From crime and homelessness to schizophrenia and suicide: Mothers share how pot stole their sons by thatrightwinger in politics

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They know it has hallucinogenic effects, but they refuse to accept that it's having a negative affect on the cognitive capabilities, and that's just ridiculous. If you're ingesting chemicals that are altering your brain's chemistry, it stands to reason that it's going to have unintended consequences down the road. It's no different than the people who know they're literally drawing smoke into their lungs, but can't imagine that it'll affect their lungs' ability to function down the road.

Brawl breaks out between two families at Orlando's Disney World by [deleted] in NotTheOnion

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They're "adults" attending Disney World. If they knew better, they wouldn't be a group of twenty-something children in adults' bodies.

Gavin Newsom admits that the California system is unsustainable by [deleted] in politics

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But he'll just keep up the "system" and actually hasten the pace of the inevitable crash.

'I've been here, I've been voting!' Concern grows for ailing Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, as she FORGETS about two-and-a-half month shingles absence and insists she's been in Congress throughout by [deleted] in politics

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Between Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and John Fetterman, Democrats sure seem.to love having the mentally infirm in the halls of power.

Is the United States Moving its Capital to Jerusalem? by Oyveygoyim in politics

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No. Dems hate the Jewish religion almost as much as they hate the Christians.

“I’m not anti-vaccine. I spent 37 years trying to get mercury out of fish. Nobody calls me anti-fish. I spent 37 years trying to get pesticides out of food. Nobody calls me anti-food. I’m not anti-vax. I’m not anti-vaccine. People call me that because it’s a way of marginalizing me” - RFK Jr. by Orangutan in politics

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Nothing like calling someone who's politics you don't agree with names.

You would do really well in /r/politics. You proved no points and cited no facts.

“I’m not anti-vaccine. I spent 37 years trying to get mercury out of fish. Nobody calls me anti-fish. I spent 37 years trying to get pesticides out of food. Nobody calls me anti-food. I’m not anti-vax. I’m not anti-vaccine. People call me that because it’s a way of marginalizing me” - RFK Jr. by Orangutan in politics

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Complete nonsense. Reads like word salad. Ranting with no coherent point and no idea other than anger. You literally have nothing to say.

RFK is no better than the other leftists, and his advocacy of cutting off the food supply will only hasten starvation.

“I’m not anti-vaccine. I spent 37 years trying to get mercury out of fish. Nobody calls me anti-fish. I spent 37 years trying to get pesticides out of food. Nobody calls me anti-food. I’m not anti-vax. I’m not anti-vaccine. People call me that because it’s a way of marginalizing me” - RFK Jr. by Orangutan in politics

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I'm telling you to encourage the transition first. Unintended consequences (like the malaise following the "pandemic") prove that legislating change creates societal disaster. If we ruin the food supply, thousands and perhaps millions will die of starvation.

Toronto's 'Anti-Capitalist' Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business by Ferretman in politics

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It's literally like people who buy Che Guevara shirts. Why are you commoditizing a communist? Don't you get it that you're still literally involved in capitalism?

Toronto's 'Anti-Capitalist' Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business by Ferretman in politics

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I'm not sure how a cafe that serves food can possibly be "anti-capitalist." Food and wait services are capital. These people were literally providing goods and services in exchange for money, so they were a capitalist "anti-capitalist" organization.

Bernie Sanders lives in three beautiful houses; George Soros literally runs hedge funds. Every socialist in North America uses money to purchase goods and services via the capitalist system while demanding that the government destroy the system that made the at least comfortable or even fabulously wealthy.

Live your policies, hypocrites!

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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This is a very weird time, I have to admit. I grew up during the Cold War. Everyone but the communists agreed that NATO was a good thing. Everyone knew that a proxy war against the Soviet Union would bleed them out and hasten their downfall. We have Russia in a no-win situation: they have to play very carefully fighting against Ukraine because they know they can't fight a war against NATO without seeing Moscow turned to glass, but NATO is throwing one-generation old military technology at Ukraine and its effective.

