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1. DemocratSinceBirth needs to stop lacing his/her :stoner: with acid and 'shrooms.

2. How many Iranian bombs have landed in the US or missiles hit US naval ships in the past months?

3. Contrary to DUmmie hate-claims, Trump does not want to wipe out the population of Iran, and is tempering his actions accordingly. This is what DemocratSinceBirth pretzellates into caving to Iran bullying.
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Iran really is bullying us. Like when they blew up our top leadership, blockaded our ports, sank our navy and grounded our entire air force. Wait, I think that's what we did to them instead.

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Jordan. Syria. Egypt.

There's a reason that NO Islamic shit hole will let "Palestinian refugees" within their borders. They've already put up with - past tense - all the crazy that they're going to.

Those countries know that Arab Palis are educated/trained in victimhood. They will turn against any authority that does not bow to their wishes.
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I figure that while Arab Palis would kill whomever and let Allah sort out who's who, Western antisemites pressuring Israel only hate Jews.

Jordan. Syria. Egypt.

There's a reason that NO Islamic shit hole will let "Palestinian refugees" within their borders. They've already put up with - past tense - all the crazy that they're going to.
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DemocratSinceBirth (102,160 posts)

I know what literally literally means and Iran is literally bullying Trump

Look at their demands and Trump's milquetoast reaction to them.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221433177

Did Raw Story tell you that?
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/10
« Last post by SVPete on August 10, 2026, 09:52:15 AM »
Race Discrimination in Admissions Suit Against U Washington Can Go Forward

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/08/race-discrimination-in-admissions-suit-against-u-washington-can-go-forward/

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From Zhong v. Univ. of Wash. Bd. of Regents, decided yesterday by Judge James Robart (W.D. Wash.):

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This civil rights action arises from the University's rejection of Stanley's application to enroll in its undergraduate computer science program in Fall 2023. Plaintiffs assert that "Defendants have engaged in systemic racial discrimination against Asian American applicants" by requiring them "to meet higher standards of academic and extracurricular achievement than applicants of other races." …

Plaintiffs represent that Stanley is a resident of California and a highly qualified applicant for undergraduate admission. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that Stanley was among the top students academically at his high school, scored well on standardized college admissions exams, and "took on leadership roles in a variety of academic and volunteer organizations." Stanley is a "self-taught programmer" who earned "top honors in some of the world's most competitive coding contests[.]" ... When Stanley was 13 years old, Google offered him a full-time software engineer interview before learning that he was ineligible for employment based on his age. Just before his 18th birthday, Stanley successfully re-applied for a software engineering position at Google. When Plaintiffs filed suit, Stanley worked for Google as a software engineer. ... …
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The court concludes that Stanley has plausibly alleged racial discrimination in the
University's admissions process…. Here, the [School of Computer Science & Engineering] DEIA Plan describes a plan to "[m]easure the percentage of domestic Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/ Alaska Native, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander undergraduates and, by year 5, evaluate whether the percentage is at least 15% (the UW-Seattle average)." Similarly, the [School's] BPC [Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing] Plan states that one of its six "'stretch goals' for the next 5 years" is to "ncrease the percentage of domestic BHN [Black, Hispanic, Native] undergraduates to the UW-Seattle average[.]"

These documents, taken together, plausibly support Stanley's claims. In sum, viewing the complaint and incorporated documents and all reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to Stanley, the court concludes that he has sufficiently alleged that race is considered as a factor in the University's admissions process to achieve racial balancing.

While this ruling bodes ill for U Washington, it "merely" allows the lawsuit to go to trial. It does not decide the case. If U Washington is wise, they will settle, so as to avoid the potential for a lot of embarrassment in discovery. I would not accuse academia of being wise.

