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Law student checking-in. A valley girl in my 1L crim law class thought that a husband kissing his sleeping wife on her cheek was sexual assault because she couldn't affirmatively consent while asleep.

Many current law students were born on or after 1995. According to Jean Twenge, this is the cut-off year for "iGen," a new generation of ultra-fragile, cotton ball-coddled servile authoritarian crybullies.

One semester while at a legal clinic, we held a plenary discussion about "what does justice mean to you?" Students were sorted in to groups of 4-5. Every group answered some variant of

>"Justice means social justice. It means recognizing historical wrongdoings, including those perpetuated by the legal system. It means creating alternative legal systems for victims like indigenous people (i.e., lighter sentencing than for everyone else). It means fighting for more equality, we don't have nearly enough equality."

I was the only student to point out that justice doesn't need a modifier. Justice is good enough on its own. It's gotten us this far. My group members disagreed. I was the only person to define justice as procedural fairness + treating like cases alike.

I study at a top 10 law school.

Haha, forgot about that, thank you

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Why do I keep seeing this uncomfortably ridiculous talking point everywhere? Sure gas was cheap the day Obama took over, but it was cheap because our economy exploded.

Here's a look at historical average gas prices over the last 5 years. Gas prices dropped from a historical high of $4.12/gallon in July/August 2008 to the low you pointed out in about 4 months. Can you think of anything at all that would coincide with that precipitous drop in prices?

Never forget the day reddit, twitter, and the democratic party were freaking out about this story.

EDIT: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/heres-what-microsoft-gave-the-teenager-who-was-arrested-for-bringing-a-homemade-clock-to-school/

This is why I can't stand the left.

Candace Owens: Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

If you haven't read this you are missing out. No matter your race. This is an exam of how politicians lie to people in order to use them for political gain. Candace writes wonderfully.

Pretty good book for thoroughly debunking Muhammed and the Quran:

https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Doom-Islams-Terrorist-Muhammads/dp/0971448124/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=prophet+of+doom&qid=1566567600&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Damn Obama for raising Canadian and worldwide gas prices too.

Also, it's cherry picking data

But, who needs facts when we have hate!

No one needs these assault knives designed as weapons of war! /s

Was it hate, ineptitude, or something more nefarious.

If nefarious, does it maybe have something to do with this great reset, Trudeau and Klaus Schwab was on about?

Trudeau

Schwab's book

>The Judge brings up Concord Catering, saying the gov't alleges an association with Concord Mgmt.

>Attorney for Concord Mgmt:

>The gov't has "indicted the proverbial ham sandwich." "That company didn't exist as a legal entity during the time period alleged by the gov't."

Yevgeny Prigozhin's Concord Catering has been in business since 1996 according to the WSJ.

Apparently Prigozhin never filed the paperwork to have Concord Catering properly incorporated/registered as a 'legal entity' until February 27, 2018.

So, Concord Catering was in business at the time it was indicted. It just wasn't incorporated/registered it as a 'legal entity', whatever that means in Russia. So to take those facts and spin it to say it wasn't in existence is just a ridiculous, bald-faced lie.

https://d.tube/#!/v/truthsetsy0ufre3/QmUZ1ctaUy6Un5pSysZD3wTpw8Mo3jy8br8jKRCKVuqRdx

This isn’t even all the testimony to the FDA asking them not to approve the boosters. There are hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions being reported!

>The average price for gasoline has zoomed up and down several times under Obama, but it never reached the record $4.11 set in July 2008, under Bush. The highest price posted under Obama was $3.97 in the week ending May 9, 2011. The most recent price is, however, still 82 percent higher than the unusually low average of $1.85 for the week just before Obama first took office, when a worldwide recession was pushing down demand. And it’s 2 percent higher than it was when Obama began his second term in January.

Yeah, so lets take the unusually low price of gas right after it crashed in mid-2008 and use that as the benchmark price to compare current prices to.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=96

This is the syllogism they are using.

A) Black people use this social program B) Republicans want to cut this social program

Therefore, Republicans want to cut social programs because Black people use them.

So if you want to cut welfare you hate black people. If you point out that the large majority of people who use welfare in America are not black, so why you hear, "DIBRPORITONALLHY BLACK." These people have no idea what a proportion is or what it should mean. Ask someone, "What is the proper proportion that something should be of another thing?" They have no idea and can't unpack it.

