Matthew Lind
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Matthew Lind
@MatthewLind20
Retired Marine father of five living my best life in the middle of nowhere. Pronouns Dude/Bro.
Wisconsin, USA 가입일 Ekim 2022
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@MatthewLind20 @HMHou It's real. General Eisenhower had swarms of the Press Corps in attendance. Their mission? To get it broadcasted right across the world, quicksmart.
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@Fredilo_ @letscinema They are making Wonder Woman 3 with the same team who did WW84
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@letscinema Lost so much money that the studio decided to greenlight the sequel and spend even more. Yeah, makes perfect sense
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#Superman (2025) by James Gunn.
Cost of the film: $425 million.
Revenue from theatres: $282 million.
Revenue from Digital: $85 million.
Total Loss on the project — $57 MILLION.

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@DrPooPeePants @letscinema You misunderstand merchandising deals then. Man of Steel covered almost its entire budget in merchandise and product placement. It significantly offsets budget deals. From May through the summer Superman merchandise was everywhere in stores.
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@miracleman29 @NoFilterJOnn @homeofdcu And if you add 35% to the ticket numbers Superman is still lower by about 30 million
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@NoFilterJOnn @homeofdcu Right. Overall ticket sales and attendance have dropped by 35+% post-pandemic.
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@thomskimm @Bonnibel81078 @miracleman29 @homeofdcu Bigger budget and lower return doesn't scream success to me
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@TomStraw01 @ExistentialDo @MilaLovesJoe Weird because the Democrats shot down a clean continuing resolution with no changes from last budget 11 times
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@ExistentialDo @MilaLovesJoe You “geniuses” say this at the same time part of the reason the government is shutdown is funding for rural hospitals in Red States amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. You understand that right?
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@townhallcom @VP Shooting detained, unarmed ILLEGAL ALIENS isn’t “due process.”
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.@VP has had ENOUGH:
"If your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America!" 🔥
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@dieworkwear @mlysimonsen @WHHotCoffee You don't get automatic citizenship through marriage. You don't even get it through military service. I've helped multiple Marines with their paperwork and citizenship classes. It's clear you haven't even done cursory research on something you say has shaped your entire life.
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@mlysimonsen @WHHotCoffee when you say your "daughter in law," it sounds like this undocumented immigrant married your son. i agree, marriage is a way for undocumented immigrants to get legal status. this assumes you find someone who's willing to marry you. so not as easy as filling out a form.
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I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.
I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't.
My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby.
I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.
The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.
There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families.
I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane.
About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants.
I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation.
I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away.
If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters.
Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.
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@dieworkwear So you've known that you were here illegally for decades and did nothing about it? I don't think your story is having the effect you thought it would.
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WATCH: A California high school girl tearfully recounts to her school board having to change in front of a biological male before track practice.
Celeste Diest is a junior in the Lucia Mar Unified School District. She said the biological male watched both her and other girls undress, calling the experience "beyond traumatizing."
"Adults like yourselves make me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid, even though our privacy was and still is being completely violated," Celeste said to the board.
A board member then told her to "please wrap it up."
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@_Thomas_Mix_ @FSUAlert This was with a RIFLE. You can open carry a rifle in pretty much every state in the union. But don't let facts get in the way of your narrative.
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@AmericaPapaBear So apparently ALL women suck at sports because their records aren't even close to men's records. Just look up your individual high school state records for track, any category. The record holding times and distances for girls wouldn't even qualify for boys state.
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