justice by Trump and stealing classified documents from National Archives.
Trump university fined 25 million.
Trump accused of sexual assaults by some 25 women.
Not only has the Trump Foundation shut down for its misconduct, but the president has been forced to pay $2 million for misusing charitable funds for his own political gain.
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@PGA2.0
--> @ShilaAtheism is more reasonable than Theism.Harikrish argued his case well.From the Scriptures and the actions and words of Jesus we can conclude Jesus was an Atheist.You are really counter to what the Bible tells us in every way. Jesus kept referring to His Father who He called God. You are misrepresenting the truth of what is said.
Luke tells us Jesus had both human parents (Joseph son of Heli and Mary) Joseph son of Heli was Jesus’s biological father.
Luke 3:23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli,
But He answered and said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.’”Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus *said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.Matthew 5:9
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.But I say to you, take no oath at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.Matthew 6:30
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!I can give you perhaps hundreds of examples. What you are saying is BS.
Jesus on the cross mocked the God of the Bible.
Matthew 27:46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").
Atheist definition: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.Jesus mocked the religious leaders of his time. He called them vipers and scums just like Atheist mocked the believers today.Matthew 23:33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?So what. That does not mean He did not believe in God. He was disguised with their worship (or lack of) of God.
Jesus mocked religious leaders.
Jesus called his body a temple and drove people out of the real temple of worship.John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."What does that prove?
Jesus drove people out of the real House of God the Holy Temple.
Matthew 21:12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.Jesus claimed he had all authority over his alien Kingdom and earth. Yet he stood idly by as the Romans destroyed the holy city and sanctuary.So what. He and the Father are one. He is God just as the Father and Holy Spirit are God.
Yet he let the Romans crucify him, destroy God’s House, replace Judaism the religion god gave to the Jews with the Roman Catholic Church and even slaughter God’s chosen people the Jews.
He believed anybody who ate his flesh and drank his blood would have eternal life. Who needs a God if Jewish meat is kosher and gets you eternal life in the hereafter.The OT reveals God just as the NT does. What is applied to God in the OT is applied to Jesus in the NT.
The Jews were promised a Messiah in the OT. The NT claims God himself became flesh in Jesus. Very different interpretation.
Jesus wanted to be eaten by his disciples.John 6:54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.Jesus said he was from an alien world.John 8:23 I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.John 18:36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."Jesus was despised like most atheists were during his time. He comforted them.Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.Luke 6:22 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.You are really stretching things, twisting Scripture, and trying to make it apply to your pet theory or teaching. No where can you show Jesus is teaching thtere is no God.
Jesus is making a mockery of God just like most atheists do.
Jesus on the cross mocked the God of the Bible.Matthew 27:46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").No, He did not. He became a Man at the incarnation. Thus, the Man Jesus, fulfilling everything God required of a man by becoming a man, was asking why God had forsaken Him.So Jesus was just a man asking why God had forsaken Him.Were those last words of Jesus that motivated the Pope to declare Jesus was a failure of the cross?So what? The Pope was wrong if he is teaching such a doctrine but I doubt that is what he is teaching.We have a copy of what the Pope said. The Pope refused to correct or redact his speech when asked.Pope declared:"And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross."It may have appeared to end in failure for those who do not understand what Jesus came to do, for those who do not believe. What is the rest of the context? Anyone can take a sentence out of context and claim the person is saying something that the person is not meaning and explains further.
The Pope surely know what Jesus came to do. Yet he called it the great failure of God and Jesus and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross."
Jesus called God his father throughout his life. By doing this he reduced God to a rapist and the cause of his illegitimate bastard status.No, He did not. Again, you speak of things you know virtually nothing about. You are ignorant of Scripture.
Jesus referred to God as His father over 150 times, and He spoke of God as being our father 30 times.
He even blamed God for his alcoholism like God willed him to drink the water he turned into alcohol.Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."He was not directing people to God, he was forcing believers to chose between family or him.Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.35 For I have come to turn ""a man against his father, a daughter against her mother,a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law"36 a man"s enemies will be the members of his own household."[c]37 "Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.But if Jesus was an atheist as scriptures suggests who went against the religious leaders of his time by denouncing their beliefs. Then why do Christians worship an atheist Jesus?By worshipping the atheist Jesus they believe they are turning him into God by their exhaltation.No Scripture suggests Jesus was an atheist. What carp.
Jesus was not directing people to God, he was forcing believers to chose between family or him.
If the Pope did not remind Christians that Jesus was a failure of the cross we would be swamped by Christians on DDO. But we find DDO is full of happy atheists who take delight in the fact that Jesus was an atheist......Harikrish.See link.Not interested in your link.
That is a link to Harikrish. I reposted his convincing arguments that Jesus was an atheist.
