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DarthAragorn posted...

yeah no, some shooters or potential shooters definitely have looked up to past shooters

the columbine guys are especially common

I think it's more of a "in addition to" kind of deal.
These shooters tend to have messed up lives and gravitate to all kinds of people. Yeah, some of them do idolize former shooters, but that's not the tipping point. It's not like people look up the Columbine kids and are suddenly possessed in wanting to shoot up their school.
It's just a convenient way to shift the debate away from mental health and gun control to blaming the media, which Americans as a whole no matter which side they're on are all ok with shitting on.
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Darmik posted...

I've never seen another movie have so much "why didn't the character just do this thing" criticism thrown towards it until now.

Even though there actually is an explanation stated in the movie. It doesn't work.

Whatever fan fiction win scenario you dreamed up didn't work. Oh well.

It's more that the explanation is lazy as fuck. Every single argument you can make about what they should or shouldn't do comes down to "that's not the way Strange saw it so it can't happen"
It shuts down all debate. Every thing happened by Strange's design and will be ok in the end because of that.

The writers took the easy way out. That's all there is to it.
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Solid Sonic posted...

You can't have a good Superman game because no one could create a challenge for him in the context of a video game.

Nah, there are many ways you can make a Superman game that's challenging.

The first way is lazy, but effective. Just depower him. Either this universe has a weaker Superman or there's some plot reason for why he's not as strong as he normally is. Red Sun, Kryptonite poisoning, magic spell, etc.

The second way is a little better. Have him fight enemies on his level. You don't need him to be chasing after bank robbers who are only packing P90s, have the enemies with plasma rifles because Braniac and Luthor teamed up to kill Superman. Have Zod, Doomsday, Metallo, Martians, etc. who are on his level who can cause real damage to him be the enemies.

The third way could be combined with the second. Superman stopping a mercenary group isn't dangerous for him, it's dangerous for the hostages inside the building. He needs to save them.
Instead of it being an annoying ass escort or timer mission, you could also combine this with a "health system" for Metropolis. Yeah won't really die from the 50 foot robot Godzilla creature from the paradimension, but instead of damaging him it damages the city and you need to stop it from being an Apocalypse.
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If you're going to go into weird 'elements' then you can always look for inspiration with The Rolemaster Elemental Companion. It breaks down elements into several categories.

Opposition:

Fire opposes Water
Earth opposes Wind
Wind opposes Earth
Water opposes Fire

And the combinations:

Fire (dominant) + Earth = Magma (Opposes Ice)
Fire (dominant) + Wind = Electrical (Opposes Inertia)
Earth (dominant)+ Fire = Light (Opposes Dark)
Earth (dominant) + Water = Ice (Opposes Magma)
Wind (dominant) + Fire = Heat (Opposes Cold)
Wind (dominant) + Water = Inertia (Opposes Electrical)
Water (dominant) + Wind = Cold (Opposes Heat)
Water (dominant) + Earth = Dark (Opposes Light)

The RMEC defines these as the elements.

Lesser Basic Elements

Air - Opposed Gravity
Cold - Opposed Heat
Light - Opposes Dark
Vibration - Opposes Inertia
Water - Opposes Earth

Greater Basic Elements


Gravity - Opposes Air
Heat - Opposes Cold
Dark - Opposes Light
Inertia - Opposes Vibration
Earth - Opposes Water

Compound Elements


Electrical - Light + Heat + Inertia
Fire - Air + Heat + Light
Ice - Water + Cold
Wind - Air + Inertia

Super Compound Elements


Plasma - Equal mix of all 10 basic elements
Vacid - Mix of all 10 basic elements where each opposing element is balanced

Complex Elements


Aether
Chaos
Nether
Nexus
Spirit
Time
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ShinyMuffin posted...

Water + Earth = ?

Wood/Life.
Think pokemon. Earth = Ground/Rock and Wood = Grass/Bug
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thanosibe posted...

I say homosexual man and/or woman. I don't like to use gay. Wtf just uses homosexual as an adjective? That's like saying the blacks/whites/Asians.

A homosexual man is using the word 'homosexual' as an adjective
Post 8 said: The only homosexuals I know are either unemployed or constantly looking for work

Which is using homosexuals as nouns, which is weird as you pointed out with "blacks/whites/Asians"

As far as not liking to use the word gay, meh. Some people prefer it, some don't. In my opinion it's similar to using 'African American' in that it's not wrong but it just feels oddly formal. I'm a gay latino who prefers to identify as a hispanic man, so who knows?
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thanosibe posted...

