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Logic, reason, fact, ethos, emotion, center/balance (left⇔right). Follow me, please. Independent- if it seems otherwise, doubt your stance. λφαηπβ.

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"One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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@rebecca_fachner Honestly asking: How are they oppressed?
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@GrandpaDennisP LOL. 1. We hear from SCOTUS on exactly the same schedule. It hasn't change for many decades, perhaps centuries. This indicates that your perception was incorrect. 2. No, SCOTUS is doing far less to create laws. From the late 1950s till a few years ago, SCOTUS created far too
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@JoJoFromJerz @Ardalan_Ahmad No. I was taught to have more class.
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@RBReich 1⃣It's hard to overstate how much you misrepresent the situation. 1st, there is no such thing as trickle-down economics. That's a name the Dems took from Will Rogers to describe an oversimplified version of supply-side economics. You aren't an economist, as far as I can tell,
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@robreiner I respect @robreiner in his industry. But please be careful, as the above statement is completely false. State legislatures will not have the sole power to elect the President. Even if he's referencing gerrymandering, it only impacts House elections, not Senate or President.
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@LakotaMan1 1⃣Disagree. Among the writings that back the logic for 2A, it's clear it was important to the founders to arm the populace sufficiently well to fight off an armed oppressor, including the Fed govt, the recognition that arms must be comparable. So if govt has AR15, people should.
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@FrankSowa1 Citation please, since a bullet passing through the outer ear as claimed clearly wouldn't have that effect. The tear-away of the ear would disperse the energy. If the bullet actually grazed or hit his head, where there is solid bone to transfer the energy, that might happen.
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@ReduxxMag The woman didn't mis-gender. She pro-sexed him.
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@ReverendWarnock No, we don't. Why not relieve mortgage debt? Credit card debt? Why does someone else have to get burdened with their debt?
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@markale83255321 @rebecca_fachner I have a lot of interest. I'm not aware of any way in which women are oppressed as a group by society as a group. If I'm missing important information, I'd like to learn it and fight against it. So please educate me.
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@RBReich To recap, you've once again entirely misrepresented the positions of a party.
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@robreiner That would be the GOP that accomplished several new peace agreements in 2020 with Israel and its neighbors and recognized Jerusalem as the capital?
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@Tennesseine It's not feeding poor children that is the issue. It's stealing other people's money to do so.
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@ninaturner No, it doesn't. You might try taking it up with African govts and the Confederacy.
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@GrandpaDennisP I should add - SCOTUS doesn't care what the law is. They care about the process by which it is reached.
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@lindyli Yes. You exaggerate a great deal. Musk is not far right. Malone leans right. Koch doesn't control the Supreme Court, and Crow doesn't control Thomas. Isn't it great to be able to make stuff up and publish it around the world.
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@ValuableCards @KurtBenkert @rcobb18 It's amazing how many people don't recognize humor when it slaps them in the face.
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@JoJoFromJerz Hmmm....what would such a person look like...?
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@SenSanders I'm a worker. I have a 401(k). Starbucks is a co in which the fund managers invest. They paid dividends - my retirement improves. They buy back stock - my retirement improves. When they make my retirement a& that of others better, how is that corporate greed?
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@funder @TheAmandaGorman The poem wasn't banned. The parent didn't get it banned.
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@l78lancer I'm sorry, your information is incorrect. Trump's issues were primarily with the second of the three relief packages because he felt the relief to the average family was insufficient, and there was too much pork.
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@JDCocchiarella He just paid the largest tax bill in US history. How much more would be fair?
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@RBReich Again, false. They worked with Supply-side economics, Dems invented something called "Trickle-down". S-S was created in the 1970s. We've seen the Keynsian alternative recently. That's a disaster.
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@not_onions @elonmusk What is it with libs that they can't have a discussion?
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@teddyschleifer 1⃣Not perceptive. Forget Musk for a moment. Consider the avg family, owns a house with a mortgage. It's the same thing. They own property, the house. They don't pay income tax on the gain in value of house, but it's collateral for a loan. Musk owns shares of a business...
