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Space Faring Marsupial
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I'm more worried about the environmental effects. Humans kill everything around them.
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I reckon filling England with pakis, jeets, nigs, and trannies is a bigger slap to the face.
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How big are AOCs milkers going to swell during the pregnancy?
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US should annex British Columbia alongside Alberta, but then quarantine off Vancouver, it appears to be a fairly conservative state outside of that shithole.
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we need a :bonk: reaction
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I'm starting to think that South Korea shit was a glow up to get people fired up about deposing Trump. The timing and narrative is far too convenient.
I know how that sounds, the world doesn't revolve around America but all the DNC accounts are talking about how Americans need to "be ready to do the same"
I know how that sounds, the world doesn't revolve around America but all the DNC accounts are talking about how Americans need to "be ready to do the same"
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We should annex Canada then round up anyone who voted Liberal, NDP, or Green and deport them to India along with their beloved "students".
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The majority of the populace all agreed with Enoch Powell and they couldn’t bully him into silence.
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I mean it's technically talking about a US Politician I guess.
At least it isn't Pig Cups fanfiction-tier degeneracy. That fucker deserved that week long ban.
Anyway. Gonna recycle an earlier post, don't mind me.
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The good thing about Kash is that he surely won't fall for scam calls from Microsoft Tech Support.
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They both have punchable faces. And why does Kyle even have that haircut??
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Basically you know you're talking to an absolute mouth-breathing retard when they say, "WW2 happened because Churchill..." Churchill was literally not part of the UK government when Germany invaded Poland. The timeline:
1929: Labour takes power, Stanley MacDonald becomes PM, Churchill booted from the government, becomes a prominent talking head opposing MacDonald's disarmament policy.
1933: Hitler rises to power
1935: Tories regain power, Stanley Baldwin becomes PM. Baldwin continues disarmament.
1936: Hitler announces it now has a superior air force to Britain. Parliament shits its pants, appoints Chamberlain PM. Chamberlain begins rearming Britain. Virtually all the famous British weapon systems of WWII, like the Matilda, the Hurricane, the Spitfire, the Asdic, and the radar network, were a result of Chamberlain's rearmament program. Ribbentrop communicates Germany's Lebensraum & genocide plan to Churchill as an intermediary to ask the government to back off and let Germany kill millions of people without trouble. Churchill says "lolwut r u serious rofl."
1938: Anschluss, Munich Agreement, Hitler wipes his ass with the Munich Agreement.
1939: Hitler finishes wiping with Munich and flushes it, invades Poland. Chamberlain is extremely pissed, as is the rest of the government, and declares war and invites Churchill to rejoin the government on the same day. Fighting is mostly restrained to the Atlantic.
1940: Norwegian campaign, Chamberlain humiliated by his military incompetence. The government is now fully committed to war, and King George asks Churchill to take over. Churchill does, and Germany invades France at the same time. After defeating France, Hitler offers Britain a choice: surrender or die. Churchill says, "nah." The Battle of Britain is just a few weeks later. Germany does not win.
1941: Rudolf Hess asks Churchill for a peace deal. Germany will leave France and the Low Countries, while England will not interfere with its extermination campaign to its east. Churchill tells Hess that Hitler can eat a dick.
1945: Adolf Hitler, realizing that his options are to eat either a bullet or a dick, eats a bullet.
The extremely online anti-Churchill squad tries to act like "surrender or die" in 1940 and "pwease let us kill all the slavs
" was a reasonable gentleman's agreement from somebody who hadn't torn up every single peace deal he'd ever made, and Churchill was just a big meanie doo-doo head for not lying down the moment Hitler pinky swore he was done killing people to his west. By 1940, the peaceniks were a minority in the government, and if Churchill had said, "let's surrender, bros," he would have met the same end as Chamberlain.
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Oh, she’s a girl who knows a thing or two about stuffings, my friend
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He knows the battlefield, shit, those are probably even cousins of his for all we know.
His first action better be introducing the official ambassador of anti-scam efforts, the baddest bitch of yesteryear, Granny Edna. Or her grandson, Kit.
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Looks like it was Article 9:
Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
https://archive.is/nyvmS work fine for me too.
Biden’s pardon of his son exudes ‘white privilege,’ local advocates say
By Anjali Huynh and Katie Johnston Globe Staff
Updated December 2, 2024, 59 minutes ago
When President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing him from a possible prison sentence for felony convictions tied to his crack cocaine addiction, some involved in the local recovery and criminal justice communities saw a familiar scenario: A white man with powerful connections receiving a second chance that people of color rarely get.