Christ now using words/label as they are actually defined is unacceptable? I'm practically running to my grave.

It's more of an adjective vs noun thing.
"A homosexual man/woman" sounds better to most than "a homosexual"
Similar to male/female and why people don't like that sort of reductionist word usage.
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There are ways to guarantee your chicken to be safe at medium rare. I wouldn't take my chances because food safety is never 100% guaranteed even under the best circumstances, but it does exist if you take care of the chickens and shit.
It's just that even if you won't get salmonella, the taste and texture cannot be appetizing. Steak and pork make sense due to the way red meat works, but raw chicken is gonna be fucking gross.
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ZMythos posted...

They tried exactly this with Sun/Moon.

No, what they did with Sun and Moon was add more stuff to the pile.
What I'm talking about is clearing it up, not just tacking on extra features.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

I've been thinking of making a "Fix That Pokemon!" thread. Whether by evolution, mega-evo, a new form(Kantonian form is appropriate, by the sound of the rumors), stat boosts, new abilities, and/or straight stat buffs, it would be our mission to improve sorry garbage like Swalot, Fearow, Crabominable):, etc.

I would be interested in that sort of thing. It's always fun to "build a game" as it were.
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I really hope gen 8 is a soft reboot for the franchise. Moving to the Switch helps in many ways
I really would not mind it if they looked at the existing pokemon and changed some types, stats, and movepool.
Get rid of a lot of bloat and have a clear vision with 800+ pokemon. I'm fine with a new region that introduces ~30 pokemon and maybe a bunch of regional variances, but also retools the existing stats and such.

It's just that while I like Pokemon, it'd be nice if they addressed the problems and helped streamline (without dummying down) the games.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

arranged marriages as much more successful than others.

Many of them are only successful because divorce is considered shameful in these cultures.
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12 is better than 10
so that
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HylianFox posted...

"BIG GOVERNMENT IS BAD THAT'S WHY WE CREATED ONE TO SHOW YOU ALL WHAT FOR"

KarmaMuffin posted...

"X is bad because of Y, even though the people who like X don't want Y but instead want Z. Ha! Told you X was bad."

Yeah. Conservative politicians tell voters the government is useless and out to get them, then when elected they prove it.
It's a really bizarre argument.
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Sayoria posted...

These would-be shooters are still disturbed and their desire to do these attacks is only continuing to occur. If not guns, knives. It doesn't matter.

That is correct. However, they are not motivated because they want to be famous.
It's a nice soundbite people deflect to but it's not the answer.
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Omega Hunter posted...

I consider myself extremely intelligent and I say stupid things from time to time. You people just have an unreasonable hatred of the man.

Case in point: you literally complained about Star Wars being "taken from you" because of Rey, i.e. girls can't enjoy Star Wars.
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Intro2Logic posted...

It's important to actually watch his lectures and listen to the things Peterson says.

To be fair it's hard to listen to him when he can never actually finish a thought and rambles on about bs before coming back to his point. Then there's the constantly changing definitions of words so he can "technically be correct because that's the best kind of correct" but it just leads to 'non-lobsters' wondering wtf people see in him.

Then there's the appeal to authority fallacy that I swear most of his fans were the types to call people out on that sort of thing, yet Peterson is free from that complaint.
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R_Jackal posted...

Is it that much a stigma or problem to call yourself bi because the tendency is/was there?

There's no stigma for me personally, but it is a problem to call me bisexual when I have no inclination to have sex with a woman.
If I ever do feel the desire, then we can talk about me being bi at that point in time, but until that happens I do have a problem with being called bi.

It's like I said above. Someone who is a vegetarian who ate a burger a few years ago is still a vegetarian so long as they continue to identify as one and avoid meat. If they do eat meat in the future, at that point you can say they're not a vegetarian, but unless that happens they're still vegetarian.

R_Jackal posted...

it's completely outside the realm of possibility?

It's not against the realm of possibility for me to have sex with a woman again, but I'm saying that until I feel that desire and act on it, calling me bi is basically saying that 1. my opinion of my sexuality matters less than your opinion on it, and 2. that I will continue to be judged based on something I no longer feel or do.

which leads me to

R_Jackal posted...

I understand fluidity based on feelings, but... for most of humanity, your past follows you forever. You're constantly judged for it, even if by yourself for most people.

