ozso said:

I didn't recall what his name is, but probably. I think there was also another showing off her mastectomy. Maybe more parading shirtless around the White House.

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The Barbarian said:

No link or description of what the list is about. Which is typical of AI. But the most dangerous cities in the US are:

1. Memphis, TN
2. Cleveland, OH
3. Toledo, OH
4. Little Rock, AR
5. Peoria, IL
6. Springfield, IL
7. Detroit, MI
8. Akron, OH
9. Beaumont, TX
10. Rockford, IL
11. Evansville, IN
12. Dayton, OH
13. Nashville, TN
14. Winston-Salem, NC
15. Springfield, MO
16. Chicago, IL
17. Salt Lake City, UT
18. Springfield, MA
19. North Charleston, SC
20. Corpus Christi, TX
21. Tulsa, OK
22. Albany, NY
23. Buffalo, NY
24. Kansas City, MO
25. Shreveport, LA
26. Baltimore, MD
27. Houston, TX
28. New Haven, CT
29. Las Cruces, NM
30. Lansing, MI

Why do cities in red states tend to have higher crime rates? Because red states tend to have higher crime rates. It's cultural, mostly.

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tampasteve said:

There are no written language records because written language didn't exist. Again however, there are artistic records, archaeological records, and fossil records.

Let me make it crystal clear:
- The 6,000 year old "civilization" idea is being hotly challenged right now due to new archaeological evidence from over the last 25 or so years.
- I don't ascribe to the idea that a "civilization" must have the entire package (wheel, domesticated plants and animals, art, written language, etc.) to qualify as a "civilization", it is honestly such a narrow understanding of how people work together as to be useless.
- Recorded written history began about 6,000 years ago, but it is honestly disingenuous to present it as if there just wasn't' history before then or that the history we can see in the archaeological record doesn't matter since it is not "written". It isn't like history just began when someone started writing cuneiform tablets in Sumer. People were communicating in pictograms before then, writing didn't spring out of nothing.
- Even if you want to date "civilization" to 6,000 years ago we have loads of evidence of people across the globe from before then doing all sorts of the things people do, so it isn't particularly relevant that YEC claim 6,000 years and most historians up to the recent past say "civilization" started 6,000 years ago.

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Tropical Wilds said:

Absolutely on the first and second points, and I’ll defer to you on the second (having never played myself).

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essentialsaltes said:

'Embarrassment': Expert stunned at triple indictment failure by Jeanine Pirro’s office​

In the case of United States v. Sydney Reid, Pirro's office filed a motionwith the judge stating that, "The United States ... respectfully submits this notice alerting the Court and counsel that an Indictment has not been returned in this case. As was previously disclosed by the Court to defense counsel, a third grand jury returned a no true bill.

Strike three! Yer out!

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durangodawood said:

Football is the best TV sport*. And I used to love to play it.

*Young men destroying their brain issues notwithstanding.

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Aseyesee said:

What is the justification God provides himself to measure the end result of his actions …

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wing2000 said:

Sure, Congress should restore the D.C. funding it cut earlier this year.

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wing2000 said:

the meantime, there was and is no justification for deploying federal forces to the streets of D.C

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wing2000 said:

nor any other city

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wing2000 said:

Imagine, the quality of recruits who will be wielding an FBI badge with 8 weeks of training....

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Tropical Wilds said:

I love football. Huge NFL fan. Gigantic. It’s my favorite sport. Has been my whole life. If the White House was hosting a PPV NFL football game on the south lawn to commemorate the 250th year of our country, I’d feel exactly the same.

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Larniavc said:

I think you mean Russia.

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ozso said:

The left goes on and on about supporting the working class. But when it comes to sports the working class love, look at how snooty they get.

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JosephZ said:

It's also why most gun reform calls for the banning of high-capacity magazines in conjunction with an assault-style weapons ban. High-capacity magazines are used in over half of mass shootings.

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eclipsenow said:

No - it's not like you said.
Not at all.
Listen to other people. Read the articles. Learn.


Why would I listen to any of this when you have not demonstrated an understanding of this conversation?


You're calling "The Economist" that? Wow.
I guess when Fox news is your only source - anything 'Least biased' screams communism?
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The Republican Party is dead - long live MAGA!



Australia sure does have our flaws!
BUT - we have safe enough mail in voting for weeks before an election.
We have independent, objective electoral bodies at the Federal and State level. (No Gerrymandering!)

We have super-ABUNDANT voting booths on a Saturday, usually in the local public school or town hall, so that at the most we might wait 15 minutes to half an hour.
(We don't make that ethnic electorate wait 8 hours in the sun on a workday Tuesday to vote - discouraging poorer, paid by the shift workers from voting!)

We have a democracy sausage after voting.
We hang out and chat afterwards.
It's a community event.

