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jpreston2005

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  • Johnson says flags will be raised for Trump’s inauguration - ABC News

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  • let's be real, nobody is going to mourn him. His gravestone should just be a working toilet to make the caretakers job easier.

  • Johnson says flags will be raised for Trump’s inauguration - ABC News

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  • Nixon had the decency to resign, therefore with time passed, he can be seen as the loveable monster. drumpf has never been, and will never be loved.

  • Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says

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  • Everything republicans do is based in fear, spite, and greed.

    They fear brown people and immigrants, so they deport them, only to bring them back in as indentured servants, to spite the poor people that refuse to work for less than the minimum wage, to personally enrich themselves.

    Greed, Spite, Fear.

    If they had been born German in the early 1900's, they wouldn't just be nazis, they'd be enthusiastic nazis.

  • ‘Why pick a battle over this?’: Trump’s threats over Panama Canal reopen wounds over 1989 US invasion

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  • yawn, yet another feeble attempt to make himself seem like some master negotiator. Just like Mexico paying for a wall that was never built. He wants attention, and doesn't want you to think too hard about the incoming Jack Smith report. Or the million other horrendous/criminal things he's done or is in the process of doing.

  • We have an opinion

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  • How have you managed to keep any potted plants with three cats??

  • Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years?

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  • When I visited Europe, I had a great time talking with strangers there. One in particular said something similar, in that he thought Americans were just inherently more violent.

    Listen, the reality of the situation is that we're just as friendly and kind as we ever were. Americans are literally the most charitable population. But we're also living in times of great wealth inequality, while our health insurance is still tied to employment. Something like half a million of us go bankrupt every year from medical debt. We are also all uniquely aware that some people will randomly get lucky, and get a massive windfall of money. Money here doesn't just mean comfort, it means security, because if ever our luck runs out, there is no social safety net waiting to catch us. People can and often do go from the highest echelons of the social ladder, to living under a bridge, dying of some easily cured disease.

    In America, it's dog eat dog. It's a zero-sum game. Whatever money you make, is money that I won't. And when money = security, it means that however secure you are, is how less secure I am. 300 million of us all playing the prisoners dilemma. If we work together we could all have a good outcome, but there are so many of us that have fully bought into the me vs. everyone mentality, that it's a near impossibility of getting all us prisoners to work together.

    But a big mistake, is looking at boomer news (fox news, newsmax, oann) and thinking it reflects reality. It doesn't. That is 100% hateful news for hateful people. If you like getting a dopamine rush from looking down on others, or doomscrolling, or in being afraid, then faux news is what you watch. Don't mistake it with America, because it isn't. It is actively poisoning Americans, but if ever you were to get an active faux news watcher to turn it off, sit down, and have a chat, you'd be surprised at how friendly they were. They are people who bought into the zero sum game, but even they know how/when to be charitable.

  • What's making it into the good parts, my fellow philosoraptors?

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  • When I was a kid, I couldn't help but intrinsically understand that the bible is not some literal document, but a collection of fables with metaphors for life. Because way back then, without a civilized society, you needed a bit of fire and brimstone to help keep would-be evil-doers at bay.

    The only stuff I ever enjoyed, and still carry to this day, were the New Testament teachings of Christ. Love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, shelter the poor, care for the sick, welcome the immigrant.

    Oddly enough, along with the current pope, those seem to be the only lessons that most modern day "christians" have done away with. They'll use electron microscopy to read between the lines to demonize gay people, but when their Lord and Savior explicitly says "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," all of a sudden they're stricken blind deaf and dumb.

    I follow the teachings of the brown socialist who spent his time caring for and conversing with the lowest on the social ladder. The man who overturned the money lenders carts in the street. I dunno who the fuck everyone else is following, but it ain't him.

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  • of course that rat wasserman schultz voted for it.

    People like that make me want to believe in God, just so I'm comforted by their eventual placement in hell.

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  • Here's the list of voters that you can narrow down. It's appalling. AIPAC, the pro-isrealGenocide lobby, has been pushing this, in order to shield their terrorist leader netenyahoo from punishment. The bill would not just sanction the International Criminal Court, but it's members. They are actively trying to punish individuals across the globe, for condemning isreals genocide, using the American peoples congress as their cudgel.

    Meanwhile isreal has blocked or impeded every single humanitarian aid shipment to Gaza since October.

  • Supreme fight

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  • Welcome to the Jungle - Gunz n' roses

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    This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie

  • OH GOD WHY DOES EZRI MAKE ME FEEL THINGS

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  • cute girls with short dark hair... It's like kryptonite to me

  • Wives Earning More Than Husbands Linked To Rising Mental Health Diagnoses In Couples

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  • well, I mean, she was a cute girl with a steady job, so, already got one up on the ol' ex 🤷‍♂️

  • TIL you can pay $100 per night for Premium Jail with more comfortable conditions

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  • 🤮 jesus christ

  • TIL you can pay $100 per night for Premium Jail with more comfortable conditions

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  • $3k a month? in rent? Are you renting a 5 bedroom house in Manhattan?

  • Man arrested after forgetting his drunk live stream of failed bank heist

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  • "But I was too drunk to remember doing it!" is an interesting defense. Maybe if he gets a good lawyer they can claim since he didn't take anything, he may have just been drunkenly trying to do business with his bank, without realizing it was closed. Plead it down to drunk and disorderly with a destruction of private property instead of, ya know, trying robbing a bank.

  • Wives Earning More Than Husbands Linked To Rising Mental Health Diagnoses In Couples

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  • Was talking to a cute girl at a New Years Eve party, and it came out that while I made a nice amount for doing very little work, she made even more but had to do a lot of work. I went straight to daydreaming about being a stay-at-home Dad so hard I almost fell off my chair.

    Dudes, more money means more money, why on earth would having more money upset you???

  • Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies aged 96

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  • Someday soon it'll be drumpf, and it'll become a national holiday.

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    what unbiased media sources do you use?

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  • AP, Routers, BBC, Al Jazeera.

    Whenever I want to know the facts without any editorializing, I go for AP.

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    Meme my sister sent me (last year she married the older, married man she was dating)

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  • Yeah, you've definitely cheated before