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07-08-2019, 08:38 AM
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We all forgot about that boycotted speech already.
but lest us never forget this fascist tirade of Trump:
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino...0831255432816/
but lest us never forget this fascist tirade of Trump:
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino...0831255432816/
Welcome to post # 14889 in this very thread, from five days ago.
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07-08-2019, 09:02 AM
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TTW you were loyal to the communists and didn't want to help refugees:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...b2IR_owkaZSy28
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...b2IR_owkaZSy28
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In April 1975, Ford argued that, as the last American troops were removed from the country, the U.S. should evacuate the South Vietnamese who had helped the U.S. during the war, too.
“The United States has had a long tradition of opening its doors to immigrants of all countries … And we’ve always been a humanitarian nation,” Ford said. “We felt that a number of these South Vietnamese had been very loyal to the United States and deserved an opportunity to live in freedom.”
But Biden objected and called for a meeting between the president and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to voice his objections to Ford’s funding request for these efforts. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who led the meeting, told the senators that “the total list of the people endangered in Vietnam is over a million” and that “the irreducible list is 174,000.”
Biden said U.S. allies should not be rescued: “We should focus on getting them [the U.S. troops] out. Getting the Vietnamese out and military aid for the GVN [South Vietnam’s government] are totally different.”
Kissinger said there were “Vietnamese to whom we have an obligation,” but Biden responded: “I will vote for any amount for getting the Americans out. I don’t want it mixed with getting the Vietnamese out.”
Ford was upset with Biden’s response, believing that failing to evacuate the South Vietnamese would be a betrayal of American values: “We opened our door to the Hungarians … Our tradition is to welcome the oppressed. I don't think these people should be treated any differently from any other people — the Hungarians, Cubans, Jews from the Soviet Union.”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended that the bill be passed by the full Senate by a vote of 14 to 3. Biden was one of just three senators on the committee who voted nay. The conference report also passed the Senate as a whole by a vote of 46-17, where Biden again voted against it.
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In April 1975, Ford argued that, as the last American troops were removed from the country, the U.S. should evacuate the South Vietnamese who had helped the U.S. during the war, too.
“The United States has had a long tradition of opening its doors to immigrants of all countries … And we’ve always been a humanitarian nation,” Ford said. “We felt that a number of these South Vietnamese had been very loyal to the United States and deserved an opportunity to live in freedom.”
But Biden objected and called for a meeting between the president and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to voice his objections to Ford’s funding request for these efforts. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who led the meeting, told the senators that “the total list of the people endangered in Vietnam is over a million” and that “the irreducible list is 174,000.”
Biden said U.S. allies should not be rescued: “We should focus on getting them [the U.S. troops] out. Getting the Vietnamese out and military aid for the GVN [South Vietnam’s government] are totally different.”
Kissinger said there were “Vietnamese to whom we have an obligation,” but Biden responded: “I will vote for any amount for getting the Americans out. I don’t want it mixed with getting the Vietnamese out.”
Ford was upset with Biden’s response, believing that failing to evacuate the South Vietnamese would be a betrayal of American values: “We opened our door to the Hungarians … Our tradition is to welcome the oppressed. I don't think these people should be treated any differently from any other people — the Hungarians, Cubans, Jews from the Soviet Union.”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended that the bill be passed by the full Senate by a vote of 14 to 3. Biden was one of just three senators on the committee who voted nay. The conference report also passed the Senate as a whole by a vote of 46-17, where Biden again voted against it.
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07-08-2019, 01:06 PM
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That time when you realized that it's not a good idea to charge people different amounts for admission to a concert based on the color of their skin.
Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...klash-started/
A Detroit music festival charged white people double. Then the backlash started.
Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...klash-started/
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07-08-2019, 01:19 PM
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"What was supposed to be a small festival where a few hundred would gather at a community farm on Detroit’s east side for music, a bonfire, a drum circle and parade is now at the center of a national firestorm."
Sounds like quite the event.
Sounds like quite the event.
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07-08-2019, 01:46 PM
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Yeah, the alleged "facts" don't quite line up.
