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This is a real thing. They've got a website, a facebook, and a youtube.

What's the deal with people hating on astrology? DAE get the vibe that there's more to this than "astrology doesn't work"?

The thing is that even in the James Randy world of people taking advantage of the credulous, astrology is still a pretty small fish. The skeptic doth protest too much.

Sure, but if you think Walz was wrong to order an assassination, then aren't you implying that killing a Democrat is wrong or bad in some way?

I love all the little ways observant Jews try to lawyer their way out of the inconvenience of their own religious observance.

For example, some elevators in NYC run continuously on Shabbat, stopping at every floor so nobody has to push any buttons.

I just love the contradiction of an all powerful, omniscient God that can be so easily tricked, delightful.

What group are you referring to? Usually when I hear the "no body is above criticism" it's a defense of bigotry.

People pretend that you can't criticize Islam for example, even though you can't mention that religion online without some brave truth-teller reminding us all that Mohamed was a pedo.

People say you can't criticize Israel, but I've criticized them plenty with very little push-back. Maybe the accusations of antisemitism is chilling, but being called a name isn't the same thing as "not being allowed". (I also find that unfair accusations are not nearly as offensive as apt ones)

Maybe you just ironically want sacred status for people who criticize? Because receiving criticism seems to be the chief complaint for people making this argument.

Just look at how much better Afghanistan is after we toppled the Taliban.

The best way to defend Israel is to do regime change to them, not for them.

The problem with Loomer isn't her face.

It's time to cut Israel loose and let them deal with the consequences of the shit they've done.

Domestic GPS is plenty accurate to use in weapons. It must be accurate to <1M to be useful for navigation. If google maps can find your iphone in your house a missile can too.

I suspect that the Government has plans to make the signal less accurate or even turn it off in the case of an emergency.

GPS is also trivial to jam or spoof since the signals are weak anyway. In Ukraine the EW space is so flooded that they use wired drones, and old rockets with inertial navigation are popular.

This is an opportunity. Somebody needs to tell him that pulling the leash on Israel would guarantee the prize. We could have a parade at the awards ceremony. Red carpet, real celebrities, and everything.

It would still only be the second most embarrassing Peace Prize given to a sitting president.

I swear baby, this is my first early access. This has never happened to me before.

Crush patriarchy. That's the system that's failed these men after all. It wasn't progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn't feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.

It's the promise of patriarchy that has "been stolen from us". And it's the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.

This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we're going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.

In Johnny Cash's "Live from Folsom Prison" album there is a song called 'cocaine blues'. The first verse goes like this:

early one morning while making the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head.

I keep this in my back pocket when conservatives claim that Rap and Hip Hop glorify violence, guns, misogyny, and drug use. I defy you to find something from NAS or Killer Mike that can compete on the level of classic country.

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.

Thousands and thousands of people line up every day to wait in long, slow moving lines just to get to the barrier around the Mona Lisa to photograph it.

The Mona Lisa might be the most reproduced image in all of history. And the people who get the opportunity to see it in person can only think to photograph it one more time.

It's almost if that were the point. Taking a selfie with Lisa is the correct way to experience this art. If your camera broke, there is no reason to wait on line just to what, see the painting?

Don't confuse patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism is love for one's homeland, nationalism is a delusion of blood and soil.

I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I'm a Dickhead.

These people are not talking about the science biology, but the epistemic authority of biology and science because "God's will" doesn't play like it used to.

Their ideology demands that biology confirms their priors. Don't bother to check. If some egghead denies it then biology is being political, woke, and distorted.