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Take it from a man who has proven he loves Texas 
 Talarico hates Texas and Texan values
Talarico hates Texas
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One of the consistent themes Seattle voters cite in the way they vote is “Trump”. Anything “moderate” or “reasonable” is considered far-right MAGA. This mentality (indoctrination by the progressive political class) is making your life worse.
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“I realize in my heart that it is super cool for us to have aspirational silliness. But since that positivity seems coded to the political side I oppose, I’m going to instead choose to virtue signal. It’s safer for my mental health than actually examining why optimism is only associated with what I perceive as the political Right.”
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I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France? Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais Ă©tĂ© aussi optimiste. Pas malgrĂ© le chaos actuel, mais grĂące Ă  lui. Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique. Tout commence avec un mouvement nĂ© sur X il y a quelques annĂ©es : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc. Au dĂ©part, c'est une idĂ©e presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matiĂšre s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'Ă©nergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forĂȘt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marchĂ©, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancĂ©es de ce processus. Ce sont des machines Ă  transformer l'Ă©nergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexitĂ©. La thĂšse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'Ă©nergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'Ă©chelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « dĂ©cels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, rĂ©guler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrĂšs comme une menace Ă  contenir plutĂŽt qu'une force Ă  libĂ©rer. Mais il y a une dimension de l'accĂ©lĂ©ration dont presque personne ne parle. L'accĂ©lĂ©ration n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre. Pensez Ă  n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santĂ© peut courir. Il accĂ©lĂšre, son cƓur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygĂšne, et tout fonctionne parce que le systĂšme est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artĂšres bouchĂ©es, un cƓur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santĂ©. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus. L'accĂ©lĂ©ration ne corrige pas les dĂ©fauts d'un systĂšme. Elle les amplifie. Un systĂšme sain qui accĂ©lĂšre devient plus fort. Un systĂšme dysfonctionnel qui accĂ©lĂšre meurt plus vite. Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui portĂ© par les dĂ©mocrates amĂ©ricains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entitĂ©s supranationales qui n'ont de comptes Ă  rendre Ă  personne, par un rĂ©seau d'ONG financĂ©es par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent. Regardez ce que ce projet a produit. Des États obĂšses qui prĂ©lĂšvent plus de la moitiĂ© de la richesse produite et qui dĂ©livrent des services publics de plus en plus dĂ©gradĂ©s. Des Ă©coles qui n'apprennent plus Ă  lire mais qui apprennent Ă  culpabiliser. Des hĂŽpitaux Ă  bout de souffle malgrĂ© des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, prĂ©sentĂ©e comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les consĂ©quences. Une dĂ©sindustrialisation organisĂ©e au nom d'une Ă©cologie punitive qui dĂ©localise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'Ă  ce qu'il devienne plus simple de crĂ©er une entreprise Ă  Austin qu'Ă  Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquĂ©e sous le nom de « lutte contre la dĂ©sinformation ». Et une jeunesse Ă  qui l'on a expliquĂ© que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation Ă©taient des crimes Ă  expier. Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-mĂȘme. Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce systĂšme comme un moteur. Un bon moteur, c'est de la prĂ©cision. Des piĂšces qui s'emboĂźtent, un minimum de frottements, une Ă©nergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marchĂ© libre, la propriĂ©tĂ©, la responsabilitĂ© individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnĂ©e, chaque bonne idĂ©e est rĂ©compensĂ©e. Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dĂšs le dĂ©part. Il ne tourne pas sur la crĂ©ation de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne rĂ©compense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. RĂ©sultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque piĂšce use la piĂšce d'Ă  cĂŽtĂ©. Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les piĂšces. En permanence. Une piĂšce cĂšde, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une. Ces piĂšces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche Ă  billets. La France a dĂ©passĂ© les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas votĂ© un budget Ă  l'Ă©quilibre depuis le milieu des annĂ©es 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux Ă  zĂ©ro pendant des annĂ©es, imprimĂ© des montants que plus personne ne sait se reprĂ©senter, et quand l'inflation est arrivĂ©e, elles ont fait semblant d'ĂȘtre surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phĂ©nomĂšne monĂ©taire. Chaque crise, on rachĂšte du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problĂšme structurel, on l'arrose de liquiditĂ©s pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours lĂ . Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des piĂšces de rechange finit par coĂ»ter plus cher que le moteur lui-mĂȘme : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dĂ©pense de l'État français. Pendant des dĂ©cennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner Ă  3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise Ă  masquer l'absurditĂ© de la conception. Et puis l'IA est arrivĂ©e. L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accĂ©lĂ©ration la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des annĂ©es prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idĂ©es se dĂ©placent Ă  la vitesse de la lumiĂšre vers les endroits oĂč ils sont bien traitĂ©s. L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 Ă  20 000 tours par minute. Posez-vous la question qu'un ingĂ©nieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter Ă  20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolĂ© de partout, qui frotte Ă  chaque rotation ? Il explose. Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a sabotĂ©. Parce que la physique ne nĂ©gocie pas. Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux. L'insĂ©curitĂ© qui gagne des villes entiĂšres qui Ă©taient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importĂ© dans nos rues et instrumentalisĂ© par une gauche qui a troquĂ© l'ouvrier contre le clientĂ©lisme communautaire. La misĂšre qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dĂ©pense publique les plus Ă©levĂ©s au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus Ă  se loger. Une France fracturĂ©e, oĂč l'on parle dĂ©sormais Ă  voix haute de risque de guerre civile. Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les piĂšces du moteur qui commencent Ă  voler. C'est la consĂ©quence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un systĂšme qui a dĂ©truit la responsabilitĂ©, la frontiĂšre, la monnaie, l'Ă©cole et la fiertĂ©, et qui dĂ©couvre qu'Ă  haute vitesse, tout ce qui a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©truit ne peut plus ĂȘtre compensĂ© par une ligne de dette supplĂ©mentaire. Et c'est lĂ  que je deviens profondĂ©ment optimiste. Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un systĂšme qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui crĂ©ent et rĂ©compense ceux qui dĂ©truisent, qui finance son prĂ©sent en hypothĂ©quant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indĂ©finiment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'Ă©chĂ©ance. Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les consĂ©quences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde Ă  20 000 tours, les consĂ©quences arrivent immĂ©diatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher. Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement. Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture Ă©lectrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrĂȘter de rafistoler et repartir de la base. Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivĂ© Ă  la tĂȘte d'un pays ravagĂ© par un siĂšcle de pĂ©ronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. MinistĂšres supprimĂ©s, dĂ©penses coupĂ©es, inflation Ă©crasĂ©e, excĂ©dent budgĂ©taire retrouvĂ©. Il a prouvĂ© une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut dĂ©monter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir. Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout Ă©tait dĂ©jĂ  lĂ . La monnaie, la libertĂ© de choisir, la responsabilitĂ©, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fĂ©dĂ©ral, il y aurait pĂ©nurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confiĂ© le sable. On a eu la pĂ©nurie. Revenez Ă  une hiĂ©rarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idĂ©e qu'il existe des choses supĂ©rieures Ă  d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la mĂ©diocritĂ©. Que le mĂ©rite compte. Qu'une cathĂ©drale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a Ă©tĂ© l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote. Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a Ă©tĂ© jugĂ©, documentĂ©, enseignĂ©, et il est devenu moralement indĂ©fendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisĂ©es et ses peuples rĂ©duits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procĂšs. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une universitĂ© sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procĂšs historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idĂ©ologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idĂ©ologie aussi infrĂ©quentable que celle qu'elle prĂ©tendait combattre. Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systĂšmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vĂ©cu du mensonge. Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre gĂ©nĂ©ration pour tous ceux qui veulent construire. Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
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Quote: "It is obscene because, however much the genocide allegation against Israel is mindlessly repeated by people too lazy or prejudiced to understand the difference between war and genocide, that allegation is as false as it is sinister." archive.is/2026.10.09-193651

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A Fox News Digital investigation traces how France's student protests over education cuts are being hijacked by a sprawling network of communist activists, labor unions and far-left political parties — all amplified by a transnational propaganda machine funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon based in China who supports the Chinese Communist Party. Fox News Digital's senior editor of investigations @AsraNomani tracked 50 groups in a 'red-green alliance' involved in a transnational network organizing, promoting and amplifying the student protests in France. – Only 15 groups, or 1 of 3, is a youth student group The 35 other groups for adults are all left-leaning. – 12 labor groups – 8 communist or socialist organizations – 5 civil-rights and human-rights groups – 5 groups focused on issues from taxes to media – 4 political parties, including La France insoumise and French Communist Party – 1 Palestinian advocacy group On the ground in Paris, the hammer and sickle flies alongside Palestinian flags. The French Communist Party's national secretary poses with protesters. Far-left politicians from La France Insoumise pose for photos with students. Groups like the Young Communists Movement of France march behind bright red banners reading "Class War" and demanding an end to "Imperialist Wars." "What we're seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure chokeholds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings," says Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez @Gundisalvus. In the U.S., BreakThrough News — a pro-communist outlet in the Singham network — pushes the protests to a global audience, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes, including from influencer Hasan Piker, on dramatic anti-police clips while laying the groundwork for the next student explosion, this time in India.
