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kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
DeSantis: GOP Won’t Nominate Trump if He Is Convicted

quote:

To: SoConPubbie
I am 100% in the Trump camp, but it doesn't make any sense for us conservatives to be bashing DeSantis, when he could very well end up being our fallback position.

Besides, DeSantis has pushed hard against woke-ism.

We conservatives are so bad about attacking our own that I'll be surprised if we win any election going forward.
32 posted on 11/02/2023 11:12:35 AM PDT by The Duke (Why do I think that the cynicism gene is going to be prevalent in future generations?)
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To: The Duke
We conservatives are so bad about attacking our own that I'll be surprised if we win any election going forward.

That's just it, I don't consider him "one of my own".

No matter what his stated positions, he's gotten in bed with Globalists, NeoCons, and NeverTrumpers to the tune of millions in a coordinated effort to get rid of a man that TOWERS above him, President Trump.

He's not "one of my own", DeSanctimonious is now my sworn enemy because of his choices, including lies against President Trump.

He will NEVER get my vote under any circumstances. He lined up with my enemies the Globalists and NeoCons.

At one time I thought he would be a good VP for President Trump, NO MORE.

47 posted on 11/02/2023 11:23:54 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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quote:

To: The Duke

This Repuke isn’t “Conservative”. He changes his stripes depending on who he’s talking to. He just takes Scarborough’s premise and accepts it. Not someone who we should be relying on to save the Republic.

57 posted on 11/02/2023 11:41:01 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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quote:

To: The Duke

TRUMP OR NO ONE!

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TRUMP or I won’t vote (maybe a write in for Trump anyway)

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144 posted on 11/02/2023 3:23:53 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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quote:

To: stanne
He’s at 8%. His entire strategy is trump goes to jail.

Trump won’t be going to jail but if he’s convicted of a felony, he will not be elected president. We’d be handing the White House again to the Democrats. DeSantis understands this.

A felon Trump as our nominee will be a catastrophe for the Republican Party.
13 posted on 11/2/2023, 5:57:19 PM by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: Drew68

The catastrophe is scumbags such as yourself infecting FR! Go join the other side. We don’t care.

37 posted on 11/2/2023, 6:15:29 PM by ohioman
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To: devere; All

This guy just takes the premise of Joe Scarborough and runs with it. His supporters are more likely than not going to be voting for Kennedy come November 2024. Such is life. They can tell their raped daughters why they allowed the once great country to be destroyed by radicals. Not only allowed, supported.

53 posted on 11/2/2023, 6:30:11 PM by wiseprince (Me)
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To: SoConPubbie

I was pretty neutral regarding DeSantis until this. Now I despise him. The only Republican candidate worthy to be elected is Donald Trump. All the others are not worth a warm bucket of spit, to borrow an old phrase.

99 posted on 11/02/2023 12:56:34 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Avalon Memories
DeSantis, Haley, and the rest gambled that the Republican base would walk away from Trump due to his legal problems. So did the oligarch donors who have funded their campaigns. It is likely that the oligarchs and GOP politicians had advanced knowledge of the Democrat lawfare. They badly misjudged the mood of the Republican electorate. The big money is drying up.

I credit conservative anger at the COVID shutdowns and attempts to mandate the vaccines, as well as the Democrats overreacting to January 6th. Additionally, the attempts by Big Tech to shut out rightist dissent backfired, as conservatives abandoned YouTube, Google, Facebook, etc., to alternative blogs, search engines, and podcasts. There is no longer a figure like William Buckley or Rush Limbaugh to keep conservatives within the Overton Window of acceptable opinions.
113 posted on 11/02/2023 1:30:12 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: SoConPubbie

Are you Trump supporters sore winners? Are you trying to convince DeSantis supporters to sit at home on November 5, 2024? If so, you are doing a great job.

8 posted on 11/2/2023, 5:52:31 PM by devere
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To: devere

Stay home. We didn’t need you Lyin’ Ted *ssholes in ‘16, and we don’t need you in ‘24.
Now go home, and get your shinebox.🤡😂👢👢😂
Trump/Putin 2024 🇺🇸

116 posted on 11/2/2023, 8:43:21 PM by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: mass55th

I got called by a AJC poll taker. She kept asking me who I would vote for if the leading candidate was “Convicted”. She offered DeSantis, I said I will write in Donald J Trump. She said Nikki Haley. I said I would write in Trump. She wanted me to let a reporter call me and talk to me. Of course that would be a huge setup. I told her absolutely not!!

126 posted on 11/2/2023, 9:09:00 PM by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Yes, depress your own turn out.

