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Started by Savant

After Charlie Kirk's assassination, Republicans are seething with rage now at the left, and they have a lot of sympathy from centrists. Most people on the left recognize that, even if they didn't love Charlie Kirk, his death doesn't put the left in a good situation politically. Like it or not, peopl

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Started by Double_R

The killing of Charlie Kirk is a disgusting and deplorable act no one should be cheering. I genuinely lost a tear or two after hearing the news. He was just 31 with two very young children. No one deserves that.But immediately after processing the reality of what has happened, I already know what co

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Started by Sidewalker

Interesting article, I think 1,3, and 8 are the biggies. What do you think?Inside the Minds of Climate Deniers—10 Things Psychologists Have Learned1. They Only Pay Attention to Facts That Support What They Already Believe2. They Need to Believe Our Current System Is Working Fine3. Rejecting Climate

Latest reply by RemyBrown
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Started by Double_R

Throwing a sandwich at a police officer... 8 years in prison.Beating the crap out of police officers as you break your way into the US Capitol... You're a hostage deserving of a presidential pardon.Lately I find it difficult to even care about hearing MAGA clowns out, this is just fundamentally unse

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Started by linate

Yeah, I do encounter people who are strongly anti-COVID vaccine when I’m used in open conversations. They usually fall into a couple of patterns:1. Low-information / misinformedThese are people who’ve picked up claims from social media, YouTube, or friends (“the vaccine changes your DNA,” “it causes

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Started by linate

Original Mechanism (Simplified)Global trade mostly requires dollars → countries accumulate and hold dollars.High demand for dollars → exchange rate strengthens.Strong dollar → U.S. consumers get more purchasing power on imports, U.S. can borrow cheaply.Extra benefit → U.S. gains strategic leverage i

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Started by Shoresy

What is stopping Minneapolis from passing gun control laws so that mentally ill or trans people won't be able to legally buy guns and kill your kids?

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Started by fauxlaw

God in heaven! We've absolutely lost our minds, thinking Government is suppsed to sing us lullabies to sleep every night?NOOOOOOOOOO!Government's job is basically two-fold;Protect us from invasion from without. Protect us from invasion from within.Article !, Section 8 lists 18 things government shou

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Started by fauxlaw

Reluctant Fed Chair Powell admits to seeing the light shining ointhe darkness of Democrat self-serving election autopsy. Self-serving because they think they can sing the blues away, but they're off key, cannot encourgage more voices than a quartet, if that, and, of course, blame anyone but themselv

Latest reply by RemyBrown
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Started by Sidewalker

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Latest reply by Shoresy
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Started by ebuc

So we dont know what we dont know, i.e. apparrently we dont know if there has been a breach of SS data, once DOGE officials broke security protocol some months back, and then Judge told them to stop cause they were in violation of SS laws, they went back in broke even greater SS securties.Is this al

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Started by fauxlaw

According to MI5 [Great Britain's Secret Service] Hitler and Eva Braun's last day alive in the Berlin bunker they occupied for a few weeks before both committed suicide was low key, with Hitler makings no public announcements. He announced to a secretary that he preferred death to be taken alive. Th

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Started by RemyBrown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-9D20HtiCA.A Muslim says they want to kill infidels, the liberal tries to be understanding.A Muslim says men shouldn't compete in women's sports, the liberal loses it as if it's worse than murder.A radical Muslim's hatred comes from a book; a radical leftist's hatred

Latest reply by Double_R
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Started by fauxlaw

The Democrats havre been trying to eradicate Trump for 11 years; ever since he announced his interest in running for the presidency after NBC fired him from "The Apprentice." Or, was that really directive from DNC? NBC never has had solid self-identity ever since the Huntley-Brinkley Report on eveni

Latest reply by SergeantLynch
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Started by linate

we already know that more educated and wealthier people vote democrat. we know that trump supporters are prone to being lower information voters. we know just by virtue of IQ distributions that half are below average intelligence and at least a third are genuinely dumb as rocks. what about the educa

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Started by RemyBrown

Different culture; more conservative; more mentally resilient. Pride parades have too many flashy colors; it's color sensory overload. Drag queens are not pedophilles; they just look ugly (and they wear too much makeup).

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Started by Fruit_Inspector

I have never understood how Marxists believe that once they have actualized their Communist society, they think people are just going start working for nothing other than personal fulfillment.Do they not realize how many crappy jobs are out there that provide all the modern comforts they take for gr

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Started by fauxlaw

Politics has slogged through the mud before, and has managed to survive. Ours is not a completely clean, muck-free political journey in America. It's just that politics, as an entity of society, is being way to kind to itself calling itself a "science." That science is supposed to be in an effort to

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Started by Savant

The Epstein files thing was a gift to Democrats straight from heaven. Even with how much Trump tends to shoot himself in the foot, it looked like the files dominating the news cycle was going to damage his image more than usual. Progressives online of course swore they weren't going to get distracte

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Started by Misterio

In recent years, we've found out that some notable politicians have certain habits considered inmoral in our society. I refer specifically to some presidents of important countries who allegedly consume cocaine.The first news that came out about it was concerning Zelensky. It is said that the Ukrain

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Started by RemyBrown

Definition of mansplaining: "a portmanteau of "man" and "explaining," referring to the act of a man explaining something to someone, typically a woman, in a condescending or patronizing way, assuming she lacks knowledge or understanding of the topic"I believe anytime a man disagrees with a woman, th

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Started by fauxlaw

Legislation will never enable control of human behavior realtrive tor control of human use of tools, such as bay an effort to ban guns. First of all, no one has been able to successfully define a particular tool: the "assault weapon." Without proper definition, how do we legislate its control. Nope.

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