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VikingofRock posted:Why do rural Americans put so much value on "hard work", and thus reject "handouts"? Christianity. Are rural people actually obsessed with "hard work?" Do they "reject handouts?" Why are we even discussing "rural Americans" as if they're a distinct ethnoreligious group?
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Apr 8, 2024 18:18
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It seems like both parties have a perverse incentive to fight the issue out state-by-state for basically public relations reasons. Neither party is well-positioned to pass anything nationally, so we can only wonder whether or not they actually want to.
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Cimber posted:Something I'd like to tack on, having grown up in a rural area, is that getting to the doctor is physically harder and involves a lot more planning than it would in a more urban area. You very well might have to drive 45 minutes to get to your local physician, and getting to a hospital that is equipped to do major tests might be a day off of work for the two or three hour drive.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:42
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Not everything needs to instantly turn to Biden vs. Trump, dude. Legions of psychotic Boomers are having that argument on Twitter all day every day, and I'll go there if I want to participate.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:11
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I would wager that there are millions of working-class people who don't vote, or do vote, with the expectation that nothing will perceptibly change. I don't know if they "get" to do that, but they do it nonetheless.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:46
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Main Paineframe posted:My apologies. Usually when people start talking about "the kind of thing that isn't captured in all those statistics about how great the economy is going" in this thread, they're making a reference to the fact that pollsters are consistently finding that a majority of voters say that the economy is lovely under Biden and that they're gonna vote Trump to bring back economic prosperity.
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zoux posted:So it's also functionally impossible to get rid of. Is there a path for California to unfuck itself?
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Apr 12, 2024 17:35
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You can definitely run on being a centrist conservative in NoVa/DC/Maryland, it's when people try to extrapolate that to the rest of the country that it gets nuts.
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Apr 16, 2024 20:15
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So people should ignore their concerns over the actual genocide, happening right now, because of what you predict will happen in the future? Why are gay and trans Americans more real and more human to you than Palestinians? I'm trans. My identity is not a tool for you to whip votes for Genocide Joe. Also, when did God come down from heaven and write in stone that Trump will be worse than Biden on Israel? I see no reason to believe that's the case. Trump doesn't care about anything but his public image and feeling important; that could well be more responsive to public pressure than Biden, who is a gleefully genocidal advocate for Israel and doesn't appear to care what anyone thinks. Trump, as far as I know, hasn't committed blood libel against Palestinians. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Combed Thunderclap posted:It feels deeply perverse to read this and experience a wave of nostalgia for the summer of 2016, of all years, but here we are, eight years later… socialsecurity posted:So we should ignore everything Trump has ever said he will do and has done in the past in regards to Israel to pretend he will be better? Is there any reason we should believe this fanfiction? Queering Wheel posted:I'm trans as well. I don't think that Palestinians are less real and less human, but they're half a world away and I would like for my existence to not be made illegal. I'd like to not be forcibly detransitioned/thrown into prison for simply existing/whatever other vile poo poo a Trump administration would do to me. So, I'm voting Biden. I have to look out for myself and those I care about. It looks to me like activism at the state and local level is way more meaningful to trans rights than the choice between Biden and Trump. The good news is that if the centrist argument is true, you can not vote for Biden on Tuesday and on Wednesday go right back to protesting whatever cornfed lunatic is trying to outlaw our existence. The Mattybee posted:This is not the first time this has come up and every single time people put together a litany of quotes from Trump about supporting Israel just killing all of them, it goes unaddressed or handwaved away with "Well that's just Trump saying things he just says whatever". Do I think Trump will be better? Probably not. What do you think Trump will do for Israel that Biden isn't already doing? If it's vocal support, Biden's already doing that. Will he send more weapons? Deploy American troops? Setting aside that Trump does care about his approval rating beyond the diehard base, how much does the magachudbase really want to send troops to Gaza, or incur visible economic impacts for Israel's sake?
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GlyphGryph posted:When has Trump ever been better on an issue than expected?
