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    How can I stop lusting after my best friend?

    I found myself in a similar place - close friends with a nice Christian girl, beautiful, funny. I told her about it. I was worried that my sudden feelings would somehow change my behavior and ruin things, or hurt her, or our friend group. We talked for a long time that day, and actually talked...
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    It should be noted that in some of those sources, the discussion isn't limited to botnets or spam, but paying people to sit around and comment on facebook, reddit, newspaper comment sections, etc.
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    It's really fascinating stuff. There's the supposed Russian Troll Factory (awesome name), and it's links to paid protesting Another one Here's a good PBS video on this Here's an ArsTechnica article, with links to more technical resources outlining how twitter bot nets are tracked An...
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    Some guys only yearn thusly?
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    It's always better until it isn't. And the fun thing is that you get to decide when you think someone is simply, well, what you described in your first paragraph. I've argued controversial issues on the internet since 1998, and for decades before that. I think its cute when a newbie who clearly...
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    I agree!
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    Can we at least agree to this?

    The problem is that it still leaves room for genuine disagreement about whether you've actually answered it with sufficient reason/evidence. It's entirely possible that what you think is enough, isn't. And the reverse is true too - what others may think is lacking may actually be sufficient...
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    Trump Abolishes Voter Fraud Commission

    I don't think it's as simple as Democrats obstructing. Republican-controlled Alabama fought against maintaining voting records for the Roy Moore election when they thought their guy would win.
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    Trump Abolishes Voter Fraud Commission

    You originally mentioned the 9000 votes, but do you have proof that this changed election outcomes?
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    Trump to Kim: 'My button's bigger!'

    The FBI is indeed law enforcement. Here's the wiki So, I'd wager that President Trump has done more "bashing" law enforcement than any president in recent memory. If you want to talk about what "bashing" is earned, whether your comment about President Obama or my comment about President...
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    Trump to Kim: 'My button's bigger!'

    Regarding President Trump, I can't recall a president that has bashed law enforcement so thoroughly. The way President Trump speaks about the FBI, the chief law enforcement agency in the USA, is horrendous.
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    supreme court sounds skeptical on baker's case

    That's a good idea, but there are still many particular problems you have to overcome to take a "simple" approach. Do you take the plain (often not very plain) meaning of the word as we understand it now? Do you take the meaning in the historical context of when the constitution was written...
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    supreme court sounds skeptical on baker's case

    There's not a whole lot that's easy about law in general, let alone constitutional law. One of the first exercises you do in law school is designed to get this approach across, regarding a sign posted in a public park that forbids you to take a vehicle into the park. It clearly prohibits...
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    Not Many Left For Mueller

    People did die, but your point was that the length of the Mueller investigation is "ridiculous". That article shows that other investigations, many of which did not involve deaths, ran for 2-3 years. It's also a little early to call it a "nothing burger", isn't it? Given what has come out of...
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    Not Many Left For Mueller

    Ridiculous length is pretty inaccurate, given the precedent of past investigations similar to this one. Here's a good Business Insider article on it For comparison, the House-select committee into the Benghazi attack ran from May 2014 to July 2016
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    Is birth control an abomination?

    Hey @compassion 4 humanity, I was hoping you'd answer my question: Your Original Quote: I made the astute argument that religious Christians should make a lot of babies because it will secure our demographic preeminence (and subsequent power and influence over society as holy people) in the...
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    Is birth control an abomination?

    Your argument rests on the assumption that establishing demographic preeminence and worldly power/influence is our purpose (or one of our purposes). Can you provide proof of this? Because from what I can tell Jesus came to establish his Kingdom, and in doing so subverted first century Jewish...
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    What does Trump need to do so as to raise his approval rating?

    When President Trump does not receive the praise he thinks he deserved for this act, he tweeted "should have left them in jail!" So this leaves a few options. Perhaps the President himself views this as a mistake The President is using his twitter platform to complain about not receiving...