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‘This’ is literal thought police. Intolerance of intolerance does not create tolerance. People are allowed to have prejudices and express intolerance, but as long as they are not violating a just moral code (one where attacks or otherwise unwarranted aggression is thrust upon a victim) there is no issue. It is only once someone acts aggressively upon another in an intolerant nature should there be consequences. Arguing that debate and discourse is essentially useless if there is an intolerant person present is severely damaging to the ability of people to find solutions to issues. I hate racists and bigots as much as the next guy, but they are allowed to exist and think in a private manner just as much as a Muslim or a KKKlanner or an Antifa homie. Everyone has a right to express an opinion, no matter how intolerant. Any breach of this is, as suggested, though policing and morally reprehensible. Just imagine having an outside body governing what one can and cannot think about another human being. Disgusting, to put it simply. Discourse is essential, and intolerance of intolerance does not create tolerance, only an ambiguous line in which some or most are outcast for having differing opinions. 

Kinda weird how you say you’re against fascism yet you shut down anyone just because they share a different opinion than you. You guys are exactly what you say you hate... FASCIST! How come I have never seen any member of antifa actually sit down with someone and have a civil debate? I’ve only ever seen them yell and throw tantrums. Doesn’t look good for you guys, yikes.

#politics #us politics #government #repiblican #democrat #people #libertarian

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Wow it’s almost like people are major hypocrites

I swear to god only the American left could simultaneously believe that the US government is a systemically racist institution that lives off oppressing minorities, but that attacking the capitol means you’re a white nationalist

#politics #republicans #democrat #uspolitics #sad

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It’s always nice to see the government get a metaphorical slap in the face to remind them who they should be afraid of... the people.

When the left burned buildings they burned the homes and the stores of the innocent. None of the people whose stores were looted and whose houses were burned had any involvement in police violence. The two kids shot in CHOP, David Dorn, Secoria Turner, Jessica Whittaker and the others killed were all innocent people. Left wing violence targets the innocent.

The right has stormed the capitol building. Their violence is exclusively being directed at the government and those in power. 

That says a lot about these two groups.

#politics #us politics #government #today #republican #democrat #people

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Still waiting on the movie

classic from last year that I can only share it today

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Declaring something a right doesn’t make it immune to economic scarcity.

water is a human right. water should be free, at all times, no conditions. all cities should provide public access to free and clean drinking water, toilets, showers, sinks, and soap.

#us politics #politics #government #human rights #political parties #water

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Another fatality of misinformation

#america #politics #trump #government #republican #democrat #independent #us politics

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lol

A True Feminist Hero.

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This dumbass conspiracy has been disproven. The DNC gives slotted numbers of tickets to local party headquarters, who then distribute it to some members. It’s not a hard process to know about and Bernie had plenty of supporters in the audience too. Stop trying to flip this and further alienate your ‘woke’ progressive base, just realize that maybe claims that ‘Castro was a good leader’ isn’t that popular. 

at first we thought we were losing our minds, and then we read

and found out we were far from alone!

#democrats #democratic socialism #democratic debate #democratic nomination #2020 #relax

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“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.

If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native Austria. She was 10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching.

“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls.

She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her 11th birthday. But she remembers.

“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.”

No so.

Hitler is welcomed to Austria

“In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs.

“My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.’

“We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living.

“Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group – Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in Germany was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back.

“Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

“We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty, “and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

“After the election, German officials were appointed, and, like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

“Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

“Then we lost religious education for kids

“Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education.

“Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.”

And then things got worse.

“The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free.

“We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

“My mother was very unhappy,” remembers Kitty. “When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination.

“I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing.

“Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler.

“It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

“In 1939, the war started, and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and, if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death.

“Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

“Soon after this, the draft was implemented.

“It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps,” remembers Kitty. “During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys.

“They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines.

“When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.

“Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

“When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers.

“You could take your children ages four weeks old to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, seven days a week, under the total care of the government.

“The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

“Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna..

“After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything.

“When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full.

“If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

“As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families.

“All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

“We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables.

“Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands.

“Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

“We had consumer protection, too

“We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the livestock, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated.

“So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work.

“I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van.

“I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months.

“They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

“As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

“Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law-abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

“No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

“Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.”

“This is my eyewitness account.

“It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

“America is truly is the greatest country in the world. “Don’t let freedom slip away.

“After America, there is no place to go.”

Kitty Werthmann

***Re-read the part where she says “everything was free” - healthcare and so on. Very much worth reading twice.****

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Notice how no one actually has a valid comeback to this tho... ???

I was at a union meeting the other day and the speaker had this great quote

“When you’re a public worker and politicians come around talking about lower taxes, that means they want to lay you off.”

And it’s true. I’m a librarian, so my wages come from tax dollars. Lower taxes means the library has to cut costs, and that means either lowering wages or laying people off. It’s a pretty direct cause and effect.

My dad was a mechanic for public school buses. The first time he took me to vote it was for a local election and he told me even if I did nothing else to vote to pass the budget so they could replace two school busses that were beyond repair so kids were safe.

Politicians who try to sell you on lower taxes are usually just trying to cut social services & public resources and screw over public workers.

#Libertarianism #Libertarian #Public Works #Us politic #politics #us politics #cringe

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https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS881US881&ei=EMkcXpKxIo6FtQbz5buYCw&q=how+many+americans+are+below+the+poverty+line&oq=How+many+Americans+are+below&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0.11940.15380..16388...0.2..0.151.1971.27j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i273j0i67j0i131.wQIOfkT-QgQ

Literally not true. It may not be great, but it’s not even close to 44%

More lies means more lies. 

