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@Greyparrot
His supporters thought they would get a double-wide, instead they got the Gulf of America.


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@FLRW
Actually, the USA will be his biggest bankruptcy.
He could still put Greenland on a credit card.
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First, it's a violation of the Constitution because the power to spend is in the hands of Congress, not the Executive branch

Second, does this mean his supporters won't get their food stamps this month?
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Teacher and student made headlines.
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@WyIted
He took a picture with him at a charity event. This is like one of those things democrats do. You get Clinton actually on the flight logs to the island you get lots of celebrities .

It's like calling Eminem a child molester because he took some photos with puff daddy. It's really stupid. Which is why outside of politics and a similar situation like Eminem in photos with P. DIDDY, LITERALLy has zero people on the planet calling Eminem a child molester. 
You guys disapprove of fact checking, so stick it.

Trump's favorite was an eleven-year-old named Fifi.

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What do you think of DeepSeek?
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@FLRW
The smartest people I know are Chinese.
You thought I was Chinese?

Nope, I'm as American as it gets.

I also think if you don't speak our native language, you can get the fuck out and go back to wherever you came from.

Who here speaks Tsalagi?
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What do you think of DeepSeek?
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@Reece101
If you believe what DeepSeek is saying, once again the Chinese have done it better and cheaper...of course, once Trump tariffs the shit out of it, it will only be better.

I came from the high-tech world where the Chinese have always ignored patents and reverse engineered products better and cheaper, they have so many back doors into our networks, I'm sure they started out steeling the best US AI and juiced it up, In high tech the biggest expense item is R&D, you can always beat price if you steal the R&D.




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@WyIted
As somebody with a son. I will tell you, this is rape. If a grown woman touched my son, I would do the same thing I would do to a grown man.

It's fucking sick. That woman is a predator. I have been 16 and have had older women attempt to seduce me. I may be disturbed by that with my son, but I wouldn't necessarily think the law needs to get involved but a 12 year old is a child and this woman is every bit as sick and twisted as any male predator
That's a double standard.

Trump did 13-year-olds on Epstein Island regularly, and you still voted for him.
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@Best.Korea
Shakespeare didnt mention the age of Romeo
Arthur Brooke did, and he was 16
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@Best.Korea
16 isn't much older than 14.
The actual age of Romeo is never mentioned in the work. The age of Juliet is described as "she just turned 14".

But judging by Romeo's actions, I realized he is probably much older than 14.
In the Shakespear's original story Romeo is 16 and Juliet's age is described as "not yet 14", she is still 13.


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@Best.Korea
not a lot of families then or now would approve of a couple of teenagers getting married after less than 24 hours.
The biggest issue was that families didnt get along, so they didnt want to ever approve of such relationship. I dont really hold a view that family should meddle in who marries who. Otherwise, might as well go back to arranged marriages.
Families shouldn't meddle but they do, they always have and they always will...opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.
Besides, at the time the work was written, 14 was considered adult.
What was your point in saying "Juliet was 14 while Romeo was considered much older.", are you saying you have an opinion about that?
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@Best.Korea
Most people have heard of William Shakespeare's work "Romeo and Juliet".

However, most people dont know that Juliet was 14 while Romeo was considered much older.

They end up killing themselves because their families dont approve of their love.
They got married the day after they first met, not a lot of families then or now would approve of a couple of teenagers getting married after less than 24 hours.
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You're suspected as coming out.
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@Mall
You say why label, well we have labels called heterosexual and homosexual don't we?
Yes, we also have labels called asshole and bigoty.
They exist because we judge what something is and not.
I don't think that all assholes are bigots, but I do think that all bigots are assholes.
Now if you're scared to call a cis male gay for doing whatever sexually with a trans female, that cis male wants to know,
Nonsense, that cis male doesn.t give a crap what I or an asshole bigot thinks of him.
it's disingenuous to avoid answering the question.
That's right, and the question I asked was "are you gay being a cis male that seems obsessively interested in Transexuals, what exactly are you "coming out as"?", and it is very understandable why you are afraid to answer the question. 

