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That Time of Year Again - No Salvation Army

Hey, I stayed at one of their homeless shelters. You should donate just for that. Where else will you get rotten food? Whose going to talk shit about you? Whose going to throw your fragile possessions during check in and treat what little you have as a toy?

Don't you want people to have bloodstained linens to sleep on? How else are people going to stand in 110F heat for fucking hours while the idiot Berber Christians have their meetings?

I really appreciated how little time I spent there, how little I interacted with others, how little I asked, but I was always met with annoyance and contempt when I did ask for something. Like please may I have a pillow case not covered in blood? I know it's a lot to ask!

They always walked away knowing they were good christians so good luck speaking up. The shelter ran by ex prisoners was much less degrading.

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Carbon Capture...

Search results are dependant on who is searching. But still:

When you use DuckDuckGo the first result is wikipedia.

When you use Google the first results are corporations.

When you use Bing the first result is a corporation, then Wikipedia.

Brave search gives an AI summary of carbon capture, an investment page, one of the corp pages, and then a breakdown on why 'carbon capture' is a misleading tactic.

Edit: All this to say, maybe stop using Google.

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Who could have predicted this???

White kid from conservative family shoots conservative personality.

  • conservatives threaten black schools
  • a wave of prominent conservatives talking about WAR WERE DECLARED!!
  • random conservatives walking around on the anniversary of 9/11 making threats against "the Democrats" while looking at innocent people
  • conservative lizards insinuating "the left's reaction" is somehow a nefarious development a couple months after they made fun of a governor being assassinated, which was preceded by conservatives making fun of the attack on Pelosi.

These fucks are violent and unhinged.

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Those that target journalists are declaring war on the truth itself

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Journalists being killed almost certainly refers to journalists actively reporting on the war, embedded in units, the ones with passes. They are actively linked to orgs so when they die they're accounted for as a killed journalist.

I think including every single death of a civilian who happened to be a journalist but wasn't working as one would be too literal an interpretation.

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The T word

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God damn.

Antifa means everyone that has clashed with conservatives. When actual neo nazis clash with protestors, the fallout is attributed to antifa, and included as evidence of antifas destruction.

They include Black Lives Matter leaders in their evidence of antifa terrorism.

Seems anyone who significantly opposed anyone related to conservative ideology is antifa, and antifa are terrorists.

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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.

I don't remember people ever writing cursive like what I was taught growing up. People just self-servingly turbo-scribble some chicken-scratch and call it a day. The kid who can't read our B-movie elvish script isn't the one with literacy issues.

We either write within the ballpark of standardization, or we don't. I think kids should be required to put in as much effort into learning cursive, as people put into actually writing cursive. Which is to say, absolutely none at all.

(Sorry to people who actually write legible, clean cursive. I wish I got to read your output in the wild.)

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Trump's $60 Bible & Constitution omits amendments ending slavery and allowing women to vote

Based on the headline I got the impression that the bible was excluding these two amendments. As in, their absence was jarring in the presence of the other amendments.

The truth is that they left out 17 amendments. Because it's Trump. It's aimed at people who don't care about the Constitution. The customers just want the greatest hits, the big names.

Misleading headline aside, here's what the they actually omitted (aka here's a truth which doesn't leave anything out.)

  1. Can't sue a state unless you live there.

  2. Structures electing presidents / VPs.

  3. Slavery is banned except when it isn't.

  4. Born on US soil == you're 'Merican, Harry.

  5. Suffrage regardless of race.

  6. Taxes.

  7. Structures electing senators.

  8. Prohibition good!

  9. Suffrage regardless of sex.

  10. Specifies length for Presidential / VP terms.

  11. Prohibition bad!

  12. The two term limit for Presidents.

  13. Gives D.C. electors.

  14. You can vote even if you didn't pay taxes.

  15. Formalized the VP succeeding a dead president.

  16. Voting age set to 18.

  17. That time when Congress took 200 goddamn years to impose a restriction on their salary.