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Survey: “How many unarmed Black men were killed by police in 2019?”
50%+ of "Very Liberals": 1,000+
Actual number: 12
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Lex et Scientia
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Lex et Scientia
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Moral & political philosopher, lawyer, evolutionary biology, history, epistemology, CFB handicapping
Dallas Katılım Şubat 2022
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@zarathustra5150 I remember Tucker did a run down of the facts in each of the actual 12 cases on his old Fox show, and the vast majority were still justified shootings.
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@dskjfdfdsakfkj @TylerLaRiviere The same band wrote a song called Chicago. How about that?
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@TylerLaRiviere sometimes you just need a Kent State moment to solve these kind of problems.....
Tin Soldiers and Trump is coming
He's finally had enough
This summer I hear the chanting
CLEAN UP CHI-CAGO
CLEAN UP CHI-CAGO
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Seems I’ve stumbled upon a teen takeover trend at 57th and Everett
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@TylerLaRiviere Please tell me we have moved on from "Teens" and will now call them "Youts"
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@CorvusCrypto @paulg That’s not an opinion. That’s an inability or refusal to understand the issue. And “pain” and other feelings are irrelevant. The issue is life versus extinction for a specific life form.
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Nothing. But outrage at a scary number is not a reason to legislate. Start with real problems. And I am of the opinion a replacement of one number with another is not itself a problem. If it causes cultural pain, or misalignment of values, or otherwise puts others in a problematic position i think it's best to look there and all other shouting of "this number is becoming bigger" is meaningless. You're free to disagree but that's my opinion and I do have real examples to point to of immigration leading to both pain and achievement of communities both to point at for this. It's just weird when the most outspoken cannot do so.
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Some very simple math: if a country has 5% of the world's population and ability is evenly distributed, then 95% of the people who are best at any given thing will be born abroad.
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@CorvusCrypto @paulg There are no relevant “experiences”. This is a matter of simple math. What is wrong with you?
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So you personally haven't experienced any problems with this? Interesting. I mean i do talk to people that have had issues with e.g. language or cultural clashes especially in NM. Weird you have zero but have this take. I'm not gonna demonize your experiences like I haven't others that actually shared. It makes you look muck more genuine than just repeating outrage sound bites
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@AzorTheReturn @604RAW @Dred_Tory @Tim_Pettit_ For life, and for a very short time, if you catch my drift.
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@604RAW @Dred_Tory @Tim_Pettit_
If he can go to a strip club, he can get a job and pay his victims. The man should be jailed for life.
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@604RAW When the justice system stops providing justice, citizens will.
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@thedeadpelican @Midnight_JJ0 The Presidency is a success aside from Iran.
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@lexetscientia @Midnight_JJ0 His career is destroyed, because he is permanently connected to a failed presidency. There is no escaping that.
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Daily Mail: Vance's alleged opposition to the Iran War has led to his isolation in the WH. Rubio's star is ascendant, and Vance is considering not running in '28, as he apparently believes he cannot run on DJT's disastrous record. (A wise choice b/c the Dem will win in '28)
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@CorvusCrypto @paulg Personal stories? The replacement is a biological fact. There are no feelings involved, and no stories to tell other than the story told by immigration data.
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I think one thing that would help corroborate that is hearing actual personal stories where things actually happened. I'm sorry to say that at the moment it seems to be many up in arms over remote experiences that don't add up and thus becomes perceived as a feeling that people jump on rather than an actual problem. People generally like to hear about people's story not their thoughts about what has happened elsewhere once and is shared ad nauseum through the media outrage circuit. Tell us your story how your family or you were wronged and people will listen. Talk about how immigration has hurt you and your descendents. That's the way you make a point imo otherwise it does come off as just feelings yes.
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@RealDillonKent @AnthonyGalli @disclosetv I know. I was alluding to the words of a former slave in Gone with the Wind. Next time I’ll put in quotes!
“And a mule?”
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@lexetscientia @AnthonyGalli @disclosetv Its a reference to what they didn't actually do for freed slaves
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NOW - Anthropic co-founder says there is a "real possibility that AI will displace human labor at a very large scale," and that supporting those people "will be a moral imperative of historic proportions."
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@thedeadpelican @Midnight_JJ0 Vance’s career is fine. And almost every Vice President has faced worse than this. This is a top-15 President.
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@lexetscientia @Midnight_JJ0 That's because no VP has ever been in a position where failing to resign meant certain death for his political career. Resigning was the only way for Vance to save his political career. His failure to do so makes him dead on arrival in 2028.
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@aquavitae96 “If reality is not bound by logic (rejection of P1), logic is a useful human fiction. . . .”
Non sequitur. What in the world?
Logic is real. It consists of rules governing the evaluation of arguments.
You’ve framed this dishonestly.
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Law of the excluded middle: Either reality is bound by logic or not.
No third option (i.e., a middle option is excluded).
If reality is bound by logic, and logic is an activity of the mind (attached screenshot), reality is bound by a mind (God). Syllogism below.
P1. Reality is bound by logic.
P2. Logic exists only as an activity of minds.
P3. Whatever is bound by something that exists only in the mind is thereby bound by a mind.
C. Therefore, reality is bound by a mind (God).
If reality is not bound by logic (rejection of P1), logic is a useful human fiction, and reality is not bound by logical consistency, which makes the existence of God both true and false at the same time.
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@ricwe123 @ChaseMadar Mearsheimer has been wrong about everything. And for the record he advocated for Iran having nukes to bring ability to the Middle East. Do you stand by that?
Revere America 🇺🇸@NYC2CA2VA
Tucker is basically parroting John Mearsheimer who said that the Middle East would be more stable if I ran had a nuclear weapon because then Israel would not attack them. My response is that having a nuclear weapon does not deter the Muslim states from attacking Israel. Part of this is because they believe in murdered them. Everybody in the world agrees our Ranch should not have a nuclear weapon up until this year. Most Democrats and Republicans are merely arguing over how close Iran was to actually getting nuclear weapons. But that also misses the point ballistic missiles are extremely devastating and Iran had a mountain full of ballistic missiles and has not hesitated to use cluster bombs on civilian centers this year via ballistic missiles. Cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva convention. I believe that we have miscalculated the messaging here. Yes it would be extremely bad for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but it’s already bad for them to even have ballistic weapons. They should not be allowed to have anything of the sort, not drones not ballistic missiles, not nuclear weapons, not a navy, and not an army.
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It’s deeply satisfying to watch the narratives pushed by Mike Pompeo and Victoria Nuland completely unravel the moment they’re forced to face the hard facts laid out by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.
Their talking points immediately collapse under scrutiny because their bullshit rhetoric can not survive contact with reality.
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This is Tyre in South Lebanon today.
Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet.
One of humanity’s oldest cities.
Is being systematically wiped out.
And not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.
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@AnthonyGalli @disclosetv "Go Die for Israel, and if you Survive we will give you 5 acres and a mule"
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@disclosetv You know what AI’s going to do? Deplete our supply of fossil fuels at a staggering rate.
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101-year-old World War II veteran Don Graves — the last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion, which fought on Iwo Jima — sings “God Bless America” at the National Memorial Day Parade.
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@docMJP Ha! Gil Scott-Herron was right after all. The revolution will not be televised!
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The media will be the last to realize that it will go down with the order it will defend with its dying breath.
In the final analysis, although they are the cause of mass misperception, they are the tool and effect of higher powers now losing power.
Los Angeles Times@latimes
L.A. is safer than it's been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor's race latimes.com/california/sto…
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