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ITT we discuss whether a candidate who endorses "moving the Jewish state to a more defensible location, like New Jersey" is real. Immanentized posted:I did, I was just commenting on the editorial board's inclination to publish title IX stuff. I don't have a problem with the content, just the publishing agency behind it. They ping pong on the issue between their staff, and the message gets turned into white tower academic nonsense instead of a pressing issue. (Execution of title IX protections, rather than the provisions of the ruling itself) If the way we've implemented title IX protections is trivially exploitable, isn't that a problem? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Soulex posted:Someone did something cool and weird. That's incredibly cool.
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America's Mayor is the gift that keeps on giving.quote:WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday the president probably has the power to pardon himself but does not plan to do so.
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I mean by that logic because I could one day become president, don't I inherently have the pardon power vested in me by the people of future America? I'll take a small chocolate frosty and fries.
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Reading a WaPo article about sexual abuse in Evangelical churches, when this bit comes up:quote:Why are so many evangelicals (who also devote resources to fighting sex trafficking or funding shelters for battered women) so dismissive of the women in their own pews? Roger Canaff, a former New York state prosecutor who specialized in child sexual abuse, tells me that many worshipers he encountered felt persecuted by the secular culture around them — and disinclined to reach out to their persecutors for help in solving problems. This is the same dynamic that drove a cover-up culture among ultra-Orthodox communities in New York, where rabbis insisted on dealing with child abusers internally, according to several analysts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.e1ea1c4c1224 I think this is why the GOP is breaking its spine trying to bend over backwards to help Trump. If he starts WWIII, Jesus comes back and they go to heaven.
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Yeah that's been going on nonstop since the late 70s, god help us if D&D ever figures out they do and always have had a legitimate accelerationist option. How else do you think Israel got their arm so far up our rear end
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Jun 3, 2018 17:59
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This was eye-opening to my European rear end regarding Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/american-atheists-religious-european-christians/560936/quote:First, researchers confirmed the widely known fact that, overall, Americans are much more religious than Western Europeans.
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So hot on the heels of "Cellphone security is too inconvenient": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-u-s-officials/ quote:A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.
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Jun 3, 2018 18:23
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Third World Reggin posted:Really neat evolution thing going on atm This Jurassic World marketing is getting out of hand.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...o-a8381146.htmlquote:Mr Crosland fed the puppy to the snapping turtle in front of a small number of students after classes finished and not during regular school activities, according to superintendent Marc Gee. 
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Jun 3, 2018 18:41
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Between "Comey and the boys" and the repeated indignation, I was almost torn on what to laugh about (be mindblown the most about), but it ended up being "Stormtrooper tactics"  
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Jun 3, 2018 18:45
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Department of "Justice"
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Jun 3, 2018 18:58
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Pretty old news. Been in the science news for awhile. Still curious how they taste.
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Jun 3, 2018 19:13
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The Pentagon Wars is on prime streaming now if anyone hasn't seen it yet. (Finally watching now!)
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aphid_licker posted:This was eye-opening to my European rear end regarding Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/american-atheists-religious-european-christians/560936/ A lot of the nonreligious population here were raised in religious households. That'd be why they have a solid grasp on how religion works. I was raised catholic and if I had kids, I'd probably torture them with the boogeymen that's the holy trinity, but I don't give a poo poo and don't want kids. I haven't fallen for religious bullshit since I was a kid, but it was good structure to prepare you for the fact that everyone is full of poo poo. Oh, I, Tonya is on hulu, since we were talking the Kerrigan/Harding incident a week ago. It's good. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Jun 3, 2018 19:51
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shame on an IGA posted:America's Mayor is the gift that keeps on giving. The thing is that, while Trump can technically pardon himself, he can't be tried for any crimes during his presidency, so he can't be convicted, and obviously he can't pardon himself when he's not president anymore. Or am I missing something here?
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Jun 3, 2018 19:51
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Dance Officer posted:The thing is that, while Trump can technically pardon himself, he can't be tried for any crimes during his presidency, so he can't be convicted, and obviously he can't pardon himself when he's not president anymore. Maybe a preemptive pardon, so he can't be tried after he leaves office?
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Jun 3, 2018 20:12
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Between "Comey and the boys" and the repeated indignation, I was almost torn on what to laugh about (be mindblown the most about), but it ended up being "Stormtrooper tactics" Hey how are folks in Germany reacting to the news that our ambassador would actively destabilize your government?
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Jun 3, 2018 21:09
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BigDave posted:Maybe a preemptive pardon, so he can't be tried after he leaves office? Man we really are living in a Tom Clancy fever dream aren't we.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Man we really are living in a Tom Clancy fever dream aren't we. Not yet, first we need a mass casualty event involving something stupid. A gas leak at Cowboy Stadium, Harford Nuclear Plant going full China syndrome, maybe weaponized smallpox escaping from USAMRIID.
