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StratGoatCom posted:https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Senate-Passes-NOPEC-Antitrust-Bill.html Kind of sad that the Saudis view us not actively helping them in Yemen anymore and gently telling them to stop, while still selling them anti-missile defense systems at a discount and defending them diplomatically, as a "historic betrayal" worthy of an economic suicide pact. The NOPEC bill would be incredibly difficult to enforce to a meaningful degree and seems like it is primarily a way of telling OPEC the U.S. is annoyed with them.
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LionArcher posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1522315928645603328?s=20&t=C0v0jHHTaLPMVWwh7RxKxA https://www.wwno.org/2022-05-05/louisiana-bill-would-allow-murder-charges-for-abortions-opponents-call-it-barbaric "Opponents of the bill said its broad scope would also criminalize in vitro fertilization, intrauterine birth control devices (IUDs) and emergency contraception as well."
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
If I was an oil junky, I simply would not do something that would irritate my main dealer, even if it was symbolic. Especially if it was symbolic.
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StratGoatCom posted:If I was an oil junky, I simply would not do something that would irritate my main dealer, even if it was symbolic. Especially if it was symbolic. Is this about Keystone XL? Since that's Canada.
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a.lo posted:at least Louisiana has a democratic governor He's essentially Republican lite.
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The Sean posted:Yeah, that would be fine if I actually said the thing you accused me of. "Not adding to discussion." - Koos Group How the gently caress do I add to a discussion where some one is literally lying about what I said? So, the conclusion is: mischaracterizing about what someone said is "adding to the discussion" but also saying that's not accurate is "not adding to the discussion." So like discussing things isn't a discussion. The Sean fucked around with this message at 03:09 on May 6, 2022 |
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To my view it's not an inherently partisan issue, though obviously the GOP is worse. The issue is that, in the USA, it's reasonably mainstream/common to hold the vile and indefensible position that abortion should be other than fully available to any woman who requests it. Partisan politics ain't helping, but the issue extends far outside that.
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The Sean posted:"Not adding to discussion." - Koos Group No, I got dinged too, don't worry
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https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1522377858819268608
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Devor posted:No, I got dinged too, don't worry I missed that and I don't have umbrage against you. I know where you were coming from in general and I think you had good intentions and we just didn't line up. It would have been nice if we could have worked this out through *ahem* Debate and Discussion instead of us both being blocked from doing so. "Use the report feature" or "discuss this in a segregated thread that nobody reads or will come across normally" or "use pms with the mods who are lovely at modding (but omg they do it with no pay so that means you have to feel sorry for their lovely decisions)". All resolutions that aren't out in the open--which is clearly the point. The Sean fucked around with this message at 05:43 on May 6, 2022 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Fairly Draft him for 2024 then, because I just sure as poo poo don't see Biden winning that under any realisticly forecastable circumstances what so ever. StratGoatCom fucked around with this message at 03:14 on May 6, 2022 |
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Democrats with no plan? Impossible.
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PT6A posted:To my view it's not an inherently partisan issue, though obviously the GOP is worse. The issue is that, in the USA, it's reasonably mainstream/common to hold the vile and indefensible position that abortion should be other than fully available to any woman who requests it. Partisan politics ain't helping, but the issue extends far outside that. And that's the problem with the party that fundraises, runs & gets elected on the platform of reproductive freedom.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Democrats with no plan? Impossible. The plan is to let the Republicans remove body autonomy so we can win in the most important election in your life.*flash 10 years forward* Oh poo poo they banned our party? Darn. Oh well what could we have done
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https://twitter.com/reportercioffi/status/1522300071311728642?s=21&t=QRsovI23i0ZqJbQpQHyF8A If you don’t remember Anita Dunn: Former Obama Adviser Anita Dunn Helped Harvey Weinstein Strategize Before New York Times Story https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein They are so out of touch.
