6h ago 5th Generation War
@Stigma Props for at least knowing the term Motte and Bailey, but you miss the mark trying to apply it to my post above. I'm not retreating from either of the positions advanced in it.
6h ago 5th Generation War
Trump after 2 KNOWN attempts on his life didn't really have much choice.
Nothing, not even assassination attempts, give Trump nor anyone else an exemption from rule of law or operating within the well established framework of division of powers between Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of Federal Government.
F off with that!
I swear, looking at the way Trump fans react to just his first 2 weeks in office is enough to convince me that MAGA amounts to nothing more than a cult of passive followers of a "strong" leader.
10h ago 5th Generation War
I hope you expressed this same concern when Clinton, Obama, and Biden all overstepped boundaries.
Yes, very much so. This type of argument/attempt at dismissing another's claim works particularly poorly when you don't have any track record of the individual claimant's positions over the years. I'll note that in communities I've been active on for 20 years, the exact same people who were gung-ho for Republican and Neocon wars and constitutional/division of powers transgressions just conveniently memory-hole mine and their positions expressed in the past when it's expedient in the moment to attempt an unsupported partisan snipe.
DOGE doesn't actually control anything. They only give information and make recommendations.
They connected their own private server to official Government systems, with no oversight on what data they are allowed to access, collect, and do who knows what with later. Something that should raise alarm bells in the absence of partisan excuse making because they identify those collecting said data on "their" political sportsball team.
Sure, they throw out some high profile bones that they know their base will find delicious, but these work to distract attention from the full scope of what "DOGE" is doing or will do in the future.
Read More10h ago 5th Generation War
it's different enough that there shouldn't be so much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Different enough? Different, how? I've seen countless old newsreels of actual Nazis doing this, and plenty of war movies depicting movie Nazis doing this. If it wasn't "exactly" a Nazi salute that Elon did not once but twice, what in the name of spergouts WAS it then?
so you agree with your parents and grandparents on all things political?
Distracting from the topic of Elon to me personally- won't help you make a meaningful counterpoint. Musk's Grandparents moved to South Africa because they liked and wanted to immerse themselves in the apartheid system there, and openly spoke of his admiration of Hitler. Elon's saluting behavior looks like a case of the apple not falling far from the tree in light of this information.
Read MoreButler's Lives of the Saints
This is the Benziger Brothers edition of Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints. Butler (1711-1773), was an English Roman Catholic priest. This, his principal literary work, was published between 1756 and 1759. Lives of the Saints has hundreds of capsule descriptions of Catholic saints, organized by the saint's day of the year. The 1894 Benziger Brothers edition, originally published in 1878, was heavily edited by John Gilmary Shea (here uncredited. Source: MELVYL). The 'Reflections' were not in the original Butler text, and were probably added by Shea.
The full text of Alban Butlers' work, which occupies over 1,200 pages of two-column small type, will have to wait for another time. However this imprimatur edition was apparently widely used by American Catholics at the turn of the 20th century, and remains accessible to contemporary readers.
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Read MoreHow an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't
"Irwin A. Schiff, America's leading expert on the Federal Income Tax, presents economics in his thoroughly informative, yet always entertaining manner; proving that the only thing -dismal- about the "dismal science" must be those who normally teach and write about it. Without a doubt, anyone reading Schiff's hilarious allegory will have a far better understanding of economics than many who have pursued the subject full time at our nation's universities."
The comicbook is free on Youtube, Bitchute. and online libraries like libgen.
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Read MoreGood Point. I think this one applies a lot of the liberal elite's actions. People give them too much credit when they say they are actively conspiring. They are just carrying with business as usual. Naturally they do it in a way to suit them and according to their agenda and unfortunately they are not very competent.
Please, elaborate.
17h ago 5th Generation War
cutting programs that benefit the lower earning 85% of Americans,
Except that hasn't happened, at least not yet. The USAID has been a shitshow for a long time. Last Feb there was an attempt at an audit, but it was quickly shutdown when they noted that the overhead was AT LEAST 40% of each grant. What the fuck? Twenty percent considered borderline criminal for private charities. None of this money benefits lower earning americans. It benefits higher earning americans and then, maybe, foreigners.
I find this whole "geee, we just found the Oligarchy in America and it is two tech bros" shit hilarious. Where the fuck have you all been the last two decades? Where were you when Obama bailed them out in 2009 because of their shitshow involvement in the equities markets? Where were you when they shutdown Occupy Wallstreet so they could get us to hate each other instead?
I'll be the first to tell you I have benefited from it all. But to quote Chappelle, "we are all in that house doing exactly what you think we are doing." It isn't some cranked up sperg and his gay friend doing this to you.
Read MoreWomen are so utterly deceived nowadays...
They are told that the correct reaction to their husband having a mistress is to serve him the divorce papers, while their natural tendency, and the decent thing to do, is to serve him their wet pussy.
Let's reclaim good 'ol traditional values!
The conclusion that the COVID vaccine didn't lead to excess deaths is the most robust finding - and you point to alright.
From a public health perspective, the correlation of the lack of vaccination and higher incidence of death is enough to suggest universal vaccination.
There might theoretically be covarients, and those you identify might be good candidates, but its existence must be proved. In other words, doubters need to find them, and if they can't (which is the case up to now), we have to suppose they don't exist.
(Murders, accidents and other non-related issues are expected to even out between the two groups, that 's why the excess mortality after a pandemic is such a reliable general indicator).