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https://twitter.com/RepStickland/status/1375162823165231118


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AlBundy33 posted...

It's not telling anyone what they can or can not sell, they still have a choice, they can make their s*** here, or not be allowed to sell it here

Read this sentence a few more times.

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Idk sounds like totalitarianism to me, telling people what they can and cannot sell

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Get a load of this nonsense
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-conservative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/

Lets be blunt. The United States has become two nations occupying the same country. When pressed, or in private, many would now agree. Fewer are willing to take the next step and accept that most people living in the United States todaycertainly more than halfare not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.

I dont just mean the millions of illegal immigrants. Obviously, those foreigners who have bypassed the regular process for entering our country, and probably will never assimilate to our language and culture, arepolitically as well as legallyaliens. Im really referring to the many native-born peoplesome of whose families have been here since the Mayflowerwho may technically be citizens of the United States but are no longer (if they ever were) Americans. They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.

What about those who do consider themselves Americans? By and large, I am referring to the 75 million people who voted in the last election against the senile figurehead of a party that stands for mob violence, ruthless censorship, and racial grievances, not to mention bureaucratic despotism. Regardless of Trumps obvious flaws, preferring his re-election was not a difficult choice for these voters. In factleaving aside the Republican never-Trumpers and some squeamish centristsit was not a difficult choice for either side. Both Right and Left know where they stand today and it is not together. Not anymore.

Those who wanted to Make America Great Again may refer to themselves as Republicans, though many realize that, apart from Trump, the party does not really care about them. Many may also, in some loose way, consider themselves conservatives. But among these plumbers, insurance salesmen, gym owners, and factory workers theres one question you can pretty much guarantee they never discuss with their family and friends: What kind of conservative are you? This question has virtually no bearing on the problems that overshadow their lives.

It is still a question, however, that occupies intellectuals, journalists, and the world of think tanks. And this matters, unfortunately, because however sensible and down to earth the voters may be, an effective political movement needs intellectual leadership to organize and explain the movements purposes and goals. This leadership is still divided intoto name a fewneocons, paleocons (not to be confused with paleo-libertarians!) rad-trads, the dissident right, reformicons, etc. A lot of these labels are a distraction. But before I reject these disputes as mostly irrelevant, let me make a couple of points about why we cant immediately leave this debate behindand so why an essay like this is necessary.

The conservative movement still matters because if the defenders of America continue to squabble among themselves, the victory of progressive tyranny will be assured. See you in the gulag. On the off chance we can avoid that fate, it will only be if the shrinking number of Americans unite and work together. But we cant simply mandate that conservatives set aside their differences, no matter how urgent it is that they do so. So my goal here is to show why we must all unite around the one, authentic America, the only one which transcends all the factional navel-gazing and pointless conservababble.

Practically speaking, there is almost nothing left to conserve. What is actually required now is a recovery, or even a refounding, of America as it was long and originally understood but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a minority of citizens.
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The great majority of establishment conservatives who were alarmed and repelled by Trumps rough manner and disregard for norms are almost totally clueless about a basic fact: Our norms are now hopelessly corrupt and need to be destroyed. It has been like this for a whileand the MAGA voters knew it, while most of the policy wonks and magazine scribblers did not and still dont. In almost every case, the political practices, institutions, and even rhetoric governing the United States have become hostile to both liberty and virtue. On top of that, the mainline churches, universities, popular culture, and the corporate world are rotten to the core. What exactly are we trying to conserve?

At a basic level, Trump understood this. His problem was that he lacked the discipline to target his creative/destructive tendencies effectively. But even with greater discipline, he still would have lacked the insight to discern and explain what needs to be destroyed and why. His presidency, especially in a second term, might have corrected this deficiency, except that Trump suffered greatly from an absence of good advisors who could help him make sound judgments.

This is partly his own fault, thanks to his bombastic vanity, but partly not, since only a handful of such advisors existand these few, moreover, have long been unwelcome in the corridors of power inside the Beltway.

Conservatism, Inc. is worse than useless in this regard because it does not understand through perpetual study what Trump grasped by instinct. As if coming upon a man convulsing from an obvious poison, Trump at least attempted in his own inelegant way to expel the toxin. By contrast, the conservative establishment, or much of it, has been unwilling to recognize that our body politic is dying from these noxious norms. Keep taking the poison! it advises. A cynic might suppose that many elements on the right have made their peace with (and found a way to profit from) the progressive project of narcotizing the American people and turning us into a nation of slaves.

What is needed, of course, is a statesman who understands both the disease afflicting the nation, and the revolutionary medicine required for the cure. But no such figure has emerged, and it is unreasonable to pin our hopes on such a savior simply turning up.

