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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Or it's that once they finish college and thus have a college education the needs for freedom of speech has been properly demonstrated to them. Remember the stereotype is college students, not college graduates, so you get the high school graduates going into college hating free speech and coming out more accepting of it.
It's almost like the system works.
edited 18th Jun '16 11:48:36 AM by Silasw
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She's ADORABLE. I also like that Marvel isn't whitewashing stuff: her family's attachment to traditional muslim Pakistani values (with huge emphasis on traditional) is a frequent source of conflict, and her brother is an honest-to-goodness fundamentalist. Yet they are all clearly well-intentioned,decent, reasonably reasonable people.
On a completely unrelated topic, good luck finding Trump a judge whom he hasn't insulted one way or another.
edited 18th Jun '16 12:31:16 PM by TheHandle
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I found they are very similar to conservative Christian parents. And I'm not doing this in an ooooh Republicans and "the Taliban are the same", type of liberal burn, but their "fundamentalism" is basically what you'd find in your typical strict upbringing in say the South. Honestly I think (part of) the reason Muslims and Atheists are hated so much more than the other marginalized groups in America is that we so little of them in our media. It is hard to see a funny, likable, or compelling character and hate the people they come from. I feel like the tide for gay rights really turned when millions of Americans tuned in on Modern Family to watch Mitch and Cam. Just on a fundamental level they were able to empathize and see people they may hate, or more likely, simply view as alien.
edited 18th Jun '16 1:09:03 PM by JackOLantern1337
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There's an odd contradiction in Trump's complaint about the judge. Trump keeps claiming that he has not given hispanics cause to be offended and that they will vote for him en masse, and yet, that the judge must be biased because of his Mexican ancestry. So which is it? You can't have it both ways — either you fully admit that you're alienating Hispanics, or stop using the man's hispanic heritige as a disqualifier. You can't complain about how all hispanic people hate you while simultaniously boasting about how they love you.
You're assuming that either Trump or his followers care about consistency
x5 Trump's ideal judge would be a white man who never graduated high school.
edited 18th Jun '16 2:12:02 PM by tricksterson
Trump delenda estAnd due process, because Trump doesn't want any chance of a conviction. Not sure how likely it is that The D himself was part of the scam, not having investigated that much.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWon't nominating anyone other than Trump amount to throwing the race to Clinton? I mean, no matter how unfeasable Trump may be as a candidate, I'd imagine there would be a massive public backlash against the GOP attempting to defy the democratic process by ditching the guy who won their primaries fair and square.
The GOP insiders may be quietly preparing to concede 2016 to the Democrats and try to get a better candidate next time. If that is, in fact, what they're doing, then there would seem to be only slightly more risk in trying to stage a coup against him this time.
edited 18th Jun '16 5:26:04 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yes, but given their only path to presidential victory would lead to President Trump, it is possible that forcefully denying Trump the nomination would be a more preferable outcome for the Republican Party.
edited 18th Jun '16 5:34:04 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyHow many things people brandishing the Constitution and the will of the Founding Fathers and Locke and so on are actually modern inventions? How often do people hide behind the glorified dead?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.The Confederate flag battle standard completely fell out of use after the Civil War until Southern racists needed a symbol to rally around during the Civil Rights Movement.
All references to God in government came up in the 50s as a counter to those godless Soviet scum.
Basically; the people most likely to rally behind strict constitutionalism and tradition also lobby for relatively recent inventions.
edited 18th Jun '16 6:00:46 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.There was no real argument on the Second Amendment until the Late 20th Century, where there was intense debate between the right to bear arms being a collective right or an individual right. Collective right meant that the Second Amendment refers specifically to state militias which in the present day would be the National Guard. Individual right means that the Second Amendment refers to a citizen's right to bear arms. This issue had been resolved in the Supreme Court in the early 2000s as referring to an individual right and not a collective right exclusive to the states.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyHeck, the Under God, part of the Pledge of Allegiance was only added about 60 years ago. Our opposition to birth control is also a more recent thing.
Which is a stupid decision. To me the intent behind the second amendment is pretty unambiguous. It says guns are to be used by a regulated militia for the purposes of defending the country. That covers the National Guard, military, and maybe the police; not Joe Racist and his clan of wannabe revolutionaries.
edited 18th Jun '16 6:03:11 PM by Kostya

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