The last reasonable person on Terra. Author. Woodchuck.
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Wearing seat belts doesn’t mean you assume you’re going to crash your car… it’s just sensible risk management.
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451 likes and no RT until me. If you can’t categorically condemn assassination in a democratic republic, you’re not a republican or a democrat. You’re something else.
A reasonable middle ground implies a reasonable party on both sides of the conversation, and right now there aren’t two reasonable parties in the USA.
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I see the Venezuelan flag there… how is the United States responsible for the destruction of Venezuela?
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Protect people from what? You do realize that the coordinated response to covid nuked the global economy.
Covid is now in the rear view mirror, but the fallout from the response continues to damage the world in many ways. War. Famine. Etc.
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The fact is that the migrants are moving to large metro areas, which means blacks are disproportionately affected by the disruption.
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No one can survive without other people. As Milton Friedman said, it takes a thousand people to make a pencil.
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In the United States, most people work in small businesses. Cubicle culture is not the norm.
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Judaism is a religion.
Neither Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, or any other Bolshevik leader practiced Judaism.
They practiced a weird modern religion that had been pioneered by Germans.
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Other than a few leftist-run cities, the us is safer than the uk. Our 2nd Amendment is based on ancient British law respecting the right of self-defense. But you lost most of your masculine dna in the world wars and no longer have the stones to stand up for yourselves.
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Nobody knows the truth. The best you can do is to optimize the predictive power of your assumptions. If your assumptions keep leading you to make failed predictions, change your assumptions.
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Alex Jones would endorse any halfway decent person running against Trudeau… said endorsement is not some kind of unique stigma.
Trudeau is not fit to be the leader of a free country.
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I’m not talking about feeling guilty, I’m talking about being guilty. You are not responsible for what other people do, and if someone holds you responsible for something you didn’t do, you are wronged.
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It’s a fact that mail-out ballots were printed in large numbers, distributed and collected in a chaotic manner.
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Hear me out… if absolutely no cars were allowed in nyc, car related injuries would go to zero.
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Technically, it was agronomic mismanagement. There was literally one variety of potato on the whole island, making it vulnerable to blight.
Incas would plant about 200 varieties of potato in the same field. Some got blight, some thrived.
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Here’s a thought experiment: legalize all drugs, and at the same time make it a capital offense to cut drugs with fentanyl.
It seems to me if you deliberately sell someone fentanyl without their knowledge, you are often giving them lethal poison.
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Aunt Jemima wasn’t a “racist caricature”, she was a real woman who made a lot of money as a brand representative, and re-invested her time and money into uplifting people who could use some help.
Erasing her from history is a grave disservice.
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The current system is the same system we had the last time an amendment was ratified, so yes it does.
If you want a substantial majority to approve YOUR amendments, you’ll have to persuade them.
If you can’t persuade them, don’t say the system is broken.
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The national debt has doubled every 8 years since 2000. It’s not a president problem, it’s a congress problem.
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Who would have thought there were 60 million nazis in communist China, how did they all get in there?
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I don’t think it’s so much “people love trump”, as, “if they get away with doing this to him, they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody”.
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What are you talking about? Strong majorities can effect constitutional change whenever they want, and have done so repeatedly. It’s called the amendment process.
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The image of the tobacco-chewing redneck wearing a straw hat and overalls is baked into the culture.
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Conservatives totally disavow political violence. Nothing is less conservative than political violence.
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I reject the use of the term “vaccinated” in this context. Up until a few years ago, the commonly accepted definition of the word “vaccine” was “a treatment that confers immunity” to a particular thing.
If you get the smallpox vaccine, you aren’t going to get smallpox.
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I’m more impressed by the botanical laboratories of the Inca. They’d take a whole mountain and plant different shit all over it, see what grew best at what elevation, and then distribute plants based on that information.
And they had hundreds of different potatoes.
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Looks like wishful thinking… normal people don’t like to see other people getting treated unfairly. It will create sympathy that wasn’t there before.
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You can’t count on the govt. always being in the hands of your “side”, Mr. Perlman.
It’s in everyone’s interest to limit what the government can do to anyone.
