Skeptical Root

It's sometimes disheartening, but always more useful, to spend more time listening to our worse, if wiser, selves.

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@Ayaan @TreyDimsdale No, it didn't, and your article didn't provide any evidence that it did.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan That's timestamped for you.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan https://t.co/3WCVmIcI0m

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan Well, they might be, but this issue has been before them several times already, all of which were sided against your position. https://t.co/qUQqnteoFH

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan Imagine having a rational argument that you can support with evidence and not "feels". But still, imagine you understood adjective clauses, or had read more than half a paragraph of something you wanted to cite in an argument too.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan Now he's making the argument that (the framers said) we are supposed to follow common law when the constitution isn't clear, but then says that (since birthright citizenship is the rule there) that is "weak" reasoning because we broke with England...

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan I'm over half way through it and he's making the same incorrect claims about what the "intent" was, he misrepresents "jurisdiction" (spelled out in the debate you quoted above). I've heard his arguments before, and they are still wrong. And for over 150 years, SCOTUS has agreed.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan The carve outs are explicit for who doesn't qualify within the wording of the amendment.

And it's hilarious how you're pivoting away from your own argument when reading the whole context would show you're (you and TomWoodsTV) are wrong.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan It's in the constitution you dipshit. It's spelled out in plain language. People with dumb ideas or that don't like they way things are will say whatever feels good to them to just not own up to being wrong. The 14th says and SCOTUS has agreed for over 150 years.

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan Not that this is even IN the amendment, but if you want to really understand what is being said, you have to read more than the circled part. Howard makes it VERY clear that you're misrepresenting him a few paragraphs later (he's arguing against your position).

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan https://t.co/HlUIvFYNbp or https://t.co/hafghrjnIi The commas don't separate the thing being described, it separates the characteristics of what is described.

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@jessakiddding We don't want to pry, but also don't want to overshare. The general sentiment is something like "everybody's got problems, are you so special that someone wants to hear about it?"

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@KorribanSociety @maklelan It's an adjective clause. The only "foreigners, aliens" that are excluded are the ones that "belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States" but not "every other class of persons.", as that expressly states.

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@RandPaul It's not a loophole, it's the literal text of the 14th amendment.

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@Ayaan You do have to have evidence of that for rational people to believe it. I see a lot of "Christians" that did positive things, but very little of that seems to be biblically informed.

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@KonstantinKisin The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

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@TheHistoryGuy07 ...genetic research indicates that Y-chromosomal Adam lived between 120,000 and 300,000 years ago, depending on the lineage model... Mitochondrial Eve lived roughly 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. This means Adam and Eve likely did not know each other or live at the exact same time

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@Whiskeytagofox They can actually be more effective than squats... for developing quads. Isolation exercises are better at working their target than general or compound movements. So the question is "as effective" at what? Squats work more muscles at once while extensions are focused.

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@wil_da_beast630 No, the liberals were never conservatives. They are literally the opposite positions.

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@blessedlyunwoke @maklelan There is no morality without subjects.