News Huntington, California is planning to ban all LGBTQ+, Black, Women's, and Multi-racial celebrations.

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Muse

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Next up, perhaps we should explain what "begging the question" actually means. Or maybe the true meaning of "random". :)
My inquiry into the first question revealed that the wrong interpretation is nowadays accepted as also right.

AFA random is concerned, well, I have a table of some ~30,000 records and the way I open it randomly (i.e. if I don't search for something) I have it set up to go to a random entry. I wrote a program that does that.

Maybe more interesting is investigating the word "algorithm."
 

Moonbeam

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My thought based on the thread title is that the city will be sued, lose, and become the annual site of the biggest LGGBQ+, Black Women's, and Multi-racial parades in the nation.
 

HomerJS

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We create what we fear.
Pubs don’t create what they fear. They create fear. What they fear is losing power. They’ve controlled everything since forever and now the changing demographics is a threat to that.

Demonize people of color and use that fear as grievance.
 

Moonbeam

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Pubs don’t create what they fear. They create fear. What they fear is losing power. They’ve controlled everything since forever and now the changing demographics is a threat to that.

Demonize people of color and use that fear as grievance.
Yes they do. They fear losing power so they will act to preserve it in ways that will cause them to lose it. The Republican party dove off a bridge in an act of suicide. You are just clinging to your fear. Don't. That will only work to keep them in power. Stay calm and vote them out.
 

Amol S.

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The only thing that can save the name of the Republican Party is if they try to do what Democrats did back in 1940's and 60's and try to go left of what the Democrats currently are.
 
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The only thing that can save the name of the Republican Party is if they try to do what Democrats did back in 1940's and 60's and try to go left of what the Democrats currently are.
Are you that dumb to think the Republican party should be dumb and accept socialism ( single-payer or free health care system .like Canada). Just look how bad the economic state of Canada is in right now after they made healthcare free. Their Canadian Dollor used to be almost the same as the US dollor back in 2011, now its almost 1 candian dolloar is like only 70 US cents. All that due to making health care free and socialismistic.
 

feralkid

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Are you that dumb to think the Republican party should be dumb and accept socialism ( single-payer or free health care system .like Canada). Just look how bad the economic state of Canada is in right now after they made healthcare free. Their Canadian Dollor used to be almost the same as the US dollor back in 2011, now its almost 1 candian dolloar is like only 70 US cents. All that due to making health care free and socialismistic.
"Don't forget to inflate your shoes kid."
 

brycejones

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Are you that dumb to think the Republican party should be dumb and accept socialism ( single-payer or free health care system .like Canada). Just look how bad the economic state of Canada is in right now after they made healthcare free. Their Canadian Dollor used to be almost the same as the US dollor back in 2011, now its almost 1 candian dolloar is like only 70 US cents. All that due to making health care free and socialismistic.
Besides your feels I'm sure you can cite evidence to support your conclusion that value of the Loonie is directly tied to health care.
 

JD50

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Are you that dumb to think the Republican party should be dumb and accept socialism ( single-payer or free health care system .like Canada). Just look how bad the economic state of Canada is in right now after they made healthcare free. Their Canadian Dollor used to be almost the same as the US dollor back in 2011, now its almost 1 candian dolloar is like only 70 US cents. All that due to making health care free and socialismistic.
Dollor, dolloar, socialismistic.... where are you from?
 

hal2kilo

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When I did a stent at the home office in Anaheim CA for a little over 2 years, I had all kinds of preconceptions about OC. I knew that it had been famously conservative, with congress critters like B2 Bob Dorman. Several of the nations defense contractors had facilities all through out OC, of which I was working for one of them. At the same time I was moving into an area where locally (Anaheim) I was in the minority (not being Hispanic). Well, the being a minority thing feeling really disappeared as it just became a non-issue. Learned to love my favorite breakfast place, great service, and prices, and it had mostly Hispanic clientele.
Anyway, Sanchez (D) had recently been elected to the district I was living in, and for the most part the area seemed to have moderated some of it's extreme conservatism. The OC Register was the local rag. It was only useful due to the Fry's ads. Read the LA Times.
I enjoyed the area, for the most part. Too many people packed into one place, but you have no excuse to be bored.
 

