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 No.16310[Reply]

MAGA culture warriors are fucking babies and they're losing


 No.16216[Reply]

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Why is is that majority black owned regions have the most crime?
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>>16297
I've literally saved lives before. I have  contributed more, and will continue to do so than some illegal will ever. I love my country.

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>>16306
You just sound like you hate masculinity. When in reality masculinity makes nations strong, and the next generation into decent people.

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Masculinity is necessary for progression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImfzW9pC_tg


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Are we currently witnessing one of the biggest and most blatant and obvious government coverups of all time?
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 No.16301

What's the thought on Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell?

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>>16301
Least suprising thing

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>>16301
I'm surprised that individual lawmakers haven't legally nullified everything against both Epstein and Maxwell.

Granted: this is something that truly nobody, neither MAGA nor liberals nor moderates nor literally any mass movement anyplace, wants. It would be as unsupported as the government banning ice cream cones. Or intentionally blowing up Mount Rushmore. Still, could happen.

I rate the odds of Trump pardoning everybody and screaming that Epstein was framed alongside that Maxwell was framed at a 75% likelihood.


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So, RFK Jr announced the ambitious project to map and study the causes of the great autism epidemic this year.

While nobody knows yet what the outcome will be, what do you expect the results will be like?

> We found some brain chemistry stuff that nobody probably understands properly, but it may help us a bit more to identify what causes autism in the future.
> We found and identified the exact cause of autism and will work on a vaccine / medication that will cure patients.
> It's vaccines all along. Wakefield was right and we're gonna stop the mandates and the development on new dangerous vaccines, while we look to mitigate the damage done to society by years of malpractise.
> Autism can be fixed by a strict military disciopline, instead of feeding our kids pills and giving them unbridled access to therapists and disability checks. People with autism looking to be cured can report at the nearby wellness therapy session to work and live under military discipline.
> Autism in the most cases is a perpetuated scam made up by big pharma. Except for the extreme cases, the average person on the ASD spectrum is willingly or unwillingly defrauding or system. Handouts to support people on ASD financially, or programs to adapt to people on ASD are now scrapped indefinitely.

The september deadline is getting closer.
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>>16299
It's not about 'wants'.
If you truly believe the modern right are straight up nazis who want to massacre their opposition in concentration camps, it's what is necessary. Especially as they've already got the popular vote.
If you truly believe what you claim, it's the only route that makes sense.

But the fact of the matter is you don't.
It's all performance.
Empty as your morals.

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>>16300
What the fuck are you talking about??? What do you think you are assuming of me? You sound insane

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>A post saying "Republicans aren't terrorists and aren't Nazis, and they don't want to Holocaust the opposition." generates Republicans whining that terrorists and Nazis as well as trying to Holocaust the opposition are all not that bad and not that much of a problem.

>Saying that Republicans don't hate gay people and don't hate disabled people make them go "How dare you!" as they bring up that both hatreds are supposedly great ideas.

Are we now at the point where you guys can't even let yourself fucking recieve compliments? Compliments aren't allowed now? Agreement isn't allowed now? You're not allowed to be agreed with?

Can I say "Republicans oppose child molestation."? Or "Republicans oppose cannibalism."?

If you guys aren't even able to let me agree with you and complement you, then what the fuck do you expect? What do you even want?

What the fuck do you guys even believe? Are gay people evil subhumans that should die? Or are they not? Are disabled people evil subhuman that should die? Or are they not? Why do Republicans hate people saying that they're not bigoted? Shouldn't that be a positive thing? Right?

Why is it so fucking hard to just say "hating people is stupid"? Why is that so fucking impossible? Why is that so fucking offensive?

Why aren't I able to even fucking agree with you? Why do you even oppose people that agree with you? Why is that so fucking offensive to you?
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>>15837
White people are so pathetically fragile and cannot even be bothered to engage with their own racial history, and this thread is plenty evidence of that fact. It says a lot when calling that out is seen just as racist as lynching a black man for no reason, hanging him, burning the body, calling it a barbecue, and then sending a postcard to another family member about said 'barbecue'

If this upsets you, you're pathetic. I'm not arguing about it, I'm calling you out.

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>>16283
>I'm not arguing about it, I'm calling you out.

Then the thread doesn't belong here.


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Donald Trump owned casinos, which exploited people's gambling addictions, and he filed for bankruptcy six times in order to try to game the system. He is now considered by a subset of America to be the greatest President of the modern era because of these skills and capabilities. The Republican party either generally supports this or is merely using him as a means to advance their own agenda -- each possibility distasteful. Republicans promote opposite values in their campaigns.
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>>16199
>An opportunist is someone who lacks moral and ethical concern
Which again, still leaves absolutely nothing for me to go off of in the original context.
He's an opportunist because... What? He just is?

>I mean I never heard Ramsey suggest to his callers that they should game the system, as Trump has done,
Assuming you are correct that he's "gamed" the system, is Donald Trump this Ramsey character?
From what you've described, seeing as you've labeled him an "opportunist" with an explicit moral derision, I would think it pretty irrelevant what he thinks.
Certainly he is not the entirety of Trump supporters either.

Why must Donald Trump, and anyone who supports him, abide by the divine will of Ramsey as though his word comes straight from the heavens themselves?
Seems rather absurd to me. Near as I can tell, there's nothing to justify such a thing, beyond perhaps a conflation of two individuals as the same because they're on the same 'side' politically, which even itself might be a stretch.

