David Graham
I am a hard working libertarian-minded conservative that wants to learn more about all people.
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- Cost analysis has many factors. If the foreign steel take three extra months to get and the factory makes millions per month, it may end up "cheaper" on net to take the faster, more expedient steel, getting operational faster. But usually, they just buy the cheapest steel and wait.
- of course he did. it was cheaper. now it's not. he would have used the cheapest option, as any builder would.
- One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
- I call BS. There are plenty of excuses for not wanting to do a conference and I cannot fathom how tariffs would make the event more expensive. For the record, I think the tariffs are dumb, but this looks more like an excuse to cancel.
- Tesla stock down another 5.6% today. 30% down YTD.
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- I took the time to read most of these, but I don't see anything but dotted lines to being around people that may or may not be neo-nazis.He's a very wealthy guy. A lot of people are around him.I'm sure if you tried, you can find a lot of really amazing Libertarians and even Democrats.I don't see it.
- Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!
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- And this is just one example of the differentiation that I was speaking of, not to belabor it.
- Fight off*
- In a way, yes men are expendable more than women, but it's not something most of us don't willing do. It's a natural reaction built into the psychology of men. My hypothesis is that it stems from the fact that we had to find off attacks while the women are pregnant and more vulnerable, but not 100%.
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- This argument makes little sense in the context of also arguing that people like Musk pay no taxes. The rich already know how to work the system to massively reduce or eliminate taxes, irrespective of the tax rate. How could any of this affect that so that they pay even less if they are at zero now?
- Facts.....
- Why do you think so? Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested.
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- Separation of church and state isn't in the constitution, nor does it mean that politicians cannot exercise their religious freedoms and even influence policy decisions. It simply means that the government cannot compel anyone to support a religion, nor can it establish any religion.
- The hypocrisy is off the charts.
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View full threadTo answer your question more directly, I think that Reps lies aren't as obvious and usually stem from some truths. The "very good people" lie is a good example of dems continuing to say something after most people have seen the video for themselves and he clearly doesn't mean the neo-nazis.
- Whereas, Trump saying that he will open the waterways in CA to fight fires is based on the fact that they indeed needed more water, and while his plan was foolish, it at least had the appearance of action. It's also harder to track down the truthfulness over simply watching the video for yourself.
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- Fair enough. I don'tsupport anyone lying. I prefer to look for the real information and come to my own conclusions. Admittedly, harder and harder to do.
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- If you were with your male friend and a female friend waling down the street, and a man comes out of nowhere with a knife, which of your friends are you more naturally going to protect with your life. For me, my male buddy is on his own. Call me whatever you want, but that's just how men are made.
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- Yet, we all know it as fact.
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- Discrimiting, as a term that is usually meant in a negative sense, I do not agree with. You should not limit someone's opportunities based on factors that they cannot control like sex, race. Etc.We can use the word differentiate if that leads to better discussions. It's is not pertinent to my point.
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- I didnt say that treating them differently was equivalent to treating them poorly. You've never made a point to open a door for a woman?Never protected a woman from a man that would do her harm?Never shown respect to a woman that you would not show a man?Do you think women should be drafted to war?
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- As you may know, you cannot prove a negative. If there is information that I'm unaware of that shows that they did die as a direct result, I will recant that part of the statement. But, to my knowledge, only one person died on that day at the event in question, and she wasn't a police officer.
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- You want a place with no opposing views at all? I bet we agree on more than you think.
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- You have no idea who I voted for. Your overt assumptions show that your anger is winning over your ability to reason.
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- I didnt vote for bingo cards in any way. Though my wife has drug me to bingo a couple of times.
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- Existed, sure. That doesn't mean they add to a society. They are outliers don't follow social normatives that produce good outcomes for the whole. There is no value added other than to themselves. Supporting that is an attempt to show moral superiority despite the clear mental issues.
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- The movement of bodies through space relative to each other didnt shift. We just moved the measing stick.
- Fat fingers. Measuring*
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- As it should be. You've been discrimiting between men and women your whole life. Literally every time you look at a person, you instantly know if they are a male or female, and you treat them differently because of it. As you woukd if you saw this man dressing like a woman. The TX law is for kids.
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- The government should not stop people from making bad choices, I agree. As long as those choices do not infringe on another person's individual rights.
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- Hence the mental illness. A deep-seated need for attention. A desire to be a part of something special.
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- You still cannot change your biology at will. There is no surgery or procedure or shit that will make him a female. He will be a mutilate male that has physical characteristics of a female, but never female.
- I didnt say that he can't live his life however he wants and, no, the government shouldnt stop him. But he doesn't get special rights because of his choice and his choices cannot infringe on the rights of others.
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- A human being with a mind that can identify when others are biologically male and attempting to usurp the life lessons and skills of women for narcissistic reasons. There are zero people on earth that would look at this guy and think that he's an actual adult female. Everyone can tell immediately.
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- Sinister just means on the left side in a literal translation using its etymology. The idea that all people who are left handed are sinister in today's use of the word is as preposterous as a man becoming a woman because he decides to. The latter, not a choice of words, but the way one lives.
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- No, I called him mentally ill.
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- If believing men cannot become women is bigotted, this wouldn't have been a thing until like ten minutes ago. For the entirety of humanity this was common sense until those that prosper on the "under respresented" needed a new group to promote.
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- I do want to understand. How is it not an attempt for certain men to reduce the unique, natural value of women by stating that their choice to dress and act feminine is equivalent to the life experiences of a real woman?Men like this are literally robbing women of agency and all of a sudden it's ok?
- No police officers died on January 6 or as a result of it. Continuing this lie is and example why Dems lost. It is easily verifiable. Some of the events that took place were reprehensible, and those people should not have been pardoned, but lying and overstating fact invalidates valid points.
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- Did that in the 90s. Overrated.
- Serious question. When did Democrats become the pro war party? It hasn't always been that way. I used to respect the noninterventionist foreign policy for most dems as one of the things I had most in common with them.
- At least you let everyone know your mental illness up front. So many people try to hide it and thats scarier to me.
- Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.
- This drop represents less than 1% of the 1.78M vehicles sold in 2024 for the company. Yes over years sales globally are down 1%, beating most car manufacturers.
- They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.
- Nah, probably just wrong to show porn to kids. If it also supported their agenda, maybe the opposing agenda needs to be reworked.
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- What makes him a nazi?
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- So, what makes him a neo-nazi then, exactly?
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- Nobody: ..... Luke: Stop talking about trans issues!
- Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Even biological science? How about Life Science? Health Science?
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- I've been all over Germany actually. I once saw a grandmother tell how proud she was that her grandson was born on Hitler's birthday in the middle of a restaurant when giving a toast. Nobody blinked.
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- This is about the oddest take that I've ever heard. He bought Tesla Motors from the original "founder" when it had no car, no engineering drawings, and no employees. How in the world is a hostile takeover? Takeover what exactly?
[Not loaded yet]- Transportation was more of a Stalin talking point. Trains on time and all.
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- The far right is how they got the nazis, is it not?
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- My wife probably wishes I was a bot. Fewer arguments and less gas.
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- Thanks for the logical and insightful dialog. I am a better person for having your thoughts written down in such an enchanting way.