BTW, Stanley Zhong's high school is one of the top high schools in the US. Zhong was rejected because of his ethnicity, not his qualifications (which are off any existing chart).
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WNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for

https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/08/09/wnba-commissioner-to-hold-a-special-strategy-meeting-to-define-what-a-woman-is-n2680927

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The WNBA continues to be a disaster — this is a complete mess. Since the league is woke and its fanbase is equally extreme, they chose to keep going down this path, and now they’ve hit a wall. Reality and facts don’t change based on feelings, and that’s a very tough concept for liberals to grasp. There are men and women, and the fact that this league and most progressives can’t define what a woman is truly shows how crazy this issue has become. It’s not hard, but the league is going to host some meeting to define what constitutes a female (via AP):

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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women’s basketball.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” Engelbert wrote in the memo, which was sent Friday afternoon and obtained by The Associated Press. “I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and

Whatever their purpose, a couple of former NBA players have basically called the WNBA's bluff: "Are you virtue-signalling or will you walk your talk?"
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by CC27 on August 10, 2026, 09:28:39 AM »
1. Checking my calendar ........ it's summer, when teachers, profs, educrats, and other school employees are "unemployed". But for these and other miscellaneous government employees moved/moving on - remember that 57,000? - there would have been a jobs increase.

2. Remember how LIEden's jobs numbers always got readjustedcorrected downwards, sometimes more than once? Trump's readjustments follow no pattern, sometimes downwards, sometimes upwards. Come next month, there's at least a 50-50 chance that 23K loss will become a ##K gain.

ETA:

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GOVERNMENT

I wish you could go to the DUmp and make a thread about this...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/the-incredible-shrinking-government.php

BLS reports, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm , break down their stats by sectors. BLS is the source of the 53K government jobs loss data, not some MAGA's rectum. More to the point, the Trump-Hater meme creator knew this and lied by omission, concealing the facts that manufacturing, services, and service-industry jobs all increased, and the 23K "job loss" was more than entirely in government jobs.

I wish you could go to the DUmp and post that
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General Discussion / Re: Apparently Coca-Cola doesn't like Jesus
« Last post by SVPete on August 10, 2026, 08:50:43 AM »
Probe reveals terms Coca-Cola censors on personalized cans — and astonishing phrases that are allowed

https://nypost.com/2026/08/08/business/coca-colas-personalized-cans-show-inconsistent-enforcement-against-disallowing-controversial-phrases-groups/

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After an uproar of social media backlash over what custom messages Coca-Cola permits on its personalized cans, a Fox News Digital investigation into the platform’s moderation rules reveals an inconsistent system.

Testing various words and phrases in the 18-character-or-less requirement, the Coke can customization blocks mainstream religious phrases like “Jesus is Lord” and political slogans like “Make America Great,” while permitting left-wing activism, right-wing group names and even terms associated with child exploitation.

Religious and faith-based expressions seemed to face strict algorithmic suppression compared to secular or alternative viewpoints. Mainstream affirmations like “Jesus is Lord” and “Allah is Lord” are blocked, while anti-theist and secular phrases like “God is Dead” and “Atheist Pride,” alongside religious greetings like “Shalom” and “Buddha Bless,” are allowed.

This message popped up for rejected phrase or words: “The name or phrase you’ve submitted is not permitted. Names and phrases may not be permitted if they belong to a business, organization, celebrity, public figure, school, team or other trademark, are religious or political in nature, or could be considered inappropriate or unsuitable for other reasons.”
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by SVPete on August 10, 2026, 08:31:22 AM »
1. Checking my calendar ........ it's summer, when teachers, profs, educrats, and other school employees are "unemployed". But for these and other miscellaneous government employees moved/moving on - remember that 57,000? - there would have been a jobs increase.

2. Remember how LIEden's jobs numbers always got readjusted/corrected downwards, sometimes more than once? Trump's readjustments follow no pattern, sometimes downwards, sometimes upwards. Come next month, there's at least a 50-50 chance that 23K loss will become a ##K gain.

ETA:

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GOVERNMENT

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/the-incredible-shrinking-government.php

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John mentioned the July  jobs report yesterday, which showed a net reduction of 23,000 jobs, driven by a monthly 53,000 loss in  government jobs at all levels. The bulk of that reduction came in the category of local government, namely public schools. Overall employment at the federal level also dropped slightly in July.
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Digging into the numbers, overall employment at the federal and state government levels and with local public schools, are all down for the past year. That means hundreds of thousands of workers are now available for more productive pursuits. The number of federal workers has dropped by almost 11 percent since last July.

BLS reports, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm , break down their stats by sectors. BLS is the source of the 53K government jobs loss data, not some MAGA's rectum. More to the point, the Trump-Hater meme creator knew this and lied by omission, concealing the facts that manufacturing, services, and service-industry jobs all increased, and the 23K "job loss" was more than entirely in government jobs.

Fixed a typo
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