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    Thread: Noteworthy News
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(September 23, 2025 at 12:46 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: (September 23, 2025 at 6:48 am)Belacqua Wrote: Ah, the lesser of two evils. This is why the Democrats never do much. They know we'll have to v...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 24, 2025 at 7:59 am
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(September 22, 2025 at 10:31 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: (September 22, 2025 at 9:38 pm)Belacqua Wrote: But I have no idea how we'd get from where we are now to a pure system like that. Don't let the per...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 23, 2025 at 6:48 am
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(September 22, 2025 at 12:42 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The FCC shouldn't have been involved in this. I have no problem with hirings or firings for business reasons sans government intimidation against...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 22, 2025 at 9:38 pm
    Thread: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
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In Japanese, the word "maga" means "wickedness; evil; calamity; disaster" when written as 禍。 When written as 曲 it means "to be awry; to be askew; to be crooked​."
Belacqua Politics 2535 238121 September 20, 2025 at 9:01 am
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oops, duplicate post
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 20, 2025 at 8:16 am
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(September 20, 2025 at 1:02 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You have to demonstrate both of your claims before you'll get any deeper reply from me. You're projecting "huge" profits. Let's see your numbers....
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 20, 2025 at 8:12 am
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(September 19, 2025 at 11:51 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Funny thing is -- the consumer will decide that, your boss's taste in humor notwithstanding. That's capitalism, baby. OK, so the directors of th...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 19, 2025 at 11:59 pm
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(September 19, 2025 at 11:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (September 19, 2025 at 10:10 pm)Belacqua Wrote: As for hiring someone to tell jokes on TV, the boss gets to decide what kind of joke he wants ...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 19, 2025 at 11:24 pm
    Thread: Noteworthy News
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(September 19, 2025 at 8:20 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: This, on the other hand, appears quite clearly to be a quid pro quo in order to get a merger/buyout approved by an FCC that has already been weap...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 19, 2025 at 10:10 pm
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(September 18, 2025 at 9:14 am)Paraselene Wrote: First Colbert and now Kimmel. Yet Faux News remains. Well, Colbert and Kimmel were employees of their networks. Faux News also fires its workers when...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 19, 2025 at 7:31 pm
    Thread: “Normative” ethical theories
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(September 18, 2025 at 7:27 am)Alan V Wrote: The left has been arguing for the benefits of fairness, equality, and pluralism, and for paying close attention to the facts, not for moral relativity. I...
Belacqua Philosophy 74 7109 September 18, 2025 at 8:04 am
    Thread: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
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(September 18, 2025 at 2:39 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Jimmy Kimmel canceled by ABC USA does not need infringement of free speech by government. The public sphere is completely able to censor itself. You kn...
Belacqua Politics 2535 238121 September 18, 2025 at 5:31 am
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(September 11, 2025 at 10:06 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Supporting israel ain't exactly something that makes person moral. In fact supporting israel in light of it committing genocide means that one ...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 11, 2025 at 3:47 pm
    Thread: Is this Simply Going to go on Forever?
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Israel has attacked 6 countries in the last three days. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10...t-72-hours
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 87 6351 September 11, 2025 at 4:41 am
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(September 11, 2025 at 2:50 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: (September 10, 2025 at 11:37 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: He's just spewing random MAGAt nonsense. Idiots, morons, and the catastrophically mentally ha...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 6183 902250 September 11, 2025 at 4:37 am
    Thread: Is this Simply Going to go on Forever?
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Article in The Guardian today on an educated American who commits war crimes for the Israeli army. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...and-munich Daniel Raab is a former varsity basketball p...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 87 6351 September 10, 2025 at 2:47 am
    Thread: Is this Simply Going to go on Forever?
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(September 8, 2025 at 6:23 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Ultimately it would require monotheism to become a historical footnote. That will take generations. The key is education, guess what theocrats try to r...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 87 6351 September 8, 2025 at 9:28 pm
    Thread: That Trans Thread
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(September 6, 2025 at 7:01 am)Angrboda Wrote: The point is truth and popularity are unrelated, contrary to your prior linking them. I have never linked truth and popularity.  I pointed out that the...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 726 114553 September 6, 2025 at 7:11 am
    Thread: That Trans Thread
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(September 6, 2025 at 3:31 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I don’t think that you need to be on hormones or T-blockers in order to be considered trans. Trans women are women, but for sports, that alone doesn’t m...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 726 114553 September 6, 2025 at 3:50 am
    Thread: That Trans Thread
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(September 6, 2025 at 2:01 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: If they can test for steroids, there’s no reason they wouldn’t test trans athletes for estrogen and T-blockers. The fact that those drugs do a number on...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 726 114553 September 6, 2025 at 3:04 am