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  • IDF flips wheelchair-bound man over and attacked onlookers to prevent them from helping

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  • What was that explosion?

  • 'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

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  • I was one of those kids. I'm lucky I survived, and even luckier that I had the chance to change my attitudes.

    Speaking from that experience, they deserve the same chance that I had.

  • 'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

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  • God, I feel this in my bones. It's a cult. It really is. And once it has its hooks in you, ripping them out leaves hella scars.

  • 'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

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  • Hi. Former Republican here. It may have been ten years ago, but I remember when I had these attitudes.

    What changed my mind was finding out that the hateful rhetoric I had been spouting directly applied to me the day I found out I was gay.

    To give you a walk through the very rapid shift in my psyche that happened, I went from being the quintessential trad-Christian material that Instagram chuds drool over to... well, me.

    I want you to understand one thing, if nothing else; the person I am, the one talking to you right now, was always there. Finding who I was after having it--in some ways literally--beat out of me was a special kind of hell. In fact, from deconversion to decolonization to transitioning, it nearly drove me to kill myself. Because I finally found out how much the world actually hurt when I finally saw the scope of the system I had helped reinforce with the ignorance I had been indoctrinated into. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I would, however, wish it on my best friend.

    The other person here was right. Dehumanizing them only drives hatred deeper down into ourselves.

    Eventually, these assholes will fade away. Some of them might do some soul-searching and make some personal discoveries, like I did. A majority will probably just wrap up their bigotry and hide it on a shelf, and only take it down and pass it around when they're around other bigoted ghouls. But never forget, the exact same weaknesses in their brain that led to their awful actions exists in your brain too. We like to think we're immune to that shit. The fear. The anger. The hatred. That because we hate the haters, we're better than them. That somehow it makes us morally superior, that we want to commit their own atrocities against them as a kind of poetic justice.

    All conflict ends, eventually. It ebbs and it flows, the tide goes in, the tide goes out. Tectonic plates press, and then release the tension after the earthquake. The charge builds up in the cloud until the lightning bolt comes down. The human heart is just as incapable of sustaining so much violence over such a long period of time.

    I'm not telling you that you're wrong to be furious. To be vengeful. To be spiteful. After all, these are the kinds of atrocities that fill history books. They're the kinds of atrocities that fuel divides that span centuries or more, and spawn more conflict after the water settles.

    Just remember. Eventually, you will have to put the sword down. Eventually, whether you think you can or can't, the violence and the fuel that drives it will disappear. The damage, however, will outlive you. And it will outlive me. And it keeps me up at night, knowing that while I never took part in it, I condoned it and promoted it, even though I'd been conditioned to embrace it since I was born. I was lucky to break out.

    Speaking from experience here. They are wrong. They have no idea they're wrong, because they're feeling the exact same--and I do mean the exact same--emotion you're feeling right now, using nearly the exact same moral justification. It's one of the most bitter glitches in our human psyche. By all means, punch Nazis. But once they decide not to be a Nazi anymore, and actually turn over a new leaf, and disown their past, maybe consider treating them kindly again once they rekindle their humanity.

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  • It may have been a tactical move on his part. Leo's American, he knows the King James Version as well as any American Christian, in addition to his fluency in more authentic translations. Mike is a KJV-only Evangelical, so any argument Leo could make would only be accepted if it was from the KJV, otherwise it would be dismissed out of hand entirely. Logically, it seems like if this was true, he was fighting the battle on Mike's own ground to try and wrap him up and disprove him with his own source.

    Unfortunately, he made the tragic error of playing chess with a pigeon.

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  • I was gonna say, Trump has never had an original cartoon villain scheme in his life, because this was the original Trump Bible. The translation work actually started with Henry VIII. He did it because he wanted a theologically justified excuse for his tyranny and cruelty, so the arrogant son of a bitch said "If the Bible doesn't agree with me, I'll write my own version that says I can."

    Here is a great article all about it. The short version is, it was monarchist propaganda commissioned by a monarchy. Shock and awe, under modern readings by the political right, it justifies and encourages using unilateral absolute authority and backing it up with force and divine punishment.

    However, I think it's a hilarious and ironic twist that they cite BYU, given Mormonism's own endeavor to "translate" their own so-called "ancient scripture." Speaking as an ex-Mormon, BYU's department of religious studies is indeed rigorous and authoritative on the contemporary history of the writing of the English Bible. That said, stop paying attention to anything they say after the calendar rolls over into the 19th century, because that's when they start glazing their cult leader.

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • This. Sounds like we grew up in similar environments, and I'm with you. Sleazy weasel-fucking bastards that shouldn't have ever evolved lungs will use what breath they've stolen from perfectly deserving cockroaches and millipedes to excuse their 'indiscretions'.

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • Literally, these are honor killings. Full stop. Take a look at the gender makeup of these anti-ICE protests and then take a look at the ICE goons.

    It's patriarchy, and people fighting patriarchy. It's always been about white guys feeling terrified of their power eroding, and since white patriarchy has no coherent acceptable response other than rage, their first resort is everyone else's last resort.

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • Pear Launcher is nice. Fossify Home is good, too. I prefer Pear since it lets you use icon themes.

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  • Tell me more about how you lived in a fantasy world where health and human services actually does rescue kids from bad homes.

    News flash. The system is so completely broken that every time I screamed for help, I got blamed for it. Like you're doing right now.

    Kindly? Log the fuck off.

  • Roman Dodecahedron

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  • How funny would it be if this was just a Roman fidget spinner? Maybe the reason that you won't find them in Rome was because some emperor got sick of the entire Senate fiddling with a toy in their hand while he was talking to them.

  • Kamala Harris unveils “Headquarters 67” to mobilize Gen Z through a new digital media hub

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  • My nephew told me about how a kid at school got punched for doing it on the playground because so many kids are fucking sick of the meme.

  • Kamala Harris unveils “Headquarters 67” to mobilize Gen Z through a new digital media hub

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  • "I don't know anything about Pokémon Go. But I need you to Pokémon Go to the Polls."

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  • Wow. Huh, that's really helpful. Thanks, friend.

  • Cross Section

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  • I gotta wonder how long it took the photographer to set up this photo. I mean, they were probably sitting there with a little paintbrush gently sweeping away dirt from the roots just to get the perfect root exposure for this pic.

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  • Hi. I happen to be one of those kids who survived lunatics like this. Not all of us who have the privilege of growing up actually stick with their delusional version of reality. Maybe give a shit when there are kids involved.

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  • mmm... kimchi... Dude, that shit is so good. I had a coworker who sold it in the breakroom, and it was fucking great.

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  • Speaking as a leftist who managed to survive their fucked up version of a childhood, maybe be a little more concerned when kids are involved. Just speaking from very personal experience.

  • Give me pernil or give me death

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  • I haven't been to an American household yet that doesn't have powdered onion and powdered garlic on the shelf. I fucking wish more white ppl in the us would understand that Tajín is the absolute best thing in the world, and it makes fruit a thousand times better, especially watermelon.