You clearly have feelings that draw you to transexuals, and that scares you, you want to know what cis males think of other cis males who are drawn to transexuals, you are clearly afraid of the feeling you have.  I'm sorry, but I'm not going to tell you what to do, you need to decide for yourself if you are coming out as gay.

When you finally do, I'm sure you will find it liberating.



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@FLRW
You know that B.K is playing you, don't you?
BK and Shila, troll vs troll.


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@Mall
Are you gay being a cis male engaging in a sexual relationship  with a trans female?

Why or why not?
I don't think it is any of our business, I thinking a cis male engaging in a sexual relationship with a trans female is just a cis male engaging in a sexual relationship with a trans female, who are we to judge, why is it so important for you to label it?

I also think the cis male engaging in a sexual relationship with a trans female couldn't give a shit less what label you want to put on them.

Do you care that I think it's you are a freak for being so obsessed with this subject, I don't think it's the least bit normal for a "so called" cis male to be searching out videos and focusing on other people's genitals.

The question becomes, are you gay being a cis male that seems obsessively interested in Transexuals, what exactly are you "coming out as"?

Why or why not?
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I am a Christian now. Truth doesnt exist. Hail Hitler!
A pedophile who looks down on Christians, and a troll who has never made a single honest post, is now going to lecture us about truth LOL.
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You are religious, atheist and theist alike.
When people of faith speak of the transcendent reality, they tend to refer to it as a “Spiritual” reality, or simply “God”, and when one examines what they are doing when they use these terms, it becomes clear that they are referring to a particular category of experience which transcends our normal frame of reference. Those who are not mentally able to grasp the concept of transcendence will inevitably confuse the referenced experiential reality with physical reality and reject what they do not understand.

Way too many, if not the majority of the discussions here confuse epistemology with ontology, and we end up with a boatload of inane discussions about physical existence, with absolutely futile contentions about what is real and what is unreal. If we are going to just spend a lot of time reducing philosophy to semantics games, then we really should just “log off, and go out and experience reality”. 

There really is one out there and fully experiencing it can be a whole lot better than sitting at a computer pontificating about whether it is real or not.


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You are religious, atheist and theist alike.
Scientism is a faith that is engaged in by people that draw purely metaphysical conclusions from a junior high school textbook understanding of science. They can't seem to understand much more than that so they attempt to reduce reality to a surface level understanding of just "objects", whenever they encounter concepts they can't comprehend, in mental frustration they tend to act childish, trying to insult anyone with the ability to look deeper with name calling and things like that. They desperately pretend they are smarter than those who comprehend more deeply to hide the insecurity that results from their lack of understanding.
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You are religious, atheist and theist alike.
If true intelligence is mental expansion, which is to say, it involves the ability to view and understanding widely different things from multiple different perspectives, an aptitude for grasping a wide range of truths, relationships, and meanings, and the capacity for abstract and symbolic thought, then it follows logically that the contention that one can reduce reality to only one of its modes, to know it in only one of its forms, is an unintelligent claim.

Science does not contend that reality can be reduced to a single ontological level, on the contrary, science asserts that reality is in fact, multileveled, it asserts that the four dimensions of existence that we call reality, are contingent and relative to a greater reality of more dimensions, of which we cannot have certain knowledge, and which can only be expressed metaphorically.  Being a function of abstract and symbolic thought, this concept simply cannot be grasped by unintelligent people.


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@Best.Korea
@MAV99
Guys, its okay. I accept your concessions.
Let's be clear, I concede that you reject science, philosophy, and religion, but you do believe unicorns exist.

But that does not mean I conceded that unicorns exist, sorry, but I don't consider Kim Jung-un to be an authority on the matter.

