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Feels like an appropriate GIF to use.
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Context is important here:
1) This applies (as of now) to Minnesota.
2) It’s because the guy who assassinated the political lawmakers is dressed like a cop & might use that to gain trust of people in order to do harm.
3) Not saying you shouldn’t do this anyway, but context is important here.
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Police have said the car was a regular black SUV with a light bar affixed to the top of it. It wasn’t a real police car.
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Well he did immediately open fire at the responding officer(s) backing into the house and escaped before back up could arrive.
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The police have said it was a regular SUV mocked up to look like an undercover police vehicle with a light bar.
And it’s quite easy to fake a basic police uniform.
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He shot at the responding officer and got alway before backup could arrive.
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My understanding is that it was one officer on the scene who the guy shot at. Guy escaped before backup arrived. If he’s still cosplaying as a cop, people might not be inclined to be suspicious of him if he was, say, looking like he was patrolling a neighborhood.
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Yes, actually he has.
It’s standard dogshit as usual, but he did release a statement.
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The police have already the car was a normal SUV outfitted to look like a police car. Police uniforms are really easy to fake.
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Is it weird that I’m at the point where I’d actually WANT to live in the world of The Last of Us?
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Yeah. It’s really worrying because it’s exactly the same thing the republicans do. No fact checking, just spewing memes. It’s quite harmful.
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More here:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/s... Did Morgan Freeman Say This About Homophobia? | Snopes.com
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Great quote, but he never said this. I wish he had, but he didn’t.
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Ahhh! I have vague memories of the original DOOM.
I will admit that I was more of an OG Mortal Kombat kid back in the mid 1990’s.
My current game addiction is The Last of Us series.
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Oh my god… the insane thing about that criticism is that the person is literally saying artists shouldn’t own their own master recordings.
Which is of course, insane, artists should own their own master recordings from the outset.
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Yeah that screams that she had no idea what was going on during that incident.
I hope the players demand an independent investigation into what happened.
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The Dollop predicted this.
I’m not kidding.
Episode 681: the Abernathy Boys, released two weeks ago, has this moment:
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The only thing I give my undivided attention is books. I’m (a bit shamefully I must admit) one of those have-a-video-on while-playing-video-games millennials.
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… Lennie, who is mentally handicapped, and is “like a kid, has a fondness for soft things & ends up touching a woman in a red dress who runs & lies that she’d been raped by Lennie.
Both books, PALE in comparison to what is depicted in Roots and Glory which are watched by 8th graders.
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I read it. And no, no it did not. The “rape” being talked about is metaphorical as that of the land by corporations & the dehumanization of the migrant works like the Joad family. There are also scenes of beatings of migrant workers.
You MIGHT be thinking about Of Mice and Men in which…
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I’m being petty for… understanding how language functions and what a demonym is? Or were you replying to the original comment I replied to?
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No, it’s what the world hears, like it or not.
Though, that original argument is moot (I now realize) because he is the first American pope by virtue of being born in the USA, as the demonym for someone born in the US is “American.”
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Yes. I’m aware. And the demonym for someone from there is South American.
I know geography (and simple English differentiation between hemispheres apparently) can be tough, but come on now.
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Q: Where was Leo XIV born?
A: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Q: What’s the demonym for someone born in the USA.
A: an American.
He is the first American pope.
Francis was born in South America where the the demonym is South American. Which is a difference.
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No, there hasn’t. Francis was, by demonym and birth, Argentinian.
Leo XIV, born in Chicago, Illinois in the USA is a Chicagoan, an Illinoisan and an American as the demonym for a person born in the US is American. So, yeah, he is the first American pope.
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And, FWIW, a person born in the United States is an American as that is the demonym for someone born in the United States.
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The speculation in that headline is hysterical. “At 69 he made hold the position for more than a quarter century…” yeah, or he may have a reign shorter than Pope John Paul.
We don’t know anything about this guy and his health.
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Nothing is wrong with it. Just saying that when the term America/American is mentioned, the US is the first that pops into the heads of most.
Maybe calling Leo XIV the “first North American pope” would also work? Mentions the specific region the US is in while still having “American” in it.
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MAGA is already having a shitfit.
Oh, and FWIW: he’s not really progressive when it comes to issues like abortion. Don’t really know his feelings toward LGBT+ yet, but I’m going to assume he isn’t as progressive as some on here may hope.
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If you want to argue semantics, then fine, you’re right. But I’d argue traditionally when the world hears “American” they think US. So, he is the first American pope.
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This was awesome.
If you tried this today Im pretty sure it wouldn’t work because no one would “get it.”
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When my little brother was in kindergarten he came home one day from school during red ribbon week and breathlessly told my mother about learning about something “worse than fighting at recess”… “ that something was “drugstores!” Still gets a laugh 30 years later in our house.
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@weratedogs.com
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What Is It With These Guys And Capitalising The First Letter In Every Word?
::Rereads What He Just Wrote. Stares Blankly::
Oh Shit.
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Holy shit. That intro reads like a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post.
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Or even just “US tariff charge/tax” would probably work.
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If companies REALLY wanted to make people understand how tariffs worked that import charge would be called “Trump tariff charge” or “Trump tariff tax” or something like that.
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Ahh. Thanks for the response and deeper explanation of your rational behind the post. Much appreciated, and I agree. I find myself watching less and less US news networks now cause all it is is what you said: conflict TV. And I can see where this would fit into that category.
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And for what it’s worth: I’m not a fan of it. I don’t like that it happened. But, again, they are colleagues at the same network, both paid to be on staff.
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They are colleagues. They work at the same network. They are at a public facing event. I don’t like it either, but unfortunately, if she wants to keep her job she has to be cordial. It sucks, but that’s how it’s always worked in media.
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That means being cordial to your colleagues even if you may not agree with them. Whether this is the case with Collins & Jennings, I don’t know, I’m just speaking in generalities here. Collins can’t just tell Jennings to fuck off if she wants to keep her job. It doesn’t work like that.
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People, relax. Yes, this picture might not be the best optics, but it was taken at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She & Jennings are colleagues at CNN. As anyone who has ever worked a job before (especially in media and journalism), knows sometimes you do public facing events.
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And on this day, the Bird Wars hath commenced.