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fishmech posted:Communists and anarchists were assumed to be one and the same and Wilson's government hunted them down ruthlessly. Do remember that this was the time period of the Soviet Union being formed. Moreover, this was the impetus for the formation of what ultimately became the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover.
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# ¿ May 26, 2010 20:41 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 14:40 |
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Ruckby posted:One of you guys should probably link it so that the rest of us don't have to browse through Fox Nation.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2010 08:50 |
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Armyman25 posted:If we're experiencing 10-20% unemployment, where are all these able bodied supposed to work? At all the jobs that are going unfilled in the ghetto?
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2010 10:54 |
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Wait, are other faiths, including Christianity, given as much time and effort into educating students? The omgmuslimconspiracy stuff is stupid, but if a public school is actually putting that much effort into educating students about one faith (which seems weird for a public school to do in the first place) only, then the school and the program deserves to be scrutinized.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2010 23:00 |
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Arglebargle III posted:I love the logic there. Someone in Gaza bought lipstick, therefore no one in Gaza is needy.
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2010 18:01 |
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Pfirti86 posted:gently caress these gun metaphors. I hope this sort of rhetoric becomes unacceptable to the mainstream discourse soon. Facebook posted:: I love guns, and I love the 2nd amendment, to hell with those who hate the Constitution, and are too scared to have their own guns, so they try to take them away from law abiding citizens. It's a shame you all breathe! Politico posted:Carolyn McCarthy readies gun control bill
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2011 07:03 |
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Orkiec posted:There are a lot of right wing forwards on this thread, but has anybody gotten a pro-Trump e-mail forward yet? I'm curious if anyone likes him. There's this link from a few pages back: quote:Whether or not you like Donald Trump or think he has a snowball’s chance in hell of actually winning the Republican nomination and going on to remove Barrack Obama from the White House is beside the point; dude says exactly what’s on his mind, and you gotta LOVE IT.
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# ¿ May 1, 2011 08:51 |
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Nucleic Acids posted:So, just how crazy are the forwards going to be now that bin Laden is dead?
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# ¿ May 2, 2011 06:16 |
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I've found that many political "debates" are like that, not only in the US. With people from all over the world. Arguments are a signal of identity rather than a rationally generated position that can then be discussed, defended, dissected, then perhaps changed as a result of a dialogue.
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# ¿ May 6, 2011 01:45 |
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angrytech posted:We're through the rabbit-hole, people. It's Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: all the way.
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# ¿ May 8, 2011 07:46 |
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So, basically, now that they've killed Bin Laden, suddenly the 8 Bush years did happen? I'm having a hard time keeping the "facts" straight, help me out.
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# ¿ May 12, 2011 05:17 |
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:From The Onion: Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex
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# ¿ May 20, 2011 22:18 |
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PerniciousKnid posted:Of course in a real democracy we've theoretically had majority agreement that we want to pay taxes for a social safety net, we haven't been "trapped" by some external Other. Unless you think democracy amounts to sacrificing your freedoms, which I suppose is true-ish, but I don't think that's what they've meant to say in this email.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2011 20:21 |
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last laugh posted:Also I hope they realize it's those same greedy CEOs who added 2,3 etc for other languages because they realized speaking fluent English isn't a pre-requisite for spending money or requiring services.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2011 19:38 |
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a foolish pianist posted:Is this true? I've never heard of Israeli miscegenation laws. There aren't miscegenation laws. Instead, the only form of marriage allowed on Israeli soil is one conducted by religious authorities of one of the few religious groups recognized by the Ottoman Empire. That does include Orthodox Judaism, Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam, and maybe a few others. But they only recognize marriages conducted within those groups. Israel contracts much of its racism out through its theocratic legislation. (And yes, for the Muslim community, there is Sharia law in Israel. Stuff that in a Republican pipe and smoke it) Mind you, you can get married abroad and then they are forced to recognize such a marriage in Israel. But divorce is basically settled by the appropriate religious authorities. That is, if you're Reform Jew, and were married to another Reform Jew in the US, if you want to get a divorce after you both moved to Israel, it will be dealt with through the Orthodox Rabbinate. Sorry for the derail.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 05:39 |
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40 OZ posted:
Why does this piss you off more than the much more prevalent situation of Jew-on-Jew or Arab-on-Arab domestic violence? People go on to marry other people to spite their parents all the time. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it devolves horribly. But there's nothing magical about the Jew marrying Arab issue, except for the massive social stigma involved which would make it harder for those who are victims of abuse to get any help. So I'm sorry, but yes, you are racist, by promulgating the same "they are after are white womans" cliche that gave the KKK and the JDL so much power.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 18:45 |
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I must have missed it, but where does this email say that the Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:er is a right-wing nutjob or believes any of these things you all are attributing to them?