That’ll show us.

FLIPADELPHIA
Apr 27, 2007

Heavy Shit
Grimey Drawer
lol bull poo poo these people are, at their core, fundamentally dishonest. If Trump dies or goes to jail or whatever, they'll all vote for DeSantis and either openly lie about never having said they wouldn't, or they'll just vote for him and not say anything.

Anchor Wanker
May 14, 2015
Idk I think enough chuds are true believers to drop some percentage points down. Freepers especially

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

a bunch would absolutely write in Donald Trump no matter what

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

a bunch would absolutely write in Donald Trump no matter what

I feel like the real split is going to be Q-types who will write in Trump especially if he died before the election because their facebook group told them he'll only come out of hiding if he wins.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 41 hours!
We didn't need your RINO votes in 2016 and we won't need them in 2024.

2020? Ah well...

Shogeton
Apr 26, 2007

"Little by little the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him"

That would require them to acknowledge that Trump lost in 2020.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
US warns Israel amid Gaza carnage it doesn’t have long before support erodes

quote:

To: Reno89519

Biden will be calling for an end within a month. Democrats want all Jews dead, he will have no choice.

7 posted on 11/3/2023, 3:04:08 AM by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

This puts Democrats in a real bind for 2024, whether Biden or someone else. At some point Jewish voters will be faced with an existential question about their survival under Democrat vs Republican party.

11 posted on 11/02/2023 8:06:10 PM PDT by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Reno89519

Jewish voters will still vote Rat if they are currently voting Rat. It is party first, religion second for these people.

119 posted on 11/03/2023 7:22:39 AM PDT by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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To: Reno89519
I pray for Netanyahu to tell Biden to go EFF himself PUBLICLY, and then mash the gas pedal to the floor by leveling every square inch of Gaza with extreme prejudice and without regard to those poor, poor 'innocent' 'palestinians' that voted for Hamas every election.

EFF them!!!
12 posted on 11/3/2023, 3:06:37 AM by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Xiden, puppet cuck to a mulatto muzz traitor.
Quite the ‘legacy’ you have there, Joey.

*spit*

18 posted on 11/3/2023, 3:09:24 AM by tomkat
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mr. Bibi Netanyahu should call cagalistroso and say, “Push it way, way up where the Sun never shines,” then hang up and tell his troops to level The Gaza Strip and kill everyone in it. After that is done he should then nuke Tehran.

25 posted on 11/3/2023, 3:13:17 AM by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

To hell with that!

Annihilate Hamas, their infrastructure, their weapons, their supporters, their enablers, and freeze their assets!

No quarter.
No mercy.
No cease fire.

39 posted on 11/3/2023, 3:29:38 AM by dadgum (Enough!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What all of this is proving is Israel is kicking the s*** out of Hamas which is why so many are demanding a ceasefire by Israel. Israel should not quit until the barbarians are wiped off the face of the Earth. Let Hezbollah and Iran jump in. They will be destroyed with the other savages.

62 posted on 11/3/2023, 4:31:12 AM by Gnome1949
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To: MinorityRepublican
Blinken's butt-kissing and support for Iran is one of the primary causes of 1400 dead Israelis.

They should tell him quietly that if they are cut ff from supplies they'll have no choice but to nuke Teheran.

Blinken and the clown show in DC are cowards who will back down immediately if the result is a wider war.
65 posted on 11/3/2023, 5:17:49 AM by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: MinorityRepublican; All
Screw the "civilians." They aren't innocent any more than were the Germans who voted in Hitler by a SMALLER margin than Gazans voted in Hamas. NO ONE warned German civilians a single time before an Allied bombing run, and 2 MILLION German civilians were killed. I don't recall any hand-wringing or calls for a "cease fire." This is ridiculous. Marxist Left + Jew-hatred on left and right = this insanity.

Oh and here are the poor little Gazans "children," first at a summer camp exercise called "Kill the Yehud (Jew)" and then some classroom lessons on making peace with their Israeli neighbors:


69 posted on 11/3/2023, 5:38:26 AM by montag813
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To: frank ballenger

“As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again“

What one would call the money quote. The other factor is the rats love to engineer wars fought with one hand. Generating money and power for themselves using the bodies of dead soldiers to do it.

113 posted on 11/3/2023, 1:53:25 PM by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Keep in mind that Biden is not making the decisions, it’s Obama.
Israel cannot afford to stop hunting Hamas.
When there’s a serial killer or mass murderer on the loose here in the US, nobody steps up and tells law enforcement to stop their pursuit.
Biden’s words are hollow, Israel should ignore his empty threats and continue the hunt.
The Islamics have become very adept at manipulating the media, who are all too willing to propagandize on their behalf.
Fake threats and fake news from a fake president.

