First debate between VP Harris and Trump...The only one? Tues 10 Sept 2024, 9pm EDT

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  1. superdave

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    JCVD!!!
     
  2. luftmensch

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    Even calling them fascists is giving them too much credit, their ideology isn’t consistent enough to apply a political term of any kind to them; they’re just dumbasses. Who, unfortunately, are particularly susceptible to the simplicity of fascist ideas.
     
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  3. Cris 09

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    #1003 Cris 09, Sep 14, 2024
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    Very, very EASY
    • Fox News not being fact checked
    • NewsMax not being fact checked
    • OANN not being fact checked
    • Univision and Telemundo shifting right
    • Twitter applifying Right wing influencers and their lies
    • Sinclair Group/media not being fact checked
    • Once respected news groups like WSJ going full right and not being fact checked
    • Pastors in churches
    • The lack of normal media to correct bullshit like;
      • DEMs are socialist
      • DEMs are Communist
      • DEMs cheat in elections
      • DEMs kill babies
      • DEMs want boys in girls bathrooms
      • DEMs want boys playing women sports
    • CNN's conservative talking heads not being fact checked in real time
    • GOP normalizing Trump's lies
    • GOP repeating Trump's lies
    • People being lazy and accepting it because it helps them cope
    I mean...how do we compete with this?
     
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  4. Cris 09

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    And the thing is...it is NOT hard to get the facts. Not one fucking bit!!!

     
  5. charlie15

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    This is an other depressing if not scary story. This is what we are fighting against....
    This is fascism, no other way to describe it.

    Sofia Nelson:
    Most Americans haven’t heard of the post-liberal right, the small but influential group of conservative, mostly Catholic men who have declared that liberal democracy, the animating principle of America’s founding, has failed and want to bring about a new social order where there is no separation of church and state and men and a hyperconservative Catholicism reign supreme. They are disdainful of secularism and individual liberty. Just like Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump illustrated during Tuesday night’s debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, these men idolize the authoritarian Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary.”

    “They’re also nostalgic for Spain as it was run by the dictator Franco and see Orbán’s government and Franco’s as potential models for the kind of regime they wish to install in the United States. The group’s political priorities — which include restricting access to contraception and divorce and banning marriage equality and pornography — are wildly unpopular. And yet the Republican nominee for vice president, my former friend JD Vance, is a prominent voice of this fringe movement, as so many of his regrettable podcast interviews have demonstrated.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc...ance-trump-maga-post-liberal-right-rcna171095
     
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  6. Sounders78

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    I read that earlier this morning - it's written by JD Vance's former trans friend.
     
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  7. charlie15

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    I have seen here a few times on CNN and MSNBC, never knew she was trans. She is a very smart.
     
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  8. Auriaprottu

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    I am sometimes amazed at the ignorance of the general world population

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. The Jitty Slitter

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    Fascist Hellscape
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    there’s the whole good germans thing. that great family who are the pillar of the community and would give you the shirts from their back will support the initial attrocity of 10 millions souls to the internment camps. they’ll do it while warning about extremism.
     
  10. chaski

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    Not in North Carolina.
     
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  11. Sounders78

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    Two that quickly come to mind for me -

    Music: Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone (from Dinant, Belgium)
    Art: Rene Magritte, the great surrealist painter (there's no shortage of famous Belgian painters)
     
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  12. TyffaneeSue

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    How many people decided to vote based on Taylor Swift's endorsement? Think on that.
     
  13. Kazuma

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    A lot of those people were around during my grandpa's time and he left the Church because he had the gall to marry a divorced woman.

    My great-grandmother would be openly talking about how weird they are.

    Anyway, L. Brent Bozell style conservatism is new again!
     
  14. Kazuma

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    And the only Belgian I need to know:



     
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  15. Naughtius Maximus

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    Well, I think that's why they had to exclude footballers because if you include them, (particularly in a football mad country like the UK that has a lot of foreign born players), we'll all know a few from even quite obscure countries.
     
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  16. Naughtius Maximus

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    Well there are a few but then you'd have to ask about 'famous' people from even our own country and the number that are saxophonists and surrealist painters and the numbers wouldn't overly tax the scorers, shall we say :D
     
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  17. charlie15

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    Jacques Brel..... the one and only!
     
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    No love for Django Reinhardt? Manouche, of course, but born in Belgium.

    I had no idea that Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium.
     
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  20. SamScouse

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    I was under the impression that Kamala's people have been paying a lot - lot - of attention to influencers.
     
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    The Belgians tend to waffle a lot! :notworthy:
     
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  22. roby

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    [​IMG]
     
  23. The Jitty Slitter

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    yes. they credentialed lots of content creators at the DNC
     
  24. Ismitje

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    There's some catchy music coming out of the debate, courtesy of The Kiffness



    (apologies if someone else posted this - I am reading page 22 out of 41, and searched "Kiffness" to see if it was already shared.)
     
  25. Val1

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    C'mon, prof. Keep up. Do your reading on time.
     
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