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Sucks to work for The Onion. Can you imagine trying to out-stupid Trump on a daily basis?
 
Samson said:
Yes.
I have labored this on multiple threads and shown my workings.And I am not clever like Heather Mac Donald, Douglas Murray, Andrew Doyle, Sam Harris etc.
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That's a lie, you've never "shown my workings", and as usual your language deteriotes when you are asked for your "workings".
 
Samson said:
I found it astounding at the time how Trump tried to throw Mike Pence under the bus.
I was as revolted by Trump as the most basic commonsenseerat.
However, the exquisite evil of Biden and DEI makes me pray for a Trump victory.
Had he been killed, my glass eye would have shed real tears.
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Either Samson is a Poe poster or... I have to break forum rules to describe him.
 
dirtywick said:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-explains-why-he-keeps-praising-hannibal-lecter-1930009

trump’s back to talking about how cool and a real guy hannibal lecter is, by recycling the punchline that he wants to have you for dinner.

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oh my god i just realized that he thinks asylum seekers are looking to find actual insane asylums lol
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Yeah, I saw someone suggest that yesterday evening, and it made perfect sense. Trump is literally so dumb he thinks "asylum" means a place for mentally ill people.
 
JD Vance's comment on women who don't have children:

"If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children."

Interestingly, if you look at Florida, Texas, Idaho, the entire control of a woman's uterus is controlled by people who don't have uteruses.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Their rhetoric reveals one thing above all:

Republicans feel outplayed and are running scared.
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Well worth saying twice!

It's absolutely clear to me that they are **** scared of Harris and know that against Trump she looks young, vibrant and intelligent, while Biden looked like a decrepit old man.

shemp said:
However, he might have forgotten than NASCAR drivers only know how to turn to the left.
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:dl:
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Meanwhile, the tide of female support for Harris is fast-becoming a tsunami.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/...s-jennifer-aniston-and-swifties-take-jd-vance

Once the Swiftes, Beyhive and other cool kids unite, the Republicans won't know what hit them.

Harris 2024!
 
Samson said:
Yes.
I have labored this on multiple threads and shown my workings.
And I am not clever like Heather Mac Donald, Douglas Murray, Andrew Doyle, Sam Harris etc.
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Mmm. So, just to make sure that I'm not being completely unfair here...

I looked up Heather Mac Donald and the first thing I got was... "Why female leaders should be presumed guilty unless proven innocent:"

Hmm.

Andrew Doyle - "Is vandalising a Pride flag really a hate crime?"

Hard questions, eh?

If you're judging by the person, I'm pretty sure that you could do a lot better. Note, it would be very, very OT to address either of those more in depth here if you happen not to see what's wrong with them, so I won't.

To be clear, I will agree that you have put in a bit of effort in opposing DEI. I've not been paying pretty much attention to more dedicated DEI threads, so I can't say much about how well you've made a case in those. If threads like this one are to be the guide, though, your workings are very unsatisfactory for what you're trying to do with them. The general Anti-DEI case is problematic, though, all around.

When it comes to businesses, for example, the more recent DEI push arose after a bunch of businesses faced lawsuits because they were discriminating against women and minorities. That caused a shift in practices for risk avoidance reasons and PR efforts to play that up for business reasons. More recently, there have been a bunch of anti-DEI lawsuits, which has changed the calculus on how best to try to avoid risks. Personally, I find anti-discrimination lawsuits that pretty much come down to "You're trying to help the poor, but competent, and not the rich, but incompetent? How dare you! Lawsuit time!" to be far, far more deserving of being called evil, though, than DEI does. Meritocracy is a fine goal! DEI is just one part of efforts to make Meritocracy actually happen, though, in a real sense, rather than a caricature of Meritocracy.

You've raised the duck-rabbit illusion. That certainly is an example of something interesting. It's just not actually a good description of what's actually in play here. On the one hand, you have people fighting for meaningful equality. On the other hand, you have the people who have a long history of seeking to oppress others fighting back against the people fighting against their ongoing oppression. Nothing that you've said has even remotely addressed or refuted this basic truth about DEI and the anti-DEI efforts, so far as I've seen, which makes your efforts to call people fighting for actual equality "exquisitely evil" a bad joke.

With that said, calling Harris a DEI hire insultingly is, to put it kindly and offer immense benefit of the doubt, deeply misguided. Especially if you try to compare her to Trump. Harris is a woman, but competent and would fairly certainly hire in line with merit. Trump is a man, but incompetent. He's also been very, very clear, both in practice and promise, that he will actively work to destroy meritocracy. If you actually cared about meritocracy, you should be praying that Trump loses and loses horribly.
 
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