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Hah. Yeah.
I was working for a photography studio then. The work was for a company who makes a fire retardant line. Started off with hoods, turned into the full line, and doing all sorts of stuff, in all sorts of places. I ended up test driving some of your toys because my body type worked in a pinch, and you guys like to run off..prior to that i was a fishmonger for 20yrs. Life has funny bounces. Im also a weird nerd meatball hybrid 🤷♂️
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Oh yeah I suppose you're right
You're suggesting that people who aren't in this category are all marginalised? How so?
A party who believes that freedom of expression should involve dignity?
Did Trump ever come out and express these views?
Yes I meant the Capitol building.
I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that a few non-Trump supporters got in.
That makes sense.
The greatest threat to the globe is war, followed by terrorism, then AI and climate change. I understand the need to reduce emissions but completely cutting off cheap and reliable supply with something that is not either of those things is bad for everyone. Wind and solar is good but it can't always provide a steady stream of power.
Yeah no it's not.
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McLaren
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Deporting US born citizens? Been expressing it for years.
Donald Trump: "Anchor babies" aren't American citizens
The GOP candidate wants to repeal birthright citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants
www.cbsnews.com
There's an Amendment that contests this.
Trump's remarks on Christianity regarding the nation.
Trump's former remarks on gay marriage.
PolitiFact FL: Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both support same-sex marriage, but have diverging views when it comes to LGBTQ+ people serving in the military and youth access to gender-affirming care. Ahead of the first presidential debate, PolitiFact FL looks into their stances.
www.wusf.org
Trump has not specifically remarked on interracial marriage, however, he has a long list of controversial exchanges when it comes to policy involving African Americans.
The other factor is that Trump does not have to come out & personally say things to prove his reluctance to promote inclusion. It is his policies, agenda, & the people he places in his administration that represent his stance.
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Oooh that's bad. I don't agree with these statements at all. Of course all those things are conveniently ignored by right-wing media... Now I understand why people hate him.Deporting US born citizens? Been expressing it for years.
Donald Trump: "Anchor babies" aren't American citizens
The GOP candidate wants to repeal birthright citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants
There's an Amendment that contests this.
Trump's remarks on Christianity regarding the nation.
Trump's former remarks on gay marriage.
PolitiFact FL: Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both support same-sex marriage, but have diverging views when it comes to LGBTQ+ people serving in the military and youth access to gender-affirming care. Ahead of the first presidential debate, PolitiFact FL looks into their stances.
Trump has not specifically remarked on interracial marriage, however, he has a long list of controversial exchanges when it comes to policy involving African Americans.
The other factor is that Trump does not have to come out & personally say things to prove his reluctance to promote inclusion. It is his policies, agenda, & the people he places in his administration that represent his stance.
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Truly a rebuttal up there with "Trump cannot possibly be corrupt because he's too smart to be corrupt."
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And I'm guessing your parents, which you have previously stated you have taken on board as a source of information.
By all means listen to what your parents have to say but don't automatically believe everything they say as to be automatically correct and accurate, that's your job.
We live in a world with all the information you need at your fingertips, what is needed though is to decipher what that information really means. There's so much crap out there that that's where you need a level head and some critical thinking.
Not being antagonistic, just a little friendly advice.
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No, I'm suggesting that straight, white, able-bodied, wealthy males are probably the least marginalised in Western societies. The chances of a person such as Trump being marginalised are pretty low in the first place, but even if they weren't the criticism being brought against him is on the basis of his words and actions, not his ethnicity, gender, sex, or financial status (outside of how it's gained).
In other words, advocating that first amendment rights are subject to removal if the government thinks you're being disrespectful? Even incarcerated criminals don't lose first amendment rights.
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Climate change is a global threat that increases its severity with every passing moment of not acting to reduce it.
It is the biggest threat humanity faces regarding status quo - whatever this means to any individual.
Just saying you either need to prepare for more and stronger winds, waters, heats, colds, floods, droughts.
There is nothing coming close to this.
Terrorism is a biggher threat than war, because todays wars are acts of terrorism.
War as a in declared war between 2 nations is basically non existant as this would involve lots of defensive pacts just as well as accepting being the worlds ****bag (well, not that they would care).
AI is an accelerator to any threat and definitly wont be the solution, because solution requires more goodwill than greed at the position of power. And this doesnt exist.
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Climate change will drive wars as basic resources, food and water, as well as the usual gas and oil, will become harder to come by.
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The right wing media has done a very effective job of glossing over this crap. You might see us libruls talking about "Gilead" from The Handmaid's Tale - if you haven't seen the show, watch it and you'll understand. Great show but a difficult watch in my opinion because it hits very close to home for some people. The Project 2025 thing is getting a ton of coverage now and it's almost like they ripped that idea straight out of the script of that show lol. All this talk about Christian nationalism is not an overreaction and I'm sure there are hundreds more examples of things he said throughout his term which are clear indicators but I think @McLaren did a fine job already.
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Just the tiniest tip of the iceberg.
