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  • Jimmy Carter’s Life Should Make Christian Right Feel Ashamed

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  • Heaven is a peanut farm

    One for you and me

    With friends and music, banquets and balls

    And a good man named Jimmy

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    Heaven is a peanut farm

    Surely it's the best

    There's a porch with a sleeping dog

    One where you can find rest

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    They say there is a man out there

    Who made sure every heart he would fill

    When God said "it's okay, you can stop your work now"

    He said "no, I don't think I will"

    .

    When you come to this peanut farm

    You will be filled with this delight

    Friends and family, we gather 'round

    To wish Mr. Carter goodnight

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  • I'd say the measure of an ice cream shop should be their vanilla. No gimmicks. No cover ups. It's the industry standard.

    If your vanilla slaps, that's all I need to know.

  • Democratic Sen. Fetterman: ‘I’m not rooting against’ Trump

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  • Trump succeeded on COVID. Solidifying his base to confirm his death cult was his success.

    His success is our failure. Our priorities are not aligned.

  • I'm still not convinced Luigi is the guy but if he is..

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  • I'm not sure if updating our tools is moving goal posts- what goal are we aiming for? I understand the frustration with seeing the measuring stick change to make the reasonable seem unreasonable, but I would say that the same measuring stick is now misrepresenting where people fall.

    If we are talking political spectrums, there already are plenty of tools used: the linear left right, the horseshoe, the fishhook, the quadrant visualisation, etc. I'd say the data is now leaving the paper. We need new tools to make sense of it.

    Much to your point though, I think it's valuable to ask "what are we measuring, who's doing the measuring, and who benefits from the answer?"

    We will never have the satisfying answers to our questions, but hopefully we can find better questions to ask.

  • magic box rule

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  • Oh I recognize these! We've got:

    1. The 1978 super Nintendo 5 (alternate universe)
    2. Lockheed Martin Bread maker
    3. Jeff
    4. HP 2400 inkjet Uranium 235 enrichment centrifuge

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • Well at least you got your shit together.

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • Where in the immense caverns of your colon did you get that number?

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • Pretty sure leftists fall in the former camp. They'll gladly throw Democrats under the bus, and to a leftist there is no difference between the DNC and GOP.

    Granted, the take that it's not a binary is much more reasonable than the assumptions you are making at the top.

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • As we all know, leftists never disagree with eachother.

    On an unrelated note, have you seen any good deals on ice picks on Facebook marketplace?

  • I'm still not convinced Luigi is the guy but if he is..

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  • I think that the left/ right spectrum is outdated, or at least the definitions we give to each.

    I mean, originally the left/ right divide was about whether to keep King Louis XVI around or to have him beheaded.

    The spectrum we know as a communism vs capitalism scale really was useful in the cold war when those were the two sides of a bipolar world. When we still use this as the measuring stick, things become super confusing in the 21st century. Our world is no longer a communist vs capitalist struggle. Russia and China aren't communist like the Soviet Union. The United States isn't the same democratic state that it was in 1960.

    I don't know what our new spectrum is, that's going to be the research of the next great political scientist, but I do think the old tools we've used are no longer helpful. Some are saying "woke vs unwoke", some are saying "populism vs. globalism", and some are saying simply "chaos vs order". Perhaps it's a little bit of all, or perhaps we should throw spectrums out altogether. Either way, if we use old tools for modern problems, we will end up confused. It's like how jazz is seen as a super complex genre- it may simply be because we still use the music theory of 18th century European composers to try and understand Miles Davis. Of course it's going to be a wild ride.

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • I think the problem you have is you think these two thoughts are coming the same person. It's like saying "Americans are so hypocritical- one moment you hear someone say gay people have rights and then the next you hear someone say that they shouldn't- make up your mind!" As if it was one person talking.

    The internet isn't just you talking to one person who is busy creating threads with millions of accounts. There are at least a few dozen people here.

  • Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

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  • What do you mean "you people"? 🤔

  • They/Them

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  • Man Christmas dinner is gonna rock this year. Just like my mom will play dumb and look confused that I used "they" as a singular, I'm going to play dumb and look confused when she says "you". I see no downsides.

  • They/Them

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  • Someone correct me, but "you" was originally plural. The correct way to address a singular person is "thou".

  • Better luck next time

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  • Oh of course, person by person there are folks who wouldn't hesitate to grab a machete and get to work.

    Hell, there are people in leftist camps who decided to join when they heard the word "guillotine"

  • Better luck next time

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  • I mean that's what I assumed it meant. I didn't think we were actually going to come out murdering people.

  • Better luck next time

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  • Better luck next time

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  • I'm happy to clarify, what part do you find confusing?

  • Better luck next time

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  • How can we be sure you're not the secret billionaire!? 🤔

    Best eat both of us just to make sure.

    Edit:

    Also OP and anyone who read my post because they said they might agree with me on this meme. Gotta root out enemies of the people.

    Edit edit:

    If anyone actually follows the line of any revolution, this is how it always goes. The guillotine will eventually kill the ones who bring it out.