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From the State of Florida Department Of You Cannot Make This Stuff Up, It Is The Actual Truth. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Well, in an attempt to re-gain some stature in the...
by Gutenberg
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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FL Governor Ron DeSantis is celebrating a new law mandating teaching of the History of Communism in Florida K-12 public schools. It’s not clear why he has decided to center an obsolete/fringe political movement in Florida’s education*, but it is a...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 04:33 AM PDT
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Joseph Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Groucho McCarthy: “That’s a ridiculous question. Of course I don’t! If I had some decency, I wouldn’t even know what to do with it.”
by Perlinator
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 05:58 PM PST
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06 Jan 2024 Me: Who is the first philosopher to espouse the creed that “greed is good”? ChatGPT 3.5: The phrase "greed is good" is often associated with the character Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street" (1987), rather than a philosopher. It...
by R Holloway
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 04:44 PM PST
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Fighting this, fighting that, fighting for, or fighting against… For most of us, we are fighting our entire life, but not because we have to. We fight instead of collaborate because we are ...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Whatever you might assume or not… Putin is at least expecting more violence than thought disregarding whether he is wanting to exercise it. That is sure. Otherwise he would be attacking the own country and which nazi can you possibly accuse of killing...
by ca cokz
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on Fri Aug 11, 2023 at 11:11 AM PDT
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Paul Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The son of Duke Leto Atreides and the Lady Jessica, Paul is the heir of House Atreides, an aristocratic family that rules the planet Caladan. He is the “Hero” of the...
by Robertbuccellato
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 06:28 AM PDT
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Every time one of us posts, Can you believe what (Trump, MTG, Boebert, Comer, McCarthy) said??? it’s a reminder that we do not understand the enemy. I can hardly be the first to point out this dynamic but if today or tomorrow, one of us says, Did you...
by bassicdave
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 11:54 AM PDT
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Someone asked me some questions in advance of preparing a presentation that would address a possible future podcast dialog and I dashed off some responses, understanding that I am a registered Democrat who would like to support the efforts of groups...
by annieli
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on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 10:01 PM PDT
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Back on February 23rd, 2022, after a bunch of background checks (!) and questions about whether I might or not be too old for a puppy, a local pet shelter finally approved me for an adoption of a cute 10-pound Corgi-Rottweiler (!) mix. Part of the...
by pholkiephred
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on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 12:40 PM PST
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Yo Joe: Where are you? Your country needs you? We all know where Joe McCarthy is. He died in 1957. In the 1950s the Senator from Wisconsin dominated the U.S. political climate with sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high...
by Keith Newman
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 02:13 AM PST
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On January 6, 2021, we witnessed the mob Trump can create, and saw first-hand the Civil War he is capable of starting. And while Trump did not care for the way his “people” were dressed, there 147 people in suits, who didn’t have to come to Washington...
by Keith Newman
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 03:45 AM PST
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Here’s an oldie but seasonally-appropriate goodie that I don’t remember having shared here before. This Christmas, Fox News invites you to enjoy the story of It’s A Wonderful Life the way it was meant to be told...
by Haricot Blue
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 06:56 PM PST
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It's HOW one uses religion… ideology Happy, Peaceful, Blessed New Year! * To begin off with the first genocide (in recent history), the Armenian Genocide, whether it was a jihad [1] or not, it has been agreed [2] that religious-ethnic tensions which...
by Ganaros
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 11:39 AM PST
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“The right’s real boogeyman is not Karl Marx,
but a better understood Adam Smith.”
I have just published my first book, Commissar Conservatives: How Laissez-faire Libertarianism Is ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Nov 06, 2022 at 01:15 AM PDT
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Hi Salon. Like many websites on the internet, now and again I end up visiting your articles and finding something interesting to read, or having something from you shared my way. As with any editorial effort, I respect the fact you are giving writers a...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 11:44 AM PDT
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Hi, Frank Cocozzelli here. Many of you have read my posts over the years dealing with the religious right, necons and economics. Now I am about to self-publish a book that takes aim at movement ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Jul 31, 2022 at 01:00 AM PDT
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Every day it seems like Florida and the U.S. is infringing on my freedoms of expression, to vote, association, political affiliation, medical choices. Governor DeSantis keeps signing these authoritarian laws and I’m hardly hearing a peep from my local...
by JDWolverton
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on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 12:55 PM PDT
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The urge to embrace glittering abstractions is boundless. In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx saw how ruthlessly capitalism exploited and oppressed workers. So he proposed a simple reversal of fortune: put workers on top. Forget about unions and...
by dratler
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on Sun May 01, 2022 at 05:34 PM PDT
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Conservatives seem to have a knack for showing up to places they don’t belong. Another Republican has made headlines for attending a school board meeting to voice his concerns about the children. Not his children, mind you; infamous QAnon...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Jan 28, 2022 at 10:41 AM PST
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- This is a great post to start off with. “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” It isn’t graphic, but it was tagged private so I can’t embed it, but this is the Troll of the Year. Superb. *chef’s kiss* Edit: Found one that will embed: I...81 comments 353 Recs
- After a needless delay of several weeks, the Supreme Court has finally assembled to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can be held accountable for the crimes he committed while occupying the White House. He is asserting that an imaginary doctrine...171 comments 277 Recs
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