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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on June 22, 2025, 09:59:43 PM »

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-parliament-vote-close-straits-hormuz-us-attacks-2088968

Will they?
Maybe.
I'm sure Trump will just launch missiles at them until they stop.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« Last post by garygreen on June 22, 2025, 07:52:13 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand on June 22, 2025, 12:26:53 PM »

Trump single-handedly and personally destroyed the Iranian Nuclear treaty in 2018. Nations all over the world had negotiated with Iran and curtailed Iran's nuclear research. We had inspectors on the ground in the Iranian facilities, we had cameras watching production equipment. A number of countries were surveilling Iran.

Then a fat, orange man-child came stomping through yelling about the deal wasn't tough enough. He didn't want Iran to have nuthin. He was going to put together a deal so tough that he would have those people helplessly under his thumb. Like everything else he does, it was a complete failure and Iran went back to building bombs. Now we're starting a war.  Good work MAGA!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on June 22, 2025, 07:27:56 AM »

It's funny how he just ignores his own intelligence director then forces her to match him.

If Trump supporters don't see that his people are doing whatever he says, not what they should, they're brainwashed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by honk on June 22, 2025, 01:14:41 AM »

The "no new wars" president has now begun a war with Iran. On the one hand, this is an enormously unpopular move among Americans, thousands of innocent people will be killed, getting involved in wars in the Middle East never ends well for us, and Netanyahu is a liar and a war criminal who's almost certainly just looking to expand his ongoing genocide to another country, so nothing he says can be trusted. On the other hand, Trump really likes and admires Netanyahu, as he does all strongmen, and he really, really wants to impress him. So who's to say if this really is a good or bad move?

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Flat Earth Theory / Interviewing a Flat Earth supporter

« Last post by Schooler on June 21, 2025, 04:44:59 PM »

Hey guys,
For a physics project in school, we were told to research about the flat earth theory. And because I don't want to just hear all the criticism about it, I wanted to hear the other side and talk to a real flat earth supporter (in the best case, I would like a voice talk, otherwise a live chat would be fine too). It would be good if you have some kind of history on this forum so I can check that you aren't a troll and be real about it.

The questions would be about the following topics:
- How  did you get into the movement?
- What convinced you?
- What are your arguments?
- Your number one argument to convince new people?
- and anything you would like to add

thanks, Richard

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand on June 21, 2025, 12:23:39 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by AATW on June 20, 2025, 04:06:06 PM »

So your criticism isn't criticism.  You just wanted more Trump.  Markjo's point stands: you have no criticism.  No questioning thoughts.  No disliked action.

I knew what his answer would be.
It’s like one of those answers to the “what would you say is your biggest weakness!” Interview questions.
“I think I’m too much of a workaholic and too committed to my employer”
 

As for Trump’s approval rating…

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by markjo on June 20, 2025, 12:57:55 PM »

Tom, when it comes to polls, remember that there are 3 kinds of lies in this world: lies, damned lies, and statistics.   Polls definitely fall into the third category.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by DuncanDoenitz on June 20, 2025, 08:12:18 AM »

It's a natural progression. 

1st Term; Trump.
2nd Term; Trumper.
Constitutional Amendment; Trumpest.