Whatever floats your boat.
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@Best.Korea
That is not the definition of faith, no matter how many times you proclaim it.
If you are not going to agree on a definition, then there is no debate. Either give a definition you want to debate on, or this wont go anywhere.
Making up definitions of words just isn't necessary, they have resources for that, they are called dictionaries, check it out.

Is the rejection of science a precept of your religion?
It was a comment on quantum physics. Even Einstein said that its not perfect because it doesnt have direct observation. When there is no direct observation, then there is only inductive reasoning or by results. Inductive is not perfect because its basically built on assumption that things we cannot observe are acting in same way as things we can observe. If you go by results of things you cant observe, it is like observing the effect while not seeing the cause. So while we know that cause exists and reacts to input, it is still not an observation of a cause. So without direct observation, it is very silly to assume that we can know exactly how it works. We dont even know everything about things we can directly observe. Brain can be observed given enough time, but brain has so many connections that mere amount makes it impossible to observe it effectively, let alone make complete theory from such an observation. With the things you cant observe directly or which rely on flawed observation instruments, it is even harder. Science isnt some magic which gives instantly correct answers. Most scientists spend decades working on theories, and face many failures. It is years of effort which eventually reveal a working theory out of bunch theories out there. Even theory of evolution today isnt same as it was when it was first produced.
Kim Jong-un said his archeologists found evidence of unicorns, do you think that is proof that unicorns exist.

Is that why you believe in unicorns, because Kim Jong-un's archeologists found proof?
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Welcome to DART: Introduce Yourself
I will look into that. Thanks
You would be labeled a character troll according to the link.
Only if he isn't really a penguin.
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@Best.Korea
I said I have faith in science
Faith = belief without proof
No, it isn't.  Is this some kind of religious conviction of yours, this idea that if you dogmatically assert it enough times it becomes true?  That is not the definition of faith, no matter how many times you proclaim it.

So you think your belief in science is same as believing in unicorns.
You Korean's and your belief in unicorns, hey whatever Kim Jong-un says, right?

If science is about things you can see, then what is allthat stuff about quantum physics I hear about. 
Mostly fantasy, like unicorns.
Are you saying King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom, did not ride a winged unicorn?

There is an entire army of people writing all kinds of fictional theories, many even contradicting each other. Its all done to milk money from donors, to make it seem like they are doing something. While indirect observations are possible, they are based on inductive reasoning which can be flawed. Basically, they take observation from place A and assume that same exists in place B.
Is the rejection of science a precept of your religion?
I didn’t say “all faith is true”
How do you determine which faith is true and which faith isnt true?
Are you asking me why I think your belief in unicorns is not true?

 
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@Best.Korea
You are just a fountain of deep insights, can I quote you on that too?
You can.
Thank you, I'll save that in case I'm ever in a stupidity contest.
If you don't know anything at all about philosophy, then why did you start a thread about philosophy? 
The thread is about faith being a logical fallacy. If you want to discuss philosophy, sure. Many philosophers were literally insane. Zeno made pointless arguments about how movement is impossible. Plato believed that you cant actually learn anything except what you already know. Aristotle believed in the existence of soul and made some works of fiction about it. To put it simply, philosophers dont seek truth. They seek to be absurd and mock general knowledge. Philosophers arent really something you go for when seeking truth. This is why science is about observable things. Usually, where observation ends, imagination begins.
Best Korea, seeker of truth, enlightens us about Philosophy,thank you.
It is the topic, you don't even understand your own post?
Topic is: Faith is a logical fallacy.
You don’t know what faith is, and you don’t know what alogical fallacy is, so what are you doing here, are you just typing nonsense toshow us an example of logical fallacy?
Thus, things which are not faith are probably irrelevant to the topic.

This idea that everything is faith is your idea, not mine.
You said belief in science is faith. So it seems to be very much your idea.
No, I said I have faith in science, you are the one who said you do notbelieve in science.
You are really talking about yourself in this thread, you obviously lack a way to determine what is true, that's why you can't bring yourself to make a true statement.
It is a true statement that faith is a logical fallacy, as proved by its lack of ability to determine whats true.
You don’t know what true means, what faith means, whatlogical fallacy means, or what your thread is about, that is a true statement.

