samedi 9 juillet 2022

[Split From] The Russian Invasion of Ukraine part 4

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Originally Posted by Childlike Empress (Post 13851962)
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The entitlement....

Thanks for communicating clearly you have no intention to answer honestly. You made my point. :) Carry on with praising your Führer.


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Out Of Control SCOTUS in cahoots with Rogue Conservatives

Am I the only one who finds this speech to be a momentous.

The POTUS basically called the SCOTUS out of control and going against the constitution and plotting with the rogue republicans.

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The fine art of career seppuku

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...verturned.html

So the condensed story is:

- guy refuses to do his work because "he's in mourning for Roe vs Wade" (not even some extra work that the boss came up with or anything, just his normal scheduled work)

- sends an email to the whole company to let them know that he's refusing to work

- threatens to not work in the future too, unless the company takes some political action just because he said so. (NB, he's not even protesting some horrible thing the company actually did. He's not gonna work unless they take whatever political action some random employee like him demands.)

- gets fired

- goes on Twitter to let the whole world know that he's been fired for refusing work, and he's unapologetic

- tries to libel the company in the process, trying to spin it into "firing a brown queer employee during pride month", never mind that it has nothing to do with why he was fired even according to him. (Also, he's about as 'brown' as Boris Johnson is. No, seriously, I'm a Germanic ancestry guy who physically can't tan, and he's about as 'brown' as I am.)

Well done, lad. If there was a better way to make yourself unemployable for anything else than moving road cones (and possibly not even that), I can't imagine what it is.

Also note that I don't blast him for being "woke" or a "SJW" per se. I'm a card carrying European socialist (which I guess on Twitter would still count as "OMG, doesn't prioritize the rights of black transsexual elves in movies, hence reactionary";)) so I'm all for both a right to abortion and a right to strike. I'm also ok with people expressing their left- or right-wing opinions in any medium they wish. (I might think that some opinions are evidence of metal retardation, but I won't stop you from expressing them.) But what this berk did is going a bit beyond that. Like even the right to strike, involves a union action, rather than every random bellend deciding he doesn't feel like working today.

And it's not even helping the cause of any other woke activists, fer fork's sake. People are already using this kind of stuff to make a case for, basically, "don't hire woke 'weirdoes', they'll just cause headaches down the line." So yeah, well done, lad, for making life harder for the more sane lefties.


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Good books about causes of and solutions to poverty/crime in inner cities (In USA)?)

If you've read or know of any good nonfiction works on the subject please let me know because I am trying to learn more about it.


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vendredi 8 juillet 2022

Difference between Republicans and Democrats

Today we saw the stark difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a video posted to*Twitter*that $100 million from the state budget he recently signed for 2022-2023 would be allocated for California to “contract and make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all.” Half of the $100 million would go toward the development of a “low-cost” insulin, Newsom said. The other $50 million would go toward a facility in the state to manufacture insulin that would “provide new, high-paying jobs and a stronger supply chain for the drug.”

Republicans on the other hand do nothing except promote hate and death.


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Last of the “Band of Brothers” passes.

Bradford Freeman, the last living member Easy Company 506th parachute regiment has passed away. He had been the last member as of late 2021.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...-97-180980373/


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jeudi 7 juillet 2022

Japan's ex-PM, Shinzo Abe, shot.... may be assassinated

Reports in the last hour are that Shinzo Abe, who was the previous Prime Minister, has been shot in Nara.

Shocking event.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_17/


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