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#TexasSenate CNN: According to Ken Paxton, John Cornyn told his friend that Paxton had to lose to teach “Republicans a lesson.” John Cornyn: “Paxton’s gonna lose. We need to teach those Republicans a lesson. It’s going to be hard to learn, but they need to know that their decisions have consequences.”
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Chef opens a restaurant. People really like it. He books out reservations for 3 months. But now people are upset there’s a 3 month wait to go to the restaurant. Then, the government decides to put price caps at how much he can charge customers. He still needs to pay overhead and staff and ingredients, though. So he decides he needs to serve more customers to cover his costs. So he shortens the allowable time for meals. Of course, now the customers aren’t happy about having to rush through their meals. Many of them insist on eating at a leisurely pace, or they send their food back because they didn’t like it, or they show up late for their reservation and insist on being seated anyway. Meanwhile, the chef is trying to keep up. He feels bad he can’t put the same attention into each meal he did before. But if he doesn’t serve enough people in a day, he will have to close down (or sell to the large restaurant conglomerate down the street). Oh, and the government also decides that he now needs to do two hours of computer work for every hour he spends cooking. They force him to use a terrible, but expensive, computer system, too, not the one he wanted. So he needs to serve even more customers to cover those costs as well. The customers are rightly upset. They’re waiting longer and getting less personalized service. The chef is also upset that he’s spending more on overhead but delivering worse meals. Nobody is happy here.
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Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room. Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”). Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth. The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”) So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough. In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy. And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling. So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.” Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror. So wait a minute. In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview. Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane. But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them. Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters. Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records. If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama. And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them. He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego. The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama? Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics. But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor. As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment. Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.” Postscript: Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”. So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”): “If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.” I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them? Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!
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Creepiest motherfucker in WA
This is the guy that says as long as a little girl can menstruate she can consent to sex (our parents have no right to stop her). He also runs his campaign ads from parks where kids are playing. He is also the architect behind the unconstitutional state income tax. He also purchased all of his sons through surrogacy. He’s also a Boy Scout troop leader. He also teaches Sunday school. x.com/choeshow/status/208476

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"The reality is now too obvious to ignore: Katie Wilson needs to resign as Mayor of Seattle." In her 9 months of office, she has: * Completely and utterly failed at public safety. * Defunded Seattle PD's primary recruitment tool, while the department still struggles with basic staffing. * Failed to move the needle on homelessness or drug addiction. * Refused to turn the Crime Cameras back on because of her ideology * Told job creators 'bye' as she waved in delight. * Told Starbucks HQ that they are not welcomed in Seattle anymore. * LIED to the public about her bungled response to a horrific shooting. * Fired the police chief in the midst of said shooting without explanation, and then tried to use word salad to claim she didn't fire him. * Proposed raising taxes on big businesses as they leave Seattle for greener pastures. * Multiple attempts to escape answering questions from the press who is trying to hold her accountable... Yes, it is time for her to go and for an adult to step in and lead. @ChangeWash New Bite of Seattle texts add to calls for Katie Wilson to resign Article: changewashington.org/new-bit

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25 years since 9/11. Never forget that Palestinians celebrated the attack. đŸ‡ș🇾
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Lone juror savaged for noticing defendant did it
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Replying to @Dutch_Agent
Hi. Allow me to introduce you to a concept used in criticism and opinion-making. It is one with which you seem unfamiliar. “Hyperbole.” Sometimes when people want to make a point about something, they use extreme exaggeration as a means of drawing attention to some concept or trait they want noticed. This is what people are doing when they talk about, for example, Tolkien spending five pages describing the bark on a tree in a forest the group is passing by. It’s a humorous and exaggerated means of making this commentary: “I find Tolkien’s prose to be dry, primarily because he seems to insist on giving as much detail as he can about the intricate world he created.” It’s ok to not like a style of writing. For example, I don’t care for Hemingway, primarily because the man never met a comma he would use (oh look, an example of hyperbole). That doesn’t mean I don’t think he was a tremendously important influence. Now it is entirely possible that you know what hyperbole is and that your entire bit is here the classic liberal argumentation strategy of pretending not to understand what the other is saying.
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I don’t feel a thing for her. I feel bad for her husband and the 3 innocent infants. She wasn’t forced to sequentially kill 3 innocent children. This isn’t just a tragedy, it’s a horrific crime deserving the harshest punishment.
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Unsaved person: “What must I do to be saved?” Jesus: “Nothing. Either you are in God’s book of the elect, or you are not.” Now if Jesus said that, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination would be vindicated. But he didn’t. We cannot even imagine Jesus saying it.
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