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3yr ago
From here (that article argues that it is still a problem, even if he asked):
CK opens his official statement by saying he was able to tell himself "it was OK to show women [his] dick" because he always asked them first. To people still wrestling with how consent works, simply asking might seem like all that's needed.
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3yr ago
While an alternate conservative/libertarian history of the post would be interesting, it would also be irrelevant.
We're discussing why Millennials are not becoming conservative, and only people who are already conservative would have access to that history, anyone else would just have access to the media worldview, and would never hear the other side of the story.
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3yr ago
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3yr ago
Maybe I was oblivious as a kid. I probably was. But somehow I don't remember children's books being as blatantly propagandized as now.
I received a copy of Father Gander Nursery Rhymes as a child. It was published in 1986.
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3yr ago
I dislike singular "they" but at least that is standard English and seems to be becoming widely adopted. The xe/ze/e lot can go stand in a corner, as far as I'm concerned. Pick "they" or be "it" which is the neuter pronoun in English.
I'm exactly the opposite. When it first came out, I couldn't stand ze/zir/etc., but every time I read something where people use the "they" pronoun to refer to a singular person it grates like nails on a chalkboard, and it almost always makes the writing more confusing to read. Now I wish the powers that be would switch to ze/zir/etc.
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3yr ago
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3yr ago
Don't forget "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon", that's a popular one about how the right wing will eventually have enough and rise up.
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3yr ago
Hanging a line around a city to try and trick God is literal nonsense. Does God believe in the rules you have for the Sabbath or not?
This is based on a misunderstanding of the Eruv. In Jewish law, there are public domains that are biblically forbidden from carrying in. An Eruv does not work to let you carry in those. There are other semi-public domains that the rabbis categorized which they said must also not be carried in. Those same rabbis said that their prohibition is lifted if an Eruv is in place.
This is a little bit of an oversimplification, but if you want to take a deep dive, you might start here.
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3yr ago
As an actual group, SBF and his partner gave $32 million to Dem's and $24 million to the GOP. This idea he was some Democrat-only donor simply isn't true.
It seems a little bit of a bait and switch to say that SBF donated to republicans as well because his partner did.
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3yr ago
I had almost no political videos in my home page. I watched one redneck compilation video, and all of sudden I got tons of Fox News, Daily Wire, etc. videos.
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3yr ago
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3yr ago
How easy is it for students to simply lie about their race in their application? It's not like the university is going to run a DNA test to see if your grandma was actually native American.
Mindy Kaling's brother did just that. In his words:
I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied as an African American. Not even my own frat brothers recognized me. I joined the Organization of Black Students and used my middle name, Jojo.
Vijay, the Indian American frat boy, became Jojo, the African American med school applicant.
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3yr ago
the argument is that if stronger voter id laws were in place this wouldn't happen. If as soon as they presented their ids to vote, the computer would be able to tell whether they were ineligible or not, this wouldn't happen.
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3yr ago
DeSantis is a Yale/Harvard educated former federal prosecutor. I would assume based on his background that he's not an idiot, and that he knows how criminal prosecutions work. If I keep my cynic hat on, DeSantis chose to make a big show of these arrests entirely as a means to appease the portion of the electorate that still believes the 2020 election was stolen and remains angry no one has gotten punished. But even so, what exactly was the follow-up supposed to be?
I'd imagine the end game is stricter voter id laws, which is what the right has been requesting for a while.
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3yr ago
For that matter, Person of Interest ran until 2016 and had its main cast as all white.
Taraji P. Henson was one of the main characters in the first half of the show.
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3yr ago
Add it here. Maybe someone will have the link.
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3yr ago
wear an orange shirt, and put some writing on it that expresses how you feel. Maybe something like "how does this shirt help indigenous people?". You can also put a QR code on it that goes to somewhere to donate money.
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3yr ago
I've thought there would be a market for a newspaper that only reported 6 month ago's news. It would report the stories that were important half a year ago, and give us a good summary of where the story went, which facts people had wrong, etc. The "Breaking" story with the benefit of hindsight, would be very interesting to read. It would be a good way to see which stories were actually important when they broke, and which ones were just flashes in the pan.
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3yr ago
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3yr ago
sounds like they're making room for the next group DeSantos sends there.
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3yr ago
An open border advocate believes there should be no restrictions placed on entering the country. As such, there would not be any illegal immigration.
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3yr ago
It is apparently illegal for states to secure their borders, as this fall only under federal jurisdiction. From here:
Can states enforce immigration laws?
The federal government has sole authority to enforce immigration laws. While DPS and the National Guard can’t enforce those laws, Abbott increased trespassing penalties under the disaster declaration and directed state troopers to arrest migrants on state trespassing charges when they are caught on private property.
It is very easy for the federal government to decide to let people illegally cross the border, since Washington DC is thousands of miles away from the Texas border. Why should Texas have to absorb all those people illegally coming into the country?
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3yr ago
first link, scroll down the page.
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3yr ago
yet dogs are allowed to be defecate in public . It does strike me as an inversion of a functioning society.
I guess that places san francisco at the vanguard of the struggle for human rights.
your link has an extra 0 in it.
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