I'm against US and NATO troops in NATO, but I like seeing Moscow being humiliated and pushed back by Ukraine. This feels like a win-win, and I can't see a scenario where I would support Vlad the Impaler Putin.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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It's sad that there are people so far up their own rear-ends that they believe their own lies.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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I've been a longtime Biden hater. My accounts on reddit and patriots.win will bear that out. And I fail to see how I'm a "neocon" when I entirely oppose sending American soldiers to Ukraine.

You've entirely failed to make any points whatsoever. Russia is a threat because it has nuclear weapons. Do you deny that? Ukraine held Russia off in their first wave a year ago, and that's when the world realized that they could deplete Russia of all their power by proxy, and it's worked.

Throw insults at me, make false accusations, but for every Russian tank that's destroyed, every Russian missile that is shot down, every bit of ammunition that is wasted, their own neighbors are sleeping a little easier. This is a war that American soldiers don't have to have boots on the ground. NATO wins, no matter what, because Russia is weak and only gets weaker.

I have real points, and you have offered nothing in return.

The 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg by Musky in politics

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You didn't disprove any of my points. The point of throwing money at advocacy groups is to give them the opportunity to put out a message you agree with. That's called free speech, and it doesn't matter what the timing is.

On the other hand, throwing money at government arms in order to get them to change the way they count the votes is quite literally election-tampering.

You haven't proven that they have anything in common.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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If it makes you feel any better, I came over after being banned from reddit. Nothing like a warm welcome at the "free speech" alternative.

I'm glad you believe the lies of those who advocate for "healthcare for everyone," if that were really the case, we could get rid of medicare, medicaid, and welfare, and move the funds over to "healthcare for everyone," but that has somehow not been proposed.

Nothing you say disproves my points. Russia isn't even using the full force of their might. Their air forces have been mostly left out, and there are lots of soldiers in other border areas that remain where they are. No one is claiming the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a fraud, and that was similarly disastrous.

You're wrong about me being a "paid poster." I was formerly a moderator on /r/conservative and was banned (under the same username, if you would like to check) from reddit, for not bowing the knee to their leftists talking points. You make no valid points whatsoever, particularly since Russia was mostly pacified during Boris Yeltsin's rule, and Russia has attacked (directly or indirectly) no less than three of its neighbors.

I have no interest in "defending the power:" I have long-been a small-government conservative. But weakening a volatile nuclear power without using our own soldiers looks like both a smart idea and a win on the international stage to me.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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Your shortsightedness is literally the reason that Russia has become more of a threat since Putin's rise. They are literally threatening neighbors from the Baltic States to Poland to Georgia. All the former Soviet Republics and Warsaw Pact states clearly believed that Russia was still a threat, and only the vigilance of NATO has kept the Russian Federation from swallowing up countries like Lithuania and Georgia entirely.

As for your statement about the costs, your claims of "healthcare for everyone" is a pathetic joke. As for a wall, we could simply remove illegals directly, not have to deal with the expense of their presence, and use that money to build the border wall. Have a feeling that, you oppose a border all anyway. Of course, the moment you bring "ponies" into the conversation, it literally means you live in a fantasy world, which is manifestly the case. But just because you live in that fantasy world with "free healthcare" and "ponies" doesn't mean that reality works that way.

Is life in the U.S.A really as catastrophic and terrible as the media makes it out to be? by [deleted] in AskSaidIt

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No. You have to understand that the majority of violence portrayed in the news happens in the top 25 largest cities in the US. Once you get out of those major cities, the chance of violence drops intensely. The vast majority of violent crimes are due to gang violence, over money, drugs, or turf; those are centered in the inner cities as well.

Major cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have areas that are deeply unsafe and you should not attempt to enter under any circumstances, but once you leave those huge cities altogether, the violence drops intensely.

The US media doesn't tell you that because it gets in the way of the narrative their pet issues are the real problem: they're not. 99% of the areas of the US are extremely safe and sees little to no violence year over year.

Sixty-six percent of US car dealers don’t have any EVs to sell, and 45% said they wouldn’t sell them no matter what, according to a new report from Sierra Club. by [deleted] in technology

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There's not nearly the supply, either.

The 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg by Musky in politics

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I fail to see any connection between Zuckerbucks and Citizens United. The latter was using media to a show that one candidate was unworthy of being elected president. The other was quite literally private entities donating millions of dollars to fund the official government vote-counts in the 2020 elections.

