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  • Republicans have been eliminating progressive news and media for years.

    They really haven’t… The issue is far deeper than that.

    Fear based pushing of media doesn’t work so well outside of a cult. The problem atheists have isn’t that we don’t have our own sunday services, where we teach a different “fire and brimestone” message… Its that those sorts of “tools” just don’t work with people broken away from indoctrination.

    Way back when, I ran two “new sites”: One was a progressive media site, and the other a conservative one (Before I had a stronger moral compass), and running ads on both.

    The progressive one earned almost nothing. The conservative one? I was easily bringing in ~$40/month in ad rev, without doing anything, really. I wrote two stories, about the same thing, and just tweaked the language for each to cater to the side I was publishing to.

    Oddly, or not, the most commonly clicked ad was penis enlargement pills, and “Hot moms looking to cheat” type ads.



  • She lost, because (IMO) she basically gave a big middle finger to:

    • Leftists
    • Progressives
    • Arab-Americans

    And, because she decided these people were great people:

    • Dick Cheney
    • Bill Kristol
    • Georgie Bush
    • Mike Pence

    You know? The war criminals and war criminal enablers.

    The lesson Dems need to learn is that no matter how much they shift right, they’re not winning GOP voters. All they are doing is shedding voters on the left. The whole “Vote for us because other team is bad” rings hollow when you’re doing everything the other team is doing, too.




  • ubergeek@lemmy.todaytoMemes@lemmy.mlSo anyway
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    Yes, sorry… the militia clause, as its known

    The purpose of the militia is to put down insurrection, not to engage in it.

    The word “regulated” has had only one actual meaning… the same as it means to regulate interstate commerce.

    And only a couple of years later, the militia acts passed.


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    I pray you actually read what people point you too:

    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law









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    In this context when they write about a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a “free State,” they actually imply that the security guarantee is against a tyrannical state of which they had recently been at war with.

    No, it doesn’t. Read Article 8, as it describes what the militia’s purpose is. At the time “the people” meant “the states”, as each state was to be secure in it’s own abilities and authorities to manage it’s militias. The purpose was to put down insurrections and slave revolts.

    Remember, also, that to be “in the militia”, you were also reporting for regular muster and inspections. By the government.