What, then, are Americans to do?
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The rule of the majority in America would be limited in principle to doing what could only rightly be done by all the people. That is, the majority acting in and through the Constitution, could not infringe the rights of the minority. The government derived its authority from consent of all the American people, who created the Union to protect their natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That meant no more kings exercising authority by divine right; no more hereditary aristocracy; no more established churches; and no permanent bureaucracy staffed by unaccountable experts. For the first time, the idea of a social compact uniting all the people would form a truly nonpartisan regime.

The great difficulty is that this idea only works if everyone agreesthat is, if everyone gets it and acknowledges that we are all fellow citizens (friends, ultimately) and that any temporary majority in power must represent the rights and interests of all.

This is the vital heart of what made American self-government work as long as it did. And it is the repudiation of this idea that animates the progressive, or woke, or antiracist agenda that now corrupts our republic, assaults our morality, and suffocates our liberty.

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AtelierRyza3462 posted...

Bezos provides goods

His workers provide those.

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So far he's done better than Obama, at least judging on their respective responses to the economic crises they inherited.

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Sure I just got new headphones, tell me why this other brand is way better anyways

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We have organized society in every way to leave most people reliant on the whims of the wealthy. And that's, you know, not ideal. But a website being able to not publish the incendiary thoughts of the President of the United States is not my biggest cause for concern in this regard.

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I have not seen either before

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Nearly a decade later? Fuck.

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That post does not slap

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Bump

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Of the guest hosts, I actually think Mike Richards has done the best job so far

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Gluck Gluck

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Chet responded
https://bit.ly/3sAtYwQ

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https://youtu.be/PyeWRd7ZEBs

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No, I watch good TV

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There needs to be a 20 year requirement before you can reboot your failed movie franchise.

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Mrs. Incredible called. She thinks this is a stretch

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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/TomRMarks/status/1375555112635047936

There's like, an interesting mechanic to be had in something that changes like that, provided it's reliable and you're given healthy warning. This ain't it, though.

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He'd recommend sinking it, right?

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Quicksilver posted...

Meanwhile in Baltimore the homicides rage on. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-eight-homicides-baltimore-killings-20210326-3jzf2rjxw5hkdiu6cy67slpinu-story.html

Don't act like not prosecuting prostitutes and low level drug dealers will reduce violent crime.

It literally went down 20 percent

g0ldie posted...

In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent, she said. Homicides inched down, though Baltimore still has one of the highest homicide rates among cities nationwide. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found sharp reductions in calls to police complaining about drugs and prostitution, she said.

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That's where Asian Americans overwhelmingly live.

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Looking forward to it!

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Which I agree with, but it's still weird to have them say it out loud.
https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1375251130586963968


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Isaac1987 posted...

But no, put masks on healthy people.

Man we knew last March that you can be contagious without exhibiting symptoms yourself. You've had to actively try not to learn that.

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Could be funny, idk

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https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1374743988805238788?s=19

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Is this cancel culture?

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I think they should unionize.

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I don't know what exactly, but I'm certain it was UR

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Back on micro-USB, or whatever the previous thing was called, you'd inevitably run into an issue over time where charging cables stopped sticking in, and that connection would be too loose to be useful.

But now I have a phone with a USB-C charging, and two years in I'm experiencing the same problem.

Woe is me. And the title was supposed to say USB-C

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Also it is not a game
https://twitter.com/6d6f636869/status/1374150868581294094?s=20

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Solid Snake07 posted...

But most people, like you or I can afford our own health insurance. Why should the government completely take over the healthcare system to provide everyone, most of which can afford their own, with healthcare

Because it's wrong to have tens of thousands die each year owing to an inability to afford care, and countless more put off care due to the cost.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-healthcare-medical-costs

that they can't possibly operate as efficiently as a market would?

What makes you think this, exactly? Medicare and Medicaid have lower overhead costs than the private sector. Countries with universal healthcare spend far less per capita than the US. And again that's if you can prioritize "efficiency" over "death toll."

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A bunch of legalese-sounding reasons that don't come close to justifying the disenfranchisement of 700k people

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Fam_Fam posted...

And it seems odd that South Korea would have this scoop considering the investigation is happening in the US and no one here as indicated anything to that effect.

Not if the witness is a Korean speaker

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This is what Republican voters are most concerned with, per a survey by Echelon Insights (all the articles I could find about this were from RW garbage outlets)



If these are the big problems you're worried about (which I think is silly) then voting for Republicans seems like the only way to address them.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Ok , but how many of them have jobs to pay the bills, are they going to college or just entering the work world. How many of them have a plan on how to live together and not at home with their parents ??

