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      That’s the part that still amazes me, a decade after he was first elected. If you asked someone 15 years ago “Who in popular culture should not be in charge of the most powerful country in the western world?” the answer would have had a high probability of being this piece of shit. What is inherently wrong with a culture that elects this fucking trainwreck TWICE?

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                And they had the richest tech billionaire, and our most hostile enemy, partner up with the most prolific traitor in American history to rig the election.

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            It means they cannot understand ideas, concepts and vocabulary that a 6th grader should according to academic standards. Newspapers are normally written at the 6th grade level (historically anyway) because that was the average reading comprehension 30 years ago. Now it’s of course much worse.

            You might have read huge books in 4th grade, that’s one data point–you-- against huge national data sets and trends. Your lone data point of what you read is called an anecdote. Anecdotes are generally ignored in debate as they are seen as unhelpful distractions at best and deliberately attempts to distract the discussion at worst.

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              You still didn’t define the academic standard, and you didn’t answer the question. 6th grade level according to now or 29 years ago? Was there a test? 6th graders now are in worse shape now.

              Also, your response was condescending. I simply hear about these levels and don’t understand what they actually are.

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        Honest stupidity bordering on developmental issues plus a complete lack of morals and fixed ideology which means anything goes as long as it seems popular (sheep stay with the herd).

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          This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.

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            I was simply born in Cascadia and I just want Oregon to secede. I know that it seems unlikely but everything that’s happened is unlikely.

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    Reminds me of Stellaris. Fucking vassal states. What genius left the ‘can declare war’ setting on ?

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      Worse, some dumbass set the “Join their wars” to “All” instead of “None”

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      Can Determined Exterminators become vassals? I thought they didn’t do stuff like diplomacy with anything but their own kind?

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      That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.

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    When shit gets real they “didn’t vote for it.” I cannot think of a more irresponsible group of idiots than republicans.

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      No no no, they’re the party of “personal responsibility”, remember? And “family values”, right? They have no core values, they’re a cult and will believe whatever their propaganda networks tell them to.

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    If you voted Democrat or Republican you 100% voted for this.

    You’ve sat through an entire generation now of presidents just deciding to involve us in wars, and in fact, several wars at once.