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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Firstly, an objective good would be good in all circumstances and wouldn't require specifics. Second, things declared as rights are expressly guaranteed by the government that declared them so, which is why people talk about wanting to make healthcare a right. Finally, a criminal being allowed to defend themself from police would mean a policeman would be in the wrong for using force to detain them, which would make it nearly impossible to do their job.

  2025-02-11 03:15

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  MAGA life

  I still don't get what the heck Canada did to provoke a trade war

  2025-02-10 16:19

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Those two criteria are poorly defined. Just about anything a human does could be argued to be within human nature, and just about every benefit can be misused. Should criminals be allowed to defend themselves from the police? Since food, clothing, and shelter are all necessary for survival, should all of those things be free?

  2025-02-10 15:28

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  If you're using human nature to justify something, then naturally it's going to be used to justify other things

  2025-02-10 11:51

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  A lot of pretty bad things are intrinsic to human nature, should they be rights too?

  2025-02-10 04:08

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  So what makes those rights self-evident?

  2025-02-09 20:29

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  If rights aren't self-evident, then there's no universal justification, hence why it's so important that people agree upon them. Would you even accept any justification I gave?

  2025-02-09 17:11

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Rights aren't self-evident. If they aren't acknowledged by the government/community, they don't exist. This applies to even basic rights, like self defence, which is why it's so important to justify them.

  2025-02-09 11:58

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  Hypocrisy

  If you think you can easily rehire someone you fired for no reason, you would not make a good boss.

  2025-02-09 11:44

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  Hypocrisy

  If you want to make a workplace more efficient, focus on the employees job, not the employee themself, otherwise you'll be that shitty boss that fires a really important person because you didn't know their job.

  2025-02-09 08:59

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  Got a loisense for existin m8?

  Then how do you explain the Medicaid confusion?

  2025-02-09 08:35

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Killing in self defence isn't murder. If they're attacking you/your property and you kill them, that's self defence. If they're not and you kill them, that's murder.

  2025-02-09 08:00

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Because not all statements are falsifiable. E.g. If someone says Trump is covering up bad things he did on Epstein's island, they could cite the absence of evidence as part as a coverup, meaning their statement can't be proven wrong.

  2025-02-08 16:05

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Edgy. Kantian ethics says moral principles should apply universally. If a single individual could decide if another deserved to live or die, murder couldn't be punished, which makes societal cohesion almost impossible.

  2025-02-08 13:22

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  Got a loisense for existin m8?

  Administrations you like can have bad ideas. Case in point would be Trump freezing federal aid without considering what it actually paid for.

  2025-02-08 13:07

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  Rights absolutely need to be substantiated. That was the whole point of the 18th century enlightenment ideals that the US constitution is based on.

  2025-02-08 12:57

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  I substantiated my point perfectly. The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim, otherwise thry could say whatever then claim they're right if no one disproves it.

  2025-02-08 12:54

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  Got a loisense for existin m8?

  Neither Apple nor HMRC have made any public comment and the initial source was unnamed, so you literally just made that up.

  2025-02-08 10:59

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  Reeeeeeedeeeeeeeeee

  It's interesting how so many posts here are vague and unsubstantiated because the actual ideas behind them are so difficult to defend, much like how a communist would say they "just want food and housing for everyone".

  2025-02-08 10:54

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  Got a loisense for existin m8?

  Backdoor access is worse for security than surveillance, as it increases the risk of data breaches and cyber attacks. It's bad but I don't get why they're only ordering Apple.

  2025-02-08 09:40

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  Taxation is retarded

  Just looked into it a bit more, I think you're right that customs enforces tariffs, but the IRS keeps track of and identifies the goods imported.

  2025-02-08 09:07

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  Taxation is retarded

  Wouldn't removing the IRS make it harder to enforce tarriffs?

