Politics Thread

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They're worse, even more so than the post 9/11 GOP... Talk about a low bar

Mark Cuban and JD Vance are going at each other over DEI. Idk much about the subject, D stands for diversity, E for equity, and I for inclusion. Sounds like Affirmative Action for everyone who isn't a straight white man. Naturally critics pointed to Cuban's pro basketball team the Dallas Mavericks to show the problem of diversity v meritocracy. Not exactly analogous, intelligence is far more widespread and available across the world than the physical attributes required for pro hoops.

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Alan Dershowitz was accused of sex with minors

this might need a separate thread

wow, Dershowitz played a big role in negotiating a slap on the wrist for Epstein when he got caught, the deal also protected Epstein's co-conspirators - like Dershowitz

well, I think I owe Alan Dershowitz an apology, sorry Alan.

His accuser appears to have recanted last year and the Epstein file probably predates it

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An email from Virginia Giuffre in 2011 shows her claiming Bill Clinton pressured Vanity Fair to drop sex trafficking stories involving Jeffrey Epstein

[pchang]

And what power would Bill Clinton have over anybody, let alone Vanity Fair? Bill Clinton, "Hey, it would be nice if you would stop printing articles about my associate Jeffrey Epstein." Vanity Fair, "Or else what?" Bill Clinton, "???"

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power the victim feared

[pchang]

Ex presidents have no power. Just look at Trump.

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sure looks like he's got a bunch of people scared, especially the war profiteers

[Ming]

It's really funny that all the things that the Repubs are trying to hang on Joe (and failing miserably) are things that Trump and his family were doing regularly. But it's OK for the Repubs, simply because he is Trump and a Republican.

[Geronimo]

It's really funny that all the things that the Repubs are trying to hang on Joe (and failing miserably) are things that Trump and his family were doing regularly. But it's OK for the Repubs, simply because he is Trump and a Republican.

What's even more funny is how few people want to hang them all for these things instead of wanting to turn a blind eye to one or other party's transgressors.

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they dont have a party

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South Africa has filed a document accusing Israel of genocidal intent in Gaza

[SlowwHand]

That would be funny, if it wasn't so ludicrous.

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some int'l court received the documentation, not sure if its the same one that accused Putin of a war crime for evacuating children from battlefields

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[Geronimo]

Many Democrat office holders have worked publicly to materially support and defend the entirety of the BLM movement as a group and as a movement *not* as in support of individuals

[pchang]

And I’m sure that if Trump had been alive in 1862, he could have negotiated away the US Civil War too.

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Our current VP was raising $$$ to bail BLM rioters out of jail before the election... How's that for an insurrection

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some int'l court received the documentation, not sure if its the same one that accused Putin of a war crime for evacuating children from battlefields

Btw, whatever happened to the war crime court, are they holding a trial or did they kinda drop the matter? The propaganda comes and goes with such regularity it'll take years of sweeping landfills with lie detectors to archive the bs

[BeBMan]

Let Putin travel more and find out about it

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With the ouster of Claudine Gay as prez of Harvard comes another feeding frenzy. Some rich guy who pushed to fire her is married to a woman with plagiarism in her past lol. Oh boy, glass houses. The Billionaire Bill Ackman is now pissed off at Business Insider for asking his wife about the accusation. He attacked her so somebody went after his wife and he's angry because family is supposed to be off limits unless they're involved. And in this case I agree, she isn't involved. Nevertheless, she isn't really the issue, he is. He's the one using plagiarism to drive the Harvard prez out of office.

What do ya think?