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@RBReich You continue absurd statements. 1st, if the CEO is paid more, the corp has less. That isn't corp greed, a baldly silly argument. 2nd, inflation is a forward-looking issue. It's not about the last coffee beans purchased or last payday. It's about the next coffee, the next payday.
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@AdrienneLaw @ninaturner 1⃣History is replete with wrongdoings. All of our ancestors committed wrongs. Everyone is due reparations. In the end, its nonsense, and people know this. In reparations, will you consider the 420K union soldiers that gave their lives and incomes as an offset? The ...
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@Michell33650674 The 1% pay 45% of all income taxes paid. They also pay the highest effective tax rate, 26%, compared to 16% at the 50th percentile. Here are figures from the most recent year available, 2021. The numbers are consistent from year-to-year. After the Trump tax cuts, the
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@AOC No. A safer city is one with fewer people suffering from homelessness - not because they have been housed, but because they work, have jobs, and can pay for their own home. Jobs like 40,000 Amazon jobs and $30B of revenue that you refused because you were unwilling to compete
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@RealSpikeCohen @JoeBiden Both major parties created significant debt.
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@ninaturner What's so hard to understand about that? In one case it's "pro-life for an innocent person" and in the other its "supports the death penalty for a heinous crime that has resulted in the death of at least one other individual thereby forfeiting the right to life"
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@jsmith4966 @rdr19681 Renters rent from property owners who pay property taxes - so the cost of the tax is built into the rent.
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@AdotPerk @ewarren False. It's opposed for Constitutional & promised reasons. The number of citizens is irrelevant. It was structured to be a district & people chose to live thee under that structure. It's no more logical to make ita state than it is to make Chicago a state.
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@BobDammit1 @robreiner Neither is true, and a stay for the purpose of potentially hearing the issue is hardly a conflict.
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@Weinsteinlaw It doesn't click the LTribe narrative checkboxes: 1. Not an assault rifle 2. Not a white shooter 3. No deaths, injuries not life-threatening 4. Victims reportedly not James Madison students 5. Has prior arrests So, doesn't grab viewers on left-leaning TV, does on Fox.
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@tc__todd @RBReich Trickle-down is the biggest strawman in history. 1. There is no such economic theory. 2. It is a phrase coined by Will Rogers 3. The Dems used it to deride Reagan's economic plan which included: a) Supply-side economics b) Simplified regulation and simplified taxes c) Demand-side
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@joncoopertweets NO, because it's taken out of context and false information as presented. 190+ negatives were listed in the Florida program. It then noted that in spite of this Blacks were so capable that they were still able to learn skills that benefited them when they were freed. This is a
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@ninaturner 1⃣They overturned Roe because the legal decision was incorrect & legal experts on both sides of the aisle, including RBG, knew it. SS was designed with a life expectancy of 62 and a ret age of 65. Today LE ≈ 78. Each retiree had 15 workers paying their benefit - today it's 1.5.
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@Thom_Hartmann Notice a few important things: 1. NOT assault weapons 2. How many are suicides, compared to suicides by other means in other countries? 3. How many are gang/drug-related crimes? It's not enough to simply quote a statistic without meaning.
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@MaxColl69009345 @acnewsitics @dinglebarey Statistically, the Trump administration's response was slightly better than the Biden administration's response.
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@JoJoFromJerz Oh that's absurd. If Joe is healthy, he should be running. But he's saying he had to step aside because he was losing. He couldn't even read the teleprompter tonight.
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@POTUS And increase the debt by $19T. You will become known as the President who bankrupted America. Most of us do not believe in the theory that money can simply be printed infinitely to pay debt. How many times larger than the current budget would just the interest be?
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@QuoteDigging @JoJoFromJerz The junior high drama around here is absurd.
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@LakotaMan1 2⃣The discussion shouldn't be over what 2A MEANT. The discussion should be about what we need a 'new' 2A to mean today, and design a new Amendment that fits the current need.
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@sandiechill @NormOrnstein @MaryLTrump I find it funny that people who don't seem to understand the construction of the Constitution pick random ideas to override what was given immense thought and study and has worked well—only because they don't like the results without giving concern to the process. This is an
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@AmoneyResists A Pulitzer prize winning photographer actually caught the bullet in air in a photo:
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@AOC Not CNNs job. It's the voter's job. Stop suppressing voter's rights.
