bear2034 said:

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Imagine voting for Biden in the primaries, only to have your vote nullified when Kamala became the candidate, only to watch her lose to Trump and then watch her certify his election win.

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Or, you can just IMAGINE this . . .

tequila4kapp said:

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Jeff Bezos issues an edict that the Post's Opinion page will focus on personal liberty and free markets. The existing editor resigns.

This is a smart business move as nobody occupies that space. It is much easier to turn a buck competing against nobody vs. 1 of 6 (or more) to rail against Trump.

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Except that the Post's subscriber base is mostly of a left-leaning bent and this will drive them away further. I have a lot of doubt that any conservatives are signing up for Washington Post subscriptions now.

tequila4kapp said:

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We shall see.

Personal liberties plays well on the left too - abortion, LBGTQ, DOGE, etc.

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We'll see if that's what Bezos means.

Peter Zeihan, who possibly got USAID / other funding, argues that China overestimated their population by 300 million and now is in a dramatic decline which isn't reversible. Something like over 50 million men w no chance at marriage (one child policy one cause).

movielover said:

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Peter Zeihan, who possibly got USAID / other funding, argues that China overestimated their population by 300 million and now is in a dramatic decline which isn't reversible. Something like over 50 million men w no chance at marriage (one child policy one cause).

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Zeihan is wrong on most issues about China and on many other issues, either because he doesn't get it, or he doesn't want to. I seriously doubt that in a society like China they can miss their population count by a factor of 25%. Even in early 19th century Europe, statistical methods already were developed to assess populations with good precision.

The majority of top CPC leaders have a STEM backgrounds, including the last three leaders, Xi is a chemical engineer, his predecessor Hu Jintao was a civil engineer and Jiang Zemin was an electrical engineer. These guys are capable of solving differential equations and have an inherent understanding of population dynamics.

China's long-term demographic goal is a "soft landing" from 1.4 billion to around 800M - 1B at the end of the century. They've started relaxing the brakes on their population growth restrictions by raising the maximum number of children to 3 per family.

There is also the possibility it was something other than a mistake. They are Communists, effectively a dictatorship, and they do what they want to get what they want.

An unvaccinated child in TEXAS dies of measles.
Totally avoidable.
Sad, really.

Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first US fatality in years

tequila4kapp said:

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There is also the possibility it was something other than a mistake. They are Communists, effectively a dictatorship, and they do what they want to get what they want.

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They're not exactly communists, China's public sector share of their GDP is actually lower than the US', and much lower than those of EU countries. Every communist country in history has failed or stagnated economically, and that is not the case in China. They have a kind of a hybrid system with a market economy and elements of socialism with a homegrown ideology based on Confucianism.

DiabloWags said:

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An unvaccinated child in TEXAS dies of measles.
Totally avoidable.
Sad, really.

Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first US fatality in years

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Probably really died of a mandatory Covid vax according to medical experts on Substack.

bear2034 said:

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Where are the protests? I expected heavy left-wing government funded protests during the weeks prior to and up to the inauguration but it didn't happen. I expected heavy left wing government funded protests after a month's worth of executive orders but it didn't happen...

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You've always been an incredibly bad judge of how people will act. You assume everyone will respond the way you do.

bear2034 said:

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Where are the protests? I expected heavy left-wing government funded protests during the weeks prior to and up to the inauguration but it didn't happen. I expected heavy left wing government funded protests after a month's worth of executive orders but it didn't happen...

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We've decided to let you guys just take the blame for everything that's going to happen.

bear2034 said:

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Where are the protests? I expected heavy left-wing government funded protests during the weeks prior to and up to the inauguration but it didn't happen. I expected heavy left wing government funded protests after a month's worth of executive orders but it didn't happen...

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In case you haven't figured this out yet, that was under Trump 1.0
Trump 2.0 has 23 State AG's fighting him in the courts.
And they are working in a coordinated effort.

For some reason, you seem oblivious to this.

23 Dem AGs think they've cracked the code to fighting Trump

DiabloWags said:

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For some reason, you seem oblivious to this.

23 Dem AGs think they've cracked the code to fighting Trump

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The walls are closing in again!

England is lost.

ADMIN POST.

The judge, Steven Everett, who let Labour MP, Mike Amesbury, walk free from court today, after he repeatedly punched a member ofthepublic, sentenced a 53 year old woman to 15 months in prison for a Facebook post last year.

The two tier system is blatant. pic.twitter.com/I84HbgDCrx

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) February 28, 2025

MinotStateBeav said:

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Boston, we have a problem..

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Even Oakland wouldn't do this....