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  1. On 4/29/2024 at 1:32 PM, Sawbonz said:

    My first experience with someone having to make a decision regarding a 3rd trimester abortion was on my 3rd year OB gyn rotation as a med student. A 30ish mom with a 9 yo and a toddler was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer that initial staging showed was in the local lymph nodes at least. She was 6 weeks or more from her baby being at the brink of viability (months in NICU, likely lifelong GI issues, possible cognitive deficits, etc). To have even a 50-50 chance at 5 year survival, the heme-onc team said she needed immediate chemotherapy which meant terminating the pregnancy.
     

    Keep her baby and not live to see any of her children grow up. Abort her baby and have a 50% chance of being there for the other 2 children. She chose to keep the baby. Don't know how it turned out but I have a pretty good idea. 
     

    Almost all late stage abortions are true life or death situations for the mom, or fatal birth defects for the baby. These are devastatingly difficult decisions, and most of the parents consider it no different than the loss of a child. 
     

     

     

    I'd love to know why @lucious leftfoot thought this warranted a neg.

  2. 4 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

    My one Duke buddy sent me this. Unreal that these protestors have managed to drive him against his natural state of hatred for all things UNC.

     

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager

    Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators.

    But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde -- laughing at their shrieks and wails and shielding the Stars & Stripes from Soviet missiles.

    These boys... no, men, of the UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best.

    Help us raise funds to throw this frat the party they deserve, a party worth of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud.

    Even one is too many.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Is it rounding or do 3% just go “oh well I knew who I wanted between Trump and Biden but RFK makes it difficult, so now I’m undecided?”

    He’s also not going to get 11%. 

    Kennedy won't get more than 5% and he'll pull more from Trump than Biden. 

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  4. 7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Don't make ad hominem attacks.  What happens, get an ad hominem attack.  Never change CR'ers....

    If you think people shouldn't be allowed to criticize your sources when your sources have included literal neonazi websites in the past then what you're telling us is that you think you should be able to post literal neonazi propaganda without challenge. 

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  5. 28 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Citizen journalism via Twitter was a thing that largely got promoted during the Arab Spring and Iran protests and then spread to include citizens reporting on events from nations with only state-controlled media to report and organize on state actions.  Elron’s citizen journalists focus on reporting from open societies and claim that their reporting is needed because a shadowy cabal of elites control media. They frequently promote malign state-sponsored narratives and news and cooperate with state-controlled foreign media. 
     

    The one small carve-out is that the biggest information threat is the ongoing death of good local and regional reporting. Most people need to know more about their county officials than they do about college protests.  But there are very few of these “citizen journalists” on the local government procurement beat. 

    Yeah, but local council meetings are so fucking boring. 

  6. Just now, utee94 said:

    One of the main problems for them is that this is NOT true.  The message is fractured and scattered.  There are some pushing for divestiture. Some simply want a "Free Palestine."  There are others coopting the protests for a more inflammatory anti-Israeli stance, and then some just wandering around yelling "oink like a piggie oink oink."

    But I do agree that, for those that are actually protesting in favor of divestiture, they're doing it wrong, in the wrong place, to the wrong people, in the wrong way, and they're letting themselves get overrun and drowned out by the idiots. 

    I hope you're not just making this up because if this is happening it's very funny.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Not true at all. Progress is usually good historically speaking, but there have been a lot of bad societal shifts throughout time. The absolute worst recent one is that stupid people are now comfortable not only being stupid, but being loud about it. 

    Society benefits when imbecilic morons like @Longhornlove are ashamed of their stupidity and therefore stay quiet and keep it to themselves. So yes, the abject stupidity is absolutely the main reason his posts are bad. Starting a post with that list of proven lies, misinformation, and false conspiracy theories is terrible for society and the only defense is to call it out so that anyone who reads the thread understands that only complete idiots believe them. 

    It's no coincidence that the guy who has posted a nazi link is bitching in the DT national protests thread about people who attack sources. I'm really trying not to CR up those threads, but when people are posting Andy Ngo clips in there that shit needs to be called out. 

