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Old Aug 25, 2024 | 09:14 PM
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It's so exciting!
Old Aug 25, 2024 | 10:33 PM
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A thought occurred to me.

You know how America has a lot of people in it right now who hate America and think it needs to be torn down?

We could put those people onto a cruise ship, and send it to the Republic of the Congo, where they'll never be oppressed by white males or capitalism ever again!

I'd actually be happy for my tax dollars to be spent on that.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
People believe things which reinforce their existing beliefs.

We in the far-left mainstream media have all of the snowflakes convinced that Trump is the devil and that if he is elected it'll the end of US Democracy.
They are so hyper-fixated on that idea that they applauded wildly when the DNC tossed out the results of a fair election and substituted a new candidate because they didn't like the polling numbers.
It was brilliant.
And it works both ways. Joe Rogan and Alex Jones have you convinced that you've done your own research and determined that Biden (and now Harris) are "the real threat," and that RFK is a brilliant biomedical researcher who also somehow has the whole inside scoop on the JFK assassination despite having no insider access.
And we're all doing it for the same reason: money. Sure, your liberties will have to be sacrificed and our nation reduced to a dictatorship, but that's a small price to pay for pumping up our short-term earnings.
I catch Joe Rogan snippets, and rarely (once a month) something from Alex Jones. I turned off CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS....and FOX. I turned off my entire Dish Network. Don't watch any of them anymore. Confirmation bias is a thing, but I'm not getting my news from the MSM, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, or any other single source. And I don't think I'm alone, because the numbers back that up. CNN has lost a million viewers since Trump has left the presidency.

What I do find interesting is that young male demo and an increasingly large percentage of minorities are turning conservative. What's up? Did the MSM cause it?

Old Aug 26, 2024 | 06:18 AM
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Kids of the 60s and 70s were either pro-establishment or anti-establishment. Same with the kids today. But today the left is the establishment. So when today's youts {sic} question authority and find the answers lacking, the ideas of personal liberty and self-ownership find fertile soil.

If only more of them questioned authority and displayed a penchant for logic over base emotion.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
A thought occurred to me.

You know how America has a lot of people in it right now who hate America and think it needs to be torn down?

We could put those people onto a cruise ship, and send it to the Republic of the Congo, where they'll never be oppressed by white males or capitalism ever again!

I'd actually be happy for my tax dollars to be spent on that.
We don't have enough cruise ships.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by olderguy
We don't have enough cruise ships.
You'd have more than enough with one.

Remember when all the celebrities were saying they'd move to Canada when Trump was elected? How many of them left? Hell, I bet even the ones born in Canada stayed.

So even giving them the option of Canada, which is already a communist tyranny like they all so adore, they aren't leaving.

These actual liberal shills (not the one JoeP pretends to be) may be mentally unstable, but they aren't stupid. Well, not that stupid.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Kids of the 60s and 70s were either pro-establishment or anti-establishment. Same with the kids today. But today the left is the establishment. So when today's youts {sic} question authority and find the answers lacking, the ideas of personal liberty and self-ownership find fertile soil.
That's an interesting observation.

Much the same as how, from the civil war up through the 1960s, the democrat party was the one whose governors and mayors were promoting the Jim Crow laws, enforcing segregated public facilities, supporting the KKK, and standing in schoolhouse doors to block the entrance of negro students to white schools.

I really have never found a good accounting of what changed. How the reps and the dems managed to flip the narrative 180°...
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 10:05 AM
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Old Aug 26, 2024 | 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
That's an interesting observation.

Much the same as how, from the civil war up through the 1960s, the democrat party was the one whose governors and mayors were promoting the Jim Crow laws, enforcing segregated public facilities, supporting the KKK, and standing in schoolhouse doors to block the entrance of negro students to white schools.

I really have never found a good accounting of what changed. How the reps and the dems managed to flip the narrative 180°...
The party decided to buy the negro vote instead of discouraging it. They still retained control over the negroes, just by exploiting their greed and short memories rather than truly doing right by them. It's the Marxist idea of employing "useful idiots" to achieve their aims. The "New Deal" was the rollout of the buyout.
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If I had a magic wand, I would love to transport some of these neo-socialist folks back to Berkeley in the mid 1960s, so that they can explain to their grandparents, who are protesting against racism, against segregation, against censorship, and against US intervention in foreign wars, just why they are wrong.

Or to Kent State University in May, 1970. So that they can see what actual fascism and actual oppression really look like.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 10:42 AM
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https://lottwire.com/detroit-doctor-...ng-abuse-case/

Detroit Doctor Charged with Recording Thousands of Victims in Disturbing Abuse Case

A Detroit doctor, Dr. Oumair Aejaz, faces accusations of severe sexual abuse and privacy violations after his wife turned him in to the police. On August 7, Michigan police, acting on a tip from Aejaz's wife, obtained a search warrant and discovered 13,000 videos on a single hard drive. They also seized six computers, four cell phones, and 15 hard drives as evidence.

Aejaz has been charged with multiple felonies, including sexual abuse of a child, recording minors and adults while nude, and using a computer to commit a crime. He is being held on a $2 million bond, with each of the 10 felony counts carrying a potential sentence of five to 20 years in prison if convicted. Bouchard noted that Aejaz, who has two children and no prior criminal history, targeted victims ranging from a 2-year-old boy to adult women.
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
The party decided to buy the negro vote instead of discouraging it. They still retained control over the negroes, just by exploiting their greed and short memories rather than truly doing right by them. It's the Marxist idea of employing "useful idiots" to achieve their aims. The "New Deal" was the rollout of the buyout.
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always at war with eurasia.

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OUR WORST FEARS!!!!!!!

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OUR WORST FEARS!!!!!!!

So the black professor is saying that the black kids are not as studious as the white or Asian kids? And that he did not believe they would do as well on merit-based entrance requirements? What a racist bastard.
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 04:06 PM
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Can the whites declare themselves as subjects of racism now that they also declined while Asian enrollment increased?
Old Aug 26, 2024 | 04:27 PM
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You can declare yourself to be a pop-up toaster. Nothing is gained unless others buy into it.

Maybe people will give you bread if you claim to be a toaster.
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Old Aug 27, 2024 | 09:01 AM
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Old Aug 27, 2024 | 10:01 AM
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That’s right out of the 20 Biden campaign play book. They kept him locked up in the basement so we could not see how incapable he was.



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