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 03:47 |
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You lot are just engaging in ALLCAPS profiling. Just imagine every ALLCAPS statement being yelled loudly. Yeah, it's a clear sign of crazy. But I still don't think you should be profiling this nutjobiness to be crazy right-winged. It mostly seems awed by China, not really scared, per se. They will welcome their new masters.
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 06:39 |
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last laugh posted:A good rebuttal. Of course they are. They just deal with it through denial and wealth-worship.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2011 06:23 |
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Enjoy posted:But that was a known unknown... that phrase is terrible Sarion posted:They produce a small amount of Intel's chips. Do they have other silicon fabs that I'm not aware of? Intel's American silicon manufacturing is far larger than what is in Israel. As far as I know most of what's done in Israel's Intel subsidiary/branch is R&D. They do have a couple of manufacturing plants, but I doubt they're as big as in the US.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2011 02:48 |
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jojoinnit posted:Wait a sec, so the argument being made was that we should support Israel financially, because Intel has R&D labs there? Now that is a silly argument. Let Intel provide security for their own drat labs. They also got a lot of tax breaks from the Israeli government to set up a fab in a low-income area. So if they want security they could invest the saved money in that. Problem solved!
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2011 04:36 |
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T-man posted:Conservative? As in, also the "no handouts, BOOTSTRAPS!" type? How do they justify begging from your mother?
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 06:08 |
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Zwabu posted:This is basically an illustration of the awesome power of propaganda. Since this guy has probably heard this 50% don't pay taxes talking point repeated about 90,000 times in the last 2 months on his Favorite News Channel, from politicians like Rick Perry, "editorial content" hosts like Hannity and O'Reilly, from the "news" anchors there, and on the radio from Rush Limbaugh about another 120,000 times, it comes to replace an actual thought in his head, it's something that comes easily and readily to the lips as an automatic response. The real funny part is that it wouldn't matter even if they didn't pay any taxes whatsoever. You know why? You know the money that the other 50% make? That money is incumbent on the work some of those 50% do (cleaning, sweeping, harvesting, packing, shipping, shelving, selling, driving, etc), and on the low wages guaranteed by the others` unemployment. The economy isn't individual, it's social. Those self-congratulatory blowhards would starve within days without those terrible 50%, not to mention make any money or get those expensive suits they prance around with while railing against the lucky duckies. In that sense, even progressives are buying into propaganda that is not rooted in reality. As if a person's worth has to do with individual taxes they pay with "their" money. It's a red herring.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 19:44 |
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York_M_Chan posted:Did you get the bullshit "You're not a property owner so you don't understand" argument? "Just wait til you own a house and have to pay taxes! Then you'll be on our side."
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2011 21:40 |
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HipGnosis posted:Got a question. How do you politely tell someone that supply side economics is a myth? I have found the following article to be very thorough and convincing in debunking supply-side economics: The failed experiment - How misplaced faith in tax cuts and other economic myths are destroying the country, by David Cay Johnston, a journalist specializing in economics and tax issues. It also made me very angry. But it should be a good place to start building arguments, if you don't decide to avoid the issue entirely. Be aware that the response may well boil down to "well, they didn't really implement it properly, it would have worked otherwise," at which point there is not much to go on, anyway. But maybe you can find a way to respond to that, as well.