  2025-02-08 08:44

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  It's a trap

  Private healthcare is better for those who can afford it, but not everyone can. Because demand elasticity is so low, it's way more expensive for long term conditions, or when emergency care is needed. It's least affordable when most needed.

  2025-02-08 08:36

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  I don't wanna make anymore titlesssss

  The pH of blood is between 7.35 and 7.45 so everyone is at least slightly based

  2025-02-08 08:22

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  Coincidences?

  Inclusive methodology only starts being a problem if it ignores substantive differences between data points, which this source does not, hence why I said shooting incidents, not mass shootings.

  2025-02-04 03:56

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  Yep

  Improperly washed eggs, infected meat, or just contact with farmers. There have already been hundreds of cases of humans contracting bird flu and it's pretty easy to see it evolving to be transmissible between humans.

  2025-02-04 03:32

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  Yep

  Or perhaps it's because those animals are specifically bred on an industrial scale for human consumption and can pass disease onto them.

  2025-02-03 12:01

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  Coincidences?

  If you want to argue for gun rights then do it honestly. Trying to make mass shootings into a trans issue or dismissing every point not in your favour as propaganda is not doing you any favours.

  2025-02-03 10:41

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  fauci committed genocide

  He made those comments when Joe Biden was in office. He didn't do anything to make sure Americans had a choice because he literally couldn't, because he wasn't in office. Do you understand the difference between tweets and legislation?

  2025-02-03 03:13

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  Coincidences?

  If that was their aim then why would they list the scenario and victim number for each individual shooting? The site lets you select data based on whatever parameters you want. E.g over the last 20 years they've recorded 45 deaths from gang shootings, which is about 15% of all deaths in the same period. Calling everything you disagree with biased just indicates that you have no idea how to deal with information conflicting your beliefs.

  2025-02-02 20:52

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  fauci committed genocide

  You said "made sure" which would imply Trump did something to actively impede or control distribution, which he didn't. It seems to me like you're misremembering your own comment now.

  2025-02-02 17:15

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  fauci committed genocide

  Trump didn't or block or regulate covid vaccine distribution in any capacity. Oneofthecrew is wrong and you're deliberately misconstruing his comment because you don't want to admit I'm right.

  2025-02-02 16:40

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  </3

  Imagine being an electron formed one nanosecond after the Big Bang, lasting 13.8 billion years, travelling 46 billion light years, witnessing the formation of the milky way galaxy, the solar system and Earth, only to be used to create this abhorrent image.

  2025-02-02 16:07

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  Niggachu

  "Pikachu used Culture Shock!"

  2025-02-02 15:46

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  fauci committed genocide

  It was Trump's administration that accelerated production of the first vaccines. The first rollout happened on December 14th, about a month away from Biden taking office and Trump left effectively no plan of any kind. I hope you weren't old enough to vote in 2016, because if you were then it's pretty embarrassing to misremember this hard.

  2025-02-02 15:41

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  Coincidences?

  Not every shooting results in an injury or fatality. The fact that no-one else in this thread needed this explained to them makes you uniquely smooth-brained.

  2025-02-02 14:32

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  POV: you wear glasses in 1975 Cambodia

  Pol pot: If words they can distinguish, the life you must extinguish

  2025-02-02 14:10

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  Coincidences?

  Creedhh's comment only said "school shootings" and mine said "shooting incidents". You were the one who added "mass". My very first comment was in reference to mass shootings only which is why I only mentioned a handful (Lewiston was a mistake). Read slower bro.

  2025-02-02 12:46

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  Coincidences?

  Requiring someone else to disprove your claims basically allows you to be as stupid as you want while expecting others to correct you. If you won't put in the effort to affirm your own claims why should anyone else?

  2025-02-02 12:35

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  and you took the bait

  If you genuinely want to understand why someone believes something, don't brush off all their beliefs as "propaganda".

  2025-02-02 12:19

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  Coincidences?

  Lol I'll freely admit that listing Lewiston was my mistake, something I doubt you'd ever do.

