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Do you believe that most people act according to their own self-interest? Is acting only according to your self-interest a good strategy in life?

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  • The fact that 70 million Americans voted for a christofascist dictatorship suggests not.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • I've been around long enough that I recognize bad faith and fallacious arguments, pedantism, and particularly expressions of Danth's Law and choose not to take the bait. I stay on message which was that it was obvious to the UK who their true and trustworthy friends were (for example Canada which joined the Second World War 9 days after its outbreak and sent young men to fight to stop the spread of fascism and defend Britain) and weren't (for example the US which sat on its hands for 829 days while Europe burned) as it should be today. It should be horrifying (but not at all surprising) to the UK, and to the rest of the free world, to see that fascism has taken hold in the US.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • 829 days. Canada was there for 820 of those 829 days.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • 829 days.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • For 829 days the US sat and watched.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Canada, 9 days.

    US, 829 days.

    For those 820 days the rest of the world, including Canada, was sending its young men to fight and die for freedom.

    The US sat and watched.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Canada entered the was 9 days after it started. The US entered the war 820 days later.

    Canada went and fought while the US sat and watched.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Cherry picked? 9 days versus 829 days. Cherry pick my ass.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Then why did it take 9 days?

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Bombed into it.

    • Elon Musk suggests creating a new political party amid Trump rift

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    • Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say

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  • Taco Don doesn't understand how anything works.

    • Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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  • Just a reminder that it took the US years to join the Second World War while the UK was pounded by the Nazis. Canada joined the war nine days after it began. Remember who your friends are. The US isn't anyone's friend but it's own.

    • DA says 40 UnitedHealthcare execs got bodyguards, and one dyed her hair after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson

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  • Did they consider not being evil shitbags?

    • Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say

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  • If the federal government isn't going to give California back the federal taxes paid by its citizens then it should stop paying federal taxes.

    • Bannon Promises ‘Punk’ Musk: ‘I’m Going to Rip Your F***ing Face Off’

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  • I thought this guy melted three years ago.

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  • First that I worked on was a DEC pdp8e. First that I owned was a Commodore 64.

    • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • I did Nazi that coming.

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  • It's called an ontological paradox.

    • Minnesota looking good right now

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  • It has been all along.