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@InternetHippo @DanRiffle Which is, in fact, where Hamas came from in the first place.

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@crippledscholar @DisabilityStor1 So I googled up that one, and it seems the stepdad thought that the house belonged to the mom that he married. In other words, he seems to have thought he got a free house with the marriage. I wonder how long that marriage lasted.

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@feederofcats A couple months ago, I went to an animal rescue and visited with this cat. I petted her and talked to her for about 5 minutes. When I tried to close the door to her pen she gently bit me on the hand. She is, of course, sleeping at the foot of my bed as I write this.

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FFS. "Hanoi Jane" is trending. Trump is trying to terminate democracy, but the key issue is that 50 years ago a Hollywood starlet showed bad judgment. BTW, if you've ever waved a Confederate flag, you've lost the right to use the word "Treason".

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@stardrop_saloon @buttpraxis Everybody likes the catbus.

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@greg_doucette @kenjiboijoi I know I'm sounding like a broken record, this is violent suppression of dissent, not a riot. The consistent targetting of photographers is a symptom of that.

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On amputee's very personal response to Furiosa http://t.co/Kbiulnt59X cc @tauriqmoosa http://t.co/lFwzJwa32E

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@mmasnick Impulsive CEOs can be remedied. But this CEO happens to be the owner. So, you have a $44-billion service that millions rely on being run as a sole proprietorship. Never seen a better validation of the "Every billionaire is a policy failure" doctrine.

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@paintwater_boba Presumably, that's an artist's conception. There's no optical telescope that can resolve a planetary disk 1300 light-years away.

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@GatorsDaily If we're going to bring back megafauna, I want a Giant Beaver.

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@RARohde @DanRiffle Yeah, it sticks with me too. Mind you, it doesn't rank very high on the list of cop crimes. But it's disturbingly instructive: their decision to "teach the girl a lesson" tells us that violence on a whim has become a key part of police culture.

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@brigmemeguire @UrsulaV You just have to Google "Popeye Amphibious" to see it. Kinda cool that whoever owns the IP has embraced this. I grew up watching Popeye cartoons without seeing any of this stuff.

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@artcrimeprof I wonder how much anthropological "data" is just informants hearing questions they think are silly and responding in kind.

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There was a time, not so long ago, when I would have said this was the right response. That was before police misconduct -- and public officials' cowardly response to it -- became so egregious that even comfortable middle-class white people like me had to pay attention.

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In the world of social media, it’s easy to condemn someone when they make a mistake and keep scrolling by. But you can judge a person’s character by whether they own up and make things right.

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@MonicaHesse @ASpittel I once heard an NPR commentary by the son of Holocaust survivors. Every Yom Kippur, this couple would make a point of getting up early and making the kids a special breakfast, informing them that their parents had already done all the starving necessary.

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@bobsalpha1 @RadioFreeTom @RichardEngel @RealTimers I don't see the problem. We fought the Soviets because we didn't want them to impose Communism on us. The current Russian leadership wants to impose plutocratic fascism on us, which the GOP has never opposed.

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@MaxFagin I usually bite my tongue when people confuse US Customary Measure with Imperial Measure, but if you're going to maintain your Unhealthy Fascination, you're going to have to let me pick that particular nit.

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@lovingalluka @paintwater_boba Saturn is much closer and has the same climate. I suggest investing now, while real estate is rock bottom.

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@Grady_Trimble @revmagdalen Just like the mainstream media, making no attempt to get the gator's side of the story.

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@amymarieberger @offbeatorbit Black moms get shit done.

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@EmiMarFly I'm a tulip guy, so here's some Queen of Nights. Queens of Night?

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@And_the_rest @GMPaiella Please tell me there won't be any eating in the autopsy room. That's a bit of cliched grossness that always give me a case of life-threatening eyeroll.

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@EmiMarFly Black Heroes. Not to be confused with Bree Newsome or Colin Kapernick.

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@AJS415 @greg_doucette @thejournalista It's not just the lack of deescalation training. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that cops are strongly discouraged from trying to deescalate.

