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9533 pts ยท September 2, 2021


It is a scam, but Republicans have gotten their flock so scared of socialism and communism that we're unable to even have a regulated and fair insurance system like Germany's, let alone a single payer healthcare system.

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The problem is I'm not sure how you'd even go about proving the yodeling without a time machine to go back and listen, but none of the things you listed are even particularly far fetched.

4 days ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

He didn't even do karate? Taekwando is Korean, and what Carlos studied. Karate is a different Japanese martial art.

6 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I don't have a lot of hunting experience, and I'd be nervous about hunting one of those with the .308 bolt action due to how little room for error there is. Nevermind the pistol cartridges.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure the 'gun ad' is AI and if not someone needs to get fired. Length of pull and feed system are stated but the column next to them contains completely different information. The cartridges aren't even described but whatever is on the lefthand side of the moose/bear lineup, should not be aimed at a moose or bear except in dire necessity.

1 week ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I've had people ask for a rematch with the other arm most of the time I've done arm wrestling, so the question is social- do you keep entertaining it's requests for a rematch seven additional times, each sadder and more desperate than the last?

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rogan gave himself a reputation as a partisan media, through his own deliberate action. I agree she would have benefited a lot from going on regardless, any amount of his audience she could influence would have mattered, but the advisor wasn't crazy to note he was definitely not neutral.

1 week ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

...and are the actual posts you see reliably 90% real, or are they even worse than the ads?

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Alex Jones is the template for this shittiness- he's lost multiple court cases, and still hasn't paid for accusing the students at Sandy Hook of being actors and the shooting being fake. Textbook defamation, against private citizens, that no reasonable person would believe was justified, and he still hasn't paid. The system is broken in his favor.

2 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's one of the reasons I don't take the Greens or Libertarians seriously (there are others), they don't ever run any local candidates with actual platforms. We do locally have a third party, Oregon Working Families Party, that wins a lot of low level elections as a credible alternative to the Dems, city councilors, commissioners, etc. instead of just spoilers in the big headline elections.

2 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ok, I think you're blurring together a bunch of different things. The company who actually handed over money to customs was *legally* harmed by the tariff. Prices going up for the things you buy isn't, as the courts determine it, harming you, or you could sue them over it. You aren't even represented in these court cases, they're not returning the money to you via a lawsuit.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The harm is easily repaired, they just don't *want* to do the repairing, and the courts are toothless to force the executive to act against an executive order.

2 weeks ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

...Is it not a Cassandra Nova cosplay? I could have sworn her top was nearly identical to what she wore in Deadpool & Wolverine, but I could also be misremembering/just dumb.

2 weeks ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

The mod u/maxwellhill who was first to reach 1 million karma, and mainly moderated political subreddits, went offline just after Ghislaine was arrested. It's coincidence in the classic sense- two events that occurred simultaneously but have no clear link.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

'The limit' on crypto is when it becomes impossible to transfer it. So, not a selling point, at all. It can be made in arbitrary amounts, not by a government who must deal with the consequences, but by miners who are literally paid to make as much of it as they can, piling up coins that are hidden from the markets to drive up price the way DeBeers stockpiled diamonds. If you think Bitcoin is a good thing, you absolutely do not understand Bitcoin.

3 weeks ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Gaza wouldn't be getting divided into fiefdoms for private development under Harris, the genocide was probably beyond a US president's ability to stop but the Board of Peace is a uniquely Trumpian entity. Ukraine under Harris would have long since pushed Russia back to it's prior borders. Most Americans wouldn't know what tariffs are and wouldn't have to. ICE would exist, would be deporting overstays, but with some degree of accountability and humanity. Vote for the lesser evil folks.

3 weeks ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Nixon vs. Humphrey was the main coin toss we lost as a nation, a close election that could have been altered if the weather had simply been different that November. I don't think Hubert Humphrey was a saint, but he was the clear choice to continue down a path of civil rights and racial integration, only narrowly defeated by a crooked drunk who knowingly courted the most rancid constituents no one else would touch and damaged the country in ways it never recovered from.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Watch the video again. When he gets knocked into the cabinet, HE COMES UP SWINGING, the aggressor is not only not quitting, he is continuing to physically engage at a close enough range to receive the final punch. I'm convinced you heard 'Duty to Retreat' one time and thought you automatically understood it.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why are you giving legal advice? Can you cite a single jurisdiction where the law specifies 'you get one free' but penalizes you after that? Just stop using the word 'legally', it's not yours to throw around.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Right, but 'I have suddenly translated the eldritch roar' provokes the same skepticism. And if the sun's deafening-but-silent wall of sound apparently tells me to give you money and time alone with children... fuck off.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And I wouldn't believe *anyone* who claims to be able to instruct us on behalf of the sun, without the sun itself indicating as such. That's the final test I put on religion- if your god was entirely real, can I actually trust what YOU say about it and tell me to do? Particularly when it's 'listen to my ranting and give me money'.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I no longer have the room in my heart for anyone who didn't figure it out after the first term. You're welcome to be charitable and give them somewhere to go, but they *had* somewhere to go and decided to stay put until they were facing consequences for it. Every member of the cult is guilty of legitimizing and recruiting for it, hiding it's harms and shouting down those attempting to give them an out- they're at the back of the line for help after the people they hurt.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That's how it works in several states in the US, like Oregon where I'm at. I can carefully consider all candidates and ballot measures at home, fill it out with due consideration, and then drop it at either the mailbox or a designated drop. The rest of the US could do that if they wanted to.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not surprising if they're asian or european, we've got lots of evidence at this point of blended tribes, multiple human subspecies all living in communities together. Not just neanderthals, but denisovans as well among south asians. We're more accommodating of differences and less prejudiced against 'others' than modern racism asserts.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

'Extinct' is kind of weird in this case. I've done genetic testing, and I've got quite a bit of specifically Neanderthal genes, they have far more descendants who bear their mark than ever existed as a distinct species/subspecies before they were subsumed into modern humans. Homo Ergaster isn't even distinct from Erectus, except by the behavior we inherited from them. These stones aren't lost potential, they're a work in progress on the way to *us*.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If the police had followed up these 'decoys' as you're describing them, Ghislaine and Jeffery would have been behind bars decades earlier. Dismissing them as unverified or not credible is exactly why they got away with the shit they were proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have done later on, so why are YOU casting doubts?

1 month ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 9

And it didn't even touch the Christian Nationalist right wing terror pipeline that caused the bombing. If Timothy McVeigh hadn't detonated a bomb in 1996 he'd have shot up a school or participated in Jan 6th.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

If your god isn't telling them to knock it off, none of the reasons that might be are complementary to your beliefs.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Can it be done via a mobile web site? With no installation at all? Then fucking do it that way.

2 months ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0