I think it's time to go back to talking to Shila about your dick.
If girls talk about your dick, its usually a good thing unless they talk about how small or ugly it is.
Prove it.
LOL, oh yes, please do teach me all about science Einstein, I could use me some learning about that science stuff.
Well, first you need to learn about observation.
I observed that you said you don’t have faith in science, ifyou don’t believe in science, then what makes you think you can teach anyone anythingabout it?
The difference between science and faith is that science is about things you can see, where faith is about things you cant see.
If science is about things you can see, then what is allthat stuff about quantum physics I hear about.  You can’t see subatomic particles, can you?
For example, if I tell you that I hear the voice of God in my head, you would need faith to believe me. But you say all faith is true, so I guess you would have to believe me.
Nope, I didn’t say “all faith is true”, you said that.  As far as I can tell, you haven’t saidanything anybody can believe.

If you don't believe in science, and you don't believe in philosophy, and you don't believe in religion, then what do you believe in?
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@Best.Korea
I have faith in science
So your belief in science is faith.
You are just a fountain of deep insights, can I quote you on that too?
I'm talking about philosophy
Most philosophers were considered insane. Most philosophers begin with logic, but end up with crap.
If you don't know anything at all about philosophy, then why did you start a thread about philosophy?  
Is that why you can't give a single example of something you believe that isn't based on faith?
Its irrelevant to the topic.
It is the topic, you don't even understand your own post?
If you think everything is faith, then you lack a way to determine what is true.
This idea that everything is faith is your idea, not mine.  You are really talking about yourself in this thread, you obviously lack a way to determine what is true, that's why you can't bring yourself to make a true statement.  I think it's time to go back to talking to Shila about your dick.
Science usually uses observations, not faith. This is why they say "proved by observation". They dont say "proved by faith".
LOL, oh yes, please do teach me all about science Einstein, I could use me some learning about that science stuff.


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@Best.Korea
I understand that you think your faith is on equal level as scientific observations, which is a common delusion religious people have.
I have faith in science, and I'm not talking about religion, I'm talking about philosophy, specifically, your complete lack of understanding of the philosophical concepts of faith, proof and truth.
However, if you lack ability to determine if something is true, then you cannot at the same time have ability to determine if something is true.
Yes, I get it, you are devout in your unfounded beliefs, sounds like you are one of the "religious people".
This is very simple.

People who have faith by definition have no ability to determine if their belief is true.
Is that why you can't give a single example of something you believe that isn't based on faith?  Because you have no ability to determine is your beliefs are true?  
If they had such ability, then their belief would be proved and it would be considered scientific.
Apparently, you don't have a single belief that can be proven.
So, unless you want to change definition of faith, at this point you might as well claim that magic is real.
Unless you can learn the first thing about philosophy, perhaps you should stick to doing posts about your dick.
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@FLRW
Something never comes from nothing.
Agreed, and therefore the Universe was not created, allow me to explain.

The generally accepted Standard Model of Cosmology assumes conventional physics, especially the General Theory of Relativity (GR), and utilizes the FLRW metric (maybe you’ve heard of it). Logically, it represents the Universe as uncreated.

Here’s what I mean by that, logically, for something to be created, it must temporally move from not existing to existing, there must have been a time when the universe did not exist, followed by a time when the universe did exist. But per the General Theory of Relativity, the Standard Model of Cosmology says that this is not the case, temporally speaking, the Universe is finite, around fourteen billion years old, but there was not a time when it did not exist, so it was not “created”.

The Standard model says that time came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang, which means time began when the universe began, consequently, there was no "before" the Big Bang as the concept of time itself is considered to have started then. The question of "what came before" is generally considered to be meaningless within the Standard Model of Cosmology. If there was no time when the Universe did not exist, then it is meaningless to say it was “created”.


