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by mptest 2y ago
>However, the government will have to prove to the immigration judge that Khalil willfully failed to disclose that information, and whether that disclosure would have impacted his eligibility for permanent residency. >Baher Azmy, an a
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by mptest 2y ago
I can't tell if you're deliberately missing the point, or don't know what due process is, but whether or not he had questionable affiliations isn't even the central concern. The suspension of due process is. Any person o
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by mptest 2y ago
They're the same picture meme goes here. Left wing positions, while they control no branches of the government and have no power is literally to raise alarms about what the fascists are doing, and how silly their propagandized reason
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by mptest 2y ago
>autism deportation https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvad... https://www.keranews.org/immigration/2025-03-28/dallas-man-m... https://www.indepen
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by mptest 2y ago
>Why doesn't opposing capitalism count as a policy? Yeah, fair point, I hadn't really thought about it that way. You're absolutely right, that is obviously a policy, and one that people don't agree with, woe unto them
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by mptest 2y ago
Agreed, but I still see value in wasting my working hours making sure people here at least see the reality. All I have to offer this forum while I'm a student is politics, which I do know better than at least some here. There is no t
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by mptest 2y ago
Hardly surprising to us, those paying attention. But that's an ever shrinking percentage, and the percentage that can parse complex realities is also unfortunately shrinking. If you wanna get real pessimistic google literacy statistics
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by mptest 2y ago
>I've gotta be skeptical that Bernie's policies were majority supported at the time, and any investigation would have to look at the evidence, and especially the polling questions, really carefully. Wholly agreed, and I'm
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by mptest 2y ago
Sure, all of that can be true, but it doesn't change my point that Americans by and large support his policy, even if he isn't the best salesman in the country, or scares the boomers and the uneducated by mentioning socialism and
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by mptest 2y ago
>Inflation...1990 in the US There are many things this statistic masks. How many households were dual income vs single income over that same time span? This also doesn't take in to account cost of living changes, which I'm conf
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by mptest 2y ago
Looking all the way downstream, to the end result (voting numbers) is much less valuable vein to mine for insight than how he was portrayed in media, online and in legacy media, before votes were cast. That provides much more insight in t
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by mptest 2y ago
Because the agency that arrested her told us why she was arrested, and it was "supporting terrorism" ie writing an oped opposing israel's genocide, when they certainly have no hesitation to mention the crimes when they are
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by mptest 2y ago
>he simply does not have majority support That very well may be, but considering all his policies do[0], the question must be asked, why? Maybe we should ask ourselves why, when the american majority supported his entire policy agenda, d
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by mptest 2y ago
Seriously? The video is all that matters, not the article... >we don't know wha tthat woman did. All she did was write a piece against israel, and either way, her due process was violated, which is the problem here. She was not char
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by mptest 2y ago
True, famously, this administration is strictly bound by laws. Don't worry guys, we're safe.
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by mptest 2y ago
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new... Everyone should at least watch this video. Taken in America. "Land of the free." That this is only one of many such videos is terrifyi
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by mptest 2y ago
>calm down and take a breath... Yeah, I was a little heated, because I misunderstood what you meant by cost-gated, and thought you were being rhetorical and bad faith. My bad there. We simply had different definitions of cost-gated, and
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by mptest 2y ago
>Public healthcare is cost-gated though. Ok, I see where the misunderstanding arose. Cost-gating in this context meant, to me, preventing access to healthcare based on if the individual can pay at point of service, not if the state pro
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by mptest 2y ago
What's your point equating welfare spending to healthcare spending? To suggest that we fund welfare more instead of putting more money in to healthcare? Why??? Are you simply stating that giving x money to one social program is the sam
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by mptest 2y ago
Disagreed, If you need soft kind words to believe the guy telling you the sky is blue over the guy speaking softer but telling you the sky is red, you're the problem, not me. I respond in good faith until the other party shows themselv
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by mptest 2y ago
Yeah, almost like he's a dishonest fool at best, or propagandist who will do anything to avoid acknowledging the simple, universally backed by data assertion that healthcare for all is cheaper, provides better outcomes, and the source
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by mptest 2y ago
>what do you mean by that I mean, raise taxes on businesses (wanna guess how many walmart employees are on government aid, i.e how much we tax payers are directly subsidizing their exorbitant profits while they pay their employees below
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by mptest 2y ago
Or even crazier, hear me out, maybe we can just let people have healthcare without cost-gating it? Like oh idk, every other even semi-wealthy nation in the world except the one where measles is making a comeback?
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by mptest 2y ago
While freeing fraudsters, they're also black bagging PhD students for checks notes speaking ill of a foreign nation. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new ... It's busy work,
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by mptest 2y ago
If no one answers the blind person quickly enough it may be worth considering the trade off of telling the user asking to borrow a volunteers "eyes" to use a slightly more imperfect vision model rather than wait longer on a human
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by mptest 2y ago
More people than you think are willing to take time out of their day to help others, especially if they can do it simply by answering a facetime call to tell someone what type of soup they're holding. It's a win win, mutual aid. e
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by mptest 2y ago
>how this was news I'll explain. It's a 'news' article from an arm of a multinational conglomerate trying to massage the economic harm the isolationist fascists currently in charge of the us govt are doing for (hopef
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by mptest 2y ago
see also: his attacks on the "horrible" CHIPS act [0]. If anyone think he's doing anything good for anyone but billionaires, contact me. I've got some trump coin to sell you. [0] https://www.reuters.com/t
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by mptest 2y ago
Feels like Chip Wars more aptly lays out the material reality of why and how we historically ended up here if you prefer that to what shape the propaganda took. "We want even bigger profit margins. We sought the globally cheapest labo
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by mptest 2y ago
Don't take it too hard. I've seen someone accused of using an LLM to write something because they correctly used an oxford comma. It's definitely the trap.

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