Yes, of course we are. I just disagree that sexual preference is locked in because of the past. Someone who was extroverted in high school who becomes introverted after the death of their parents in college is called an introvert because we accept people change. Someone who advocated for pro-life beliefs and then ends up supporting Planned Parenthood and petitioning for the right to an abortion for all women is pro-choice, because we accept people change. Someone who is raised Catholic and decides they no longer believe in God is an atheist, because we accept people change.
People can judge all they want, but they'd be wrong to focus on a part of someone that no longer exists.
All I'm saying is, I had sex with women and no longer want to. I don't believe you can call me straight on account of the gay sex I've had since, and I don't consider myself bi because I have no sexual feelings towards women.
A man who considers himself straight who had sex with a guy in the past but harbors no sexual feelings towards men in the present is straight. It's not about denial, it's about that person knowing what they believe now matters more in identifying them than what they believed in the past.
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R_Jackal posted...

I've seen a lot of mental gymnastics here to justify banging a dude and not being at least a touch gay.

I mean being gay isn't a bad thing, but denial is. Need to relax. If you're a guy and have fantasized about it or done or, you're at the very least bi curious.

I've never done it or really been curious about it myself though.

I just don't get this train of thought.
I'm gay. Everyone who knows me irl knows I'm gay and has only ever accepted me as this. Nobody would ever think of me as straight or bisexual.

But, about ten years ago, I slept with two different women. I was struggling with my sexuality at the time, but that doesn't make me bisexual. That's like telling a vegetarian that because they ate a burger ten years ago they are actually an omnivore.

Sexuality is more fluid than straight | bi | gay
More importantly, it's what happens from now on that matters. Straight men who have fucked a man (or been fucked, whatever) in the past are not gay or bi if they no longer desire to sleep with men. Nobody is denying their sexuality, you're saying that peoples past behavior overrides their current behavior. Reminds me of the "sheep fucker" joke, but it shouldn't be a way of life. People change and someone who identifies as gay or straight today and from now on shouldn't have that ripped away by someone else saying "you slept with a member of your non-preferred sex years ago, thus you have to be at least a little bit bi"

That's BS

* Sheep fucker joke if you hadn't heard it before: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/feuz6
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Scotty_Rogers posted...

Glad you finally get it. Movie was trash. XD

You could literally have 10 reviewers rating the movie between 1 and 10
7 10s and 3 5s gives you 7 positive reviews and 3 negative reviews, yet the average score is an 8.5

Now imagine how difficult it could be when you have reviewers who use a 100 point scale, a 10 point scale, a 5 point scale, a thumps up/down feature, or a weird 4 star review that uses half stars, etc.
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Drunk posted...

Yeah, the first big, thick one didn't confirm it, but once the second got in there, you just knew

Like I've said in here, I'm gay and have slept with women before realizing I'm gay. That's not rare for gay men. Why is the inverse any different?
Why are you so stuck on absolutes?
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I'm gay and have had sex with a woman, I don't think I'm straight and I would never fucking touch pussy again.
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He certainly attracts a large following of people on the alt-right. He denounces them, sure, but Richard Spencer also denounces Nazis.
That's the problem with taking people at their word. Many of the things he's said resonate with people who have very little ideology other than being anti-left.

Perhaps I should change my statement: Capitalist Proudclad was more entertaining than Religious Proudclad, but anti-left Proudclad is just gross.
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Capitalist Proudclad was more entertaining than Religious Proudclad, but alt-right Proudclad is just gross.
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dameon_reaper posted...

Well...there are things not everyone can do >_> like...just because Batista could wrestle doesn't mean he could pull off high flying stunts(I doubt there were any)

Not to mention that if the stunt double breaks his leg, it's not like it effects much. Batista breaks his leg and he either delays the film production or his role gets cut the way down.
It's stupid for actors to do their own stunts and fuck people who demand it.
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Choco posted...

their lives are financed via taxpayers' money

it's honestly pretty disgusting

They also bring in a lot of money, more than they're getting.
They also technically own land that they're leasing to the government for much less than it's worth.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

it's not something that anyone would logically devote an entire multinational corporate empire and decades of manpower and research to, and call "immortality". no one would be convinced that uploading a copy of your consciousness into a robot is immortality or resurrection.

Obviously Delos thought it would be him enough to fund the venture. Then again, that might be narcissism and desperation coming into play.
Regardless, if youre absolutely going to die soon anyway why not roll the dice and see what happens?

Anyway, I think people get hung up over what makes you "you" - what defines you? Your human body, your consciousness? Your soul? Your mind? Because as we are all aware of, almost every cell in our bodies are replaced every several years; what is the personal gain to live if we will be a copy of our self in few years? I think that you need to update the definition of self.

