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    [MOD] MagisterModmod

    This mod is totally dope. It rocks. Thanks, MC.
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    [RD] LGBTQ news

    I wish LGBT advocates did a better job of communicating how harmful transphobic policies are to affected parties. Specifically, I wish it had more outreach to older, straight Americans. I have the impression that the consequences of these transphobic policies will largely be invisible to that...
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    US Debt Ceiling

    Please spare me from saying one side is immune to any criticism from within based on the errors of the other. Republican versus Democrat is hardly the only means of engagement. Indeed, it could be argued the internal discussion defines a party more than its contrast to another. Making your side...
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    US Debt Ceiling

    Hi. Hogwash. For one, if Democrat voters had been able hold their elected representatives feet to the fire on assuring reproductive rights via statute then Dobbs would have been very different. For another, there's no such thing as too much voter advocacy in a democracy.
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    US Debt Ceiling

    I am off the opinion that US politics would be better if people were a bit less critical of the other side and more critical of the failures of their own side. Elected Democrats should rightly be held to task by their voters for not resolving the debt issue previously and not codifying Roe and...
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    [RD] Abortion, once again

    Fifteen years ago yesterday, candidate Obama promised that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act on his first day in office. He reiterated this commitment throughout his campaign. The Freedom of Choice Act would have ensured reproductive choice was cemented in federal statute. Despite both...
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    [RD] Biden v. Biden

    They say inside every president are two Joe Bidens fighting. The one that wins is the one you feed.
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    Importance of white representation in fiction

    You are correct both in that Antony had a relationship with Cleopatra and that the relationship is not relevant to "Julius Caesar." However, it might be relevant to the other Shakespeare play "Antony and Cleopatra." I am much, much less familiar with the latter play, but it would not surprise...
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    Importance of white representation in fiction

    Over the summer I had the chance to see a local production of “Julius Caesar” where Marc Anthony was played by a woman and Calpurnia, Caesar’s spouse, was played by a man. In both cases the characters were referred to by the gender of their actors so Anthony was a woman and Caesar had a...
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    [RD] Biden v. Biden

    There is no capability to predict what someone will do in future with any certainty, but past behavior tends to be a good indicator. Biden's past behavior, in particular as it relates to the crime bills of the 1990s (the '94 crime bill and the '97 def. auth. sec. 1033 for ex.) and his support...
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    [RD] Biden v. Biden

    In 1994, Sen. Joe Biden, then chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the most powerful legislator in the realm of law enforcement, authored, with heavy input from police union lobbyists, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, often called the Biden Crime Law or the Clinton Crime...
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    My Warhammer Thread

    For hobbyists in the States, Dick Blick's has some wonderful red sable brushes for reasonable prices. It does feel like the brushes are a little smaller than others, so be aware of that. https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-masterstroke-finest-red-sable-brushes/
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    Antifa: There are Monsters Everywhere!!!!

    Human Rights Watch condemns Maduro's suppression of speech and assembly. Amnesty International's thoughts on Cuban free speech. The People's Republic of China has long "systematically shut down free speech." etc. Of course this does not meant the left side of the political spectrum is...
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    [RD] Will Trump be one of a kind in US politics?

    It's less an uncouth politician from outside the beltway about which we should attentive, but a competent authoritarian. Trump's presidency has demonstrated, and continues to demonstrate, that much of the electorate is willing to elect a populist authoritarian who sees punishment of minorities...
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    Forum Members' Photographs 26: Everyone is unique

    Vaporwolf.
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