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@FLRW
It's time to rethink what created the Universe.
Why do you believe the universe must have been created by something?

The consensus scientific opinion seems to be that the universe was not created.
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@Best.Korea
It seems that your faith is based on magic.
We aren't talking about my faith, we are talking about your faith, you have done nothing but make assertions without proof.

By abandoning proof, you cannot at the same time have proof.
Without proof you can't have proof, my my, how profound, can I quote you on that deep insight?
Proof represents the ability(the system) to determine what is true.
So now you are saying you don't know what the word proof means either?
Thus, by abandoning the ability to determine what is true, you cannot at the same time have such ability.
By abandoning an ability you can't have such ability, wow, another deep insight, can I quote you on this too?
So unless your faith isnt "belief without proof", I think we are done here.
We aren't talking about my faith, you don't know what my faith is, and you obvious;y wouldn't understand it anyway.

So, are you still afraid to try to give me an example of something you believe with proof?
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@Best.Korea
If you want to contradict yourself, fine. I really dont care for your AI response, or your opinion that self-contradicting statement can be true.
You are the one contradicting yourself.
an axiom is a statement that is accepted as true without proof
By that logic, everything is an axiom. But no, thats not what axiom is.
You don't even know what an axiom is?  Like I said, you are on the internet, nothing could be easier than becoming informed.

But hey, I'll play along with your "make shit up" approach to philosophy, please tell me what an axiom is then.

You didn't respond to my simple request, tell me something you believe about the real world that is not based on faith, something you believe that has been "proven"

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@Best.Korea
Do you not know what a logical contradiction is?
Yes, I know what a logical contradiction is, and your faith-based belief that "for something to be considered true, it must be proved to be true." is a logical fallacy.

Do you not know what the word "true" means?

System for determining truth is a logical axiom.
You are self-refuting again. 

In logic, an axiom is a statement that is accepted as true without proof, which you have declared "belief without proof" to be  a logical fallacy.

Your reasoning is circular and self-negating, and because it is strictly faith based, according to you, it is a logical fallacy. 

If you remove the system and dont replace it with anything, then nothing can be considered true. Thus, your faith isnt true. But it is logically impossible for nothing to be true, thus the mere removal of a system is a logical fallacy.
There is no proof of this faith-based assertion, it is itself a logical fallacy.
If you remove the system and say that everything is true, then system also becomes true and you commit a contradiction.
Your belief without proof, a logical fallacy.
Your only way is to replace this system with another system.
This is your belief without proof.
But there is no other system for determining truth other than by proof.
As I suspected, you don't understand what a "system for determining truth" is.  

Thus, since you have no system to replace it with, it remains true.
You are on the internet, becoming informed about the subject matter you are talking about is as easy as a few keystrokes.  Here is AI response to ""system for determining truth", note that philosophically, there are multiple different systems for determining truth and none of them asserts that "for something to be considered true, it must be proved to be true." 

A "system for determining truth" typically refers to a philosophical framework or set of criteria used to evaluate whether a statement or belief is true, often including theories like the "correspondence theory," "coherence theory," "pragmatic theory," or a combination of these, which each approach the question of truth from a different angle, considering factors like how well a statement aligns with reality, fits within a logical system, or proves useful in practice. 

Key points about different truth-determination systems:
  • Correspondence theory:
    A statement is true if it accurately reflects reality, meaning there is a direct correspondence between the statement and the world. 
  • Coherence theory:
    A statement is true if it logically fits within a broader system of beliefs, forming a coherent picture without contradictions. 
  • Pragmatic theory:
    A statement is true if it has practical benefits or leads to useful outcomes in the real world. 
Important considerations when evaluating a "system for determining truth":
  • Context:
    The appropriate system for determining truth can depend on the situation, subject matter, and purpose of the inquiry. 
  • Limitations:
    No single system is perfect, and each can have challenges in specific scenarios, such as dealing with complex or nuanced issues. 
  • Critical thinking:
    To effectively determine truth, one needs to critically analyze information, consider multiple perspectives, and be aware of potential biases. 
Please give me an example of something, that is not abstract mathematics or logic, anything you believe about the real world, that has been proven to be true.
 