To Mac Hudson, community liaison for Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, the president’s actions demonstrated “what it is to have white privilege.” Biden used that privilege “unashamedly” said Hudson, who was incarcerated for more than 30 years and now focuses on addressing racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
“When you see that type of flagrant exercise, what does it say to us, the Black and brown folks who are fighting constantly just for basic fundamental rights?” said Hudson, who is Black.
Hunter Biden had been facing prison time after being convicted of federal felony tax and gun charges for activities stemming from a time when he struggled with drug addiction. The pardon forgave both convictions, as well as any other federal offenses from 2014 through 2024. In doing so, the president went back on previous pledges that he would not interfere with the cases weeks before his son was set to face punishment.
Biden argued that his son’s convictions were handed down largely because of politics. But many critics of his decision, including some fellow Democrats, said they saw his move as hypocritical, after Biden repeatedly blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the legal system during his re-election bid.
Criminal justice reform advocates also pointed to the higher rates of incarceration for people of color compared to white people, in criticizing Biden for not using his clemency power to help others convicted of drug-related crimes.
State Senator Jamie Eldridge, a Marlborough Democrat who chairs the Senate’s criminal justice reform caucus, said Biden’s decision “makes it harder for all Democrats to make the point, especially for our court system, that if someone is convicted, that their justice needs to be carried out.”
“As compassionate as a father is for a son,” Eldridge added, “Joe Biden is the president, and there are tens of thousands of people who have been convicted of federal offenses who have been waiting for years, in many cases decades, for pardons or commuting their sentences.”
Eldridge criticized Biden for being “fairly behind” his predecessors in issuing commutations. Beyond issuing sweeping proclamations, such as one pardoning thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law, the president has granted clemency fewer times than either Trump or former President Barack Obama. Many outgoing presidents tend to use such powers more toward the end of their term.
Biden’s pardon of his son came a couple of weeks after dozens of members of Congress, co-led by Representative Ayanna Pressley, sent a letter to Biden urging him to use his clemency power in his final weeks to grant pardons and commutations for broad classes of people behind bars. Such a move, the letter said, would “rectify unjust and unnecessary criminal laws passed by Congress and draconian sentences given by judges.”
In a statement Monday, Pressley renewed those calls, saying, “Today, I’m thinking of the hundreds of thousands of people who pose no threat to society and whose lives are deteriorating due to America’s mass incarceration crisis and unjust criminal legal system.”
The ability to survive criminal convictions virtually unscathed is “par for the course” for powerful white men, said Thomas Burns, 61, who runs a consulting firm in New Bedford for people dealing with mental health and addiction issues, many of whom have been incarcerated. Trump has 34 felonies, Burns noted, while most people with criminal records are “stuck in limbo” for years, struggling to find housing and decent jobs until they’re eligible to have their criminal records sealed.
Burns said he doesn’t blame President Biden for pardoning his son, but recognizes how out of reach that reprieve is for most people.
“No one in their right mind would leave their son in that situation if they were president of the United States,” said Burns, who is Black and was involved in the criminal justice system related to his drug addiction. “And it’s usually powerful white men who are the president of the United States.”
Massachusetts has cut its incarceration rate by nearly half over the past decade, but racial disparities have continued to widen in the state, mirroring national trends in which people of color have been incarcerated at much higher rates than white Americans.
Between 2017 and 2021, incarceration rates fell across racial lines in Massachusetts, but white incarceration rates declined the most, according to a 2024 report by MassINC and Boston Indicators. Black residents have consistently been incarcerated at the highest rate of any racial group. In 2022, Black people were more than seven times more likely to be incarcerated than white people, the report found.
Disparities have been especially prevalent in drug sentencing. Sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine, for example, heavily contributed to Black Americans being disproportionately incarcerated for drug use compared to white Americans.
Although some advocates say the criminal justice system has recently shown a much greater understanding of people struggling with addiction, those trends have continued despite the state Legislature passing sweeping criminal justice reform legislation in 2018 aimed at creating a “more equitable” system. That law included measures to repeal or narrow mandatory minimum sentences for drug convictions.
Criminal activity often stems from addiction, said Marlene Pollock, cofounder of the Coalition for Social Justice Action in New Bedford, which works with people facing incarceration and addiction issues.
“Trying to steal to get the money to get the drugs, or steal the drugs themselves. It’s quite common,” said Pollock, who is on the legislative committee pushing for the Clean Slate initiative to automatically seal people’s criminal records when they become eligible.