Police officer fired for not shooting black suspect wins $175,000

Stephen Mader, a former officer in West Virginia, sued after he was fired for not shooting a black suspect during a standoff in 2016

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@_pem_pem @j_n_foster It's why the US spends more, per capita, on health care than any other country, by a huge margin. Where's the money going to come from for universal health care? From scuttling the current system.

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@N_I_K_Y_A_T_U I'm afraid white parents involvement with their children is part of the problem.

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@BradSherman Very tired of being told I'm "pro Hamas" because I'm against the indiscriminate slaughter of Gazans. You think dissent within the Democratic Party threatens to bring the Republicans back into power? No it's Democratic "leaders" like you who think you deserve blind loyalty.

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@FreeGirlNowNYC @johncampanelli @christinawilkie The brine thing was extremely common. Slavery wasn't just loss of freedom and theft of labor. It was extreme, constant, sadistic cruelty.

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@bardigras @jsoppe I can't find any reference to an NDA. Even if there was one, it wouldn't have hushed up a jury trial that was in the news a lot. The real reason her story became a punchline is that it profited the "tort reform" movement to turn it into one.

‘Hot Coffee’ Documentary Skewers Tort Reformers

A new documentary calls the McDonald’s “hot coffee” lawsuit frivolous.

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@_briidgetk People who create things -- books, classes, food, whatever -- always love to hear that the thing they created is a good thing that people enjoyed. Always. It validates their life choices. Also, "being normal" is overrated.

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@MtStHelensWA @niais Can you wait a couple months? Things are kinda hectic right now.

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@Seageart @Matrim42 @DietBlackPreMed "Could possibly"? I promise you, he is even know blaming his ban on "political correctness" and "wokeness." Toxic dudes, by definition, are incapable of taking responsibility for their own abusive behavior.

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@rgoulston @DisabilityStor1 @MBTA My first thought was, "Oh, God, lucky nobody was hurt. That person who was almost hit must be scared out of their skin." Then they just pause for a second and walk around the fallen panel.

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@iToraino @mckellogs Not the first time I've seen evidence that Richard Williams is the best kind of dad.

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@JTMarlin77 @greg_doucette Not only are cops being violent, not only are they doing this *together*, they defy and attack the very citizens they pretend to defend. They defy the public officials they are supposed to obey. They single out people with cameras and take them out with "less lethal" munitions.

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@roryisconfused @bdproctor Quibble: the Bikini tests were for hydrogen bombs, a weapon whose development Oppenheimer opposed. The big proponent of the H-Bomb was Edward Teller, who partially influenced a certain war-mongering movie character.

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@sxnxnxs To be fair, Muslim guys aren't any worse than non-Muslim guys when it comes to whining about "females."

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@D4X721 @3ach39 @Maggie_McNeill @dumbidot1 @NoLongerBennett So, nobody actually pays for sex, and sex work is a myth? Oh, you mean that you find paying for sex gross. Fun fact: you notion of grossness is yours, and not one you get to impose on others.

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"Zero tolerance" is now the only way we can make police officers understand that they have collectively crossed the line. Failure to communicate this guarantees that things will get even worse. These officers need to be made an example of. Their careers need to be over.

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@waltshaub The good news is that in 15 months your concerns with voting rights will be vindicated. That's also the bad news.

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@GeoRebekah @LALetsgo123 @HealthyFla "Any comorbidity" is to COVID deniers what "what was she wearing" is to rape deniers.

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@lhkuroda @rubyghetto Sadly, people have a weird attachment to this mischaracterization, even with presented with the facts. @PainterNell talks about this in in her book about Truth.

Sojourner Truth

A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century., Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol, Nell Irvin Painter, 9780393317084

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@KevinMKruse Just think of all the trouble you went to criticizing D'Souza's scholarship when you could have had him on simple language comprehension.

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So fire them. Fire every cop who has demonstrated moral and professional incompetence. If the review process, notoriously stacked in their favor, re-instates them, ignore it. If they sue, appeal all the way to the supremes.

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@JuliusGoat @MaxBoot I think calling centrism an "ideology" overstates its depth.

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The result was massive protests -- met by a horrendously violent response that is the very opposite of "crowd control." Its purpose is not maintaining civil order. It's a raw expression of power, with vocal and unambiguous contempt for civil liberties.

