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jpreston2005

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  • Jeff Landry signs bill allowing surgical castration of some sex offenders

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  • Methinks he doth protest too much.

    Anyone who loudly proclaims their virtues only ever supplies me reason to question it. How long until landry and barrow themselves are castrated, I wonder.

  • Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

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  • Yes that bit caught me off guard. How this dude just said migrants don't care about their children.... Like, my brother in christ, why do you think they're fighting so hard to migrate somewhere better?

  • Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

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  • Wow. The video of the Greek official, denying everything during the official interview (whilst seeing video of a migrant woman and her child, forced onto a boat by armed men, who were then left in a dinghy to float towards Turkey), then caught with a hot mic during the break, talking to a colleague, saying:

    "I haven't told them much, right? It's very clear, isn't it. It's not nuclear physics. I don't know why they did it in broad daylight… It's… obviously illegal. It's an international crime."

    This migrant crisis will only get worse.

  • Money laundering charges raise questions about the direction of The Epoch Times

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  • My parents read this rag. I've told them of it's chinese cult roots, and they didn't care. I doubt this news would sway them either, such is the power of self-deception.

  • The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

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  • The other day I couldn't get my VLOOKUP function to work because the table I was trying to query hadn't been designated "Table2" but "Table14" because....? Company laptop was dangerously close to putting a small dent in the closest brick wall. Doing this for fun? What?

  • Missing cold pizza

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  • Bacon, Eggs, Toast, Home Fries, Coffee, OJ. BAM. Perfect breakie. Just don't forget the tobasco!

  • Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says

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  • That was incredibly informative and it's age only makes it more horrific.

  • Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says

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  • Climate change driving entire populations to migrate is going to prove disastrous over our lifetime. Already we're seeing voters turn to the far-right in response to rising immigration rates, and I fear it will get worse before it gets better. It's real easy for bad faith politicians to take all the legitimate grievances of the working class, and then blame it all on migrants. We've seen it time and again in the United States, and no matter how often they do it, they still find traction among their voter base.

    Just gonna put this here: Immigrants Make Economies More Dynamic, Increase Employment Growth

  • Exclusive: US House panel finds Wall St 'colluded' to curb emissions

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  • They.... They published a report... Saying that companies are colluding... to lower greenhouse emissions?

    That's what republicans think is a valuable use of their time seated in positions of power and influence? Trying to stop companies from checks notes NOT harming all life??

  • Are You an NPC?

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  • wow wtf, never read the youtube comments, indeed

  • The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95

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  • Truly a great man, the world is lesser in his absence.

  • Most Black Americans Believe “Racial Conspiracy Theories” About U.S. Institutions

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  • While psychologists say belief in conspiracy theories is often linked to paranoia or other mental health issues, the racial conspiracies that Black people believe are rooted in factual acts of intentional or negligent harm.

    Well-documented examples include the surveillance of political leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., malpractice in medical research in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the massacre of Black people and destruction of their communities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.

    These historic events (and others described in later chapters of this report) provide the context for some Black Americans’ belief in racial conspiracy theories.

    This paper speaking out both sides of it's mouth for this one. "Black belief that the justice system is designed to hold them back is rooted in factual events.... that cause them to believe some kooky conspiracy theories like the justice system has a racist bias!"

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?

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  • How is it that this EU Electric car can go almost 250 miles on a charge, while our comparable Nissan leaf gets like 80 tops?

  • Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun

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  • The guy saw people with what looked like guns going towards a shopping center that contained, among others, his child in a karate class. If the situation had been real, then his actions could have potentially saved lives, which is what his intention obviously was. I said that phrase specifically to evoke in the readers mind, how they have similarly been well-intentioned in the past, but the situation turned out doing harm. We've all had instances where we tried to do something good, and it turned out bad. This guy tried to be a hero, and instead he's the villain. Calling him well-intentioned isn't "apologetic framing," it's what happened. And it should serve as a stark reminder to everyone still walking around with guns, that their good intentions mean absolutely nothing.

  • Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

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  • troll gonna troll

  • Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

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  • Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun

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  • I meant that, in his mind, he had "good intentions." That's where the distinction comes in, as everyone walking around with a gun, is really just waiting for their moment to "save the day." And when you go looking for something, odds are you'll find it. And by that I mean that they'll assume whatever scenario their in IS their moment to "save the day," as they ultimately ignore contrary evidence and push aside any doubts as to the situations innocence, because they want so badly to be seen as a hero that saved the day.

    Dude decided to play cowboy, found himself a situation in which he saw two teenagers with what looked like weapons, ignored the fact that they weren't attempting to conceal themselves or their "weapons," ignored their body language and demeanor, ignored his doubts, and killed somebodys child. And that, ultimately, is going to be the fate of most people who walk around with guns, you're going to end up hurting someone close to you, or someone entirely innocent, and then you'll spend the rest of your life unable to sleep or rest because you decided deadly force was necessary when it absolutely wasn't.

  • Michael Caine Teaches Acting In Film, 1987

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  • fantastic video. I've only ever acted in the theater, and he really does make clear how much different acting is within the two mediums. Plus Michael comes off as a wonderfully talented, yet approachable and kind. Glad I watched!

  • Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun

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  • See, it's this bullshit. This well-intentioned man, actively employed in a fashion that would train him, fucked up, and killed someone's child. When it comes to the use of deadly force, there is no take-backs, no do-overs, no second chances. How many people handle guns perfectly? Now take that person with perfect gun knowledge and drop them in a situation where they don't know everything, are only given a small glimpse of what could be a weapon, and BAM, you have a tragic loss of life because in reality, 99% of the time it's just somebody being stupid, and not doing anything that should result in their death.