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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    😆 😆 😆 No, it's that I shot down your false claim that "NDAs are legal, this isn't a real case!" days ago. When I did, you shifted the goalpost to another fake claim about blackmail. When I shot that down, you moved the goalposts again to claiming that Daniels denied the affair. When I pointed...
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    Do liberals actually believe that there are no innate behavioral differences between men and women?

    As noted, there is no single "liberal" stance. That said: The biological evidence is pretty clear that in most cases, the behavioral differences between men and women are rather small. Daphna Joel demolishes that nonsense pretty thoroughly in her book Gender Mosaic. The only exception I can...
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    Should Google, YouTube and so on be allowed to censor anything that isn't illegal?

    And yet, I'm mad because they don't. :D Seriously, the whole Right Wing Persecution Complex is completely disconnected from reality. Only a handful of right wingers, white supremacists, fascists etc get booted, and usually it's because they've egregiously and repeatedly violated an apolitical...
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    Should Google, YouTube and so on be allowed to censor anything that isn't illegal?

    Well, you're wrong. Feel better now? :D The Internet service provider (ISP) is the neutral carrier here. It provides the basic connectivity, and thus should be much more limited in what it can moderate. Social media is more like "Letters to the Editor." The local newspaper does not have any...
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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: So, let me get this straight. I pointed out that Trump lied about the payoffs, and in general has no credibility. And your response is... to repeat a baseless claim you made on Monday? :LOL: Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that your numerous attempts to move the goalposts...
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    Who Pays Income Taxes?

    The metaphor is fine. You're just taking it too literally in an attempt to discredit it. Glad you asked. There's a few ways. Start by paying people as little as possible for their labor. Next, fight against minimum wage laws, unions, and labor protection laws. Then, abuse the employees. In...
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    Who Pays Income Taxes?

    lol... Because I'm aware of the variety of methods the ultra-wealthy use to hide their income. Again, this includes things like trusts, LLCs, corporations, off-shore accounts, and more. :rolleyes: First of all: My point was not explicitly about the morality of legalized tax avoidance. My point...
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    Should Google, YouTube and so on be allowed to censor anything that isn't illegal?

    Any privately owned website is entitled to its own editorial policies. Freedom of speech does not mean that Google, a private company, has an obligation to provide an international platform to anyone who wants to say anything. For example, there's a Christian web forum which bans anyone who...
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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    A lot. There are 8.8 million people in NYC, a lot of migrants from Oregon, and a lot of corporate lawyers....
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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    😆 😆 😆 Trump and Pecker threw $280,000 at her to shut her up, and it's not like the public is all that inclined to see sex workers as inherently credible. That makes it pretty clear they had an affair. Trump has blatantly lied about the situation.The charges are based on him lying about the...
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    Who Pays Income Taxes?

    So... You never learned about metaphors in high school? 😆 Anyway... Yes, there definitely are situations where one person's wealth is directly connected to another person's poverty. The obvious example is exploiting labor. Consider the Walton family. Sam Walton's heirs own 50% of the company...
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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    She recanted the denial, way back in 2018. Try to keep up.
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    Who Pays Income Taxes?

    Your main point is based on incomplete data, which hides the true income of the top earners -- as those top earners are doing all sorts of things to hide their true income from the IRS. Oh, for f****'s sake. Will that bullshit never die? A flat sales tax is going to be an incredibly regressive...
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    At least 50 potential Trump jurors dismissed en masse after saying they couldn't be fair

    Your continued retreat is noted. Anyway... That's all from 2018. Long story short, she recanted her denials about the affair. I don't find her public statements on this point to be all that credible. But the payments, both from National Enquirer and Trump, make it pretty clear that Daniels...
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    LSD relieves anxiety

    I do not trust you on this, because you're providing no data and no evidence whatsoever. FWIW, I also don't trust people making wild claims of benefits based on anecdotal evidence. That's why actual research is important, despite major structural issues like the inability to run a truly blind...
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