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@HunterEKozak Good luck with selling that, no one believes he didn't know for years, no one with a brain thinks he didn't know from the moment he was picking it out from the book with the lightning bolts and SS symbols

The correct opinion on Platner is: He didn’t know that it was a Nazi tattoo when he got it. He found out years ago and didn’t get it removed. He lied about when he found out. He shows a remarkable lack of judgment. He’s still better than Collins.

@LarryJones You also can skip the seat belt when riding a bus

So I can get pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, pay a fine, and get points on my license, but a school bus full of kids can bounce around in their seats without one, and garbage men can hang off the back of a truck. What am I missing?

@pinkheretic It literally is as a natural, normal and completely expected consequence of that action

This is an absurd analogy. Consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy.

@StraightShootrr @gpb20800 @RodDMartin Because they had more important battles to fight against the filth rebs. No need to distract oneself and divide resources. The earlier stripping of slaves for the rebel states is called punishment/consequences. And they wanted the united congress to make it official constitution

@Independentmod @gpb20800 @RodDMartin They had rejected federal overreach. Does a 47% tax seem like a good idea to you? What kind of chnt simps for federal overreach? The north had plenty of slaves, in fact they didn’t give them up till up to two years after the war ended. Seems a little hypocritical, dontyathink?

Everyone loves asking: “If Grant was such a great general, how come he lost nearly every battle to Lee and suffered way more casualties?” Robert E. Lee himself had a very different answer. “I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt his superior can be found in all history.” — Robert E. Lee The entire question is built on two flat-out falsehoods. First: Grant didn’t “lose nearly every battle.” There was essentially ONE continuous campaign — from the Wilderness in May 1864 straight through to Appomattox in April 1865. Grant seized the initiative in the very first clash and never gave it back. Lee spent the rest of the war reacting to Grant’s moves. When Lee attacked in the Wilderness hoping the old forests and bogs would save him (like they always had), Grant didn’t retreat north like every previous Union commander. He simply disengaged, slid south, and flanked Lee again. Lee never dictated the terms of battle after that day. James Longstreet had tried to warn the Army of Northern Virginia: “We’ve never faced anyone like this man.” They didn’t listen. They learned fast. Second: The casualty comparison ignores that Lee was almost always the defender. Context matters. But the deeper truth is bigger than any single clash. Lee still fought war the old way — disconnected battles, win-loss record like a sports season. Grant fought the next war: coordinated campaigns across multiple theaters, using railroads, telegraph, navy, and engineers to keep relentless pressure until the enemy simply could not continue. Grant didn’t win by accident. He made contact and maintained it until victory was inevitable. Lee fought the last war. Grant wrote the blueprint for the next one. That’s why he was great. That's why he won. Change your mind yet? Drop your hottest take on Grant vs. Lee below. 🔥

@StraightShootrr @gpb20800 @RodDMartin I thought they were succeeding to be a seperate nation? So at worst he was itching for a war against a new rival nation of evil slavers. They had rejected being Americans

@gpb20800 @RodDMartin You mean the President was itching for war against other Americans so that the dark money war dollars could roll in? I concur. Great guy. 👌

@Dick_Dicks_ @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc There is no evidence that things require creation or a beginning. You just want that to be true. Thats the only grounding for such a belief. Matter can become energy, energy can become matter. No one has ever recorded a beginning just state change. Thats evidence right there

@Independentmod @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc There is no evidence to make the statement "things do not require creation or beginning" You just want that to be true. That's the only grounding there is for such a statement.

Unpopular opinion, but this is actually a good question. It is of course an atrocious argument if you understand what is meant by ”God”, but for someone not well versed in the metaphysics of Aristotle and Aquinas, it’s actually not something unreasonable to say.

@Estoppelenjoyer @shipwreckedcrew Guess they better get on it and not drag their feet. There should be consequences for illegal behavior.

@shipwreckedcrew But then someone will sue over the new map. And more importantly, what is the map is found to be illegal a week before the election? At some point you have to have Election Day with some districts or else the entire state gets disenfranchised.

The right answer is that states with maps declared unconstitutional need to have special legislative sessions to reset the election calendar for this year, redraw their maps so they are constitutional, and then hold elections. The current election calendar isn't an excuse to use unconstitutional maps.

@LokVahK00r @MatrixMysteries You're retarded

@MatrixMysteries Let's point out what the real issue is. You're okay with a tax funded, bullshit war costing hundreds of billions and a dumbass ballroom. But when it comes to feeding folks, that's the big spending issue to you. You don't hate govt spending, you hate poor people. Be honest

“My EBT didn’t fully load? Now I’ve gotta eat leftovers AGAIN?” “I shouldn’t be FORCED to live like this.” That’s how working Americans who pay with their own hard-earned money already live EVERY DAY. Yet taxpayers keep funding a program plagued by fraud and waste.