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So, how will the "racial purity tests" be conducted? I'm sure some of you have seen those ancestry tests where someone finds out they are x% <something unexpected>. And of course you have the obvious issue with half-and-halfs like Obama, or my fucking kids. What's the cutoff, 75% or more caucasian?

I'd be moving as fast I could out of that damn place and I can easily pass as a wonder bread Maga type. And if all the undesirables did the same, I'm sure at first the pure types would be ecstatic. Until they started wondering who was going to do all the fucking work.

Of course I still live in a state where the government is pushing the "positive aspects of slavery", moving out of state is tough right now with businesses and elderly family but holy hell I will not retire here.

Anyone thinking the US health care system is any kind of improvement over "socialistic" health care is someone who very likely hasn't had to use it much. Our system is layers upon layers of money-grubbing leeches and it absolutely sucks.
 
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HomerJS

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Are you that dumb to think the Republican party should be dumb and accept socialism ( single-payer or free health care system .like Canada). Just look how bad the economic state of Canada is in right now after they made healthcare free. Their Canadian Dollor used to be almost the same as the US dollor back in 2011, now its almost 1 candian dolloar is like only 70 US cents. All that due to making health care free and socialismistic.
Republicans could do the smart thing and disavow the racists/racism in their base but they refuse to do that.
 

HomerJS

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Yes they do. They fear losing power so they will act to preserve it in ways that will cause them to lose it. The Republican party dove off a bridge in an act of suicide. You are just clinging to your fear. Don't. That will only work to keep them in power. Stay calm and vote them out.
Is CRT something to fear? No, yet Republicans have turned it into yet another bogeyman. That is creating fear where none should exist.

Sharia Law being integrated into our society is something that never was going to happen yet somehow through lies and propaganda they turned it into something else to fear.
 
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Is CRT something to fear? No, yet Republicans have turned it into yet another bogeyman. That is creating fear where none should exist.

Sharia Law being integrated into our society is something that never was going to happen yet somehow through lies and propaganda they turned it into something else to fear.
Conservatism is all about the fear of change, that change will bring on a worse condition than the present condition they think is already bad enough. When they psyc themselves into a psychotic lather like we see happening all over the world today, they become the agents of too rapid change and liberals, not used to slowing things down and inept at that task start losing their own shit.

When you can’t see the psychological forces that drive people, the inner dynamics caused by childhood put downs, you are helplessly blind as to how to respond. We create monsters where there is darkness.
 

GettyRoad

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This is wrong, ignore LGBTQ, Blacks, etc. if you don't want to be around them......
Don't ban others from engaging.
 

Amol S.

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This is wrong, ignore LGBTQ, Blacks, etc. if you don't want to be around them......
Don't ban others from engaging.
Who's side are you on? I am confused by this response and your threads that you create. Better question, who did you vote for in 2020?
 

GettyRoad

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Who's side are you on? I am confused by this response and your threads that you create. Better question, who did you vote for in 2020?
I don't believe in banning history, I voted for Biden in 2020, but I am leaning towards RFK right now....
 

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I don't believe in banning history, I voted for Biden in 2020, but I am leaning towards RFK right now....
1) why vote for someone with 0 chance of winning?
2) if you don't want trump, you only choice is to vote Biden. Voting 3rd party literally gets you nothing, and never will, because a 2-party system is the optimal solution to a winner-takes-all contest.
 

brycejones

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I don't believe in banning history, I voted for Biden in 2020, but I am leaning towards RFK right now....

No one has banned history except Republicans and their push to limit history in schools to an idealized view straight out of 1950.

RFK is a conspiracy theory loving dumb ass. But I can see a foreign propagandist like yourself pushing him.
 
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1) why vote for someone with 0 chance of winning?
2) if you don't want trump, you only choice is to vote Biden. Voting 3rd party literally gets you nothing, and never will, because a 2-party system is the optimal solution to a winner-takes-all contest.
1) True, I said I was leaning towards RFK for now, I may still vote to reelect Biden. I believe Biden should have ran in 2016 even after Beau's death, Hillary Clinton was bound to be like Al Gore......Note to Political Parties: No more Bush 41, McCain, Romney, Kerry, Hillary, Gore types....

2)True, Biden needs to see that the economy is really good by May-June. People tune out from politics when the Olympics start and after the Olympics is over it is 2 months to hone in....