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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Time For Action: Chase Bank Denies Service to Conservatives

Do you think banks should be allowed to discriminate against conservatives for their political views?
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It’s hard to imagine how conservatives could be even more complacent than they actually are about what’s being done to this country.

The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don’t demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way.

Hollywood has become vocally, over-the-top hostile to Christians and conservatives, but we go see the movies anyway.

We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we’re Nazis because we don’t agree with their liberal worldview.

More recently, increasingly monopolistic social media companies that have an inordinate amount of control over who gets heard and who doesn’t have started actively targeting conservatives and we just shrug or spout platitudes.

“If you don’t like the way they do it, take on those monopolies with hundreds of millions of users and billions in cash by building your own company.”

So, what happens when banks and credit card companies target people for their political views? Do we need to build our own banks, too?

Activist Laura Loomer, who has already been banned by PayPal, had her account suspended by Chase Bank.

Enrique Tarrio, the black leader of the Proud Boys, a group that has laughably been branded a white supremacist organization by liberals, was also suspended by Chase. So was Martina Markota. And Joe Biggs, who made enough of a stink that Chase reluctantly gave him his account back.

Banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America for a good reason – and it’s not just because the bankers can steal your money. The idea that citizens could be cut off from using a bank because of their political views is extremely dangerous. Imagine going to your bank and being told to produce your voter registration before you’re allowed to open an account or get a credit card. If Chase is allowed to do this, we are taking a step into that world. A world where your political views could keep you from being able to get credit or run a business. Certainly, there are an awful lot of liberals who would love to see us enter a world like that. In fact, there was a column in the New York Times last year calling for weaponizing the financial industry in exactly this way to shut down the gun industry as part of an effort to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights.

Republicans in the Senate should demand that Chase executives come before them and answer some hard questions about targeting customers for their political views. Maybe we need to rewrite banking regulations to make sure this kind of discrimination can’t occur. I tell you what’s not a “maybe”: Republicans in Congress should at least let banks know that they are paying attention to this issue and that there could be rather severe consequences for Chase or, alternately, for the whole industry if this practice spreads.

You may have heard someone say, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” I would add to that “capitalism is not a suicide pact.” Breaking up monopolies is a conservative idea with a long track record. Protecting middle-class citizens from the abuses of corporations that are targeting them unfairly is not something conservatives have historically shied away from doing when it was needed.

If conservatives are too complacent and lazy to address the challenges of the 21st century, maybe they should step aside for the socialists. They’re not complacent. They don’t sit around saying, “Gee, our people are being mistreated, but it would take work to do something about it and we might offend some powerful business owner if we fight back, so I guess we should let them trample us into the dust.” Conservatives with power need to stop mumbling platitudes about the free market and capitalism while their supporters are being stomped into the ground. They need to defend the real human beings, warts and all, who make it possible for conservatism to exist.
 
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Nice to know their priorities when Chase can't even function half the time when we need more physical cash at work.

People should drop banks and go to credit unions.
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except when those credit unions do retarded shit like requiring 600+ credit score to deposit checks over the phone. i can't get to the branch all the time, that's why i went to a smaller non-credit union bank.
 
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Time For Action: Chase Bank Denies Service to Conservatives

Do you think banks should be allowed to discriminate against conservatives for their political views?
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It’s hard to imagine how conservatives could be even more complacent than they actually are about what’s being done to this country.

The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don’t demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way.

Hollywood has become vocally, over-the-top hostile to Christians and conservatives, but we go see the movies anyway.

We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we’re Nazis because we don’t agree with their liberal worldview.

More recently, increasingly monopolistic social media companies that have an inordinate amount of control over who gets heard and who doesn’t have started actively targeting conservatives and we just shrug or spout platitudes.

“If you don’t like the way they do it, take on those monopolies with hundreds of millions of users and billions in cash by building your own company.”

So, what happens when banks and credit card companies target people for their political views? Do we need to build our own banks, too?