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Some Colorado democrats want to kickstart the drug wars it seems https://twitter.com/mattsebastian/status/1522409895621844994 Gee it's not like we have evidence this kind of thing is horrible. Let's just do it anyway! Hmm all of a sudden black people's weed is testing positive for fentanyl for some reason. ![]()
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FlamingLiberal posted:Democrats with no plan? Impossible. The plan is to let the Republicans remove body autonomy so we can win in the most important election in your life.*flash 10 years forward* Oh poo poo they banned our party? Darn. Oh well what could we have done Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Some Colorado democrats want to kickstart the drug wars it seems The Dems love crime bills. They call it a mistake because people found out it was their fault. They'd rather spend half a bil jailing a shitload of people than do something about the drug crisis that the pharmaceutical companies ran under the democratic noses.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Democrats with no plan? Impossible. He's as slimy as they come, but he's smart about being slimy. He's furious the others aren't pulling the grift as well as he does. (and I think this is an issue he legit cares about, it's obvious he likes women...)
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Some Colorado democrats want to kickstart the drug wars it seems The quote from the politician who's arguing for the guardrails is still maddening. What's the difference between someone possessing oxy, meth, or fentanyl from a legal perspective? What is the benefit of different sentence lengths? This also definitely sounds like a push by police and those sympathetic to them to open back up smelling weed as probable cause.
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Spoke Lee posted:Here's a post mortem: Thank you for the clarification, I am looking for situations where things pass/fail by one vote as that is evidence of "true belief" of the voters themselves. Situations like this one are unfortunately too muddy for my needs, while being an existential threat for you and others.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Some Colorado democrats want to kickstart the drug wars it seems This is another issue I see with "Vote blue no matter who". The lovely democrats will put up bills like this that set us back or fund the police who will attack and harass those protesting against the GOP taking away human rights
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theCalamity posted:This is another issue I see with "Vote blue no matter who". The lovely democrats will put up bills like this that set us back or fund the police who will attack and harass those protesting against the GOP taking away human rights Exactly. "But think about your loved ones" they'll shame you for while actively loving your loved ones over.
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America 2033 "ooh hun the passion of the Christ is on trump TV but I have to turn the subtitles off because you aren't allowed to read"
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The Sean posted:I missed that and I don't have umbrage against you. I know where you were coming from in general and I think you had good intentions and we just didn't line up. What were you getting at when you first asked Uncle Boogeyman this, op? The Sean posted:Is your argument suggesting that "many people" feel that having an abortion procedure is a "fortunate occurrence" or "neutral occurrence"? You can PM me if it's not something you want to post about in the thread, and I'm certainly not going to probe you for clearing something up.
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LionArcher posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1522315928645603328?s=20&t=C0v0jHHTaLPMVWwh7RxKxA Yeah that poo poo is wild. https://legiscan.com/LA/text/HB813/2022 Once the egg is fertilized its a living person in Louisiana. They dont give a gently caress about ectopic pregnancy so unless you can afford to go to proper state you can die from it. quote:Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored Doesn't the Supremacy Clause cancel this language out? No clue, but I imagine they have to enforce it on a federal level to do so. Its telling that they have to threaten state judges in the text of the law itself. quote:10 E.(1) Any federal statute, regulation, treaty, executive order, or court ruling
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LionArcher posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1522315928645603328?s=20&t=C0v0jHHTaLPMVWwh7RxKxA This is some wild poo poo. I mean, obviously they're not operating on logic here, but logically shouldn't they criminalize male masturbation as well? By the logic that IUD's are murder, ejaculation not in a vagina is also explicitly mass murder. And I mean. Isn't a condom also murder? It's the same principal.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:This is some wild poo poo. No, they're making a distinction between a fertilized egg and an egg and sperm on their own.
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Charliegrs posted:A vasectomy sure is looking good right about now I had one a couple of years ago after I ectopically impregnated my wife through an IUD. Highly recommend. It's very liberating not having to worry about that again. Even covered by insurance. It was by mine, anyway.
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PeterCat posted:No, they're making a distinction between a fertilized egg and an egg and sperm on their own. IUDs being abortifacients is a common social myth, fertilized eggs fail to implant in the uterine lining at the same rate in women with or without IUDs.
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Professor Beetus posted:IUDs being abortifacients is a common social myth, fertilized eggs fail to implant in the uterine lining at the same rate in women with or without IUDs. Ok? I was explaining why they'd treat a fertilized egg differently than sperm and an egg on their own.