Recommended reading.

Bonus points, if instead of talking about disproportionate black people they instead say "people of color" you can ask them how they got so racist that they would use an old-timey racist phrase like "colored people" AND lump in all races into one group as if Cubans, and Italians, and Arabs and Indians and African Americans and Koreans are all the same, have no special identity that matters to them and their only feature is not being white. Sounds like a white supremacist talking point, doesn't it?

Edit: People should actually just read this book instead of launching misinformed and unrelated arguments against what I said. It turns out the professional academic goes into a little more detail and cites extensive sources, unlike my exceedingly brief reddit comment. Literally, go read a book. It's very short, because half of it is citations.

A privacy app for communication.

The richest man in the world tweets it the day before massive Twitter bans.

This should be a pinned on this subreddit.

No wonder we lose.

I wouldn't take the 40% number too seriously -- it was an online poll.

The latest PPP poll is likely more accurate (Trump-28%, Cruz 25%, Rubio 14%).

CNN reached more global unique visitors than any other news platform in the world in December 2020, with 192 million unique multiplatform visitors per month

In November it was over a billion viewers

Cnn Literally employs nazis. Ad all liberals are

>“Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.”

― Mark R. Levin, Men in Black: How Judges are Destroying America

It was literally the title of their review of the Ghostbusters remake.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/movies/ghostbusters-review-melissa-mccarthy-kristen-wiig.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.bing.com/search?q=women%20are%20funny%20get%20over%20it&pr=1&cuid=%7B1FF3F080-A2A2-4E39-B2E7-8E68D128A9C8%7D&a...

It was a blip. If you remember back to January 2008 they were over $3 per gallon. If you actually look at the chart you will notice that there was a huge drop in prices in the run-up to the election.

The last year has been shocking on many levels.

We've lived through a pandemic that has disrupted nearly everyone's lives, we watched as America seethed through a debate over the police & race, and as politicians and celebrities refused to decry violent riots that went on for weeks. We emerged from one of the most unusual elections in history with voting rules changed at the last second by executive branches rather than by lawmaking. And, finally we watched as a president took himself and his party down in a fiery ball of narcissistic flame replete with men dressed as lumberjacks running rampant through the capitol.

Today that's all been topped. A major political party and massive multinational corporations have just removed their political opposition to thunderous applause. Unbelievable.

By the way, if you're on Android and want to install Parler, here are instructions.

Eh, it's mostly unintelligible because they're using philosophy speak. I think grad students get bonus points for sounding pretentious. :)

Discursive Reasoning

>Discursive reasoning is based on the nature of our ordinary discourse. Namely, several participants exist and have some information, beliefs, and others. Then, truth is formalized by means of the sum of opinions supplied by participants in discursive reasoning. Even if each participant has consistent information, some participant could be inconsistent with other participants.

13. Non-Discursive Reasoning

>The distinction Aristotle draws between discursive knowledge (that is, knowledge through argument) and non-discursive knowledge (that is, knowledge through the mind, nous) is akin to the medieval distinction between ratio (argument) and intellectus (direct intellection). In Aristotelian logic, non-discursive knowledge comes first and provides the starting points upon which discursive or argumentative knowledge depends. It is hard to know what to call the mental power that gives rise to this type of knowledge in English. The traditional term “intuition” invites misunderstanding. When Aristotle claims that there is an immediate sort of knowledge that comes directly from the mind (nous) without discursive argument, he is not suggesting that knowledge can be accessed through vague feelings or hunches. He is referring to a capacity for intelligent appraisal that might be better described as discernment, comprehension, or insight. Like his later medieval followers, he views “intuition” as a species of reason; it is not prior to reason or outside of reason, it is—in the highest degree—the activity of reason itself. (Cf. Posterior Analytics, II. 19; Nicomachean Ethics, IV.6.)

Muslims also enslaved whites when they could. A white man’s place depended greatly on how he responded to the beatings, and whether or not he converted to Islam. White women were used as sex slaves.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Gold-Extraordinary-Thomas-Million/dp/0374289352

On Rekieta Law's live stream, they just played a clip from the prosecution's closing on Monday that was being played from Kraus' computer.

