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When Trump holds his inane hateful press conferences outside the courthouse in New York when his trial begins Monday, I want the press to ask a single important question after he says the trial is all a witch hunt. That question is: ‘Will Melania be...
by ComputerGeek
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 05:24 AM PDT
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This old logic professor couldn't help but smile when the DC Court of Appeals laid this jewel at the feet of the American people yesterday during its "benchslap" of Trump and his lawyer's "tortured" reading of the impeachment clause of the...
by krb
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 09:47 AM PST
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Cough and you’ll miss it. Right at the Two Minute mark in this audio recording. The words are: That would not be held as an official act. Now, other commentators are rightly observing that Dr. Sauer was flailing and dodging and weaving as hard as he...
by PiRierran
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 08:31 PM PST
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Pets have their own brand of logic.
by strawbale
32 comments
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Conspiracy nuts are a peculiar lot. They are absolutely certain of things with no evidence whatsoever. How can you deal with such an individual when you meet one? Suppose that a conspiracy nut asserts to you that the government had John Ritter killed...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 04:22 PM PST
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Jeremy Boreing is the CEO of The Daily Wire, the right-wing media outlet founded by Boreing and Brett Kavanaugh penis-defender Ben Shapiro. Boreing was on right-wing podcaster Tim Pool’s “Timcast.” In a video posted by Jason Campbell of Media Matters...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 02:11 PM PST
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1. Barbara’s Visions Barbara has many strange experiences. She frequently sees people and things that are not really there; yet she perceives them as real. She also often believes herself to be in various locations far away from where she actually is....
by Perlinator
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:39 PM PDT
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A diary that's part of the current conversation that was kicked off by claims of "faith shaming" recently stated the following, “No human can positively confirm the existence or nonexistence of any deity.” Except...despite what people love to say on...
by CaliforniaFrances
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 10:18 AM PST
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Those words are on a bumper sticker frequently seen throughout the United States’ Bible belt. The sentiment sums up the reality of all religious people, regardless of their cult: “my authority says it’s true, so I believe it and there’s no room for...
by thirdworldman
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 11:09 AM PST
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It can be… unique.
by strawbale
45 comments
on Sat Jan 14, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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What do Clarence and Virginia Thomas really believe? First, let’s tally up the score for election deniers v. reality: the deniers filed at least 63 lawsuits contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuits covered election...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 03:50 PM PDT
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This dates from last year, but never posted. Still kind of relevant, although what is happening now in the red states regarding abortion law defies any kind of humor.
by Hilmbrown
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on Wed Mar 23, 2022 at 04:19 PM PDT
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Take a minute away from the Monday morning routine and read the comic, you might get a laugh or it might make you mad or it might make you think. For best viewing on mobile devices, go to onthefencecomic.com for Webtoons format. Follow on Twitter,...
by Partofthesolution
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on Mon Mar 14, 2022 at 07:15 AM PDT
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Warning: math. I am transporting a comment I made in a different diary, where I attempt to advance the idea that “unBlack” could, in a funny way, be a more accurate description of what white supremacists apparently envision whiteness to be. Because...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 12:56 PM PST
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I happened to be browsing through RedState yesterday (I don’t go there much, and that trip did nothing to make me feel I was missing anything) and I came across what seems to me to be an embryonic conservative anti-vaxx talking point. Basically it’s:...
by Daniel Case
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on Fri Dec 10, 2021 at 11:12 PM PST
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So for the past several weeks, I’ve been in a Twitter argument with a libertarian who is also an anti-vaxxer. Recently, I showed him data from the CDC showing COVID cases by vaccination status. He took issue with the “Unvaccinated” group being defined...
by Awful Falafel Waffles ROFL
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 11:57 AM PST
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Voice 1: “All Democrats are liars. And corrupt. And they’re trying to take away your freedom! Covid is just another flu.”
Voice 2: “How do I know you’re not a Democrat?”
Voice 1: “ ...
by siab
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on Fri Dec 03, 2021 at 05:14 PM PST
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We have been told that marijuana is a gateway drug. That normally means that those who use “harder drugs” likely used marijuana previously. However, this is the wrong question. It is the Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. If we want gateways like this,...
by Dem
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on Sun Jul 04, 2021 at 02:19 AM PDT
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In logic, a dilemma is not just an upsetting occurrence. It is an argument which necessarily leads to only two possible conclusions. If neither of those conclusions is acceptable, and all possible facts must support one or the other, we are put in a...
by Teed Rockwell
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on Sat Jun 26, 2021 at 09:58 AM PDT
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A friend just emailed me a link to a math puzzle that was published in the New York Times in July 2015. I don’t want to prejudice readers’ experiences with the puzzle by asserting how simple or hard I thought it was, or by suggesting how much time you...
by rmartin1241
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on Mon May 24, 2021 at 10:46 PM PDT
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