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Merry Christmas! 🔫🎅

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 13 2018, @11:40PM (#3791)
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I'll tell you, it's not so merry in France. Where they had another very bad terror attack. With so many people hurt & dieing. Blood everywhere, big mess. Because they have Open Boarders. They let in a crazy guy from Strasbourg. He brought a gun and just started shooting.

I'll tell you, it won't happen here. I'm very proud of my Military. Who have caught 10 - 12 Radical Islamic Terrorists trying to come in from Mexico. And we are going to strengthen our boarders even more. Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Boarder Security. To FINISH THE WALL. Which, I've said many times, Mexico will pay for. Thank you, Mexico!!!

Do you want TERFs? Because this is how you get TERFs.

Posted by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:52PM (#3790)
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Uuuuugh. Just a small mini-rant today. I got bounced from a social circle online elsewhere earlier today because, *apparently,* having a genital preference is transmisogyny. It's not enough that I support transwomen through their struggles and transition and suffering; no, the fact that I am a strict vagitarian and flatly refuse to date or have sex with a transwoman who still has male equipment makes me A Bad Person (TM).

This is how you get TERFs. I wish these people understood how much it reeks of male privilege--yes, MALE privilege, even though they were always women mentally and are on their way physically--to demand that a gay but cisgender women open herself, in the most literal, intimate, and deep sense, to the body parts she is not attracted to because the mind matches.

Look, I'm not going to date Buck Angel or another FtM who still has a vagina either: I'm a lesbian. I like women. I don't demand they be "womyn-born-womyn," but boy bits are verboten. What is unreasonable about this?! Isn't the entire point of someone going MtF to get a woman's exterior to match her interior?

I'm never going to become a TERF, but stuff like this is almost guaranteed to create more of them. I am having less and less sympathy for transwomen the older I get, and that worries me, because we're still all humans at the end of the day. I just wish some of them would pull their heads out of their asses about this.

Miss USA: Ambassador of Bullying

Posted by takyon on Thursday December 13 2018, @05:49PM (#3789)
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Career & Education

America's perfect blonde überwaifu for the Trump Age:

Miss USA accused of mocking Asian contestants' English: 'Miss Universe should not be an ambassador of bullying'

In a now-expired Instagram Live video, Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers can be heard joking to Miss Australia and Miss Colombia about how Miss Vietnam speaks.

“What do you think about Miss Vietnam?” she asks her friends, before laughing, “… and she pretends to know so much English, and you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her and she … [smiles and nods].”

Popular Instagram page Diet Prada posted the footage with another two videos of Miss USA, this time speaking about Miss Cambodia.

In the first she showers her fellow contestant with praise while thanking her own Cambodian fans for their support.

But in the second, she’s seen pitying Miss Cambodia to the same two friends.

“Miss Cambodia is here and doesn’t speak any English, and not a single other person speaks her language,” she says, adding, “Poor Cambodia.”

Y u no speak American tho?

Also at People.com.

Capitalism vs Corruptism

Posted by Gaaark on Thursday December 13 2018, @12:00AM (#3785)
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I have nothing against capitalism: what we seem to have nowadays is Corruptism.

Corruptism is the collecting of wealth no matter who or what.
Need another dollar? Bribe a politician to make the laws favour corporations over people.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Cut wages and hours.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Layoffs.

It use to be that employers made, what, 400X what their employees made? Now an employee has to work 2-3 jobs just to live while the 'boss' feeds the pork to make ONE MORE DOLLAR!

A little more kindness would see us in a better world.
I'd like to see politicians start thinking of the people who voted for them.

Lets get back to basic Capitalism: Corruptism is not working.

Cohen gets 3 years for conspiracy with Trump

Posted by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 12 2018, @06:31PM (#3784)
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News

A federal judge sentenced Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday following Cohen's guilty pleas to a number of political and finance crimes.

Those three years would be followed by three years of supervised release, and Cohen also is subject to forfeiture of $500,000, restitution of $1.4 million and a $50,000 fine.

...Cohen told authorities that Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women ahead of Election Day in 2016 to keep them quiet about sexual relationships they said they had had with Trump — allegations Trump denies.

Federal authorities call that a violation of campaign finance law — one for which Trump also may be culpable.

