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taolegal
4y ago
And it’s precisely that sniveling, sanctimonious attitude that makes someone like Trump attractive. Liberals almost never fail to be utterly unlikeable & unrelatable.
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4y ago
Progressives aren't able to beat conservatives into submission because there's foundational checks and balances against that. That conservatives have any power at all is a testament to progressives ability to catastrophically &
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4y ago
news media, journalism, comedy, network television, academia, art, music, writers
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taolegal
4y ago
> Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent. They have high viewership in spite of the fact that liberals have complete dominance over so-called "official" news media & centers of cultural production, as we
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taolegal
4y ago
It's not a partisan idea that democrats control every sphere of culture.
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4y ago
> Q-level talk It's disappointing how there's real stunningly outrageous stuff and you just brush it away under the umbrella of Q. Epstein was revealed to have an ungodly long list of elites from around the world visiting his i
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taolegal
4y ago
Except every important cultural institution and practically every tech space is left-biased.
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taolegal
4y ago
I stressed myself out so much in high school thinking about the Ivy League when I really had no business in applying. I ended up having the epiphany early on and accepting that a state school was likely a better match. It ended up being one
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4y ago
> Long-Covid deniers might be the worst of all Nice new epithet. > Convenient isn't it that they still don't have a test to detect and prove long-covid, forget treating it. This sounds like you're a conspiracy theorist.
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4y ago
By mitigations you mean the draconian policy for healthy people that failed to protect the elderly and vulnerable anyway? And all of this debate fell apart after vaccines were unveiled as a magic bullet, and then talk of herd immunity thres
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4y ago
> half your workforce disabled This is such fantastic misinformation, and I'm surprised more people aren't called out on it. It's usually the most supposedly "sophisticated" that espouse it too.
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4y ago
> Do you assume that only poor people are earnest? I don't assume, in my experience I've seen that highfalutin self-advertising of progressive ideals is concentrated in wealthy areas. It's sanctimonious and always among pe
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4y ago
The problem of course is public sector unions. Even FDR (one of the biggest union icons) thought the idea of a public sector union is dysfunctional nonsense, it makes no sense that they should exist. Public sector employees are represented
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4y ago
> the cops are somewhere between understaffed and simply pouting and not doing their job unless it's exciting so are you pro-worker or not (I suspect you are pro-worker), cause it sounds like you're hashing out anti-worker rhet
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4y ago
they did enact bail "reform" which is why so many criminals get back on the streets and are murdering people
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4y ago
> My freedom of speech ends where I insult or threaten someone nice belief, but I've got foundational law protecting my right to freedom of speech
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4y ago
People vote for energy that doesn't impoverish them. That's fine in my book. Jimmy Carter was a disaster and the idea that solar just needed more investment was and still is a sick joke. At the end of the day, "being green&qu
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4y ago
Let's not pretend that our supposedly angelic civil servants & institutions don't happily take money in one form or the other.
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taolegal
4y ago
And SBF was dem's 2nd? Don't dems also rake in more money than republicans?
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4y ago
> NYC elected a cop as mayor, and his only idea for solving the city's problems is more policing I don't notice much difference with him compared to de Blasio, except de Blasio was universally not liked. Adams is better but sur
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4y ago
I basically just see them in snobby rich areas. Same place as the virtue signal yard signs with luxury shops everywhere.
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4y ago
Buffet wants investments, when Bitcoin is meant to be a low-time-preference store of value. And of course, central planners and standard economists, Buffet's buds, are all high-time-preference and that's why the economy is an inst
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4y ago
Same here, I handled covid fine, a full 2 years after it all started. Was 4 days of feeling lame with fever. Before I didn't take many precautions, stopped masking after it was obvious that the spread was mostly seasonal and cloth mask
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4y ago
Good for them, time to rebel against authoritarianism.
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4y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? Are people upset that bitcoin seems a lot better off than all the other apparently much more centralized systems?
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4y ago
> This shouldn't be an opportunity to bash HUD and the EPA. Yes it should. They're all fundamentally similar. Housing and environmental policy is a wreck. Same with energy. Same with healthcare.
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> to downplay the fact We have no clue about Musk's intention here. It's not whataboutism rather I know for a fact how certain people respond to left-wing violence and it's always either ignorance or very charitable interp
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4y ago
Everyone recognizes that institutions have lost trust. They can vilify the people lacking confidence if they want, but it's practically universally recognized that it's happened in one form or another over the modern era (especial
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4y ago
Tons of people on the left cheered on rand paul's neighbor when paul was violently attacked and seriously injured.
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taolegal
4y ago
Yes, LTV is wrong.
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