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A clear example of the public being smarter than the media.
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
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I think arguably the thing that saddens me the most right now is how Fox News has successfully bullied the "mainstream media" into presenting the "moderate to right wing extremist" perspective as the entirety of the political spectrum in the United States. It's as if the left doesn't exist. I mean there's MSNBC I guess. But if you read WaPo or CNN or any of the mainstream mainstream news sources you'd have no ideas that opinions like the ones shown on MSNBC even exist. But boy are we ever aware of the opinions of every right wing terrorist sympathizer in America. Because those are opinions that are really important to magnify and rebroadcast.
Look at Afghanistan. It's as if the entire movement of radical lefties who opposed the war in Afghanistan *in 2002* never existed. Why wasn't WaPo going from coffee shop to coffee shop picking the brains of anti-war lefties back then?
Look at Afghanistan. It's as if the entire movement of radical lefties who opposed the war in Afghanistan *in 2002* never existed. Why wasn't WaPo going from coffee shop to coffee shop picking the brains of anti-war lefties back then?
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A girl who grew up in north Korea and escaped was on the JRE podcast. She starts off talking about what it's like growing up there. Just unbelievable how bad it is.
She said the only thing you can really compare it to is the Holocaust.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO?si=JaGMr9fXTTKzT3LHUDbcUg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
She said the only thing you can really compare it to is the Holocaust.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO?si=JaGMr9fXTTKzT3LHUDbcUg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
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I have been close enough to walk to North Korea in 3 minutes. DMZ
Bye bye Beal.
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Ok this has been bugging me so let's do the math:
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race
"Of the more than 520,000 cumulative U.S. deaths catalogued in this Color of Coronavirus update, these are the numbers of lives lost by group: Asian (17,747), Black (73,236), Indigenous (5,477), Latino (89,071), Pacific Islander (830) and White Americans (299,915). "
Here's how various races voted in 2020 POTUS race:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html
Asian: 34%, Black 12%, indigenous no data, Latino 32%, white 58%
So doing the math, the total number of voters killed by Trump and his enablers' negligence is:
Trump voters: 217,276
Biden voters: 262,694
Trump's negligence managed to net him about 45,417 more voters, arguably one of the reasons the election was so close. This was back in March so before the vaccine was available.
So not like I wish death on anyone but it would be karmic justice if 45k more GOP voters die than Dems as a result of them refusing to get vaccinated between now and 2022. With a thousand people dying per day that doesn't seem unreasonable - as long as GOP deaths exceed Dem deaths by 103 per day between now and Nov 6 2022 (439 days).
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race
"Of the more than 520,000 cumulative U.S. deaths catalogued in this Color of Coronavirus update, these are the numbers of lives lost by group: Asian (17,747), Black (73,236), Indigenous (5,477), Latino (89,071), Pacific Islander (830) and White Americans (299,915). "
Here's how various races voted in 2020 POTUS race:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html
Asian: 34%, Black 12%, indigenous no data, Latino 32%, white 58%
So doing the math, the total number of voters killed by Trump and his enablers' negligence is:
Trump voters: 217,276
Biden voters: 262,694
Trump's negligence managed to net him about 45,417 more voters, arguably one of the reasons the election was so close. This was back in March so before the vaccine was available.
So not like I wish death on anyone but it would be karmic justice if 45k more GOP voters die than Dems as a result of them refusing to get vaccinated between now and 2022. With a thousand people dying per day that doesn't seem unreasonable - as long as GOP deaths exceed Dem deaths by 103 per day between now and Nov 6 2022 (439 days).
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jenna-ellis-says-gop-wont-back-pence-over-vaccine-support-after-trump-booed-at-rally/ar-AANGH9k?li=BBnbfcL
These people are complete morons. There's no nicer way of saying it. They're so dense, they're causing me to defend Pence.
These people are complete morons. There's no nicer way of saying it. They're so dense, they're causing me to defend Pence.
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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I am now pro-wall, as long the Trumpers pay for it and move to the other side.
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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That's fine, but why is this just happening now - more than 7 months after the fact - rather than on January 7th?
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Ruzious wrote:That's fine, but why is this just happening now - more than 7 months after the fact - rather than on January 7th?
Because Moscow Mitch and Qevin McCarthy are cowards.
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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tranche? Sounds like something you dig, hoping your ex-wife falls into on accident.
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Bye bye Beal.
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A lot of what we call 'thought' is just mental activity
When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
Those who are convinced of absurdities, can be convinced to commit atrocities
When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
Those who are convinced of absurdities, can be convinced to commit atrocities
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Just pull the bandaid off. Americans are stupid and will forget about the whole thing after a few 24-hour news cycles.
Worked for Trump, Biden might as well use it too.
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Yes, although I don't like the fact that Hassan conveniently let Obama off the hook in his rant. Obama was also complicit in continuing that hideous fake war and imprisoning Chelsea Manning for uncovering American war crimes.
But major, major, major props to Biden for sticking to his guns and not falling back on his evacuation plan. I think Biden is a complete goof for the most part, but this single act might be enough for me to support Biden at least in the short term.
Some random troll wrote:Not to sound negative, but this team is owned by an arrogant cheapskate, managed by a moron and coached by an idiot. Recipe for disaster.