And by the way, "up to nine months of pregnancy" is not the same as "born fully alive".
The new law does not allow aborting a pregnancy after the baby has been born. No part of the law says anything like that and saying that it does is a) bearing false witness, and b) blood libel. Also, fuck you and your god-bothering bullshit. If you want a christian version of sharia law that bad, there are countries you can go to.
'cause the death by firearm yearly rate is about 13,000 in the US, not "over 39,000."
My figures come direct from the Center for Disease Control, which is part of the Executive Branch of the United States government. Would you care to tell us where your "13,000" figure comes from?
Nor should you expect it to be. Think about this: it doesn't matter the bias of the factchecker because everyone is biased. What matters is accuracy and accountability. Do they supply multiple sources for their claims? Are they willing to revisit and correct and retract? That's what it takes to be a reliable fact checker. It just so happens that there are more of such sites on the Left. And that, ultimately, is because there currently exists an ascendant class on the Right that benefits disproportionately from fake news. If you need me to provide citations and examples, I'd be happy to do so, but I'm guessing that you understand what I say is true.
Was the content actually false? It's not like Snopes is infallible.
The difference between factcheckers (including sites like Snopes) is that they'll actually give checkable citations for the facts they check. And if someday you find an error, they'll publish a retraction/correction.
You're not going to get any retraction or correction from patriotictruth.ru
Thank you, friend. I've used these Reddit forums before and they've been very helpful. It would still be nice to have a legit service though. Not that I care so much about the legit part, but the less-than-kosher streaming sites can get a little wonky. Also, the only malware I've gotten in the past several years came from one of these sites, so I'm always a little squirmy when I go to them.
This could be really good. I've moved around the country a bit and it's always a hassle being a fan of sports teams in cities where I no longer live. I wouldn't mind being able to watch the Astros or Rockets or Bears or Blackhawks without having to invest in an expensive package.
I think I'm gonna try this locast. Plus, on a day like today, it would be fun to watch a local news broadcast from Chicago, where it's -8 F while wearing shorts and sitting on my porch.
Well that's the point, man. I've opened up those doors of perception, tore then right off the fucking hinges in fact, so I can see what is not obvious to the average Slashdotter. I can see for miles and miles.
And by the way, did you ever look at your nostrils? I mean really look at your nostrils? Feed your head.
it is not foreign intervention (as you posited) to recognize a rightful President.
I'm not concerned about who Trump recognizes and who he doesn't. At this point, he probably thinks Fidel Castro is the president of Brazil. But when you start rattling sabers and talking about sending 5,000 troops into the area, and freezing assets, I would indeed call that intervention.
And we have a long, ugly history of intervention in that part of the world and it's always made things worse and caused nothing but problems.
I'm going to do you a big favor. Here is the entire Encyclopedia Britannica article on "Were the Nazis Socialists?" Maybe if you learn the actual history of where the "socialist" part of "national socialist" comes from, and what happened to socialists during the Night of Long Knives, you'll give up the notion that "Nazis were socialists tho" once and for all. But I doubt it.
Were the Nazis socialists? No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934. But to address this canard fully, one must begin with the birth of the party.
In 1919 a Munich locksmith named Anton Drexler founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers’ Party). Political parties were still a relatively new phenomenon in Germany, and the DAP—renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP; National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party) in 1920—was one of several fringe players vying for influence in the early years of the Weimar Republic. It is entirely possible that the Nazis would have remained a regional party, struggling to gain recognition outside Bavaria, had it not been for the efforts of Adolf Hitler. Hitler joined the party shortly after its creation, and by July 1921 he had achieved nearly total control of the Nazi political and paramilitary apparatus.
To say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power. To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but his primary—indeed, sole—focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda. After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, in November 1923, Hitler became convinced that he needed to utilize the teetering democratic structures of the Weimar government to attain his goals.
Over the following years the brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser did much to grow the party by tying Hitler’s racist nationalism to socialist rhetoric that appealed to the suffering lower middle classes. In doing so, the Strassers also succeeded in expanding the Nazi reach beyond its traditional Bavarian base. By the late 1920s, however, with the German economy in free fall, Hitler had enlisted support from wealthy industrialists who sought to pursue avowedly anti-socialist policies. Otto Strasser soon recognized that the Nazis were neither a party of socialists nor a party of workers, and in 1930 he broke away to form the anti-capitalist Schwarze Front (Black Front). Gregor remained the head of the left wing of the Nazi Party, but the lot for the ideological soul of the party had been cast.
