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Hitler never won a majority vote. We still held Germany responsible, and rightly so.

I don't think the commenting rules or common sense leaves room for me to advocate breaking the law. However, I will note that "the Constitution is not a suicide pact."

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yeah, Brexit was totally a dry run for the US election for Putin & Russias cyber-fuckery/propaganda department. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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Taking a page from Seinfeld, Vlad has some ample man tits deserving of a man bra. I attribute his too smooth skin and his bodacious tits to estrogen supplements. I'm just speculating: Could he and the village idiot have been involved in the pee tape rather than a bevy of hookers? Possibly, no, probably. That's likely when the village idiot adopted the color of piss for his coif.

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I respectfully disagree.The fact is that we won the majority vote in a landslide but were cheated yet again.What exactly should we do if we follow our democratic laws and the laws are then broken by thieves and worse?Besides resist daily which we already do that is.

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She IS my only child. I've been trying to get her to consider going to university in Australia. She has As in honors biology and physics. Chemistry is next, so fingers crossed.

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There are plenty of far-right men in Australia - out in the countryside. The difference is we have mandatory voting. So the countryside will always be a minority vote. Australia is far from a socialist utopia; it's just better than the USA (especially if you work for a living. The difference in worker's rights here and there is pretty huge). And in no danger of fascism, again thanks to the mandatory vote.

I got my brother a job here. I have been scheming for a way to get my nephews over. If your daughter can emigrate... I think she should. If she is your only child, eventually she might be able to bring you over on a family visa. :)

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They don't hold all Americans responsible; they still think Americans are among the nicest people on the planet.

But we didn't hold all Germans responsible when we firebombed Dresden out of existence. The fact is the American people allowed Trump to come to power. They own this, and all of its consequences, and the rest of the world has already started pulling away from the garbage fire they know is coming.

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Having waded knee-deep in this shitshow for nigh-onto three years now, found nothing revelatory in Chait's lengthy recap that one did not already know from following Wonkette or binge-watching TRMS.Nonetheless, it was lovely of him to arrange it all in chronological order and have it published in a fine journal such as 'New York' magazine. The more folks that see this, the better.

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They buy magazines like Time and the Wall Street Journal that are respected for doing actual journalism and start to gradually slip in propaganda.(Murdoch own WSJ) As well as National Geographic https://gizmodo.com/nationa... I kept wondering why there were photographs online with all these religious biblical 'findings' one guy claimed to have photographed the tomb of Jesus. (Archaeologists say otherwise. Like with the shroud of Turin.)

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I'm not numb to what is happening but there is so much so fast that its almost impossible to reckon with it all.

I guess I feel like much of the rest of the world sees that we are having our dictator moment in time and not holding the entire US responsible.I'm pretty sure that outside of the actual dictator nations, the world knows how our Presidency was stolen and all the illegality before, during and since. This isn't the American Way although it is a slice of what America has always been.

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Plus here they just seem lazy. As far as I could tell, the only journalists who even looked at the passport came to no conclusion and NYT just wrote this and never bothered to check any further, and it just keeps getting copied into new stories like it was true.

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So all these deaths in the UK may just be to send a message to Trump and Manafort.

Although, is it possible May and the other Brexiteers are working for Russia because breaking apart the EU would probably also send NATO into an uncertain future. I wonder how many fake websites were pushing for Brexiteers.

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Vladimir Putin gave me the courage to proudly bare my own man titties at family barbecues and at public beaches and the local swimming hole.

THANK YOU VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR GIVING ME AND OTHER MAN BEARS THE COURAGE TO SHOW OUR OWN MAN TITTIES...WE SALUTE YOU!!!!

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I didn’t know that. Wow. I’ll adjust the bias meter for glossy news magazines now.

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When they let him out for his hour of exercise, I hope it is on a leash.

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Andrew, I think.

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