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i mean........
fighting the system
and winning
is how america got its independence
i thought u went to school in america
u should know that
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Oh that’s what they want....... ok...
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Everyone's wrong sometimes but being able to recognize those occasions, as you have in this case, is a cornerstone to arguing in good faith. Apologies for my bit of an aggressive approach.
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Nike Jordan
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Oh.
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You don't understand because you just don't know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
"Usually, the social contract concerns the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.[1]Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler or magistrate (or to the decision of a majority), in exchange for protection of their remaining rights. The question of the relation between natural and legal rights, therefore, is often an aspect of social contract theory. The term takes its name from The Social Contract(French: Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique), a 1762 book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that discussed this concept.
Although the antecedents of social contract theory are found in antiquity, in Greek and Stoic philosophy and Roman and Canon Law, the heyday of the social contract was the mid-17th to early 19th centuries, when it emerged as the leading doctrine of political legitimacy. The starting point for most social contract theories is an examination of the human condition absent of any political order that Thomas Hobbes termed the "state of nature".[2] In this condition, individuals' actions are bound only by their personal power and conscience. From this shared starting point, social contract theorists seek to demonstrate, in different ways, why a rational individual would voluntarily consent to give up their natural freedom to obtain the benefits of political order."
Y'all love to talk about saving Western civilization but don't even know the philosophical building blocks of Western society.
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Charlie Kirks idiocy is off the charts
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Tom Arnold needs to lay off that stuff
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Change your mindset and anything is possibleLet's give Rusty the benefit of the doubt. I think Tomi has finally gotten to him.
Here he is when they first met:
And here he is now. Even more dapper than before!
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There are so many take downs of Peterson's buffoonery that anyone with sense should have jumped off the train.
But sometimes the simpler approach is better in countering nonsense. It funny that Peterson realized he let his guard down, got corned easily so he had to tap out before he made a big mistake.
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If you think giving more money to the military and private contractors, and less money to education and civil programs will help give power to the common people, boy I have an island to sell you in Idaho.
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I wish someone would make a book of Trump admin scandals once everything is figured out. It could be thick with just chapters upon chapters
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They're not hip to Coalmingle.com yet
Stephen Miller has reasoned that white women in DC only date black guys. So we know what Stephen Miller will break out his gloves, wig and shoe polish from his college days.
This was satire but it is one of those things that Stephen Miller might have done when was in college. So if anyone can dig up a circa 2005 article from Duke’s student newspaper, be my guest.
...So
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Bill Maher misses the point, he misses several points.
Recessions and booms don’t matter very much in politics, at least not in 21st century American politics. Most people are pretty set on their voting preferences. This is unsurprising because race, social class, education, gender and other aspects of one’s identity play a bigger role in shaping one’s day to day circumstances than the DOW.
If we had an economy where wages grew and shrank with overall GDP, things would be different but for now, voters do not punish or reward the party that holds the White House because most people’s economic fortunes are beyond the fluctuations of macro economic data.
Worse yet, Maher buys into the idea that Donald Trump is a unique evil and driver of our national pathologies. In truth, his presidency is the result of those pathologies, particularly 400 years of white supremacy and 40 years of neo liberalism.
Finally, and indulge my historical pedantry here. The Coliseum in Rome was built after the Roman Republic fell. More importantly, the fall of the Roman Republic wasn’t even such a bad thing. The late Republic was defined by obsence levels of wealth and income inequality and a Senate that abused every constitutional trick that it could in order to block measures that would have addressed the inequality. The Ceasars were usually pretty popular with ordinary romans because they checked the power of the super wealthy.
Recessions and booms don’t matter very much in politics, at least not in 21st century American politics. Most people are pretty set on their voting preferences. This is unsurprising because race, social class, education, gender and other aspects of one’s identity play a bigger role in shaping one’s day to day circumstances than the DOW.
If we had an economy where wages grew and shrank with overall GDP, things would be different but for now, voters do not punish or reward the party that holds the White House because most people’s economic fortunes are beyond the fluctuations of macro economic data.
Worse yet, Maher buys into the idea that Donald Trump is a unique evil and driver of our national pathologies. In truth, his presidency is the result of those pathologies, particularly 400 years of white supremacy and 40 years of neo liberalism.
Finally, and indulge my historical pedantry here. The Coliseum in Rome was built after the Roman Republic fell. More importantly, the fall of the Roman Republic wasn’t even such a bad thing. The late Republic was defined by obsence levels of wealth and income inequality and a Senate that abused every constitutional trick that it could in order to block measures that would have addressed the inequality. The Ceasars were usually pretty popular with ordinary romans because they checked the power of the super wealthy.
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I know that's why realistically no one can overthrow the government
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"I have a boyfriend, Steve."
"I am a lesbian, Steve."
"I am a nun, Steve."
"I just wanted to hang with my girls tonight, Steve."
"How old are you anyway, Steve?"
"Actually I've had a long day. I'm going to call it a night, Steve."
"I'm sure you're a nice guy and all but funny thing is that I'm moving to Antarctica for good, Steve."
"I'm actually pretty selective, Steve. I only date guys who don't look like you."
Things commonly overheard in DC bars the past couple years.
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MalcolmNewton
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Just gonna continue to get higher the longer the 'witch hunt' continues...
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