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DnD Central / Re: The Epstein Files
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A photo gallery of a nice initiative: Trump-Epstein Memorial Reading Room. It includes the Epstein files printed out in thousands of volumes, a documentation of Trump's and Epstein's life events, and a tribute to victims. 


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DnD Central / Re: Everything Trump…
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Trump statue ‘Don Colossus’ isn’t ‘golden calf' worship, Pastor Mark Burns claims
Quote from: https://www.christianpost.com/news/trumps-statue-isnt-golden-calf-worship-pastor-mark-burns.html
The 22-foot bronze figure, covered in gold leaf, depicts Trump raising his fist in the gesture he made after surviving an assassination attempt in 2024. Titled “Don Colossus,” the statue was unveiled Wednesday at Trump National Doral, the president’s golf course in Miami, Florida, Barron’s reported.

Burns, who led the dedication ceremony, posted on X the same night: “Let me say this plainly: this is not a golden calf.”

“This statue is not about worship. It is about honor,” Burns wrote. “It is a celebration of life and a powerful symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, courage, and the will to keep fighting for America.”

https://cdn.christianpost.com/images/cache/image/15/92/159245_w_850_746.webp

As anybody can see in the picture, it's a golden calf.
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DnD Central / Re: Doesn't matter who wins the USA Elections the hypocrisy will continue
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Americans unhappy with Trump have some ideas to change the system. However, the ideas concern the election system, sometimes the Supreme Court, but never the role of the president. Even with Trump in power, the president's post is an untouchable sacred cow to Americans - all Americans. For them, the president must remain both head of state and head of government in the same person, i.e. as it is now. Counterproductively, many propose abolition of the electoral college, hence the president should be elected directly, giving him even more power than now.

I must conclude that Americans, all of them, are a different species (in their political thinking), not normal humans. Everywhere else in the world it is allowed to theorise about whether to be ruled by a king, a president, or a prime minister, or how to divide powers between all these titles, but not in America.
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DnD Central / Re: Doesn't matter who wins the USA Elections the hypocrisy will continue
Last post by Frenzie -
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
As always, Euro-centric intellectuals fail to recognize the difference between a republic and a democracy.
When applied to a nation from the past several centuries the word means a modern liberal democracy, not an ancient Athenian democracy. The right to vote is part of being a democracy but a democracy doesn't (overtly) practice tyranny of the majority, certainly no more so than the United States does.

Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
With all due respect to the Netherlands
The Netherlands is a (democratic) constitutional monarchy, not a republic.[1] The American president is much closer in power to a traditional king than either the Dutch king or the Dutch prime minister.

France is the only country in Europe where the president's power comes close, because De Gaulle was strongly inspired by America in that matter.
1 Practically speaking the difference doesn't matter much for most intents and purposes of course.↵
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DnD Central / Re: The Awesomesauce of Science
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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Quote from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
We present findings from a reference-integrity audit of 2·5 million biomedical papers spanning 3 years, showing that fabricated references are embedded in the peer-reviewed literature at scale, and that the rate of fabrication is accelerating.
The number of papers with fabricated references was 4 out of 10000 in 2023, but is now 57 out of 10000.
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DnD Central / Re: Doesn't matter who wins the USA Elections the hypocrisy will continue
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Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
As always, Euro-centric intellectuals fail to recognize the difference between a republic and a democracy.
As always, American monolingual doofuses fail to learn that republic is the Latin translation of the Greek word democracy. Republic and democracy are the same thing, but USA is neither republic or a democracy. It is elective dictatorship.

The president of USA has more power than any modern king since 1900s. The only difference from actual kingdom is the term limit.

Elections alone do not make a republic. Popes are elected, but Vatican is not a republic, is it?
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DnD Central / Re: Doesn't matter who wins the USA Elections the hypocrisy will continue
Last post by OakdaleFTL -
Quote from: ersi – on
Everybody knows that American elections don't matter. Finally, Americans are slowly realising it too!
As always, Euro-centric intellectuals fail to recognize the difference between a republic and a democracy. Perhaps if more nations had limited their governments sufficiently they'd appreciate the goal expressed in the maxim "The government that governs least is the government that  governs best."
But perhaps not... Europe has given us two world wars, and centuries of war leading up to them. Snd much of the rest of the world has a similarly sorry history. (I suspect any counter-examples that can be cited have neither written history nor extant archeological evidence...) With all due respect to the Netherlands, the United States is the longest lasting republic known to history. (Unless one subscribes to the notion that calling s sow's ear a silk purse makes it so... :) )
And it still matters to a rather large number of Americans — despite how far we've drifted away from the ideal.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by ersi -
In a valiant quest to end race-based discrimination, SCOTUS declared black-majority voting districts in Louisiana unconstitutional. This of course escalates the ongoing gerrymandering war in USA. As Trump says,
Quote from: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116513163772009550
We cannot allow there to be an Election that is conducted unconstitutionally simply for the “convenience” of State Legislatures. If they have to vote twice, so be it. We should demand that State Legislatures do what the Supreme Court says must be done. That is more important than administrative convenience. The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Thank you for your attention to this matter.