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@WerderEdESPN I don't understand what needs to be reconciled? His knee is down, so IF he completes the catch, he's down where the ball is when the knee is down. That seems logical. What's the point you're trying to make?
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@EdKrassen @NTrinnte Then it is unnecessary and redundant to the National Anthem.
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@JDCocchiarella He's not destroying anything. The level of drama would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic.
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@AdamParkhomenko The point is lost on me. Doesn't the proposed law also protect gay families & young gay children, so that teachers can't proselytize negative gay messages at young ages?
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@ninaturner 1. I favor a more cost-efficient military. Right now it's getting weak & spending money on stupid stuff. 2. The rich are taxed. 3. The market determines wages. Jobs have a wage range & employees define their value in that range. To exceed the range, change jobs. 4. We do.
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@ninaturner No minimum wage. It harms jobs. Pay jobs what they are worth.
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@MessiEra10_ @POTUS Which Republicans forged your name to a debt contract?
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@POTUS @SecYellen It was also at your direction that we overspent and caused inflation, triggering the Fed to raise rates, which devalued the bonds bought by SVB, and caused their collapse.
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@RepAdamSchiff Republican questions were mild. Kavanaugh received outrageous and offensive attacks.
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@anguillaman2 @SethAbramson Republicans passed a debt limit increase 4/26.
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@robreiner 1. No clear conflict on the issue. 2. This was a stay so it could be decided whether to hear it. That's all. No conflict on that. In fact, a stay is an anti-conflict.
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@KeneAkers Nonsense. Most people didn't care about the color of the President's skin. If anything, they were happy to see a new Black role model and hoped it would help Black society. The concerns were around his far too leftish policies and his somewhat racist perspective, leading to
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@Hellmark Because he advocated for boys to get them.
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@AdrienneLaw @ninaturner 2⃣the school programs, the affirmative action, the food programs, the housing programs. Will you calculate the cost of money on this and add it back in? What about those who had no family in the US? They may have fled their own bad circumstances. Will they be made to pay?
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@SillyRedHats @krassenstein 3.5 years of the worst border performance in US history, with no attempt to address it by Biden until it became a political issue in his final year (and even then it's not an issue he's taking action on, even though he clearly could.) So no, it's not on Trump's shoulders at all.
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@DarrigoMelanie Tax cuts are literally not a handout. The money was earned by the people, so letting them keep what they earned is not a handout. When you say "Republicans think kids getting school meals is a taxpayer handout and bad" you are in error. 1. Taking money from the public to feed
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@BruceIronsNFL It's also the fans. They fill the stadium win or lose, they buy (worthless) stock. One doesn't have to have a business mindset if enough dollars roll in, so they CAN BE focused solely on football.
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@TheValuesVoter Yeah - and still seems more prepared than Kamala.
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@Fly_Sistah @HillaryClinton Much false information in your post. Can you list any situations where: - Republicans have banned books? - Banned transgender athletes? Additionally, CRT is taught in elementary schools, in derivative form. For example, Number Theory, a post-graduate mathematics topic, is, in
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@ninaturner 1. Debt cannot be canceled. It's as impossible as canceling gravity. 2. The student took the money and spent it.
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@denisedwheeler @doglegjack I am not a Trump supporter, and I don't want him for President. I have yet to see a New York court case that has proven he did anything wrong. I anticipate all the NY cases will be overturned.
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@SethAbramson False. Republicans passed a debt limit increase April 26.
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@JoJoFromJerz Who would he debate?
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@RBReich 2⃣you have no background or knowledge in advanced mathematics. You continue to make undocumented claims. Just how much are you paid to do this? Maybe I can get a similar gig?
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@kbthompson007 @EdKrassen @NTrinnte Sure it is. It's not a concert, its a sporting event. And when one claims a song extolls equality for all peoples, but it's being presented to highlight one group over another, it's worse than redundant. It's racist.