I don't think it's a easy question, about the "transfer of the mind" versus "robot copies with my consciousness".
If you download your brain into another brain/robot/clone, is that still you?
Better yet, if you time traveled three minutes into the past and said hello to yourself, which "you" is "you". From your point of view as person A, that's you. But from your point of view as person B, that's you.

Many people get hung up over the continuity of experience. But that continuity is broken every time we fall asleep and wake up, every time we black out from drinking, every time we get hit while playing a sport, etc. For all we know the consciousness that wakes up is completely different from the one that falls asleep. For all we know, an artificial consciousness that is initialized in an artificial host could be as convinced it had just woken up as we are every morning.

Same with exact replicas. They are both you. Just depends on your point of view. And probably a whole bunch of philosophical moral ethical arguments that are at the center of this show.
If this technology actually existed, you could be remembering this topic 100 years from now, wondering why you would ever doubt this. You would live on. And you would still have lived your life, married your spouse, had your children, and never died. You wouldn't even know the exact point you become a host, theoretically.

Of course, if you're religious or believe in a soul, all of the above goes out of the window.
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GregShmedley posted...

Question, are we allowed to dehumanize Nazis? Or is that wrong as well? How about calling gang members "super predators?" Anyone?

I'm not sure why you (or anyone else in here agreeing with you) is using this as a gotcha. It's bad to dehumanize people, even a piece of shit who decapitates babies is a human who has certain rights.
It's important to remember that even bad people are humans, calling them animals doesn't help us address the problem, it's just a meaningless word meant to drum up his base.

It's also important to consider the context. This was an event about Sanctuary Cities, yes he was asked about gangs but it looks bad to not clarify what he said. This is just another one of Trump's gaffes so it shouldn't be a big deal, but of course people take offense to him calling them animals when he's incapable of properly talking. To say nothing of the fact that this administration does not understand why we have Sanctuary Cities.
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Doom_Art posted...

"now there's two jedi and two sith. that's not balance"

They're not wrong though
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I don't believe in a God and I don't believe we have Free Will.

The way I see it, the decisions we make are because of our experiences and genetics. The stimuli I experience impacts me on ways I am not conscious of. Essentially every random event, every decision other people have made that affect me, every impact I've felt, etc. is something that has shaped me into the person I am today.
Because of that, every choice I'm faced with will go the same every time. Since I'm not really making that choice and it's already been made, I only have the illusion of Free Will.
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26_Sandman_39 posted...

no but you would win based off of the combination of every major city in america, making anyone outside of the city's voice useless

Are there more voters in the city? Then why is this bad?
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Mansplaining is not simply about explaining stuff. Essentially it's when a man explains something to a woman who is an expert in whatever he is explaining.
Does it happen man-to-man or woman-to-man? Absolutely. But the women who are using the term believe that intelligent women deal with this more from men than any other interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, it only exists as a term because a bunch of women came forward and went "yeah, I have to deal with this shit." So saying that it doesn't exist is just putting down their experiences, which they obviously get upset over.
If you want to champion for "womansplain" when it comes to things like taking care of children or housework, please do. That's a real issue men have to deal with as well. But there really hasn't been momentum to get it to be a thing, just men trying to tear down women's personal experiences.

And yeah, I didn't actually think it was a thing until I graduated college and was in a professional environment. Yes it happens between all genders, but I saw it happen much more from men treating women like they were stupid.
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spudger posted...

Literally makes no sense not having them

There are many.
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You don't really want bipartisanship, you want "your side" to vote down party lines and you want the opposition to "vote with their conscience" i.e. hopefully get enough to pass if you don't have the votes necessary.
Bipartisanship means compromise, and compromising your values isn't really a good thing because politics is about choosing between competing world views.
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http://www.euthanasiecommissie.nl/uitspraken/publicaties/oordelen/2015/psychiatrisch/oordeel-2015-64

The official report talks about there not being a 'depressie in engere zin', which means a major depression without moments of clarity or happiness. The full quote is as follows:

At the time medical history, evaluation and psychiatric evaluation did not give an indication for the presence of a depressive disorder, delusions or a perception disorder. The wish of the patint was, considering her prognosis and personality, relatable and reasonable. There was no case of major depression or a mood disorder that influenced her thinking. The patient had tried every reasonable therapy and could not be helped any further with the current state of science.

And from the article:
As a result of her abuse, she suffered from post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD), severe anorexia, chronic depression and hallucinations, MailOnline reports.
Despite improvements in her mental state after "intensive therapy", Doctors believed her multiple conditions were incurable and two years ago agreed to her wish to end her life.