The next time you hear Trump and Republicans in Congress crow about unemployment, remember that:

#us politics #politics #government #economics

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Everything is on Trump, except for the booming economy. No... that was all Obama, I swear. 

IG:theother98

#us politics #politics #democrats #republicans #Trump #government

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/06/trump-signs-55-billion-bill-replace-va-choice-program.html

Literally a 5 second Google search away. If you’re willing to believe the first thing someone posts without any research to back up that claim whatsoever, you’re the problem. 

#politics #us politics #information #Trump #FactsMatter #Veterans #obama #government

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Co-signed

The people who are shouting for the government to ban porn are asking for a nanny state that’s powerful enough to come into your home and force you to comply with its standard of morality. What do you think will happen when someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum takes control of the nanny state you’ve created? Big government is bad, no matter who controls it. 

#politics #us politics #government

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Jesus Christ this is disgusting

So I found something rather disgusting...

This is a feminist book that instructs women on how to make calculated false rape allegations and push men to suicide... I shit you not.

In the book the feminist author is almost self aware to the power women hold over men in todays world but instead of recognising how evil it is she condones it and encourages it in the name of "dismantling patriarchy"

Here is just one extract, reading it left me feeling sick:

"In a word, these DAMN methods work because women are winning! Moreover, we're doing it by turning male oppressors' own patriarchy against them. Women have gained more power than men while society still operates like we are powerless victims. In this way, women benefit from both the virtues of victimhood and the power of the oppressor. We also do it openly, hidden in plain sight by patriarchy's selective blindness to women.

It's patriarchal society that forever views us as damsels in distress. It's patriarchal society that laughs at the thought of a man being a victim of a woman. It's patriarchal society that defines violence as physical, in terms of beatings and broken bones, but never in terms of allegations and broken lives. Even when studies show that women are just as violent as men when "violence" includes things such as verbal abuse, reputation ravaging, and emotional abuse, patriarchal society still cannot perceive women as aggressors.

Despite men being far more likely than women to be the victims of violent crimes like homicide, men are still perceived as less deserving of protection. Even present-day federal law still requires men, but not women, to register for selective service-the military draft. In other words, with women gaining power in politics, we can send men to die for us in war without ever having to go ourselves! Patriarchy's persistent perception of women as weak is so deeply ingrained in society that it's embedded in law.

So, rather than trying to change patriarchy, women have mastered "societal judo" by leveraging the principles of patriarchy against men. We're defeating our oppressors by turning the captain's command of "women and children first" into "men last" while we sink their ship. In 2017 alone, the number of men we've dethroned from high-level jobs in the entertainment industry, politics, and other positions of power is testimony to how well we're winning. Moreover, we're destroying men's reputations as men so they can never regain power. The word men has become synonymous with rapists, pedophiles, predators, harassers, and the like.

Women are also winning because certain aspects of modern society have evolved in our favor. Especially with the emergence of information technology, typical female advantages such as communication, social networking, and emotional intelligence have become more important than typical male advantages such as physical strength, size, and emotional detachment. As Richard Whitmire (2010, 28) states in Why Boys Fail, "The world has gotten more verbal; boys haven't."

Similarly, education is now key to financial success and power, and it's apparent that school is better suited for women. According to The End of Men and the Rise of Women, by Hanna Rosin (2013), thousands more women than men graduate from college each year, with women earning about 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees. Likewise, women earn 60 percent of master's degrees and earn more PhDs than men (Rosin 2013). Even more uplifting, trends like these are continuing, and nothing is being done to stop them. Along with patriarchal society turning a blind eye, Mary Media ensures public condemnation for anyone who even tries to advocate for "men's rights"-even women!

And why? Because destroying a man now is profitable. As we've discussed, mainstream media profits mightily from scandalous allegations against men. Complaint websites make untold sums of money from the "legal extortion" they levy. Lawyers siphon ridiculous amounts of money from men who are trying to defend themselves against allegations. And women profit from scandalous allegations against men in the form of legal settlements, career advancement opportunities, and the like. Clearly, women's power to destroy a man is stronger than ever, and our time is now!"

These people know exactly what they are doing and they take pleasure in the psychological abuse of their male counterparts. They ruin mens lives and they are proud of it.

Truly another day in clown world

#us politics #politics #feminism #women #men

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Here are my positions - Debate Me

Fellas. Here are some of my political positions, I would love to debate any of them with y’all. Pick any or all of them, and hit me!

Capitalism is fundamentally moral and good, and services the people of a nation.

I literally could not care less about anyone’s sexuality, gender, identity, whatever - and it is not the government’s job to legislate what I say/think to these people.

Most college campuses are toxic.

Entrepreneurial capitalism could easily be the savior to a majority of our environmental concerns. 

America’s foreign policy and military spending are crippling the nation internationally. We must end needless military involvement internationally.

The media is incomprehensibly biased towards the left, and the censorship of both sides is destructive to political discourse.

Charities and non-profit organizations are infinitely more valuable than government-regulated services.

Healthcare costs are already crippling the nation, and to suggest any sort of medicare for all is economically unfeasible and destructive. 

The way to decrease the national debt is not to increase taxes, but to cut unnecessary government funded programs and allow for the free market to provide services to those who are needy.

Almost all politicians are undignified and do not have the common man’s interest in mind. That doesn’t change with one or two elections.

Small government is better than big government for an uncountable multitude of reasons.

#us politics #politics #debates #capitalism #government #conservatism #liberalism #leftism #libertarianism #authoritarian