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  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • You're complaining about corruption in elected positions, and want to replace it by giving more power to the DA, or to remove the human aspect and give everything over a computer assigning mandatory minimums that only ever seem to go up.

    If you have a problem with corruption, you fight the corruption. You don't consolidate power into even fewer hands, with no mercy(not that there is much of that in the first place.)

    The founding fathers were a bunch of rich white dudes, that almost to a one, fail every moral standard today. Some of them would and were considered assholes in their own time. Acting like they were incredibly thoughtful/wise elder statesmen is the only Hollywood trope either one of us has brought up. Part of the protections they did try and put into place was to spread power out, and make those positions ones that elected. You know, the stuff you want to remove?

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • It's really sad to me that the Portland community is moderated by a center right liberal.

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • They absolutely should.

    This isn't some small point, either. Your view validates mandatory minimum sentencing and other systemically racist structures.

    Judges should make judgments. It's literally the job title. A judge is someone you're supposed to be able to trust to take into account all the human stuff and make decisions based off it.

    You want a judge that makes the judgment call that a plea deal is okay? Fine.

    You want a judge that throws away a plea deal they think is too light? Fine.

    You want a judge that adds up minimum sentences and could be replaced by a computer? Not fine.

  • Ken Burns is in your future

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  • The seven year war, which is what the rest of the world calls the French Indian war should actually have been called World War One.

    It was also started by an incompetent 22 year old George Washington being sent out in his first command who ignored the equivalent of the sergeant put in charge of the new lieutenant advice and executed a French person he shouldn't have.

    The taxes that started the revolutionary war? Those were to pay the war debts on the seven year war. Dude literally led an army to avoid paying the consequences of his actions.

    EDIT: it's also possible to draw "ALL WARS"

  • Do you know any independent written news sources?

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  • I didn't mean follow as in Twitter. I meant follow as in pay attention to them and the stories they work on.

  • Do you know any independent written news sources?

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  • The Lever.

    Drop Site News.

    Don't follow news sources. Follow journalists.

  • Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks

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    How does your nationality impact your utter ignorance of the percentage of weapons that Israel receives comes from America.

    Great way to try and change the subject of your utter ignorance to one of your nationality, but you're the only one bringing it up, and it's perfectly clear to everyone reading what you're doing. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, you stooge. What a weird fucking insult to throw in there.

    Also, if they want to defend themselves they should. Themselves. Oh, that's right, they can't.

    Also, genocide is not self defense. Nor is apartheid or annexation.

    EDIT: go ahead and read the edit I've made to the comment you responded to.

  • What are your favorite old-timey and historical insults and incredulous expressions?

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  • It was an insult, too. Different times.

  • What would 10 year old you be the most surprised about you now?

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  • That I'm still alive.

  • What are your favorite old-timey and historical insults and incredulous expressions?

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  • Accusing someone of having too much semen.

    It was a thing.

    John Adams accused Alexander Hamilton of having such an excess of semen that all the brothels in the city couldn't help him.

  • Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks

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  • Spoken like someone that doesn't understand how much their military depends upon American aid.

    Edit: spoken also like someone that doesn't know that the US stopped every Israeli war because unlike you Israel knows it can't exist without free weapons from the US.

    And before you say 'military aid is a handout to US weapons manufacturers', an argument I suspect you're not knowledgeable enough to make, Israel is the exception to that because unlike EVERY other country in the world that receives US military aid, Israel receives half of the aid as pure money they get to spend with other countries.

    So when you say they'd just get the weapons from other countries, you're doubly wrong, because they wouldn't have the money, our fucking money, to do so.

    Have you learned anything yet, or is your racism against Arabic people so strong that nothing will penetrate your desire to justify genocide?

  • Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote

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  • Your response is coming from the entitlement of not having your entire extended family disappeared.

    I'm glad you have that privilege.

    Don't murder peoples families and expect their support.

    "Yes, we murdered your entire extended family, but we need your help to beat this person we swear would kill your family 110% faster. Never mind the fact that we already killed all of your extended family"

    What don't you get about this? You and people like you have zero credibility given what the people you support ALREADY HAVE DONE with the people they've done it to.

  • Trump wins.

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  • Honestly, we were done after Gore.

    2000 was the last time period we could have done something that wouldn't result in unimaginable pain to deal with climate change.

    Too many tipping points have already been crossed.

  • Trump wins.

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  • The climate is one thing that both would fuck the world.

    That's a done deal at this point. The Democratic party would have slowed the rate of increase, but given the tipping points we've already crossed, we require actual massive amounts of removal of greenhouse gases, and major geo-engineering projects to try and prevent everything coming our way from climate change.

    This is less of a politics post, and more of a 'we're so fucked, and most people aren't aware of how fucked we are that they think what the Democratic Party wants to do for climate would actually do a damn thing'

    Seriously, at this point it would require a complete overhaul of both our political system and economic system such that life would be unrecognizable to forestall gigadeaths.

  • Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

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  • Genocide.

  • Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

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  • I haven't voted on 118 yet. It's the only bit unfilled. Not sure which way I'll go. Probably no, and then walk the ballot to a Dropbox in my neighborhoods library.

  • Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

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  • No, they aren't. That literally is nowhere in their post.

    You either didn't read it all, or you're lying, or you have poor reading comprehension skills.

    I doubt it's the latter for a mod on a text based platform.

    P.S. I'm an admin on a fairly large platform for a fairly large group. When the group took off, I started interacting on it a LOT less because my moderation responsibilities (which also increased with the groups growth, why are so many people just blatant assholes or trolls?) required that people view me as impartial and unbiased.

    Choosing to engage frequently in controversial topics and using straw man arguments against posts that literally don't say anything related to what you say they say is certainly... a choice... for a mod to make.

    Don't get me wrong, I miss my ability to interact with the group I admin like a normal person, but my duties to the group take precedence. I understand the desire, but there are other options.

  • Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

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  • Responding to multiple unprovoked acts of war from Israel is not aggression.

    Bombing a countries embassy in a third party nation is an act of war.

    Assassinating a visiting ambassador in Iran's capital is an act of war.

    The only reason Iran didn't respond to the first is because the US promised them a peace deal.

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    No, they can't, because they aren't engaging in the genocide and Israel doesn't need our help to commit it.

    American support is essential to the Israeli state, in response to aggression from Iran and other sources which is why we continue to provide it, it's NOT essential to the genocide, which Israel is fully capable and willing to commit with their own resources.

    Which is it? Are they committing a genocide or not?

  • Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

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  • Israel absolutely can't do this without our weapons.

    This is an objective provable fact.

    Why do you believe that Israel ended every other war of aggression when there US forced them to end it.

    Where do you think their money for weapons comes from?

    Where do you think their weapons comes from?

    I can't tell it you're lying intentionally to justify genocide, lying unintentionally because you are just fantastically uninformed about the regions history, or just flat out delusional.

    Whatever the reason, you're wrong. Biden could end this with a single phone call. You know, like has happened multiple times in the past. Because even if you don't want to acknowledge the truth, Israel is aware of its absolute dependence on America.

    Now onto the genocide bit. Actually, I can't. At this point it is so blindingly obvious it is it's like trying to argue with someone claiming the sun doesn't exist.

    I'm revising my opinion about your choice to lie about how much control the US has over Israeli adventurism.