116 posted on 11/3/2023, 2:02:03 PM by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yeah that's right kill them all! Yes even the children they're not innocent either their skin is pretty drat dark over there. Now let me tell you about how much we need to protect the children here in the states and why we should kill everyone here that doesn't support what I say is protecting the children this week!

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Love that nuking Tehran came up multiple times

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

ZeeToo posted:

This happens sometimes when you exclusively work backwards from your conclusions. Given that Trump is a peerless genius and the rightful ruler of America who has been engaged in a long-term war with shadowy elements that seek to thwart his efforts but who will inevitably fail, what's going on in this trial? It's already axiomatic that Trump will be vindicated, so it becomes necessary to hypothesize that every move he makes will be The Big One.

If it fails, well, he's a peerless genius who still will be vindicated, so I guess my paltry mortal understanding just fails to grasp why he's waiting to reveal his masterstroke.

This plays out in a lot of interesting places and leads to some truly exasperating leaps of logic. "This is good for bitcoin" and "The MOASS Is happening!" being the more modern incarnations of the idea.

Are there any Freeper apes/coiners?

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

kik2dagroin posted:

DeSantis: GOP Won’t Nominate Trump if He Is Convicted
To: mass55th

I got called by a AJC poll taker. She kept asking me who I would vote for if the leading candidate was “Convicted”. She offered DeSantis, I said I will write in Donald J Trump. She said Nikki Haley. I said I would write in Trump. She wanted me to let a reporter call me and talk to me. Of course that would be a huge setup. I told her absolutely not!!

126 posted on 11/2/2023, 9:09:00 PM by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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So I've done a few phone polls for political reasons; they have to be very, very specific to eliminate bias in the data (or at least, as much bias as they can as introduced by the polling person). There were a few times where I said something like "Yeah" or "I'd probably" and they reprompted me to make sure I gave the answer they needed. They're not allowed to deviate from the specific answers they're given.

Shaddak
Nov 13, 2011

Ravenfood posted:

"There is no Islamophobia" followed by screeds about how the only way to deal with the nefarious Muslims is to kill them all and purge the Quran from existence sure is a thing.

Ah, but their fears about Muslims are rational and, therefore, aren't Islamaphobia. Furthermore...

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Michael Cohen: Trump Is ‘Single Most Dangerous Thing to Happen to American Democracy’

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To: ChicagoConservative27

We don’t have a democracy.

3 posted on 11/3/2023, 6:55:10 PM by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: realcleanguy

BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!

70 posted on 11/3/2023, 8:36:39 PM by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good. I don’t want no stinkin’ Democracy.

18 posted on 11/3/2023, 7:08:04 PM by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: mass55th

In some ways I feel sorry for him because he would have never been prosecuted for anything but for his association with Trump and being a supporter (at the time).

But he has turned into a craven douchebag, willing to say almost anything in order to get Regime approval and validation.

And he has to trash Trump in order to be accepted by his (((New York))) buddies.

29 posted on 11/03/2023 12:15:53 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The RAT idea of a democracy is not a democracy.

6 posted on 11/3/2023, 6:57:38 PM by dforest
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To: dforest

Democracy to them is a dictatorship on behalf of the ‘masses’ (whoever they are).

44 posted on 11/3/2023, 7:33:20 PM by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yep, it sure is. Their “democracy” is a word I can’t stand hearing anymore.

51 posted on 11/3/2023, 7:49:20 PM by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27
he’s going to rewrite the Constitution, he’s not joking. he thinks that he can rewrite the Constitution.

Dude! Where the hell have you been for the last 50 years? The Libs have been destroying the Constitution where they can and disregarding what they cannot destroy! Look at the Governors actions, they either pass an unconstitutional law or executive action daring someone to sue and go through the Lib Courts process.

The other day Elon stated that Soro's figured out that his path was not to pass laws, just get people in place to ignore the law!

And you think Trump is the problem!
52 posted on 11/3/2023, 7:52:13 PM by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump the single most dangerous thing? That doesn’t even rise to ludicrous. This isn’t debate or any sort of exchange of ideas.

These people are telling us who they are.3

These people want War.

57 posted on 11/3/2023, 7:57:00 PM by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FEK DEMOCRACY!

DOWN WITH IT, I SAY!

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!

60 posted on 11/3/2023, 8:01:54 PM by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Every S.O.B. who comes out talking about Trump being a threat to democracy is obviously worried that if he goes back in, he will either put some thieves in prison or at least put an end to their racket.

