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Old 02-20-2019, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
how much did some ******* get for spilling coffee on his tiny *****?

they chose $250mm for a specific reason.


Simply have serious penalties for any person or company doing XYZ.
By serious I mean quadruple fines, lose any business license they might have, and lots of other socially acceptable punishments.
If it is a legally operating business any officers and employees directly involved in XYZ should also be required to pay hefty fines personally on top of business fines.
Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post for $250 million. That number was essentially a gift as the newspaper was---and probably still is--hemorrhaging money.
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:14 PM
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
I'm pro-immigration.

We let in a "sustainable" ~1,000,000 immigrants into the country each year; an estimated 37,00,000 worth living here today -- im cool with this. Meanwhile, it's also estimated that ~12,000,000 illegal immigrants live here as well, and average somewhat close to the number of legal entries a year -- I'm not cool with that.

Last two posts I made about the subject specifically said "non-citizens" and "Mexicans". I.e., not U.S. citizens -- that also excludes visa holders. Visa holders aren't breaking the law and taking advantage of your generosity with my money. I even said, let the caravans in -- but with a few caveats. Why does that suggest to you I'm anti-immigration? do you have trouble separating legal-immigration with illegal-immigration?

It's probably a weird vibe to actually read things on the internet that aren't repeated from the NPC echo chamber. So I completely understand.

But what's the end-goal here to allow illegals into the country and make it easy for them to live here without contributions? Why is this better than denying entry, for Americans specifically? Why are you pro-crime? What crimes do you think we should also encourage/ignore? Why are you pro-spending other people's money? Do you pay extra in taxes? Do you volunteer for charity?

You said it yourself that we have our own issues to deal with here in the US (child molestation), so why is it better to add another ~850,000 or so non-vested people into our country a year, illegally, who don't pay taxes, some of whom don't follow the rest of our laws or are not here for good reasons, who are a burden to our society/resources? Since no law-maker is going to come down hard on illegals (since people like you get a weird vibe from it), and we aren't going to get rid of entitlements anytime soon, or sanctuary cities, the wall is an effective means to reduce illegal entry and extra crime/burden into this country.
Well this is the first time i can recall you actually saying this instead of posting whacko memes and soundbytes, so that's cool.

We're on the same page and i agree. This is just the first time within the timeframes that i've read this thread that you actually took the time to say... well... anything. So now i know.

That said, i'm going to have the unpopular opinion that it should be easier to become a legal immigrant/citizen. The less time and money we spend on this bullshit, the better. That way we can spend all that time and money catching the child molesters.
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Old 02-20-2019, 07:01 PM
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Maybe the gender neutral pronouns are appropriate. Looks like a dude to me: facepalm:
It's OK to be wrong, so long as you don't double-down and defend the wrongness Braineack-style.
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Old 02-20-2019, 07:06 PM
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You know I can almost understand situations like Russia and the Bolsheviks. And Germany with the *****. Or Venezuela and Cuba, etc.

What I can't understand for the life of me is WHAT THE **** IS SO WRONG WITH THE USA THAT WE NEED COMMUNISM????????????

How ******* retarded and brainwashed are we as a Nation? Are we walking around with our eyes open? WAKE THE **** UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lived in that Utopian land of Cuba Bernie, and IT WASN'T THAT ******* GREAT!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE RISK SHARK INFESTED WATERS ON RAFTS TO MAKE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that I know of no one has ever taken a raft back! They just get on the next plane to that shithole island.

My father was imprisoned as a political prisoner for trying to leave Cuba! How long under Bernie rule would it take for that to become a reality in the US?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ago-police-say

This **** is gonna get ugly.

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Old 02-20-2019, 08:35 PM
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If they can prove he staged this, I think they should throw the heaviest book at him they can find. Lock him up for committing what amounts to a legitimate hate crime (reverse or not) and sentence him to no less than what his attackers would have received, had they been real. I need to see this ******* do time in the big house. I'm sure there's a few fellas there that would be happy to welcome him as well.
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Old 02-20-2019, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by good2go
If they can prove he staged this, I think they should throw the heaviest book at him they can find.
Agreed. Freedom of expression is only valid up to the point where it offends me.