Those two issues having nothing in common, are legally two different areas of electoral influence, and one is objectively about actual free speech, while the other is literally getting local vote counters to tally votes in a way the benefits one candidate over the other.

Objectively completely different.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex's goal is to prolong the War in Ukraine, maximizing the loss of lives while continuing to expand NATO and advocating for regime change in Russia: by Chipit in WorldNews

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The first accusation, prolonging the war and maximizing deaths, is the most contentious and the hardest to prove.

As for the second and third, I think a lot of Americans would be in favor of both of those things. Putin is literally a former KGB spook with ideas of expanding Russia back to its USSR or Imperial borders. I watch a lot of news, and I haven't seen any Western leaders call for Putin's ouster. Moreover, most Americans see the expansion of NATO as a very good thing. The entire point of NATO was to check the power of the Soviet Union and prevent it from expanding, so a proxy war where NATO soldiers' lives aren't on the line and Ukraine gets Western military technology seems like the perfect balance to me.

I have yet to hear any compelling arguments that the invading Russians are the "good guys" or even that, other than the fiscal expense, NATO shouldn't be aiding Ukraine against Russian aggression.

Oklahoma Gov Pulls Plug On State’s PBS Station Over Drag Queens, ‘Indoctrination’ by thatrightwinger in politics

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Found the Marxist!

Oklahoma Gov Pulls Plug On State’s PBS Station Over Drag Queens, ‘Indoctrination’ by thatrightwinger in politics

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Make a real point or it's nothing but needless bluster. Complain to the admin if you have to.

Oklahoma Gov Pulls Plug On State’s PBS Station Over Drag Queens, ‘Indoctrination’ by thatrightwinger in politics

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In spite of your ridiculous sarcasm, you are not able to justify why taxpayer dollars should be used for any television network, much less a highly biased one that clearly hates the taxpayers they're benefiting from.

Why is slavery illegal? by sneako in AskSaidIt

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Obvious troll

If Corporatocracy is the problem, then let's decorporatize... by EddieC in politics

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Mainstreet Republicans would love laws which decorporatize. The small business has always been the best form of economy, because it keeps the manufacturing and retail as close to the consumer as possible. Were it not for the constant footsie played by massive corporations at the federal level, this would be nearly as bad as it is.

Remove all federal subsidies, and numerous corporations would go bankrupt like magic. Quit giving sweetheart deals to major companies, and if they have to appeal to the consumer, hundreds mid-sized companies will wreck those bigger companies.

Take it further: allow individual states to incorporate banks; bring back savings-and-loan companies; spread power over the economy away from the federal government. Then they won't have the power to reward already monstrous corporations.

Big government isn't the solution to America's problems: big government is the problem.

Banned For Suggesting That Anyone Who Rapes a 3-year Old Should Be Executed by UncleWillard56 in MeanwhileOnReddit

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I would send you a link to the comment, but it was deleted by admin. I assure you that, in my seven years in Reddit, I never once advocated against due process. I demand due process, but I believe that due process means that if you're guilty of raping a child, it's execution for you.

In 2019 actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky ran as the peace candidate winning the Ukrainian presidency with 70% of the vote. As Benjamin Abelow observes in his book... Zelensky almost certainly could have avoided the 2022 war with Russia simply by uttering five words — “I will not join NATO.” by Orangutan in politics

[–]thatrightwinger 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

By that logic, Georgia and Moldova should have subordinated themselves to being bent to the will of Russia and promised never to join NATO. Finland and Sweden have literally spent decades placating first the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation by stating that they wouldn't join NATO. They simply wanted Russia to leave the other states alone. Georgia was no threat to Russia, but they wanted economic and security assurances that EU and NATO membership might bring, so Russia fanned the flames insurgent groups and made sure that NATO won't touch them with Russia-friendly breakaway Republics.

Moreover, Zelensky wasn't even president in 2014 when Russia invaded the Ukraine the first time, literally taking the Crimea in contradiction to the treaty the nation signed promising to respect Ukraine's sovereign territory.

