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Dahobbs

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  1. 1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    You keep using this word...

     

    Defund does not mean "reduce". 

    And anyone who doesn't believe we need to reduce the amount our government spends is not paying attention. 

    I'm pretty sure it is a completely appropriate use of the word. 

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defund

    Definition of defund

    transitive verb

    : to withdraw funding from

    Merriam-Webster even provides a handy example that illustrates the appropriateness:

    [/quote]Others are angry that more than two years into Republican control of all three branches of the federal government, Planned Parenthood still hasn’t been fully defunded.[/quote]

    No need to say fully defunded if the word, as you say, means completely defunded as opposed to reduced funding. The meaning of reduced funding is also pretty clear from its prefix (de), which means down from.  

    But of course, all of this semantics is beside the point. You knew what was meant (i.e., reduced funding). And you also know that reducing it overtime is the path to fully defunding it. 

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Stop watching CNN.

    Trump literally proposed to defund those programs in both his 2018 and 2019 budgets proposed.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/budget.pdf

    See page 43 - "reform the welfare system" = $272 billion decrease in funding over 10 years

    See page 43 - $190 billion reduction in SNAP (food stamps)

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/budget-fy2019.pdf

    See page 141- "reform the welfare system" = $262 billion decrease in funding over 10 years

    See page 141- $213 billion reduction in SNAP (food stamps)

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  3. 1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

    They cant (legally) drink or join the military.   Do you seriously think 16 year olds are mature enough?

    We allow old people to vote that suffer similar mental deficiencies. And at least 16 year olds have some stake in how the future turns out. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, spystud13 said:

    Don’t see many guys reach on a K, get to 2B on a dropped tag in a rundown, & score on a Where’s Waldo route. 

    This is a good point. It was a race between our team and him to see who could fuck up the most. I guess we won. 

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  5. Just now, texaslong said:

    Damn. Thier bats are alive.

    He has been missing some pitches to make it easier. And the ump fucked up. And so did Reagan. But a good strikeout. Followed by another steal....

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