He has Handbrake on his laptop........

That's not even close to correct. Gasoline prices in the US reached their historic high in July, 2008. They crashed along with the stock market crash in the fall of 2008. The oft quoted number of gasoline prices when Obama was inaugurated is yet another anomaly from the recession of 2007/2008. Gasoline prices rose in tandem with the stock market as it recovered.

Private source: http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

Government source: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W

For anyone who has not read Candace's book, you should. It's one of the most powerful books I've ever read, and I read a lot.

Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

Meanwhile, <em>Justice on Trial</em>, about the smear job that was his confirmation hearings, is a #1 Amazon bestseller, #1 Wall Street Journal ebook bestseller, #2 Wall Street Journal combined bestseller, and #3 USAToday bestseller, among other accolades.

They have their own servers; not sure where they are located, but a local ISP will be providing them internet service. The leftist mob or DS could get the ISP to deplatform them.

DNS is the domain name Gab.com. They could lose their *.com name and would have to find a friendly registrar, like "The high seas" site has had to do for the last decade or so.

I looked at the pricing of their dedicated servers and they were super expensive. If I would be building a new service, I would straight out think foreign providers...

• Hetzner is German hosting provider with data centers in Germany and Finland
• OVH is French hosting company with their own data centers

Of course then there are also Yandex (Russia) and Alibaba Clouds.(China). With these one would need to make sure that servers are located in either USA or EU.

Pssshh. 12 reasons in a short article? There's a whole book with reasons to vote Democrat linked below. It's a great read and has a 5 star rating on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1501180126/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=reasons+to+vote+democrat&amp;qid=1562554428&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1

Some entitled weasel has given her teacher a poor rating on RateMyProfessor because he didn't cave to her SJW agenda.

> This "teacher" wouldn't allow my fellow African American students who were too traumatized by the Michael Brown proceedings to postpone the exam. We have been disrespected and are disturbed by professor Raney's lack of consideration for our general well-being. If you emailed me asking to take this teacher, I would simply respond with "NO."

His other ratings were all either good or average.

Courts have held that this kind of thing isn’t entrapment, which I always found kind of crazy, but there it is.

I’m glad this is finally catching on in the mainstream, because it’s been a huge issue for a long time across ideologies and the political spectrum that just kind of flew under the radar. There was some coverage of it (mostly from left-leaning outlets) during the first “War on Terror” regarding how the FBI targeted Muslims and more-or-less designed terror plots that they would then “thwart”. These people rarely had the means (or even motivation) to actually carry out terror plots until the FBI gave them the means to do so. They often targeted mentally disabled or mentally-ill individuals.

I highly recommend the book Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silvergate to learn more about this. Basically, so many normal behaviors have been codified as federal felonies that the Feds could drop the hammer on anyone at anytime if they wanted to. The thesis of the book is that the average person commits several federal felonies every single day without even knowing it.

Using covid19 to lockdown citizens was the first step. The elites have been trying for the great reset for the last 20 years.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/2940631123/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_t1_fnPSFb2WES61B

Jennifer Percy is an interesting author. She wrote, Demon Camp, about a soldier who attempted to cure his PTSD with an exorcism. She also traveled to Syria back in 2015 to write this piece for NYT Magazine: Meet the American Vigilantes who are Fighting ISIS.

Having read her previous work, which has taken her to Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, I'm not surprised that she would step into the fray. However, I am surprised that she would publicly out herself as an apostate of wokeness. She lives in Brooklyn, and runs with the far-left literati. She had to know that writing this article could mean end of her social life, if not her career.

It looks to me like she's standing on principal, which could be a sign that the fever is breaking.

The Republican party was originally created to fight the expansion of slavery into the west and above the "Missouri Compromise" line. Their original base was in New England and they had little support in the South. A few years later, they got Lincoln elected, abolished slavery, and then were the dominate party for decades until the great depression.

I'm fascinated by this history. Has anyone read Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men or have a better recommendations for a book about this time?

This is just like how New York is trying to keep the SALT deduction by creating a way for the wealthy qualify their state tax as a charitable contribution.

It's true.

From Yahoo Finance:

> More supply usually means lower prices so why, you may ask, have prices been rising when crude oil production in this country grew by more than one million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and in U.S. history?