I FULLY believe that we take in enough tax money to take good care of everything the gubbermint is supposed to do. These thieves in there for the past several decades have been robbing us. Foreign aid? That gets them a kickback.If they’d just steal what they want directly from the treasuary instead of doing it by getting kickbacks when they send money out.

68 posted on 11/3/2023, 8:26:29 PM by weezel
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Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify
These types’ shrieking about how it’s a republic and not a democracy never fails to amuse me (and serve as a grim reminder that we can’t even agree on basic definitions of the political process, but we subject ourselves to freep for a reason) and “BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!” really got me, thanks

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

It's a republic not a democracy, but also I'm fighting the corrupt elites who govern on our behalf and ignore my desires

downout
Jul 6, 2009

Pure raging bloodlust :barf:

Jewish people are party first.

Also,

quote:

his (((New York))) buddies

SwingShift
Apr 27, 2013
It always goes to women being raped in the streets. Like I'm sure they imagine constant rapes happening in Urban Centers already anyway and yet they always escalate to "if X happens, so and so will have to deal with their daughters/wives/selves being raped constantly". Like the homosexual muslim pedos are going to take over if we stop helping Israel bomb Gaza and start raping everyone right now! And then you'll be sorry, lefty women!

But also rape culture totally isn't real and is just a ploy to make red blooded american men ashamed of their existence somehow. Starts to feel like a lot of them just want to rape people themselves, they fixate on it so much.

Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify

SwingShift posted:

Starts to feel like a lot of them just want to rape people themselves, they fixate on it so much.

The gay version of this is one of my favorite genres of freepery. Remember one that went on about twinks that his “friend” had told him about, and another that boiled down to “we have to make homosexuality illegal because it is superior and not enough baby making would happen otherwise”

Crunch Buttsteak
Feb 26, 2007

You think reality is a circle of salt around my brain keeping witches out?
Freepers definitely have an antiquated perspective on being gay, where it's completely an active choice that someone decides to make one day, turning their back on heterosexuality in a conscious decision to embrace evil. By that logic, gay sex must be incredible, because why else would they make that choice?

Also, it's funny how freepers harp on about being a BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, because the actual theocrats out there actually get fairly pissed at the Founding Fathers for not including a "by the way, Jesus is Lord and the Bible is the basis for all our laws" clause in the Constitution. They want the blind flag-waving patriotism and the mythology of being a Christian Nation, but haven't spared an actual thought about it for a good long while.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Finally a topic worthy of this thread's icon.
Give pee a chance: Why German men urinate sitting down

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To: libh8er

This result is funny. Sitzpinkler is an insult in German....the equivalent of “weakling” or “pvssy” in English.

6 posted on 11/02/2023 4:55:10 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: libh8er

Does it count if yer takin’ a dump at the same time?

Askin’ fer a fren’ ...

12 posted on 11/02/2023 4:56:49 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I was wondering about that....

(So I guess men who sit are only ‘fags’ about once per day...)

72 posted on 11/02/2023 6:09:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: libh8er

Sitzpinkler, a man who pees sitting down. Not only do the Germans have a word for it, they are remarkably more proficient at it than most other

Guess that what happened when you lose two world war in the space of 27 years


20 posted on 11/3/2023, 12:04:59 AM by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Sitzpinkler” (Trans.) - a sit to piss eurofag

21 posted on 11/3/2023, 12:05:17 AM by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: libh8er

Is it wrong to pee sitting down when I wake up at 3AM from a deep-sleep and just want to get back to bed?

22 posted on 11/02/2023 5:05:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Yep.

116 posted on 11/02/2023 7:21:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Lurker

Right. I’ve lived in houses with many men.

Have you ever seen a bathroom after a man has been teaching his little boy how to pee in the toilet - and they play ‘crossfire’?

Yuk.

And when my husband leaves the shower, it’s like a dolphin has been cavorting in there...we won’t even mention the beard-trimming aftermath.

(Don’t get me started on the kitchen...)

53 posted on 11/02/2023 5:37:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

No, thats pretty weird.

My father along with many others I remember used to throw one of their unfiltered Pall Mall butts in the toilet and yell, “Sink the Bismarck!

Today you could throw Cheerios in there and tell them to use their laser to shoot down the UFOs.

Even as a little kid they get it all in.

126 posted on 11/02/2023 8:47:24 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: gnarledmaw

“Sink the Bismarck!

My Dad was PTO. He’d drop the butt in and say you’re a dive bomber, hit the Japs.