Activist Laura Loomer, who has already been banned by PayPal, had her account suspended by Chase Bank.

Enrique Tarrio, the black leader of the Proud Boys, a group that has laughably been branded a white supremacist organization by liberals, was also suspended by Chase. So was Martina Markota. And Joe Biggs, who made enough of a stink that Chase reluctantly gave him his account back.

Banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America for a good reason – and it’s not just because the bankers can steal your money. The idea that citizens could be cut off from using a bank because of their political views is extremely dangerous. Imagine going to your bank and being told to produce your voter registration before you’re allowed to open an account or get a credit card. If Chase is allowed to do this, we are taking a step into that world. A world where your political views could keep you from being able to get credit or run a business. Certainly, there are an awful lot of liberals who would love to see us enter a world like that. In fact, there was a column in the New York Times last year calling for weaponizing the financial industry in exactly this way to shut down the gun industry as part of an effort to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights.

Republicans in the Senate should demand that Chase executives come before them and answer some hard questions about targeting customers for their political views. Maybe we need to rewrite banking regulations to make sure this kind of discrimination can’t occur. I tell you what’s not a “maybe”: Republicans in Congress should at least let banks know that they are paying attention to this issue and that there could be rather severe consequences for Chase or, alternately, for the whole industry if this practice spreads.

You may have heard someone say, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” I would add to that “capitalism is not a suicide pact.” Breaking up monopolies is a conservative idea with a long track record. Protecting middle-class citizens from the abuses of corporations that are targeting them unfairly is not something conservatives have historically shied away from doing when it was needed.

If conservatives are too complacent and lazy to address the challenges of the 21st century, maybe they should step aside for the socialists. They’re not complacent. They don’t sit around saying, “Gee, our people are being mistreated, but it would take work to do something about it and we might offend some powerful business owner if we fight back, so I guess we should let them trample us into the dust.” Conservatives with power need to stop mumbling platitudes about the free market and capitalism while their supporters are being stomped into the ground. They need to defend the real human beings, warts and all, who make it possible for conservatism to exist.
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Why was this moved to clickbait and not left as it's own thread?
the fact that banks have such a control over the people is an extremely concerning thing.
 
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Anyone older than...let's say 12...who uses the "word" "pupper" should be launched into the sun
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The biggest jape of today is how people think we're above replicating the endless cycle of cringe content. Firing ma lazor and top/bottom text of 2008 is practically NANI? and deep frying pictures of today. For every edgy 4chan kid back then, there's 250 Twitch-chatters screaming pepega.

There'll always be memes taking the piss of normies, and likewise they'll be the ones using them 5 years later. Rinse repeat.
 
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Woman, 27, left 'infertile' after having 17 abortions in six years - …

archived 25 Feb 2019 16:04:04 UTC
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Woman, 27, left 'infertile' after having 17 abortions in six years
Doctors say the woman, named only as 'Xiao Ju', may now be infertile because her uterus is so badly damaged after all the procedures

A 27-year-old woman has been told she may never be able to have children after having a shocking 17 abortions in the space of six years.

Doctors say the woman, named only as 'Xiao Ju', may now be infertile because her uterus is so badly damaged after all the procedures.

Zhao Qin, head of gynaecology at Shiyan Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital in China, said she had implored the pregnant woman to keep her child - because it may have been her last chance at motherhood.

However, the 27-year-old insisted on the procedure, leaving Zhao and her colleagues no choice but to perform what was the patient's 17th abortion in just six years.

Xiao Ju had her first abortion when she was 21, the year she began dating her current boyfriend of six years, with whom she apparently does not use any contraception.

Since then, medics say she has become a "regular customer" at the hospital's gynaecology department, averaging nearly three abortions per year.

Doctor Zhao realised the severity of Xiao Ju's physical condition while examining her for her latest procedure.

She said: "I found her uterus lining to be critically thin, like a piece of paper, due to the repeated abortions she had had.

