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Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it's Paul McCartney.

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Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?

Best and simplest answer is that technically they're still considered law enforcement. Nearly everything they're doing is constitutionally illegal, but only the courts have the right to determine that.

If we start threatening police with guns, every single nook and cranny of our legal system justifies the police murdering us. Maybe some cops would get paid leave for a few weeks, or possibly even lose their badges, but that's about it.

And then they'll use it to justify an even more inflated budget for ICE, and everything will get exponentially worse.

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Stupid sexy raft

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This is widely credited as the origin of modern reality tv, but it's not completely true. The earliest reality shows I can remember are Road Rules and The Real World, and those both predate the strike.

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They'll mostly just get sick to their stomach and or fat. Dogs don't process sugar very well, but it's not that horrible for them usually. Worse for small dogs with bad constitution. Chocolate specifically is poisonous for dogs, but again... bigger dogs can often just tank the damage.

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Palestinian student sues Michigan school over teacher’s reaction to her refusal to stand for Pledge

Pledge of Allegiance is literally some stupid shit some opportunists made up to sell flags to schools with fat government contracts.

It's also just sort of creepy to idolize a flag. I always stood for the pledge in school out of respect for the freedoms I enjoyed, but refused to put my heart on my chest to worship a piece of cloth. This was in the 90s.

Nowadays I don't even stand for it because everything's gone to hell and I'm just constantly mad about it all.

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Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?

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So not to nitpick here, but Juneteenth isn't intended to remember the destruction of any neighborhood. Black Wall Steet, Central Park, etc. were all significant things that happened, but not related to Juneteenth. It's the day that the last slaves in Texas were actually declared free by the Union army on June 19th in Galveston.