The Truman Tavern of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners 33 1/3: The Final Insult

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Since the burn thread is reportedly no more (nice job, mods), this thread will have to do.

Mod bias

If we're so "biased" then how the f**k are you still not banned despite picking up infractions like a dog picks up ticks while running through the bushes?

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The NRCC allied themselves with an abusive husband to blackmail his ex-wife, a sitting congresswoman, using revenge porn.
Every time I think Republicans have hit rock bottom they always find a way to surprise me.

What exactly is wrong with this?

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The NRCC allied themselves with an abusive husband to blackmail his ex-wife, a sitting congresswoman, using revenge porn.
Every time I think Republicans have hit rock bottom they always find a way to surprise me.

What exactly is wrong with this?

Jesus, my brain. Got my threads confused! 😆

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https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1349492130578919425

Too little, too late. Trump appears genuinely chastised for the first time in his Presidency.

Criminal caught red-handed says, "crime is bad and can't we just let bygones be bygones" after he's given an trial date.

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Best J fern Post in years.

I say we impeach the 24th President, Grover Cleveland, but let the 22nd President, Grover Cleveland be.

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Maryland should just join DC. This way we’ll have 2 fewer Democrats in the Senate and 7 fewer House Democrats.

This post was brought to you by; Blue avatar gang.

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If Texas were as committed to their infrastructure as they are to high-school football, then they'd be golden.

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I mean he has already been prosecuted, but I don't think they'll convict him.  There will be riots because a lot of people don't understand our legal system, and think burning down a 7/11 will change it.

The left currently believe that if the left wing hivemind believes you to be guilty, you are guilty. No other proof is needed. And this type of thinking is supported by "moderates" such as Joe Biden.

I believe Chauvin is guilty because I watched him murder Floyd on video with my own eyes, not because of the "left wing hivemind".

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Yeah, Bezos is obviously several millions of times more awesome and hard-working than the average American. Totally makes sense.

again, you don't seem to understand what "value" means in a market economy. If I work 24 hours a day digging  a hole in the middle of the mojave desert, am I deserving of a huge sum of money? Nope.

Similarly, whether you like it or not, someone who happened to buy a stock and see it absolutely soar in price still deserves that capital gain. They didn't steal it from anyone.

Who is deserving of the money if a house soars in value, if not the homeowner?

Who is deserving of the money if some antique you own soars in value, if not yourself?

Who is deserving of the money if you bought bitcoin in 2011 at 45 cents, if not you?

A stock is like a painting, a house, or some other asset. It is something that has value. The person who happens to own that stock is who benefits from that rise.

I would pay you to dig that hole in the Mojave if we filled it with copies of Mises' Human Action and any other Austrian claptrap that passes off tautologies like these as the height of profundity.

cc Burn Ward Thread

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Credit where credit is due.

Pro-tip everyone: “Forming a study commission” is a polite way of saying “we’re not going to actually do anything about this.”

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Context:

That's almost historical revisionism. The communist regime in North Vietnam invaded the sovereign country South Vietnam for the purpose of uniting the country under a brutal dictatorship, with the help of the Soviet Union and Red China. Not that the Saigon regime was great, but still superior to the North. The United States helped that country to maintain its sovereignty and win a propaganda battle in the context of the Cold War.

While the US better should have withdrawn in 1965, it annoys me that certain people pretend everything bad that happened was only on America. There were many, many diplomatic attempts under the Johnson Administration alone to negotiate a peace if the North simply accepted the South's sovereignty. They never cared about a diplomatic solution, committed war crimes as well and sacrificed many thousands of their fighters on purpose; like knowing the Tet Offensive was going to fail militarily, but send their boys to death anyway. Let's not pretend this is a one way street.

No? At all? The concept that the South Vietnamese government was any better than the North, or more importantly that most of its citizens wanted unification, rather well established.

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It's an exaggeration. The Israeli government treats Palestinians poorly, no question, but not on the level that the South African government treated blacks under apartheid.

And just because it's not literally bad as apartheid doesn't excuse it - don't misunderstand me on that.

How is this wrong?

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It's an exaggeration. The Israeli government treats Palestinians poorly, no question, but not on the level that the South African government treated blacks under apartheid.