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    While I acknowledge firsthand how easy it is to get sucked in, I humbly suggest that everyone just ignore this shit because it isn't important, it just seems like it should be.  It's really just a bunch of dicks, whether the protestors or the cops/elected officals, playing games with no real consequences. It's theater.  There are more interesting and more important things to spend your time and energy on.  Like getting laid.  Or taking a nap.  Or taking a nap after you get laid.

    Yeah, the thing about these protests in particular is that, historically speaking (so far at least), they're actually fairly small and low impact. People like to hype them up for various reasons and cops love any excuse to put on the riot gear and crack skulls and lie to the press and strut around pretending to be important.  And most of these protesters themselves are dumbasses with no cohesive theory of effectuating change and their demands (when they have any) are barely even tied to what they're protesting against.  

    Even at Columbia, which seems to have been the worst of these, nothing that has happened has even approached the standard English soccer riot in terms of violence or property destruction.  

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  9. 12 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    They can post all they want where they want.  It's all the tried/true CR ad hominem attacks on posters, sources, and links that turn most threads into piles of giant shit.

     

    You of all people really should not be bitching about this.

     

  10. 1 minute ago, C-Man said:

    I didn't know who @Longhornlove was until late last night. Yeah, I know there are far worse posters on this site who do far more damage than this guy could. I was just commenting that it's been a long time since I've seen somebody who was basically flying under the radar for the most part to become such a lightning rod of stupidity in less than 12 hours.

    He’s done this a few times. The most memorable cases were when he posted a quickly debunked link to try to dunk on us when Abbott blocked the border patrol from a park on the border and some immigrants drowned in the river, and another when he posted some bullshit Hunter Biden laptop shit.

    Both times he whined like a child about how mean everyone was to him when he refused to acknowledge how obviously wrong he was.

  11. 8 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

    Look, you know me......a little anyway but I came in this thread to call out a lie that you yourself have clearly confirmed and that is that the left doesn't lie and make shit up out of thin air. Nothing I say or post will be taken seriously, I know that. I am half trolling these people anyway. Sometimes it is fun to kick the hornets nest and watch them follow and neg all my posts across the site. You see how they are, they attack you just because you defended me once. Remember, they will never forget that.

    Whatever I say/post will get twisted into something that it isn't just like it always is. I openly admit Trump is a pandering lying politician and you say the same for Biden but Biden gets a pass, go figure. Both Candidates are pieces of shit and we disagree on which one is worse. For all the people in here that think I'm some kind of unicorn in the way I think. That may be the case in here but it sure as hell isn't in the real world. The polls clearly show that not to mention my own experiences. Now I will leave you to it and go put on my tin foil hat and wait for more of my conspiracy theories to come true. Hopefully you got some of your street cred back from these CR Junkies but I doubt it.

     

    Do you believe that a 9/11 was an inside job?

  12. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Your first post plus this one to back it up are really not good. Your point of Joe Biden being a piece of shit politician and bullshit artist are completely drowned out by comparing him to Trump, who is not a lifelong politician. 

    Trump is in every way incomparable to Biden on this front. Trump actually, on live TV that nearly everyone in the US watched daily to hear the leader of the country give an update on the life altering global pandemic that was happening said to inject bleach because it kills covid. That’s a supreme level of stupid we will never surpass and is a fair and fine representation of the standard communication and messaging from him, it’s not an outlier it’s the norm. 

    Biden has some moments in sure he has been caught bullshitting or pandering. He’s a politician it’s part of the game and he’s played it for longer than damn near everyone alive at this point, but you miss the point that he RETIRED. HE DIDNT WANT TO DO ANY OF THIS SHIT. 

    Imagine being in Joe Bidens position right now where all he wants to do is be senile eat ice cream and creepily smell his grandkids heads, but no some lunatic wants to actually name himself dictator so he has to come out of retirement to win an election with his mush brain to save America from itself because no one else in the Democratic Party can actually swallow the shit pill of being president of everyone, not just the people that voted for him. 

    Hillary Clinton’s deplorables comment is a good representation of why most democratic candidates put forward are incapable of doing what Joe Biden did. Joe Biden has yet to reject anything but the negative ideals that some people may support and hasn’t outright rejected any American in any of his campaigning, to do that in a country of 300M+ there is a requirement to pander. 