On the one hand, "Often times when dope events happen in Detroit the cheapest tickets are bought and then sold by people not from the community bc they can afford them first, leaving higher price tickets as the only options left,”
Ok, that's a fair assertion. Scalping is a thing that happens, and for popular events, it's not uncommon for enterprising people to rapidly buy blocks of tickets as soon as they become available, with the expectation of re-selling them at a profit later.
Damn white people and their (shuffles cards, draws one from the top) free market capitalism.
But on the other hand, "So far, 71 tickets have sold, out of an expected 200."
Huh? It's been more than a week, and you've sold a grand total of 71 tickets? It doesn't seem like speculative buyers were ever going to be a problem here.
On the one hand, "Often times when dope events happen in Detroit the cheapest tickets are bought and then sold by people not from the community bc they can afford them first, leaving higher price tickets as the only options left,”
Ok, that's a fair assertion. Scalping is a thing that happens, and for popular events, it's not uncommon for enterprising people to rapidly buy blocks of tickets as soon as they become available, with the expectation of re-selling them at a profit later.
Damn white people and their (shuffles cards, draws one from the top) free market capitalism.
But on the other hand, "So far, 71 tickets have sold, out of an expected 200."
Huh? It's been more than a week, and you've sold a grand total of 71 tickets? It doesn't seem like speculative buyers were ever going to be a problem here.
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07-08-2019, 04:23 PM
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Yeah, the alleged "facts" don't quite line up.
On the one hand, "Often times when dope events happen in Detroit the cheapest tickets are bought and then sold by people not from the community bc they can afford them first, leaving higher price tickets as the only options left,”
Ok, that's a fair assertion. Scalping is a thing that happens, and for popular events, it's not uncommon for enterprising people to rapidly buy blocks of tickets as soon as they become available, with the expectation of re-selling them at a profit later.
Damn white people and their (shuffles cards, draws one from the top) free market capitalism.
But on the other hand, "So far, 71 tickets have sold, out of an expected 200."
Huh? It's been more than a week, and you've sold a grand total of 71 tickets? It doesn't seem like speculative buyers were ever going to be a problem here.
On the one hand, "Often times when dope events happen in Detroit the cheapest tickets are bought and then sold by people not from the community bc they can afford them first, leaving higher price tickets as the only options left,”
Ok, that's a fair assertion. Scalping is a thing that happens, and for popular events, it's not uncommon for enterprising people to rapidly buy blocks of tickets as soon as they become available, with the expectation of re-selling them at a profit later.
Damn white people and their (shuffles cards, draws one from the top) free market capitalism.
But on the other hand, "So far, 71 tickets have sold, out of an expected 200."
Huh? It's been more than a week, and you've sold a grand total of 71 tickets? It doesn't seem like speculative buyers were ever going to be a problem here.
Or that to dispel the calls of discrimination, instead of lowering the ticket prices to $10 for everyone, they RAISED ALL ticket prices to $20 (wasn't the whole point to make it more affordable for POC?) and are asking NON-POC for a donation.
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07-08-2019, 05:35 PM
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It was one of the stranger episodes of Pingu.
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07-08-2019, 09:28 PM
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In a broader sense, however, the thing inside the box is a metaphor for a tenuous, "grasping at straws" political argument which blindly rejects facts in favor of an emotional appeal to whatever gris-gris you have no choice but to defend in order not to admit error in previous arguments and forced to re-think one's position, and Pingu (and the flamethrower) represent the harsh daylight of factual analysis.
(Ok, I just made that up, but you have to admit that it kinda seems plausible.)
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07-09-2019, 09:26 AM
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for JoeP:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/...zwRSvnklQMyj0k
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/...zwRSvnklQMyj0k
An NYPD officer used his SUV squad car as a battering ram to stop a earbud-wearing Citi Bike rider who had allegedly run two red lights and ignored an order to pull over— and then the NYPD justified the deadly force by saying the agency “vigorously supports Vision Zero,” which is supposed to champion safe driving and the protection of the city’s most vulnerable road users.
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