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@ebuc
Ok, sorry then. My link generally indicates that the efficacy and use of standardized test scores is a matter of great controversy these days.
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@Statichead
The Shawshank Redemption - great story, great acting, and movies about forging a deep friendship seem to be a favorite of mine…
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@ebuc
Huhh?
This feeling is usually mutual. For the record, I am not the poster who introduced average IQ by nationality into a moral decency thread.
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@FLRW
Well, the USA does rank 46th in IQ. South Korea is number 1.
Nice one, Charles Murray.
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@Moozer325
Anti racist ideology states that black people cannot be racist because the black race is not in a position of power over the white race. In other words, Racism = Power + Prejudice. By this standard, black people can be bigoted but not racist per se. I don’t agree with this line of thought, but it is a prominent idea in anti racist thought. It is espoused by such people as: Robin DeAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, Ta Nehasi Coates, Tim Wise, Kimberle Crenshaw, Nikole Hannah Jones, as well as various educational associations.
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@Best.Korea
Germany, 1945: “Reelect me, Adolf Hitler, so that I can forge a new Path FORWARD!” *massive applause*
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@Best.Korea
Imagine a Hitler in 1945 who, instead of committing suicide, ran for reelection! “Reelect me, and make Germany great AGAIN!!” *massive applause*
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@Best.Korea
That happened in 1933 when Hitler was chosen to be in position of power.
Hitler 1933 didn’t carry the same, eh… baggage, if you will, as Hitler 1940’s.
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@Double_R
“Kamala Harris for president. Or else… Donald Trump will take credit for the stock market! (I’m Kamala Harris, and I approve this message.)”
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@Double_R
Not a word of what I said had anything to do with democracy.
Exactly. You claim he is a threat to democracy, yet your prediction has nothing to do with how this grave threat will manifest if he is elected.
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Prediction (if Trump wins): in his first week in office Trump will point to the stock market which will be about the same as it is now and call it the greatest stock market ever. He'll point to the first jobs report which will be about the same as it is now and brag about how many jobs he created. The economy will continue to improve at the same pace is been improving over the past two years, but within 6 months Trump and all of MAGA will be telling us Trump fixed everything, America is great again, and this is the best economy we've ever seen.
So this will be how democracy ends— with thunderous applause…
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@Best.Korea
It does sound pretty cool: “You down with ODD?” “Yeah, you know me!”
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@Sidewalker
Not only that, his wife is eating dogs and cats.
Again, I don’t believe it. You only claim that because she is of Chinese descent.
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@Best.Korea
Putin makes him do it.
What makes you do it?
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@Greyparrot
I think we are already seeing it. Compare the number of Trump bashing threads versus the number of NotTrump bashing threads. And this is with Captain Rosie on a well deserved vacation!
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I would like to see an ad for Harris featuring Dick Cheney in person. He could introduce himself like this: “Hi, I’m Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States and main architect of the US invasion of Iraq.”
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@Greyparrot
Did you play your drinking game? How hammered did you get?
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@Sidewalker
So, no evidence to back up your claim that Mitch is voting against Trump?
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@Sidewalker
Even Moscow Mitch is voting for Kamala Harris
Is he really? Where does Mitch say that? Instead, I found this:
Even if Mitch, as well as others, vote “for” Harris, they are really just voting against Trump. Being NotTrump was enough to beat Trump during COVID, but will it be enough to beat Trump during Biden?
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@Greyparrot
That would mean 13 drinks by your rules. Yow!
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@Greyparrot
Can we do a drinking game? key words will be "turn the page"... "Middle class background" and "Trump"
Trump? Dang, you don’t even want to give sobriety a chance!
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@Double_R
meanwhile still talking about one comment made by one politician about you guys nearly a decade later.
Hillary really got the last laugh with that comment…
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The vaccine mandate struck me as pretty authoritarian.
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the image posted on Truth Social depicts Trump on a football field wearing a jersey for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and there is no evidence this ever occurred.
Right… “there is no evidence this ever occurred.” THAT’s the reason to disbelieve a clearly doctored photo. Anyone see the “guns” on Trump there? He sure isn’t skipping arm day at the gym!
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@WyIted
I REALLY thought that Trump applied to work at McDonalds, went through the interview process and got a job there. I also thought he would be serving random people going through the drive through despite recently surviving 3 assassination attempts.
