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Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’

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Remember how he ran on hope and change? How he presented himself as a progressive? Then how he failed to close Guantanamo, never even tried to codify abortion rights, didn't bother prosecuting the Bush administration for their war crimes, did a bunch of war crimes himself, and expanded the surveillance state? Because I do.

And like the other commenter said, he completely capitulated to the Republicans when they invented some bullshit about how outgoing presidents aren't supposed to appoint justices or whatever.

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RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.

No.

They've had 10 years of leftists explaining to them that Trump is a nazi and a child rapist. They always knew. They made their choice.

If they've had a genuine change of heart, I suppose that's one thing. But most of them have not. They still believe all the same horrible shit they did before, they've just stopped liking Trump as much. And even if they HAVE had a change of heart, they need to atone for all the suffering they've caused before they can expect to be accepted on the left.

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Liberal Zionism

I was so disappointed with Contra's response to the Israel/Palestine situation. Like, I understand her not wanting to make a video about it. That's one thing. But her whole "the left shouldn't have made anti-Zionism its primary position" thing is just appalling. Zionism is a fundamentally cruel ideology and should be fiercely opposed.

I know she's had controversies before, but I found most of the criticisms I heard of her to be pretty foolish (e.g. "How dare she advocating voting as well as doing other things?"). Perhaps I should have made an effort to look into those controversies more.

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How to replace p#rn with something healthy?

There's nothing inherently wrong with watching porn. Most people do. For the most part, it's a normal and healthy expression of sexuality. As long as you understand that porn is fiction and bears about as much resemblance to real sex as the Fast and Furious movies do to real driving, you should be fine.

You're probably not "addicted" to porn. Can you be addicted to porn? Sure, but you can technically be addicted to anything. Porn is not chemically addictive the way, say, some drugs are. In fact, watching a lot of porn doesn't predict problematic porn usage--but thinking porn is morally wrong does. So basically, you aren't likely to wind up having a problematic relationship with porn unless you already feel guilty for watching it.

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Come on. A lot of men being shitty doesn't justify violating the privacy of every man you're interested in. If you made this argument about ethnic or religious groups with higher-than-average crime rates, you'd rightly be panned for it. I'm a woman and I think this is awful.