Tell me something you believe to be true that is not based on faith?
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@Best.Korea
Your faith-based belief without proof that "In order for something to be considered true, it must be proved to be true." is a logical fallacy.
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@Best.Korea
In order for something to be considered true, it must be proved to be true.
Can you prove that, or do you just take it on faith?
If proof is a requirement for something to be considered true, then the statement is true, as thats what it says.
So you are saying you have faith that the statement proves itself to be true.

If proof isnt a requirement for something to be considered true, then the statement above is true again.
This is not a statement of fact, it is a statement of your faith.
Thus, the statement above cannot be "not true".
You believe this without proof.
To say that "Proof isnt a requirement for something to be considered true" is a self negating statement, because if true, then the opposite statement of it must be considered true as well. A logical absurd.
That's my point, your initial assertion is a self-negating statement, there is nothing here but attempts to assert your beliefs without proof.


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@Best.Korea
Do you define faith as "belief without proof"?

In that case, faith is a logical  fallacy.

In order for something to be considered true, it must be proved to be true.
Can you prove that, or do you just take it on faith?
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@Best.Korea
Green is both blue and yellow, and yet, it is neither blue, nor yellow.
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@FishChaser
In order to be right you have to IDENTIFY which answer is right. If you just say everything then you aren't right even if one of those things is right because you still don't know which one is right.
They call that the weave, and its genius.
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Reincarnation: a real phenomenon that Christianity hid on purpose
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The Trump bible teaches reintarnation, which says when you die, you come back as a hillbilly, that's where MAGA voters come from.
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@FLRW
Well, remember that if you are rich you can buy growth hormones for your kid that will make him grow to 6'-7.
...and you can grab a woman by the pussy without even asking, they just let you.
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@WyIted
To get the pardon, Ross had to promise he'd carry Trump watches, Trump tennis shoes, and Trump Bibles on the ‘Silk Road’ website.
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@RemyBrown

Why else would you pardon all these people?

Political violence is acceptable if you wear a MAGA hat according to Trump and anyone that supports Trump after this decides that this isn't a deal breaker and to me, that makes literally no sense.
The message is that behavior we saw on Jan 6 is OK, protected by the first amendment in fact.

I'm sure if a Black Lives Matter protest got out of hand, and they attacked the capital, they would be treated the same.

Well....except for all of them being killed before they even made it to the steps of the Capital building...but other than that, they would be treated the same I'm sure.
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@RemyBrown
The reason is not because of economic policy (I'm fine with letting the trailer parks starve so I can save tax money); the sole reason is because Trump says anyone who hates or doesn't like him is a communist.

Alright; I'm a communist now.  The label I don't really care about.
Trump lied again.

On the Communist Application, if you check the box that says, "I hate or don't like Donald Trump", they automatically reject you.
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@Best.Korea
Have you read the book 1984 where the government decided what was and wasn't true?
Thats what we have in Europe and Canada, and somewhat in USA.
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening" - Donald Trump

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -  George Orwell (In his novel 1984)
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@sadolite
@zedvictor4
@ebuc
If your reading this message, then your hallucinating. This site was shutdown on Jan 20th.  Please seek some alcohol to stop the hallucinations.

Humanity will come to an end 2015, was my prognostication based on the  formula involving;

1} triangulating { to get a fix on somethings location } ergo #3,

2} Cosmic Pi-time 66.4,

3} speed-of-EMradiation, that, led to a value coinciding with the human population in 2015. 

Where now 10 years beyond that date.
It's been like a fucking Fellini movie since 2015, God I hope I've been hallucinating everything for the last 10 years.

