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In our current political environment, many Americans feel disconnected, unheard, and worried about the future. Amidst the noise of extreme views and sensationalized media, it's important to recognize that most people in this country consider themselves moderate—neither strictly conservative nor liberal, but practical and balanced in their beliefs. Today's political scene often feels like a battlefield dominated by the loudest, most extreme voices, overshadowing the reasonable majority. This polarization misrepresents the essence of America and disregards the principles of our Constitution. Our nation is founded on human rights, personal freedoms, and the belief that every voice counts. Yet, many citizens feel their opinions are being overshadowed by divisive rhetoric and sensational media coverage. The middle ground, where most Americans stand, is a place of reason, compromise, and understanding. It is here that we find the potential for true progress and unity. Our country needs the middle to step forward and be heard, to reclaim the narrative from the fringes that seek to pull us apart. The media, too, has a vital role to play in this. Rather than feeding the flames of division with sensationalism, it must strive to present a balanced and realistic portrayal of our nation’s challenges and opportunities while celebrating our successes. The Constitution grants us the rights to free speech, assembly, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are meant for all Americans. It is our collective responsibility to ensure these rights are upheld and our democratic processes reflect the will of the people. When the middle is ignored and pragmatic voices are sidelined, our democracy suffers. As Americans, we must demand that our media and politicians focus on issues that matter to us all—healthcare, education, economic stability, and the preservation of our inalienable rights. We must advocate for policies that reflect the values of the many, not the extremes of the few. In recent years, fears have grown about freedoms being eroded for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and non-Christians. Embracing the middle ground is the key to healing our divisions and building an inclusive, just future. It is only through embracing the middle that we can hope to heal our divisions and build a future that is inclusive and just for all. America needs the middle now more than ever. By elevating the voices of reason and moderation and reducing sensationalism, we can guide our country toward unity and progress. Let's commit to this path and ensure our democracy truly reflects the people it serves.

I don't doubt this is true. I've lived amongst some of the most racialized parts of the country and was a bit shocked to discover that racialized Canadians are generally more racist than white Canadians, especially against other racialized groups. Tribalism is a major threat to western countries and will only increase in scope.

Most sane people can see what's happening. Yet there are those who keep on pushing this stupidity. Then there are those whom constantly want someone to define woke.

WTF? Read the OP. Read the article I posted. This is not a one off comment or aberration. Again, multiple comments, multiple contexts and multiple classes of veterans. And no, he insulted all POWs. His argument was that people who get captured aren't heroes, instead he "likes" people who weren't captured. That's not just McCain, it's every POW.

Except, it is not. This is the only example you got and the one Biden and team have to repeat over and over again. BS what? He was insulting McCain, not all POW's. Years later? Yeah right. And to the point of integrity, if he felt like he did, he should have said something then. What exactly is it that I am twisting myself into pretzels about here? My position is quite simple and factual. You are the one who is trying to contort an alleged bad comment said that most people deny him saying into something more than it is. Why don't you believe the majority of his closest confidants who reject this allegation? I deal in facts. You, not so much. What is this "disdain for service, service members you speak of? So far you have him insulting McCain and an allegation he said something that most people say he didn't.

When you think about it they had 51 of quite possibly the most powerful people besides the president of the United States in the world openly lie about a laptop and then hide it under "classifications". Why is it a stretch to believe they don't rig US elections? They do everywhere else

LOL You are dismissing this affidavit before any investigation because it is 3.5 years old. Trump did not brag about doing anything to her on tape.

And of course, you thought the same thing with E Jean Carroll coming out some 20 years later?

This is very true that political system is failing America. It is detached and runs for its own benefit rather than that of the citizens. But one has to remember always, that democracy is not a miraculous supermarket but a tool, instrument for free citizens to run their affairs according to their ideals and principles. No tool will run forever if left neglected and unattended: it will rust, dust and corrode. So, it is the responsibility of the citizens to clean and maintain their democracy, if they want to keep running their affairs to their ideals and principles.