>The relevance is that Fundamentalist Christians say people should be moral, yet many appear unable to tell when their moral inclinations are being manipulated, don't care, or supports such manipulation.
Okay, but based on what?
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My politics

 No.16273

Very funny how maga will always find an excuse for their dear leader. Could you at least try to hide your biases? it's so fucking obvious yall only give a shit when leaders fail when they're democrats.


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One of the main reasons for appointing Kennedy as the Secretary of Health was so that he could launch mRNA vaccine studies to see if DNA fragments created in the production of mRNA vaccines integrate into human cells, potentially causing cancer. Yet, this hasn't been done yet despite all the other things that have been done already. It also seems like Republicans in general are now actively against mRNA vaccines, withdrawing research funding, including (apparently) not providing funds for research that would prove they are harmful.

I'm starting to think that Republicans never really cared about whether mRNA vaccines were safe to begin with and are simply against anything that is new.

Thoughts or any news that these studies are still going to be done? Or are they never going to be done because they know doing them would prove that they are safe?

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Of course, the freak out over mRNA vaccines wasn't sincere. It was all part of a grand conspiracy theory that absolved Trump of handling the pandemic with incompetence, and that federal employees were mandated to take it after Biden took office.

Never trust politician or media pundits to be sincere about anything. In fact never take at face value anything anyone says if they're asking you to help them gain power or a large amount of money.

 No.16230

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyge27y2g9o

From the news going around and the special cause for autism that is being researched, it seems like current MAHA is not friendly to vaccines full stop.

We're going find that effective vaccines are a myth of the past and that the only way to keep yourself safe from illnesses is by building a strong immune system by exercise and a diet of whatever supplements being peddled. Oh, and healthy genetics.
Otherwise,, if you die, you die.

 No.16271

if it took an obvious fraud to get you to think critically about this, you were always lost. give up and find something else to care about.


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Is superman woke or are you just the bad guy?
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>>16258
>engages in complete psychological projection in a total "no, you're me and I'm you" fashion
>doesn't make any actual arguments
>raises no intellectual points
I didn't expect any different.

At any rate, living in a world in which all of the moderates, all of the centrists, all of the libertarians, all of the democratic socialists, all of the liberals, and everybody who's "not right-wing" (which is sort of like putting "not bald" or "not having blue eyes" into a gigantic bucket) are supposedly racist shitbags... if we take the MAGA claim that they're blessed, sainted angels while everybody else not in their tiny group is inferior bastards and suppose that MAGA is correct that they're a kind of tribalist master race better than everybody else... that would still not make it justified for people on the right to be racist back against anybody in revenge. Anyways. In the first place. Since that's not how morality works.

"Other people do immoral things, therefore I can too" is the mindset of a whiny toddler. To be honest.

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>>16261
Closing your borders and kicking out the people who came illegally is not racism.

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>>16261
>all of the moderates, all of the centrists, all of the libertarians, all of the democratic socialists, all of the liberals,
Nobody is saying that but you.
That is because it is incredibly retarded.

Stop licking lead paint off the walls, and try engaging with what we're actually saying instead.


 No.16248[Reply]

Why are Christians so angry?


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How could the Empire have been better off?
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>>16210
Catgirls?
>use claws for advanced slashing as well as climbing, jumping up, and leaping down
>use ears for advanced hearing
>less need for eating and drinking to replenish their bodies, maybe
>less need for sleep, maybe
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Overweight anime girls.

No, I will not elaborate.

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Why even bother if the government wants us all dead, zombies, or in a military cult?

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

of particular note ...work/education requirements have been enabled unless you can prove your mental illness to a government official, which is sadistic, and if you happen to get cancer without being on medicaid, if you don't somehow get a job or go to school immediately (they will only pay 30 days prior to coverage instead of 90 now, and you have to have worked 30 days prior to the application), you're not covered, which is also sadistic.

(also if a state that hasn't enrolled yet in medicaid expansion, the very good cost-sharing incentive is now gone, meaning they probably won't)

How is this supposed to motivate people to be proud of their country and participate in society, again?
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>>16211
The American people are chickens. And they vote for Colonel Sanders. That's really all there is to it.

We want Social Security abolished. We want Medicare abolished. We want Medicaid abolished. We want minimum wage laws abolished. We want labor unions exterminated. We want more pollution. We want more inflation. We want lower wages. We want fewer options in terms of housing. It goes on and on. We want any restrictions on the power of government and business control over our lives ended.

We want this. And we're getting it. Good and hard. We're getting it.

Like the homosexuals, the feminists, the Jews, the transgender people, and the rest of Iran who marched in favor of the Islamic extremists taking over that country's government from the Shah and fervently wanting the Ayatollah-led revolution, with gay men kissing each other as they waved green flags covered with the Muslim crescent symbols, we really hate ourselves. Passionately. And we want an elite in power to show us "who's boss".

Like the Austrians, Czechs, Poles, and the rest who cheered on for the Nazis as they invaded. Like the Rwandan population that screamed in favor for the genocide. Like the Mongolians who would do anything for Genghis Khan.

We want a daddy. And Trump is our national daddy. Daddy. Not a President. Not a leader. Not anything else. Daddy. He's your daddy. He's my daddy. He's America's daddy.

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Don't get fooled next year


 No.16201[Reply]

Conventional economics is brain damage


 No.16186[Reply]

Elon Musk alone has caused more harm to people than the entirety of the left


 No.16181[Reply]

Non-MAGA evangelical takes down MAGA evangelical's bullshit dishonest representation of the Bible to justify ICE raids.

 No.16185

Slightly old, but a good breakdown of the role disgust plays in twisting Christianity for the sake of "Christian" nationalism.


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