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objectivetruth
9y ago
So the main point of Avatar in your opinion -- the reason it was explicitly made -- is that the military sucks? Not colonization or overcoming physical adversity or even just a fun sci-fi romp? It was just $100 million of "lol the ar
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objectivetruth
9y ago
So what if they do want to go out drinking? What's your beef about this? Are bars and restaurants only OK to go to before a certain time? This citizen lives in a city where LOTS of stuff is open late and he/she would like to par
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objectivetruth
9y ago
I hate to ruin your thesis, but: Parks and Rec also featured Newt Gingrich, Olympia Snow, and John McCain.
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objectivetruth
9y ago
Can you please give me a list of recent -- or ANY -- Hollywood films that are explicitly designed to disparage the military? That is a BOLD claim and I'd love to learn more.
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objectivetruth
9y ago
A fictionalized Hillary Clinton? That's... quite a leap. You could easily argue Robin Wright plays a fictionalized Hillary Clinton on "House of Cards." Personally, I think that the free market that the conservatives love to
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objectivetruth
9y ago
You're arguing with a closed-minded libertarian/conservative -- check the rest of his/her posts and save your breath :-)
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objectivetruth
9y ago
So, in your world, there are: * uppity liberals and fringe left-wing protestors * "the rest of us" Interesting. Lots of people on both sides of the aisle admit that there are uppity conservatives and fringe right-wing protestors,
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objectivetruth
9y ago
So your first complaint is that the phrase "having been marred by gang violence in recent years" doesn't fully express that the violence included "multiple stabbings" and "homicides." Uh, that's what
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objectivetruth
9y ago
US government stats report the national average cost for a gallon of milk is over $3 so any large retailer selling it for a buck a gallon is using it as a loss leader to draw folks into the store. And for more anecdata, our local DG runs $1
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objectivetruth
9y ago
Most national polls reflected a preference for her of a few percent. Her popular vote victory was well within that margin of error. But you already knew about the statistical peculiarity that was the 2016 Electoral College result, so I
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objectivetruth
9y ago
That's got to violate like a dozen constitutional and legal principles from the past couple of hundred years...
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objectivetruth
9y ago
And pretty sure we all heard about that exhaustively :-)
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objectivetruth
9y ago
Nope, average is 10. And this is gross: "A remarkable 23 percent of Americans have no paid vacations and no paid holidays." https://gusto.com/framework/health-benefits/paid-vacation-ti...
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objectivetruth
9y ago
Your comment makes it sound like it's only an "inconvenience" as long as the poor people aren't literally fighting animals for food, and their supply chain is replenished at least quarterly. Here's the definition th
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objectivetruth
12y ago
1871 is a kind of digital startup incubator community thing: http://www.1871.com/about-1871/
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objectivetruth
12y ago
You DO know that's a singular anecdote and not even close to representative of many, if not most, of the folks that suffer in this situation, right?
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objectivetruth
12y ago
http://www.pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortal... http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10367&page=163 http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411588_uninsured_dyi
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objectivetruth
12y ago
Yeah, it's Europeans that are gullible. You're the one who thinks everyone in America gets medical care no matter what their circumstances. There is no non-evil reason for an American to post what you posted.