  2025-02-02 12:03

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  Coincidences?

  Lol you have no idea what that word even means. The website is open about its data collection and methodology, even giving a definition of what counts as a mass shooting as well as a breakdown of injuries/fatalities, and dates, even giving the location and scenario of each. Just because it makes you mad doesn't make it propaganda.

  2025-02-02 11:40

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  Coincidences?

  "Propaganda" would imply it's being deceptive, when it's as open as it can possibly be about the data collected. Also it's a tad hypocritical to say on a post of Matt Wallace saying every child killed in a mass school shooting last year was killed by a transgender person.

  2025-02-02 11:27

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  fauci committed genocide

  I just know if the vaccine wasn't distributed, this would be spun as "Fauci and the Elites had a working vaccine and hoarded it for themselves, leaving the rest of us to die".

  2025-02-02 11:03

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  Coincidences?

  Or YOU could learn math and and prove it to me. This whole "True until proven false" approach to knowledge effectively lets you believe whatever you want until disproven and as such relies on other people to externally curb your ignorance. It would only work if you were the dumbest person in the room.

  2025-02-02 10:58

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  Coincidences?

  That's really stupid. Imagine if courts worked like that. "The plaintiff has accused the defendant of murder, and on account of insufficient evidence to disprove the claim, the defendant is guilty." It's not on other people to affirm or disprove your beliefs, and those that believe otherwise are generally the most gullible.

  2025-02-02 10:27

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  Coincidences?

  Generally it's on the person making the claim to provide evidence for it, otherwise they could just say something unfalsifiable and claim they're right when no-one can disprove them.

  2025-02-02 10:05

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  and you took the bait

  If this is what you got from my comment then you have poor reading comprehension. The oppression comes from the implied lack of choice. If someone wants to be a traditionalist then more power to them, but it's worth noting that traditional roles were an obligation, not a choice, for most people through most of history, hence the association.

  2025-02-02 09:57

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  Coincidences?

  I'm asking OP to put in the barest minimum effort into proving what he says is true, which I know he won't because he has no interest in the truth beyond getting affirmation from online strangers.

  2025-02-02 09:42

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  Coincidences?

  Source on all the others being trans? (Inb4 you say "gOogLe iT" like a retard)

  2025-02-02 09:23

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  Coincidences?

  You should practice reading more sir. You missed the "intent to harm" bit, and accidents only accounted for about 10% of all incidents/victims.

  2025-02-02 09:14

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  Coincidences?

  In 2023 and 2024, there were a total of 679 shooting incidents in K12 schools across the USA, causing a total of 516 injuries and fatalities. Source: k12ssdb.org

  2025-02-02 08:08

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  No no no wait wait wait

  "Now I shit upon the Loo"

  2025-02-02 07:41

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  and you took the bait

  I think the oppressive bit comes from them not being allowed to do anything else.

  2025-02-02 06:40

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  Enjoy your AI slop

  The single-minded desire for approval from online strangers has enabled a deluge of ai-generated propaganda to pollute the feeds of not just yourself, but your friends and family, to the point where they can no longer tell what is true and simply believe whatever makes them feel good. Welcome to the post-truth world, every stay is enjoyable

  2025-02-02 06:16

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  Me when i get mlney

  Op when he gets a gay check

  2025-02-02 05:38

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  Coincidences?

  Lewiston shootings on Oct 25 2023, Perry High School shooting on Jan 4 2024, Apalachee High School shooting on Sept 4 2024, Abundant Life Christian School shooting on Dec 16 2024, Antioch High School shooting on Jan 22 2025. Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know anything

  2025-02-02 05:35

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  Elon Musk makes the Roman salut meme news

  That implies he was dumb enough to deliberately do a near identical salute on live TV on day 1 of Trumps presidency. Also addressing two groups of people with an identical gesture definitely implies it was practiced.