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Killer robot posted:In addition to what's been said, when the Cold War ended there really was a push to reduce the size and scope of the military. Right-wingers love to talk about Clinton as the one that "gutted it" but he mostly followed a plan GHWB laid out. It's not like the US military ever got small, but after the Soviets collapsed there was a general bipartisan consensus that maybe we didn't have to have so many active duty personnel, so many planes and tanks, lots of other things. Salaries, benefits, and other things that scale directly to active duty forces are a big part of military expenditures too, and those dropped after 1990 and never really came back. how does the military downsize anyways? i imagine there are no layoffs, do they just not replace dischargees? less recruiting? stricter enlistment requirements?
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Yeah pretty much all of those. The idea was to transition to a more capable, better trained, much slimmer military since millions of bodies would not be needed to cram into abrams to stop the soviet hordes or w/e in the fulda gap. The early era of that there was a fantasy that everything could be done with SF, which mostly imploded as a concept after Mogadishu. Or at least, that's the conventional wisdom. In practice it just re-enforced that you need more support for SF, but the US military apparatus is still extremely SF oriented, they just doubled down on the combined part of combined arms.
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^^^^ thank you goonsir ![]() Professor Beetus posted:IUDs being abortifacients is a common social myth, fertilized eggs fail to implant in the uterine lining at the same rate in women with or without IUDs. the stuff on the wiki page says the copper iuds are 'accepted' to be anti-implantation [of fertilized ovum] quote:Copper-bearing intrauterine device (Cu-IUD). Copper is toxic to the ovum and sperm and thus the copper-bearing intrauterine device (Cu-IUD) is effective immediately after insertion and works primarily by inhibiting fertilisation.9–11 A systematic review on mechanisms of action of IUDs showed that both pre- and postfertilisation effects contribute to efficacy.11If fertilisation has already occurred, it is accepted that there is an anti-implantation effect,12,13 and then this regarding emergency contraception (didnt know this was a thing for iuds) quote:Copper-releasing IUCs which of course is all vague regarding anti-implantation. i didnt know that they primarily worked to inhibit fertilization, do you have more info regarding the rate of failed implantation between the two groups of women?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Some Colorado democrats want to kickstart the drug wars it seems Remember that cops have no idea what fentanyl actually is, or the symptoms of opioid overdose, and keep dosing themselves with narcan to treat panic attacks they think are fentanyl ODs. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Police-officers-say-they-re-overdosing-from-17067920.php PeterCat posted:Ok? Because they are goddamn idiots who got abstinence-only sex ed and as such have no idea how reproduction works biologically? ~50% of fertilized eggs don't implant. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 12:32 on May 6, 2022 |
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Charliegrs posted:A vasectomy sure is looking good right about now If you already know you don’t want (any/more) kids, you absolutely should. It’s quick, painless, and as a poster above me insinuated, probably mostly covered by your health insurance (assuming you have some). I don’t know why so few men get vasectomies (just kidding, I do ![]() Kalit fucked around with this message at 13:07 on May 6, 2022 |
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Kalit posted:If you already know you don’t want (any/more) kids, you absolutely should. It’s quick, painless, and as a poster above me insinuated, probably mostly covered by your health insurance (assuming you have some). I don’t know why so few men get vasectomies (just kidding, I do A PSA push by some sort of NGO or even the gov itself really could go a long way to fix this imo. Vasectomies are great if you don't want more kids but there is a truly staggering amount of misinfo about it just because it's not something widely discussed. - No, a vasc is not physically removing your balls - No, it isn't going to kill your balls either. They still work fine. Things just get re-absorbed - No, it doesn't affect testosterone levels, see above - No, it doesn't make you into a eunuch. - Yes, it is sometimes reversible. - Yes, you are still able to do everything that you could do before. -No, semen is not stored in the balls For all the talk of male focus there is a shocking lack of basic biological literacy. I had someone dear to me ask if after you get snipped if you just push out a puff of air when you orgasm because they thought semen was 100% liquid sperm. When I asked them why sperm counts would be necessary then they just kind of bluescreened.
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I have to laugh at the thought of building a bridge to reach these people. https://twitter.com/ColinGBooth/status/1522232989941485568?s=20&t=ucrKCOQiatPZixRfHYliQg
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