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In the absence of coronavirus, Cain would still be alive this morning. He didn’t contract some other illness that would have ended his immune compromised life. He contracted the coronavirus. You’re making yourself look like a fool.

When the Republicans do it, it’s not political theater but rather a fight for freedom and liberty. You should know that by now with as many posts as you have in PPP.

Riddle me this: in lieu of corona virus, would Herman Cain be dead this morning?

No you wouldn't. You'd do it the traditional way like reading books and doing research.

Because you just stated that being a right wing country and being the #1 superpower are correlated. Your words, not mine. In other words, the further to the right a country is, the more success it will have on a global scale. If you don't understand what a correlation is then this is going to be a fun conversation.

If you believe that being a right wing country allowed us to become a superpower and that there is some type of correlation there, then it's only logical that you'd support the US moving even further to the right, to the point of becoming a fascist state. Wow... And btw, the shift to the right didn't occur until the 80s. The Greatest Generation and the policies of FDR that set the groundwork for America's greatness were not right wing policies at all. The right wing polices of Herbert Hoover did wonders at fixing the Great Depression, didn't they?

Trump apparently supports beliefs like the ones peddled by Dr. Stella Immanuel. “There is no known cure for the novel coronavirus or the disease it causes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Multiple studies have disputed claims that antimalarial and antiviral drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and chloroquine can help treat or even prevent the coronavirus. Last month, the FDA revoked an emergency approval that allowed doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to covid-19 patients even though the treatment was untested.” ... Immanuel has asserted that many gynecological issues are the result of having sex with witches and demons (“succubi” and “incubi”) in dreams, a myth that dates back at least to the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a Sumerian poem written more than 4,000 years ago. She falsely claims that issues such as endometriosis, infertility, miscarriages and STIs are “evil deposits from the spirit husband.” ... “A 2015 sermon that laid out a supposed Illuminati plan hatched by ‘a witch’ to destroy the world using abortion, gay marriage, and children’s toys, among other things, Immanuel claimed that DNA from space aliens is currently being used in medicine.” She also offered prayers through her website to remove generational curses transmitted through placenta. ... When asked directly about Immanuel and why he might trust someone who believes that alien DNA is used in modern medicine, Trump responded: “I thought she was very impressive, in the sense that, from where she came — I don’t know what country she comes from — but she said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.” And in light of social media for removing the posts for blatant misinformation, he simply doubled down when he said, “I guess Twitter took them off and I think Facebook took them off. I don't know why I think they're very respected doctors.” Yep. We're in good hands. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/28/stella-immanuel-hydroxychloroquine-video-trump-americas-frontline-doctors/

https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/

The vast majority of people are products of their environment. If you want fewer bad people then we need to improve the environments that create them.

So you don't trust BLM because they support the very unoriginal notion that it takes a village to raise a child? Because they believe the level of individualism is too great and the level of community is too little in this country? These are not at all new concepts, or even radical ones. Geesh.

(I posted this in another thread a couple days ago) Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's where our two parties lie on a complete left-right spectrum of the major political parties in the world. If you drew a line connecting those two highlighted dots and found their midpoint (i.e. the middle of America), it would fall quite far to the right of the center as defined by the aggregate political policies of the entire world. The United States is one of the most right wing industrialized nations in the world. You can see how our "left" is barely to the left of center.

Are you saying that Americans should tolerate fascism in their society? Because it's the fascists that Antifa are "suppressing" or fighting against. The US Army, Navy, and Army Air Forces were not showing fascist tendencies when they suppressed the fascism of Italy, Germany, and Japan during WWII. Suppression of the opposition isn't something that's exclusive to fascism, either.

Well, it was Buffalo716 who was using those labels, not I. Are you saying that he's an idiot then?

According to what quantitative metrics? A bunch of politicians chanting "America is the freest place on Earth" doesn't make it so.

It's not my responsibility to be able to decipher your words because of your medical history. What you type is the only thing I can go off of. Would you like to clarify what you meant? Because it was a very strange post to comprehend.

The guy literally just said to be against fascism is itself fascist, and your response to me is this?

Not gonna lie, but this might be one of the dumbest posts I've read here in a long time. And this thread is already filled with dumb posts... and I'm only on page 2 of the thread.

@JoshAllenHasBigHands Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's where our two parties lie on a complete left-right spectrum of the major political parties in the world. If you drew a line connecting those two highlighted dots and found their midpoint (i.e. the middle of America), it would fall quite far to the right of the center as defined by the aggregate political policies of the entire world. The United States is one of the most right wing industrialized nations in the world.

I didn't do a single extra-curricular thing in high school, including sports.

You just earned a ton of brownie points. Have a good day Koko.

Well, that's one way to keep your head firmly planted in the sand.

This.

I think you're right about this being the better way to approach racially motivated crimes (when provable, of course). In Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that penalty-enhancement hate crime statutes do not conflict with free speech rights, because they do not punish an individual for exercising freedom of expression; rather, they allow courts to consider motive when sentencing a criminal for conduct which is not protected by the First Amendment. https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-was-significance-court-ruling-wisconsin-v-468966

Haha we both just posted about motives. But if motive can't be proven in a court of law to a jury of our peers, then why is that part of our system of law (i.e. hate crimes)? At some level motive can (but not always) be established, and racially motivated crimes are no different. I read the article about racial slurs being used during the attack. If I was on a jury and the prosecution was using that as part of the evidence to establish racially motivated intent, those racial slurs would have spoken volumes to me.