And just because it's not literally bad as apartheid doesn't excuse it - don't misunderstand me on that.

How is this wrong?

This is the simple truths thread

Or, to narrow the answer down further, I was an Inksing idiot.

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I do love how everytime someone wants to lecture me on the simple folkways of the interior where they don't need your big city wages because everything costs a nickle it's a California or Washington Av.

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I'm going to be brutally honest about what we've seen with this fight against critical race theory: White people who don't want to accept responsibility for what happened in the past, who want to whitewash history, and who don't want to implement solutions to the systemic, structural problems in our country stemming from the abuses of the past, have settled upon critical race theory as a bogeyman and as an excuse to justify these positions that they hold.

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I am a proud free thinker.

You would first need to think.

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God I hate white people, they're so anti-white

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Gay parents are still a controversial issue? Modern Family started airing twelve years ago. Get with the times.

I’m no fan of the Mayor Pete but I’m pretty sure he’d be a better parent than any of the posters here whining about the lack of women in the Buttigieg family. Perhaps you all should concern yourselves with your own lack of women.

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2012: Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive.

2021: Steve Bannon is indicted and Britney is free.

Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted and Ferguson97 is whining.

 How do you take that post as having anything to do with Kyle Rittenhouse? Even the thread it came from was about Steve Bannon being indicted.

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Not ashamed to admit that I got owned.

Yeah that said, for a piece of human garbage and well documented a sex pest like Him,  It doesn't stop him from being a complete piece of garbage that his wife is lucky to be done with. And no, I'm not saying that because hes an arch conservative POS politically, but because he has an extremely well documented history of being a serial date rapist Is for whom the concept of an attempted long term monogamous relationship His failing is not the least bit surprising

    This is slander and you are better than this.

As Badger could tell you, it could be libel (not slander) since it’s written and not spoken. (Slander is Spoken)

Remember, Badger uses speech-to-text though.

 You and me both brother.

 I posted this in the in the comedy thread only cause I couldn't find this 1 1st. Thanks for correcting that Shortcoming.

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I can't find the Atlas hilarity thread, So I'll have to post this here.

Nothing like a good banning to cheer me up.

Meclazine has been banned for 30 days -- for taking pleasure in the banning of others.  

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Me pointing out something is literally subjective is not me defending them. It seems everyone on this forum is a dictionary denier and refuses to understand how the English language works. You can't criticise climate change deniers and refuse to believe the dictionary definition of subjective. Literally all morality is subjective, even ones of which one opinion is agreed upon by 99.9% of people.

Ironically, this itself is very much a subjective claim that you've arbitrarily decided to pretend is objective

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How the hell is this thread now about incels and Antifa?

I’ll tell you why. Because people in this thread are attacking innocent elderly people who did nothing wrong. Just because they live in a retirement community that’s largest enough to be considered a city.

These people did nothing wrong. They worked, saved, and retired. These incels just don’t like them because they are white and part of the boomer generation.

Just because you majored in art and borrowed 50k with no hope of ever saving doesn’t mean you have to hate/resent people who were smarter/more fortune than you are.

Only an ancient right wing floridian would think this an ignorant etc post.

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Puberty blockers for minors is immoral.

This seems like a troll bait comment, but to respond to it seriously, a lot of people disagree with you and aren't going to stop pushing for it just because you disagree with them.

It is not a troll comment, and you are seeing growing backlash toward it. Why can’t you leave kids bodies alone? Why do you want children to make life altering decisions and get irreversible surgeries? Stop putting kids under the knife

Puberty blockers aren't surgeries. Also, almost nobody is pushing for surgeries for kids. Seems like you have difficulties with reading comprehension and reality comprehension.

Puberty blockers themselves do harm. A young kid isn’t old enough to even comprehend what they do, or the long term effects. Again, stop treating kids’ bodies like your own personal science project

$hit post thread thataway------>

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First they came for the redskins, but I did not speak because I am a Broncos fan
Then they came for the Confederate statues, but I did not speak because I don’t pay attention to statues
Now they come for Squaw Valley, and I still don’t give a flying f**k because it’s a stupid name what precedent are you talking about you probably haven’t even cared about that s**t place before anyways so give it a f**king rest.