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@RepAOC 2: You imply it's because the neighborhood is 50% or more Black. But we know from general statistics, this could be associated with a higher crime rate or with a higher default rate. These things are also associated with lower upkeep. Such factors can lead to lower value.
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@ItsJeffHudson One can disagree with KR, and how he decided to approach the day. But between the verdict, and the extensive video, covering nearly his entire relevant evening, one cannot reasonably say he murdered anyone. What I find bizarre is that Joshua Ziminski (aka Alex Blaine) helped
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@Hackery_Bottery @BethHoller @TheAmandaGorman @Oprah @FLFreedomRead The FF knew it wouldn't be. "We the People, in order to form a MORE PERFECT union..." It would never be perfect. It would continue to evolve. Hence Amendments.
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@_Just_Chayse_ @acnewsitics The top is not freedom of expression that veterans protect. The top is expression not approved by an employer during work, which is not something veterans protected.
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@krassenstein @TheRightGuy101 Biden routinely acts as though Beau died in combat. He did it again a few days ago when he lumped Beau in with soldiers who died, while Joe was ranting about Trump. At this point, I think Joe actually believes Beau died in combat.
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@SenWhitehouse Republicans have passed an increase to the debt ceiling. It's not them keeping a default on the table.
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@ninaturner First, when social security first went into effect, the retirement age was 65, and avg life expectancy was 62. This is normal and not new. Second, that LE seems low.
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@Aiope_Pi @JoJoFromJerz @Ardalan_Ahmad Then you see wrong. I didn't swear at her.
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@_SmashAmos31 I promise I will be very thankful when you re-sign with Green Bay, and hope that the re-doing of Darnell's contract was to make space for your signing.
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@ninaturner No, it isn't. The student signed a contract.
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@POTUS Major companies are laying off. Inflation is high.
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@davidhogg111 Historically, drag was comedy. It was intended as such and taken as such. It wasn't broadly intended as serious, or a lifestyle. Today it is. Today some drag is clearly sexualized and being marketed to minors. The past is the past, we can have a modern sensibility. But the
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@MikeSington I'll be surprised if it isn't tossed on appeal somewhere in the chain. The verdict makes no sense, and the amount even less sense.
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@SaneYossarian @itsJeffTiedrich 1⃣1. Both parties gerrymander 2. The Senate represents voters through States. States are sovereign. This is the United STATES, a Union of States. It provides balance. 3. The Electoral College represents voters both through population and through States. It provides balance.
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@DashDobrofsky Yes, but the Soros supported DAs around the country have been releasing such criminals sometimes without bail.
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@LqLana @DaveExplains1 So, now we know its a lie.
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@teddyschleifer 2⃣which are property. If we tax him in the increased value of his property, why aren't we taxing every home owner on the increased value in their home?
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@mmpadellan @hardy_john63374 He's shouting because Newsome is just making stuff up.
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@itsJeffTiedrich @JoJoFromJerz This from the man who posted that no Republicans were extending well-wishes to the Pelosi's when that was clearly false. How about recognizing the issues in both parties for a change?
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@ninaturner Of course. There was a cease-fire in effect on 10/7. What happened?
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@AngryAtheistCan @markale83255321 @rebecca_fachner It's nothing at all like that. I've in fact gotten a lot of education on the topic. The normal reasons people give that are often reported in the press are false. Are there individual circumstances of abortion that have been badly handled, especially during this transition
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@RBReich Once again, you publish false information. There are 14 mainline domestic carriers, not 4. There are 15 regional carriers. There are 28 commuter carriers. There are 33 charter carriers. NONE of your information is correct.
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@lawyer_sophie @TheSylvreWolfe @cmclymer And after 75 years of Palestinians basing their claims on the destruction of Israel (Hamas, the ruling authority, has that claim, when the PLO was the 'ruling authority' it made that claim) how is the Palestinian flag different?
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@prolibshow @ninaturner The amount of pay doesn't determine relevance. The amount of pay is determined by what the market will pay. If it is forced higher, the job is eliminated, and potentially the business. There are many jobs that people will gladly work that don't have to pay a living wage.
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@kjsturr @Toure No. That is not the clear result.
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