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An obnoxious Leftie take I have is that we need to make it common knowledge that the medical term for a miscarriage is a “spontaneous abortion” it makes it much more difficult to say something should be illegal when it is understood medically as something the body can just do sometimes.

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Trump taking time out of his busy mania to attack one Republican Congressman is some spectacular MAGA-on-MAGA violence.

BTW, Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone full RINO and undermined your authority, Trump. Would be a shame if you attacked her, too.

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I have said it before and I will say it again now. If you are complaining about "the lesser of two evils" then you already understand that there is a Greater Evil! You can't pretend you didn't understand the stakes when you were already identifying which was the worse and bigger evil! People complaining about the lesser evils are very much complicit in the greater evil because they saw the greater evil clearly and shrugged their shoulders about it. They made the choice.

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Pedocon theory formally documented:

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it would be nice if out of these events commentators began to learn the difference between, on the one hand, a politician who is deeply corrupt and un-ideological only because they view the world entirely in terms of their own ego, and who they have reconstructed as a foil for intrafactional criticism notwithstanding their stated goals and policies, and, on the other hand, an actual peace candidate.

but i suppose this would involve admitting they were wrong. and worse, that the intrafactional-dispute goggles they were wearing really did blind them to the fact the fargroup was a lot worse than the outgroup. and that in a just world no one would ever listen to them again. so i'm not holding out hope.

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polish nuclear program, ukrainian nuclear program, armenian nuclear program, algerian nuclear program. there's no reason not to adopt nuclear weapons—in fact, it may be the best guarantor of state sovereignty—and no reason to deal with the US

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The annoying part of the upcoming war discourse is that, because - as I do think is very likely - the US just sticks to airstrikes, there is good odds that this generally doesn't amount to "all that much". Iran hates us more, innocent people die, etc, but the world 6 months from now doesn't look very different. And then people will absolutely use that to say "See, we learned the lesson from Bush - just don't deploy US troops and then we can bomb you without experiencing any domestic pushback! Nothing to worry about!"

That is annoying because war is the pandora's box of uncertainty. You don't know that is what is going to happen. You think Iran fully mobilizing its military to conduct mixed-soft-hard operations in quasi friendly neighboring country Iraq to neutralize possible US encroachment is impossible? You think Russia, China, Turkey, etc getting involved to various degrees is impossible? Is Saudi Arabia truly immune to terrorists attacks? Paths like these are legion.

Sometimes those dice might be worth rolling, that happens in life - politics is hard, war is even harder. Let's just say I don't think the Trump administration has even bothered to make the case for that threshold.

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Five months into Trump's presidency, and we are in a war.

Did his supporters have that on the bingo card?

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I honestly, sincerely do not think there was a more obviously counterproductive, dog shit stupid political cohort than those who used every waking moment trying to get Biden, then Harris, to lose because they thought Trump would be better about the Middle East.

Well, let's be honest, they weren't really thinking about what would actually happen in the Middle East if Trump got elected; they were simply high on owning da libssssss

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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So how'd not voting for Democrats go, dumbfucks?

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