Did I turn down the wrong street? I didn't know I was at Looneyville.
I'm talking about what just happened, I don't know what on Earth you're on about. I read the article, and again, I think you're taking him way out of context.
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I'm talking about what just happened, I don't know what on Earth you're on about. I read the article, and again, I think you're taking him way out of context.
Ok I’m genuinely confused on how you have no idea what I’m talking about/are intentionally being so oblivious
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/03/11/what-tucker-carlson-got/
Here’s a more in-depth take on what he said if you’re really so confused on what I’m saying
It sounds like Warren Jeffs got charged for the wrong crime. That doesn't mean he shouldn't be charged with something, but that is not the same thing as 1st degree freaking rape. I would assume that that's common sense. I think Carlson's criticism is somewhat justified.
"Carlson is correct that Jeffs was accused only of facilitating the union. While Jeffs was suspected of his own plural marriages to underage girls by this date, there were no such criminal charges against him."
What point are you making? I'm talking about the mob finding a reason to take down someone on the right because they simply don't like them, and that article only proves my point. You're taking shit out of context, that or you're being oblivious, who knows at this point?
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Tucker Carlson is a millionaire paid by billionaires to tell people who make $70000 a year that all of their problems are the fault of people who make $30000 a year. Yeah, it’s disgusting that he said he fantasizes about underage girls the same age as his daughter (was at the time) experimenting with each other and defended child marriage. But considering he was already objectively an awful person, does it really matter?
Didn't he just call out walmart and Amazon for not paying their employees a living wage like two months ago
Except later down the article in clarities that Jeff’s was eventually convicted of rape and Tucker defended him as only being in prison due to having a different lifestyle that some people find “creepy”. This statement was in 2009, Jeff’s was indicted 2008.
That’s nice but doesn’t change him calling immigrants dirty and continually implying that the economic woes of the middle class are due to the existence of immigrants. Tucker’s brand of right wing populism is just backlash against multiculturalism used as a tool to make a group of white people who are being left behind economically feel better about themselves while they continue to vote for a party that ignores their economic needs, unless not taxing capital gains or inheretence at any reasonable level is benefiting them in some way I can’t see. If he truly believes what he is saying, and the racial animus is real, he is a bad person, a convenient bad person for the billionaire class to pay to disseminate their views, but nonetheless bad. If he’s just doing it for the check then he’s still an awful person, probably even worse but I can respect the hustle. I believe it’s the former fwiw.
No deal’s off of the table (for now). The pound is rising. Ppl on BBC news r busy saying the PM has no control over her own party. I expect we’re either gonna get May’s deal or a 6 month postponement, and if we get a postponement the bookie’s odds on no brexit will definitely shorten.
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Except you ignored the last part of his statement:
“He's like got some weird religious cult where he thinks it's OK to, you know, marry underaged girls, but he didn't do it. Why wouldn't the guy who actually did it, who had sex with an underaged girl, he should be the one who's doing life.”
As in, Warren Jeffs still deserved to be convicted, but the punishment did not fit the crime, as I've pretty much said already.
He was not the only person to criticize the case either, yet Tucker Carlson is being singled out 10 years later for what reason? Ok, I get it now.
Except that doesn’t forgive that part where, you know, the guy did rape an underage girl. The statement doesn’t match the order and I’m not sure if the article is ordered oddly, but the leader was known for rape in 2008 while the statement was 2009. There are recorded tapes of him raping a 12-yr-old girl, so it’s not even arguable that he didn’t do it.
