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

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

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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Splendid Meat Sticks said:
Please don't even begin to compare muh Dresden to the fucking Holocaust. The allies had a good reason to bomb it (it was an important center for the German rail network,) bombing cities was the norm at that point in time, and even one of the main English language sources about the event, Kurt Vonnegut, who was actually in Dresden when it happened, later took back what he said and agreed it was militarily justified.
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I'm not comparing, though. I'm saying they had their own skeletons, like every fighting force in a war. And I didn't say a peep about Dresden, I am aware of what the decision was about Dresden.

So, wish granted.
 
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Medicated said:
Don't we live in the age of the information superhighway? The entirety of the worlds knowledge at your fingertips?
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Why do you think it's been turned into the latest way to be a narcissist, consume agitprop, and worry about keeping up with the Joneses?
 
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It’s high tide in northeast Florida, and law enforcement authorities are trying to figure out why.

Large packages of marijuana washed up on beaches in Flagler, St. Johns and Volusia counties last week, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release sent to HuffPost on Wednesday.

Authorities in Flagler County found an estimated 100 pounds of the narcotics wrapped in bundles, which tested positive for marijuana, over two days after receiving reports last Thursday of “multiple packages, presumably containing marijuana” on the beach near Jungle Hut Park.

In St. Johns County, north of Flagler County, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy fished an additional package of marijuana from the water, and the Coast Guard found seven or eight more packages off the coast, The Washington Post reported.

There were even more packages of weed further south in Volusia County: Surfers found a bundle containing 23 bags of marijuana in Ormond-by-the-Sea last Wednesday, according to WFTV9 ABC.

In Flagler County, law enforcement officials arrested one man, identified as Robert Kelley, who they said failed to report finding an 11-pound wet “brick” of marijuana on the beach on Thursday.

Witnesses told deputies they saw Kelley opening the package and removing its contents, according to authorities.

“Others were attempting to do the same thing,” the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies on the scene at Jungle Hut Park on Thursday “made contact with Kelley and asked if he took some of the suspected marijuana,” the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.

“Robert [Kelley] pointed at his vehicle and stated that he was holding it for law enforcement’s arrival,” officials said. Deputies searched the vehicle and said they found the brick of marijuana wrapped in plastic inside a brown beach towel in Kelley’s trunk.

Kelley was eventually released on $2,500 bond.

Authorities are now on the lookout for at least one more beachgoer.

On Friday, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office asked residents to identify a woman who was photographed reaching into a package suspected to contain marijuana.

Anna Hackett, the sheriff’s spokeswoman, told HuffPost that deputies have turned the bundles of weed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for further investigation.

St. Johns Commander Chuck Mulligan told The Washington Post that the packages are “probably all part of the same shipment.”

“The question is,” he added, “where did they go into the water?”

Mulligan said the packages could have come from as far south as Puerto Rico, fallen off a capsized boat or dropped at the wrong location from an aircraft.

As Hurricane Florence churned the Atlantic Ocean last week, large and messy surf hit Florida’s eastern coast.

Capt. Tammy Malfurs of Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue told a local newspaper that it was common for strange items to wash up on local beaches during a storm.

The beachgoers who found the packages of marijuana in Ormond-by-the-Sea reported it to Malfurs’ team.

“Whenever we get this big surf, it’s a little more common,” she told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

While medical marijuana is legal in the state of Florida, the recreational consumption of marijuana is not.
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I don't know about you, but it'd be really funny if this marijuana was actually seaweed but no one involved could recognize it because they were high. That honestly sounds like the premise of an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode. I'd watch that.
 
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“Robert [Kelley] pointed at his vehicle and stated that he was holding it for law enforcement’s arrival,” officials said. Deputies searched the vehicle and said they found the brick of marijuana wrapped in plastic inside a brown beach towel in Kelley’s trunk.
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Sad excuse for Florida Man!
 
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Hux said:
On the other hand, they've taken away another reason for us to laugh at the fact that capitalism has fucked communism in the ass.

You know the Che Guera shirts that have been mass produced by child labor ran factories to be capitalistically sold though one of the most heavily monopolistic retail corporations on earth to be worn by a bunch of cringy Americans that Che himself would want to shoot in the head out of principle?

Same thing here. We no longer have that box of ammo to make fun of tankies with because of this
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You'll still be able to get them somewhere, just like how you can still buy confederate flags if you look in the right places.
 
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At first I thought a "miniature horse" was a pony, but apparently it's a real thing... LOL.
 
Medicated said:
Don't we live in the age of the information superhighway? The entirety of the worlds knowledge at your fingertips? And people think when Trump supporters run out of Communist shirts, they'll buy the Nazi shirts.... okay....
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An overabundance of information is almost as bad as too little information. We have no idea how to even begin finding the signal (and which signal?) amid all the noise, and being confronted with ideas counter to our own is uncomfortable. So we default to what what we already understand and what makes us feel good. That's how we get insular bubbles of ideology on a medium with (ostensibly) all the world's knowledge. All that info is just too overwhelming. "The paradox of choice" and all that.

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Hilarious. Really captures the smug obliviousness of the woke Western liberal.

But we should remember the people doing those jobs in developing countries choose and prefer them to what they would be doing otherwise, which is often subsistence farming. They've chosen the best options available for their lives, and we should respect those choices. And as we contemplate the positions of people in developing economies, we should recognize that we do it during comparatively indulgent levels of free time, brought to us by a level of prosperity that was built on the gains of ancestors working similar jobs.

It's like everyone in the West assumes you can just skip the steps necessary to get workers in a developing market paid what they "deserve" (according to our feefees). But, of course, Westerners are largely economically illiterate. Tragically, we can afford to not understand or appreciate the significance of what we have achieved.
 
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Sad excuse for Florida Man!
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most Florida story ever, not only does it involve weed washing up on the beach, it (of course) was stored in a beach towel the dude had in his trunk. he probably set up the beach chair he also had back there and grabbed the shitty novel as well while he waited for the cops.
 
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Fuck, I'd probably be scared to be even near any water if I lived in a place with these giant dinosaur monsters. Glad my ancestors killed off any even vaguely scary animal in here.
 
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