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Is this the best thread ever and the other poxy international thread should be closed

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    Votes: 8 88.9%

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    Votes: 2 22.2%
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kirky said:
Where does that say that in the Amendment XIV re : slaves? You see that is why it will possibly get overturned.

Using another example, Amendment 2, the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution - at the time the guns were muskets not semi-automatics.

You see how it works now. It is the wording that is important not the time.

Same reason that President Trump can’t run for a third term.
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The time provides the context as to what the amendment is designed to achieve. Muskets is a terrible analogy because the amendment was designed to allow citizens to use weapons to defend themselves against invaders. It’s perfectly logical that as weapon tech progresses the weapons they use to defend their land keeps up.
 
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kirky said:
Its in the Constitution Amendment XIV. Perhaps read the actual wording. They want to change it, do so in terms of the Constitution.

I’m pretty sure if the people knew about semi-automatic weapons in 1791, the might not have agreed to Amendment 2 but here we are.
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Geez you have some weird takes. If they'd known that the invading forces were arriving with automatic weapons you can be absolutely certain that the amendment would have passed.
 

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kirky said:
Interesting. So the next question would be are the US population willing to have a 82 year old vice-president?

And another thing, why would Vance want to give up the Presidency given all the perks you get with it. If you asked most US citizens they would struggle to give you any vice-presidents name, only Presidents are remembered.
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1970crow said:
Geez you have some weird takes. If they'd known that the invading forces were arriving with automatic weapons you can be absolutely certain that the amendment would have passed.
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No, no.

In KirkyWorld where men can get pregnant he expects US citizens to get their muskets out if they need to go against opposing forces that have automatic weapons.

"Geez, hold on guys I need to get my powder, wad, ball and flint organised before you start"
 
kirky said:
Yeh? Nah. What are we day 3.

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The comments by Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s United Nations ambassador, come as Donald Trump has repeatedly said he can settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again.
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Not sure if you have been in a coma or not, but he has already got about solving the immigration disaster inherited, he has gotten rid of DEI and he has got DOGE underway with savings already being made for the taxpayer. Not bad for 3 days in...i mean he has done more in 1 day than biden in 4 years so you should be cheering him on from the rooftops
 
rocket18 said:
In KirkyWorld where men can get pregnant
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What’s interesting is, although they are all losing their minds over there, I haven’t heard ANY of them complain about Trump obliterating DEI and sicko gender ideology.

kirky and his boomer mate footy4ever , would be secretly agreeing with this move from Trump, but can’t say it out loud over there, as their rabid Commie mates will have them burnt at the stake.




 
ringo200 said:
As far as I can tell the main evidence they have that they were right is that people did not like lockdowns or school closures, which I mean, of course.
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You make it sound like it’s a parking fine. “They did not like it”

Truly shocking that people “did not like” having their nation’s economy destroyed, their small business wiped out, their physical and mental wellbeing torched, and their kids’ education obliterated.

But hey. People will whinge about anything.

The people like you with nothing at stake — who sat in front of a laptop at home for two years — you’re the real heroes.
 
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Crow till I die said:
Not sure if you have been in a coma or not, but he has already got about solving the immigration disaster inherited, he has gotten rid of DEI and he has got DOGE underway with savings already being made for the taxpayer. Not bad for 3 days in...i mean he has done more in 1 day than biden in 4 years so you should be cheering him on from the rooftops
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He had more important things to do first. :$

 
Slippery Pete said:
Serious question. What do you think is behind this global phenomenon?

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The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report

The Left suffered a record low average of just 45% of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections, conducted by The Telegraph.
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Serious question? Serious answer.

Not wanting to be reactionary and ignore the fact that in the US, Canada, Australia, UK and France right wing political parties were rejected and lost elections in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2024 respectively, but yes I agree there is something to learn from their recent increasing popularity.

The patterns from history and echoes of the rise of right wing politics during the 1920s and 30s are quite obvious.

During periods of economic growth, people can put a roof over their heads, food on the table, pay their bills, etc. During these periods we overlook a lot of the inequality and differences across society because we feel generally optimistic about the future - a rising tide lifts all boats.

During periods of economic downturn when the tide starts going out, people understandably start looking for someone to blame and turn on each other.
  1. The GFC and COVID-19 smashed global economies on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, creating significant hardship for working classes and while the economy went backwards, the top end of town somehow managed to profit from their misery and increase their wealth on both occasions.
  2. At the same time as these more obvious catastrophic short term impacts, there are a few long term issues which have been bubbling away but are now reaching a crescendo:
    • deliberate government policies including overly generous capital gains tax concessions have driven up the cost of housing astronomically over the past 30 years, putting even this most basic financial aspiration out of reach for younger people while compounding the wealth of older generations and property investors.
    • high income countries are increasingly outsourcing their manufacturing sectors to low income countries where cost of labour and production is far cheaper. This would have been fine had the vision actually materialised for this workforce to stay in school and develop skills to transition away from menial labour towards production of higher value goods and services. Once thriving communities and cities have been decimated by this - think Detroit.
    • The US has the added benefit of a healthcare system which is a complete mess and the single leading cause of bankruptcy.
As it was in the 1920s and 30s, right wing politics has been more successful in connecting with the working classes on this, and coming up with a message that resonates strongly. By contrast, left wing politics are losing touch with the common man. In particular (as the polls from the recent US election show), young men.

As in the 1930s, the right wing's message to these groups has been yet again largely about putting the blame for people's misery on immigrants and other minority groups as a diversion strategy to stop people pointing the finger at the finance sector, big corporations and 'the 1%'.

The other side to their recent rise in popularity is how this message has been delivered to the public. Just as JFK left Nixon in the dust with his use of television in 1960, Trump has made the Democrats look like the out of touch dinosaurs they are with his effective and targeted use of podcasts and social media - ably supported by allies like Elon Musk.

While not doubting for a second that because of this, Trump deserved to win the recent US election, I still maintain my stance that he will not solve any of the working classes actual problems, and will probably make some of them worse.

Case in point - I see one of his first Executive Orders was to reverse Biden's policy on caps for medication prices, driving the cost of insulin from $35 up to $700 per month. His proposed tariffs will have a similar impact on the cost of other essential goods.

But hey, at least he pwned Biden and Canada. Is this what making America great looks like?
 
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rocket18 said:
No, no.

In KirkyWorld where men can get pregnant he expects US citizens to get their muskets out if they need to go against opposing forces that have automatic weapons.

"Geez, hold on guys I need to get my powder, wad, ball and flint organised before you start"
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If you can find me saying that anywhere on this or any other blog then you can have a bottle of red. I’m sure I could find a cheap bottle under $50- in my cellar if I tried but I’m pretty safe that I’ve never said “men can get pregnant”.

But like the demigod you worship, you speak mistruths.
 
kirky said:
That feels similar to being like Russia and an authoritarian state. Only 49.8% voted for Trump, 50.2% voted for anyone but Trump.

But you wouldn’t have the intelligence to understand that.
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Lol...swept every swing state, retook the senate, held the house, got a greater % of minorities than any republican for a very long time...thats called an electoral thumping
 
kirky said:
If you can find me saying that anywhere on this or any other blog then you can have a bottle of red. I’m sure I could find a cheap bottle under $50- in my cellar if I tried but I’m pretty safe that I’ve never said “men can get pregnant”.

But like the demigod you worship, you speak mistruths.
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You support without question the democrats on everything as nowhere can i ever recall you calling them out. Silence is violence as they say cat lady
 

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