> Morse says the recent gush of oil coming through the U.S. system by virtue of new pipelines has brought oil prices to “world equilibrium.” Prior to that, U.S. oil had been losing value as it sat trapped in the middle of the country.

someone mentioned bluetooth... not exactly. this is a product in line with what they're talking about. It was briefly mentioned around the time of the debates with Hillary, too...

https://www.amazon.com/COOMAX-Earphone-Wireless-Microphone-Detection/dp/B00ZX29CUE/

Trump literally wrote a book called &quot;The Art of the Comeback&quot; in 1997 and it was all about his > 1 billion in losses, his companies going bankrupt, and how he was able to turn it all around.

In other words, this is fake outrage media played up to be somehow a new revelation when this has never been a secret and has been known for decades. The NYT seems to forget the angle that Trump crashing to the bottom, then being able to turn himself around and pick himself back up to the success he has now is that much more of a powerful story, completely opposite the tone and narrative of the NYT article which is trying to just slander Trump as a bad businessman and they are educating his followers that he doesn't have a perfect business track record.

Such high quality journalism there, NYT.

Looks more and more like what the Taliban and Al Queda did to objectionable relics of the past. Or how the Soviets would airbrush people out of history.

This is America and We the People do not accept this new reality! I encourage you to visit Parler webpage because they have slowed the app and are making it virtually impossible to navigate.

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The "measly" fine isn't so measly after year one. $95 to $285 this upcoming year, depending on your income. $325-$975 next year. $695-$2085 in 2016.

I can see plenty of people (including myself) opting to pay the $95 dollar fee instead of the premium this year. But after that, it might be harder. $325 isn't chump change for the college student/young professional. However, it's still likely a great deal cheaper than the premium.

The good news, is the fee is subtracted from your tax refund. So, those without coverage won't have to pay up front. They'll just see it evaporate from any refund they're owed. And if they aren't owed a refund, then the person might avoid the fee altogether.

> I honestly don't know anything about the raz guy people keep posting about on this and the Seattle subs...

Look him up, shouldn't take but a moment.

In fact, here's a direct link to a video.

> ...People keep acting like it's Somalia. Literal definition of fake news...

Time will tell, I suppose. Hard to judge where this is all going to go at this point.

I enjoy your analogy and I agree completely, but there is a misconception. Walmart cannot afford to take 5, 4, 3, or 2 billion dollars off their bottom line. Salaries must be paid in cash and last year Walmart only made 1.2B in cash source.

NI is a goofy line item and in finance it's highly disregarded as there are a lot of hidden, non-cash items that go into it's calculation. When it comes down to things like this (paying people, distributing profits, executive compensation, etc) you always need to be thinking of cash not profits.

Cash. Cash. And more cash.

Why is Bernie Sanders black, a space cowboy, and guest starring on the Firefly tv show season 1^<em>sobs</em> episode 10 holding a gun!?

I'd argue that the only bias here is a word choice bias.

The Trump headline is design to promote a negative connotation through word choice.

Take the headlines and swap them.

Despite pandemic, WHO supports public protests.

Even in a pandemic, Trump to hold political rallies.

https://prezi.com/wplzzajmkcb7/bias-by-word-choice-and-tone/

It's not as egregious as most media, but NPR has definitely indicated how the authors/editors feel about these two issues.

Read Boys Adrift by Dr. Leonard Sax. It's an amazing book on the subject. He has one called Girls on the Edge that I just started and it's killing my heart.

In the President's Secret Service talks about what it was like protecting the presidents. More than a small amount of the book discusses how different presidents treated their guards. It was quite complimentary to both Bushes, if I recall correctly.

The video in question was not entered into evidence in it's HD form, was intentionally doctored before being give n to the defense after it would have been of any use, and there is clear evidence of it all. This prosecutor also lied that he was not tech savvy, freeze frame shows he had Handbrake on the computer he supposedly sent it from along with different file names, sizes, and creation dates.

This should be a mistrial with prejudice and the prosecutor should be charged with evidence tampering, lying to the court, and more.

If you don't know what Handbrake is: https://handbrake.fr/

You might also look at Brave's new search engine. They bought a smaller one and started tweaking it. I still use DDG all the time, but it based on Bing Seatch.

Give Brave Search a looksee.