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The more power you have, the less you have to show your power. If the adversary is trying to provoke a reaction, and you resist up to the point where they become ridiculous for all to see… checkmate.
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The economy of the ussr was centrally regulated.
The economy of the 3rd Reich was centrally regulated.
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I heard bulls don’t like red capes because they’re color-blind… it confuses and annoys them.
These people are history-blind… anything with a 4th or 5th dimension confuses and annoys them.
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Are you kidding me? We’re begging them to sell us more oil. Sadly, their production is in the toilet because their petroleum engineers left the country, mostly to Alberta.
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A big one for me is freedom of speech. Americans don’t live in fear of being thrown in jail for thoughtcrime.
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He did drop to the ground at first, because he’s human. Then maybe he thought, “well that doesn’t look good”, and then he got back up.
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The military is struggling -and failing- to meet its recruitment goals. Either we have to dial back our commitments, or a draft is inevitable. Simple math.
In other words, poso is “fake but accurate”, in the words of the great Dan rather.
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He won reelection by the biggest margin in over 40 years. The people of Florida don’t agree with you.
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Go to Springfield and tell them they’re experiencing a renaissance -say it to their face. Ask them how grateful they are for the wise leadership of the biden-Harris administration.
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At Nuremberg, eichmann testified that he killed “five or six million” Jews. Was he lying? If so, why lie about something so personally damning to him?
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Yes. I don’t think throwing bump stocks under the bus is a slippery slope. Literally zero serious firearm cognoscenti ever used bump stocks anyway.
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Most of our crime stats are driven by a few bad cities. If you subtract those cities, the great majority of Americans enjoy a better quality of life than is currently found in the uk. As an English Yankee, I wish you luck in solving your problems.
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Weren’t women allowed to vote in Weimar Germany? They weren’t helpless waifs who just sat there while their country was being run into the ground.
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This is the first time I’ve seen the term “BlueMAGA”. I assume it refers to npcs who uncritically follow the ruling class narrative, no matter how absurd.
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The United States can last forever if it remains true to its original architecture. The federal government should basically be confined to running the military and foreign policy, and leave the rest of governance to the states and the people.
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“Put your garbage in the correct recycling bins, or you are complicit in climate catastrophe.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past.”
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There’s no contradiction between approving of local police in some cases, and being leery of federal overreach.
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If some protesters laid down in front of the enterprise, Kirk would slowly go forward.
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Rights are based on the natural requirements of humans to live, and to obtain the factors of survival. “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, basically.
And a thing cannot be a right if it necessarily contradicts the rights of others.
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There’s no such thing as “Jewish genes”, any more than Christian genes, Muslim genes, Buddhist genes, etc.
Religion is about what you believe, not what your DNA is.
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Bro, anyone with over 500 followers and decent engagement can monetize their account with a blue check, and you’ve got over 6 thousand.
If you do have decent engagement, nine bucks a month is a tiny fraction of what you could be rolling in.
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Agreed. Anyone who doesn’t want to ride on public transit should not be allowed in the city.
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Heinlein said the lowest form of a lie was to say something that wasn’t true. A more sophisticated lie is to say a partial truth in a misleading way. The greatest lie is to say the complete truth and not be believed.
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It’s all about personality and intellect for me, as long as you’ve got no major health problems.
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Most Spanish conquistadors were looking for precious metals. One man, on an expedition up the Mississippi River, looked at fertile grassland for a thousand miles in every direction and wrote in his diary, “this is the true wealth”.
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There’s no evidence of any crime. This is just another example of lawfare which will be overturned on appeal, and the prosecutor who brought this bogus case should be disbarred and charged with a crime.
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My understanding is that the Arab empire had collected knowledge from ancient Roman and Greek that had been lost in the west, as well as knowledge from the east.
Oxford and the university of Paris started teaching Arabic to train scribes to acquire this knowledge.
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History often forces revisions to the news on a monthly basis, but most people don’t see the revisions, they only see the initial headlines.
All important institutions are captured, because they are important.
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The nice thing about the lawsuit is we got to see in discovery e-mails from a dominion exec that their software is “full of bugs”.
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