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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@RubinReport The charges are in the impeachment document. https://t.co/E27VxbBh2x

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@ericmetaxas Trump caused the mess by backing out of the Obama deal, then made it worse with sanctions, then attacked Iran and told everyone he succeeded in 'stopping their program permanently', only to invade several months later to "really" stop them this time...

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@PastorAlexLove Is this what they mean by universal health care?

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@TheLaurenChen Which progressive policies are they switching to? How did it change from their campaigns? You're just making things up to keep scaring your reactionary followers.

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@JoelWBerry In one case, the people were killed by agents of the government (without even an open investigation into the shootings) while the other was by a private individual. Voting red because Charlie is dead won't stop murders like his, but voting blue could prevent the other ones.

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@RichardHanania As an Ohioan, I've seen a of of people call Acton unstable, but no one is showing her being that way. I feel like people are trying to Howard Dean her for anything she does more than smile and nod.

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@wil_da_beast630 If you watch the clip here, Aaron's just doing the same thing he's complaining about as a refutation. "Here, let me show you why I don' t like his sources" while not, you know, showing any sources (or, as he complains, showing sources so fast that you can't really see them).

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@Aella_Girl The problem with the analogy is that almost everyone still becomes immortal and tortured forever, if (how they teach) the story is true.

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@Wanogho_Promise Charlie was known almost exclusively online or at college campuses (who were, as you might imagine, rather connected people). Most people my age (Gen x) don't have a clue who he was, and I find Millennials are also rather ignorant of Charlie Kirk too. Forget boomers entirely.

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@Wanogho_Promise You're problem is probably that you think online is real life, and specifically that your online spaces represent some true community that exists offline. It most likely doesn't.

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@Wanogho_Promise Do you mean "stay" within my circle? The phrase is to "say in your lane", but you're supposed to get out of your circle. I mean, if you ask conservatives IRL, most of them don't know who Charlie Kirk was or what he did. At best they might say "wasn't he the guy that got killed?"

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@ConceptualJames All these dipshit MAGA people keep re-sharing this clip as if it says something other than "be aware that taking a job with criminals might get you in trouble" is WILD to me. This is as dumb a take as getting upset over the "illegal orders" video.

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@highlife34johnw @TheLaurenChen Wow, you're dumb.

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@highlife34johnw @TheLaurenChen LOL. No.

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@Wanogho_Promise Not really. Even among conservatives he wasn't. After he was murdered, I asked conservatives that I know what they though of him, and I got a lot of "who's that?" from most of them, even some under 30's. I live in a red state too.

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@Wanogho_Promise I don't think you know what "in your head" means. Charlie was a relative nobody to people IRL. You're too online to recognize that.

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@ScottJenningsKY You should be concerned that if you get a job with someone committing crimes that you might end up being implicated in crimes.

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@Wanogho_Promise You don't have to think he was unimportant, but you should recognize that he isn't well known offline.

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@Wanogho_Promise People who hated his politics and can't separate people and ideas celebrated, but those are some of the niche people I was talking about. He was a minor player in a larger game. Even now, more people recognize Hulk Hogan than Charlie Kirk.