Friedman argued that the FED cut the money supply and that led to bank failures. Link

The truth is probably that a number of actions by the Federal government contributed. For example, neither cites the tax increases FDR instituted whenever there was some improvement in the economy, but those certainly had an effect. Link

Same stuff going on here in California. We just made it illegal for schools to expel disruptive students.

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EDIT: This was the best response in the comments to that article:

> <strong>ERNEST E HELMS</strong> • <strong>6 days ago</strong>
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>I am a Black male, engineer and attorney. If you want to teach ethics, then teach the Bible. What students do not need is an indoctrination of leftist victimology to learn math. Such programs as this make me more firm in my belief that the only way Blacks are going to receive a quality education in this nation is if the public school system is eliminated and a voucher system is put in. If you want to teach math,bring back flash cards, teach the fundamentals, require large amounts of homework and have demanding teachers. Children in India, Japan and Korea learn math, why not look at how they do it?

I'm not saying abstinence only sex Ed. I'm saying that there already exists a free form of birth control. I just looked on amazon and it is $13 for 36 condoms. (Trojan Condom ENZ Lubricated, 36 Count https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073R7TWU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hJ-1zbDRNJ6A6). Even if you fuck daily, if you can't afford 13 fucking dollars a month, the government paying for your birth control won't help you. We would be better off using every penny that would be used, on proper sexual education.

People have always been treated like shit, though. As I understand it, what's changed is our exposure. With 24/7 media/internet, we're just seeing things we wouldn't have seen before. They were still happening before. We just didn't see them. It's also much easier to focus on specific types of discourse and information and that can make it seem like such information is increasing in amount. It's not. We're just exposing ourselves to more of it. If I started following r/Malta, it'd be tempting in a couple months to slide into the thinking that shit is "suddenly" heading south there. All the bad stories. All the abuses. In reality, it was always there because people are dicks regardless. Collectively, from what I understand, though, things are overall getting better in a lot of ways. I don't know how much bias is in it, but someone recommended the book Factfulness the other day. Haven't ordered it yet, but I'm going to because personally I'd like a little positivity in my geopolitical forecasts for once.

>The result is high levels of regret, depression, and suicide among trans people.

Suicide and depression are very high in the trans population, and that's for lots of reasons, but the part about regret is just wrong. &quot;surgical treatments ... are associated with improved mental health-related quality of life. Regret rate is low &quot;2.2% regret rate for both sexes.&quot;

> Alternatives - therapy, psychiatry, pharmacology, etc

Exactly what kind of medicines should be used?

And on another note, Vice President Biden said that Iraq would be remembered as Obama's greatest foreign policy achievement.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=biden+on+iraq+success&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;hspart=mozilla&amp;hsimp=yhs-001

India says it will require over $2.5 trillion to meet all of its targets. It says it will achieve the targets only if other countries give it money and discounts on new technology. link

Other countries are likely to submit similar expenses. Trump saved the US from a huge bill taxpayers can't afford.

That led me to this and the pictures shows “turban box” 😂 I wonder who tf they’re marketing to 😂

I recommend Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea. The establishment of a Continental Navy, driven mostly by John Adams, was contentious up to and throughout the war. Privateering could be very lucrative. Many members of the Continental Congress profited from privateering and thus were loathe to see their investments undercut by a national Navy. Compared to privateers, the Continental Navy was perpetually underfunded and undermanned. It is remarkable that it had as much success as it did.

Here is a good breakdown of the relative sizes and successes of privateers and the Continental Navy.

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Goes well with their holocaust denial.

Edit such an amazing institution of American values: http://magaimg.net/img/5uzk.jpg

if they acknowledged the truth in other countries then they could no longer defend socialism as a plausible idea in America.

it's funny; all the people that either have no money to speak of (e.g. college students) or who are living in the welfare state want socialism because it bumps their income up. however anyone that makes money by putting in hard work doesn't want everyone to earn the same income. this obviously makes total sense. if socialism became the reality, all the people who put it work would cease since their is no longer an incentive to achieve your goals. this would lead to an decrease in production, GDP, etc. Socialism benefits individuals, not the group. On average, it actually takes away from the group. if GDP is down, then income would have to decrease for EVERYONE in a socialist society. look at Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt.

