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#921 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

I’m not aware of any Trump supported groups killing someone or burning down a church recently. When the NYTimes condemns Harris for her support of June riots, I’ll take this article seriously. Right now their OpEds and anonymous sources hold no credibility with me.

#922 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

Nah, I’m not a piece of shit who tells people they deserve a virus cause I disagree with their political opinions.

#923 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbre … f69c58a45a


How could this happen!  Don't they wear their masks!  What if Kamala is now positive and kills Biden!

#924 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

bigbri wrote:
misterID wrote:
bigbri wrote:

As lame as they might be, explanations have been issued.

Facebook: We’re fact-checking it.
Twitter: We don’t allow hacked materials to be shared.

Trump's taxes, the vet story....

What about wikileaks?

New standards since 2016.

To be technical, we don’t know how NYT got his taxes, right? I’m forgetting, did they rely on an anonymous source?


However it happened, it wasn’t legal. Weren’t we supposed to find out about all these Russian connections and debts?

#925 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

My friends are telling me facebook has done this for a while, particularly with firearms websites in private chats.  I can't speak to the appropriateness of this site, but on a 10 second glance it appeared no different than other firearms sites, but if you try to link armslist.com in a facebook message, it never sends.  This should be what congress is up in arms about.  There's a mile of difference between child porn and subjective taste.  If people can write stories about men giving birth and not be censored for being misleading and dishonest, how the fuck did we get here.

#926 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

misterID wrote:


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That is terrifying.  In a perfect world this would be a rallying cry across both sides.

#927 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

misterID wrote:

Facebook and Twitter are censoring any mention of the Hunter Biden story that he used his father for business favors. I really think this has fuck all to do with Biden as president in the grand scheme of things. How many kids do this same thing? And yeah, it's hypocritical to go after the Trump kids but not Biden's, but I really don't care about a politicians kids.

But this has crossed the line. Journalists are saying both platforms are even censoring private DM's that mention it. I think Twitter and Facebook finally fucked themselves. They're officially publishers now and should be treated as such.


I can tell you that's not true. One of my idiot friends has been dming me all day, with this being one of the stories and it wasn't blocked.  He also thinks Obama faked the OBL killing and then clipped Seal Team 6 to cover it up.  Sounds like some of the shit that comes from this forum.

I would totally support a federal law making it illegal for these platform to censor speech.  I know a lot of people on the left love it because it's "conservative" speech being censored.  But the notion that a company should be able to dictate what speech is acceptable is the grossest distortion of the 1st amendment in a generation.

#928 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

Come november the court is going to rule that the individual mandate without the tax is unconstitutional.  That's it.  They'll remove the individual mandate, and the rest of the law will stand.  And if you're looking for someone to blame, blame Obama and the Democrats who kept kicking the can down the road and delayed the tax (after Obama denied it was a tax).  They knew telling people they could get easy healthcare was a sell, but actually punishing people who didn't buy it was a losing proposition.  That's why the market collapsed and never really came to fruition.  The government lacked the funds to repay the insurers because they never collected the penalty.

So we'll have the law that sets up an exchange that isn't really competitive, but forces insurers to cover pre-existing conditions (a good thing). 

Personally I wish we'd join the rest of the western world and simplify and automate our tax code.  People shouldn't be able to hire expensive accountants and lawyers to get out of paying their required share.  But so long as we codify loopholes, it's going to be exploited.  If tax returns were automatically done by the IRS, we wouldn't have to worry about tax time.  And we could ensure everyone kicks in something to get medicare for those who fall under a certain income threshold or in emergency.  But both sides want to protect their corporate and billionaire donors.  Nothing is stopping Warren Buffet from paying more than his secretary, he could donate money to the IRS.  He chooses not to.

I like Warren's wealth tax, but it's unconstitutional.  Remember, Congress had to pass an amendment to create an income tax.  They could pass a wealth tax amendment in 30 days if they wanted to.  That Pelosi or Warren haven't submitted this amendment tells you all you really need to know about their sincerity.

#929 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

I didn't pick the title of the video nor did I say she was embarrassed.  But Klobuchar clearly didn't understand what super precedent meant and floundered on trying to make a "gotcha" moment.

As much as I'd like Heller to be considered in this category, plenty of scholars and politicians want to void the common and historical understanding of the 2nd amendment.  As Barret said, no one advocates that Brown v. Board was wrong.

And since I doubt many of you study court cases or took 400+ level classes on the subject, you do know that Roe v. Wade was updated in the early 90s as the justices found problems with Roe, namely that in Roe they put a limit on fetus viability, which they later recognized would change as medicine advanced.  Roe is inherently not a super precedent case because it's already been amended.

#930 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 291 weeks ago

misterID wrote:

Anyone who has issues with ACB is just a biased hack. She's really impressed me and I didn't think I'd like her.


Damn, even after she made your girl Amy look kind of dumb yesterday?

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