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4d ago
Kam was born on 20 December 2004 in Yokota Air Base, Japan, to a Japanese mother, Mako, and an American father, Benjamin. She also has two older brothers, Zane and Kai. At the time of Kam's birth, her father had been stationed in Japan due to his work as an Air Force surgeon. Following his assignment's completion, the family moved to Alaska before eventually settling in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Sounds American to me. Born on a military base, grew up in the US, not counting early childhood.
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10d ago
Have you read The Rise and Fall of DODO? It has time travel with multiple concurrent past timelines all contributing to the present. Makes changing the past very complicated. Co-authored by Neal Stephenson. I recommend it.
receiving an equivalent amount of free product from the shelf at the local Walmart store
This was the original dividend in 1610. The Dutch East India Company gave a a quantity of spice to every shareholder who personally showed up at a building to get a scoop. They were spice-rich so as a treat shareholders get a sample.
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11d ago
But the only thing voters hate more than the price of their home decreasing is high inflation.
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12d ago
Yep. I'm reading about how George Bush senior raped a man and participated in cannibalism and torture rituals with a magical sword that leaves no scars. I'm feeling a bit skeptical about some of these.
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12d ago
We all knew Epstein was bad. But we didn't know the depths of his evil. I'm talking of course about cannibal rituals and torture with a magical scimitar that leaves no wounds.
That didn't actually happen of course. Fabulists and crazies can email law enforcement. I think this is the danger of such a big data dump. Some part of it is real in some factual sense. Some other part of it is modern day Satanic Panic. I see on reddit people discussing Trump checking underaged girls for tightness and then auctioning them off. That's horrific. Really vile. And I'm just a little suspicious also as fictional as the magical scimitar.
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15d ago
At least somewhat related: In 1994 Californians passed Proposition 187 which amended the California state constitution to deny some public services to illegal immigrants. Such as state college and non-emergency healthcare. It was immediately ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.
Some weak version of this was tried and ruled officially forbidden.
Filled to the brim with FBI agents and informants. To the point it causes problems in prosecutions since the FBI informants did so much of the alleged illegal actions.
Google has decided not to give me a link showing this despite my efforts, but by memory I recall that the prosecutors asserted that breaking open the door to a federal park building is a serious crime. Which is true. But, the individual who broke the door open in the Oregon Bundy standoff was working for the FBI and not a defendant. They had guns; but an FBI informant gave them the guns. Etc, etc. The defendants all got acquittals. Too many informants per right wing would-be victim of an actual government conspiracy muddies the waters on what the "militia members" are actually responsible for.
Something similar happened in the Gretchen Whitmer FBI kidnapping scheme. Those COINTELPRO victims who went to trial had good success at getting acquitted.
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25d ago
Any chance this Democratic politician could be anti-Republican in the sense of substantive policy positions rather than murder fantasies. It's the gleeful murder fantasies I'm more concerned with.
The copypasta:
Shooty Shooty pew pew pew!
Let's all learn what guns can do!
Liberals in the USA
Love to nod their heads and say,
"You bought your guns from a store!
You can't win a civil war!
Fight the army, you will lose!
They have jets and tanks to use!"
That's not where the story ends!
They have homes, and kids, and friends!
Tyrants threaten you with bombs?
Just remember: they have moms!
You can't live inside your jet!
Can we find you? Yes, you bet!
You'd send soldiers and marines
Up against AR-15's?
They're outnumbered ten to one.
That is why I need a gun.
Don't forget, because it's true:
Government is scared of you.
The point being the drone pilot could certainly terrorize his fellow Americans. But does his wife, children and mom also never leave secure facilities?
Having read about the Troubles it is not clear to me an American police state enforced by drone murders could actually stop that. The panopicon is fragile and relies on complicated systems actually working. A hypothetical ongoing civil war may break much of it.
I also notice the UK is a nuclear power. A sophisticated one with Trident missiles, etc. Somehow that didn't much help during the Troubles. Like who were they going to nuke: themselves?
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25d ago
Starting in 2015 California has been issuing driver's licenses to illegals. They also illegally issued 17000 commercial driver's licenses to illegals, according to the Federal Department of Transportation.
https://www.waltbismarck.com/p/why-im-no-longer-a-white-nationalist
Under "Reason #3"
Normal white Midwesterners don't get his will to power ideology.
Also their women do not like him and he doesn't seem to actually like white women. Really hampering his aspirations to make white children. So he pivots to rationalizing how having kids with Hispanics is okay.
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