The whole point of a debate is to read what the other person is saying, and respond to that. You're not doing that. You're just full-quoting me and repeating yourself, without even acknowledging my arguments about your (IMO) poor reasoning. As as an example of your bad conclusions, just refer to anything regarding these maps and the near-zero progress the Russians are making. You're definitely not reading these right. Here's an example of "recent gains" in the last 24 hours. They barely ever show up on these maps, because they're hard to confirm in that short a time span. As for Chasiv Yar, the place where Russia is concentrating hardest, here is the ACTUAL progress Russia is making, according to YOUR SOURCE. In 65 days, the Russians have moved forward 2.7km. That's 41m a day, and this is where Russia is advancing the fastest, and concentrating the hardest. Sad Vlad is throwing away 1000+ of his worthless donkey soldiers daily, so the Russian army can advance the distance I walk to go have a beer across the street on my neighbor's porch. At this pace, it will be two years before Russia reaches Kramatorsk, the closest city of any importance, and they'll lose over 600,000 more soldiers (4x the population of Kramatorsk itself). "Advancing is advancing" is utter bullshit, and I think you know that. I've said it multiple times before, and you've ignored it over and over, but Russia runs out of manpower and equipment long before Ukraine runs out of land at this rate - and this is with US aid delays.

Yeah, except that has science behind it. Whereas your ideology is powered more by "muh Feels". It's a noticeable difference.

Talk about "suspicious," 3 1/2 years later some rando decides to file an affidavit. And you want an "investigation." That ship sailed LONG AGO. Duh Nothing to see here. LMAO

This topic comes up occasionally and all we see from the Left is denial. We almost never see it mentioned in the media, especially an admission that it happens all the bloody time and with growing frequency now as we bring in millions more racial/ethnic people from the third world. Besco has found ethnic self-identification is powerful in Canadian elections. The largest groups — South Asian Canadians and Chinese Canadians — tend to support candidates of their own ethnicity, Besco discovered, regardless of the voters’ political ideology or even their own self-interest. Saying the quiet part out loud here. We all knew it, of course, though the Left denies it. “Racialized Canadians are more likely to support candidates of their own ethnic group and racialized candidates more generally. Racial and ethnic identities matter, not only in elections but in nomination leadership races (and) social movements. These identity groups are deeply influential in politics,” writes Besco. But more broadly, it isn't just Sikhs voting for Sikhs or Indians voting for Indians. It's 'racialized people' voting for anyone racialized first. And even those who acknowledge it never condemn it. They just shrug and say 'that's the way things are'. But can you imagine the outrage if someone suggested they should only vote for the white candidates? And as millions more such people flood into Canada what is that going to do to representative politics in future? When more than half the population are immigrants? Because the agenda of a lot of these groups is not in harmony with the best interests of Canada. That's especially true of Muslims and Sikhs. Douglas Todd: Canadian politics becoming increasingly tribal | Vancouver Sun

#metoo Or as I call it, pound me too. It's funny how every woman is to be believed...unless they accuse a D.

Accurately predicting weather is much more difficult than predicting climate since weather is a STOCHASTIC PROCESS. Of course you don't even know what that means. Well as long as you Dunning Kruger protegees believe ^this, it must be true. LMAO We already know that climate HAS CHANGED in the last 30 years, your amateur and arbitrary standards notwithstanding. In REALITY, climate can change more subtly than your drastic lDIOTIC OPINIONS of it.

No try again. The thing you said I lied about was that homelessness in the US doubled during his presidency. It's pretty widely understood that homelessness spiked in the mid 1980s, so what makes you think that it didn't?

Not sure why you are expecting so much from "User". Anyways, in the legal realm.. it comes down to whether the land is public or private. If it is private then the law clearly states that you can't do so without explicit permission. If it is public then it depends on who is the steward.. the city, county, state, BLM (Bureau of Land Mgmt, Forest Service, etc.). Each has their own policies. For federal land.. the law is 30 consecutive days except in the paid campgrounds. If you are on BLM land and you pull off onto a dirt road and there is no formal signage.. you can expect the 30 day rule. Some of it is a matter of enforcement. If the public land is in or near a city.. then rules will be enforced more strictly. If you are in Paisley, OR.. probably not so.

