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Crazy how little discussion there is about fact that Republican nominee is publicly trading a basically empty company, whose only "product" is that it will be where he launders money he steals if he regains power, and it is trading at a market cap of $6 billion.

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@QasimRashid wish we had a faster and more comprehensive passenger rail network here in the states. Flying is fine for long distance but unnecessary for shorter trips.

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Exactly the message you need to hear today, by Howard Zinn [via Patrice Wynne]

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What the hell am I talking about? Not sure, to be honest.

But one aspect is to kill the lie of "us" vs. "them"

There is no "them", there is only us. It's always been that way, even if we never had a great enough perspective to see it until lately.

We live on an isolated speck of pleasantness in a sea of death we can never leave (Earth). Everything anyone does here eventually affects everyone else. We are all connected and are all in the same fight together. All problems are global.

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"Just because you think Alfred is too old to take care of the Batcave, you don't replace him with the Joker."
~ Jimmy Kimmel

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During a group photo with greeters on the PHL tarmac a reporter shouted a question at President Biden about whether he'd serve four more years or hand over power to VP Harris. He replied: “You're not hurt are you? Are you okay? Did you fall on your head or something?”

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Narrator voice: "When threatened, the lithium-ion battery can expand up to twice its usual size"

A group called Moms for Liberty wants to ban "offensive" books. Something about that sentence confuses me.

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@jeffowski in Canada you'd probably be in the center. "Far left" in the US seems to be anyone with any of their humanity still intact

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"I'm upset about abortions"
"Let's fund sex ed, contraceptives and health care for pregnant women, it will cause the number of abortions to decline dramatically."
"NO. Send the women & doctors to jail."

"I'm upset people jump the turnstyle"
"Let's properly fund the subway and make it free and faster while reducing overhead."
"NO. I want those bad teens ARRESTED."

"This dreary area under the bridge is DISGUSTING."
"Let's clean it up & install a public restroom."
"NO. Arrest people for pooping"

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Dear YKWYA,

Yeah, it used to be shocking, absurd, even cute. But you obviously realize how stupid you are being. It has become tiresome. Like a toddler crying for attention. We are done with it, so just knock it off, all of you.

Or, you know, you can FTFO.

Sincerely,
— rational people

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People who say of Nazis “the way you deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas” are offering assumptions that a) Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider; b) Nazis will promote their ideas in bloodless debate.

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