On an unrelated note, when I am partaking in my morning poo, I find it helpful to read statements made by Alexandria Cortez. It relaxes my anus.
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Old 02-21-2019, 02:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Agreed. Freedom of expression is only valid up to the point where it offends me.


On an unrelated note, when I am partaking in my morning poo, I find it helpful to read statements made by Alexandria Cortez. It relaxes my anus.
Really? It clenches mine.
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Old 02-21-2019, 03:17 AM
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Really? It clenches mine.
America will become a communist state within our lifetime. Once you accept and embrace the inevitability of this fact, it becomes cathartic.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
America will become a communist state within our lifetime. Once you accept and embrace the inevitability of this fact, it becomes cathartic.
Not in mine, I will be lucky enough to be gone by then.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
America will become a communist state within our lifetime. Once you accept and embrace the inevitability of this fact, it becomes cathartic.











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Old 02-21-2019, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by good2go
If they can prove he staged this, I think they should throw the heaviest book at him they can find. Lock him up for committing what amounts to a legitimate hate crime (reverse or not) and sentence him to no less than what his attackers would have received, had they been real. I need to see this ******* do time in the big house. I'm sure there's a few fellas there that would be happy to welcome him as well.
It would be nice, but I'm guessing plea deal to misdemeanor, no time, probation, small fine.

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It would be nice, but I'm guessing plea deal to misdemeanor, no time, probation, small fine.
we'll never hear about this story again (and nothing will happen to him), because the media decided to run a conveniently timed, manufactured, gun-control story.




as soon as Jessie lost public opinion, CNN had to run a prepared story to divert attention back to scary guns and crazy alt-right rednecks.

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Braineack (what kind of weird moniker is that?) are you aware of how JUSSIE spells his first name?
Wanted to bring forth that little tidbit cause it just puts one more reason forth for me to dislike him (Jussie, not Braineack).

Since the whole thing appears at this point to be faked, it is the last we will be hearing from him on either the news or as an actor.
Perhaps in a few months he will get a job flipping burgers at McDonalds but I cannot see much on his horizon as an actor.

Never mind, I just figured where Jussie's paycheck will come from.
He will get on board the CNN news roster so he can cover the next election and do Trump bashing segments between now and the election.
It will give us the unique perspective from a gay male of color who has a background of (allegedly) manufacturing fake news.
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Originally Posted by BGordon
Braineack (what kind of weird moniker is that?) are you aware of how JUSSIE spells his first name?
Wanted to bring forth that little tidbit cause it just puts one more reason forth for me to dislike him (Jussie, not Braineack).

Since the whole thing appears at this point to be faked, it is the last we will be hearing from him on either the news or as an actor.
Perhaps in a few months he will get a job flipping burgers at McDonalds but I cannot see much on his horizon as an actor.

Never mind, I just figured where Jussie's paycheck will come from.
He will get on board the CNN news roster so he can cover the next election and do Trump bashing segments between now and the election.
It will give us the unique perspective from a gay male of color who has a background of (allegedly) manufacturing fake news.
It hurts me inside to think of how plausible that is.
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Originally Posted by BGordon
Braineack (what kind of weird moniker is that?) are you aware of how JUSSIE spells his first name?
Wanted to bring forth that little tidbit cause it just puts one more reason forth for me to dislike him (Jussie, not Braineack).
oh, no, I thought his name was jessie. i dont care to actually learn his name and hopefully will soon forget it.
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His name is Justin, so Jussie makes more sense than Jessie.

Still dumb, but understandably so.

Point is, we're all talking about they.



Also, gay men are 28% less likely to be overweight or obese than straight men. Source: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019...study_c1898441

This makes a lot of sense, given that Miatas tend to be on the snug side.


I wonder why there's such a large disparity here.
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gays don't hate life. lesbians do -- they are victims of toxic anti-feminism, while thinking they are actually feminists. Since many women want to be attractive to their mates, lesbians never want to look attractive. case and point: undercut haircuts. Lesbians go out of their way to be disgustingly awful humans who are hell bent to bringing down everyone else around them so no person can ever be happy like them.
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