    I’d bet a ton of money on Joe Biden being absolutely fucking miserable, but feeling a sense of duty and responsibility to the country that he’s seen do so much good in his life that he’s going to fucking die in office instead of in obscurity with his family. 

    Joe was doing what everyone wants trump to do. Fuck off, but because trump is a piece of shit human and the biggest attention whore of modern times we can’t just have a normal election based on pandering and politics. 

    Goddamnit, I hate it when people make me defend Hillary. This is what her full comment actually was:

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     know there are only 60 days left to make our case – and don't get complacent; don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, "Well, he's done this time." We are living in a volatile political environment.

    You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

    But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

    She was saying basically what Biden has always said: that Trump has brought fascism back, but that many who support him and/or might vote for him aren't fascist and that we should empathize with their concerns.  

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  13. 11 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

     

     

    Kristallnacht continues on

    People who like to compare much less serious events to things like Kristallnacht or the Holocaust tend to do so in an attempt to persuade others that Kristallnacht, the Holocaust, or whatever else they're comparing a current event to wasn't as bad as most believe that it was. 

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  14. Just now, dieucla98 said:

    Ya, it's a bit of an echo chamber in here - but it's one based on facts, science, medicine, data, empathy, etc... Not based on an orange goon and a bunch of shock jocks saying shit like "just look for yourself" or "the conclusion is obvious" as if that's an acceptable final word. There is no high road for you take here - that orange goon led echo chamber is the one you live in.

     

    Shame on us for not being more agreeable with 9/11 truthers.

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  15. Andy Ngo is quite literally a propagandist for a violent far right gang:

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    Ben says there are only about 15 core members of Patriot Prayer. It’s the group’s partnerships with other far-right organizations that boost their numbers during major protests.

    “It doesn’t matter if you have different beliefs,” Ben says. “The only thing that matters to them is that you hate the left.”

    Ben says he mostly “acts like himself” during protests—cracking jokes, fist-bumping protesters, and even subtly promoting liberal ideas with MAGA-hat-wearing members. The only lie he tells is that he’s a conservative.

    He spends most of his time befriending people he calls “true believers,” or members who have nothing to gain from their involvement in Patriot Prayer. He contrasts these followers with people like Gibson or fellow Patriot Prayer organizer Haley Adams—two people who use their polished social media platforms to collect online donations from fans.

    “I’ve intentionally avoided grifters like Joey and Haley because they are sharper about interacting with strangers like me,” says Ben.

    Another person he includes in the “grifter” category: Andy Ngo, a conservative writer who’s built a Twitter persona around filming fights between antifa and right-wing extremists (that, and trying to convince people that hate crime allegations raised by LGBTQ+ Portlanders are simply “hoaxes”).

    Ngo tags along with Patriot Prayer during demonstrations, hoping to catch footage of an altercation. Ben says Ngo doesn’t film Patriot Prayer protesters discussing strategies or motives. He only turns his camera on when members of antifa enter the scene.

    “There’s an understanding,” he says, “that Patriot Prayer protects him and he protects them.”

     

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    Ben says that he paused his livestream to call Cider Riot and warn the staff about Patriot Prayer’s planned visit.

    For the next 20 minutes, Ben films as the group loiters a few blocks away from Cider Riot, waiting for Gibson to show up.

    As the group waits, they discuss their weaponry. A few men try to guess which way the wind's blowing to avoid getting "spray" in their eyes, presumably when they use it against members of antifa. Another man holds a thick wooden dowel, and practices swinging it like a baseball bat. A woman carries a red brick in her hand. Some don goggles, helmets, and tactical gloves.

    "Who's texting Joey?" Someone asks when the group seems to be without a game plan. Another man says, “Tell Joey and them to hurry the fuck up.”

    Ben captures someone telling a person on speakerphone, "There's going to be a huge fight," and gives them directions to Cider Riot.

    Ngo doesn’t film any of the conversations, and smiles when the group cracks jokes.

    “He overheard everything,” Ben recalls, “and said nothing.”

    Ngo later posted videos of the violence at that event and framed it as if it had been instigated by leftists. He shouldn't be trusted and it's bullshit to post his edited videos and his commentary on them as some sort of neutral source of information. 

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