Later, Cohen admitted that he and other Trump aides continued negotiations with powerful Russians about a potential real estate project in Moscow well into the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cohen had told Congress in 2017 that the talks ended in January, but his subsequent admission meant that Trump's aides had a channel open with Russia even as Trump was becoming the GOP front-runner and was denying he had any ties to Russia.

Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison Following Plea That Implicated Trump

17 years since December 11th!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday December 11 2018, @09:59PM (#3752)
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I hear by proclaim December 11th a National Day of Prayer in remembrance of those that died in the HORRIFIC December 11th attack. On this National Day of Prayer, we join together to offer gratitude for our many blessings and to acknowledge our need for divine wisdom, guidance, and protection. Prayer, by which we affirm our dependence on God, has long been fundamental to our pursuit of freedom, peace, unity, and prosperity. Prayer sustains us and brings us comfort, hope, peace, and strength. Therefore, we must cherish our spiritual foundation and uphold our legacy of faith. Prayer has been a source of guidance, strength, and wisdom since the founding of our Republic. When the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to contemplate freedom from Great Britain, the delegates prayed daily for guidance. Their efforts produced the Declaration of Independence and its enumeration of the self-evident truths that we all cherish today. We believe that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Prayer sustained us and gave us the strength to endure the sacrifices and suffering of the American Revolution and to temper the triumph of victory with HUMILITY -- so important -- and gratitude. Notably, as one of its first acts, our newly formed Congress appointed chaplains of the House of Representatives and Senate so that all proceedings would begin with prayer.

Also, I'm ordering all Flags and "whatevers" at Half Mast for the rest of the month!!!

The "Trump" phenomenon

Posted by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 11 2018, @08:05PM (#3751)
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Rehash

What is the "Trump" phenomenon, you might ask?

The "Trump" phenomenon is direct rule by the brain stem, with no cortext to put on the rubber velvet glove over the iron fist. The cortext itself serves as the 'whitehouse' staff, pretty much as damage control at this point.

And for all the self righteous fools out there, don't mistake observation as advocacy. In other words, save your breath with the superficial bullshit.

Edit: Cortex! Happy? I leave the original in place for continuity.

Neo-Nazi gets life in prison for Charlottesville car attack

Posted by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 11 2018, @07:39PM (#3750)
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News

James A. Fields Jr., an avowed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury Tuesday after a trial that offered an unsparing view of the physical and emotional ruin he caused in this city with a burst of vehicular rage 16 month ago.

As he had throughout his two-week trial, Fields, 21, sat impassively at the defendant’s table, clad in a powder blue sweater, as the jury delivered its verdict at 12:20 p.m. after about four hours of deliberations that began Monday: life for first-degree murder; 70 years for each of five counts of aggravated malicious wounding; 20 years for each of three counts of malicious wounding; and nine years for leaving the scene of a fatal crash.

His overall sentence: life plus 419 years and $480,000 in fines.

Fields also faces a separate federal trial for alleged hate crimes related to the incident, including one offense that carries a possible death sentence. No trial date has been set, and the Justice Department has not said whether it will seek capital punishment.

Turns out that backing up first to give yourself more room to accelerate doesn't look so great when you are claiming self defense.

James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville car attack

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Seriously Problematic?

Posted by takyon on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:10PM (#3749)
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Career & Education

Holiday Classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Accused of Being 'Seriously Problematic'

Twitter video

How braindead do you have to be to make that video? Braindead enough to work at Huffington Post's clickbait division. Wait, is there a division?

What we really need is Christianity to be completely crushed and to only allow the two truuuu pagan Xmas specials to be played on TV: The Year Without a Santa Claus and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. 🎄💪🎅👍

Spiritual successor to Gaaark's journal.

Big Words from Big Money

Posted by fustakrakich on Monday December 10 2018, @05:12PM (#3747)
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Business

Global investors managing $32tn issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning.... They say fossil fuel subsidies...for coal, oil and gas, which the IMF rates at $5tn a year... must end and substantial taxes on carbon be introduced... "The low-carbon economy presents numerous opportunities and investors who ignore the changing world do so at their own peril."...

The US... administration will hold its only event at the UN summit on Monday and is expected to promote "clean coal"... Lord Nicholas Stern, of the London School of Economics said:... "You don't create jobs for the 21st century by trying to whistle up jobs from the 19th century."

God! I hate the Guardian! War mongering bastards! But what the hell