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Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention ( www.theguardian.com )

Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....

zbyte64 ,

I don't even expect Democrats to "learn their lesson" by loosing an election, let alone reform democracy.

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The going rate is a vacation RV for a SCROTUS. A gift card to the olive garden might be enough for some judges.

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Depends if they're just flopping it flaccidly from side to side or angrily masturbating. Same goes for if a woman were to start rubbing one off. Nudity isn't sexual, but what you do with it could be.

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But how do you phrase it to mean they are bad at giving rimjobs?

Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

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A price paid mostly by those who didn't even have a chance to vote.

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If Austria required Slovak to register the birth of their children with them so they may later be eligible to vote, then you might be right.

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Just going to gloss over Trump moving of our embassy to Jerusalem and the Abraham accords which were both escalations in the eyes of the Palestinians.

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Then show me the Biden supporter (who isn't protesting) that wants small government like those who fly the Gadsden flag.

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Them goalposts is me asking for the original receipt. Show me the Biden supporter who you claim this flag represents.

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It is bad if you think a person's value of their own time isn't reduced to market dynamics. Yes the rich pay a cost/tax for the convenience, but that is because their time is valued more by the market. Poor people are compensated less for their time and that seems to make it "okay" to ask poor people to spend more time to deal with less honest business practices. If you think their free time is as "valuable" as anyone else's then this is offensive.

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I must've missed the part where digging holes to poop in nature is now gender specific.

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Sprinkle in some Gay Communism in the form of public housing.

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I find it strange people find Thatcherisms to be witty.

Government isn't a monolith, nor are the parties that run it.

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That has mostly been the case in US politics since the founding. You gotta play the hand you're dealt though.

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If we're using the brain as a metaphor, I would say don't listen to the voices that are telling you that having a brain is the problem.

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I've seen interviews where students from other colleges came over to protest. A "not affiliated" could still be a student, just from a different school.

Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group ( chicago.suntimes.com )

Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....

zbyte64 ,

Finally, proof that ya'llqaeada is in Chiraq.

zbyte64 ,

Dunking on protestors "not being effective" is just the worse. It might be useless to you, but to many it is a useful launching point of some meaningful discussions.

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It's about the narrative that there are outside agitators rallying the protest, but virtually all of the arrests are of students 🧐

zbyte64 ,

Speaking of books, have you ever read the Earthsea series? The way you talk about things reminds me of how in Earthsea things have a true name by which you can call and have them send towards your will. The trick is that some people have more then one true name and that, I think, is metaphor for how we can escape being manipulated when someone (or AI) learns our nature.

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I think "every time" could be read in different ways.

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That would hurt his fundraising though.

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It's ACAB not ACAP (all cops are pigs). ACAB doesn't dehumanize police, it is a statement that says the institution itself is rotten and makes bastards out of well intending people. Some people do dehumanize police, and often when they do, they point to the inhumane acts of the police force at large.

zbyte64 ,

What does protesting got to do with one's risk of running a pharma heist?

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I mean that's generally how it is now. If a rep lied to me then you better believe I'm talking to the manager and going to extract some concession. The difference is you can hold a rep accountable, dunno how you do that with AI

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But we're supposed to be training AI to be smarter, not dumber.

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No worries then, Absolute monopolies only exist in text books.

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Is there a phrase to describe the when a programmer thinks what is needed is something "easy" when the problem requires something "simple" instead?

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DEI requirements is not nepotism, but let's take on the core issue I think you brought up: meritocracy. If you show me two people with the same level of skill and experience, I would say the one that came from the most disadvantaged environment is more qualified because they were able to get to the same level with less support.

But you brought in numbers, let me do the same. L Consider that the minority group you mentioned actually has greater barriers to participate, so those 10 people might actually perform better than 80% of the 1000 of the majority group. Assuming both groups have the same distribution of merit is a fallacy.

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We don’t see black empowerment in China or a pride parade in Iran.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

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I agree entirely that Russia is liberating Ukraine like they did with Georgia... if you replace liberating with vassalizing.

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Kudzu abatement.

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I wonder what he gave to go on SNL…

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So close but still framing it as “Blue needs to save us so we need to punish them with Red”, which is still red vs blue thinking

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You call it consequence, I call it punishment. What’s the difference here?

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Every empire’s days are numbered, it’s not like anything is destined to be forever. I wonder how many days are left for the Zapatistas?

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There has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: teenvogue.com/…/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-bu…

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Everybody that disagrees with me is because of their identity politics

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I understand that Hamas doesn’t really give a fuck about Palestinian civilians

Then it would be ridiculous to expect Hamas to change tactics for the sake of Palestinians…

Hamas could stop the invasion of Gaza at any time by releasing the hostages and disarming.

And Hamas will do all that as soon as they start caring for Palestinians? They literally have nothing to loose at this point.

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Is this what equal opportunity under the law looks like?

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Yeah, the short of it is if you are a landlord and you’re not undermining your own industry by encouraging tenants to become owners of their own personal property, then you’re not community minded in the socialist (own the means of production) sense. There are exceptions, like one case where a rapper bought a poor neighborhood but did so to keep rent hikes and evictions from happening, arguably giving those families more stability so they have a chance to build family wealth.

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Have you tried eating the rich by yourself? It really helps to have others hold em down.

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Discriminating against men is based on gender, discriminating against trans women is based on sex (at birth).

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“trans women are women” is pointing out this isn’t about men vs women but the given sex at birth.

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I bet you would equally have a problem with the phrase “women are women” because there is no 1:1 equivalence between two women. Ask yourself why “natural” has to be added in the response when it wasn’t in the original statement?

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I’m just pointing out the obvious difference between the two categories: one is based on gender the other is based on sex. It’s like asking: “if they’re allowed to discriminate on gender, then why not this other instance (that is based on sex)?” But without making what is in the parenthesis explicit - when someone responds “trans women are women” they are saying what is in the parenthesis.

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I’m not directly addressing whether it’s okay but that there are categorical differences in the examples given. We might as well ask why we can’t discriminate based on hair color, since that too is categorically different than gender. That being said, bathrooms discriminate based on gender and not sex, so maybe ask why people think that is okay.

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It should be obvious that I don’t agree with the question because of what I perceive to be a categorical error.

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