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We also shouldn't fall into false equivalence and whataboutism. The Democrats have a lot of problems, and are a crappy political party, but the Republicans are much much much much worse when it comes to lying, cheating, and breaking the law. There is no equivalence.

I get a laugh out of people that complain about the radical left in this country. There is no left wing party in the U.S. The Democratic Party is right of center, some of it's members significantly so. Even people like Bernie Sanders are a centrist at best.

I think what is also often lost is that large groups of needed immigrants often started their own communities or flocked together to one place a large number of times in the U.S.'s past. I don't know why people often forget that, or why it's seen as some aberration now. ...Well other than the...

One of the things about that that makes it even worse is that Elon Musk is an imbecile. I know what the correlation between competency and wealth or intelligence and wealth isn't really as strong as a lot of people think, especially at the very top of the wealth scale, but damn is Elon a legit...

You can tell a situation like this and Trump himself has turned sad and pathetic when damn nobody cares about it anymore. Even for the majority of his supporters the second attempt already passed the news cycle.

If I remember correctly way back in the day way closer to this board's infancy than today they came from the ideas from and input from many of the more dedicated board members way back then. It's hard to remember since I've been on this place for damn near 20 years. We tried to come up with...

I hate being one of those guys that brings things up like this, and I still think Bianca is cool and wish her the best, but she needed to start doing things like this 15 or 20 years ago if she really wanted to maximize the impact of going hardcore. Back then she was one of the hottest models in...

They're Republicans. With them every accusation is a confession.

Feeling good as long as you give it your all despite the outcome all is fine if we're talking about a pick up basketball game or pulling a shift down at the box factory, not if your trying to be president of the most potentially destructive country in the Earth's history, and not when things...

Hmmm...lets see. If taxpayers money goes to build a bridge I will almost never, if not ever, cross is that unfair to me? Those other people choose to cross the bridge not me. If I don't have children or my children are past the age of being in school is it unfair to me to pay for others to...

I think the quality and notoriety of the talent for the old big porn producers lowering is an industry wide thing due to things such and Onlyfans and other similar sites. It is what it is. It wouldn't be such a bad thing if the technical quality of most onlyfans content wasn't bad, or you...

I guess the US and Iran has something in common after all.

Slogans, symbolism, and words are easy. People actively giving a shit, people actually doing things that fundamentally and significantly make life better for others, and people sacrificing for the better wellbeing of everyone is hard. The later happens much less often. In that respect the...

It's been long enough since she has put any new material out it's probably safe to say she's effectively retired for all practical purposes at this point. That could change in the future, but at this point who knows. I wouldn't hold my breath on that, and it's not like she a relatively young...

There is another one I've noticed being much more prevalent in the industry the last few years, fake creampies. It's stupid as hell, and I wish they would stop with that dumb crap.

My opinion on labor unions is like any organization made of people throughout history they can possibly succumb to graft or incompetence, but on the whole it is much MUCH superior to have them than to not have them. Almost every job that exist around me that is unionized has far superior pay...

There are very few actual left politicians in the U.S. Biden is right of center, and decently so, in any logical political science discussion. I mean Bernie or AOC would barely be centrist in most Western democratic nations. They are just thought of and called left wing by Republicans and...

Considering Biden actually got soldiers out of an idiotic "forever war" we were engaged in, he's probably done more actual good, despite himself, for any of them than any president in our lifetimes. That's not saying much, but at least that's not using them as a prop while willing sending them...

When your assertion amounts to whataboutism, accusations against Biden without any actual evidence, and the false equivalence of worrying about the illegal activities of somebody that not only wasn't president (and for the record I don't give a shirt of Hunter goes to jail for illegal activities...

I also find this statement hilarious. Biden age: 80 years Trump age: 77 years Oh boy Trump sure has that massive youth advantage over Biden. 🤣

I wasn't the first to think of this, but since I've heard it it's hard for me to not to agree, and that is roughly, "Elon Musk might be history's greatest example that the idea of meritocracy is a lie." The guy is just a straight up idiot, and probably always has been. That somebody like Elon...

That's what being in a cult does. When a lot of people call Trump supporters and most Republicans in general "cultist", they aren't just being insulting or facetious. It's being accurate. You can't reason people out of positions they didn't use reason to get into in the first place.

Your guy is looking pathetic right now. His campaign is falling apart. He is 30 points behind Trump...and somehow still falling, can barely make any coherent sense in in non-softball interviews, has trouble hiding is ever growing authoritarian tendencies, and has no message or policy besides...

It also shows how much they actually care about children. That's only something they pretend do when they need an excuse to control women, or to attack trans people. On bright side this means they can spend even more on the military that is already more well funded than the other top ten...

I prefer the method of fixing society to make it more just, fair, and compassionate in the first place so that hypothetical homeless man in the richest country in history is much less likely to exist in the first place to bother the fragile sensibilities of people that don't like to be around...

So, what I don't understand if somebody was going to do a boycott why the hell would they: 1. Only do it for 48 hours, and 2. Even worse mention they have a time limit and what it is before hand. I'd wish them luck, but frankly that seems very tactically stupid. That's not something people...