"Her uterus was also badly scarred."

Zhao said she advised the patient to keep her child, telling her: "If you don't have to have this abortion, then keep this baby, because it may be very, very difficult for you to get pregnant again."

However, the patient said she did not plan to get married and does not have the ability to raise a child, insisting that the abortion take place.

The medic added: "It might've been her most precious child."

A thin endometrial lining - the membrane lining the uterus - can lead to recurrent miscarriages, and therefore difficulty reaching late-stage pregnancy.
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I'm posting this here since it's old news that slipped by unnoticed:

Do you guys remember that nightmare dentist MrMetokur shed some light on a couple of years ago?
(Warning: Some of the clips shown in this video are NSFL)
People kind of forgot about the whole thing by the time his case ended last year, and all of the charges were dropped - not because he was innocent, but because he wasn't 'mentally fit' :|
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Charges dropped against Jacksonville pediatric dentist accused of mistreatment

<p>Medicaid fraud charges have been dropped against Howard Schneider, the Jacksonville dentist accused of mistreating his pediatric patients. Schneider was arrested in 2015, but he was found incompetent to stand trial.</p>
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He's apparently hiding in Florida now.
 
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Paypal is in bed with the SPLC to censor users, Breitbart and Styx talk about this. https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019...ith-far-left-splc-to-blacklist-conservatives/ ( http://archive.is/MU5hL )
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with theWall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives.
After being asked by the Wall Street Journal what “values” PayPal identifies with,” Schulman replied, “Probably the most important value to us is diversity and inclusion.”
“I think North Carolina was probably the moment that was the most visible, where we basically said this violates our core value and we need to make a very public stand on it,” claimed Schulman, referencing the time when PayPal pulled out of an investment in North Carolina because the state passed a bill making it mandatory for people to use the bathroom of their biological sex.
“Businesses need to be a force for good in those values and issues that they believe in. It shouldn’t come from backlash or people taking heat on it, because then it’s in response, as opposed to the definition of who you are and then how you react to the context that you find yourself in,” the PayPal CEO expressed, adding that the Charlottesville rally in 2017 was a “defining moment” for PayPal to start blacklisting conservatives.
Schulman claimed it “was a defining moment for us as a company,” that was “difficult,” because, “the line between free speech and hate, nobody teaches it to you in college. Nobody’s defined it in the law.”
During the interview, Schulman also admitted that the far-left SPLC helps to inform “PayPal’s decisions.”
“There are those both on the right and left that help us. Southern Poverty Law Center has brought things. We don’t always agree. We have our debates with them. We are very respectful with everyone coming in. We will do the examination carefully,” Schulman explained. “We’ll talk when we don’t agree with a finding: We understand why you think that way, but it still goes into the realm of free speech for us.”
The SPLC, which also reportedly works with Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, was forced to pay a $3.3 million settlements to anti-extremists activist Maajid Nawaz last year, after the organization included him on a list of “anti-Muslim extremists,” despite Nawaz being Muslim himself.
The lawsuit victory prompted at least 60 other organizations to also consider lawsuits against the SPLC, and in June, a Washington Post columnist declared the SPLC “has lost all credibility.”
PayPal has blacklisted WikiLeaks, Infowars, conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, political activist Tommy Robinson, investigative journalist Laura Loomer, blogger Roosh V, free speech social network Gab, YouTube alternative BitChute, and a black metal music label.
Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, and Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative were also temporarily blacklisted by PayPal, before being reinstated.
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Tibetan woman elected student president in Canada, Chinese students enraged | Taiwan News | 2019-02-13 16:02:00

Chemi Lhamo's social media pages have been flooded with insults.A Tibetan student elected president of a Canadian university’s student union has been hit with backlash from Chinese peers. | 2019-02-13 16:02:00
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They should round up whatever little commie cunts are committing hate crimes against her and if they are the Chinese spies they almost certainly are, deport them back to their fuckhole where they can't steal Western intellectual property any more.
 
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