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Doublemindedman
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Doublemindedman
@Doublemindedman
Cis gendered hetero normative aggressor perpetuating problematic toxic ideas of Anglo normativity
شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2012
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@MarketPalmer_ One child in daycare, you're bringing in more money.
Two children in daycare, you're working just to pay for daycare.
Three or more children in daycare you are actively losing money.
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ME: Daycare is expensive, but worth it.
THEM: Why would you pay to have someone else raise your kids?
ME: They're not raising my kids, they're taking care of them while we work.
THEM: One of you should quit your job so you aren't handing your kids off to strangers each day.
ME: They're not strangers, they're professionals. And we'd have even less money if one of us stayed at home with the kids.
THEM: It shouldn't be about money, it should be about bonding with your kids.
ME: Kids need bonding with more than just their parents. Their daycare teachers and other kids at daycare are some of their best friends, and they're excited to go each day.
THEM: You're letting them get indoctrinated by today's education system and propaganda.
ME: They're literally learning colors, the ABCs, and how to count to 10.
THEM: Some parents just don't want to be parents!
ME: *stops arguing with a wall*
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They didn't bring the guns to do so, despite having more than enough guns to have done so. So they didn't shoot, weren't equipped to shoot, and the only one shot and killed was an unarmed woman.
If they had wanted to throw an insurrection they would have brought their ARs, AKs, and shotguns. And because Nancy Pelosi refused to have the National Guard present they would certainly been able to do it.
But none of that happened. Because it wasn't an insurrection. And again, anyone who thinks it was despite all the clear evidence that it wasn't is a moron.
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@Doublemindedman What do you think would have happened if they started shootibg up the capitol? You think they didnt know how this have looked and ended?
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I'm a centrist, so I don't know the answer to this. Do Democrats actually want "birthright citizenship" as the actual policy? Or do they simply oppose Trump acting like a dictator toward his racist goals?
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@Lord_Al_Sorna The people with the most guns in a country with more guns than people failed to bring guns to "overthrow" the government... And you think that was an insurrection. You're a moron. It's objectively false.
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@Doublemindedman I mean, not my fault if you cant be objective...
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@Doublemindedman Just dodging that self-awareness like you're Neo in the Matrix, aren't you?
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@Lord_Al_Sorna Lol. Anyone thinking J6 was an insurrection is a certified moron
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@Doublemindedman Last time i checked, every democratic president peacfully ceased power. The only ever attempt to change that, was Trump...
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@Pezzles1 @OccupyDemocrats All you need is an address. It's really not that difficult
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@Doublemindedman @OccupyDemocrats Yes, I think it is hard to prove you live here when you don't. Have you ever applied for these programs? SSI hardly pays anything anyway, although I suppose the paltry amounts might be meaningful in a third world country.
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BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.
Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.
In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.
Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?
Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens.
The courtroom went quiet.
Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens?
Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction."
"I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further.
Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens.
This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled.
The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years.
And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist.
Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.
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Except that isn't true. TheNaturalization Act of 1790 enacted by the First Congress and signed by President George Washington established the country's first rules for naturalization. It allowed "free white persons" of "good character" who had resided in the U.S. for at least two years (and one year in their state of residence) to apply for citizenship in any common law court, provided they took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. It also extended citizenship to their children under age 21 living in the U.S. and addressed citizenship for children born abroad to U.S. citizens
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@CA_Worman @TRHLofficial There was literally NO issue with immigrants having babies in the US for the first 100 years 🙄
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SCOTUS may rule that birthright citizenship is constitutional, using precedent and a loose interpretation of an earlier ruling, so we may need to approach the issue of one million Chinese communists voting in our elections in the future differently. As it holds, they can’t even be denaturalized. There would definitively and permanently be no solution and creating citizens of those who dilute our values is republic ending.
What we can do now, is aggressively and publicly enforce FARA, the Espionage Act, and related statutes against anyone (citizen or not) acting under CCP direction. Prosecute espionage, influence ops, and undisclosed CCP ties. That’s really it though.
If it’s ruled constitutional for anyone infiltrate and dismantle our republic, all we can do is try to disincentivize it. How utterly demoralizing.
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@LizzieMarbach @AndrewPorter663 An interesting video where an average woman basically rejects a literal hundred men
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What do you mean by shallow? Purely looks based?
And yes, women are less likely to rate someone as *physically* attractive. But that doesn’t really invalidate what I said. I’m speaking about finding someone appealing enough to date them or be interested in dating them, not just looks.
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The way women and men rate attractiveness is not the same.
That is why a fairly “unattractive” man can still attract many women if he carries himself well and is smart, funny, or smooth.
But it is rarely the case in the reverse.
