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Never give money to any of these groups that fight for social causes. It's to their benefit the social issue remain because otherwise they'd go out of business.

You could probably say the same thing about most charities that work to 'solve' medical issues, too.


Bigger than that.

Things, any organization, group of people, etc. Want to persist. And they want to persist with the greatest amount of resources they can gather.

That's the simple rule. Look at every single different kind of organization, good or bad, and that's how they are built to operate.

When it comes to business - persistance and resources are not made necessarily by only solving a problem - but by creating problems to solve.

Charities. Government. For Profit entities. It's all the same core function.
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Ravenous


Is my go to.

For the new crop of movie board folks, I'll say eXistenz. It's a little cheesy, but a lot of fun.

I'll stick with sci-fi and say Strange Days as well. It's a mess, but I enjoy it.

Why do people go to "something unsavory" with Roberts?

The guy looks like a goober, and they saw how Doug made absolutely no impact on Kamala's campaign.

If she is going to run, they are going to pair her with some good looking, successful and potentially with kids so she can play mom. Book it.
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After thinking about it some more, the whole government grant system should be reformed. Grants should be given only to organizations or individuals where there is a potential ROI for the tax payers.

Something that will create a new revenue stream or grow jobs.

A grant should be looked upon like an individual making an investment with hope of, but no guarantee of, an actual return, like venture capital.


Definitely going to play devil's advocate here....

Who's revenue stream? The governments? Look at this current issue, a bunch of faith-based groups see a potential revenue stream, so they support illegal immigration policies and reform, to allow grants to exist for illegal immigration, so they can get them.

A business, or the government would do the same exact thing.

True statements:

1. Solving a problem is not the only, nor main stream of revenue, finding a way to make that problem a revenue stream is often far more efficient at revenue creation.

2. Revenue Streams are not the end-all be-all do good mechanism in the world, and like anything else - they can be corrupted. Heavily.

3. Some problems require solutions that are not bound by revenue targets.


And I say this as a staunch conservative. I think one of the biggest issues with conservatives is the blind allegiance to "capitalism," as the thing that will solve every ill.

Planned Obsolescence is a very smart way to build revenue stream. Is that a morally good thing to do?
Pure evil.


Honestly, I just don't understand "moderate" Democrats or how and why they exist. Or they can still be Democrats. That's why all of the things like this have to be laid at their feet.

The true liberal. The one who believe in Freedom "I think??), who genuinely wants to help people. Who looks at the poor and downtrodeen and has empathy. Doesn't mind some government funding to protect people. To get us out of wars. To try to have immigration laws, but allow for probably more immigration than a conservative.

Why do you support this?

I'd love to hear the reasons.


Look there are things I don't want to support that Republicans typically go for. But many of them are pretty minor, or at least are generally inconsequential, so I put up with it.

But this? It's just the purest form of evil there is.
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What's the evidence?


The. Trans. Agenda. It's 100% about creating a group of people that worth $1.0m+ BEFORE old age.


I don't think it's as simple as "Cures Do or Don't Exist." Or that it's about life or death illnesses alone. Is there a cure for ALS? Probably not.

Heart Disease? It's a combo of poor nutritional guidance and probably "slow" advances in medication on purpose. If we were a better society we could definitely reduce the impact of it. But Lobbyists. Diabetes too. For MOST people.

AIDS definitely should have been cured already. That one is fishy. they seem to be "close."


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Congress could pass legislation tomorrow limiting any taxpayer funded grants to medical or scientific research only…or however we want to restrict it.



100%. Would have to lower taxes and allow people to support non-profits to solve problems with their own dollars. This should be how we do it.

But government wants more control and power to a point. They want more of your tax dollars that THEY dole out and control.

Like Champagne said, we have to vote our way out of this. This is just smaller government. Our government doesn't want "smaller government."
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I am amused when you all try to separate this from the actual church.



I'll admit it's hard to, but it's not "run" by the Church. It's run by a federation attached to the Church. And CCUSA is a further arm of that.

And like most grand scale non-profit orgs, it's bloated, has different interests than the church, etc.

I know a lot of Catholic who straight up avoid giving to anything connect to CCUSA.
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Why should the US taxpayers be forced to "grant" them money?




If we wanted to be done with grants in their entirety, I'd back that as a thing 100%. But as long as grants exist, and if we believe it's a good route to solve some problems, you can't really limit who has access to grants as long as they apply and meet qualifications.

I'd be fine with 0 federal grants. You think that's realistic? Heck, even states have to apply and receive grants as a part of certain transportation bills.

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Why can't a 503c entity raise funds from private donors, only, without assistance from US taxpayers?


