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If you disagree with open borders, I want to know why because open borders seem pretty good to me. One comment at a time though, I don't want to be spammed.
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@fauxlaw
If your referring to the minimum wage, I oppose the minimum wage as well, did a segment on that. Forgot where it was though. But try and stay on topic.
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@Dr.Franklin
Vasectomies are reversible, so just reverse it when your ready to have kids. Seems easier than forcing a woman to be pregnant for 9 months in order to prevent an abortion.
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@ILikePie5
When he has Congress at his heals there’s only so much he can do legally.
He could pull troops out of the middle east and if the democrats try to accuse him of something from it, he could respond, "Well, you asked for it, so here you go". The GOP is basically Trump's party so they ought to go along with the pulling out of troops. He could dejustify US intervention in other countries and hopefully that works.
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@ILikePie5
These people know how to fight the radical Islamists because they’ve been doing it for years.
What they have been telling us hasn't worked. We have been in Iraq for 18 years or so and ISIS still isn't destroyed. I think the more we fight in the middle east, the more ISIS gets recruitment because although most Muslims see ISIS as bad, they see the US involvement in the middle east as worse. When we have killed more innocent civilians than ISIS has, it's easy to see their point.
The War on terror is a counterproductive failure that has resulted in more terror because of US involvement. If we pulled out of the region, the locals would hate us less, and things would eventually go back to the way they were, more or less. I think the War in Iraq is more like the Vietnam war than the Korean war.
The Iraq war is certainly not putting America first either since we spend trillions on a war that is dragging us further into debt. Trump said he would put America first and he has yet to do that with the Iraq War.
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@ILikePie5
How is Israel being an ally beneficial to the United States? They don't give us anything in return. All they do to the US is they use our taxpayer money and we don't get anything out of it. If anything, our relationship with the middle east is being harmed by it, with exceptions going to Saudi Arabia. Why we are allies with Saudi Arabia, I have no idea either. Lets not be allies with any nation that takes tax dollars from the US and doesn't give us anything in return.
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I did a similar topic before, but to me it seems like it's consistent pro life ethic.
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@RationalMadman
The rich would get taxed by alternative means, like the capitol gains tax.
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@dustryder
I see a liberal and conservative argument to abolish the income tax.
The conservative argument for it is it discourages income production.
The liberal argument for it is the rich people (whom the income tax is designed to tax) will try and succeed in finding ways to dodge it no matter how many loopholes you try to close.
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@Trent0405
Abolish the income tax and replace it with a sales tax and a capitol gains tax.
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@Dr.Franklin
I can see that, but if there was a state in the US that was 95% Mexican and had 95% of it's population speaking Spanish, should that state go to Mexico? I don't think so.
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I honestly don't know too much about this issue. Which country deserves ownership of Kosovo and why?
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@HistoryBuff
How was I doing that? I said middle easterners are classified as white by the UN and many middle easterners look white. Jesus is easily in this group.
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@HistoryBuff
If you need a break, I understand. I can wait a little to respond if you want.
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@HistoryBuff
That guy is white. They were not restricted by materials. They didn't just make it with marble. They intentionally depict a white jesus. That is the point.
They depicted a white Jesus, but a different type of white. He's not pale, like a pale British or Irish person. He looks Mediterranean, and since he is Israeli, that might be why he looks tan, but not pale. Israelis like native Israelis look white, but tan white. The UN classifies anyone ethnically from Europe, the middle east, or North Africa as white and (assuming they are assilimiinated to the same culture) it's very hard to tell a north African apart from a Southern European in some instances. The church I attended had Jesus as tan rather than pale and the image you cited states the same.
Even Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian looks like she's from Europe if you remove her religious headwear.
Middle easterners look white generally.
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@HistoryBuff
Statues of Jesus aren't white because they thought Jesus was white. They are white because granite, or whatever rock was used happens to be white.
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I can understand tearing down statues of confederate soldiers, although I would try and make a buck off of it by selling the statues to the highest museum bidder.
