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"God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board. (www.youtube.com)

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Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that's right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).

They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago (38 children)

Willing to put a month's wages down on which party he's affiliated with.

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[+] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -74 points 5 months ago (37 children)

Really either one honestly. The dems are just better at hiding it.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (17 children)

lmao

literal pedo president started a war to distract from his pedo files and your response is both sides same

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (11 children)

We're just gonna pretend the Clintons weren't part of the pedo files?

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 22 points 5 months ago (10 children)

tell you what, Trump can release the full unredacted Epstein files and we can find out together

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Agreed! However, Biden also could've released the files.

Any current senator, or from the past 5 years, could release the full unredacted files but are actively choosing not to.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 9 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

sure and if Biden was currently president I’d be on board caring about it right now

hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges are possible after but I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment

single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further, worrying about anything else is like trying to diagnose cancer while the patient is bleeding out from a gut wound

even if the Epstein files were not a thing that would still be true, there are so many other ways he has destroyed this country for the foreseeable future

he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone, literal traitor for profit during war time

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges

We can though. They've all had the full unredacted files since 2019 and have had plenty of partial evidence since 2008.

I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment

You should because until you do everything will continue to get worse.

single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further,

The tail doesn't wag the dog, Trump is a symptom not the root cause. The issue with your metaphor is that the cancer and bleeding out are unrelated.

he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone

That and so much more! It's never going to happen though without severe political upheaval because almost anyone who would order that execution has hands which are similarly bloody.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

no because it is literal whataboutism and hopefully even the slowest in the class by this point can identify concern trolling

asking anyone to care about Biden in the face of Trump 2026 is lol

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

asking anyone to care about Biden in the face of Trump 2026 is lol

Which is why we're all doomed to repeat the same fucking cycle over and over again.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

we’re doomed because there are Americans so fucking stupid they think the Trump terms are normal and comparable to anything in the last 50ish years

we have not been this bad off since Nixon

get ready to ride your ‘bothsidessame’ into stagflation

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The job of the Biden administration was to normalize/cool off the fresh hell that was Trump 2016.

We are currently in the fresh hell that is Trump 2026. 2028 will most likely bring a democrat administration which will simply normalize the current shitshow and slow down enough to allow some social annealing.

we have not been this bad off since Nixon

Are you insane!? By what metric!?

Are you unaware of the pure evil that was Reagan? Clinton's "third way" which paved the way for modern corporatism? Bush and the patriot act and Iraq wars? Obama selling the country out to corporate interests? Trump 2016?

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

why are we wasting time talking about the biden admin

lmao fucking idiot, who’s party is running everything

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[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Because the full phrase is "those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it"

who’s party is running everything

51% republican, 49% democrat, >1% independent depending on how specifically you count.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

He didn't need to know. It's a knee-jerk politician reaction to not release ingo if it may hurt anyone in thier party... or the oligarchy.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

While your statement is popular, my response was to a bet that the subject of this post was a republican because he is inappropriate with minors.
My response to trump in general would probably get me banned.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

saying dems are the same as repubs just better at hiding it is some silly shit in 2026

individual examples exist but anyone with eyes can tell the difference in trend

do you remember Al Fraken? dude didn't even do anything wrong

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Democrats and Republicans are really the same underneath. The mental illness that drives both to seek power and influence is the core of why they choose that profession. That same mental illness is what drives the type of pedophilia they commonly have. Democrats have learned to be more discreet because it will affect their success more. Republicans have learned the opposite. It probably even helps Republicans success in some cases.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

trump got elected twice

eric swawell

the obsession some people have with trying to justify their bad choices is lol

anyone that can’t tell the difference is a fucking moron

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

What are you even saying?
No one was talking about justifying anything. Pretty sure we were talking about betting on which party a guy was from based on his inappropriate comments to a minor.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Nah son as willing as I am to bash Dems at every available opportunity, only Republicans are consistently pedophilic

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[+] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Hm. You wanna fact check that? https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1

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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues

Hahah wow these sources you linked to are so trustworthy! /s

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Read the list of dems. Someone who clearly is biased against dems did the work of looking that all up to support their biased opinion. But that doesn't mean the data is wrong. Their conclusions from it are not the same as the data.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

democratic donor and billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein

LM fucking AO

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Epstein was an equal opportunity scumbag. This is already well known. He donated to both sides, and had clients from both sides. And all of them should go down no matter what party they are from.

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

This is hilarious omg

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[–] acme401@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Bothsiding pedophilia.

Huh....what stage of denial is that again?

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago

Both sides are https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1 And both should be punished. I used "punished" because my real opinion is probably against some rule.

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[–] convectionfusion@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Shill or troll? Because you can't possibly be this fucking dumb

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago*

Its reasonable to assume there is a 'good' party if youre not from here, but you dont understand american culture. We kill our heroes here.

Theres less baroque monsters and absolutely unbelievable monsters.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

And wait, who would I be shilling for? I said nothing positive about anyone.

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[+] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -8 points 5 months ago

Dumb is assuming that because one side is really bad, that the other side is angels.
https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Oh, just fuck off...

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'd like to downvote and say no that's wrong.

But I don't know that's wrong, I'd really like to think it and belive it because the VAST majority of history has put them on the right. But that could just be confirmation bias.

The right certain has their share of horrible people.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, it isn't wrong. I'm pretty solidly anti-politician. We need better people making important decisions. https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

There are links to Britebart and fucking Newsmax in there and you're posting that stupid link everywhere.

Stop being a moron.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

You can fact check the relevant parts and skip the rest. Or you can pretend that just because some of the information in their is clearly biased, and the intent of the poster is clearly biased, that all of the information is wrong. Kinda sounds like the average fox news viewer claiming fake news at anything coming from a left leaning source.

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