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ron bailey
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| Posted: 2025 March 11 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | 1
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Kind of how I felt with the Citizens United decision and corporate "personhood".
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Dave Kopperman
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The exercise of free speech is one of those things that requires constant vigilance. Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies is basically my holy text in this regard, as he wrestles with the question of how liberal societies can safeguard against the rise of Fascism by being... let's say 'intelligent' with their approach to free speech. I don't know if he coined the term, but it's called the 'Paradox of Tolerance'.
Edited by Dave Kopperman on 2025 March 11 at 7:05pm
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Edward Aycock
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| Posted: 2025 March 12 at 11:10am | IP Logged | 3
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Can anybody say Tulsi Gabbard is alrght after this?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 2025 March 12 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | 4
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It's as if Sinclair Lewis is writing the government.
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Mark Haslett
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“She used to be a democrat!”
This statement washes away all Tulsi’s sins.
If the fictional Manchurian Candidate had won, what sliver of difference
would exist between his first six weeks and Trump’s?
The “doomsday clock” for the age of the neo-fascist is seconds from
midnight.
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Brennan Voboril
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I'm not sure what people expected re: stripping security clearances. This is politics. It isn't a Sunday picnic with friends and family. Politics is dirty business. It always has been. It always will be. It is naive to think otherwise.
Edited by Brennan Voboril on 2025 March 12 at 1:41pm
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Charles Valderrama
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Politics is dirty business.
****** Yes, and getting dirtier by the minute.
-C!
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Edward Aycock
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Again, Gabbard was only a Democrat in name only, running Dem in a very blue state to win. Nothing she said or did during her Dem days was for the benefit of the party. I was suspicious of her when I first heard of her.
And there was a charming anti-gay video her dad did that she participated in when she was younger.
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Matt Reed
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She’s also got no allegiance to the Republicans either. She’s a “where the winds blow” politician. Doesn’t really stand for anything and those things she has been publicly supporting are Russia and Assad, of all dictators.
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Brennan Voboril
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Just because a person doesn't agree with US foreign policy orthodoxy ≠ they support something.
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 2025 March 12 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | 11
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Which makes her a de facto Russian asset.
With her as our NSA chief, our spy networks are basically dead. Our
experienced agents have to assume everything that goes to her will go to
Russia. So all their sources will become Russian targets.
Further fucking us, Russia and China and all other adversaries will be
offering top dollar to pick up all our recently fired CIA agents and assets.
Edited by Mark Haslett on 2025 March 12 at 7:32pm
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Brian Miller
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If you believe in nothing, you’ll fall for anything.
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