But why are we tearing own statues of Abraham Lincoln and Jesus? Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves from slavery and Jesus freed us from hell.
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The left control the cities, and cities produce mad money compared to the rural regions of a country. It's why Flanders has a higher standard of living than Walloon, even though Flanders is red pilled by comparison.
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@sadolite
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/28/21/28945232-0-image-a-104_1590696080645.jpg shows the correct after image. Floyd has hair in it.
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@bmdrocks21
It depends on the time. Now, slavery is objectively wrong. In the 1800s, it was subjectively wrong to some people.
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@Dr.Franklin
I don't want to give foreign aid to countries. I'd rather put America first.
I think the Jewish state doesn't have to exist for Jews to be a protected religion. If the US pulling out of Israel results in Israel becoming replaced with Palestine, so be it. The Jews won't be oppressed there. Palestine welcomed 1/3 of their population in the form of Jewish settlers. Israel returns the favor by declaring independence. It would be like if the US welcomed 150 million Hispanic immigrants to the nation, only for the Hispanics to make a nation out of US territory. This is slightly off topic, but one nice thing with open borders I think is that there will be relatively low numbers of Hispanic immigration compared to the immigration from other parts of the world since Sub saharan Africa, the Muslim world, China, and India have around 4 billion people, around which 40 million would immigrate to the US with an open border system. A lot of the immigrants would either know English, learn it on their own, or their kids would easily learn it. Hispanic America only has 650 million people, and only 65 million would come to the US. Moreover, they are more likely to come to cities then track along desert to get to a place, so I don't see a separatist movement happening with open borders.
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@bmdrocks21
How is libetarianism objectively wrong?
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@bmdrocks21
Why are you insistent on being wrong (a libertarian)?
Being wrong on political questions is subjective.
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@Dr.Franklin
I'd honestly pull out of Israel just to save the US gov some money. The Jews need to be like the Mormons. The Mormons were fine with making a majority in a place not their homeland (where the Book of Mormon was discovered in upstate NY). The Jews should be fine with settling somewhere where the locals would be willing to give or sell the land to them.
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@RoderickSpode
In Africa, Atheists get persecuted.
In China, theists get persecuted.
In the west, people just get along.
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@WaterPhoenix
If you don't live in Antarctica, where do you live?
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@Discipulus_Didicit
I don't think it's satire.
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@Greyparrot
Trump was a vicious Democrat before he switched parties.
If true, then his own base would think he is a murderer and should want him out of office.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Hypocrisy is possible for people. It is possible Trump is a hypocrite, or at least would have a radical mind change. Either way, if he was responsible for the abortion, in the mind of a pro lifer this constitutes murder and the best punishment he can be given from his pro life base is voting for someone else, namely someone who is not a hypocrite and is pro life.
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@Swagnarok
What if I told you that if a democrat gets into office, that they could end up reducing the number of abortions by expanding on contraception?
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@Barney
At 10,000 people, your not going to get a huge margin of error if done correctly.
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Stands for Ask Me Anything Political. I'm bored and out of ideas to talk about.
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@Swagnarok
But replacing him with Biden on account of this (or anything else) could allow hundreds of thousands of future murders to take place unabated.
I don't think Biden should be running, but at least Biden's not a hypocrite on abortion.
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@HistoryBuff
There was this other poll from Pew that said that 42% of people believe abortion should be illegal, but less than 30% want Roe V Wade to be overturned. If you want abortion to be illegal, you easily should support Roe V Wade being overturned.
in the same way someone might tell you they are conservative, but then if you asked, they tell you they support medicare for all.
They might be conservative on other things.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-overwhelmingly-support-roe-v-wade-but-still-favor-abortion-restrictions-2019-06-07 states that 77% of Americans want to keep Roe V Wade.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx states that only 46% of the population is pro choice.
Something is wrong with how people poll.
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If abortion is really murder, then what Trump did is unforgivable, if he did it.
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