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 on: Today at 07:20:19 PM 
Started by Frodo - Last post by ReaganLimbaugh
The below is right!!

This puts the debate over school vouchers in a whole new light for most of us here:


You mean because if there were school vouchers, these schools would be less white?  They aren't "segregation academies" if they have non-white students, as the article admits they do.


Most “Christian” schools in the south were founded by wealthy whites to keep their kids away from black.

Wealthy whites don't have to send their kids to black schools because they can just move to places that don't have many black people. Most Christian school families aren't particularly wealthy, certainly not compared to those who go to secular private schools.

An important confounder in all this discussion is that the era of school desegregation coincided to a large degree with the era of school secularization with ending things like teacher-led prayer in school, both results of the Warren Court. So you can't look at a private Christian school that starts in the South in the 60s or 70s and assume that reaction to civil rights must have been the motivation.

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 on: Today at 07:18:29 PM 
Started by Reaganfan - Last post by Never Made it to Graceland
The fact that he was a unifying figure

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Dislike: Fanning the culture wars

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I like how you snipped out the other part of that post. After 9/11, he did unify the country, and I don’t think we would have that type of national unity, if such a tragedy happened today.

If true, Bush is largely the reason for that.

Take it from someone who was actually walking the earth when this happened: he took that "national unity" and turned it into a nightmare decade of racism, jingoism and the cynical destruction of the middle class.

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 on: Today at 07:17:46 PM 
Started by Crumpets - Last post by mjba257
This is actually pretty sad. Here you have a man that is very obviously mentally ill who was possibly in a sexual relationship with Paul Pelosi driven to the edge. I don't know what caused him to tick, but now being sentenced to 30 years I think is way over the edge. There are murderers who've gotten less time than that. I think this is a man who clearly needs serious psychiatric care and would be far better served in a mental health institution to remain indefinitely until he is no longer deemed a threat to public safety. That could be in a few months, or it could never happen.

I’m pretty sure that was thoroughly debunked.

By who?? Is it because it sounds preposterous? The two did know each other, it wasn't a random encounter. There was clearly a relationship. I do not know how intimate it was. But something set him off. Could've been drugs, could've been an argument.   

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 on: Today at 07:12:37 PM 
Started by °Leprechaun - Last post by °Leprechaun
Did I forget anyone?

 5 
 on: Today at 07:11:32 PM 
Started by Crumpets - Last post by emailking
Yeah there's video of him breaking in through the back door. It wasn't a fling.

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 on: Today at 07:10:32 PM 
Started by Dr. MB - Last post by pppolitics
"Idan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!" - Sharon On-Siboni (Idan Oh's mother)

Idan's mother and father proudly support Israel and defended their son actions at UCLA, saying that he is heading to UCLA to join the IDF.


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 on: Today at 07:09:36 PM 
Started by Logical - Last post by LAKISYLVANIA

Or just human decency, something lfromnj apparently lacks.

You become effectively whatever you deem evil by such attitude.

It's pretty much clear that most Atlas users would be awful diplomats or not users i would trust holding an important function or job like ever.

One of the fun things about being a civilian is you do not have to act like you are part of the state department. This is why when henry kissinger died, you can make various insinuations about his firey new accomodation rather than giving some po-faced statement about how he loved his family and the united states.

This isn't the innocent dead of gaza, it is a bloodstained dictatorial butcher who is directly responsible for the death of your ideological milieu.

Yes but the thing is that people are criticizing Europe's decisions to help with search efforts, this isn't about Raisi anymore, this is about people jokingly or non-jokingly saying Europe has an evil regime for doing what I consider a common sense thing.

I don't expect all of you to be diplomats. I don't expect all of you to pretend to be sad about this, though as compucomp says the irony is that for Raisi i guess we have a consensus on the forum but that for some other leaders moderators would not tolerate such comments, and i think perception on leaders such as Netanyahu and Trump would be a lot more divided.

Would you say if it was Netanyahu or Trump that these comments would've been okay. I don't think it's really that clear. Fico isn't really popular on the forum either and some had a hard time pretending to be sad there either... . My question is where is the line. What is allowed and what not?

I don't think anyone will mourn his death here. And i don't think anyone will attempt to convince you that the man is a good person (even if we must be aware of cultural & political biases/differences). But I just think overall, that the judgment - especially if he's confirmed dead - should not be up to us, people that even barely know him who he was, other than reading some bad stuff about him on Wikipedia or "muh Iran bad", i don't know anything about him.

In Christian tradition, generally, whenever someone is dead, the judgment is left to God, not to us. I in a lot of ways agree with that. Except for the God part because I don't believe in God but I agree that the morality isn't something I should really judge over at the moment one is deceased.

In Buddhist tradition, there is something like karma... or the concept that you become whatever you claim to fight if you resort to the same methods as the one/thing you fight.

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 on: Today at 07:08:05 PM 
Started by Logical - Last post by Lykaon




More accurate. The butcher of Tehran is in hell with Prigozhin, Sulemani, and Epstein

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 on: Today at 07:07:03 PM 
Started by heatcharger - Last post by wnwnwn
So trump campaigning in Virginia Minnesota and in a few days plan for a rally in new York city?
Seem like trump trying to cut the soft underbelly of the democrats by doing rally in these states But now how do you think Joe going to respond?.

He should camaping in competitive House districts of Ohio, Iowa and Montana.

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 on: Today at 07:06:55 PM 
Started by King of Kensington - Last post by ReaganLimbaugh
hahaha, no

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