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JO753

Monday, January 25, 2016 10:50 AM

Windowless carz!

Glass iz hevy and making up for the structural penalty uv interupting the surfase addz even more wate. So, with self driving carz bekuming common by 2025, glass will be unesusery. Insted, you will put on a VR vizor if you want to see outside andor there will be hemisferical view screenz.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

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KPO

Monday, January 25, 2016 5:12 PM

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notice you've gone quiet on this whole rioting, refugee, rape thing

lots of vids out there

Jayneztown STOP spamming the thread with videos.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:33 PM

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If people don't run from Hillary, their tingly-spidey-sense is broken.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

with the whole Flint thing will 'water' or lack of or droughts or chemcial pollution, will these be an election issue?

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 7:04 AM

I predict the Regressive Left debate will start trending, off the charts

http://polsciblogg.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-regressive-left.html

The Regressive Left
We often spend a lot of time debating the ideologies of the Republicans and the Democrats that we forget that there are debates within their own camps. One of such debates in the Democratic camp is centered on the uprising of fundamentalist Islam and how we address this issue in our discourse.
Here is the divide- a majority of liberals are afraid to criticize the doctrine of Islam either because they see the theology of Islam as not the real problem or because they are afraid of the ramifications. This group of liberals have been phrased “the regressive left” by author and neuroscientist Sam Harris whom has been debating this topic since the attacks on 9-11.
They are called the regressive left because these liberals do not stand up for liberal principles. For example, when a terrorist attack occurred at Charlie Hebdo in France, even CNN pundits were asking questions like “did the cartoonists take a joke too far?” To ask this question is moral bankruptcy. As Sam Harris responded, “Cartoonists have died for making cartoons, end of moral analysis.”

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The Seven Regressive Sins of Islam Apologetics

1. Deny the problem / blame the messenger

Despite its intellectual laziness, this sin is actually very common, and it is often used as the first cop-out in a discussion, especially by people who know very little about Islam, yet feel the regressive urge to "defend Muslims". When an Islam-related problem is mentioned, when, for example, the catastrophic situation of women throughout the Islamic world is brought up, the problem is simply denied. Either it doesn't exist at all, or it is much smaller and therefore essentially not worth discussing, or it has “nothing to do with Islam”.

And not only is the problem downplayed and ignored. Regressives don't stop there. Instead, they start smearing the person who brought up the problem. They blame the messenger. I find it truly fascinating how often I, as someone on the left, has been called a "right-wing bigot", a "neonazi", a "fascist", a "neocon", and whatever ridiculous labels have been thrown out there. And I am in good company. Geert Wilders, Sam Harris, Bill Maher, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, to just name a few, are all left-leaning, liberal-minded people who have been smeared by use of all of the above terms. Rather then listen to the arguments these people have to make, it is so much easier to slander and thereby discredit them, and in consequence not to have to worry about anything they say, since the problems they mention are simply denied.

The "blame the messenger" attitude is not limited to individuals. When data, i.e. by surveys or statistics are brought up, many regressives will start questioning the studies. They would instantly use them for their own arguments if they supported their opinion (which, unfortunately for them, they never do when it comes to Islam), but since they don't like the conclusions of the study, the whole study is simply dismissed.

Gad Saad has coined the term "ostrich brigade". Like ostriches, regressives feel uncomfortable having to face certain real-world problems, so they stick their heads in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist. The difficulty, of course, is that denying a problem is essentially just as bad as the problem itself. If your leg is on fire, that is a problem. But denying that your leg is on fire, and possibly insulting the bystanders who inform you about the problem, is in effect just as consequential, since it removes the need to do anything about it.

2. Zoom out

If, due to the incoming overwhelming evidence, denying the problem is no longer possible without looking like an utter loon, regressives often resort to the zooming-out strategy. Instead of talking about certain subgroups of Muslims who display

KPO

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 8:39 PM

Signy - "Erdogan's control over Turkey... [is] falling apart."

2016 elections predictions thread - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60411

KPO

Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:28 AM

Reaverfan on Bernie Sanders - "I think he'll rout Hillary and become our next president"

THGRRI

Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:56 AM

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Reaverfan on Bernie Sanders - "I think he'll rout Hillary and become our next president"

First off. The red type is hard to read. Secondly, wow I don't think reaverfan really understands that from here on out Sanders ( as much as I like him ) is about to lose the nomination to Hillary in short order. The states he was going to win are behind him now.

REAVERFAN

Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:49 AM

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Reaverfan on Bernie Sanders - "I think he'll rout Hillary and become our next president"

First off. The red type is hard to read. Secondly, wow I don't think reaverfan really understands that from here on out Sanders ( as much as I like him ) is about to lose the nomination to Hillary in short order. The states he was going to win are behind him now.

Actually, all the southern states are done voting. We're going into purple and blue states, which are a lot more like Michigan, where he enjoyed an unprecedented, historic upset.

If the folks who like him turn out to vote, he will win.

THGRRI

Saturday, March 12, 2016 3:21 AM

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Reaverfan on Bernie Sanders - "I think he'll rout Hillary and become our next president"

First off. The red type is hard to read. Secondly, wow I don't think reaverfan really understands that from here on out Sanders ( as much as I like him ) is about to lose the nomination to Hillary in short order. The states he was going to win are behind him now.
Actually, all the southern states are done voting. We're going into purple and blue states, which are a lot more like Michigan, where he enjoyed an unprecedented, historic upset.

If the folks who like him turn out to vote, he will win.

I'll just say there are some big states coming into play and that is going to end any chance he never really had. Also, I love the fact that Hillary now has to deal with outsourcing in a way she didn't before Bernie showed up.

KPO

Friday, March 18, 2016 5:49 AM

1kiki - "If Trump was president, he'd have congressional opposition from BOTH the democrats AND the republicans.

He would literally not be able to get anything done. The idea of how dysfunctional his term would be is funny! "

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