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaThe same high standards apply to transgender persons. "These policies are based on the conclusion that open service by transgender persons who are subject to the same high standards and procedures as other Service members with regard to medical fitness for duty, physical fitness, uniform and grooming standards, deployability, and retention is consistent with military service and readiness," the Department of Defense instructions state.Still a non-sequitur argument.Transgenders cannot, by medical definition, be medically fit for duty let alone meet the physical fitness requirements and uniform and grooming standards. Nor are they deployable. They make a mockery of the Armed Forces
It is official.
From January 26, 2021, onwards, there are no restrictions on military service by transgender individuals. Medical care for transitioning servicemembers is provided by the military and procedures for handling the transition in official records established.
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@TWS1405
--> @Shila--> @ShilaElecting a black candidate to the highest office in America twice is not an arbitrary standard. The Republicans tried to lower the bar by electing Trump. Now they cannot get Trump to accept he lost.And yet blacks supported Trump more than Biden AND Obama.The majority of blacks are democrats.The 2016 campaign ended with a surprising and inconclusive outcome: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote comfortably by 2.87 million votes, but lost the Electoral College to Trump.So more than 2.87 million Americans voted for Hillary than Trump.Non-Sequitur argument.Notwithstanding, he carried far more states than she did; and as a result, he won the electoral college. She lost. Deal with it.
But Trump is a one term president. Twice impeached and criminally investigated for tax fraud, election sedition, obstruction of Justice and conspiring to compromise national security.
Hillary warned the republicans about Trump.
BTW Bush W. also lost the popular vote to Gore.
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@TWS1405
--> @ShilaIt is because of people like you America leads the world in Covid cases at 97 million.India is second with 44 million cases with a population 4 times that of America.China with the worlds largest population ranks 108 in Covid cases.I am one person among 340,000,000. Having never been afflicted with Covid, I am far removed from such unsubstantiated ignorant criticism.The death jab is far more related to actual deaths than the illness itself. ~ New Studies Confirm The Vaxxes Are Killing And Injuring People In Too Large Numbers (allnewspipeline.com)
The death stats show Asian countries (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Korea) have lower death rates than western countries. So even though western countries claim higher efficacy than the Chinese vaccine, their vaccines are actually resulting in more deaths.
You cannot rule out those administering the vaccines in the west might be less qualified than their Asian counterparts
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@Greyparrot
--> @ShilaHis first book, the best-selling Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, was on March 1, 2022.So a racist. Got it.This book is a waste of time. The author uses no logic throughout the book other than to blame all the problems of America on white people. In the very first chapter he declares that he or his children have to live in fear that they might be shot by a police officer when the truth is they’re far more likely to be shot by another black person. He also conveniently forgets to talk about BLM founder Patrice Cullors who embezzled and misappropriated funds (millions) that were supposed to be used to help disenfranchised blacks. He also doesn’t mention how the constitution didn’t keep him out of Harvard. This guy is a black racist who just wants to whine about slavery and how all white people are racist. He needs to look in the mirror and take an inventory of his own racist attitudes. This book is a waste of time time and money. He clearly bought his way onto the bestseller list through MSM pandering.Total trash written by a total racist. Talks about a racist calling everyone else a racist and that's in every chapter. Horrible book without intelligence or integrity. Just more indoctrination woke BS. Harvard is turning out a bunch of crazed, privileged professors who should be thanking America instead of constantly disparaging her. The book is a disgusting representation of America taking a horrible turn in the wrong direction.
Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent—covering the courts, the criminal justice system, and politics—and the force behind the magazine’s monthly column “Objection!” He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. His first book, the best-selling Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, was on March 1, 2022.
Mystal is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, and a lifelong New York Mets fans. One of those things is not like the others. Prior to joining The Nation, Mystal was the executive editor of Above the Law. He’s a frequent guest on MSNBC and Sirius XM. He will resist.
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@PGA2.0
The end of the age happened in AD 70, just like Jesus told His disciples it would. Read the rest of the chapter. It applies to THE DISCIPLES and THAT GENERATION. Anything else is reading into Scripture something it does NOT say.What is the issue you have with these verses?
Jesus openly confessed he was clueless. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,but only the Father.”
Matthew 24:3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,but only the Father.
God forsook Jesus when He paid for the sins of humanity for all those who would believe.So what is the issue you have with the verse?
Jesus did not expect God to forsake him on the cross and lamented.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is to say, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
Even the Pope declared the cross was a failure of God.
Pope Francis said during his whirlwind U.S. tour. "And if at times OUR EFFORTS AND WORKS SEEM TO FAIL AND PRODUCE NO FRUIT, we need to REMEMBER that WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS ... and His LIFE, humanly speaking, ENDED IN FAILURE, THE FAILURE OF THE CROSS"
When you don"t understand something, when desperation hits you then look at the CROSS. THAT IS THE GREAT FAILURE OF GOD, THAT IS THE DESTRUCTION OF GOD, AND IT'S A CHALLENGE TO OUR FAITH
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