ChewyDante

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The only people against this are people who don’t have kids.

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False. If you think the UK government is doing this for anything other than their own sociopolitical agenda you are extremely naive.

This will allow the UK state entity to entirely control the sociopolitical narrative that their youth are exposed to. Social media, while certainly having negative impacts on children, also exposes them to non-state sponsored narratives, news, and content.

They aren't doing this for the psychological benefits to the children. This is political through and through.

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We deserve the plagues of Egypt. We truly do. We showed the entire world we care more about cheap gas so we can take an extra trip a week to Walmart or Buc-ee’s to stuff our fat faces.

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The United States is an extremely politically divided country and we are in domestic turmoil that is existential to the American state as it has existed previously. That is not the domestic circumstances that will support a national war of choice for dubious gains/objectives.

Insofar as Trump and the faction in this country that is opposed to this leftist and foreign takeover of American society, it makes little sense to squander our political leverage possessed now, which affords us our best opportunity in forwarding nation saving domestic agendas to blunt and hopefully begin reversing the policies that are destroying our political power perhaps for good, in order to help Iran’s, Israel’s, or the Arab states’ people and interests.

I would love nothing more than to see the demise of fanatical Muslim regimes that promote instability but it is idiotic to not recognize the fact we have far graver threats to our national life than fighting crusades for the Middle East, corrupt Eastern European states, or former European allies whose values and policies no longer align with our own.

Simply put, we have our own house that needs to be put in order before we worry about power balances in regional geopolitical spats.

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Why expose yourself to potential faux pas' when you don't have to. It's Politics 101

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You are running for US Semate. You are asking the people of Louisiana to vote for you to represent them, yet you think so low of them that they aren’t entitled to hear you speak on what your convictions are because they might learn too much about you and not support you.

You people are a fricking joke. The Letlow campaign is an embarrassment. I can’t believe she is likely going to win. We endorse this bullshite political attitude when we allow it to succeed. This is why we get Republicans Congresses and executive branches that achieve very little for Republican voters. We let phonies and opportunists get away with not even being willing to speak because they might get exposed. Pathetic.

I love the justification that it’s “politics 101” as if bringing up sleazy corrupt political tactics justifies it or doesn’t expose her for the opportunist she is who actually gives zero fricks about LA’s conservative voters. She’ll trick you into voting for her before she’ll let you thoroughly evaluate whether she actually represents your ideals and interests.

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I'm not against sod, but 75%+ of my yard already has pretty good coverage of centipede. It's the remaining 25% of patchiness that I am trying to fill in. Patches came about due to various reasons, and they are all different shapes and sizes. It seemed easier to do some leveling then fill in patches with seed versus cuttting sod or trying to make it fit in the patches, some patches would require a piece of a square, some patches several squares, etc.

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Do they not sell plugs for centipede? I have St Aug and can only use sod or plugs. I don't need the whole yard, just spots that died last year when they put up our patio. I have been using plugs. They have rooted and are doing well just waiting on them to spread and start filling in.

Louisiana politics gonna Louisiana politic. Letlow sucks.

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How so?

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The obsession with self deprecation some whites have is tiresome. “They’re actually BETTER than us. Just look at how much better their countries are…oh wait.”

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name a major city that doesnt stuggle with this issue?

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Point out to me where I suggested otherwise. I lived in Baton Rouge. I am an LSU fan. I hope we get all the best recruits. But Lane is a fricking idiot to raise this issue.

My assessment is that Fleming is winning the Poli Board vote. Not sure how much that translates to the standard LA voter but hopefully a good sign.

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Letlow has a small sample size because of how she got into politics.

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As for the DEI shite, She was a finalist in 2020 for the LaTech President position. Nobody in academic admin prior to 2025 could survive without some support for DEI at colleges and universities. Since she left academia she has not uttered a word about DEI to my knowledge.

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So we don't know a lot about her, and she's only now debating because the polls show she is in big trouble with Fleming's polling numbers, but the little we do know is that when left wing ideas are proposed to her, she will go with them instead of stand up against them if it benefits her in some way, or if the left has enough leverage on public narrative. Wow, amazing selling point! She also says that when DEI was first presented, it wasn't leftist and Marxist, it just got hijacked somewhere down the road. I'd love for her to go into a little more detail on that...so really, she kind of still defends it. So depending on which narrative you want to go with, she either has no convictions and spine to fight leftist ideas or she has no ability to recognize Marxist ideas when they are presented and forced upon us. Either sound appealing?

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There is truth to this, but it just depends on what we have no way of knowing: what he does next.

If the negativity towards him is just too much, and he never makes it to higher office and is just a pundit or back to private life...obviously we would all prefer he had made it on to the Court.

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He's going to run for president again.