Well your friend can pay for my therapy to get that image out of my mind now I'm not actually fighting I just reply to his weird little cries for help.

Looks like he's got most of the swing states too athough some might be close. And he hasn't even been campaigning. He's learned the value of not interrupting his opponent when they're screwing up, something he didn't get with hillary. So when the new cycle starts to slow down on biden being incompetent he can jump back in and pick up momentum and scoop some indy voters. I have said in the past that contrary to some people's opinion trump has never been a very good campaigner. But he has really improved this time out and while I wouldn't call his campaign brilliant, it's a lot more solid than it has been in the past. If he keeps up like this he will definitely be president again. Biden is going to continue to be the center of negative attention and then suddenly trump will be put front and center in the media at the convention and announce his running mate and be all the media talks about in a more positive light for a week That means Biden is going to start this race off with negative momentum and that's always really hard to recover from

🤣 Tell us how you really feel lol.

Way to avoid the question. I asked: "OMG. Lets hear this brilliant distinction explained. What makes someone an "African-American" vs "Black" and how does "Black" History month mainly refer to "African-Americans?" Let me spell it out for you: Yet again you assert something incredibly dumb, and now you run away instead of owning up to it.

It's not one time. It's many times, in many places and contexts in reference to many types of service personnel. Bullshit. He didn't attack John McCain, who just happens to be a POW. He attacked him on the basis of being a POW. (Not a hero for being captured, Trump likes people who weren't captured.) His derision applies to every POW. There are lots of reasons people IN the administration don't speak out. People are freer to talk after they leave. You claim not to be a Trump sycophant, but you're twisting yourself into pretzels to weave an alternate reality and dismiss and diminish criticism that is broad and sourced almost exclusively from people who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. When their closest confidants and collaborators confirm it, believe them. Again, you're welcome to say that his disdain for service, service members (especially the disables, POW and KIA) is A-okay in your book. You're welcome to say that you'll give power to an awful human being in the hope that he delivers policy that you think it good. But don't bullshit us by pretending reality isn't reality. Just own it and move on.

You Nazis can't elect a candidate legally. The ship didn't sail. And the perpetrators (along with Joe and pretty much MOST of the DemoNazi party) belongs in PRISON.

No one says this. I didn't say it did, dummy. No the post is saying, quite clearly, that Blacks today are better off here because their ancestors were enslaved than they would have been if they stayed in Africa. In other words "slavery is a net good for black people."

False equivalence. What Carroll claimed was EXACTLY what Trump BRAGGED ABOUT DOING on the Access Hollywood TAPE. Duh It doesn't matter what I thought, the JURY CONVICTED Trump.

No, it's a yes.

So let's just go with your idea, and have Ukraine surrender. Since surely the Russians won't commit a slew of war crimes, up to, and including genocide against Ukrainian civilians in the aftermath. *facepalm*

I For one fully support these people's TransRacial rights! It must be terrible to be a first nations trapped in a white body! Why should they be stuck with the race they were assigned at birth? The gov't should be paying for race-affirming surgery. (the above is sacrasm for those who didn't get that. Mainly herbie and robosmith )

where do you think your doc got his info regarding the vaccines?

Why is the affidavit anonymous? How do we know it’s real?

He is heard a lot more than your 1-2 line gotchas with your naked links.

Political correctness is a disease.

Gee, they don't check up when you apply? Like your status card along with your Driver;'s License? That's how those Grade 9 coders got the ArriveCan contract!

This isn't any proof whatsoever, it's a conspiracy theory. You've been conned by a conman.

never mind that Africans were enslaved by Africans then sold to the Portuguese with Protestant Abolitionist Britons first, then the Americans after, as the only people to ever go war against that

Only two sentences and he still couldn't say anything that made any sense. Honestly, a monkey pounding on a keyboard would produce better content than you do

All I see are excuses. You still believe the people that lie to you and berate the people that believe what they want to believe. My point wasnt that Trump is truthful. I didn't even bring him up. My point wasn't that Fox is a paragon of truth. My point was that you are a hypocrite for turning a blind eye to lies. In this case, maybe the biggest lie in the history of our political system. As to why Scarborough hasnt been sued, who would do that? Who has the standing to say they have been harmed by his lie?

