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Should be a wild four years.

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Catch The Rainbow said:
It is clear that threatening the leader of the Islamic world, as well as the esteemed sources of emulation, is a war against Islam
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JIHAD ON BIG GAMING FOR DENYING US ROMS IS DECLARED

Also I wonder if they told anyone outside of Iran that Khamenei is their Ayatollah of Rocknrolla, not just Persia's.
 
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The Secret Sauce said:
Cathedrals are buildings, friend. If you think it fits thematically, then say so. Don't pretend that it's merely a matter of factual accuracy to say that CNN is part of a cathedral.
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It's more than just a theme or a window dressing term though. A cathedral or any place of worship is both thematically accurate and factually accurate when describing how they operate. It might be ot so I'm going to spoiler from here on.

The political parties in America have evolved over time but only the political left can be described as a cathedral. A cathedral is a place of worship where it's practitioners and adherents not only practice their religion but are also protected from the outside world both physically and spiritually. It's more than just a physical building protecting them. Within a cathedral an adherent will never have their beliefs questioned and the practitioners will always tell them what to believe. Given that most religions lean into being faith based, having a place that tells you what to believe unchallenged is almost necessary given some people will crumble when pressed about why they believe what they do. Because it's all blind faith and selling a skeptic outsider on your religion on a faith alone argument doesn't go well.

That's a lot of words to say that what the left morphed into is just a pseudo religion. It's a faith based platform that is perfect and good. Not that it as a party has done tangible good things, it just is. Just like religion you must blindly accept that they are good regardless of their policies or the outcomes, or forever brand yourself a heretic losing the benefits of the cathedral and it's flock. You've seen what happens to troons when they detransition or when moderate people say maybe they don't want to do a communism. Kicked to the curb, spat on and denounced. Excommunicated from the party for daring to insinuate that maybe it's the cathedral and it's preachers who are wrong. I'll stop here, but it's really interesting when you look at how the 'cathedral' works and how closely it resembles actually places of worship.
 
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Virginia has finished refurbishing the George Washington Statue in Londons Traflagar Square.


Little known bit of Trivia. The bongs allowed for Virginia to put up a statue of Washington after World War 1 in Trafalgar, deciding that the man despite his rebellious nature really was one of the great Englishmen of history, so he gets a spot with Nelson and other great English military leaders. The statue had been corroding though so Virginia offered to restore it.

Famously, Washington said he would never stand on British soil, so the base of the statue is standing on Virginia clay specifically dug up and laid down in London for this purpose.
 
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A amazon van exploded in DC.


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A car has reportedly exploded in Washington DC, sending plumes of black smoke into the air that could be seen for miles.

A witness said it was a black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that went up in flames after the explosion on 23rd Street South in Arlington, Virginia.

The cause of the explosion is unknown but nearby buildings did not catch fire.

The smoke could be seen from the other side of the city in the northeast suburbs.

Mercedes in 2023 ordered a recall of 53,000 Sprinter vans from model years 2019 and 2020 after 11 of them caught on fire.

The layout of fuses can cause a wiring harness in their climate control systems to overheat, potentially leading to a vehicle fire, the recall warned.

Whether the van that exploded was one of those subject to the recall is unknown.

More to come.
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Justsomecicada said:
I think that they got off pretty damn lightly tho for as much as they bitch about the century of humiliation.
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The Chinese love to bitch.
Conan said:
It is very probable those non-democratic mechanisms were given significant power via democracy.
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It's a double-edged sword. One thing that Giorgio Agamben was sorta right about in Homo Sacer is that people tend to centralize power in democracies anyway. What he and others get wrong is when you have a democracy like the United States where people agree that certain key rights precede government, and people actually believe it, you get a free society that works. It's not perfect, but the goal is function not perfection. That's where some conservatives get fucky: they buy the mythos too much and forget that the Founding Fathers were just dudes trying their best.
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Virginia has finished refurbishing the George Washington Statue in Londons Traflagar Square.


Little known bit of Trivia. The bongs allowed for Virginia to put up a statue of Washington after World War 1 in Trafalgar, deciding that the man despite his rebellious nature really was one of the great Englishmen of history, so he gets a spot with Nelson and other great English military leaders. The statue had been corroding though so Virginia offered to restore it.

Famously, Washington said he would never stand on British soil, so the base of the statue is standing on Virginia clay specifically dug up and laid down in London for this purpose.
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There are also some British graves from the Revolution which have a similar arrangement where they are buried in British soil in the US.
 
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Justsomecicada said:
I just don’t understand why senate republicans are like this. Where are all these places where people are voting in pro trump reps but anti trump senators
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The senate is meant to be for established seasoned politicians explicitly made to cool the tempers and radicalism of the house. So I do understand even if I'm annoyed with their choices (still going to call them cucks).

By its nature, the senate will be less responsive to changes in the will of the electorate. So it's not surprising we still have a large amount of neocon Republican senators even if the party has moved past that.
 
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Taser Confetti said:
Of course you do - he doesn't suck kosher cock and he's a real American (unlike you).
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Guy is obstructing the Republican party while having done nothing in his entire legislative career. He's essentially living off doing nothing but because he criticizes AIPAC he gets retards like you to blindly support him because your biggest issues are Jews. If you actually cared about this, you would have found out that one of his largest single supporters is Zionist Jeff Yass.
 
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No-Eyed Square Guy said:
Anyway, Christians are perfect suckers for Jewish tricks, so there's no need to throw them out. Just tell them what to do.
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More specifically, the WASPs and especially Evangelicals/fundamentalists are the most susceptible. You can thank the Scofield Reference Bible for that - and a lack of strong in-group preference.
Catch The Rainbow said:
Guy is obstructing the Republican party while having done nothing in his entire legislative career. He's essentially living off doing nothing but because he criticizes AIPAC he gets retards like you to blindly support him because your biggest issues are Jews. If you actually cared about this, you would have found out that one of his largest single supporters is Zionist Jeff Yass.
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He can be correct about AIPAC but also a worthless waste of space and taxpayer money at the same time. Compared to RINOs like McConnell you could say he's "better," but that's almost an insult. Also, I have not seen a single Massie supporter in this thread; as far as I've seen he's hated by both the Trump camp for being a cockblocker and I doubt he's making a lot of friends with the neocons if he's anti-AIPAC. I'm sure there's idealist (read: retarded) libertarians who think he's excellent but I've yet to see them here.
 
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