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The subtext is also that a male can permanently disempower and dominate a female by raping her because the female's "sin" of being a rape victim is far worse than the actual sin of rape.
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When conservatives say you're pretending not to understand their argument, what they mean is you are not equally epistemically loose about whether putting unrelated and fragmentary assertions in close proximity amounts to an argument.
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The British press hounding this doctor out of Britain for no sane reason, just because they can. And they’re still at it, from 10,000 miles away.
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How does this argument not apply to every single way the government serves people? As if you shouldn't be allowed to vote if your area has crime because you'd therefore only vote for parties that promise to spend resources reducing crime?
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the Republican Party's existence renders this entire hypothesis null and void
some of you people don't live in the real world
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It's not a historic underperformance given that Dems already have 215 House seats (and that's even without factoring in the impact of GOP gerrymandering). If Dems net 20 seats they'll have the same majority in the House they did after the 2018 election.
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NATO invaded zero countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia invaded not one, not two, but THREE countries.
Nobody is saying “Russia good,” and throwing around the “campist” label just because I look at global power structures is so lazy. I know Russian imperial history. But this specific war is happening in the context of post-Soviet reality, not the 19th century. Pointing out decades of US and NATO encirclement since 1991 isn't ignoring their past, it’s analysing the material world we actually live in today. Take your bullshit somewhere else.
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At $500k a pop, Obama would have to give a speech every night for the next twelve years to match the $2.2 billion in openly corrupt income Trump pulled in in 2025 alone.
Makes speeches for 500k a pop. Hasn’t eaten dinner that costs less than $250 in years. Has never been in a Cheesecake Factory. Undefeated at condescending to regular folks. Will always be known for a presidency that ushered in the Trump era to begin with.
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“Hey we invaded you to take control of your country’s policy, but since we didn’t succeed, do you mind if we return to what things were like the day before the invasion?” is an absolutely unserious demand
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This is actually one of the most promising polls we’ve seen in a while, the extremely high undecided share makes it way more encouraging than the ones that have strong Kamala vote shares.
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I think we should at least *try* tweeting like this about the next Democratic nominee. Just to see how it feels, you know?
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A big problem I've noticed with the discourse:
What you say: "Democrats are saying..."
What you mean: "Some individuals who identify as Democrats are saying..."
What they hear: "Every elected Democratic politician in the country is saying..."
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Yeah, the weirdos who treat the 2024 results as the start of the 1,000 year Trumpreich when in fact he got in by tiny margins are so odd to me. Republicans also just barely scraped in the House.
Be a little more rational, guys.
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Oh right. The one no one had ever heard of
Why Talarico Is Losing Texas in the Home Stretch
Former Democratic Political Strategist Evan Barker believes Democrats have neglected rural Texans in the midterm elections, and are underestimating their distaste for a candidate like James Talarico. Barker shares her findings on Democratic advertising in rural areas and how it will impact voter turnout.
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Another San Fran AI pigdog saying some absolute stupid bullshit like
“— a man who hasn’t fully integrated his capacity for violence; repressed”
you exist in an ecosystem of effete cocksuckers all tricking each other into trading the same 2 mill back and forth via seed rounds
there’s something icky about “wifeguys”
it’s a neutered label, “ooooo will you look at the time it’s grill o’clock” quirk chungus 4hl, somewhat impotent/unambitious — a man who hasn’t fully integrated his capacity for violence; repressed
the primacy of the relationship to the wife-mother in his identity betrays a certain lack of camaraderie with other men. having a wife shouldn’t be the most interesting thing about you
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Ironically I think it's this exact issue that hurt Ramaswamy. His campaign staffers were, consciously or not, informed by the hyper-online/elite debates about the role of family — too online to remember that 1) for the vast majority of normal people, both liberal and conservative, the entire discussion is puzzling, and 2) Acton's story was horrific physical violence — not making TikToks about going no contact after amorphous "harm"
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Bolsonaro se burla de que Lula “solo tiene nueve dedos”.
Lula le responde que perdió un dedo en un accidente laboral, trabajando, lo que Bolsonaro nunca hizo.
Bolsonaro se disculpa.
Destrozado.
Lula ganó el debate anterior: hoy arrasó y aplastó.
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Lula: “Yo era menor de edad y trabajaba de noche cuando perdí mi dedo, todo por culpa de la irresponsabilidad de los patrones que tenía. Yo no voy a aceptar que un terrorista paramilitar que es un inútil y que nunca trabajó en su vida, me llame 9 dedos”.
Lula liquidó a Flavio Bolsonaro.
