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PugJesus , in [News] House Judiciary Committee expected to launch inquiry into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
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God, I fucking hate the GOP.

lowdownfool , (edited )
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It's okay, the GOP hates you and anyone not-GOP and any Republican not absolutely loyal to the insurrectionists and stop-the-steal liars.

bloopernova , in [News] Ramaswamy suggests he would run government like Musk does X

Like a dumpster fire?

jon ,
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Yeah, like at a massive deficit, all while making sweeping policy changes at a moments notice with little research on how those changes effect stability. Also, cutting down on employed staff to save money while not bothering to investigate what those people actually do, to later realize it only when things start breaking. Only instead of some shitty social media platform he's fucking with, it'll be the United States economy!

He's got my vote!

liz1328 ,
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accelerationists frothing at the mouth

Hairyblue , (edited ) in Trump lawyer says his legal team is bracing for imminent Georgia indictment
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Yea he will get indicted again because he did more crimes.

He was telling people at his rally of lies that he just "needed one more indictment" for him to win the presidency in 2024. Going to jail for TRYING to defraud the US doesn't make you president.

Unaware7013 ,

Indictments are like bases in baseball, you get four of them and you score!

cupcakezealot , in Discussion: Ginni Thomas "may have crossed the line"—Lawyers on fake electors plot
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The headline has the same energy as Jeffrey Dahmer may have crossed the line when he used mayo on his people sandwich.

JonEFive , in News: Biden supporters exploit Republican’s $1 donation cashback campaign pledge: ‘I gave $1 to you and $20 to Biden’

And with that $1 donation, you will be on every campaign email donation list for the Republicans from now until the end of time. Word to the wise: If you ever give your email address to a campaign fund (republican, democrat or otherwise), make sure its an email you don't care about or can shut down. No matter how many times you unsubscribe, they just sell your list to the next campaign and use a slightly different name/email/organization to get around spam laws. I made the mistake of donating to a campaign once. Their overzealous and borderline illegal email marketing is what has made me decide to never donate again.

While this $20 for $1 might sound good, especially in the humorous context of taking that $20 gift card and donating it to an opponent, I'm not willing to give my info to a republican campaign and assume they're going to do the right thing and only use it for campaign related activities. Next thing you know, my name will be on the next FCC astroturf campaign about how I hate net neutrality.

Ambiorickx ,

For real. I made the mistake last go-around to donate some money to Dems. Now I get at least 15 grifting emails from Dems every day. Never again.

ozoned ,
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This is why I now have my own domain. Do a catch all and I can create any address I want at any time and then just throw it away if it won’t stop spamming me. Also helps to ID those that sold my info. Or use Anonaddy ( anonaddy.com ). I use it with Bitwarden.

JonEFive ,

Yup, I do this too now

blanketswithsmallpox ,
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The only email I've ever had issues unsubscribing from is Marco's surprisingly. Even it stopped eventually...

Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you. Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business

JonEFive ,

The issue isn't unsubscribing itself, it's how they sell / have sold your information. I can unsubscribe, but the next campaign that buys that list from whatever sources they sold it to is just gonna start sending me crap again.

blanketswithsmallpox ,
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Honestly it just sounds like made up bullshit to me lol.

WeDoTheWeirdStuff ,

With Gmail you can add +whatever to your name, and then set a rule to automatically delete those. [email protected] works exactly like [email protected]

AdmiralSnackbar , in LGBTQ Movement Exposed: Shocking History Behind It
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Yeah honestly fuck off, you people are all about personal rights until it’s something you don’t personally approve of

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

Sigh. Reactionary as usual. You people claim to be open-minded but can’t think holistically how this will affect children and society as a whole.

PugJesus ,
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someone named 'TraditionalMuslim' peddling anti-LGBT bullshit accuses others of being reactionary

lol. lmao, even.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

If you can actually look at the arguments presented instead of judging based on someone’s beliefs, you might learn a thing or two.

PugJesus ,
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Go ahead, present your arguments.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

Take a look at the paper I just presented: sci-hub.st/10.2466/pr0.96.1.227-230. Proven by Illinois Department of Children & Family Services that homosexual parents are significantly more likely to abuse children.

snipgan ,
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Correlation does not imply causation

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

So are you saying gay parents have some other problem that is causing this?

snipgan ,
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Have to prove and show it either way.