I'm hoping I wake up, and it's still 2015, and then I realize I took acid and none of this surrealistic shit really happened.
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@WyIted
What's wrong with the poorly educated? 
They voted for Trump, that's what's wrong with them.
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Property taxes on houses you don't live in
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@Greyparrot
Aww, why did you have to go admit you're a really good person publicly online? Now they will show you no mercy!

(I always kept your secret)
Well, I revealed while I was bitch slapping n8nrgim, that should count for something.
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@n8nrgim
you have a lot of good points, that would need ironed out if this plan were to be implemented. but those are just the details.
No, they are the fundamental reasons your plan is insane. You didn’t answer my first question, why can’t foreigners and corporations own homes? How does that benefit anyone?  

i think the crux of the issue, is that i think home builders would just find a new price point that isn't so ridiculously high, and you think they wouldn't be able to muster it. only an empirical study of this would show who is right,
So your plan is counting on magic?

You are talking about my business, and the home construction industry empirically studies the living shit out of these issues.  We are talking about a cyclical business where the players are investing hundreds of millions into building homes to meet demand, those hundreds of millions are at risk if they get the market wrong, and they spend millions on empirical studies to make sure that doesn’t happen.  Like I said before, in 2007 we had a collapse like you are describing and half of the builders went bankrupt, the industry still hasn’t fully recovered, the reason home prices have gone up so much is the supply just isn’t there, the demand is great, and the higher the prices and interest rates get, the more people can’t afford to buy, there are more young families living with relatives than at any other time in history because there just aren’t enough homes. 

but, i think at least if we did this fifty years ago or sooner, it wouldn't be such a blast to the status quo. and, that's all you for sure have here... this would for sure be a blast to the status quo, and it could even cause recessions or even a depression if done the wrong way. but that's the thing with actual policy that actually helps people,
Yeah, it sounds real nice to say this “actually helps people”, impressive even, but you still haven’t explained how this devastation to the status quo helps people, all homeowners lose equity, many many go bankrupt, home builders are devastated, and the US Economy goes to shit, and millions and millions of jobs go away, who exactly are the people this “actually helps”?

it's a crash to the status quo and scandalous if not a blast to the existing power brokers. that doesn't mean they're bad ideas,
No, the fact that they ruin the housing market and the US Economy and destroy the net worth of the vast majority of Americans and increases unemployment astronomically means they’re bad ideas.

they just need gradually phased in, or something. take almost any policy solution to the problems that ail us, and you will see existing power brokers lose out and entrenched lobbyists throw all hell at preventing change. this all doesn't mean all change is bad...
If everyone must suffer, so you can stick it to the sp called “power brokers” then so be it, right.  Who are those dark nefarious power brokers we must fight against again? Homeowners, builders, the millions of people employed by the construction industry, renters, yeah, let’s fuck everyone over so the secret behind the scenes “power brokers” get there’s.

there's winners and losers to everything. that doesn't mean we shouldn’t try to form a more perfect union and do better. at any rate, this is a democracy and someone like trump would come along and deregulate it again and say it was common sense all along what we're doing. that dont mean it's true, though. most of major change that can help people, healthcare, gun policy, education, housing, etc, would require major shock to the system.
Just tear it all down, something good will come out of it, if everyone suffers we can be sure those secret bad people suffer too.
you'd be the one standing in the way every single time. what's your usual method to help people? just criticize other ideas, like libertarians, or maybe do you just like to take incremental approaches that aren't such a shock to the system? my guess is that you dont have too many original ideas, and maybe just some DNC talking points.
Rather than sit on my mom’s couch eating Cheetos, complaining and typing stupid shit you know nothing about and comically thinking you are "helping people" like you are doing, I’m in the arena, actually helping people.  I’ve run a therapeutic riding center for the last 30 years (Sidewalker is a term from Therapeutic riding), I personally have helped thousands of handicap people live better lives.  My business is affordable housing, I work for a builder proving new homes for people who can’t normally afford one, and I’ve put hundreds of families into their first home in the last 8 years. That’s some of my usual methods to help people, now it’s your turn pumpkin.