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@WG_RumblePants @Shomicita Jesus wept. Yeah, it's really easy to conceal peeling skin. We dudes really, really, *really* need to get over our "ewww! bleeding lady parts!" fragility. It's fucking misogynistic.

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@drvolts If you define "enshitified" the way @doctorow does, then Wikipedia could hardly go that way, not being a for-profit institution. What *is* remarkable is that Wikipedia is a lot less shitty (in the more general sense) than it used to be.

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@stainlessray @mobblele The Wikipedia version is even more dramatic than the first passage

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@Colwildotcom Dude, if you think there's a context where this is okay you're definitely part of the problem

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@pissvortex @Acedefective3f Forgive the tangent, but I have to mention The Seven Samurai, a Japanese movie influenced by westerns that got remade as a western, The Magnificent Seven.

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@mpopv Did we read the same story? It wasn't some "some guy aimlessly browsing". It was a professor of archaeology who probably spends a lot of time studying satellite photos, and can spot things most of us would miss.

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@SpencerAlthouse @outofthetowerh Tony Colette is maybe my favorite actor. (Ever since United States of Tara, which she *did* get an award for.) But I'm skeptical of Oscars as a measure of how well respected an actor is.

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@DavidKlion @DisabilityStor1 Yeah, I found that capicola thing particularly irritating. Has the man never bought a sandwich at Jersey Mike's? How does a man so utterly out of touch with ordinary things become the official expert on ordinary things?

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@RealTimeWWII @janecoaston The "Kilroy was here" meme made it into the USSR? Cool. Now sadly forgotten.

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@Sam91089929 @n1ck_b3n50n @HawleyMO You know land doesn't vote, right?

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I'm not a fan of simplistic "zero tolerance" responses to bad behavior. But this bad behavior is contempt for the rule of law by the armed agents of the state, repeatedly expressed. Not just by individuals, but collectively, as a shared value.

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@KevinMKruse It's like "communism": CRT is whatever they say it is.

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@washingtonpost @tayhatmaker Can we not "visible from space"? Individual cars are visible from space.

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An extreme response? Not when a substantial chunk of America wants to fire every single cop and not replace them. I think I'm actually being pretty moderate. (end of rant)

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@JTMarlin77 @greg_doucette Police have been acting violently *as* *a* *group* for 6 weeks now, and you still think that violent cops are not representative? Get your head out of your ass. Police have a *culture* of violence. Google "killology". Google "warrior cop". Check out their military fetish wear.

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Terribly good point, so I accessibilized it.

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I just saw this and felt it needed sharing

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@EpiEllie I was under the impression it was a bad idea to even touch wild animals.

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@Sweetiepea5050 @DrJenGunter @Alyssa_Milano They're gonna take away this kid's life-saving health coverage to give rich people a tax break, and your defense is "que sera, sera"?

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@tjklune @meakoopa @WhiteHouse I do wish you would hurry up with that.

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In that context, the "can't we all get along" response is too little, too late. It may have been too little, too late even when Rodney King voiced it many years ago. But it certainly is now. Because things have only gotten worse since then.

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When @greg_doucette talks about "summary execution," people often quibble with his language. But, you know, "just a perp" says that the cops have judged the guy as guilty of crime and worthy of immediate execution. What else can you call that?

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“Nobody” Hurt, “Just a Perp,” Say Officers After NYPD Shot and Killed Man in His Own Home

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@ddale8 @NesrineMalik This made me curious about the history of Trump Tower and revealed further evidence that Trump is a walking garbage fire.

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@jennlacatena @greg_doucette I feel really bad for that person who had to give up a creature they obviously loved a lot.

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@Pioldes When it comes to artificial "intelligence," nobody ever thinks anything through. Rather ironic, really.

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@ThatHoberekGuy @DisabilityStor1 You know, if I were running a big university that charges a lot of tuition and is dependent on state funding, I'm not sure that "professors are easily replaced by software" is a message I'd want to send.

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@kashanacauley whiteness so fragile. He looks pretty much like a king stroke superhero should look

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@HiddenYorkshire @jeeyonshim Heard a story once that Alan Rickman went into a bar to buy a drink and everyone stopped to watch him do it because even his tinniest performances were a joy.