Itty53 ,
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Stop feeding the troll. Block him. Move on. He's here because he wants your negative reactions. He's a loser and this is the only way he knows how to get himself human interaction. You're encouraging him.

snipgan ,
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True, but I engage for others to see just in case. Lest they control the conversation due to my inaction.

HelixDab ,

That claim has been thoroughly debunked, and neither Paul Cameron nor the Family Research Institute is not a credible source.

That is a junk paper.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

Citing a blog as a source. This is where you get your credible research from?

HelixDab ,

The blog cites sources, and the SPLC is a more credible source to start than FRI.

lomendil ,
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For others who are looking at this thread, the paper breaks down abuses by mother and father. The first cut is that 34% of the abuses were homosexual. So reasoning in generalities to support anti-LGBTQ+ causes is a misrepresentation right away. This is typical "scientifically backed" misinformation where the facts are twisted.

I'm not going to engage with the troll, but wanted to put something next to that link.

SmashingSquid ,

There are no arguments to be made because lgbt people just want to be accepted. the only harm to children is the abuse from the anti LGBT assholes. Stop trying to control people, that’s the whole agenda.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

If that is how blind and one-sided you are living in your echo chamber. Then there’s nothing I can do about that except hope you are guided to the truth or face the consequences you will see in the next 10 or 20 years how much more worse the situation has gotten with this LGBT agenda.

lowdownfool ,
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The "LGBT agenda" is to be left alone. Stop sticking your nose in other people's sex lives, genitals, etc. The sickening and depraved "Muslim Agenda" can go double suck Jesus and Mohamed's cock with the equally disgusting Christians. Block this idiot and move on.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

Real mature for mocking religious figures. If you don’t have the decency to respect other groups, this just shows your hypocracy for defending the LGBT group. I thought leftists were supposed to defend minorities?

lowdownfool ,
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When you show respect for the LGBT community, I'll show respect to religious groups that call for their death. If Jesus or Mohamed have a problem with me, I have given them a standing invitation to show up and prove me wrong. So far, they haven't come around. I wonder why.

HelixDab ,

Muslims aren't a minority. Fuck off with that nonsense. There are 1.9B Muslims globally, and, just like Christianity, they fuck up every country that they're in charge of.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

They are in the US. less than 2% in the US. If you look at Muslim countries, they don’t have these social issues. Other issues like corruption sure, but not this degeneracy.

HelixDab ,

Degeneracy, like, say, your founding religious leader fucking children?

Joe Smith with his 14 year old wives ain't got nuthin' on a guy that's fucking 8 year old girls, but you've got a stick up your ass about gay people?

Jo ,
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They're almost certainly fash posing as Muslim.

numbscroll ,
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Oh hello rage baiter, lol. See ya 👋

lowdownfool ,
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Saying "don't react to this incendiary post!" is just telling us you're trolling or just trying to shove your fake morals derived from ancient mythologies down our throats. Naw, we will always resist you.

TraditionalMuslim OP ,

I ain’t trolling. Knew I was going to get reactionary hate but was looking for some honest discussion. I guess I expected too much from this echo chamber.

lowdownfool ,
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There is no such thing as honest discussion with religious zealots. It's impossible to talk facts with people that believe in fairy tales, demons, heaven, satan, etc. Two completely different realities.

Jo ,
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You're such a painfully obvious troll. Fuck off back to the fash sites you belong on.

mephiska ,

fuck off bigot.

Ertebolle , in Ron DeSantis’ pastor says gay people should be “put to death”

It's worth noting that he did this in response to a tweet by, of all people, Ted Cruz, condemning that same law. So we're once again in "Making Ted Cruz Look Reasonable" territory, never somewhere you want the GOP to be.

Col3814444 OP ,

I think I read somewhere Cruz has a bisexual daughter? Pretty typical of a Republican not to care until it affects them personally.

DessertStorms ,
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I think you're giving him far too much credit, and I don't doubt that he would sooner kick his queer child out than support her, but has probably been advised not to right now, because it might impact his career, and that is the personal affect people like him are concerned about, not their kids.

