You appear to be confused by the people who listen to Trump when he states that he believes that if we have nuclear weapons that we should be able to use them.
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I’ll be using this in a paper for my government class 
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You really should not make the assumption that anyone who disagrees with you politically is “programmed” or “too lazy to think for themselves”. There are entirely too many vocal people these days who cannot comprehend that other people might just have differing opinions about some issues. Opinions that also might be perfectly valid and well thought out, just from a differing perspective.
Maybe we should make sure that kids get exposed to civics and debate as a requirement for high school graduation. At least that would give them a decent working knowledge of the bill of rights, and some experience in civil discourse with people who disagree with them.
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That’s two questions. Why do they hate is the more relevant one. Why her is a matter of democracy.
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Lying in the interest of the public good is so common now. It’s become the norm on the Internet, where social esteem relies upon having the right opinions, and social scoring schemes reward extreme hyperbole.
I think it has a terrible effect on our political discourse. People lose the ability to see both sides with any objectivity, or even refuse to as doing so is some sort of ethical betrayal. It was my frustration with this that led to me leading this particular thread so far astray… 
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Thank you for posting that lovely specimen in the Cake Thread as well.
3 more days and this particular tedium is history; yay!
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Well, I hear jet fuel can’t melt steel beams either. Someone should immediately investigate all the things.
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But no votes were actually miscast, because there were multiple checks in place (which is how the issue was found in the first place).
That’s all you’ve got. Meanwhile, consider what has been done to keep young people, people of color, and poor people from voting in a significant number of states. Or gerrymandering. Those are much more significant and unpatriotic manipulations to deny the franchise to people more likely to vote against Republicans.
Why not try to entice them to vote for Republicans instead? That would be the proper response.
When you recognize that the only way you can win is by cheating, maybe it’s time to stop playing.
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That site set my bias alarms off, so I searched for another source. This came up
It’s not even current.
On 22 October 2016, the 2014 Cook County calibration error claim was recirculated on Facebook as a purportedly contemporaneous account.
Having said that, I don’t like voting machines anyway. What’s wrong with a cross in a box on a bit of paper?
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Crosses are for burning on front lawns, hippie! 
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##This.
That needs to be on a teeshirt and tattooed on some people’s foreheads.
Obligs:
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You are right, post withdrawn. I can’t believe I did not notice the date.
I agree. Voting machines are a terrible idea. They are unnecessary, prone to manipulation, and I’m happy to see votes counted by hand. We don’t need instant results.
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Don’t worry, independents don’t examine the facts, just continue insinuating the lie over and over again, like any true rugged individualist. It’s only partisans who are subject to false narratives, of course.
Only the truly Woke can dualistically be “above it” when championing mainstream beliefs and ideas.
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About 40 miles to Paducah and the coal counties are north of us. We have Southern Illinois University just to the north that gives a tinge of blue to the area…makes an interesting island of diversity especially since a lot of old hippies dropped out and melted into the hills down here
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It works very well in Washington, I love our mail-in system with electronic tracking and secure drop-off lockboxes to avoid the frustration of postage.
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Interesting. I knew Carbondale would be blue because if SIU, but I wouldn’t have guessed that Cairo was as blue as it is.
Please do. I was just riffing off the Honest Movie Trailers YouTube channel’s gag of calling characters and actors that somewhat resemble better known ones discount this and discount that person.
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