Also I’m so sick of arguments that don’t discredit the content and instead just redirect it with points such as “other people said it” or “they searched really hard for this” because neither of those arguments address the actual content of the issue. Regardless it doesn’t matter because you will continue to see most allegations of this nature (even if true) as just kidding around or leftist reputation-destruction operations and I can understand how one could see that in a lot of cases, but IMO for this it was a 2009 (which is not significantly different from today morality wise) case in which he was a full grown adult and did not offer forgiveness but instead offered a (disingenuous) offer to debate him on his show despite a previous instance of him not airing an episode in which he was on the losing side of a debate. Once again, I’d rather not argue this further because it’s a pointless effort for both of us, seeing as neither of us will convince the other, so have a good day
Serious post unlike TIK's earlier one (Not sure if there's supposed to be a no-discussion policy on this?):
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/new-zealand-christchurch-shooting-intl/index.html
It was very upsetting as it was the first thing I saw this morning; despite happening on the opposite side of the world, I think a small part of me was a little scared to leave my house for a brief while. It's easy to get desensitized to violence until you can imagine it happening to you, which puts a lot of past events in a new perspective for me.
The shooter appeared to be trying to play some sort of 4D-chess with his manifesto, but people seem to have caught on pretty quick, making him look exceedingly retarded. Will we be looking at others empowered by his (mostly nonsensical) reasoning, or will this just be out and forgotten in a while?
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/new-zealand-christchurch-shooting-intl/index.html
It was very upsetting as it was the first thing I saw this morning; despite happening on the opposite side of the world, I think a small part of me was a little scared to leave my house for a brief while. It's easy to get desensitized to violence until you can imagine it happening to you, which puts a lot of past events in a new perspective for me.
The shooter appeared to be trying to play some sort of 4D-chess with his manifesto, but people seem to have caught on pretty quick, making him look exceedingly retarded. Will we be looking at others empowered by his (mostly nonsensical) reasoning, or will this just be out and forgotten in a while?
tucker carlson is really popular because he hits both sides, being the 'ultra-liberal rich' and the 'immigrant poor' with vitriol (only the latter is definitely more concentrated). he recognizes capitalism's failure of insane consolidation of wealth not because of some innate care for lower classes, but because its an convenient expedient for going after what he sees as the 'liberal thought police.' bezos, buffett, and google are the enemies because they are perpetuating democrat's brand of capitalism than republican's brand. why do you think he complains constantly about how media is being controlled by the liberal elite (not wrong, but he specifically only points out the liberal elite -- he would be fine with a conservative elite ruling). most people hate their bosses, especially working class middlemen who believe they are being disenfranchised. he combines an existing class anxiety with anxiety over political erasure which is very much a construction of his own mind. it's the same type of ploy that donald trump used to galvanize the working class into voting for him.
immigrants are also a convenient scapegoat given their forced voicelessness and inability to be as politically transparent as u.s. citizens. generally his type of attack is based on them ruining out country by bringing in their culture / stealing our jobs / jaja whatever else. immigrants make us more violent. they make our economy worse. they are destroying your culture. they're raping our women and committing crimes. mixed nations don't work. everybody needs to be the same for it to perform.
he's a charismatic guy too, which is a shame. his show is almost comedic in its delivery -- he even has a segment where he brings on a 'liberal sherpa' and laughs in her face throughout the segment. i watch it all the time in my house and he's going further and further right pretty much daily. he has an incredible ability to impress his own viewers with his philosophy; if you listen to what he says and no other media outlet, he is pretty good at convincing you that the left is full of stupid rage-babies crying over microaggressions and plastic straws (which are both valid in their own points). it's also convenient that the only people he brings on his show are people who are obviously inexperienced at debating or cowards.
this video is the best thing i could find about his brand of charisma. notice how he doesn't take time to debunk anything, he just laughs. he'd probably lose an actual debate given his best argument over leftist policies not working is acting like they're all stupid without actually engaging them. he's afraid to engage them, because even though he's borrowing from leftist talking points about working wages, he isn't willing to go beyond them. if he actually talked with his guests instead of laughing in their faces, maybe his audience would stop viewing them with such intellectual disdain and realize "hey, these guys have a point."
