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"M"'s avatar

Once you figure out a way to deal with the point that was brought up AND DOES ACTUALLY HAPPEN with something a touch more substantive than "Yes, but ...", I do think your primary argument will be likely to carry a lot more heft.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

We need to kill more clouds: https://www.quantamagazine....

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GoutMachine's avatar

OT, and I don’t know whether to laugh or vomit at this Washington Post headline:

‘We fell in love’: Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations

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Skepti-KC's avatar

[bolts into bathroom gagging]

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GoutMachine's avatar

Also, no one is getting murdered.

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Diane (catlady)✔☕🥦🥨🎠🦇🏳️‍🌈's avatar

LOL! I would have edited it anyway. :)

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

We can still turn this around. One good pandemic, wiping out 95% of mankind, followed by an asteroid or two, maybe a supervolcano providing us with a decade or so of cooling, and, umm . . . where was I going with this?

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Leftflank's avatar

Ya know, the guy invoking actual lynching and the real effect, which is real death, may not be his best move. If those he accuses don't come through, that makes him a liar also too.

In the end, this guy will possibly get his day in court and that day in court may prove that he is in fact guilty as accused. He'll be kicked out of every club he every belonged to at that point and at best belong to the one he is trying to avoid the most, Club Fed.

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Norbrook's avatar

Why do I think he should try this defense in front of a large group of black women who are abuse survivors? I'm sure they'd show him the difference.

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John Robinson's avatar

Conversely, I guess it would be "Hot Springs fauna at the equator"

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John Robinson's avatar

Funny how that works. My lovely wife didn't want any until we had one, then didn't want another until the first got over being a baby, but after that, she was out. And that was with me doing the night-time heavy lifting, too.

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marksb's avatar

I thought it was pretty obvious that the "yellow vest" movement was greased to a major extent by social media trolls, and I'd put my money on Putin's cyber gang. Macron and Trudeau are perfect targets for the Russian mob.

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Torby's mom's avatar

That's ok. We can all get new jobs as Ice Pirates.https://www.imdb.com/title/...

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John Robinson's avatar

Hey, you don't know my wife. One time she asked how she ended up with two kids. I said (and I'm so proud of this - it was completely off the top of my head!) "Birth Control". Ten kids was not out of the question.

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John Robinson's avatar

The ones we can't make. Or see. Sheesh!OT - maybe this puts the periodic Disqus folderols in a different light?

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LucindathePook's avatar

Doubles as a floss.

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