133 posted on 11/03/2023 1:27:38 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Jamestown1630

The cleanliness in your home is different, a normal urinal flushes just like a toilet, and what you may have seen is the modern urinals that are mandated by liberals which means that they are close to the floor and have an even worse splash problem than a toilet.

73 posted on 11/3/2023, 1:10:15 AM by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The last time any male sat down to pee in my house was 16 years ago, when my youngest was a toddler during potty training.

131 posted on 11/3/2023, 4:49:29 AM by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on 'homosexual behavior', audio clip reveals

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To: Angelino97

The SOTHOR is spot on, IMHO.

If we can keep Mike as Speaker we just might be able to keep this Republic.

5 posted on 11/03/2023 11:26:06 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman; Angelino97; Jonty30

The “everyone in greece and rome was gay” myth just won’t die

46 posted on 11/04/2023 3:24:24 AM PDT by fightglobalism
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To: fightglobalism

It’s true enough for the upper classes. Whomever they took a fancy to was going to have sex with them whether they wanted to or not.

49 posted on 11/04/2023 3:31:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: lightman

I applaud the speaker’s willingness to stand up for Biblical principles.

However, from an historical perspective, the Roman emperors were notoriously debauched throughout most of the prosperous periods of the empire. Read Suetonius. Nero and Caligula engaged in bisexual acts but the empire still had many good economic years later on.

If he’s look at the Roman Empire’s collapse for historical parallels of collapse, there others such as border control, taxes, increased operating costs for government to maintain the army and bureaucracy.

56 posted on 11/04/2023 4:12:31 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: Flaming Conservative

There are entirely too many microscopic minorities in America glued and patched together, and vastly over-magnified, by Satanic smartphone technology and an overbearing computerized social media. Hit the satellites and these splinter groups with their foul big mouths and tiny destructive brains will evaporate into thin air. Where they belong. You won’t even be able to hear them yell and scream.

14 posted on 11/4/2023, 6:49:36 AM by 4Runner
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To: Angelino97

I would say that, following Romans 1, that massive homosexuality is a consequence of widespread idolatry, which itself is a consequence of refusing to acknowledge God as Creator, and give thanks.

So when you have wall-to-wall faggotry like Ancient Rome, or current year Globohomo Empire, it results from people adopting idolatries of various kinds, and the Lord “gives them over” to their shameful lusts.

So I would say Johnson is correct about Ancient Rome, although perhaps a result as much as a cause.

If Globohomo takes after the behavior of the Men of Sodom / Men of Gibeah then the Globohomo Empire will probably be destroyed just as those evil cities were.

17 posted on 11/4/2023, 7:09:25 AM by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Angelino97

The Roman Empire declined and fell because of moral decay?

Who would have thought!

In the movie Spartacus, there is an allusion to homosexuality. Tony Curtis is a young male house slave. If you’re on the uptake, you suspect the master has him for sexual pleasure. Anyway, a legion of the Roman army marches by. The master said there is Rome. You must embrace it. You must love it. Tony Curtis realizes how sick and disgusting the whole thing is. The next thing you know, he makes his escape and joins Spartacus and the slave revolt.

“I’m Spartacus,” Tony Curtis says in a dramatic scene toward the end of the movie, joined by others.

The day may be coming when we will have the opportunity.

27 posted on 11/4/2023, 8:04:30 AM by Redmen4ever
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To: Jonty30

I think the real damage is the destruction of critical thinking and common sense.

Our survival and success as a species depends largely on our ability to apply our senses to situations and discern threats, opportunities and conditions - and make wise choices.

A key component of critical thinking is recognizing what is normal or familiar vs. what is abnormal or strange.

For example, being suspicious of a stranger or someone who looks different from us was a survival behavior for a million years of evolution - but in modern times we teach our children that such discrimination is a bad thing.

Homosexuality and so-called transexuality are clearly abnormalities, yet woke society punishes anyone who voices that opinion or acts accordingly. We are supposed to act like it’s normal.

When the rules of society are at odds with reality, this creates cognitive dissonance, and critical thinking and common sense are destroyed.

The next time modern generations face any sort of fight for survival, whether from war, famine, natural disaster or other - we will be completely ill equipped to win that fight if we regard as normal that which is abnormal.

39 posted on 11/4/2023, 9:28:27 AM by enumerated (81 million votes my rear end)
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To: SpaceBar

No, Mike Johnson has it exactly right. Over the years, in reading, studies and conversations about empires that fail, what he says always is established as fact.

67 posted on 11/4/2023, 12:30:31 PM by elpadre (rattle snakes)
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To: Angelino97

GAY EVERY THING IS ALSO BRINGING DOWN AMERICA.
ABORTION ALSO.