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@LizzieMarbach The flip side to this is that all a woman needs to do to be more attractive than her peers is... <checks notes>... eat less
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@JamesTate121 Ketanji is so smart she has to use more words than all the other justices combined to convey her deep deep thoughts
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Kentanji Brown Jackson is too good for this court.
I don’t have a transcript yet but she basically asked:
“Didn’t they put birthright citizenship in the constitution in order to avoid this type of debate over who gets to claim a domicile?”
And Sauer just stuttered.
And then Sonia Sotomayor comes in with the “doesn’t this open the door to the government withdrawing citizenship from people who were born here?”
More stuttering.
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@_OKJ__ In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man didn't question why our how he ended up in hell, nor did he argue he shouldn't be there. He knew it was just.
Since the one in hell will know his punishment is just, the ones in heaven will also know this.
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One question I always ask Christians that I have never gotten any reasonable answer for is …
If heaven involves perfect, unending happiness for the “saved”, how is it possible for them to experience that joy while retaining full knowledge of…and genuine love for…people they cared about who are were never saved and are suffering eternal torment in hell?
Alternatively, if God erases or suppresses those memories to preserve heavenly bliss, does this not compromise the authenticity of the personal identity of the “saved …and the very notion of a perfectly loving and just deity who’s willing to erase people’s memory of their own loved one?
These aren’t mundane questions.
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
Does heaven exist? If so, what would it actually take to get there?
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@Pezzles1 @OccupyDemocrats And you think you couldn't "prove" that you live here ever when you don't? It's not like the government does surprise inspections.
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@Doublemindedman @OccupyDemocrats Only residents if the US qualify for SSI.
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@Doublemindedman @Pezzles1 @OccupyDemocrats What is SSI? And how could anyone who never paid into SSI -- whatever that may be -- apply for it?
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@dan_brewer42569 @OccupyDemocrats I didn't say social security, did I? Why is it y'all can't read?
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@Doublemindedman @OccupyDemocrats You have missed the fact that social security is based on your contributions to the fund. If you do not put any money in you cannot get any money out.
Please read and understand the status that you think you know .
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@TheDivineMsLLS @OccupyDemocrats I didn't say social security, did I? I can't be held responsible for your lack of reading skills
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@Doublemindedman @OccupyDemocrats I have to go back to the “smart people hate me” line because, clearly you are a trump supporter if you don’t know that one does not get social security retirement benefits without paying for it through years of work — in the US.
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@CeilingFly @OccupyDemocrats I didn't say social security, did I?
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@Doublemindedman @OccupyDemocrats No. You have to pay for many years to be eligible for social security. The ignorance here is stunning. In fact the SS system depends on temp workers who pay into it but will never collect. Afraid you won't get something?
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@RusGarbageHuman @Aristos_Revenge They are obnoxious and will eat however much food you put out for the birds. The more you put out, the more they eat. And the poop! So so so much poo! And they'll poop in the food too. Dumb critters.
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>be rock dove, 5000 BC
>perch on a sheltered cliff near early human settlements
>humans approach with grain
>no way out, heart racing
>they don't hunt you
>they offer food and shelter
>be domesticated pigeon, 3000 BC
>bred by man for meat, eggs, and sometimes beauty
>you live in lofts beside humans
>many civilisations discover this
>be messenger pigeon, 1350 BC
>your homing instinct carries news across deserts and seas
>Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans all depend on your wings
>news of war, notable events, and even Olympic results travel faster than any horse or runner
>be carrier pigeon, Middle Ages to 1800s
>you connect monasteries, armies, merchants, stock exchanges, and kings
>you are the fastest communication on Earth
>you cover 200 miles a day
>there was even a London to Paris pigeon post route
>be war pigeon, 1914-1945
>you fly through bullets, shrapnel and poison gas
>Cher Ami takes a bullet, loses a leg and an eye, but still delivers the message that saves 194 men
>dozens of your kind are awarded medals for heroism
>be common pigeon, 1950s
>radio and telephone finally make you obsolete
>your human keepers release you or let you escape
>but you were bred to stay near people
>be racing pigeon, 1970s-1980s
>peak of pigeon fancying
>working-class men in industrial towns and council estates keep lofts on rooftops
>every weekend thousands race you across the country
>even the Queen has her own loft with around 200 pigeons, she is a keen pigeon fancier
>you are a beloved hobby, a passion handed down through generations since the 1800s
>be pigeon, 2026
>you do exactly what humans bred you for ten thousand years to do: live among us in their cities
>you flock to squares and rooftops
>they call you “rats with wings” and “vermin”
>spikes on ledges, nets, poison, birth control in the feed
>after millennia of loyal service, we despise you for existing
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander_
>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses
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