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It's important to remember/understand that progress at the societal level is a slow inching progress, and in large part comes via blunt instruments. Not everything that seems outrageous and too far and unreasonable and delusional in present time ends up affecting change down the line, but everything that does affect change down the line did seem outrageous/too far/unreasonable/delusional at the time.

Depends on how you define peace. There have been moments of relative levels of peace for varyingly short windows of time in the past and there can be more of those in the future.

No it isn't.

Well that's because it's a hoax.

The f#&% are y'all even talking about anymore?

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Nope, an even smaller tinier percentage, which makes the likelihood of it being a factor more realistic, not less.

Or, you know, not every D, but just a few thousand out of roughly one hundred and fifty million, or less than .0001%.

Are the votes Trump loses in the states that had the most narrow margins in 2020 more than offsetting the votes Biden loses just by people moving from one district to another more populated one that was already blue?

I've been dare I say impressed and surprised by our fanbase seeming to more or less keep a pretty cool leveheadedness in relation to Raiola. 10-20 years ago I think everyone would be drooling with their mouths open nonstop for any nugget that he's gonna win the heisman.

I don't necessarily land on either side of this, and think language is never static and people have likely always bemoaned the 'lessened impact' of words being used more frequently throughout time. My main question is, how and when do you know something is a genocide while it's happening in real time as opposed to calling that with the lens of history.

Okay, so who are they? This is more or less where I land. The science was informed guess work and constantly evolving, and the political decision making and willpower was a very mixed bag as it always would be regardless of what players or what emergency were involved. I will say, the dirt in the skateparks, hoops being taken off of public basketball courts, etc., were outrageous oversteps and left an awful taste in my mouth.

Okay, so who are they? This is more or less where I land. The science was informed guess work and constantly evolving, and the political decision making and willpower was a very mixed bag as it always would be regardless of what players or what emergency were involved. I will say, the dirt in the skateparks, hoops being taken off of public basketball courts, etc., were outrageous oversteps and left an awful taste in my mouth.

Which posters are you referring to? A lot of mistakes were made in the early stages of COVID. A lot of 'best guess' guidelines and mandates as well, would be insane to expect otherwise considering the incompetency of our leadership combined with the fact that virtually nobody living had ever had any experience with this type of thing and also combined with the fact that it was a novel virus we needed to figure out on the fly.

Is it lying once, lying always, or somewhere in between?

What constitutes someone being a liar?

Damn they did Daniel dirty on this one

Then why are you actively concerned about abuse and neglect and negative impacts towards children at the hands of the trans community and not similarly, or equally, or proportionately (pick your poison) concerned about the same from the christian community? I mean, on one hand, since the chopping off of privates was brought up, "The Komodo analysis of insurance claims found 56 genital surgeries among patients ages 13 to 17 with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2019 to 2021." 56 out of 26 million, or .0000002% On the other, we've got averages of over 4,500 sexual abuse of minors claims in the catholic church yearly, and at least 260 claims of sexual abuse of minors per year in less than 1/3 of american protestant churches. And the higher numbers on this side are the ones that are assuredly drastically under reported.

The numbers vary and flow, but 'overwhelmingly' is quite the overexaggeration. In december according to one source, "At the same time, 44% in the West Bank said they supported Hamas, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the militants enjoyed 42% support, up slightly from 38% three months ago." In december according to another source, "In Gaza, support for armed struggle has risen only slightly from 50% in September 2022 (a year before the current war) to 56% in December 2023. In the West Bank, however, support has been rising dramatically from 35% in September 2022 to 54% in September 2023 (a month before the war). This month, polled support for armed struggle reached 68% in the West Bank." And another: And most recently, "Support for Hamas as a political party has fallen to 34% among Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a 12-point drop from December 2023, according to a poll released Wednesday by a leading Palestinian research institute." So Palestinians overwhelmingly support Hamas akin to how Americans overwhelmingly support Trump, which...they don't. But also keep in mind, Hamas has two built in innate boosts. #1 many Palestinians only support them because they thnk diplomacy is impossible and their only chance is violence, and #2 for years, Netanyahu used Israel's power to actively bolster Hamas and cripple Abbas and the PAP.

How it pertains is that if you, generally speaking, don't think, "...Christians are advocating for looping off your privates ... or chopping off your boobs", which they aren't, but parents and doctors aren't really advocating for either of those things either (anomalies exist), and it's worth pointing out that Christians do/are/have advocated for other things that are horrific and dramatically life altering in their own ways, at a much more massive volume than whatever amount of people actually are "advocating for looping off your privates" I see the inconsistency and efforts to make a mountain out of a molehill same as you, but I would describe archy as anything other than enraged.

I'd venture to argue that the number of people advocating for genital surgery in minors is drastically smaller than the number of people who, say, are catholic priests raping young boys or are parents/leaders/regular members of any number of denominations of faith who disbelieve the claims of abuse being cried out by their youth in protection of the church, if we're in the comparison game.

I can't get the search function to return any results.

Huh, interesting. You just described the exact same thing that I and millions of others experienced with evangelicalism

So let me see if I'm getting this story straight.. Israel, with the most advanced targeting and missile systems known to man and with a drone fleet that can make out the nike swoosh on someone's shoes, and with reports and knowledge of the exact locations and movement of easily identifiable vehicles with a food relife charity, accidentally executes a strike against said food relief charity. The survivors notified the IDF they had been attacked, some of them get out of that car and into another car, and Israel accidentally strikes that one too (over a kilometer away), only to finally accidentally strike a 3rd car for a 3rd time over 2.5 km away.

I seem to remember the Heritage Foundation (conservative think tank) putting out numbers a while back that showed out of the ~1500 or so documented cases of voter fraud in the last 15 years, 90+% have been by Republicans. I'll let you decide how you want to define that in relation to the term 'always'.