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Whelp, with gas prices about to explode Amtrak is sure gonna look affordable!
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This picture is clearly from 1993. In 1991 no one was firing at the Duma.
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Here you go, bit of light reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Ru...
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Mahmoud Khalil makes very important and correct statement after release.
www.youtube.com/live/6CUKGZ7...
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What's your favorite cumtown bit?
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Oh we definitely are overall (our metro density is 624/sq mile, lowest in the top 20 metros of the countries by far). But over about the past decade city of Atlanta has built a TON of high-rises, mostly near transit stations. I even live in one now!
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It's worth $9 million?!
God damn, making slop content for children that goes viral really is winning the lottery!
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My friends got tear gassed that day and I only was somewhere else to do a support role for other actions. I know not to trust the cops or politicians. But a lot of those DeKalb politicians court progressive votes and those voters need the consequences of their politicians decisions spelled out.
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False. Plenty of people do have understanding of the law, and that's the entire POINT of these sources, to explain the law to lay people which your source did. You are a childish person refusing to admit being wrong on a specific claim. Log off and grow up.
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Grow up. Democracy needs people who can actually read the sources they cite and understand when they directly contradict their claims. If you can't do that you can't help our democracy function.
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Stop being a whiny child when you yourself stated you're not a paralegal or expert either. None of the sources you cited agree with you, and the legal sources cited disagree.
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No it does not. You're just plainly wrong on ICE facilities by even the source you yourself cited (which if you actually follow links goes right back to the law cited earlier).
It's fine to be wrong, it's childish to refuse to admit it.
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I have the exact opposite issue. If I'm in the middle of something and get a message, I set the message aside and it's 50-50 if I remember to get back to the message (chances are better if it's the only message I got, but way worse if I got a bunch of messages).
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The lesson then being, don't do arrests unless you are comfortable with a person being potentially handed over to ICE. Doraville/DeKalb cops really acted out of line here and the city/county leaders need to stop defending their actions.
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Same thing people said about Saddam and the result was a disaster. And frankly Iran's leaders are WAY less bloodthirsty than Saddam was.
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Bring something for the rain!
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The US and Israel would be lucky if it was ONLY as bad as Iraq. All the mountainous terrain and neighbors willing to help insurgents of Afghanistan, plus the large military ready to be a core of the insurgency of Iraq, in a country with 4x the population of Iraq and the ability to strike gulf oil.
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And being a vet or former police officer is actually a risk factor for being a mass shooter.
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If that was all people were saying I'd agree. But given that every report is this man did not fire his weapon, then the presumption of innocence needs to be very strong. Especially since this charge is appears to protect a vet/former 1st responder, which is also groups given undue deference by cops.
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I'd argue in fact this is an example of police letting a real potential mass shooter go (the "security" that actually killed people), while misdirecting resources more on a basis of incorrect stereotypes. Thus if the concern is "don't ignore mass shooter warning signs", they're doing exactly that.
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I think this is a misinterpretation of the problem of cops letting too many mass shooters go. This occurs because many mass shooters fit demographics that cops tend to defer to (white folks and conservatives especially). Whereas Arturo is part of a demographic cops disproportionately target. So 1/2
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That's entirely likely, but he's still in jail until then and that is awful for a wide variety of reasons, including the possibility they find a pressure point to get him to plea to some form of crime. So it's not good enough, he needs to be released ASAP.
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being smart about these things is really common and is not a rational basis to punish people. That is why it is important to demand these charges get dropped as soon as possible, and not just left at "its being investigated.". 2/2
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In the meantime he's in custody and the cops will be trying to pressure him into a plea bargain. That is why they're still holding him and pressing charges. If Arturo is smart, uses the 5th amendment, and has good legal advice, those charges will either get dropped or he'll win at trial.
But not1/2
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Don't let them gaslight you Alasdair, there are 4 ridings of York: North, East, West, and New.
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Isn't that illegal?
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Yeah but, the name doesn't make any sense. Grape is already a fruit!
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Nah. What BRICS (really China which is the only part of that group that really matters as potential US replacement) wants from the region is oil and safe transit of goods to the EU. And Israel is a problem on both those ends. Israel's only useful as long as they're a US ally with access to US tech.
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Ah that's great! I've never had a chance to be a dead beat dad before!
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Alright the next stage is we need our richest guy to go deal with a rival, Iranian-language-speaking power in west Asia and get owned.
Someone needs to inform Elon that the best way for him to recover his reputation is to personally lead a military expedition to P̵̶̵e̵̶̵r̵̶̵s̵̶̵i̵̶̵a̵̶̵ Iran. That'll end perfectly!
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All families? I didn't say or imply that. But a lot of families? Absolutely. Because the issues at stake are ones that are ranked for many people as higher than getting a bike.
More social media might've helped, that's what my maybe meant, but the date was also difficult for turnout anyways.
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Maybe but, that probably was always going to be an uphill battle today given the No Kings protests. Safe to say most folks who like bikes and the Beltline in Atlanta REALLY don't like Trump's policies.
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Sad news though I suppose going by the band's biggest hit they were asking for it
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"Diversity of thought" is such a dumb talking point. Most thoughts one could potentially hold are wrong! It's the same thing as saying "science class should allow creationism or at least intelligent design" or "physicists should teach perpetual motion machines" or "sociology should include racists".
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Eh, no. The cartoon is making an argument through "humor" (I don't find it that funny personally but YMMV) and it's a bad argument. Also, teachers choose texts that CAN be more deeply interpreted so that makes it extra dumb and lazy to say it's wrong to "over-interpret" these texts.
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After all, if we want to expect others countries to follow the principals of non-aggression and non-annexation, the US has to practice that even when its geopolitically or domestically inconvenient for it, otherwise it's less there are rules and more might makes right, which never works forever.
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True we can at a minimum. Though I would also note that if the US was serious about defending the rules based international order that opposes annexations they would at minimum start supplying states attacked by Israel (Lebanon, Syria, Iran) with weapons just like we do for Ukraine.
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could have completely stopped the US/Israel combo. Given the forces they have been up against, honestly they've done about as good as could be expected.
Israel turned far right when the country was under the least threat it's ever been under. Playing nice encourages the state's worst aspects. 2/2
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I absolutely disagree with that assessment, largely because Israeli expansionism clearly pre-dates Iran's alliance system. The reason it hasn't stopped Israel is because the US backs Israel and the US is literally the most powerful nation on earth. No alliance system after the fall of the USSR 1/2