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phaedral

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"Robert is an attorney. Prior to entering law he worked as a personal
development seminar trainer, and was lead trainer and course designer
for Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner and master-practitioner
level certification courses. Material from before his legal career can
be found at http://semanticrestructuring.com

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tiamat271 , to random
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SERIOUS mistake by not to provide real-time fact-checking during the . They are letting the convicted felon LIE constantly, without ANY pushback, and then expecting to defend against it. And I don’t want to hear about how Biden looks tired, is misspeaking, etc. The convicted felon is straight up LYING ON NATIONAL TV with wild abandon, with no consequences. FFS.

phaedral ,
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@tiamat271 CNN is in it to sell ads. They don't really give a damn as long as the ad space sells.

phaedral ,
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@tiamat271 They'll sell 'em to fascists and play the tune the boss tell 'em.

jerry , to random
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Here is a short summary of the US presidential debate

video/mp4

phaedral ,
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@jerry Why? Because is doing his normal show?

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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"If she's out there, you know, giving hand jobs and being a granny, she ought to be drug tested. Prostitutes are drug tested, why not Hand-Job Granny, Lauren Boebert?"

-- Me

phaedral ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot I'm tellin' ya, is gonna be a thing on now.

GottaLaff , to random
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Gerstein:

JUST IN: We appear to have a July spillover for decisions. Marshal said court is coming back tomorrow. Chief did not announce it as final day. So we expect opinions some day(s) next week. 1st July spill since 2020-21 pandemic term

phaedral ,
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@GottaLaff Someone really doesn't want that immunity ruling to come out.

GottaLaff , to random
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This day.

More destruction of democracy.

Debate between a real president and a felon.

phaedral ,
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@GottaLaff Don't despair! We still have you, you still have us!

NotImpressed , to palestine group
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@palestine

"In the Gaza Strip there are two cemeteries that contain the remains of British soldiers"
"Both cemeteries have survived since Israel's war on Gaza began"
A displaced Palestinian: "Meanwhile, the graves of Gazans have been bulldozed and their corpses have been stolen. This feels very dehumanising"
"But Israel can’t cause havoc to the British graveyards and will pay so much money in compensation to repair what was barely damaged..."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-british-cemeteries-gaza-destroying

phaedral ,
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@NotImpressed @palestine ..because "the modern state" is and always was a tool of British anti-semitism and British petroleum.

GottaLaff , to random
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The second and FINAL opinion today: Snyder v. US. Written by Justice Kavanaugh. The vote is 6-3. Jackson dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.

Geidner:

The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' past acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

phaedral ,
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@GottaLaff Just noticed "§ 666". Must've given Alito nightmares.

futurebird , to random
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When I consider the billions that will be spent on presidential campaigns against the tens of thousands of votes that will ultimately decide it, the project seems absurd. Naively? it ought to be easy to simply find those people who would vote for your candidate but did not since they didn’t have a ride to the polls, or child care, or they simply forgot.

Of course were it simple we’d not all be so concerned. 1/

phaedral ,
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@futurebird Sadly, ads rule this modern world, and teevee more so. I he hadn't been a teevee star for 8 years the rapist nazi traitor could never have won any elected seat anywhere.

wdlindsy , to random
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Do Republicans have a different set of Ten Commandments than the rest of us have?

Asking for a friend.

Because people like Kevin Roberts, with his claim that Democrats want abortions three days after birth, seem never to have heard of the commandment forbidding false witness. It certainly featured prominently in the Ten Commandments my mama taught me when I was a little boy.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/that-is-an-absurd-assertion-msnbc-host-shuts-down-guest-who-claimed-democrats-want-abortions-three-days-after-the-persons-born/

phaedral ,
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@wdlindsy The has one commandment, "Heads we win, tails you lose."

georgetakei , to random
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Fair question.

phaedral ,
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@georgetakei If they could, they would.

KingShawn , to random
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WaPo: “Many voters express resignation, dismay, anger over being asked to choose between Biden and Trump again”

TOO FUCKING BAD.

If you can’t see what an existential threat a Trump presidency would do to America and THE REST OF THE WORLD, I pity you. But I promise, your world will be a LOT different if you don’t vote for Biden and not different in any good, measurable way.

Get over yourself and see beyond your own narrow interests. Voting isn’t marriage. You’re not going to find The One.

phaedral ,
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@GGMcBG @KingShawn How about voting for because President Biden has decades of important and successful public service under his belt, served credibly under Obama, and has done amazing things for the nation as we try to pull away from the horrors of the 2016 Trump term?

Any frame other than "decades of successful public service versus a rapist nazi traitor" is a win for the rapist nazi traitor.

Strandjunker , to random
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In 1791, the Second Amendment was written.

In 1847, the bullet was invented.

Thus, the Second Amendment only applies to muskets.

phaedral ,
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@Strandjunker Stunning, how have I never heard this one before?!

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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Don't miss President Biden in action for the first presidential debate as he stands up to Trump's extreme MAGA agenda once more. It’s a fight for our freedoms and future.

phaedral ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot Shameful and disgusting that Trump can get this kind of treatment. His head belongs on a pike outside 1600 Pennsylvania.

GhostOnTheHalfShell , to economics-that-works group
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Imma stick my neck out here but this paper of M Friedman

The Methodology of Positive Economics

his argument means there is no useful distinction between say, theories of heliocentrism v geocentrism, germ theory v humors, spontaneous generation v infectious disease vectors.

that germ theory hypothesis is “unrealistic”, so is spontaneous generation and nothing can or should be said of them

somehow this passed academic muster.

phaedral ,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics-that-works @economics @academicchatter We're talking about the "discipline" that fatuously swallowed "money is utility" (von Neuman and Morgenstern, "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior") as if the authors never heard of Midas.

The entirety of "modern Western economics" is fatally flawed.

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