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Jun 3, 2018 21:31
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aphid_licker posted:This was eye-opening to my European rear end regarding Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/american-atheists-religious-european-christians/560936/ Also, a fair number of secular people in the USA, even if they dislike the militant atheist edgelord crow, are not willing to outright state they don't believe in anything. It can be damaging to career or lead to dumbass arguments they don't want to have. The words agnostic, secular, or non-religious provide tons of top cover to people who don't dare say they don't actively believe in a god.
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A lot of the mainline protestant churches are starting to eschew traditional services and adopting modern American evangelical practices in order to try to attract new members or bring people back. Instead, the more secular people tend to stop going when the organ and hymns are replaced with bad Christian rock music and the collection plate is now accompanied by a hard sell on tithing. So you have a couple generations of people who still identify as Christians, but are too weirded out to go to church anymore.
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Jun 3, 2018 22:03
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BigDave posted:Not yet, first we need a mass casualty event involving something stupid. A gas leak at Cowboy Stadium, Harford Nuclear Plant going full China syndrome, maybe weaponized smallpox escaping from USAMRIID. Puerto Rico?
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Jun 3, 2018 22:04
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Dance Officer posted:The thing is that, while Trump can technically pardon himself, he can't be tried for any crimes during his presidency, so he can't be convicted, and obviously he can't pardon himself when he's not president anymore. Ford pardoned Nixon for crimes he hadn't been charged with.
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Arven posted:A lot of the mainline protestant churches are starting to eschew traditional services and adopting modern American evangelical practices in order to try to attract new members or bring people back. Instead, the more secular people tend to stop going when the organ and hymns are replaced with bad Christian rock music and the collection plate is now accompanied by a hard sell on tithing. It's really funny because a bunch of conservatives are writing think pieces that assert that a lack of belief in God is tied solely to the socially conservative positions of modern Christianity. While that's certainly part of it, there's also, you know, the whole lack of empirical evidence that God exists.
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Soulex posted:Puerto Rico? Nah, something more dramatic, involving explosives and hostages.
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Ford pardoned Nixon for crimes he hadn't been charged with. No one really pressed the issue though.
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BigDave posted:Nah, something more dramatic, involving explosives and hostages. White people too.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:No one really pressed the issue though. Perhaps in part because the issue hadn't been seriously challenged since the Supreme Court had ruled on the issue in 1866.
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psydude posted:It's really funny because a bunch of conservatives are writing think pieces that assert that a lack of belief in God is tied solely to the socially conservative positions of modern Christianity. While that's certainly part of it, there's also, you know, the whole lack of empirical evidence that God exists. Where's your definitive proof that he doesnt huh? What now? The lack of evidence is just a test of your faith ipso facto gently caress you spawn of Satan you're going to hell
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LingcodKilla posted:White people too. We need black cops to start treating honkies like they do them.
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Soulex posted:We need black cops to start treating honkies like they do them. Honkies? Really? And you want american cops to be more violent? Really?
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Jun 3, 2018 23:55
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I'm not a huge fan of cops but how about we not do that. Speaking of racism: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-report-blacks-85-percent-stopped-55595962
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 If they were violent towards white people more often it might start being a problem in the minds of about a third of the country. Kinda like how the opiate crisis is a crisis now, but the drug war was a valiant struggle against the lesser people in society.
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I'm an atheist *tips fedora* but was raised hard core catholic, went to catholic school for a solid 6 or 7 years and will probably be married outside of a church, but will have my child baptized and not tell him anything else about God or jesus apart from its something some people believe. You'll make a decision eventually but don't worry about it now kid
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Cops got no problem murdering white people either, they're just smart enough to make sure its a poor person
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Honkies? Really? And you want american cops to be more violent? Really? Just the non-white ones. I also want a border patrol for Native Americans who evict tenants based on if someone looks white or not.
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mlmp08 posted:Also, a fair number of secular people in the USA, even if they dislike the militant atheist edgelord crow, are not willing to outright state they don't believe in anything. It can be damaging to career or lead to dumbass arguments they don't want to have. I was raised in a nominally Lutheran liberal household and began to lean more towards the noisy atheist crowd after I stopped going to church as a teenager, but I go under the non-religious umbrella now. At the end of the day I really just don't care about religion beyond ensuring we have a secular government/public institutions. Social justice from liberal churches is still pretty cool though. Also the history/architecture of churches is neat, like when I was in Leipzig last year seeing the churches where Bach resided or anti-DDR protests began. Re: actually going to church, I'd sort of like a secular church where we have interesting intellectual discussions (think TED talks or something) instead of a sermon, eat coffee and donuts while you talk to neighbors, do social justice/charity stuff, etc. Basically fostering healthy community life. My faith in most people actually engaging in that is pretty low though. Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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