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Recent content by MarkSB

  1. MarkSB

    TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

    It's not at all detrimental to you. You're asking other people to do something (let themselves be run over) that you yourself are not doing. As I said in my post - You're not sticking to your convictions and asking other people to follow. You're not there making the sacrifice and asking them...
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    TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

    That's just the thing... "people need to stick to their convictions" is a guise that is used to cover up the true motivation - which is power and control. One can look at the "morals" of MAGA Christians and be baffled. Once you realize that political power and control is what reigns supreme...
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    TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

    Nice... more AI slop. Claude is a great tool - but it requires proper guidance from its handler. Something which obviously wasn't done here.
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    TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

    The reasoning you are employing here is indicative of the black/white, ingroup/outgroup false binary that has become so prevalent in American Christianity (an in evangelicalism, in particular); and which I think is a key component in many of the corrupt actions and morals that we see coming out...
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    TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

    The notion that Democrats shouldn't have followed suit to "preserve their integrity" is ridiculous. They asked for a law against gerrymandering... MAGA said no thanks, and proceeded to gerrymander to the max. A more accurate analogy: There is a boxing match, and one boxer wanted a rule...
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    Illegal in a Homeless Shelter Gets Trans Surgery Funded by Taxpayers

    Hey Mr. Sauce - it's been a while. I remember you from my days back on the Singles sub-forum. How's it going? One thing to point out here, since I think you raise an interesting point: During the battle between the Democrats and MAGA Republicans over the extension of the enhanced ACA...
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    Trump Posts Jesus-Like Picture of Himself Performing Miracle on Sick Man, Minutes After Ramping Up Feud With Pope Leo

    I do think Jesus would (or will) judge him... so I guess that could equate to him being upset? But I don't think Jesus wants us to be continually distracted and preoccupied with such behavior. Jesus said for his followers to be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." I don't think that...
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    Trump Posts Jesus-Like Picture of Himself Performing Miracle on Sick Man, Minutes After Ramping Up Feud With Pope Leo

    Yeah, I dunno. Like you say, no one knows what another person is thinking. But Trump, for whatever reason, seems to be awfully good at "pushing people's buttons" and causing division. I don't think that Trump ranks very high on the intelligence scale (for obvious reasons), but I don't think...
  9. MarkSB

    Trump Posts Jesus-Like Picture of Himself Performing Miracle on Sick Man, Minutes After Ramping Up Feud With Pope Leo

    Yeah, I mean do people think that Jesus would want us to get all riled up over an image that someone obviously posted with the intention of causing controversy? I’m not saying that we need to ignore it, but maybe roll our eyes and move on. When people react so strongly, we’re giving Trump what...
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    Trump Posts Jesus-Like Picture of Himself Performing Miracle on Sick Man, Minutes After Ramping Up Feud With Pope Leo

    To be honest, I kind of like this picture. I want to hang it in my house so some of my Evangelical Trump voting in-laws (who are otherwise very kind people) can see it, lol. And if any of them ask about it, nonchalantly say it’s a picture of Trump our savior healing the sick. Putting it on a...
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    In Ten Years, Trump Has Hugely Changed The Middle East

    What’s sad is there are actually people who believe this. I heard someone at work last week say something along the lines of “The world really knows that we mean what we say now, if the president can make a statement and the stock market rockets up like that.”
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    Letting AI Make Your Arguments for You is Lazy

    Indeed. Gemini / Google AI likes to reference Reddit threads quite a bit. Most of the time when it does this it says "according to Reddit users", but sometimes it does not. In a few cases I saw it reference Reddit posts where the rest of the users pointed out that the post was wrong, but AI...
  13. MarkSB

    "The golden age of America begins right now." What is it?

    I haven't given up hope on constructive dialogue yet, although at times (and with certain topics in particular) it seems rather hopeless. I will say that both the extreme left and right are pretty entrenched in their views - and I don't think stating that is promoting false equivalencies. The...
  14. MarkSB

    In Ten Years, Trump Has Hugely Changed The Middle East

    You mean like what was just reported to be part of the current deal being hashed out with Iran? It's not concrete or a done deal yet. And the Trump administration is, of course, denying it. But it's not like that's unexpected.
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    "The golden age of America begins right now." What is it?

    Oh, I agree. I have more thoughts on that, but I don't want to derail the thread more than what has already been done. My point is that I don't think the Democrats should believe that just because Trump is terrible (and has been especially terrible in his 2nd term) that they don't need to...