76 posted on 11/4/2023, 1:30:26 PM by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Angelino97

Criminalization of gay sex

It has my vote the world has islands for a reason.

91 posted on 11/4/2023, 2:18:04 PM by Vaduz (....)
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To: Jonty30

HE’S WRONG ON HISTORY DIVIDED EMPIRE, TRIBUTE TO BARBARIANS TO DEFEND THEM GROWING POPULATIONS EVERYWHERE WANTING THEIR OWN RULERS. , ASK YOURSELF WERE THERE HOMOSEXUALS ALL THE TIME,. YES. BUT THE EMPIRE LASTED 1000 YEARS GOVERNED BY 1 CITY. CAN WE SAY THE QUEERS MADE THEM STRONGER? IT’S AN OLD CHESTNUT TO SAY MORAL DECLINE ENDED THE EMPIRE WHEN CHRISTIANITY HAD BECOME SO WIDESPREAD. HOW WAS THAT POSSIBLE WITH ALL THOSE QUEERS RUNNING AROUND. THE EMOIRE ALWAYS RELIED ON LOCALS AND IT FINALLY DESTROYED THEM AS THE POPULATIONS IN THE HINTERLANDS KEPT INCREASING.

SORRY MY CAP LOCK KEY IS STUCK.

106 posted on 11/4/2023, 3:21:46 PM by coalminersson (since )
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Aztec Galactus
Sep 12, 2002

I love using the film Spartacus as a historical document because everything these people believe about ancient life is based on what wealthy white people thought in the 1950s

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Freep: Modern Urinals Are Mandated By Liberals

Dubar posted:

I love using the film Spartacus as a historical document because everything these people believe about ancient life is based on what wealthy white people thought in the 1950s

I know it’s useless but like

Does this freeper realize that Spartacus, the real third servile war and the fictional movie, happen before Rome even had an emperor? More than 500 years before the west falls?

Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 4, 2023

Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Freep: Modern Urinals Are Mandated By Liberals

Was fond of Freep: GAY EVERY THING IS ALSO BRINGING DOWN AMERICA myself though I did like how liberals are making urinals lower to the ground. And the caps lock screed that was mostly reasonable I think? I kinda read it twice but my brain was just not having that much freeper capitalized text

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


"Satanic smartphone technology"

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Freep: Modern Urinals Are Mandated By Liberals

I know it’s useless but like

Does this freeper realize that Spartacus, the real third servile war and the fictional movie, happen before Rome even had an emperor? More than 500 years before the west falls?

NO THEY DO NOT REALIZE THAT

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Freepers also don't realize that Spartacus script was written by a blacklisted communist, Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo had continued his career with pen names after his sentence in 1950 but at the time of Spartacus he was finally given credit for his work again.

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Howard Fast was originally hired to adapt his own novel as a screenplay, but he had difficulty working in the format. He was replaced by Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted as one of the Hollywood 10, and intended to use the pseudonym "Sam Jackson".

Kirk Douglas insisted that Trumbo be given screen credit for his work, which helped to break the blacklist.[15] Trumbo had been jailed for contempt of Congress in 1950, after which he had survived by writing screenplays under assumed names. Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus. Further, President John F. Kennedy publicly ignored a demonstration organized by the American Legion and went to see the film.

In his autobiography, Douglas states that this decision was motivated by a meeting that Edward Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, and he had regarding whose names to list for the screenplay in the film credits, given Trumbo's shaky position with Hollywood executives. One idea was to credit Lewis as co-writer or sole writer, but Lewis vetoed both suggestions. Kubrick then suggested that his own name be used. Douglas and Lewis found Kubrick's eagerness to take credit for Trumbo's work revolting, and the next day, Douglas called the gate at Universal saying, "I'd like to leave a pass for Dalton Trumbo." Douglas writes, "For the first time in 10 years, [Trumbo] walked on to a studio lot. He said, 'Thanks, Kirk, for giving me back my name.'"[4]

In reality, the public announcement of Trumbo's screenwriting credit for Spartacus did not come until August 1960, seven months after producer-director Otto Preminger's January 20, 1960, announcement that he had hired Trumbo to adapt Leon Uris' novel Exodus for the screen. Douglas later successfully denied Trumbo credit for the film Town Without Pity, as he worried that his continued association with the screenwriter would hurt his career.

Although there is this post script that makes you appreciate how lovely some people are:

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In 1993, Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday (1953). The screen credit and award were previously given to Ian McLellan Hunter, who had been a front for Trumbo. A new statue was made for this award because Hunter's son refused to hand over the one his father had received.

