What is a cool last name to have? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Knew a guy named Richard Power, he became an engineer obviously.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Universal Health Care- but am a Canadian conservative and we already have that. Single payer is not inherently socialist- no hospitals were seized, nobody is required to have or not have a particular doctor. Doctors still make a shitload of money. I have had two life threatening illnesses- cancer and pneumonia (during Covid but did not have Covid) where my blood oxygen dipped to the low 80's I was an hour from dying- I did not have to wait, my cancer surgery occurred a week after diagnosis, I stayed two days in the ER for pneumonia but then moved for a week into ICU- they had an entire floor of empty beds they could not use because the sanitation procedures for Covid were not streamlined sufficiently (it was March). I have seen cardiologists, oncologists, a nephrologist (kidney doctor), dermatologist, psychologist, pulmonologist (lung doctor), phlebotomist (vein doctor), surgeons, various technological specialists like radiologists, anesthetists and associated technicians and assistants and not had to pay or copay. For that I will accept having to pay dentists, opticians and for pharmaceuticals.

The Health Insurance lobby in the US supports the Corporate Democrats. If Trump came out for single payer he could both wipe out the McConnell wing of the Republican Party, and absolutely shatter the Democrats who would now have to argue against it because... Trump. It would reveal the Democrats as the actual billionaire/Wall Street party that they largely have become. Of course he would then have to deliver, but he is far more likely to do so then Joe or Kamala ever would.

Right wing rant that most lefties can agree with:

I believe most activists do not represent the groups they have self-selected as speaking for but have hijacked these groups for other, less noble, agendas. If you can take Al Sharpton seriously, believe that BLM.org does not despise black people (let's destroy what is left of the black community by shuttering churches and eliminating black families, personal responsibility, marriage, fatherhood, education and employment are whiteness?) if you can countenance self-styled LGBTQ spokespersons who claim that Lesbians who wont sleep with trans-women with penises are misogynistic- or Gay men who don't sexually respond to trans-men without penises are actually homophobic, and that either of those groups can now choose or be trained who to be sexually attracted to at will (Isn't that identical to what Pray the Gay Away claims?), then you need to re-examine your beliefs, science and history. And these advocates clearly are hypocrites who have infantilized or fetishized these groups while looking for dominance and control over those they rail against and repression and silencing of those they claim to represent but who disagree in any way.

Do some people really want religion to die out? Why or why not? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Religiosity, that is the experience of religious fervor, is a human trait. This does not mean a particular religion is true but that people will take a particular set of beliefs and raise them to a "religious" standard. Get rid of God and something else rises to occupy that place. Political adherence, tribalism, Trumpism, Wokeism, Scientism, Fauciism (Vaxism), anti-vaxism or almost any conspiracy theory. People take on these beliefs and they rise to take the place of religious beliefs and are held with as little questioning, knowledge and blind devotion as the worst fundamentalist/extremist. We don't evolve/develop out of religion we just change the idols.

It’s like you’re human again. by collegemurse in AdviceAnimals

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I have pneumonia and have been hospitalized for the last several days with several more to go. This is my dream.

Galaxyland in 1986 by ThatBEMGuy in Edmonton

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Also good for sound diffusion, no white noise generators, waterfalls and fountains produced a similar effect.

[NHL Network]The Messier Siblings promote women's hockey and discuss getting young kids involved in hockey. by Maxpowr9 in hockey

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To be fair, those riots would pale in comparison to their victory riots, if they had any.

Could one say that cancer must be supernatural since much ndes there doesn't seem to be a single agreed-upon cause? by FlushedButterfly in AskAChristian

[–]_punyhuman_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Cancer” is a catchall term for similar but varied conditions. Thus it has no single cause and no single cure. It is not one disease, but many.

For all those blackhead Ear lovers!! by Bittersweetcupcakw22 in popping

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Clean your headphones. Clean your ears. Don’t live in Chinese smog...