Fox is in a bad place. They can't keep Cucker Tarlson, but they also can't keep their idiotic viewers without somebody of his scale who will constantly lie to their viewers and play off of unfounded fears for profit and views like he did.

Yeah, it's called the United States of American and the people in it. That seems to be where the gun murders occur among the world's first world countries,...you know because of all the guns it has. I would take the pro gun people more seriously if they actually ever cared about all the other...

Throw darts randomly at a listing of all the major stocks. You're pretty much almost as likely to do as well as most experts over time. It's sad, but the actual truth.

I find this fucking hilarious. The literal second sentence in the article is "We should do everything we can to fix this." Then the idiot immediately goes on to blatantly not do that, and to make excuses for not doing that. Talk about lack of self awareness. No, that's not the way it works...

I support reparations, but not in the way that you probably think of. I just think everybody in our society should be adequately taken care of, adequately educated, given an adequately living wage job, have adequate health care, and have actual justice and equality under the law that has had...

People should just say, "We've tried nothing and were all out of ideas." I can sympathize though. It's such a complicated and impossible situation that out of all every First World nation in the world every single one of them except one has pretty much managed to figure this problem out. They...

Ummm...yeah...:LOL:...this might as well be a statement that says, "I have no fucking clue what it actually is". It's basically a cope out scare word for right wing idiots to label basically anything they don't like anymore. If they didn't do that they would have to resort to arguing about...

Does anybody else think it's sad this has to be in the politics section? Could you imagine a discussion about whether the Earth is flat or not being a political subject and needing to be in the politics section and not an objective issue almost entirely backed by virtually all science to a...

I could just go with pointing out the blatant false equivalence you use or the use of Whataboutism to discredit your argument. Like most people that use logical fallacies If you had a good position you wouldn't have to use them in the first place. I could mention that things like lack of...

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against her, and I hope it works out for her, but her going hardcore would have been a historically notable moment in the industry,...if it happened 15 or 20 years ago. She would of had a good chance of being one of greatest pornstars ever, but she waited way...

If there is a silver lining to not having decorum anymore it's that it's torn the mask off of people. I'd rather they show who they really are anyhow, rather than in the past where it was all fake. It helps that there are some people that are so nuts in congress now, they can't possibly hide...

They shouldn't get diminished because they are Jesus freaks (not that a gigantic portion of them actually follow his teachings anyhow), but they should get diminished because having somebody's vote count more than another person on the basis of empty real estate and land around them was a...

You have to be careful when thinking about "media bias". It's so easy to fall into the False Balance Logical Fallacy. While I don't dispute the existence of places with a actual blind liberal or left slant, when conservatives complain about "the liberal media" or "liberal bias" it's usually...

It's kind of hard to discover something suspicious like $26,000 in gun sales if you also don't know about all the line items that go into it. I mean credit card companies are a private business and I've always been told over and over again about how much conservatives hate regulations on...

I read somebody that put things in perspective better than I could come up with. It went something like this. If lead based paint was banned today you would not only have a lot of Republicans bitching about how their freedoms were being repressed, businesses where being needlessly...

While anybody can technically have any policy position those things are usually not divorced from said policy positions. It's quite reasonable for people that don't pay great attention to politics and just go about their day to expect somebody from marginalized groups to have more sympathy to...

Don't forget about the Democrats dastardly plan of trying to warp peoples' minds and groom them with M&Ms, for the second time. It's a good thing the Republicans brought this up too, because it can now distract from the Democrats other dastardly Illuminati level plan of putting litter boxes in...

This statement contradicts itself when one considers Santos is a Republican. If it was just about "is he on our team" he wouldn't have won or had a chance at all. A better conclusion going by Occam's razor is he just lied enough and was in a small enough political race people didn't check out...

I do find it ironic how so many people that don't like totalitarian Islamic regimes act more like them than they realize.

I don't think an animal being cuddly, cute, or making a good mascot, is a reasonable factor when it comes to conservationism. With that said, half the response is basically whataboutism. But, but, but...other people do it too, or but but...other things that are done by so and so are even...

What should piss people off even more than just medicine being run as a profit driven business like this, which is already bad enough, is that they had massive taxpayer funding to help get it working. Then they turn around and have it cost more for the simple reason they feel like they can get...

Any plan that's so flawed and unrealistic as to have no remote viability of ever working isn't a "good plan". Even more so when it's also ridiculously expensive while it has no chance of working. Any wall we would built is going to be laughably easy to circumvent. The US doesn't have an "open...

People know science doesn't work that way, right? One can't cherry pick a handful of wierd pet scientist that go against the overwhelming consensus of experts and their peers worldwide, have little evidence, and don't have the majority or peer reviewed evidence backing them up and then turn...

Fuck that shit. Not that I'm a big fan of him, but if I was a Democrat and the Republicans wanted compromise a handful of them can sit out or vote for Jeffries. That would be their only "compromise". If I was the Democratic leadership or just anybody on the caucus I would even threaten to...