We also have COMPULSORY VOTING! That means the politicians must appeal to the bored middle - not the frenzied edges that actually have the motivation to vote.

In other words - with all our faults - our democratic institutions are fairer and healthier and less 'rigged' like this Texas business forcing Newsom to reply!


No - but the democratic institutions ARE better because we haven't had Gerrymandering for decades!

It's not there yet - but it's moving in that direction, as judged by a number of organisations.


Nope! Your country has drifted so far into right-wing extremism you don't HAVE a left!

You don't know what a real left party even looks like - and I'm not even talking Communism.
Your country seems "binary" with economics. You seem to think there's "free market" and "Socialist". What about Social-Liberal, or even Ordo-Liberal? Don't know what that is? Ooops!

There are many other settings on the economic dial as well.

Your 'left' might go on about gender issues - but even Bernie Sanders would be on the far-right of our Conservative Party!
Why? His attitude to healthcare! "Single Payer" just does not go far enough to even qualify for our Conservative Coalition!

We cover ALL Australian citizens with healthcare - at half the cost of America. How? Go figure. I'll let you google that - you might learn something about the many other settings on that economic dial!



I could wish that would happen for the sake of your poor. As it is - the Christian right in America have sacrificed their consciences at the altar of economic conservatism that robs the poor to reward the rich, giving multi-million dollar tax cuts to the uber-rich while kicking the bottom 16 million Americans off healthcare.



Depends what you're talking about.
I don't remember American citizens being dragged off the streets and put behind barbed wire fenced enclosures just for the 'crime' of looking 'ethnic' or working in a hardware store! Masked authorities taking people away? Now where have I seen that before? Oh yeah...
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Um, by rewarding the uber rich and punishing the poor?
My treating desperate immigrants as criminals when statistics show they are less likely to commit crime and as a net group BENEFIT the American GDP far more than any welfare costs?


Reality? Really?
Like vaccines are bad for the population, like climate change isn't real, like Trump is wonderful and helped end 6 wars this year and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

Reality? Wow. MAGA are the anti-reality anti-science, anti-medicine party.


Oh riiiight.
Those jobs American native born citizens don't want to do - but 'illegals' fleeing drug gangs that stole their other teenage daughter into the prostitution industry - they're the bad guys? A father brings his surviving family members to America to escape these Central American drug gangs. They leave their other daughter behind - there's no way to get her back - she's gone to them and they're grieving. They get to America just to save their other children and daughters from all that. And they're desperate! So they collect the garbage or pump the gas. These 'terrible illegals' are so desperate to live in the USA they commit about HALF the crime of native born, and work ANY job - these terrible people are 'stealing your jobs'?

Studies show native born Americans don't WANT those jobs in the first place!

Why not watch that old doco - "A day without Mexicans"? See what life in California would look like without these "terrible people"? It turns out they're not "eating the dogs" - they're the ones cleaning up dog poop. They're the ones taking out the trash, washing the dishes, pumping the gas, doing all the thankless background work that helps a city run.

What happened to the days when Republicans used to see human beings as economic units - a form of human capital that would increase the GDP of America?

MAGA happened. Trump happened. Racism happened.
And you claim your country isn't suffering democratic decline?
Don't make me laugh!

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Tuur said:

Which misses the entire point. God loves us so much that God the Son died on the cross for us while we were still His enemies. If the One we call our Master loves us, and from the cross forgave those who crucified him, how then can we do otherwise toward others? Who they are doesn't matter, and for us that can sometimes be a hard thing, but it didn't matter to God, so how can we let that matter to us?

How, then, can we justify hatred of a person, regardless of who they are? Oh, the world does that, but Christians are to be of Christ and not of the world.

Looking over the posts, there's a whole lot of hate here. It's one thing to say that Ms. Babbitt didn't rate a military burial because of participating in the January 6 riot; quite another to hate her personally for that. Not that, I suspect, how she was buried mattered a whole lot to her, but it did to her family, and funerals are for the living, not the dead. My point being that while this section is open to non-Christians, should Christians agree with hate?

Looking at the hate, I really wonder if any Christian should be associated with CF at all.

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Platte said:

Why are they not written records?

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Platte said:

Again, according to History…the world’s first civilization was ~6000 years ago and recorded History began approximately 6000 years ago. Using the genealogies from the Bible creation was ~6000 years ago. I’m not asking whether you believe anything…but how can you not stop and think wow what a coincidence.

How about this: the world’s first civilization (according to History) was in the same region as Eden (Mesopotamia) and the creation setting of mankind. Another coincidence? Those are head scratching facts.

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wing2000 said:

...to fill an anticipated 5,000 positions by September......

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.

The shift comes as the agency anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trump administration to try to reduce the budget.

Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor’s degree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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