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But the reality is this
Posted on: March 9, 2021 at 09:28:13 CT
4TigersinMichigan
MU
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By doing nothing you are effectively supporting the worst of the choices before you.
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I will repost this as it helps to understand just how silly
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:23:51
Is the gunman COVID, and the third person an anti-masker?(nm)
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 10:11:37
BOOM! (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:28:02
the shooter is responsible, dipshyt (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:10:29
IF I were the gunman, I'd shoot the smug guy telling me to
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 10:02:48
He needs to go back and watch The Dark Knight scene
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TigerMatt
STL
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3/9 10:12:02
What if the gunman was lying and shot the kid because
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TigerMatt
STL
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3/9 09:55:07
don't do this. This was a carefully crafted situation
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 09:58:37
You are correct - you cannot guarantee the actions of
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:56:08
what a stupid and absurd conclusion (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:11:18
Yet when people tell you
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:58:25
Perhaps - or the shooter kills the child
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:00:01
Not entertaining a criminal is a valid moral choice,
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TigerMatt
STL
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3/9 09:57:15
Can't believe that those damn libertarians refuse to give
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 09:35:22
The person who pulled the trigger is responsible for the
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:32:59
Yes, of course
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:33:56
Okay. Still doesn't change the fact of who is responsible
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:35:50
Never said it did or would
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:39:37
You implied it:
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:44:21
Aren't those of us who participate blamed for the state of
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:46:00
Possibly, but participation is an affirmative act.
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:48:06
Few analogies are perfect
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:51:05
you have to roll up your sleeves to vote?
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:15:44
don't want to get ink marks on your clothes(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:17:06
Perfection is a different universe than your analogy.
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 10:13:14
They did what they were offered the opportunity to do(nm)
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:14:46
By a raving lunatic gunman with a gun to the head of a child
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 10:15:39
Not all opportunities are great choices
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:16:13
you make a great bootlicker
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:23:46
And "better of choices" = / = "responsible"
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 10:17:39
No, just like in voting your vote may not matter in deciding
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:19:47
It is not remotely the same as the situation in the
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 10:21:27
I respectfully disagree
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:25:40
Would voting for a third party
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:51:55
RE: Would voting for a third party
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Mizzou Lou
KC
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3/9 09:59:06
Our political arena
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:02:22
Can't argue with any of that...I want to, but I can't
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Mizzou Lou
KC
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3/9 10:14:30
lol(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:16:39
So your question is would participating be the same as
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:53:32
You have said that voting for a Libertarian
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:56:38
A wasted vote is still a vote
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:58:29
because you lack understanding of non-participation
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:59:47
Rejecting the argument is not the same as not understanding
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:01:38
It is showing how dumb your analogy is
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:16:07
I do believe history would show it is a wasted vote
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:17:03
Are you not the one that constantly says
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:47:18
Yes, and we do
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:49:00
no, "we the people" make no decisions
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:34:42
You really have the dumbest analogies(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:51:08
And you continue to offer nothing meat
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:54:06
you're the one providing amusement in this thread (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:35:03
In his example if you had the power to stop it and chose not
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:39:29
no (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:35:15
That's not for certain. But also, it doesn't change who is
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:43:30
You are wrong in 4Tigs example though. If you had said 'NO'
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:47:04
false (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:44:20
That's not for certain. But again, it doesn't change who
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ummmm
MU
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3/9 09:48:44
How do you know the gun would not have been fired?(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:47:55
I will never know unless I try, right? If I say no and he
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 10:07:40
So..we should negotiate with terrorists..right?(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:08:17
Do you even understand what negotiate means?
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:08:52
You gave a simple scenario. They are doing everything in
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 10:17:46
now you're projecting (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:44:55
That is pretty clear at this point
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:24:31
LOL, that's rich.
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 10:20:58
It was him that
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:19:06
ok..we should accept the terrorists demands
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:09:28
That is preposterous, even by your standards
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:10:34
no, you're analogy is (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:45:27
And certainly politicians responsible for horrible policy
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:45:06
he wasn't guaranteed that chance(nm)
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 09:35:50
You left out moral superiority.
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RHAYWORTH
MU
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3/9 09:27:36
you're retarded (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:46:11
Non participation is a part of our system.(nm)
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:26:30
But the reality is this
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:28:13
false (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:46:26
You're not effectively doing anything of the sort.
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 09:56:49
Agreed - and that is my point
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:02:34
I just said it's absolutely not doing that.
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 10:04:13
Yes, there is something gained by not voting
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:05:21
false (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:47:02
That is only if they would have voted
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:07:13
Every person who chooses not to vote is in practical
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:08:03
incorrect (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:47:20
LOL, keep saying it.
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 10:12:43
I will always state facts regardless of how they are
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:15:41
your opinion is not fact. FAIL (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:47:38
not at all(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 10:08:55
Absolutely - every time(nm)
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 10:09:36
Are you really that dumb?
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:38:38
yes, he really is
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:48:27
That is a typical meat post
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:41:16
I never claimed to be ummm
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:44:00
Of course not meat
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:47:22
the reality is, nothing I could have done would have
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SwampTiger
MU
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3/9 09:31:26
No, it would have had a small impact. That is how our
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:36:00
false (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:49:01
You are really clueless to our current system
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:43:20
We have the power, as voters, to change that system.
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:58:30
false (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:51:15
zero impact (nm)
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SwampTiger
MU
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3/9 09:38:43
an individual vote doesn't change it either. You're
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 09:37:18
and a single snowflake does not cause an avalanche. But
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 09:43:33
look up on how avalanches happen. It's never b/c
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 10:00:39
Just like any case where a static object starts moving on
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 10:15:58
tons of snow, not one. Usually though it's external forces
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dangertim
MU
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3/9 10:19:41
who is the lecturer here tim? that's right, not you (nm)
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SwampTiger
MU
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3/9 10:38:51
Snow does not fall tons at a time, it falls as single
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 10:33:53
it's a horrible analogy (nm)
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ashtray
UF
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3/9 10:55:03
A few thousand votes in very specific states.
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 09:59:54
Does that change the fact that the power is there?(nm)
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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3/9 10:08:45
It's not the power you frame it to be
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kmawv8
MU
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3/9 10:14:37
That is a different argument than saying there is viture
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:33:03
oh yes, and your silly analogy didn't address that(nm)
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SwampTiger
MU
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3/9 09:41:12
Yes, because that is a different arguement
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4TigersinMichigan
MU
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3/9 09:44:17
I meant your analogy didn't address the
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SwampTiger
MU
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3/9 09:46:13
Because you ether refuse to actually listen to the argument
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meatiger
MU
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3/9 09:39:21