  2025-01-22 04:40

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  Elon Musk makes the Roman salut meme news

  Performing the exact same series of movements twice in a row in different directions implies he's done it a lot privately that he wanted it to be seen. Plus he did the same thing with his midair "X" pose months back.

  2025-01-21 16:31

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  Elon Musk makes the Roman salut meme news

  Doing what looks like a practiced gesture twice in the heat of the moment implies it's much closer to his true feelings

  2025-01-21 13:41

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  Elon Musk makes the Roman salut meme news

  Bro did the gesture twice in a row

  2025-01-21 12:33

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  Congress members

  The article says gap in performance between democrats and republican portfolios can be explained by their investment habits, which match their politics. If insider trading was as prolific as implied, you'd see a bimodal distribution between insider and non-insider trading groups, with both groups containing a fairly even distribution of democrats and republicans.

  2025-01-20 20:35

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  Congress members

  Assuming no statistical bias you'd expect roughly half of the senators to do better than the S&P and roughly half to do worse. Considering only a third did better it implies there was a fairly widespread bias towards a specific type of trade which did worse than average that year. If they were insider trading you'd likely see a trend in the opposite direction.

  2025-01-20 20:29

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  imagine no mainstream media

  Can you name one time you've shown me evidence?

  2025-01-20 18:42

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  imagine no mainstream media

  A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. If you have any, show me.

  2025-01-19 19:36

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  French people talkin to god

  I was thinking more about Charlemagne but that works too I guess.

  2025-01-18 14:38

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  imagine no mainstream media

  Funny how everyone calls me dumb but no one ever says how I'm wrong

  2025-01-18 10:49

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  French people talkin to god

  France created both Britain and Germany. They are their own biggest opp

  2025-01-17 09:43

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  RedNote ban meme

  Imagine expecting the Chinese app named after Mao's red book to be pro free speech

  2025-01-17 06:15

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  You’re not that sneaky, pal

  Not true for me

  2025-01-17 06:11

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  imagine no mainstream media

  And despite all the investigation by Trump and republicans, the only thing they could actually get him for was a gun-related charge. Please don't pretend to care about principles after Jan 6

  2025-01-17 06:07

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  we've been saying this for years

  I feel this is only a strong argument in hindsight. The number of fatalities was alarmingly high back then and people didn't know how severe the pandemic was going to get. Every country was rushing to get a vaccine at the time.

  2025-01-15 06:24

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  we've been saying this for years

  The risk of myocarditis is indeed higher if you get vaccinated, but lower than if you get covid, with the study estimating 1-10 cases per million for the vaccine, and ~40 cases per million for the illness.

  2025-01-15 04:54

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  Los Angeles

  I said it would've helped but it wouldn't have stopped the fire, plus even if it was in use it wouldn't be full, since water demand is lower in the winter, and prefilling it would've required them to know where the fire would start, which no one knew.

  2025-01-14 14:49

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  Los Angeles

  As flow velocity increases, so to do frictional losses, meaning you get diminishing returns with more and more pressure.

  2025-01-14 10:14

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  Los Angeles

  The issue isn't the reservoir, but the actual diameter of the pipes. Pressure losses from pipe friction means there's an upper limit to the flow rate of water through it, similar to how the thickness of a wire affects its conductivity.

  2025-01-14 10:12

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  Los Angeles

  The retired general manager for water/power in the district said it wouldn't have made a significant difference, stating that domestic water systems are made to handle a handful of houses or a commercial building, not a whole city burning.

  2025-01-14 03:25

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  Los Angeles

  Elon had an interview with one of the firefighters where they said they had enough water, it was that the local water network couldn't handle the volume required to combat fires as effectively.

  2025-01-13 21:05

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  Property tax is gay and retarded

  Everyone seems to forget that thieves and gangsters carry firearms too.

  2025-01-11 22:56

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  Thanks USPS...