So, the doctors explained that intensive therapy had little effect.
This woman was in a very unique situation where it was determined that her conditions were so severe and incurable that her wish to die was granted. It's sad, but it was ultimately her choice and more than one medical professional agreed with her.

She asked to die and when it became apparent there was no home for treatment for her multiple severe conditions, they agreed to her request. They did try to save her, but even they admitted there was only a temporary minor partial improvement.
It's amazing how you want to take away someone's right to die over the idea that somehow you, without knowing what they did, are more qualified than the multiple doctors that treated her.
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chill02 posted...

imgur is dead

You just have to refresh the page after you get

Access to i.imgur.com was denied
You don't have authorization to view this page.
HTTP ERROR 403
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prince_leo posted...

a friend of mine says he'll issue a chargeback on his card if they go under though, so we'll see how that works out for him

Is this not fraud?
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The main problems people had with TLJ were the effects it had on the saga as a whole, not with his directing skills.
So really everyone should be happy that he has his own trilogy: fans of TLJ get to see more of his vision and people who hated TLJ have him kept away from the "main" franchise.
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...

This is a success though, even if it only works one in every 100 times, that's still more dates than 0/0 attempts. Dude even met his fiance through this method, it's of no consequence if you strike out 99% of the time.

The problem is that you're approaching this from the side of a guy who got turned down 99 times and succeeded once, not taking into account how the 99 women felt about having their day interrupted by someone who was playing the numbers game.
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Sayoria posted...

I still cannot believe he all of a sudden wants to actually open his country up.

NK has used the "I'm crazy so don't fuck with me" defense for awhile now. Problem is, Trump is crazy too. The defense is only helpful when other countries are sane and predictable.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Muller doesn't have anything, how have you not figured this out yet

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I'm gay so the rules are way different, but I have a lot of attractive female friends and tbh I just feel bad for them.
They get hit on on their way to work, when they're stressed about their job.
They get hit on once they're at work, when they're trying to do their job.
They get hit on when they go out to lunch, when they're trying to eat.
They get hit on once they go to the grocery store, when they're trying to shop.
They get hit on once they go their gym, when they'retrying to exercise.

I know, "boo hoo you get hit on" is the response, but they're just trying to get through the day with minimal contact just like the rest of us, but they don't get to. They have to be polite because they'll get called a bitch if they lose patience with guy #1987324 because of the other 1,987,323 men out there who hit on her beforehand.

So yeah, don't hit on a girl when she's in the middle of her workout. There are plenty of other places where she's not going to be in the middle of shit.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with safe spaces.

I feel like puppy rooms during finals are just a way to destress. If anything the takeaway should be that the exam process needs to be reworked. I've been out of college for over five years and nothing I do at my job is on the level of a final that is effectively pass/fail (due to most of my programming finals being ~30% of your total grade).
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crazyman32 posted...

My point is Hillary wanted war with Iran not Trump.

And yet it's Trump that's in power and is pushing us towards war.

Uncle Choad posted...

MFW Iran is upset because pulling out of this is bad for America or something.

Or America is upset because Iran totally didn't want this deal and pulling out of it is bad for America, so Iran is mad about it.

Iran is not mad. They gain from this in every way unless America is stupid enough to invade.
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The sanction threats go nowhere. The US is negotiating from a position of weakness now. The EU knows the US will never impose sanctions on them. Just look at the recent steel tariffs, Trump added exceptions for all our allies. They know our word can't be trusted.

(1) Our own Secretary of State and DNI have said Iran is compliant within the last 2 months.

(2) Our intelligence services are required to share any evidence of noncompliance within 10 days of uncovering it, they have uncovered no evidence.

(3) Every one of our allies except for one person, Netanyahu, affirm that Iran is compliant.

Step three is going to be a lot harder to pull off if Iran continues to comply with the original deal - which they say is the plan. That's the best option for them, they're going to gain a huge amount of international legitimacy while we lose our international credibility.

The nuclear deal was indisputably working.
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BJ-blazkowics posted...

do tell I'm curious

Just ask UR, he defends him in every thread
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Very true, thank you.
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You've got good luck too. Blue Label is probably one of the worst at the price point so you've only got better to look forward to.
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Allowing a group of people who are still dealing with the effects of systematic racism a chance to be on equal footing with others
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Darkman124 posted...

when people say personal finance should be taught they mean neither of these things

Those are the go-to examples I've heard on here, Facebook, reddit, etc.
But forget that, what would be an example of what a personal finance high school class would teach besides investing?
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