Hitler allied himself with leaders of German conservative and nationalist movements, and in January 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him chancellor. Hitler’s Third Reich had been born, and it was entirely fascist in character. Within two months Hitler achieved full dictatorial power through the Enabling Act. In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service, and trade unions were outlawed the following month. That July Hitler banned all political parties other than his own, and prominent members of the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Lest there be any remaining questions about the political character of the Nazi revolution, Hitler ordered the murder of Gregor Strasser, an act that was carried out on June 30, 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives. Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished.
Nice strawman, pope! No - I would advocate using military defense to defend our borders - and an embassy IS a border.
Except, the only people talking about violence against US personnel in the embassy are in the Trump administration
It's such an obvious ploy. Venezuela didn't threaten the US embassy in any way except to say, "things are getting hairy, you might want to go home" and the next thing we hear is Trump warning Venezuela not to hurt any US citizens. It's the traditional, "why are you hitting yourself?" approach to foreign intervention. The US is good at it;. We've been doing that dance since at least Vietnam.
Fuck, all I'm saying is let Venezuela do what Venezuela is gonna do. They are no threat to the US. Find some other way for Trump to distract the American people from the laundry list of crime and corruption that his administration has been guilty of. We don't need to put another foreign war on the credit card with money borrowed from China. We're already hemorrhaging money from Trump's tax cuts for wealthy corporations, and the trade wars, and the shutdown, and...on and on.
Pretty sure the Arabs and Jews have been hating and killing each other for a lot longer than the US has even existed.
Surprisingly, not.
Yes, because all those Central American countries had thriving economies, stable governments, and prosperous societies before the US came along! Oh, wait, no...they've been hellholes for a lot longer than the US has been around.
So, you believe a country being a "hellhole" is reason enough for the US to invade?
More Americans died in Afghanistan under President Obama than President Bush, too... I believe the previous White House resident promised to end the war in Afghanistan, end the war in Iraq, and stop the policy of US military intervention. He didn't do any of that, but got us involved in additional wars.
So now your argument is that we should do military intervention because Obama and Bush did military intervention? Now we're getting somewhere.
we've done what the EU. the OAS, and many others have done
Let me stop you right there. First, the "EU, OAS and many others" have not proposed sending troops to Venezuela.
Second, are you really suggesting that the fact that the EU has adopted a policy is a good reason for us to adopt the policy? If so, you're showing some growth there, Rooster.
This isn't about who to recognize or who to condemn. This is about direct intervention.
As far as "wag the dog", how about that Libya move by Obama and Hillary? That was a great one, wasn't it? Syria as well...
First, Obama has admitted that Libya was the worst mistake of his presidency (see link). Second, I bet you didn't know that more Americans died in Syria under Trump than under Obama.
How is it intervention to recognize the rightful President of a nation? Why do you want to normalize tyranny?
You know the Trump administration is discussing military intervention, right? And just today, Bolton "accidentally" let out that they're considering sending 5,000 troops to Columbia for...something.
It's Wag the Dog, Rooster. Just like Bill Clinton did in Serbia. When you're having big trouble at home, nothing gets the mainstream media all fired up and saluting like seeing US firepower blowing some weak foreign nation all to Hell. Then, it takes a decade before they realize they've been had, and by that time (so it goes) you're done with a second term.
It's an old playbook. Grenada. Iraq 1, Iraq 2. Bosnia, yee-haw.
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Why are you discounting childbirth as a meaningful event? We count them as babies when they are born. Anything else is just religious woo.
That's why accuracy and accountability matter. That's why sources matter, and why their willingness to correct and retract when necessary matter.
Everyone is biased. You just need a little discernment.
Uh, thank you?
And by the way, "up to nine months of pregnancy" is not the same as "born fully alive".
The new law does not allow aborting a pregnancy after the baby has been born. No part of the law says anything like that and saying that it does is a) bearing false witness, and b) blood libel. Also, fuck you and your god-bothering bullshit. If you want a christian version of sharia law that bad, there are countries you can go to.
The premise doesn't require refutation because it's false on its face.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/2...
For those of you playing along at home, that statement is what's known as "bullshit".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
My figures come direct from the Center for Disease Control, which is part of the Executive Branch of the United States government. Would you care to tell us where your "13,000" figure comes from?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/press...
https://www.statista.com/stati...
The "over 39.000" was what the Center for Disease Control reported for the calendar year 2018 as of December 28, 2018.
Nor should you expect it to be. Think about this: it doesn't matter the bias of the factchecker because everyone is biased. What matters is accuracy and accountability. Do they supply multiple sources for their claims? Are they willing to revisit and correct and retract? That's what it takes to be a reliable fact checker. It just so happens that there are more of such sites on the Left. And that, ultimately, is because there currently exists an ascendant class on the Right that benefits disproportionately from fake news. If you need me to provide citations and examples, I'd be happy to do so, but I'm guessing that you understand what I say is true.