Milton Friedman was such a wise man. He and Friedrich Hayek were two people I would love to have on my side arguing the merits of capitalism.

Read Milton Friedman's &quot;Capitalism and Freedom&quot; sometime to truly understand what the other side wants to destroy. He even updated his book, I believe three times, as the landscape changed throughout history.

It's pretty fascinating.

He might be talking about money that Bernie raised for the DNC (link) as opposed to money Bernie raised for his own campaign.

Trump may have at least 25 unsubstantiated accusations, but that's better than creepy Joe having at least 25 incidents of groping a child or woman on video. If Trump or any other republican had even one incident like those in the link, it would have ended his entire career.

I graduated with two degrees. This doesn't automatically necessitate that I'm smarter or anything, but your continual attempt to cut me down are a bit off-putting.

regardless. here you go:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=political+realignment+theory&amp;btnG=&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C33&amp;as_vis=1

Link to RSBN live Trump rally direct on rumble. Don Jr just finished.

https://rumble.com/vi1or5-rsbn-live.html

300k watching, estimate for attendees is 20-25k. Would have been more but we had horrible weather today, worst of the year. I had a hard time making it down the street on lunch break due to the heavy rain earlier.

Video:

https://rumble.com/vhad4d-joe-biden-caught-fake-driving-his-handlers-try-to-fool-americans-with-stunt.html

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Joking about running over a journalist with the truck

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/nfu5w7/biden_jokes_about_running_over_journalist_in_a/

>As someone already said...for now. Get a hard copy, just in case. 1984 is, frankly, scarily prescient.

Paperback can be had for less than $8

Nathaniel Hawthorne had something to say about making someone wear an insignia as a form of punishment by inducing shame.

It reminds me of the "confession by projection" mantra of late. Perchance the board doing the shaming had something to hide.

Everything is racist to these people. For once, I'd love to hear what these CRT loonies tell us what isn't racist to them? So far I've one seen one example from Kendi; it's indoctrinating children to see and judge color from as young as 2 years old.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YJW445R/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

All these entitled people are doing is diluting the meaning of racist (which is already bad enough considering that the word is widely misused in the place of prejudice), just like they did with the term Nazi. Literally downplaying real racists and Nazis just to try and get others to break down and be on the same sad emotional level they are at.

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Black-Supreme-Destroying-America/dp/1596980095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1533346280&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=men+in+black+mark+levin

not the supreme court, but it's still relevant

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

I strongly encourage people to read about the history and founders of our nation, and the philosophies which guided it. If history is to be judged or defended in turn, it must be properly understood. The alternative is blind adoration or blind detestation, neither of which is healthy for a society. Read 'The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Elliott', 'The Federalist Papers', the biographies of the founders, the Constitution, 'The Wealth of Nations', 'Democracy in America', 'A Patriot's History of the United States', etc. Read poetry (I suggest 'The Poet's Corner' by John Lithgow, which is a great intro collection to European/American poetry) and classic literature (anything by Mark Twain, 'Moby-Dick', 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'The Scarlet Letter', etc.). Knowledge is power, and we cannot claim a connection to the past if we do not endeavor to learn about it.

First of all, props to you for giving an honest attempt to understand the other side; not many people, liberals or conservatives, are willing to do that.

Some of these have been suggested already, but here is my list:

1. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
2. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
3. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

>According to a glossary drafted by the school’s “LGBTQIA Resource Center,” racism is “the systematic subordination of marginalized racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States, by members of the agent/dominant/privileged racial group who have relatively more social power.”

No chance of bias there. Why not stick with Merriam-Websters.

Also, White is a color not a race. I hate that identifier so much.

The company behind it. Opera is allegedly owned by the chinese (government), Brave's developers however are way more privacy respecting.

> Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"

The quote is directly referencing a plot of a novel Mourice Strong wanted to write.

The whole quote is included below for the lazy: > What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group's conclusion is 'no'. The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

-Maurice Strong, Interview 1992, concerning the plot of a book he would like to write[1]

Citation: Gibson, Donald. Environmentalism: ideology and power. pg. 95

If someone came into your house and told you that their God told them that your house is now theirs, everyone in this sub would take up arms to protect themselves and their property. But since the conflict is targeted towards Muslims, everyone in this sub (and this political party) turns a blind eye.