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Lemming posted:He tried to start a war. He literally assassinated an Iranian general, which was loving crazy To be clear, I'm not suggesting that anyone vote for Trump as a harm reduction candidate. My claim is that there's no moral or strategic imperative to vote for Biden and you aren't doing your part to make a better place by supporting an enthusiastic purveyor of genocide, regardless of his stance on any other issue.
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Actually, I think you'll find that everyone who disagrees with me is as callous as they are privileged.Riptor posted:Did you have a bridge game or something on Jan 6, 2021? Donald Trump on January 6th, 2021 posted:I know your pain. I know you're hurt. I know you're hurt, I know your pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt. It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election. But we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home, we love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel, but go home and go home at peace. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Riptor posted:What uh.... what point are you making here The Mattybee posted:So you don't think Trump will be any better on Palestine (and for the record: I think Joe Biden is loving dogshit on Palestine!), which means that it's bad that people point out that Joe Biden is better on a number of significant, relevant things (like trans rights) because ....???
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Apr 17, 2024 20:42
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We weren’t talking about Trump “undermining the democratic process” nor overturning the election results. If you want me to answer a straightforward question, then by all means, ask one instead of dicking around.
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Apr 17, 2024 20:54
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Riptor posted:You invoked the term "Emperor Fuhrer", and mocked the notion that he might declare himself such. You are aware of how Hitler came to, and then consolidated power, yes?
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Apr 17, 2024 21:31
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Uh, seriously, how? Because I pay taxes?
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Apr 17, 2024 21:42
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Neat Bee posted:Right, they're attacking Tiktok because its a hub of leftism AND its eating American companies' lunch. GlyphGryph posted:All you have to do to be alive today is to be part of an unbroken string of organisms managed to avoid ever losing (dying before they could produce), even once, in 3.5 billion years. You, personally, will continue to stay alive only so long as you "continue to bat a thousand".
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Apr 19, 2024 18:59
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"MAGA Communism" is a hashtag conceived by an annoying guy who wanted attention, not a movement. Confusing the two is frankly stupid.
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Poor guy can’t even immolate himself without screwing the pooch.
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Daily naps aren't incompatible with being in Congress or SCOTUS, and if you're asleep, does it matter where? You may as well get paid to sleep.
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PurpleSky posted:Ok but I'm unclear how selling TikTok would stop young folks from expressing their anger on the app. Would the purpose of selling it be to kill the app? Introduce new restrictions? All of the above?
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Given what I know about Texas, I'm sure that will remain true for another 45 seconds or so.
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mutata posted:So the 3 people who love political semantics "ACTUALLY!
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Apr 25, 2024 15:16
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" debates can go talk about that. The Biden admin and the press especially very obviously want to draw the parallel from pro Palestine protests to terrorism. They want those flavors mixing in the populace's brains.
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punishedkissinger posted:I can guarantee that if Trump were president and did the exact same things you wouldn't be drawing these kind of ridiculous pedantic distinctions mutata posted:Forget it, Jake, it's Pedanttown. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 25, 2024 15:56
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punishedkissinger posted:Right, and the Biden administration has made statements that conflate the two or otherwise make no distinction. This is incredibly dangerous and harmful and no one should defend it.
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Apr 25, 2024 16:12
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Well actually, Saburo Arasaka could have oh poo poo, wrong thread, sorry. I'm interested to see how Florida resolves this, since they're allergic to raising taxes to fund education.
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Apr 26, 2024 17:21
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The mainstream outlets crying about disinformation are also pushing disinformation. It's not hard to grasp! "Why wouldn't you give an org the benefit of the doubt just because they lie constantly?" is an idiotic debate that people somehow still need to have on a daily and hourly basis.
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Main Paineframe posted:If you're mad about disinformation or lies, then point to the misinformation and lies so we can talk about it, instead of just assuming that everyone already agrees with you that the mainstream media are constantly lying and can't ever be trusted. https://x.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1785725450527842512 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:In case anyone forgot, a porn star testified today under oath that Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, had intercourse with her while he was married and then paid her to not tell the story.
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