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To be honest I don't hate on farmers like I do some of the other places out there like WV. Farmers provide a valuable service that isn't going away. We may not always need coal, but we will always eat. Farmers also have one of the longest histories of surviving technological disruption of any...

And those farmers are tied into the larger American economy and are a very important part of our countries strength. We absolutely need to maintain our agricultural sector. Not just for the money it brings in, it is also a critical strategic resource on the military scale. And at the end of...

So here's a fun new development. Mexico is in serious talks with Brazil and Argentina to enter a free trade agreement on Corn, which is one of our largest agricultural exports. This is a direct result of Trumps NAFTA dickwaving...

Lots of trump supporters are now buying into the idea that this bill was intended to fail from the start as a way to go after Ryan. 5d chess and all that, so it wasn't actually a failure. Trump hardliners are honestly one of the most idiotic political groups I've ever seen. He wasn't lying...

So it looks like after all his big talk Trump failed to bring the ACA repeal/replace plan through the house and had to postpone the vote. Got to be honest after all the bullshit we've been dealing with I feel like this is really one of the biggest blows to him. Generally speaking a first term...

For real. After that shitshow you would have to have been living under a rock to think this is anything but cordial.

This was a fairly clever play by Nunes. The details of this situation already don't look like they really support Trumps assertion if you look even remotely closely at it. But because the story is *slightly* complicated it's really easy to spin it for the dumb dumbs however you want and this...

Agreed. They always dickwave about wars. At least we have Mattis.

Fair point. And I do appreciate that a lot of Americans wanted that wall. But that's when they were dumb enough to believe that Mexico would pay for it and it would be cheap. The question now is if they want the real wall, which we can't get Mexico to pay for the and the cost of which will...

Actually no, less than half wanted it.

Or a stupid border wall no one wants?

I just think it's hilarious that he's pulling that funding to build a wall that he was supposed to get mexico to pay for. Is he already giving up on his negotiation? Is that the real art of the deal?

The Oniom could just copy half of that word for word and people would think it was satire.

The problem with the "cut all the things" attitude is that there's a lot of government spending that is actually a net positive for the country. Some are obvious, things like infrastructure spending. Same with (most) education spending. Every dollar we spend in those things serves to...

Late to the party but /r/atheism is such an absurd place. Faces of atheism is still one of the funnier things that came out of it Also of course there is the amazing Mr euphoric There's also a pretty good subreddit called magicalskyfairy that just constantly shits all over them when they...

Someone asked me what the name of the Karl Popper piece was a few weeks ago and then I went AWOL. It's Science: Conjectures and Refutations. Arguably one of the more foundational pieces of work in the Philosophy of Science.

If you guys ever want to start a fight, consider randomly linking articles on Facebook from my new favorite website Wesplain.com There are some great ones here, such as: It’s Time for White People to Pay for Privilege: The Equality Tax This just in: Taxation is not Theft. It is a Gift. Men...

One of Poppers pieces is titled something like "The Provlem of Induction". There's another one about "Science as Falsification". I have a book at home with a bunch of writings in it, I'll see if I can find the piece I'm thinking of. You would like it though, he goes off the chain against...

And then they will say it's gods punishment. Which isn't entirely wrong.

I don't know. That's where we look to the hardcore climatologists to start doing their science to start solving that. I doubt that the gun has fully fired, and I think we can survive it, but it's not going to be pleasant. We've had extinction level events that have dumped massive amounts of...