You have an Oscar that you didn't win yourself and actually your dad only got for being a front for the actual writer. Of course you would never give it away.

Billy Gnosis
May 18, 2006

Now is the time for us to gather together and celebrate those things that we like and think are fun.
To be fair, the academy should have just given trumbo an Oscar statue privately to begin with

Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos
Freep: SORRY MY CAP LOCK KEY IS STUCK

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:


Also, it's funny how freepers harp on about being a BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, because the actual theocrats out there actually get fairly pissed at the Founding Fathers for not including a "by the way, Jesus is Lord and the Bible is the basis for all our laws" clause in the Constitution.

They didn't even include the word "God". Seems like an egregious oversight if the plan was to make sure we're a a BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC but what do I know?

Tobermory
Mar 31, 2011

GAY ABORTION IS ALSO BRINGING DOWN AMERICA.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Tobermory posted:

GAY ABORTION IS ALSO BRINGING DOWN AMERICA.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Obama warns about dangers of market-based systems: 'Compatible with slavery'

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To: Rusty0604

Capitalism’s excesses? What about socialism/commuinism’s excesses? Like genocide?

13 posted on 11/5/2023, 4:30:17 AM by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Rusty0604

“Social safety nets” beget slavery.

Always.

15 posted on 11/5/2023, 4:30:19 AM by cockroach_magoo (cockroach_magoo did not formally deprogram himself.)
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To: TakebackGOP

>> Bill O’Reilly said that Obama was a classic liberal, not a socialist.

Bill O’Reilly was full of poo poo, as usual. Hussein is a full-blown Marxist, and a satan-worshipping muslim to boot.

And what’s sobering — after the stolen election he is still operating as POTUS. Biden is a literal puppet, without the ability to act. The evil marxist Hussein pulls ALL the federal government strings.

28 posted on 11/5/2023, 4:57:46 AM by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: dfwgator

What bathhouse Barry needs is a free helicopter ride.
🚁

🤸🏻‍♀️

34 posted on 11/5/2023, 5:14:46 AM by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Rusty0604

I’ll first address the matter philosophically, and then practically.

In a capitalist system, it is possible to own an elephant. That is, there is private property. Yes, it is possible to own an elephant. Since there is private property, it is at least possible in theory to own a human. This is what Obama means when he says slavery is compatible with capitalism.

Now, let’s ask if it’s possible under communism to own an elephant? No, it isn’t. Nobody can own an elephant under communism because there is no private property. Given that there isn’t any private property, there no private property in people. Now, since there’s no private property in people, does this mean there is no slavery? Actually, the answer to this question is surprising: just like the government owns all elephants under communism, so too the government own all people. Possibly the people are treated well by the government, but that’s another issue.

At a philosophical level, the difference between capitalism and communism on the issue of slavery is that it is possible under some forms of capitalism that there are slaves, but the very definition of communism is that all people are slaves.

Now, we can ask the empirical question: where was slavery - in the real sense of the word, involving subjugation of some by others - ended first; and, how was slavery ended elsewhere?

Slavery was ended first in western Europe, and slavery was ended elsewhere in the world by a great abolitionist movement that arose in western Europe.

Slavery was ended fundamentally because of the belief that all people are imbued with something sacred if not divine. Previously, various people outlawed slavery within their community, while condoning the enslavement of others. It took a while for the principle of universal brotherhood to be established, and even when it was established, in western Europe, there was backsliding and slavery of others was condoned by Europeans in colonies.

In contrast, various forms of socialism have revived slavery since the end of slavery in most of the world. Think of Nazism and Communism and their slave labor camps. Furthermore, slavery persists in North Korea and selected other totalitarian places today; and, illegal slavery (human trafficking) remains a large and possibly growing business.

Slavery and the rule of the powerful is the natural state of mankind, and Obama among others covet that power. Indeed, the popularity of t.v. series like Game of Thrones speaks to the coveting of power. Power-lust is so attractive that people will vicariously enjoy the exercise of power by others. If you think people are naturally good, think again. History shows us that many people are evil.

Our struggle for freedom is perennial and just because we made some progress in this struggle, doesn’t mean that greed, sexual perversion and power-lust have been defeated and our struggle is over. Indeed, in some ways, the attempt to re-establish all-powerful government is on the march, and our revolution is in jeopardy.

58 posted on 11/5/2023, 8:11:49 AM by Redmen4ever
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Born in Kenya, raised by communists, he hates whites, he hates America!