What if it was Christian Palestinians? Who side would you be on? It’s irrelevant since Israel already killed all the Christians in Palestine in the 1940s......

If you want to educate yourself, here’s a book written by a former Israeli official, former Zionist about what happened in Palestine and Israel during the 1940s https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553

If you don’t believe that guy, you might believe the survivors of the USS Liberty, which was attacked by unmarked Israeli planes in 1967. They were threatened with death and treason charges to stay quiet on the matter until Lyndon Johnson died. Lyndon Johnson, during the incident, called off the reinforcements while the attack carried on for another 3 hours. But don’t worry, Israel apologized for killing 34 of our soldiers, saying it was an accident. https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Liberty-Almost-Sunk-Treason/dp/1634241088

Or just stay uninformed and blindly support your government, it’s your choice.

So, will they be banning the Amazon App and the Kindle App?

It's worth asking.

I read the Communist Manifesto for a course in high school. It inoculated me against ever thinking communism could work.

But to be fair, I also had to read--and be able to cite by article and section--the U.S. Constitution in that same government class. That teacher did more to educate me than perhaps all other high school teachers I had, combined. He taught Latin, medieval history, government, current events, and economics. His Econ class was based around Economics in One Lesson.

That was also the year, on my own, that I read Animal Farm and 1984.

In other words, that was the year I became a lifelong enemy to totalitarianism and statism of every kind.

This is bullshit. Why did Jeff Bezos choose to start Amazon.com in Washington State? Silicon Valley is by far the leader when it comes to startups, followed by NYC. http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/10/startup-genome-compares-top-startup-hubs/

There are "hand out programs" in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas to try get businesses started there, because no one wants to move there. The whole ecosystem is key, from well funded universities to angel investors to venture capitalists etc.

>You admit that their are multiple forms of socialism and yet you define socialism strictly as "workers owning the factory." That is simply false.

Multiple forms of socialism - all of which have a common denominator. How is that false?

>So workers owning the factory would be socialism, but so would the government owning the healthcare industry.

I hate to say it but that is a gross misrepresentation. A free market where social needs are guaranteed by the government does not mean it is Socialism. A free market based economic model can exist alongside welfare and universal healthcare. This is called a welfare state..

It says so right in the exact words you pasted. >administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

The means of production or "factories" controlled by the state (socialism) or worker (more communism but mixes with socialism depending on the theoretical state of the society).

>So workers owning the factory would be socialism, but so would the government owning the healthcare industry.

Workers owning all factories - including those that provide goods and services (aka means of production) that are not critical to human life - would be Socialism. It is a fact that providing health care, unemployment and social security are ways to prevent socialism rather than propagate it. Bismarck utilized these exact methods with great success.

AMEN! If you fly your flag higher than the cross in your life, you got it wrong. Suggested reading on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Benedict-Option-Strategy-Christians-Post-Christian/dp/0735213291

Here's an article posted two days ago claiming the same nonsense, advocating police violence on The Donald. Bet Reddit is reacting to this.

Honestly, what's the big deal about this? Childhood obesity is a serious problem in our country, and I do think meals in public schools ought to be regulated because we've been feeding our kids utter shit for years now. These spoiled kids who are complaining about healthier, more appropriately portioned meals should go live in Somalia and see what that's like.

I mean seriously, look what students across the world eat for lunch. While the pictures aren't going to be entirely representative, it's probably safe to say that kids in other industrialized, developed countries eat a hell of a lot better (and healthier!) than American kids.

Kanye West: &quot;I want to run a Trump campaign but with Bernie Sander's principals.&quot;

Anyone who thinks Kanye has suddenly become a conservative is not paying attention.

http://drudgereport.com/ is where I get my news. There's a bunch of great links about it right now.

"MAG: Immigration Reform Will Go Down With Cantor..."

Such good news and such.

I can't wait until November!

Where's the $400/mo number coming from?

I found this graph on Forbes.

Also, there is no such thing as a $16,000 deductible in the exchange plans. The max OOP is $6,350 for an individual or $12,700 for a family.