Or are you saying corporate entities and government entities have access to federal grants, but 503cs don't?
As a staunch Catholic along with Champagne, I'll jump in and take the heat here.

1. SOME form of immigration non-profit services can be handled by churches. And they SHOULD have access to government grants like any other 503c. All of the comments in here limiting that are totally wrong on this point. It's how are non-profit systems are built, and they did work when limited.

2. There's no such thing as a human lead organization that limits itself - it's just not a function of how things operate. As soon as expansion is allowed, all human endeavors expand into open space.

3. Churches, while they shouldn't be, are no stranger to that phenomenon.

4. It's not the churches fault the shackles were taken off - and THEN people with even bigger motivations to twist the system - did so. It's often not priests and monks who run these parts of Churches - it's lay people.(There are corrupt everything, in every organization).

5. Churches should, and kind of have to, help anyone and everyone. That's part of what they should do. They shouldn't politically influence that or put other people at risk, but that's such a hard stance to take at scale, it just never makes sense. Someone seeking help gets help, regardless of what is done around that, the core value of most Christian churches is always to help.

6. Yes, they helped themselves too much and this should all be shut down, and immigration grants should be HIGHLY controlled and limited. Really all grants.

7. Don't bring up Catholic Charities. We all hate that abomination of an organization. I do not give money to them.

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They also completely ignored the fact that it was purely physical attractiveness, so your personality is irrelevant.



Not even personality. There were multiple that said "I feel good about myself today, so definitely 85," like that mattered at all.

"Confidence is attractive, and I'm confident, so 93"

That's an interesting study of female psychology in 30 min. :lol:
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1. Magic Mike XXL
2. The Godfather: Part II


Must be a troll.

Second time I'll say it today:

Democrats love killing babies.

All of them.


Will any democrat poster here speak up?

re: Pureblood check in time!

Posted by Freauxzen on 8/10/26 at 5:13 pm to
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Each person made their own choice for a variety of reasons.


You really want to admit that you had a choice to buy into a psyop and did?

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One way or the other it doesn't make anyone better or worse.


It's not about the affirmation or being better or worse. But at least the government and the globalist learned that some people will still stand up against enormous state-level pressure.

re: Pureblood check in time!

Posted by Freauxzen on 8/10/26 at 5:09 pm to
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dodged the shot, but got covid once.


You got the Flu of 2020 or 2021? You're fine.
Like 95% of drugs, vitamins etc. carry the pregnancy warning, so the fact that this was so brazenly "fine," is CRAZY. And definitely should have been questioned.

But Democrats love killing babies, so unfortunately, par for the course.
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Why do our beliefs and goals have to be to tied to individual people?


Because that's the easiest way to create visible "teams," and keep people divided.

I'd take it further. I've always told this story about my old neighborhood in Salt Lake. Was probably 20-25% Mormon given Salt Lake, so not super heavy. 2017. Super friendly neighborhood. Got together for events in general. No political signs out. Flags out at 4th of July, Veterans and Memorial Day. People were friendly, open, etc. Just a nice upper middle class neighborhood in Salt Lake. Almost no election signs, people kept that stuff private.



Then the California Democrats moved in with their signs. Pride flags. "Love is Love" "In this house we believe," The Star Wars woman one. BLM, etc. This was right in the Middle of COVID. Peace. Only like 3 families. They started doing Pride events and like that - to fit in, everything went weird. Suddenly Pride signs and flags during pride month. More people with BLM signs, even after the riots. Less friendliness. Less neighborhood get togethers. More division. The Democrat would go house to house for causes and if you were that guy - that was me - you were an outcast real fast. "Do you support this progressive candidate," no. DO you support BLM? No. Can we put this Pride flag in your yard - actually they didn't ask for this one, they just walked around putting Pride flags in people's yards. ALL holidays replaced with pride-friendly events. Then every election season we went from virtually NO election signs to 30-50% of houses having election signs. It was crazy strange how fast you had to join a team.


And I know a lot of people in that neighborhood participated to be "neighborly" and not for any other reason. But it became divisive real quick. A few of us noticed the change and talked about it openly. I kept my yard clear, and started leaving my American flag out basically all year long.

Just nuts. When I say the Democrats are the party of division, I watched it happen real time. It was a disease reshaping a neighborhood piece by piece.

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ETA: I want to be a husband & a father more than anything. Haven’t found the right one yet, but don’t want to just sit around and wait with my dick in my hands until the right one comes along


Massive waste of your time. Like 99% chance she doesn't want this. Move on quickly. Do the right thing.

Be intentional with who you date, and every girl you take on a date should be potential for marriage until she isn't. This one isn't pretty quickly.