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Edit: The claim of this article was that partisan positions are not usually based on just principles. They are based on very different sources of information. People with the same ideals find themselves fighting each other; if their information sources...
by HiFromIndia
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 08:52 PM PST
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The current conflict has really dredged up some feelings that surprised me. I think it took me back to the first time I learned about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. I was 8. Fifty-one years. Over half a century… I’m just utterly saddened...
by BluMominRedSt
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 01:16 PM PDT
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I know there are a lot of people here at Daily Kos hooked on the Ukrainian Updates. You can only imagine how hooked are people in Ukraine. This is, of course, a natural, but unhealthy state of mind. Please do not expect any significant daily...
by KyivGuy
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 04:54 AM PDT
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Ever wonder how community writers become front page writers? They WRITE, that’s how. Why am I being Mr. Obvious? Because of a (to my mind) rather disturbing trend here. Ever open up a diary headlining a breaking event, or some new political brouhaha...
by zenbassoon
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 09:05 AM PDT
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2020 CAMPAIGN POSTER BY LYING HYPOCRITE TRUMP TRUMP DEMONSTRATING HIS ADMIRATION FOR PUTIN, PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA--THE 'EVIL EMPIRE' AND SELF-PROCLAIMED, UNRELENTING ENEMY OF THE U.S.A FOR MORE THAN 75 YEARS. "Oh, that's wonderful," Trump gushed Tuesday...
by BillyKevin
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on Fri Feb 25, 2022 at 03:10 PM PST
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So last night I was watching the vintage James Bond film Goldfinger, and realized the story was about an overweight blond male villain who was a rich sociopathic criminal, insatiably greedy, and who cheats at golf, and I asked myself: now where have I...
by Chad C Mulligan
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on Sun Aug 22, 2021 at 10:53 AM PDT
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In a way, it’s a good time to be living, if you want to be intellectually challenged. Being there while it’s all happening in front of us, trying to make sense out of absurdity. One has to think: How much have we evolved? Apparently, our perception of...
by SteveRD
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on Sat Jan 23, 2021 at 09:54 PM PST
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Disclaimer: The title image is not an example of the type of feedback that I am referring to in this article. I just thought it was cute. Folks, This posting is in response to commentary and feedback I have noticed recently on this forum that, while...
by DrBobOpEd
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on Thu Aug 13, 2020 at 05:18 PM PDT
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Media reports and commentary about President Donald Trump once again tweeting election disinformation should clearly name it as such instead of debating the merits of a meritless situation. Besides being riddled with inaccuracies about vote-by-mail,...
by Anoa Changa
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on Thu Jul 30, 2020 at 11:53 AM PDT
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I am as far to the left as Mr. Nichols is to the right, but I have to agree with him. The left has always had their crazies, but they always came from the downtrodden and dispossessed. In the scheme of history most of them wanted only what was best for...
by wbartruff
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on Sun Jul 05, 2020 at 12:10 AM PDT
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NOT! As the country and the world move from one existential crisis to another; as we edge inextricably closer from being the USA to the USD (United States of Dystopia); as Donald Trump, along with his toadies, AG Barr, SecDef Esper, Gen. Milley, among...
by tblock46
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on Wed Jun 03, 2020 at 07:46 AM PDT
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You Could do Worse, and you always have! By Mike Arroyo April 23, 2020 Well. Before the Corona Virus (Team COVID) came into full play and the game of all started, we were concerned about strange elections with foreign influences and such, a majority of...
by marroyo66
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on Thu Apr 23, 2020 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Looks like we have to update another maxim. It should now read: There are lies, damn lies, statistics and republicans. Here’s a draft chapter of a look at part of what makes republicans tick.�
by NotNowNotEver
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on Mon Jan 06, 2020 at 03:15 PM PST
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Recent trends in the media industry haven’t done much to advance meaningful dialogue on matters of public interest. They have, however, changed how Americans relate to each other, accelerating an online culture war that threatens to tear us apart.
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by Corey Goldstone
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on Tue Jul 09, 2019 at 10:31 AM PDT
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for tomorrow’s NY Times, titled ‘Help Us!’ The Panic at D.C. Pride .
Blow tweeted about this in real time yesterday.
There are some pointed comments towards the end of the ...
by teacherken
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on Sun Jun 09, 2019 at 05:38 PM PDT
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The debasement of objective truth is an unacceptable side effect of the republican party’s lust for power. The emergence of really bad liars like tRump, Sanders, Nunes, the NRA and the extensive rogues gallery of Fox squawking heads at the summit of...
by NotNowNotEver
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on Tue Apr 23, 2019 at 03:59 AM PDT
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I do think that perhaps DT has stumbled onto a great campaign concept with changing his slogan to “Finish the Wall”. By being able to rapidly change he will be able to react to emerging situations, like the next time we need to go to war with East...
by Berger Norwegian
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on Tue Feb 12, 2019 at 04:15 AM PST
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The Buzzfeed story about Trump supposedly ordering Cohen to lie to Congress certainly put us all on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride Thursday and Friday. First it appeared that Buzzfeed had contacted people who had definitive proof of said lying. Would the House...
by PES
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on Sat Jan 19, 2019 at 07:17 PM PST
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by KLWhite
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on Tue Jan 15, 2019 at 10:56 PM PST
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And I am … I am numb… but... I remember back to when a good scandal rose my ire.. I vented my spleen and it felt good. It felt like it meant something.. It was cathartic.
When the tapes were discovered and Nixon was ousted, when Reagan was caught...
by campdurning4
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on Fri Nov 16, 2018 at 12:04 PM PST
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