That's interesting because in this historical chart the sharp drop in price seems to start in august or sepember of 2008 and hit it's low point very early in 2013. So you are correct. The economy took a dump months after Bush rescinded the EO ban. But gas prices didn't start dropping until a few months later as well. Your narrative doesn't match history.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?city1=USA%20Average&amp;city2=&amp;city3=&amp;crude=n&amp;tme=96&amp;units=us

https://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Sleepy-Joe-Fabian-Teter/dp/B08L47S3H3/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=goodnight+sleepy+joe&amp;qid=1603500991&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2

>This is absolutely horrible for the middle and lower classes and a mild bruise for the upper class. Most retirement funds for the average middle class family upon cash out is taxed under capital gains.

I disagree. Most stock held for retirement is taxed at regular income when distributed in retirement, not at capital gains rates.

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It was actually in Alabama, but this behavior is rampant across Appalachia. I have family members near western PA who know exactly what doctor to go to and what to say. The railroad unions there even encourage it for those who can be bothered to work; do two decades on the railroad out of high school, "hurt your back", and they refer you to a doctor that will declare you disabled and you cruise your way until retirement and pension kick in.

Here's the story https://www.npr.org/2013/03/25/175293860/in-one-alabama-county-nearly-1-in-4-working-age-adults-is-on-disability

>When black or mixed-race children are raised in white rather than black homes, their preadolescent test scores rise dramatically.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jencks-gap.html

Oh shyt

Just re-posting in case no one has seen this. It's a continuously updated map showing the spread of the virus globally.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

What's interesting with the US is that despite the size of the population and the freedom of movement they have, the number of infections is not growing as rapidly as in other countries I expect the number to go up quite a bit, but with proper measures put in place and people being cautious, we can mitigate much of the impact.

He even stated he used "preliminary" numbers. Michigan allows same day registration and this stuff is easily verifiable.

Go look at the Zeher affidavit in the same case. That guy's a lawyer and has 3 exhibits of letters, because that evidence supports a central claim to his argument. If there's not evidence submitted the defense, nor judge have to consider it relevant.

I didn't see Ramsland submit anything in Constantino, nor do I see Powell's name attached. It's possible I missed her name, but I'm fairly certain she's just a figurehead.

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/visualize-statsd-metrics-counts-graphing/

So, I know this isn't exactly what you wanted, but this goes into some data analysis theory as to why you might prefer to use a rate or count. Basically it boils down to how you would use the data and how it's being reported. My main point here is that using a decimal doesn't describe nefarious intent.

Speaking of flags...

I saw a truck ripping through my neighborhood with this flag flying gloriously from the bed.

Maybe NSFW, it contains a large curse word

I didn't have an interest in it either, but my wife became interested in TLM and our Parish has been offering one for more than a decade, so we started attending.

I didn't like it; I felt it was very difficult to follow what was happening and it all felt very foreign from the Novus Ordo I was raised on.

During Low Mass you can't hear the Priest for much of it, and I'm going be honest and say that High Mass drags on too long because the choir sings so slowly.

I purchased one of these Missals and started following along. This goes on for a couple of months, and something happened where we couldn't attend the TLM, so we went to a normal Mass...I couldn't believe it...I disliked it so much!

To me Novus Ordo feels less reverent and the translations feel less impactful to me. It's really strange, it feels like they "dumbed down" a lot of the language to make it more modern.

If you haven't attended the TLM I'd recommend picking up a Missal and attending a few (there will be an adjustment period), and see what you think.

If you've been and you don't like it then that's fine too; I don't think TLM needs to be mandated and everything needs to be old-fashioned (like some Trads do).

That's awesome.

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Guys, I am here to say, it is not hard to #walkaway from services like Facebook, Twitter, and even Google. Facebook and Twitter? Just delete them. Keep an anonymous troll Twitter account if you'd like.
Google? Turn off all the tracking on your phone. Use a VPN (CyberGhost and Nord are my favorites). Use FireFox Focus with DuckDuckGo set as your search engine. Open a ProtonMail account and migrate everything away from your Gmail.

I'm working on eventually using LineageOS and removing Google Play Services completely from my phone.

STOP GIVING THESE COMPANIES YOUR DATA. STOP ALLOWING THEM SO MUCH ACCESS TO YOUR LIVELIHOOD.

An entire generation will never know America's greatest satirist. That might not bother me as much if it weren't for the obvious racial decision in its replacement. From the article...

Replacing it on school curricula will be Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.