This is classic victim-blaming. Commenter /u/Alphix blames Zelensky for all the post-2014 bombings, even though he didn't take office until 2019. Crimea was specifically recognized by Russia, via treaty, as part of Ukraine. Putin stomped all over that treaty in 2014, and nothing anyone says or does can change that unalterable fact.

The idea that "all Zelensky" had to do was state he was not join NATO was, effectively, a subordination to the Russian state, much like Belarus and Armenia. They would have to settle to being a functional puppet of Putin and his regime. If you're just OK with a "soft" version of the Soviet Union, that's your business. But I for one won't buy into such tactics.

Banned For Suggesting That Anyone Who Rapes a 3-year Old Should Be Executed by UncleWillard56 in MeanwhileOnReddit

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I was banned from reddit for stating that child abusers and rapists should be executed. This is not an extremist position and plenty of pro-execution states would make these capital-level offenses if they probably wouldn't get instantly overruled by the Supreme Court or psychotic appeals levels federal courts.

I stand by that remark.

Ukrainian Drones Target Kremlin in Failed Assassination Attempt on Putin by nutshellupdates in WorldNews

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When you provide actual evidence that this "attack" is legitimate, then I'll believe it. The Russian government claiming it's a Ukrainian attack is not enough to convince me. Show evidence of Ukrainian equipment, show video footage of the drone flying in and attacking. Give me something more than evidence of flames outside of the walls and some spokesman saying "we were attacked." I don't know why you think I don't hold the Russian government to the same standard as I would the US Government.

Everything else you're going on about is irrelevant and frankly comes off as confused.

Ukrainian Drones Target Kremlin in Failed Assassination Attempt on Putin by nutshellupdates in WorldNews

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Who had what to gain from the action? Why would Ukraine think that targeting the Kremlin had strong chance to succeed? On the other hand, a false flag action gives Putin "justification" to use deadlier force.

RFK Jr. Says He Will Pardon Assange and Snowden If Elected President by [deleted] in politics

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That's pretty heartless; the murders of those cooperating people who believed in liberty are acceptable because you think the US shouldn't have been in Afghanistan.

RFK Jr. Says He Will Pardon Assange and Snowden If Elected President by [deleted] in politics

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Snowden, I get.

Assange, never. People died because he outed people helped the US Army, and their safety depended on those secrets. I want Assange dead.

How to Sell Your Soul to the Devil by [deleted] in TIL

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I actually agree with that point. But that doesn't change my initial point that Lifehacker is teaching people to sell their souls away from some temporary pleasure.

How to Sell Your Soul to the Devil by [deleted] in TIL

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Did you even look at the article?

Who benefits from this? by In-the-clouds in AskSaidIt

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If the "little people" can't afford to buy cars, it'll mean millionaires like Bernie Sanders will have a smoother trip to get from his Washington DC "rowhouse" to his Senate office.

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. by [deleted] in technology

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Why would people would want a horseless carriage when everyone who wants to travel can simply use a horse?

Like it or not, it's coming and it will be used by a huge portion of the population.

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. by [deleted] in technology

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The point of jailbreaking isn't to hand your life to every app that you see: it's to have choice beyond what the companies who installed beyond them.

Time is fully removing its digital paywall beginning June 1 by [deleted] in Internet

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Who reads Time at this point?

How to Sell Your Soul to the Devil by [deleted] in TIL

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Wow, that's truly terrifying. If you believe that the Devil is real and you're willing to give him your eternal soul for some temporary pleasure, that is really sad.

The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born by [deleted] in technology

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So you get the pregnancy without the fun of what naturally causes pregnancy: hard pass.

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. by [deleted] in technology

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As autonomous driving becomes more prevalent, touch screens will be more acceptable. Actual knobs and buttons have tactility that are easier for drivers to navigate, while screens require precision that can't mimic that. When you don't have to keep your eyes on the road (AKA the car is mostly driving itself), that difficulty will disappear.

The backlash will affect the industry, but in the coming years, touch screens will return in every autonomous vehicle. If they can be jailbroken, that might end up being a good thing for the consumer in the long tun.