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I mean, conservatives have similarly deranged bitch fits on social media, so it's not exclusive to liberals by any means.Regardless that's a great impersonation of your average deranged liberal on tik tok is it not? full of blind hatred after years of being conditioned and poisoned by liberal media and irresponsible celebs. But the FBI is still looking at the motives, obviously it can't be the mentioned above rightpoor guy must've been denied a selfie with Trump or something and drove him to do this
As for what drove him to do it, you do know the last time a president was shot, the dude was trying to impress Jodie Foster, right? There isn't a motive, and until there is, one probably shouldn't jump to conclusions. We know he's a registered Republican and enjoyed gun-related YouTube channels (per his shirt). I mean, based on what we know, we'd assume he was a Trump supporter, but we probably shouldn't assume.
It's completely unreasonable. Are all Trump supporters like those who tried to overthrow the government? No, of course not. But everyone attempting to overthrow the country were doing so because they believed Trump told them to. Why would a non-Trump supporter be there? The sole mission of those people was to stop the vote certification and kill the vice president. You have to be pretty far up someone's ass to even attempt to do anything like that.
Climate change is an equal opportunity issue since everyone is effected by it, whether rich or poor. Even billionaires will feel the effects of climate change. Climate change will change how food is grown, how much water is available, and what sort of land is available to live on. I go back to when I lived in Utah and how climate change affected the Salt Lake City area. The Great Salt Lake is rapidly drying up despite a less severe drought. If the lake does dry up, the entire Salt Lake Valley will no longer be habitable since the bottom of the lake is full of toxic minerals. Arsenic clouds of dust will blow across the valley.
Climate change will cause mass migration and a strain on available resources. It will cause large, destructive storms that will devastate areas and cost billions of dollars. Wars will break out for resources or to prevent migration. And that's only a handful of things that will happen.
War isn't a huge threat on its own. Yes, it's worrisome, but it doesn't affect everyone, only the countries involved. Terrorism is the same way, except it affects even fewer people. And AI? I work with AI; it's so far from being a concern that it shouldn't even be on a list of concerning things. Could it become an issue in the future? Absolutely, but right now, it's not something we really need to worry about.
Climate change can and will cause worldwide problems if we're unprepared for it, and it will be far more costly than anything else.
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10 men not being able to scale a fence when someone's life depended it...
... still ... at least they weren't women... amirite!!!
... still ... at least they weren't women... amirite!!!
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My wife is a romance writer and like most writers in that genre these days, is self published. Self publishing means marketing and advertising the book yourself. Facebook is one of the go-to places to do so since most authors have a page there and plenty of readers visit and have their own groups for all the various sub-genres. There's tons of traffic and a majority of those active there are american women.
The subject of Project 2025 has gained traction in conventional media in the last few weeks, but in FB romance fiction groups there's been much talk on it over the past couple of months, as its anti-porn targeting would include 'steamy' romance novels. Obviously there's been a lot of discusions about it between authors (who risk losing a great deal of their income from a potential Project 2025 induced ban of this material) and fans alike.
My wife mentioned just yesterday that any posts mentioning Project 2025 are now automatically getting taken down and any of the older posts about it removed.
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I wasn't aware steamy romance novels are part of Project 2025's things to remove.My wife is a romance writer and like most writers in that genre these days, is self published. Self publishing means marketing and advertising the book yourself. Facebook is one of the go-to places to do so since most authors have a page there and plenty of readers visit and have their own groups for all the various sub-genres. There's tons of traffic and a majority of those active there are american women.
The subject of Project 2025 has gained traction in conventional media in the last few weeks, but in FB romance fiction groups there's been much talk on it over the past couple of months, as its anti-porn targeting would include 'steamy' romance novels. Obviously there's been a lot of discusions about it between authors (who risk losing a great deal of their income from a potential Project 2025 induced ban of this material) and fans alike.
My wife mentioned just yesterday that any posts mentioning Project 2025 are now automatically getting taken down and any of the older posts about it removed.
Good thing for Fabio to no longer be in the game or the leopard would have a new face to feed on.
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Just minutes ago I was in the Flying sub on Reddit and found a thread where somebody found an aviation-related issue with Project 2025. They were asking if it effected aviation. Basically, Project 2025 would gut NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the ones in charge of weather data, and end weather reports being free public information, forcing us all to pay some sort of subscription. That would end all the free weather apps we use, and have implications for literally all of aviation weather from radio weather reports to digital, even mobile, as currently we can simply text the system and get a report for literally any airport station in the country.My wife mentioned just yesterday that any posts mentioning Project 2025 are now automatically getting taken down and any of the older posts about it removed.
There were only 17 comments but most posters were saying yes this is going to make it harder and more expensive for us to function, and the OP was worried because general aviation is expensive enough already. The mods locked the thread as I was typing my comment.
American aviation in general is dominated by conservative viewpoints and it is largely a generational thing. I don't doubt that the mods stuffed it based on their political viewpoints. Currently there are a lot of liberal college-educated young people entering professional aviation and its causing clashes because the Old Guard swings strongly the other way and they're very pissed off that the way they've always done things is changing.
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Some of them.
Some of them are frothing at the mouth at the idea of unraveling sexual liberation entirely - including all expressions of sexuality they can think of. Some of the religions behind the people who think they're using Trump (who are being used by Trump), are wanting to go way beyond LGBTQ, and have had it out for porn, contraception, and sex in general since forever.
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Ankles? 😳
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