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VerdantSporeSeasoning

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  • Former US President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies

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  • Think you're still missing the point that he was one of the least harmful (on a presidential scale), most genuine good people we've had as president in a looooong while. Maybe ever.

  • american culture

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  • Yeah, another heavy dramatic saga to wade through. I think I'd prefer a Simon Pegg/Nick Frost adaptation. Or maybe a Matt Stone/Trey Parker version. Something still epic, but also hilarious and full of the vibrancy of humans.

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  • I have an older family member who is severely mentally disabled and always has been. His medical records diagnosed him as r*tarded. The adults diagnosing him at the time didn't understand enough about mental conditions and their differences when he was a child. So kids like him were diagnosed with that. It did have more 'legitimate' uses than it does in our current context. Doesn't make it good or right, doesn't mean they shouldn't have tried to be more specific either. That legacy leads to now where we have the nuance and resources to do better. I am glad it's more and more relagated to the past as it's consistently been used to dehumanize people.

  • FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

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  • I've seen that gunman --he has an absolutely dazzling smile. $50k pls 🫱💰

  • Bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO had words written on them, law enforcement official says

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  • I love Bernie too! We have that in common.

    But you're take is only part of the point he's making though. The government is failing people in large part because such a small segment of the population has enormous sway over who gets to be in government.

    I had a much longer response that got deleted when the app force closed on me 😮‍💨

    I really did want to weigh in from your original post, though, how you argue that billionaires make jobs, make products, make the world better. Like, sure, some do, but the ones at the top? Big corporations? No, they don't. Literally, Walmart workers have relied on government assistance programs due to poor pay for decades. Companies like Toys R Us get bought up by billionaires and liquidated for more money as employees lose their jobs. Or billionaires buy things that shouldn't be profit driven--where is that return on investment going to come from? These are billionaires choices, not Congress or City Council or whatever, that directly shape society negatively. Sure, governments allow it--especially governments that billionaires have bought.

    I used to be against limits to billionaires (I still kind of am, I'd prefer minimum/maximum earning ratios), but actually watching them work and change in the world, I have seen that they have too much power with too few checks. I mean, hell, from a global warming perspective, it's hard to find what I, as a little person, do matters at all. I could die tomorrow and produce no more carbon emissions (beyond my body's offgassing), and it wouldn't change anything. Meanwhile, some small percentage of people, just like in Bernie's tweet, contribute much more each day than I will in my whole life. Fuck, man.

  • Bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO had words written on them, law enforcement official says

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  • The billionaires aren't the problem?

    I do get your point. It's bad to take joy in the pain of other people. That it is bad as a society that we celebrate the deaths of our fellows. I don't really want vigilante justice to become our norm--that's how gangs and cartels come to prominence. I'd much rather have institutions that do their damn jobs so the common person doesn't believe justice can only be found at the end of a gun. The billionaires keep voting/promoting to break those institutions though!

  • Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."

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  • KillKeo means plan

  • Rich Vs. Poor

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  • While their goonies work to outlaw abortion and birth control and divorce. What a neat combo pack.

  • Trump Team Is Having a Terrifying Debate on How to Invade Mexico

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  • That's so retro tho

  • Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags

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  • Exploitation of the religious liberties clause of the first amendment.

  • Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office

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  • I wish one of those steps ahead had been a successful prosecution.

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  • Or his cadre of evil clowns.

  • ‘Women Over 30 Would Have Uteruses Removed’ says Conservative Party of Japan Leader Naoki Hyakuta

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  • women can't marry older than 25? What kind of bass ackwards handmaid's tale bullshit is that?

    Japanese instructors in college would tell us how older unmarried women would be referred to as 'Christmas Cakes'--no one wanted one after the 25th. Although they were happy that had been a changing attitude.

  • No we can't be friends and yes it's that serious

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  • Trump AG Hopeful Threatens to Jail Letitia James

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  • Why do you think they want everyone uneducated and saddled with more kids than they want/can afford?

  • Trump AG Hopeful Threatens to Jail Letitia James

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  • I'm willing to bet there's millions of women who didn't vote/voted for the male candidate in part due to internalized misogyny.

  • Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the next U.S. president, NBC News projects

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  • The people who will be in power around him might well get rid of him themselves for all the use they want. He's getting them to power. Vance and Musk and Thiel and whoever the fuck else don't care about Trump. They want power.

  • Major LGBTQ+ federation suspends Israeli group, drops bid for Tel Aviv event

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  • Book recommendation: Persepolis. It's a graphic novel autobiography of a girl who lived through the Iranian revolution and eventually moved to Paris. It's a very accessible read.

  • Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why

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  • We went to one of the several trunk or treats in our town. I chose one of the less busy ones so my kid could understand what the massive downtown one would be like if she wanted to do that. We waited in line from trunk to trunk for a whole hour, got meh candy, got to get inside emergency vehicles (that was cool), got to see a lot of other people's costumes (also really fun), but mostly it was waiting. Standing mostly still. And then the advertised time came for it to be over, even as people were still waiting in line, tables and cars all broke down and started leaving us in a sad, barren lot. We went trick or treating for the main event after all, and got excellent candy, saw all kinds of cool houses as we actively walked with a friend for as long as we wanted.