  Looks like the courier took a convoluted path

  2025-01-11 17:56

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  Property tax is gay and retarded

  Property rights only exist because there are institutions strong enough to enforce them. What's stopping someone from mugging you or a gang taking your house or car?

  2025-01-11 17:56

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  NPC's will always regurgitate the operation mockingbird t...

  1.Unless you count shows like the Daily Wire, JRE, Fox News, and maybe even Twitter 2. Irrelevant point. Line-for-line repetition is indeed cringe, but the same idea stated differently is still the same idea. 3.Obvious objective truth would be backed by sufficient evidence rather than vague associations. 4. An accusation with no example/evidence is a baseless ad-hominem argument.

  2025-01-10 20:09

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  Hmm could be

  I know you didn't mean to do this but by ignoring a statistical trend in favour of a personal anecdote you perfectly encapsulated every anti climate-change argument. Incredible.

  2025-01-10 19:33

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  Hmm could be

  The north had record rainfall late last year, but the south, where the fires are, has had very little rainfall the past 6-ish months. source: https://ggweather.com/seasonal_rain.htm

  2025-01-10 18:57

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  Moretards

  Couldn't you apply this to the smallpox vaccine?

  2025-01-10 16:30

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  Gerald Ford quote

  Sure. Antifa is a garbage organisation full of bitter unemployable losers larping as revolutionaries and I'm glad they've been deemed a terrorist organisation. Now your turn.

  2025-01-10 16:14

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  Hmm could be

  Lmao the first three can be explained by there being a drought, and the bottom two are literally just from it being California

  2025-01-10 15:47

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  Sneaky cops

  I mean it does, but it also goes towards a lot of other things.

  2025-01-10 10:56

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  Sneaky cops

  This doesn't disprove my previous point and raising taxes for fishing would be unpopular with non-fishers. Since most people don't fish, the best political move would be to tax fishing specifically. This applies to other niche activities as well.

  2025-01-10 10:53

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  California update

  Water supplies (lakes, rivers, groundwater) are replenished via rainfall. If there is less rainfall, the water supply goes down. Also droughts increase the severity of forest fires as plant material burns much faster when it's dry.

  2025-01-10 09:24

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  Wouldnt it be crazy if Blackrock and Vanguard already hav...

  I mean... is aid for disaster relief that partisan an issue?

  2025-01-10 08:35

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  California update

  The meme is talking about droughts affecting water supply, not forest fires. I'm pretty sure they use any water for that.

  2025-01-10 08:31

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  Sneaky cops

  This assumes you're the only one fishing. If too many people do it, the population goes down. A license helps keep track of how many people are fishing, which is necessary if you want to maintain the fish population.

  2025-01-10 08:26

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  Sneaky cops

  Even if it goes towards maintaining the fish population?

  2025-01-10 08:07

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  We are becoming dumber

  Information has outpaced education, resulting in too few people having an epistemic foundation robust enough to determine what is truthful, meaning people just go by what they feel is true and ignore contrary evidence.

  2025-01-10 08:03

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  NPC's will always regurgitate the operation mockingbird t...

  You say this but y'all are exactly the same about the vaccines, Jan 6, the COVID origin, Ukraine support, the 2020 election, Bidens Laptop, Hillary's emails and immigration.

  2025-01-10 07:46

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  Wouldnt it be crazy if Blackrock and Vanguard already hav...

  IIRC Biden just announced that the federal government would pay for 100% of the disaster response costs for the next six months.

  2025-01-10 07:39

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  Savage Elon Musk answering Justin Trudeau meme news

  If Canada became a part of the US it would add like, 10 extra blue states. Republicans would never win another election

  2025-01-10 07:32

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  California update

  I think a better reason is that desalination is very expensive and no-one wants to see their energy bill go up

  2025-01-10 07:28

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  Gerald Ford quote

  Lol tell this to the Jan 6ers

  2025-01-10 07:26

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