immigrants are also a convenient scapegoat given their forced voicelessness and inability to be as politically transparent as u.s. citizens. generally his type of attack is based on them ruining out country by bringing in their culture / stealing our jobs / jaja whatever else. immigrants make us more violent. they make our economy worse. they are destroying your culture. they're raping our women and committing crimes. mixed nations don't work. everybody needs to be the same for it to perform.
he's a charismatic guy too, which is a shame. his show is almost comedic in its delivery -- he even has a segment where he brings on a 'liberal sherpa' and laughs in her face throughout the segment. i watch it all the time in my house and he's going further and further right pretty much daily. he has an incredible ability to impress his own viewers with his philosophy; if you listen to what he says and no other media outlet, he is pretty good at convincing you that the left is full of stupid rage-babies crying over microaggressions and plastic straws (which are both valid in their own points). it's also convenient that the only people he brings on his show are people who are obviously inexperienced at debating or cowards.
this video is the best thing i could find about his brand of charisma. notice how he doesn't take time to debunk anything, he just laughs. he'd probably lose an actual debate given his best argument over leftist policies not working is acting like they're all stupid without actually engaging them. he's afraid to engage them, because even though he's borrowing from leftist talking points about working wages, he isn't willing to go beyond them. if he actually talked with his guests instead of laughing in their faces, maybe his audience would stop viewing them with such intellectual disdain and realize "hey, these guys have a point."
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Australian media has refused to publish this piece, and every word of it is true. Circulate widely:
“We scrubbed the name of our Islamic school off the buses. We wiped the spit off our hijabs. We Anglicised our names to get jobs. The highest court of the land declared this land was never terra nullius. The blood stains on this stolen continent could no longer be bleached. Race could not be denied.
We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: 'Prove you're not terrorist.'
The planes crashed into the twin towers. The bombs hit Iraq and Afghanistan. We were divided into moderates and extremists.
We were socially engineered to play the part of the integrated, always-ready to-condemn, apolitical, safe Muslim.
We were told that the price for conditional belonging was the sacrifice of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and every other broken, exploited third-world body and soul that paid the price for the West's wealth and 'freedom'.
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We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: 'Prove you're not a national security threat.'
We increased security at mosques and schools, avoided going out after terrorist attacks in the West for fear of retaliation, reported abuse, vilification, vandalism, assault, bled tears for the occupied, bombed, raped countries of our family's homelands.
We wrote opinion pieces and books; tweeted, posted, debated, educated and explained. We didn't have the luxury of making jokes about Trump's tweets, or debating how to dialogue with Nazis.
We had to learn to connect the dots between settler-colonialism's instinct for extermination, state violence against black and brown bodies in custody and at the borders, and pogroms and rallies on the beaches.
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You ignored us and said: 'Free speech, we are not a racist country, don't be divisive, Judaeo-Christian values, lose the identity politics, Islamophobia doesn't exist, Islam is not a race, love it or leave it, ban the burqa, ban Muslim immigration, ban Muslim schools, ban halal, ban the boats, we need a final solution, let's use anti-Muslim sentiment as an election strategy, jihadi watch in schools, refugees are dangerous.'
We told you the threat is white supremacy and you fuelled it, gained from it, enabled and permitted it.”
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/c...HQm3K68s1TgAiqXq65n2-LJAp8OfRjjZ3sInFkVu0_l5Q
Australian media has refused to publish this piece, and every word of it is true. Circulate widely:
“We scrubbed the name of our Islamic school off the buses. We wiped the spit off our hijabs. We Anglicised our names to get jobs. The highest court of the land declared this land was never terra nullius. The blood stains on this stolen continent could no longer be bleached. Race could not be denied.
We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: 'Prove you're not terrorist.'
The planes crashed into the twin towers. The bombs hit Iraq and Afghanistan. We were divided into moderates and extremists.
We were socially engineered to play the part of the integrated, always-ready to-condemn, apolitical, safe Muslim.
