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Why you want to talk politics with all these naked women around is beyond me, but knock yourself out.
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started 2 yrs ago
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Bad luck
posted by
mark94

“Throughout history,” Robert Heinlein wrote in 1973, “poverty is the normal condition of man.”

“Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded—here and there, now and then—are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised,…

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started 2 yrs ago
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange t
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit”

~ Milton Friedman
~ Born July 31, 1912 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
~…

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started 2 yrs ago
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White Lives Matter / Kanye West
posted by
shailynn

Kanye West starts off his new season fashion show wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt.

Can't wait to hear the responses about this (both sides) from all the nuts here!

billboard.com

yahoo.com

blackenterprise.com

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started 2 yrs ago
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California legalizes jaywalking
posted by
Dave_Anderson
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started 2 yrs ago
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The REAL big lie
posted by
gammanu95

is any time Joe Biden calls somebody else a fascist:

Opinion by Washington Examiner - 6h ago

“Literally,” President Joe Biden said at a Democratic fundraiser last week, “there’s a case being made around the world, not…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Congratulations to the people of Donbas and Novorossiya on their vote to rejoin
posted by
Dave_Anderson

Congratulations both to Russia and to the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhia regions on the successful conducting of their referendums on rejoining Russia.

All four referendums passed and despite fake…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged or sabotaged
posted by
yahtzee74

Let the conspiracy theories and accusations begin.

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started 2 yrs ago
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"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
posted by
CJKent_band

Title says it all.

"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”

~ Victor-Marie Hugo aka Victor Hugo
~ Born 26 February 1802 Besançon, Doubs, France
~ Died 22 May 1885 Paris, France

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started 2 yrs ago
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Clown emoji distances itself from Democrats, says they are hurting its brand
posted by
Dave_Anderson

The Clown emoji held a press conference today to distance itself from the Democrat Party and request people stop associating it with them.

babylonbee.com

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started 2 yrs ago
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The true tragedy of life comes from those who manipulate, swindle, and use other
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“The true tragedy of life comes from those who manipulate, swindle, and use other's empathy and compassion as an opportunity to benefit themselves.“

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started 2 yrs ago
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Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, sh
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups.

They have raised wages, shortened hours and provided supplemental benefits.

Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop…

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started 2 yrs ago
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You people must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts yo
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

You people of tuscl must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs, and admit the possibility that you may be wrong.

Intelligence is not believing everything you…

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started 2 yrs ago
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An argument for reparations
posted by
gammanu95

I have posited, for the longest time, that demands for slavery reparations are just demeaning money grabs by political or social hacks. However, I have seen a video which actually makes the closest rational…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Inflation is much worse this time
posted by
mark94

The last time we had inflation at these levels was the late 1970s. But, for the government ( meaning all of us ), it is much worse now.

Back then, Paul Volker hiked the lending…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel impor
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

They say they don't mean to do harm, but the harm that they do…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Ishmael has developed a weapon of mass destruction!
posted by
san_jose_guy

It could destroy TUSCL's topical organization and it could make TUSCL into a war zone.

He has found a way of locking down other people's threads.

tuscl.net

And he seems to have weaponized it.

tuscl.net

SJG

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Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, continued
posted by
san_jose_guy

Original Thread Now Disabled by Ishmael:
tuscl.net

Call.Me.Ishmael has broken through one of the most basic safety and respect rules, he has found some way of locking down other people's threads, disabling them.

Probably this involves some use…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Russian troop numbers in Ukraine far lower than western media imply
posted by
Dave_Anderson

Despite the screaming lies in "western" meedeeuh, Russia has used very few of its actual troops in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Unbeknownst to most idiots in the "west" Russia has relatively few…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Goodbye Illinois
posted by
Muddy

January 1st.
twitter.com
ky3.com

Well that's just fucking stupid. I would enjoy everything the state has to offer while you still can. Emptying out your jails entirely may not be the best idea, just a wild guess.

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started 2 yrs ago
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Russians win battle of Pisky
posted by
Dave_Anderson

While the "western" meedeeuh and online anti-Russian shills rant about a couple of days advances around Izium by a massive Ukrainuan "counterattack," almost absent from any "western" and even some pro-Russian online media is a…