@Dick_Dicks_ @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc There is no evidence or logical reason to assume or insist it was created. No one has ever witnessed fundamental creation ever happening. Things do not require creation or beginning.

@Independentmod @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc Why would I be making that argument? I don't agree with it. I do know you can't possibly know that the universe was or wasn't created.

@Dick_Dicks_ @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc We know it as well as we know anything else. You might as well be making the argument we know nothing about anything and knowledge is useless.

@Independentmod @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc Sorry but you dont know this. You can't possibly. What you are saying is as much based on faith as theists belief of God.

@5minute_witness @AndriaDont99498 Well your solution has done fuck all so...

@Independentmod @AndriaDont99498 I agree there are no easy solutions... but H*** no to yours.

Solution to the homeless crisis : Mental health institutions for the homeless who are beyond rehabilitation. Staffed 24/7. Locked doors. Court process to leave. They can't just come and go. They will have no option once found to be irredeemable. They will be forced to go. Medicaid will pay. Yes the American Tax dollars pays for medicaid. But we will spend less than the millions we currently do letting the homeless roam and use resources. This will also create jobs. Problem solved.

@Dick_Dicks_ @LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc The universe wasn't created and has no need to have been created. It just always was and is. Cycling between different states on a time scale truly incomprehensible

@LatFilosof @ConfoundedSoc Then where do you think things came from

@5minute_witness @AndriaDont99498 It is the best of a long list of bad solutions. Psychiatric medicine doesn't really offer cures.

Absolutely not. That's not a solution. That's a punishment. Many homeless are people who were in asylums, but the states could not afford to keep the asylums funded. This happened in South Carolina.

@LeeKurtiss @AndriaDont99498 Woe hyperbolic much

@AndriaDont99498 You are describing concentration camps

@angryaboutbikes @VintageMrHobbes Its not a rare fish. Reitroduction is very viable if something were to haooen to a local population. Its not a particularly unique or cornerstone part of the ecosystem. Not every species matters.

@VintageMrHobbes I'd say not bulldozing rare species permanently off the plant to save EDF & China General Nuclear Power Group a pittance towards the cost of their cash-generating megaproject is also a reasonable approach, but maybe I'm just not extinctionpilled enough. Get that concrete mixing.

Lads. You don't understand. It's the /Twaite Shad/. We have to make a nuclear power station much harder and more expensive to build because of the Twait Shad's conservation status. What conservation status? Oh

@rozpersian 0 toilet paper is made from trees from forests. 0. Pulp wood farms grow that. Super fast growing deciduous trees in neat rows with short fibers and super easy to process. Bamboo is actually more expensive and difficult to turn into pulp and yields less. Its hollow.

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 why we don’t just make paper/toilet paper/wipes etc out of bamboo in order to tackle deforestation? It grows so fast almost constantly and easy to plant

@marcorandazza Only if he was an officer.

This scene always rattled me. Wouldn’t he have been a valuable intelligence asset?

@RoyalWins1 @ExistentialEnso Costco has no obligation to accept EBT payment for them. No store is required to accept EBT at all for anything.

@ExistentialEnso They won't be $5 much longer. If I were Costco id make them at least $12 so they aren't losing money on them. They'll have to do something if the government is going to let all the parasites buy them.

the horror, poor people will be able to get basic, ready-to-eat lean protein

@WhiteBabyFac @HeSpeaksNStuff Why do you want to create another graft and fraud vehicle of the same caliber as Minnesota's day cares or California's hospice centers? You sound like you would have been all over those gravy trains of they had been available to you

@HeSpeaksNStuff Why should homeschoolers be kept at a lower economic level than everyone else?

In Florida, homeschooling parents receive about $10,000 per homeschooled child each year. For public school students in Florida, about $10,000 of the annual cost per student goes towards teacher and staff salaries and benefits. Teachers and staff members get to spend their earnings on whatever they want, but homeschooling parents are required to spend all of their $10,000 per child on educational expenses like instructional materials, tutoring, classes, testing, books, etc. If you're a parent in Florida who homeschools 4 children instead of working a full time job, why shouldn't you be able to spend that $40,000 on anything your family needs - just like a public school teacher who earns $40,000 per year that they can spend however they like? This policy sounds like it's leveling the playing field but it's really still requiring homeschoolers to accept a much lower standard of living than families involved the public schooling system.

@WhiteBabyFac @abigailsolutely You can spend it on field trips to zoos and activity/science centers. tutors for challenging subjects, try some piano classes or marshal arts. The 10k is more for sending kids to private schools but with some imagination I'm sure you could make a top notch curriculum

Why? Why shouldn't the family be able to use the money for housing, food, clothing, etc? If the mom was a public school teacher, she could spend her income on anything the family wanted/needed. But if she homeschools full time, she can't spend that same amount on anything except educational supplies? How would you even spend $40,000 on educational expenses in one year?