We were told that the price for conditional belonging was the sacrifice of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and every other broken, exploited third-world body and soul that paid the price for the West's wealth and 'freedom'.
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We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: 'Prove you're not a national security threat.'
We increased security at mosques and schools, avoided going out after terrorist attacks in the West for fear of retaliation, reported abuse, vilification, vandalism, assault, bled tears for the occupied, bombed, raped countries of our family's homelands.
We wrote opinion pieces and books; tweeted, posted, debated, educated and explained. We didn't have the luxury of making jokes about Trump's tweets, or debating how to dialogue with Nazis.
We had to learn to connect the dots between settler-colonialism's instinct for extermination, state violence against black and brown bodies in custody and at the borders, and pogroms and rallies on the beaches.
...
You ignored us and said: 'Free speech, we are not a racist country, don't be divisive, Judaeo-Christian values, lose the identity politics, Islamophobia doesn't exist, Islam is not a race, love it or leave it, ban the burqa, ban Muslim immigration, ban Muslim schools, ban halal, ban the boats, we need a final solution, let's use anti-Muslim sentiment as an election strategy, jihadi watch in schools, refugees are dangerous.'
We told you the threat is white supremacy and you fuelled it, gained from it, enabled and permitted it.”
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/c...HQm3K68s1TgAiqXq65n2-LJAp8OfRjjZ3sInFkVu0_l5Q
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...4viigPEyChs396TGunF8JE_bQfSoz4qKZAcSChkTCw8a0
the coastal elites begin to understand
the coastal elites begin to understand
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47678763
Fantastic footage of the biggest protest march in the UK in the past century; when combined with the four-million-signature-and-counting petition that crashed the government’s website twice earlier this week, parliament would have be insane to not take this into account.
Fantastic footage of the biggest protest march in the UK in the past century; when combined with the four-million-signature-and-counting petition that crashed the government’s website twice earlier this week, parliament would have be insane to not take this into account.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia
plot twists on the road to mad max
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Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop.
Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands.
Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.
The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US.
Each month, Fondomonte Farms loads the alfalfa on to hulking metal shipping containers destined to arrive 24 days later at a massive port stationed on the Red Sea, just outside King Abdullah City in Saudi Arabia."
article neglects mentioning that china buys most of the rest of ca water in the form of other agricultural products.
"It’s no surprise, then, that Fondomonte chose to set up shop here. While Saudi Arabia has enacted laws to manage their water resources, in the US we are still governing our water based on compacts made in the 1800s – before the western cities had boomed, before suburban sprawl, before factory farming and a global supply chain and, of course, before climate change."
ps: meat grown on shipped feed is a cancer on this planet
plot twists on the road to mad max
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Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop.
Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands.
Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.
The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US.
Each month, Fondomonte Farms loads the alfalfa on to hulking metal shipping containers destined to arrive 24 days later at a massive port stationed on the Red Sea, just outside King Abdullah City in Saudi Arabia."
article neglects mentioning that china buys most of the rest of ca water in the form of other agricultural products.
"It’s no surprise, then, that Fondomonte chose to set up shop here. While Saudi Arabia has enacted laws to manage their water resources, in the US we are still governing our water based on compacts made in the 1800s – before the western cities had boomed, before suburban sprawl, before factory farming and a global supply chain and, of course, before climate change."
ps: meat grown on shipped feed is a cancer on this planet
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https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...6N5cegJt22e0yv36r0adw8YejQBHk8shXxzE3KxTG2G9w
"US counties where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes over similar counties that did not hold a rally, political scientists at the University of North Texas said in an analysis published in The Washington Post.
According to a study done by University of North Texas professors Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and PhD candidate Ayal Feinberg, the scientists found that Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign "may encourage hate crimes" in the respective counties.
