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You know what else regularly grinds up and destroys children?

Poverty.

Which occurs to far more millions of people than whatever tf this princess went through

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You're saying it's valid and good for her to worry about stalkers. You are not saying the same about Elon. This is purely because she is a woman and he is a man. This is sexism.

Women are not delicate flowers who need to be protected. Men are not tough monsters who do not need protecting.

Billionaires are destructive enemies of humanity - gender doesn't affect that analysis

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Charles Littlejohn: Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison

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"Two wrongs don't make a right"

The utter irony of saying this.

The defendant's last name is "LittleJohn."

Little John was the sidekick of Robin Hood.

Robin Hood is the embodiment of the idea that, actually, two wrongs can very much make a right - stealing from the corrupt rich and giving to the poor is a good thing, actually. And breaking the law is good when the law only protects and empowers the corrupt and the wealthy

And that is exactly what this defendant did. Much like his coincidental namesake, he stole from the corrupt rich and shared what he took with everyone else. And much like the "Outlaw" Robin Hood, he was punished for it.

The only problem is that the United States isn't waiting for the Good King Richard to return and right all of our society's wrongs. Because, unlike Merry Old England, we don't have such a Good King coming to save us.

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Democrat Suozzi wins special election to replace Santos in New York

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The Republican candidate is literally just an Israeli Defense Force solider.

So yeah, I guess it's accurate to call her an "incredibly pro-Israel candidate."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazi_Melesa_Pilip

"She is an Ethiopian Jew, and was born in Ethiopia. She immigrated to Israel when she was 12 years old, and later served in the Israel Defense Force's Paratroopers Brigade as a gunsmith. Pilip studied at the University of Haifa, where she earned a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy, and also at Tel Aviv University, where she earned a masters degree in diplomacy and security."

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Saudi Arabia won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state, top diplomat says

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You would feel differently if you and your family were forcibly evicted from your land and told it belonged to others now.

Especially if you and your family had absolutely no connection to an event like the Holocaust. Which is the situation that the Palestinians experienced - last I checked it was Germans, not Arabs, who committed the Holocaust. And yet, somehow, no German land was converted into a new state.

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But you don't become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

Paul McCartney had, by all accounts, an idyllic childhood

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Supreme Court approval rating falls to one of lowest yet amid Trump cases

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Probably the same thing that happened with Dobbs - ultimately, not much of anything.

It's sad. But Americans need to stand up for ourselves.

When SCOTUS abolishes Chevron deference later this year and consequently destroys the federal bureaucracy we will be finished. Hopefully the FBI can lean on SCOTUS to prevent that, though it is doubtful they are astute enough to perceive Chevron's destruction for the national security disaster that it is

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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet

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The web was already flooded with human generated spam, adding AI spam to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't find useful content on the vast majority of webpages.

"The river was already flooded with human generated pollution, adding truckloads of nuclear waste to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't go swimming or eat the fish in the majority of waterways."

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Saudi Arabia won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state, top diplomat says

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Yes? Especially if the territory of that state is forcibly taken away from others who are living on it

Creating the United States was similarly terrible as it involved the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. Same with Australia. Same with South Africa. Same with Rhodesia.

Forcibly taking someone's home and cleansing an area of an ethnicity is certainly regarded as one of the worst actions a group of people can do. And rightly so