2 - Google search women life freedom .........One recent evidence among a thousand more. There are plenty of evidence, the latest being the fact that last week an overwhelming majority of Iranians refused to take part in the sham presidential elections. The Ayatollahs had called on the nation and urged them to vote in order to show the world its legitimacy but based on the lies announced by the regime itself only 40% voted (and the true figure is as little as 15%). The slogan is Death to ruling shiite Islamic clergy and their mercenaries on streets. 3 - I have to write a book to answer this but in summary, Arabs are bunch of desert born camel riders with no history and no civilization, whereas Persians have 2500 years of history dominating half the world 2500 to 1500 years ago (the other half by Romans) for ten centuries. Cyrus brought in the very first charter of human rights 2500 years ago. Persians are originally Aryans (before being mixed with inferior invaders), whereas Arabs are Semitics. Persians have totally different culture and calendar and history and geography and celebrations like Noruz, Yalda and Tirdad. Persians speaking Farsi which is different with Arabic. Yes Turks are non-Arabs too and have different language and culture than Iran. Their recent history (only 200 years ago) was also a brutal empire. Because they are Muslims, their history is full of brutality like the massacre of Armenians.

If he can't even admit it doesn't stop anyone from getting or giving others covid.... 🤷‍♂️ At least he's stopped claiming it wasn't giving anyone myocarditis. And he's stopped claiming no one in Canada has been injured or died form them. Slow progress, I guess. Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice, shame on me. Lie to me 3,423 times, my name is eyeball.

FFS doogie...stay in our century at least . And, stay on topic. 🤦🤦🤦

what @eyeball doesn't understand is that while conservatives are proud of their beliefs, they don't define themselves by their political party or affiliation. We are who we are, and therefore we tend to be conservative in our views. We're proud of who we are more than our political leanings. Who we are defines our politics, our politics don't define who we are. Eyeball and those on the left however have a bad habit of letting their ideology define them. " I am on the left there fore i believe xxxx and i behave xxxx". So they're not proud of themselves as individuals as much as they're proud of the ideology or political view's they've committed to. That's why they tend to hate others who disagree with their beliefs. It muss seem very odd to them that conservatives don't think like that.

Honestly, get a Toyota hybrid if you have the choice. Don't settle for less. They've been making them for 20 years now and you get the best of both worlds: your vehicle recovers the energy used in braking by converting it to potential energy instead of just dissipating heat into the atmosphere, so city fuel economy is excellent you get the quick refuelling times and unlimited range of a gas vehicle (stations are everywhere and it takes 1 minute to refuel) Additionally, they're cheap, they last for hundreds of thousands of Km, and their resale value is unbelievable. There may be a wait-list for a Highlander hybrid, but that's one that they've made for 20 years and like I said, the resale is incomparable with other vehicles.

You are absolutely right. As far as we know, Semites are of Arab origin or Palestinians, while over 90% of today's Jews are not Semites but (Khazars or Turkish origin). They are actually misrepresenting themselves as Semites and this can be proven very easily with a DNA test. Being Jewish is a religious, not a racial, category. Those who condone killing of 40,000 Semitic children and women in Gaza are actually anti-Semites and not those who criticizes non Semites. Secondly, Christians do not serve Mammon (the Golden Calf) but God. If some want to serve Zionist Mammon, that's their choice. "If God is dead, anything is permitted" F.M. Dostoyevsky http://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/Dead_Gaza_children_002.jpg

Why's it our problem?

Lol. That's already been normalized. Look at the Ralph Yarl case in the US. You will only see race in a legacy media headline if the perp is White and the victim(s) are non-White. This has totally distorted perceptions and influenced policy. At the height of BLM, Democrats were polled and asked how many unarmed Black people were killed by the police every year. Over 1/3 believed it to be over 10,000. Nearly half over 1000. The real number fell somewhere between 9-25. About twice as many unarmed White people were killed. Majority of those still being justified.