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@Sotherans @UrsulaV I see from your bio that you're an antiquarian bookseller who's been around since the 18th century. Have you always been an antiquarian bookseller, or do you just have trouble moving your stock?

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@UrsulaV I didn't know about it, and I suspect most doctors don't either. When it comes to weight issues, they're all stuck on the "calories - exercise = weight" paradigm, no matter how many patients they see for whom that obviously doesn't work.

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@JTMarlin77 @greg_doucette It's not simply that specific "bad" cops are doing "bad" things. It's an entire system that *can't* hold these cops accountable. Other cops are forced to look the other way; if they don't, they risk their jobs, if not their lives. Prosecutors are afraid to touch them.

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@janecoaston We bombard kids with propaganda against substance abuse and then think something is wrong when they actually listen.

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@RebeccaSolnit @NewYorker Aside from insulting the dignity of every person who's old or uses an assistive device, the cover glibly looks past *why* our political leadership is dominated by old people: power and influence is hoarded by a small group of people who've been aging in their roles for decades.

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@D0NOTW4IT @jpbrammer I couldn't bear to do this.

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@BARFENEMA @greffoir204 @9mmballpoint Meh. He's inconsistent that way. For example, he insists that Derek Chauvin was railroaded by... wait for it ... Joe Biden.

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@JTMarlin77 @greg_doucette Are you arguing that the cop that shoved Martin Gugino, 75, to the ground, fracturing his skull, isn't representative? What about the other cops who calmly stepped over Gugino's bleeding body? Or the cops that prevented other cops from stopping to give him first aid?

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@JTMarlin77 @greg_doucette Recall that these protests are happening because a cop murdered a man *in* *front* *of* *an* *audience*. This can only happen when cops are *certain* they will not be held accountable.

Murder of George Floyd - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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@Olivia_Beavers @ddayen I think Cotton is less concerned about due process and more about a chance to attack "Democratic politicians who now view him as inconvenient to their hold on power."

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@happierman @MaraWritesStuff grammatical correctness is a cultural convention, not a natural law. And if it conveys meaning, it's a word

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@Phil_Lewis_ @reetamac When creative people go on strike, the picket lines tend to be very entertaining.

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@geospacedman @ThePlanetaryGuy You can never have too many billion-year-old rock samples

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@indepdubnrth @ladyeb Hey, you're the one that said "My posts don't reflect the medical profession." I don't know who gave you that doctorate, but I hope they didn't tell you that AIDS is spread through people's breath.

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@rabiasquared @TansuYegen But the pit wouldn't collapse the first time it rains.

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And consider, for a moment, what might have happened if that barista had not been intimidated by the uniform, the gun, and the swagger. This is not fundamentally different from a riot cop saying, "Put away that camera and get off my street or I'll shoot you in the face."

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Ironically, it's the Black Lives Matter folks who actually believe All Lives Matter. People who recite "All Lives Matter" don't give a shit.

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Typically when whites are killed by police, the Black Lives Matter folks are the only ones who think it's a problem

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@ashtonpittman @ISASaxonists Two Americas.

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@XLNB @greg_doucette What really impresses me about Kaepernick's giving is that he knows where the money is going down to the last penny. He's not just buying a clean conscience. Not a lot of "generous" celebrities can say that.

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Does this sound extreme? It was just a cuss word, after all. No violence, no unlawful arrest, nobody went to the hospital with a "less lethal" wound. But these are just the basic standards of their profession. They don't deserve a pat on the head for following them.

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Obviously he was radicalized at an early age. I advocate deporting all preppies until we can figure things out.

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@choo_ek Yes, if Hillary had been POTUS, she'd have unleased the pandemic task force, which would have imposed strong measures. The death toll would have been an order of magnitude lower. Maybe two. And the GOP would have cited the low death toll as proof that she overreacted.

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@BARFENEMA @greffoir204 @9mmballpoint Garrison actually has enough moral sense to see actual social problems when they hit him in the face. But he's too in love with simplistic heroes and villains to have any serious insight.