The difference between factcheckers (including sites like Snopes) is that they'll actually give checkable citations for the facts they check. And if someday you find an error, they'll publish a retraction/correction.
You're not going to get any retraction or correction from patriotictruth.ru
American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year.
Thank you, friend. I've used these Reddit forums before and they've been very helpful. It would still be nice to have a legit service though. Not that I care so much about the legit part, but the less-than-kosher streaming sites can get a little wonky. Also, the only malware I've gotten in the past several years came from one of these sites, so I'm always a little squirmy when I go to them.
This could be really good. I've moved around the country a bit and it's always a hassle being a fan of sports teams in cities where I no longer live. I wouldn't mind being able to watch the Astros or Rockets or Bears or Blackhawks without having to invest in an expensive package.
I think I'm gonna try this locast. Plus, on a day like today, it would be fun to watch a local news broadcast from Chicago, where it's -8 F while wearing shorts and sitting on my porch.
I like it when spellcheck turns text into naturalistic post-modern poetry.
Well that's the point, man. I've opened up those doors of perception, tore then right off the fucking hinges in fact, so I can see what is not obvious to the average Slashdotter. I can see for miles and miles.
And by the way, did you ever look at your nostrils? I mean really look at your nostrils? Feed your head.
it is not foreign intervention (as you posited) to recognize a rightful President.
I'm not concerned about who Trump recognizes and who he doesn't. At this point, he probably thinks Fidel Castro is the president of Brazil. But when you start rattling sabers and talking about sending 5,000 troops into the area, and freezing assets, I would indeed call that intervention.
And we have a long, ugly history of intervention in that part of the world and it's always made things worse and caused nothing but problems.
I agree, which is why I don't recognize the current American president.
Did I ever tell you guys any of my acid stories? I forget. They're good stories, though.
By the way, is anybody holding?
So, are you really trying to claim the Nazi's where not socialist, yet claimed they where?
No, Nazis were not socialist.
https://www.britannica.com/sto...
I'm going to do you a big favor. Here is the entire Encyclopedia Britannica article on "Were the Nazis Socialists?" Maybe if you learn the actual history of where the "socialist" part of "national socialist" comes from, and what happened to socialists during the Night of Long Knives, you'll give up the notion that "Nazis were socialists tho" once and for all. But I doubt it.
Do you also believe that a tiger shark is a tiger? Is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea a democratic republic?
How stupid are you?
Except, the only people talking about violence against US personnel in the embassy are in the Trump administration
It's such an obvious ploy. Venezuela didn't threaten the US embassy in any way except to say, "things are getting hairy, you might want to go home" and the next thing we hear is Trump warning Venezuela not to hurt any US citizens. It's the traditional, "why are you hitting yourself?" approach to foreign intervention. The US is good at it;. We've been doing that dance since at least Vietnam.
Fuck, all I'm saying is let Venezuela do what Venezuela is gonna do. They are no threat to the US. Find some other way for Trump to distract the American people from the laundry list of crime and corruption that his administration has been guilty of. We don't need to put another foreign war on the credit card with money borrowed from China. We're already hemorrhaging money from Trump's tax cuts for wealthy corporations, and the trade wars, and the shutdown, and...on and on.
Enough with the foreign wars.
Surprisingly, not.
So, you believe a country being a "hellhole" is reason enough for the US to invade?
So now your argument is that we should do military intervention because Obama and Bush did military intervention? Now we're getting somewhere.
Yeah, you're triggered AND envious.
Oh, fuck right off. Nazis killed socialists. Socialism was not the concept behind the rise of power of the Nazis.
Lay off the Infowars, my man.
Let me stop you right there. First, the "EU, OAS and many others" have not proposed sending troops to Venezuela.
Second, are you really suggesting that the fact that the EU has adopted a policy is a good reason for us to adopt the policy? If so, you're showing some growth there, Rooster.
This isn't about who to recognize or who to condemn. This is about direct intervention.
First, Obama has admitted that Libya was the worst mistake of his presidency (see link). Second, I bet you didn't know that more Americans died in Syria under Trump than under Obama.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
You know the Trump administration is discussing military intervention, right? And just today, Bolton "accidentally" let out that they're considering sending 5,000 troops to Columbia for...something.
It's Wag the Dog, Rooster. Just like Bill Clinton did in Serbia. When you're having big trouble at home, nothing gets the mainstream media all fired up and saluting like seeing US firepower blowing some weak foreign nation all to Hell. Then, it takes a decade before they realize they've been had, and by that time (so it goes) you're done with a second term.
It's an old playbook. Grenada. Iraq 1, Iraq 2. Bosnia, yee-haw.