TheButtonJustSpins , in News: McConnell says he's 'fine' after freezing during news conference | CNN Politics

That’s too bad.

floofloof , in Florida pensions took a bath on 'woke' beer ... and Ron DeSantis wants revenge

DeSantis lamented the company’s “political agenda,” as embodied by hiring spokesmodel Dylan Mulvaney, as having cost shareholders, especially in Florida, where the state seems to have held stock for months as the state’s politicians and others on the right mocked the brand and helped to erode its market share.

It is impressive how consistently the “party of personal responsibility” finds someone else to blame for the consequences of its own actions.

Caithe , in Iowa Republicans Ram Through Six-Week Abortion Ban In One-Day Special Session

Pregnancy is counted from the first day of her last period. Most women find out they’re pregnant at 5-6 weeks. This is essentially a total ban on abortion.

Drusas ,

And many don't find out until later. 5-6 weeks is just the earliest that one is likely to find out. So many women have irregular cycles that it's completely possible to go 8 weeks or even more without having any idea that you're pregnant.

Hairyblue , in Trump Judge Effectively Names Himself President
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Misinformation about vaccines and lies about the Covid virus was asked to be removed. I think Facebook/meta helped kill many right wingers because of these lying memes.

Republicans want to be able to lie on these platforms. And they love the uneducated. I know someone who died believing their lies. I know another who ended up in the hospital because of these lies. She almost died. And now has a hospital bill she can't pay.

Stop voting for republicans, they don't want to help you. They have no policies but cut taxes on the rich and hating on people.

BurnTheRight ,

I'm really conflicted here. If conservatives insist on killing themselves by being anti-science, I should support their right to die as they insist.

ignirtoq ,

But I don't support their burden on shared resources (hospitals) on their way out. So many people who don't subscribe to those conspiracy theorist views died as collateral damage during the pandemic because the hospitals didn't have the resources to support all of their usual burdens plus the wave of COVID-ill vaccine deniers.

Yewb ,

Let people opt out of services for a very small tax incentive, it will be hilarious schadenfreude.

admiralteal ,

No no no no no nope not even as a joke.

If you can financially gain from opting out, very poor people will have no choice but to opt out and risk it. Proven time and time again. People should not be allowed to waive their rights for petty personal gains. Your rights are unwaivable, that's what makes them rights.

elscallr ,
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Your rights are absolutely able to be waived, they just can't be taken away. It's a subtle but meaningful difference.

admiralteal ,

If you're being compensated to waive them, you aren't waiving them freely. So it's being taken away.

elscallr ,
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That's a fair point.

Itty53 ,
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That's entirely valid but not the same as "your rights are unwaivable".

Itty53 ,
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Agreed on the whole thing up until "your rights are unwaivable". If that were the case then those are not your rights to begin with. Freedom includes the freedom to abstain.

Unaware7013 , in News; City mayor demands Trump settle 2018 bill of $35k ahead of rally

They should also force him to prepay this time so they're not footing the entire bill again.

DrPop ,

He should be banned from rallies anywhere he has outstanding debts. No regular citizen would have the privilege so neither should he.

Sheerfire96 , in Analysis : Ron DeSantis’ False claim that some states allow ‘post-birth’ abortions. None do.

Weird way to phrase “school shootings” but that’s one way to tackle the gun problem. Reframe it

LegendofDragoon , in [News] Pence Stuns CNN Anchor With Nonchalance About ‘Dangerous’ MAGA Voters
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Republicans need every vote they can get our else even their cheating won't work. He literally can't afford to alienate the people who threatened his life.

gonzoleroy ,

So much so that he'll set aside the ethic and moral standards he and all those "God-fearing, law-abiding, patriotic people in this country" profess to uphold.

magnetosphere ,
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A reasonable person with even a shred of self respect would simply choose not to run in such a situation. But then, if he was reasonable and had any self respect, he wouldn’t have chosen to be Trump’s VP in the first place.

Xeelee ,
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Plain old fascism is all they have at this point.

givesomefucks , in Greene displays sexual images of Hunter Biden at IRS whistleblower hearing

So…

Revenge porn laws cover this and she’ll be charged any day now…

Right?

Because not holding them accountable hasn’t worked so far

teft ,

Probably not because of the speech and debate clause.

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