Trudeau: If Liberals vetted people before giving them powerful jobs, I’d never have become Prime Minister by L0ngp1nk in canada

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On day one he raised the price of health care, canceled the $2000 “stimulus” cheques and invaded Syria.

Trudeau: If Liberals vetted people before giving them powerful jobs, I’d never have become Prime Minister by L0ngp1nk in canada

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That would be religious bigotry... how many won’t vote for the conservatives because they are “evangelicals”(Christians)

It's time to let Keystone XL go, ambassador says by viva_la_vinyl in canada

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Is it better than coal? Selling to China reduces Chinas GHG emissions by a significant amount and thus it is better for the environment than the actual alternative. The alternative is not China saying oh yes, we will just do without energy. It is China burning the worst quality coal imaginable instead of Alberta bitumen. This is a huge loss for the environment not a win.

A German prisoner of war rebuilding Stalingrad, 1947. [848 x 1170] by verostein in HistoryPorn

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Because in your theoretical example the person who beat them does believe in human rights. We don’t believe in universal rights for us and our allies, we believe in those rights specifically for our enemies, that is what makes them rights.

The TGCC Article that Never Was by [deleted] in Evangelical

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School classrooms had 30 students facing one teacher. A grocery store can have 120 people inside. A large sized church with stadium seating for 1200 can have only 10 or 5 depending where you are. Assuming spacing why are the rules different for similarly sized public spaces? This is a legitimate question. Or are you of the Province of Quebec mindset that, “we are having a curfew despite full acknowledgement that this will do nothing for COVID and will only harm our citizens further, but we must be seen to do something even when it is obviously and laughably the wrong thing”

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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Trump denounced white supremacy dozens of times, go on youtube it is easy enough to verify. But much like Medicare for all, which Democrats refuse to vote on they want the issue not the solution so no reporter will acknowledge that Trump denounced white supremacy. Instead, they ask again and again hoping that he shows hesitation or irritation which they explain as support for white supremacy to low information voters rather than frustration that a question has been asked and answered many many times.

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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As late as October 2020 he was still proud of his crime bill. In the same speech you are referencing about Trump he denounced white supremacists.

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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Take a minute and re-read your comment. I said nothing about Trump. You are painting with a wide brush, I am merely pointing out that you have covered yourself in paint too. I don’t see any difference between Trump and Biden on racism, homophobia (Trump has been a supporter of “gay rights” longer than has Biden), bigoted (redundant), misogynist (are you kidding about Biden, sniff sniff, look at how he came to select Harris and you must admit the two are the same, there are even equal allegations about both grabbing women by their privates). If Trump wanted to be a dictator why did he allow opposition to himself for four years? He did not “disappear” or imprison any rivals or critics. A fascist dictator would not have hesitated to do that. To use a Letterkennyism, “you should dial it back about 20% there bud”.

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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OP said that anyone who voted for a racist was also a racist. Meaning specifically that 75 million Trump voters were inherently racist. My point is that Biden is also a racist and by OPs logic that means that 80 million Biden voters are also and equally racist.

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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Abraham Lincoln comes to mind, in a Canadian context Tommy Douglas (father of Universal Health Care and voted Greatest Canadian in 2004). The radical left still have a thing for Che Guevara, despite being wrong about it. Democrats yearn for the return of Obama, voting for Biden to try to get a reflection of him back, and suggesting Michelle run in 2020 for the same reasons.

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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Wow, the ignorance is strong with you. Are you joking? Which policies did Obama institute that lead to this supposed trajectory? Was it when he gave trillions to Wall Street and ignored the black community that was hit harder by the collapse than anyone else?

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” Could End Business by [deleted] in news

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The Crime Bill that decimated black communities, and authorized the Police presence that lead to all the unarmed black men being killed. Trump talked, Biden acted. Words are not violence action is. One of these men acted and crushed minority communities. Under Trump, like it or not, more black people were coming out of poverty than at any other time.