59 posted on 11/5/2023, 8:42:17 AM by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Rusty0604

The sh## stain who was in control and still is comes out to speak, we need to have these pukes all arrested and jailed for treason

73 posted on 11/5/2023, 10:46:47 AM by ronnie raygun
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To: Rusty0604

Capitalism does not use force. Slavery requires force.

75 posted on 11/5/2023, 11:18:13 AM by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Rusty0604

There IS no “capitalism.”

What there IS in economics are free and controlled markets.

Government control comes under labels like communism, socialism (really communism, but less stringent, like being a “little pregnant”), fascism. Government controlled markets, currencies, are ownership, taxation is enslavement (a matter of KIND not of degree - see the above on “a little pregnant”) if someone claims to OWN any portion of your labor that’s enslavement.

Free market economics, “Laissez-faire”, is what people do among themselves normally without the thug hand of government or organized crime (but I repeat myself) taking “ten percent for the big guy” who can seize property, split up families kill and/or imprison you if you don’t comply.

Karl Marx called the latter - disparagingly - “Capitalismus” and co-wrote - allegedly - a book on the fantasy that there is any better system - with the right people in control, of course.

Bathhouse Barry Soetero Obeyme thinks he’s THE ONE.

78 posted on 11/5/2023, 11:55:10 AM by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: Rusty0604

It’s clear Obozo never took economics 101. Slavery is anathema to free markets. Slavery prevents the rise of a strong middle class, essential for a market economy to thrive.

83 posted on 11/5/2023, 12:15:45 PM by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Williams

Because he is seeing his handiwork coming to fruition. He is a gay Muslim that hates this country and white people and wants to see us all gone. He is still working behind the scenes and I fully expect his man-wife to become front and center in the coming election.

113 posted on 11/5/2023, 2:21:24 PM by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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Jesus III
May 23, 2007
Obama really messed them up

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

Freepers definitely have an antiquated perspective on being gay, where it's completely an active choice that someone decides to make one day, turning their back on heterosexuality in a conscious decision to embrace evil. By that logic, gay sex must be incredible, because why else would they make that choice?

Also, it's funny how freepers harp on about being a BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, because the actual theocrats out there actually get fairly pissed at the Founding Fathers for not including a "by the way, Jesus is Lord and the Bible is the basis for all our laws" clause in the Constitution. They want the blind flag-waving patriotism and the mythology of being a Christian Nation, but haven't spared an actual thought about it for a good long while.

Some of them *cough* Patrick Henry *cough* tried, but they couldn't get the votes for it.

About 25% of the founding fathers were extremely into the idea of an old testament BIBLICAL CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, but couldn't get the votes because another 25% were very into a deism, and the last 50% were Christians, but were terrified of a state sponsored church because they thought it would be used to promote the wrong kind of Christianity.

It would have been funny if America did what the French did during the French Revolution and invent an entirely new god who was a neutral god of nature and France and try to force everyone on to the same religion to prevent religious strife. The French Revolution has some of my favorite political history moments because the early leaders had so many wild ideas that were "logical," but completely unworkable, and they still tried them out.

A new metric calendar, inventing a new god, having time zones be based entirely on rural vs. urban instead of geography, and creating a ministry of language to make sure everyone knew what was slang and what was true French.

The U.S. had a bunch of founders with wild ideas too, but because they needed all 13 colonies to sign on they had to shuck a lot of the crazier or more divisive ideas.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

having time zones be based entirely on rural vs. urban instead of geography

Ok this is a great idea tho

I don't want to have to drive home from work in the dark half the year just because some farmer wants the sun up at 6am.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

VitalSigns posted:

Ok this is a great idea tho

I don't want to have to drive home from work in the dark half the year just because some farmer wants the sun up at 6am.

Most of the more extreme French Revolution ideas were actually great ideas in concept. They were just wildly unworkable.

How are you supposed to delineate the exact border where 4 pm rural time and 7 pm urban time switch in the 1780's?

Trying to end your country's centuries of religious strife by inventing a new neutral god and getting everyone to worship them is so "logical," but unworkable that it seems like a Nathan For You episode idea. But, they really tried it. Weirdly, most people did not abandon their faith to join the new "Cult of Reason" (amazing official name, by the way).

The metric system calendar was also a joke on The Simpsons. It kind of made sense too! But, it was wildly unworkable to have a 10-day week, different months, and different years than every other country in Europe.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
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Well Napoleon did come up with a solution to the whole different weights and measures from the rest of Europe thing

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FLIPADELPHIA
Apr 27, 2007

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SwingShift posted:

It always goes to women being raped in the streets.

Yeah they don't give a gently caress about women being raped. It's a racist dog whistle stemming from their intense collective feelings of sexual inadequacy.

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