"Google may weigh some of your content less if it finds it in more than one location... but you will not be penalized."
What would you call that lower weight? A bonus?
The point is duplicate content hurts. It can cause enormous ranking problems if Google picks the wrong canonical page.
Monthly archives are usually useless, from a search perspective. Nobody searches for [September 2005 poker posts]. get your content on the URLs you want, and then prevent anything duplicate from being indexed ever.
Not "fearing" duplicate content is suicidal. Eliminating duplicate content is job #1 when building a website properly.
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