Yep. Trump really let his constituency down with this deceptive and disrespectful stunt.
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@FLRW
The US hasn’t paid down debt in a very long time, alas. I suggest investing in precious metals if you haven’t already and hope that your unrealized gains don’t get taxed.
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@Greyparrot
I hope you live in a solid blue state so your vote is wasted.
Wouldn’t that be a solid red state for a blue vote to be wasted?
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@ILikePie5
Indians are 100% racist. They’re not fans of the Aaaafrican Americans
The caste system seems designed to instill racism and feelings of superiority, so this makes sense, and I have heard the same generalization from others. Personally, I have worked with a team comprising a black woman and an Indian man, and he said alarming things behind her back. Like I had to remind him that his words were being recorded. Funny thing is, he was clearly able to speak intelligently about race when he wasn’t talking about her specifically.
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@WyIted
To Mr. Patel's credit he said predeep was a racist to say Americans eat cows
Did Patel come from a middle class family, and does he appreciate the significance of the passage of time?
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@JoeBob
Trump because Biden is the worst president I’ve witnessed in my lifetime, and Harris is the worst candidate for president I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. The world has caught on fire on his watch, and as a distant second, I’m not onboard with DEI ideology nor do I believe some men can get pregnant.
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@RemyBrown
Not only that, but I hear they like to bite off the head first.
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@Greyparrot
Touché. I thought you missed it, but it was I who missed it!
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@Greyparrot
Well, how important can it be to her when she chooses not to make it a priority on her schedule is my implication…
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@Greyparrot
To be fair, she did acknowledge the importance of the occasion in her prerecorded video appearance.
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@Greyparrot
Trump seemed in his element. She must have known she couldn’t compare to that.
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@Greyparrot
She could be running against bozo the clown and still lose. Kamala will go down with her scum buddy.
Trump is probably the only Republican candidate Harris could possibly beat.
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@ILikePie5
Worked for him last time. No new wars.
The world was mostly peaceful during Trump’s term.
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@Greyparrot
Harris doesn’t normally drink beer— it makes her too giggly.
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@FLRW
That’s absolutely correct— he diverted funds from FEMA to ICE, both under the DHS umbrella. Once news of this spreads, Trump’s candidacy is toast!
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@HistoryBuff
What is your area of focus regarding history?
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@Greyparrot
Remember that there are only two types of thinking:
1. Binary
2. Non binary
Either/or
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I don't think an F-22 does any better against Hamas than an F-16 (huge price difference).
Israel is going for the global historical record of the least collateral + allied damage against enemies that dress in civilian clothes, refuse to meet on the battlefield, and hide behind women and children.
Plus they (unlike the USA or the other countries I mentioned) are keeping their nukes (if any) a secret. This radically different strategy caused by their unique situation where their major nation state rivals don't yet have nukes and if Israel started bragging about having them those rivals would be publicly obliged to start their own nuclear weapons programs.
Israel won't tolerate that so that would inevitably lead to a large war (which may happen anyway).
I’m not sure what your point is in all this, but my point is that Israel having nukes didn’t prevent October 7 any more than the US having nukes prevented 9/11. Nukes deter nukes, and that is about it.
The wars the Pentagon wants more money to prepare for are overseas.
WWII was overseas until December 7, 1941. Al Qaida was overseas (or so we thought) until September 11, 2001. This report is as much about prevention and deterrence as it is about war fighting capability.
It basically was, the people are old Bush era deep state war mongers
If that is truly the case, then the DoD is being extremely self critical with this report. Self criticism is often the best and most important kind. For what it’s worth, Trump asked General Keane to be his SecDef.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
(Everything we see in the Ukraine Russia war indicates that our theory of war is outdated and 85% of what we spend our military budget on is outdated and would get a lot of our soldiers killed if they ever had to fight a modern war with an enemy who knows how to utilize the new technology)
This point was actually made in the report, so in that respect, you agree with the report.
Remember when France was invaded and is now occupied? Oh wait that hasn't happened since they got nukes
You don’t think Israel has nukes?
Agree or disagree with the conclusions of the report, I’m mainly saying that it should be part of the national conversation.
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@Swagnarok
The report was not made by the DoD.
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