And it doesn’t take much to cause a lot of damage to a person’s life. Before 2018, people who stole as little as $250 worth of goods could be charged with a felony in Massachusetts. Now the threshold is $1,200.
Pauline Quirion, who works with Greater Boston Legal Services and chaired a Massachusetts task force that called for more clemency grants, said clemency is “intended to be a safety valve and to give people some relief so that they can move forward with their lives.”
The politics of who gets pardons, however, are more complicated, she said. Wealth and race are factors that permeate every level of the criminal justice system. For people of color and those from lower socioeconomic classes, “there’s a system of oppression in which you get whacked harder.”
Hudson, the Prisoners’ Legal Services advocate, said that while he was “not impressed” by Biden’s record on criminal justice so far, his son’s pardon could present an opportunity to make progress.
“What he could do, if he was interested, is create that same relief for those who are incarcerated right now, to pardon some of these folks who were convicted at a time when the crack-cocaine era was overly stereotyping Black and brown folks and people received excessive sentences,” Hudson said.
“From my understanding, he ain’t moved on that yet. But he’s moved on this.”
Anjali Huynh can be reached at anjali.huynh@globe.com. Katie Johnston can be reached at katie.johnston@globe.com. Follow her @ktkjohnston.
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By Anjali Huynh and Katie Johnston Globe Staff
Updated December 2, 2024, 59 minutes ago
When President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing him from a possible prison sentence for felony convictions tied to his crack cocaine addiction, some involved in the local recovery and criminal justice communities saw a familiar scenario: A white man with powerful connections receiving a second chance that people of color rarely get.
To Mac Hudson, community liaison for Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, the president’s actions demonstrated “what it is to have white privilege.” Biden used that privilege “unashamedly” said Hudson, who was incarcerated for more than 30 years and now focuses on addressing racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
“When you see that type of flagrant exercise, what does it say to us, the Black and brown folks who are fighting constantly just for basic fundamental rights?” said Hudson, who is Black.
Hunter Biden had been facing prison time after being convicted of federal felony tax and gun charges for activities stemming from a time when he struggled with drug addiction. The pardon forgave both convictions, as well as any other federal offenses from 2014 through 2024. In doing so, the president went back on previous pledges that he would not interfere with the cases weeks before his son was set to face punishment.
Biden argued that his son’s convictions were handed down largely because of politics. But many critics of his decision, including some fellow Democrats, said they saw his move as hypocritical, after Biden repeatedly blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the legal system during his re-election bid.
Criminal justice reform advocates also pointed to the higher rates of incarceration for people of color compared to white people, in criticizing Biden for not using his clemency power to help others convicted of drug-related crimes.
State Senator Jamie Eldridge, a Marlborough Democrat who chairs the Senate’s criminal justice reform caucus, said Biden’s decision “makes it harder for all Democrats to make the point, especially for our court system, that if someone is convicted, that their justice needs to be carried out.”
“As compassionate as a father is for a son,” Eldridge added, “Joe Biden is the president, and there are tens of thousands of people who have been convicted of federal offenses who have been waiting for years, in many cases decades, for pardons or commuting their sentences.”
Eldridge criticized Biden for being “fairly behind” his predecessors in issuing commutations. Beyond issuing sweeping proclamations, such as one pardoning thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law, the president has granted clemency fewer times than either Trump or former President Barack Obama. Many outgoing presidents tend to use such powers more toward the end of their term.
Biden’s pardon of his son came a couple of weeks after dozens of members of Congress, co-led by Representative Ayanna Pressley, sent a letter to Biden urging him to use his clemency power in his final weeks to grant pardons and commutations for broad classes of people behind bars. Such a move, the letter said, would “rectify unjust and unnecessary criminal laws passed by Congress and draconian sentences given by judges.”
In a statement Monday, Pressley renewed those calls, saying, “Today, I’m thinking of the hundreds of thousands of people who pose no threat to society and whose lives are deteriorating due to America’s mass incarceration crisis and unjust criminal legal system.”
The ability to survive criminal convictions virtually unscathed is “par for the course” for powerful white men, said Thomas Burns, 61, who runs a consulting firm in New Bedford for people dealing with mental health and addiction issues, many of whom have been incarcerated. Trump has 34 felonies, Burns noted, while most people with criminal records are “stuck in limbo” for years, struggling to find housing and decent jobs until they’re eligible to have their criminal records sealed.
Burns said he doesn’t blame President Biden for pardoning his son, but recognizes how out of reach that reprieve is for most people.