You seem to think sitting on your mom’s couch eating Cheetos and thinking up stupid shit is "helping people", and you are comically arrogant about it, well, other than that, is there anything else you do, have you ever actually been in the arena, ever actually helped someone by actually doing something to help, not counting doing something inanely theoretical on the couch, something you had to get off the couch to do that actually helped someone?  Time to make something up and tell us all about it.


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@Greyparrot
Why is this all about California for you, do you live in California?

The other 49 states have houses too you know.
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@Greyparrot
It makes sense if you can steal a person's life savings without killing him that is evidence enough for the government caring and not being greedy at all.
Careful you don't give Trump any ideas, he would love to steal everyone's life savings
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@n8nrgim
Home developers would still build houses. That's their thing, so they'd just find a new equilibrium on the price point.
No, they wouldn't, their thing is to make a profit, if home prices crash, the cost of materials and labor become greater than what you can sell the home for and they stop building.  New home construction is very cyclical, the crash of 2007 put half of the builders out of business, the ones that made it stopped building homes, years later when prices came back up they started building again, we still haven't caught up with demand, there are fewer homes than there are people who need a home to live it.
Incomes r still high in the usa and some landlords would still own multiple properties.  
No they wouldn't, investors buy homes looking for a return on investment, this is a combination of rent payments vs mortgage and maintenance costs, plus price appreciation.  When the return on investment in housing goes down, they find better places to put their money.  
Instead of the the average house being 400k in the usa, which is self evidently absurd, maybe the new price point would be 200k.
It costs more than that to build one, and if that happened, the homeowners would all lose $200K in equity.  So everyone is fucked, homeowners get ruined, builders go away, and renters don't have a place to rent. 
I doubt it'd go as low as 100k but I dunno. Plus there would still be upward pressure in housing prices not just from high incomes, but our embedded mortgage system. The bottom line is that there would just be a better price point and u r too critical to obvious solutions. If u lived when cars were made, u would be one of the people saying cars hurtling past each other at 55 mph is a disaster waiting to happen. 
If u lived when cars were made you'd say manufacturers should be allowed to make a profit, but they would magically still make cars because that's what they do, and if that happened, we'd all still be driving horse and buggy to work.
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@Best.Korea
This seems like a California idea
California is one of the safest states in USA.
Not in Palisades.
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@n8nrgim
First corporations and foreigners shouldn't even be allowed to own houses
Why not?
Next, to discourage rich people from hoarding property at the expense of others, 
Why is it that rich people hoarding property be at the expense of others, typically they rent them to people who don't yet have the means to buy a home.

the second house they own should be taxed at 10 percent of the profits, third house at 20 percent profits, and so forth, up to 90 percent tax on 10th and all subsequent houses.
How do you calculate profit on a house, if it's rented are you considering the rent to be profit?  If the owner took a mortgage, then is it the difference, and if there is a negative cash flow, should that be deducted from their taxes? How about price appreciation, how does that impact the profit calculation?
Apartment buildings should be taxed the same way, except it's not based on number of apartments but number of buildings. This would encourage efficiency in building and living
How would that encourage efficiency in building and living?  Almost all apartment buildings are owned by corporations, are you saying apartment ownership can't be incorporated.  
This all would lower house prices and encourage more home ownership

Why is this such a bad idea?
It's a terrible idea because it would not lower house prices and it would not encourage more home ownership.  It would devastate the housing market, and people who own just one house would lose their equity, the supply of homes would end up being reduced, there would be more people that want homes than there would be homes available, that makes the home price go up for first time home buyers, so pretty much everybody would be screwed.

If you fuck up the housing market, you fuck up the entire US economy, construction is the engine driving economic growth.

Other than all that, good idea.
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