Both of them have graduated from college and seem to have stable work

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The Trent posted...

Double stuft oreos are literally perfect and a product of capitalism

It took capitalism 60 years to figure out more stuf would be good. We can do better.

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Here I with my dick in my hands and no romantic prospects

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I feel like I've seen this topic before

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Can we get the people ranting about erasing history and cancel culture pissed off about this somehow?

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This guy seems like the sort to do it, but cops regularly lie about people having/pointing guns. Don't get in the habit of taking them at their word.

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Scoop, there it is

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I think gamers have come to view sparing checkpoints and having to repeat sections just to get back to where they were as annoyances.

And also, remember that much of the difficulty in older games was so they'd suck up quarters at an arcade, or at least from devs familiar with that approach.

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Conservative lawmakers in Utah have fired another salvo in their longtime campaign against online porn with a new requirement that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state automatically block pornography in a plan that critics call a significant intrusion on free speech.

Supporters and critics alike are now waiting to find out if new Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, will sign or veto a proposal that the GOP-controlled Legislature passed this month.

Cox hasnt indicated publicly which way hes leaning. His spokeswoman, Jennifer Napier-Pearce, said only in an email that Cox will carefully consider this bill during the bill signing period. He has until March 25 to decide.

Supporters argue the restriction is a critical step to help parents keep explicit content away from kids especially as more children have their own electronic devices and have been forced to spend more time online during the pandemic.

Combating porn is a perennial issue for Utah lawmakers who have previously mandated warning labels on print and online pornography and declared porn a public health crisis.

Utahs generally conservative culture means racy mainstream magazines and lingerie catalogs can be considered risqu. Leaders of the predominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints faith have also drawn attention to what they consider the harms of pornography.

Even if Cox signs the measure, it wouldnt go into effect unless five other states also enacted similar laws, a provision added after manufacturers and retailers voiced concerns that it would be difficult to implement the filters for a single state.

There is some precedent for other states following Utahs example on porn more than a dozen states advanced similar resolutions to declare porn a public-health crisis after the state became the first to do so in 2016.

If Cox signs the bill, Utah appears poised to become the first state to mandate filters on devices, according to two prominent technology experts and the bills sponsor, though federal internet restrictions aimed at preventing kids from accessing porn were passed in the late 1990s and later stuck down in the courts.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-porn group, cheered the bill, saying that while many electronic devices come with filters installed, turning them on can be challenging for parents.

Utah has passed a critical, common sense solution to help protect vulnerable children from accessing harmful pornographic content on phones and tablets, Executive Director Dawn Hawkins said in a statement. Adults would be able to turn off the filters if they chose.

Research has raised questions about how pornography shapes kids attitudes about sex, and content filters can be an important tool in keeping children from being exposed before its healthy, said Emily Rothman, a Boston University professor who has studied the issue.

But even more important is comprehensive sex education to counteract messages kids might get from porn, she said.

Moves to expand sex education face long odds in Utah, and this year a bill that would have required more discussion about consent in sexual encounters died at the state Legislature.

Republican Rep. Susan Pulsipher sponsored the pornography filter measure, though she acknowledged it isnt a complete solution.

A child that wants to find it and tries to would probably be able to still. Its just one step in the right direction, she said.

She contends the measure passes constitutional muster because adults can deactivate the filters, but experts said it still raises several legal concerns.

Youve basically got the state mandating the filtering of lawful content. That raises immediate First Amendment flags, said Samir Jain, policy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington, D.C.-based internet policy group.

The bill as written could apply to any device activated in Utah, raising the possibility that it could require location tracking to activate filters on the phones of anyone coming into the state, Jain said.

The new porn filtering plan harkens back to the attempts struck down in the 1990s, and if it does go into effect, my guess is a device manufacturer would go into court the next day and have the law enjoined, said David Greene, civil liberties director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based internet civil liberties group.

The U.S. does allow for some explicit materials to be restricted from minors, but its a fine distinction that can require the courts to define, Greene said.

And he said no existing filters are that sophisticated: Its not like you put a judge in your phone, he said.

The filters in the marketplace have also been known to block other types of content, such as nude art works, educational information and facts about sex and sexuality, said Mike Stabile, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-entertainment trade group.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah said the bill is an overreach that imposes the same standards on everyone.

Parental filters already exist, said attorney Jason Groth, and every Utah parent can decide the level of access for their children.

https://apnews.com/article/utah-campaign-against-porn-phone-filter-plan-d2f3911b7887f2f145918d1718bf2504

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