Civil rape case against Donald Trump begins in Manhattan court by bradlux01 in WorldNews

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If the evidence was there that Donald Trump actually committed an act of violence against a woman, this would be a criminal trial. They are doing this because in a criminal trial, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed said act of violence. In a civil case, you need "a preponderance of evidence," a much lower bar. The case is in Manhattan, because they know Democrats run the place. The New York City council doesn't have a single Republican on it. Not one.

They're looking for headlines saying "Trump convicted of rape" to scare off women voters.

It's a sham and everyone knows it.

AOC: 'The Government Must Shut Down Unapproved News Agencies To Defeat Fascism' by BISH in WorldNews

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So much for that First Amendment, eh Alexandria?

AnonChatGPT. Incognito ChatGPT. No account required. by Chipit in Internet

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I've never hid my politics. Why should I?

AnonChatGPT. Incognito ChatGPT. No account required. by Chipit in Internet

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No way to enter DAN mode.

What are your best cooking tips that most people don't know? by Zapped in AskSaidIt

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Lard may have an advantage with breaded foods.

What are your best cooking tips that most people don't know? by Zapped in AskSaidIt

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Recipes are for people learning techniques and they important, ignoring recipes are for people who are ready to experiment.

What are your best cooking tips that most people don't know? by Zapped in AskSaidIt

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Butter. Lard is great, but butter.

Chile’s plan for state control in lithium dismays business by [deleted] in WorldPolitics

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Nations never learn: nationalizing industries harms the industry in several ways.

  1. Because governments don't care about reaching profitability, they tend not to improve efficiency or improve the extraction, either in seeking property sources or improving processes. Quality drags.

  2. Corruption becomes rife. Positions get awarded based on personal connections, rather than anything close to merit. People can be put in jobs they have no business holding, and the industry weakens.

  3. Again, lacking any profit motive, government agencies are not motivated to stand up to strikers and will commonly offer sweet contracts to the workers and play footsie with the lawyers who "lead" the unions themselves. This is all done at the taxpayer expense.

  4. No one cares about innovation. Nationalized industries don't have fresh blood who have new ideas of doing things. These efficiencies would actually be punished and ignored as they would interfere with existing union contracts. You can't bring in a machine that efficiently does the work of ten men when you are under long term obligation to keep those ten men on the payroll. That industry keeps those ten men, but twenty people who would be manufacturing those machine will never have jobs.

  5. Governments are really bad at providing replacement equipment, so machinery gets more and more worn out. And since the government also tends to not police itself, no one inspects or condemns shoddy equipment. Whistleblowers are persecuted and silenced, and government-friendly media won't report on these issues anyway. This leads to injuries and deaths that the taxpayer must cover.

This is one of a thousands small cuts that will lead Chile down the path of Venezuela.

Reddit's power mod by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

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No wonder they banning people: they're manifestly psychotic.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to announce his candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination in Boston, Massachusetts. The 69-year-old, who is the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has received backlash for his anti-vaccine views by Orangutan in politics

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RFK Jr is a serious environmentalist wacko. He doesn't have a chance whatsoever to get the nomination. He hasn't been in the Democrat system, he hasn't built up the necessary networks, and he cannot possibly run on some populist platform.

He would be far closer to Vlad Putin than even the establishment Democrats.

Ron DeSantis passes the death penalty for pedophiles in Florida, and the alphabet people screech, "We've got to get out of Florida!" What an Odd Thing to Say. Personally I am not seeing the downside of striking fear into the black hearts of child abusers. by Chipit in politics

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If you think that executing criminals and attacking innocents are the same thing, then I don't have any time for you.

most conservative commentators have a gay vibe to them by sneako in AskSaidIt

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That's just your bias taking over. You disagree with them and you therefore you place attributes you don't like on them.

As much as I dislike leftists, I don't use "gay" references unless they appear to have strong homosexual qualities.

Ron DeSantis passes the death penalty for pedophiles in Florida, and the alphabet people screech, "We've got to get out of Florida!" What an Odd Thing to Say. Personally I am not seeing the downside of striking fear into the black hearts of child abusers. by Chipit in politics

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I was a long-time reddit user, with over a million karma. I was finally perma-banned from reddit a few days ago because I stated that I supported the death penalty for child abusers.

I knew it would happen someday, but I'm still shocked that holding such a view would be treated as "promoting violence."