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Both things can be true. They're not mutually exclusive.

*Private to Laura:

Laura, you should hmu again if you want. Just wanted to make sure your profile wasn't hacked.

"The statement described the change as a move "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual's personal choice.""

These people have zero conept of public health.

"biden just pardoned a judge who got paid to send kids and others to jail"

Firstly F Biden for doing this. I'll never vote for him again. Secondly, your inability to acknowledge scale differences has to be intentional, because you wouldn't have the brains to turn on your phone to post that if it were something you couldn't control.

>the data is not allowed to be retained after the verification is complete.

Sure, but the penalty for doing so won't be anywhere near as large as the economic benefit of collecting and selling it, so these companies will be obligated to operate in violation of the law, especially if they're publicly traded companies.

"------- is selling a$2 bill with his face on it"

Isn't that queer.

"They're actually held captive because he has their passports locked up in a safe."

Foreign guest workers who have to fly to get here are far less likely to quit before their contract expires. It's a thing corporate concessioners have known for decades. Trump doesn't need to confiscate their passports.

His kid and mine went to the same summer camp for a couple years. Used to run into him at drop off/pickup. I liked him back in the day. Was willing to forgive the first transgression but then he got caught a second time. Dude has self control issues.

The only thing worth going to Twitter for these days is porn.

"The ban is only for minors not already on them."

Helping children properly transition decreases suicide rates. This decision will lead to deaths.

"Puberty blockers have been banned in the UK."

Only if you're trans. If you're cis you can still get them for a number of medically indicated reasons. So it's not about safety, it's about cruelty. And pandering to the cruel. They want trans people to detransition or self genocide so their good christian hearts don't have to think about people like that existing anymore.

"that was the most racist posting I have ever seen"

Spare us the pearl clutching histrionics.

"Oh wait, we want to legislate other people's choices, leave ours alone."

Republicans really show their creative energy discovering more refined ways to torment the poors.

"I've got 100 bucks says none of you said one thing when this schittte was written...."

I haven't been here for like three years. None of those statements were made by people representing the federal government. Which was my point. And a major distinction. You're smart enough to see that, I wasn't trying to be mysterious in my op.

Feels so good to be returning to our Christian foundations.

It's a solid plan. Raid the farms. Arrest any US citizen that refuses to be deported with their families, charge them with conspiring to defraud US immigration or some nonsense. Then when in jail the warden can contract out with the same farms for even cheaper labor than before! Keeps the agriculture industry running and frees up all the better jobs that some of these people may have had, and they can be filled with white people instead, as god intended it in his greatest nation on earth.

"Shooting down a stranger in the street from behind requires a certain psychological detachment that not everyone has."

I can't imagine but maybe all it takes is one bad experience.

>Since the Supreme Court's June 2023 ruling that barred race-conscious admissions at universities, the share of Black students enrolled at many colleges has decreased"

My daughter just put her application in for Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Northwestern. By the numbers she has an excellent chance to get in all of them. I'd be more interested in the acceptance rate than the admissions rate. There are a number of factors that could contribute to the actual enrollment numbers in this economy.

Not that it matters, or that any of y'all will believe it, but I rode the train with this dude two separate times the weekend before he was killed. The stories about his behavior match the general description in the media. He was definitely going through it. He was loud, angry, frustrated, but more sad and hopeless sounding than anything else. I remember wanting to keep my distance but also felt bad for the guy. It was not an awesome time riding with him, but I did not fear for my or anybody else's safety in the moment.

>no empathy

I've received messages on Reddit earlier this year that once Trump takes office I'm going to pay for my crime of polluting the white blood line. Not for miscegenation, for letting a child come out of my marriage. The message said that they have people doing recon missions, evaluating their neighbors. Neighbors last month have told me about groups of Trump supporters taking their kids trick or treating asking people who were giving out candy if they owned their own home or rented and if they were US citizens. Who am I supposed to be empathetic toward again?

"They can't do anything unless they somehow repeal the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946."

You still think rules and procedures still matter? Who is going to stop them, some Democrat pointing to a few words on a page and shaking their fist in the air?

"For whatever reason (and there were numerous apparently) Democrats let the clock run out."

Democrats in elected federal office are generally wealthy, straight, and older. These are the types that will not suffer the consequences of the election like many of us will, so the need for action, even when they acknowledge the need, just isn't that urgent to them. Plus they have Citizens United to shield them from charges of inaction.

Why does human excrement have to catch strays here?

My father is on 100% veterans disability due to Agent Orange exposure and a couple other factors from his service in Vietnam. It wasn't until I read his medical records after my mom passed away last year that I understood the nature of his issues and I realized how much my growing up was affected by it. If he found out that his monthly disability payment was being reduced it would be a significant hardship for him. If it were eliminated he'd be royally ------ and it would be a tremendous insult to his service and sacrifice. My grandparents used to talk about how he came back different, how he couldn't manage basic things in life without difficulty, but he was the only dad I ever knew and didn't really know the details so I had a lot of misplaced aggression growing up that should have been directed toward the federal government instead of my dad. Now as an adult it's difficult to not be resentful for what's been done to him and the sacrifices even I and my brothers were forced to make, before I was even born.