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 03:28 |
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Sometimes Breitbart doesn't pull things out of his rear end. The Wiener case, for example. I'd suggest only arguing the point if you find he's really misrepresented the case. Otherwise wait for the next time he does that.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2011 07:15 |
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Dr Snofeld posted:Not strictly an email, but if you feel like wanting to punch someone today, the Daily Mail has you covered with a nice little number about OWS. Shame that itsyotsy got shut down, the Mail doesn't deserve the ad revenue.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2011 18:28 |
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The bribery is a very rare, obvious form of class nepotism. The real deal is that people hang out with the rich, "naturally" befriend them, and then suddenly find opportunities for employment after their terms end, employment for members of their family, etc. It's the process of being lobbied and making new friends, and the prospects after they have finished "serving", which naturally make their perspective different, not whether they are 10 times or 100 times more well compensated than the median income.
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2011 15:24 |
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ClosedBSD posted:Congrats, your lab partner is pretty fantastic at repeating talking points. Better hope that your lab was explained word for word in class, with your professor tying in conspiracy theories involving College Democrats into the labs instructions, which he drew out in nonsensical graphs and diagrams on the chalkboard, in between bouts of crying because he "loves this class so much", but "fears for it."; because if your lab is in anything less than this format there is no way your partner will remember.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2011 19:46 |
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Dr Christmas posted:Not an email, but a leaflet passed out by bankers to the protesters at Occupy Chicago. It's a mass distibuted text thingy, so I'm just going to say it counts for this thread.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2011 00:35 |
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Ooh! I get to contribute! A facebook post titled "Jew: The source of all decadence and evil in the world; descendent of apes and pigs." linked to this piece of excrement Honest Reporting (no really) posted:I have come to realize just how difficult it may be to decipher news about the Middle East, Islam, Israel, the Arab World, and all these powerful and explosive issues of our times for those who rely on such media stalwarts as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the major television networks, cable news, etc. for their information. For example, how is a person to ascertain whether the slayer of a family is a terrorist or a militant or a gunman or an assailant or an activist or a freedom-fighter? Note the bolded part, though. Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo? Abdul Abulbul Amir? I knew that from somewhere: it is in fact the name of this old song. I imagine whoever invented this character (searching for him online has only produced him as an author of both this piece and another piece defending the first) thought no-one would notice this act of deception - obviously, there is no Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2011 15:27 |
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Merrill Grinch posted:So wait, it was the name of some obscure song from the 1920's was the big tip-off for you and not the name "Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi"?
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2011 23:42 |
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Arglebargle III posted:Yup. Funny to see this go the other way, usually it's pedophile->child molester. There was a morbid news article about "teachers behaving badly" on some lovely site that I clicked recently. One of them was a 25 year old having sex with his 17 year old student. Okay, he should lose his job for that, but I remember thinking "couldn't you have waited one more year dude..."
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2011 04:22 |
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A welfare queen who is also in a gang, no less.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2011 09:14 |
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BrotherAdso posted:To re-iterate: Yes, and people are raising possible objections so they can argue with their friends/relatives if those pass this turd on, as maybe it will help take them out of this mindset. It probably won't help, but it may be worth it to formulate arguments for the few cases it will.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2011 21:27 |
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ts12 posted:PUA poo poo It's always nice when people set their goals at literally being no better than animals because they live according to what pop evopsy tells them to.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 04:21 |
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ts12 posted:
PUA is date-rape training and apologetics, if you talk to a PUAer for long enough you'll realize that.
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 02:34 |
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euphronius posted:It's the same god
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2011 01:44 |
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Benly posted:There's good reason to believe that some of the laws of kashrut derive from health elements - the most obvious one is that a sick animal is flat-out not kosher, and in general the rules encourage animals that are easy to raise agriculturally and therefore control the health of rather than game animals. (Pigs are a notable exception, but they're also a vector for a fair number of food diseases and parasites.)
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 04:25 |
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Benly posted:So I guess you didn't read the rest of my post where I said that also a bunch of them are explicitly just tribal identifiers? I mean that's cool I guess.
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