“No one in their right mind would leave their son in that situation if they were president of the United States,” said Burns, who is Black and was involved in the criminal justice system related to his drug addiction. “And it’s usually powerful white men who are the president of the United States.”
Massachusetts has cut its incarceration rate by nearly half over the past decade, but racial disparities have continued to widen in the state, mirroring national trends in which people of color have been incarcerated at much higher rates than white Americans.
Between 2017 and 2021, incarceration rates fell across racial lines in Massachusetts, but white incarceration rates declined the most, according to a 2024 report by MassINC and Boston Indicators. Black residents have consistently been incarcerated at the highest rate of any racial group. In 2022, Black people were more than seven times more likely to be incarcerated than white people, the report found.
Disparities have been especially prevalent in drug sentencing. Sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine, for example, heavily contributed to Black Americans being disproportionately incarcerated for drug use compared to white Americans.
Although some advocates say the criminal justice system has recently shown a much greater understanding of people struggling with addiction, those trends have continued despite the state Legislature passing sweeping criminal justice reform legislation in 2018 aimed at creating a “more equitable” system. That law included measures to repeal or narrow mandatory minimum sentences for drug convictions.
Criminal activity often stems from addiction, said Marlene Pollock, cofounder of the Coalition for Social Justice Action in New Bedford, which works with people facing incarceration and addiction issues.
“Trying to steal to get the money to get the drugs, or steal the drugs themselves. It’s quite common,” said Pollock, who is on the legislative committee pushing for the Clean Slate initiative to automatically seal people’s criminal records when they become eligible.
And it doesn’t take much to cause a lot of damage to a person’s life. Before 2018, people who stole as little as $250 worth of goods could be charged with a felony in Massachusetts. Now the threshold is $1,200.
Pauline Quirion, who works with Greater Boston Legal Services and chaired a Massachusetts task force that called for more clemency grants, said clemency is “intended to be a safety valve and to give people some relief so that they can move forward with their lives.”
The politics of who gets pardons, however, are more complicated, she said. Wealth and race are factors that permeate every level of the criminal justice system. For people of color and those from lower socioeconomic classes, “there’s a system of oppression in which you get whacked harder.”
Hudson, the Prisoners’ Legal Services advocate, said that while he was “not impressed” by Biden’s record on criminal justice so far, his son’s pardon could present an opportunity to make progress.
“What he could do, if he was interested, is create that same relief for those who are incarcerated right now, to pardon some of these folks who were convicted at a time when the crack-cocaine era was overly stereotyping Black and brown folks and people received excessive sentences,” Hudson said.
“From my understanding, he ain’t moved on that yet. But he’s moved on this.”
Anjali Huynh can be reached at anjali.huynh@globe.com. Katie Johnston can be reached at katie.johnston@globe.com. Follow her @ktkjohnston.
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New rumor circulating that in case Hegseth can't make it through the confirmation process, Trump already has a backup option for SoD planned...DeSantis. (Archive) Well, supposedly it's either Meatball or this Elbridge Colby, a former DoD official from Trump's first term and Vance ally who also happens to be the grandson of late arch-glowie William Colby (the CIA Director before Bush Sr.).
Some articles to add context to the latter. (Archive 1, Archive 2) Not a whole lot to go on, and it's probably never a good idea to fully trust any glowie on principle even (or especially) when they're saying all the right things to you, but from what there is to read, to his credit Colby did seem to be a consistent foreign policy realist & China hawk who didn't approve of the Iraq War (so much so that it cost him a job with Jeb!'s campaign in 2016); doesn't support infinite gibs to Ukraine; and hates neocon chickenhawk fags like Max Boot (who hate him right back).
Some articles to add context to the latter. (Archive 1, Archive 2) Not a whole lot to go on, and it's probably never a good idea to fully trust any glowie on principle even (or especially) when they're saying all the right things to you, but from what there is to read, to his credit Colby did seem to be a consistent foreign policy realist & China hawk who didn't approve of the Iraq War (so much so that it cost him a job with Jeb!'s campaign in 2016); doesn't support infinite gibs to Ukraine; and hates neocon chickenhawk fags like Max Boot (who hate him right back).
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I'd like to see them try anything. The EU knows the US backs most of its army.
The problem is that all the non right groups form coalitions when a vaguely right wing party forms in any parliamentary system to block the right out of power even if they win 49% of the vote and the next party has 24% of the vote.
Brutal honesty gets shit done and it always has.
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I meant more your take on the ramifications for FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNIII.
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