The study measured the correlation between counties that hosted a 2016 campaign rally and the crime rates in the months that followed. The scientists used the Anti-Defamation League's map that measures acts of violence and compared the counties that hosted a rally with others that had similar characteristics, including minority population, location, and active hate groups."
business insider, my new source for woke academic studies in 2019, or is that forbes idk
"US counties where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes over similar counties that did not hold a rally, political scientists at the University of North Texas said in an analysis published in The Washington Post.
According to a study done by University of North Texas professors Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and PhD candidate Ayal Feinberg, the scientists found that Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign "may encourage hate crimes" in the respective counties.
The study measured the correlation between counties that hosted a 2016 campaign rally and the crime rates in the months that followed. The scientists used the Anti-Defamation League's map that measures acts of violence and compared the counties that hosted a rally with others that had similar characteristics, including minority population, location, and active hate groups."
business insider, my new source for woke academic studies in 2019, or is that forbes idk
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-they-are-out-to-get-you-conspiracy-theorists
this week in reflections on that their are few conspiracies, but many profit motives
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You, me and just about everyone else has felt, or will feel, bitterness and self-pity. They are not exceptional emotions. We are at an exceptional moment because paranoia is nurtured and exploited by the powerful and turned from everyday bitterness into global ideologies. An under-reported consequence, which makes sense as soon as you think about how easily supporters of Johnson, Trump and Corbyn can lie, is the collapse of ordinary morality. A grim series of psychological tests conducted by Daniel Jolley and his fellow researchers at Staffordshire and Kent universities found that belief in conspiracy theories increased the paranoid’s willingness to engage in crimes. Not the grand crimes against humanity of the white supremacist, who massacres Muslims because he has learned on the web that the globalist elite wants to make whites a minority in their own countries, or the Islamist conspiracist who massacres Parisians because he believes Zionists and Crusaders are plotting to destroy Islam.
Rather, the mean little crimes at the other end of the spectrum: running red lights, fraudulently claiming money back from a shop, passing off shoddy goods to unsuspecting eBay buyers."
this week in reflections on that their are few conspiracies, but many profit motives
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You, me and just about everyone else has felt, or will feel, bitterness and self-pity. They are not exceptional emotions. We are at an exceptional moment because paranoia is nurtured and exploited by the powerful and turned from everyday bitterness into global ideologies. An under-reported consequence, which makes sense as soon as you think about how easily supporters of Johnson, Trump and Corbyn can lie, is the collapse of ordinary morality. A grim series of psychological tests conducted by Daniel Jolley and his fellow researchers at Staffordshire and Kent universities found that belief in conspiracy theories increased the paranoid’s willingness to engage in crimes. Not the grand crimes against humanity of the white supremacist, who massacres Muslims because he has learned on the web that the globalist elite wants to make whites a minority in their own countries, or the Islamist conspiracist who massacres Parisians because he believes Zionists and Crusaders are plotting to destroy Islam.
Rather, the mean little crimes at the other end of the spectrum: running red lights, fraudulently claiming money back from a shop, passing off shoddy goods to unsuspecting eBay buyers."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/02/florida-republicans-immigration-bill-joe-gruters
“Politicians claim that this bill is strictly to take criminals of the streets, but it doesn’t make anyone feel better when you realise the definition of criminals includes people who are undocumented,” she said
this week's cruelty spectacle, the racists always want to have it both ways: they're only targetting criminals and 'illegal immigrants' just turn out to all be criminals in their willfully ignorant view of due process. must be fun for them.
“Politicians claim that this bill is strictly to take criminals of the streets, but it doesn’t make anyone feel better when you realise the definition of criminals includes people who are undocumented,” she said
this week's cruelty spectacle, the racists always want to have it both ways: they're only targetting criminals and 'illegal immigrants' just turn out to all be criminals in their willfully ignorant view of due process. must be fun for them.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hou...YLNIj5FcZaeit04n3HP2hxzO8m0YR5dF2AfWV3jq-2tp8
shocker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...sen-resigns-trump-homeland-security-secretary
tfw ur lackeys get paid more to lie in the private sector
"It emerged on Saturday that the Trump administration has predicted it could take two years to identify all families affected by the separations policy. Nielsen famously and repeatedly claimed no such policy existed."- " could take two years" is a euphemism for 'never'
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But Nielsen has deployed all the skills of a careerist technocrat to oversee the two greatest scandals of the entire human misfortune that is the Trump presidency: a death toll of more than 3,000 in the criminally negligent aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and tens of thousands of children illegally imprisoned and forcibly separated from their parents at the southern border.
Long after we have forgotten how to spell her name, there will be children suffering from the permanent separation from their parents because Kirstjen Nielsen was too incompetent and inhuman to track them or their parents.
Those children are just the collateral damage of someone pretending to be tough enough to be part of Trump’s band of bullies
Perhaps Nielsen’s only skill was a doggedly determined drive to lie at every downward spiral of her own career. That continued on Sunday afternoon, as news emerged of her long-anticipated departure, when she successfully spun her firing/resignation as a principled stand against even more illegal and repressive policies at the border.
This may be the kind of lie Nielsen tells herself to fall asleep at night after reading all those emails about the victims of sex abuse in the child prisons she built at vast expense."
shocker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...sen-resigns-trump-homeland-security-secretary
tfw ur lackeys get paid more to lie in the private sector
"It emerged on Saturday that the Trump administration has predicted it could take two years to identify all families affected by the separations policy. Nielsen famously and repeatedly claimed no such policy existed."- " could take two years" is a euphemism for 'never'
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But Nielsen has deployed all the skills of a careerist technocrat to oversee the two greatest scandals of the entire human misfortune that is the Trump presidency: a death toll of more than 3,000 in the criminally negligent aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and tens of thousands of children illegally imprisoned and forcibly separated from their parents at the southern border.
Long after we have forgotten how to spell her name, there will be children suffering from the permanent separation from their parents because Kirstjen Nielsen was too incompetent and inhuman to track them or their parents.
Those children are just the collateral damage of someone pretending to be tough enough to be part of Trump’s band of bullies
Perhaps Nielsen’s only skill was a doggedly determined drive to lie at every downward spiral of her own career. That continued on Sunday afternoon, as news emerged of her long-anticipated departure, when she successfully spun her firing/resignation as a principled stand against even more illegal and repressive policies at the border.
This may be the kind of lie Nielsen tells herself to fall asleep at night after reading all those emails about the victims of sex abuse in the child prisons she built at vast expense."
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also under 'the end of the world':
https://www.theguardian.com/science...TWyJhFsyklR7eBIYTqADVIyAo2LmJ96oY_YZ1llqfbU-4
"Trees growing near the South Pole, sea levels 20 metres higher than now, and global temperatures 3C-4C warmer. That is the world scientists are uncovering as they look back in time to when the planet last had as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as it does today.
Using sedimentary records and plant fossils, researchers have found that temperatures near the South Pole were about 20C higher than now in the Pliocene epoch, from 5.3m to 2.6m years ago."
https://www.theguardian.com/science...TWyJhFsyklR7eBIYTqADVIyAo2LmJ96oY_YZ1llqfbU-4
"Trees growing near the South Pole, sea levels 20 metres higher than now, and global temperatures 3C-4C warmer. That is the world scientists are uncovering as they look back in time to when the planet last had as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as it does today.
Using sedimentary records and plant fossils, researchers have found that temperatures near the South Pole were about 20C higher than now in the Pliocene epoch, from 5.3m to 2.6m years ago."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47826946
I think this is a net positive; there’s criticism about the effect this could have of freedom of speech but honestly I think it’s mostly uncalled for, especially considering that the final laws will obviously have legislation to prevent infringement of basic FoS rights.
I think this is a net positive; there’s criticism about the effect this could have of freedom of speech but honestly I think it’s mostly uncalled for, especially considering that the final laws will obviously have legislation to prevent infringement of basic FoS rights.
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