GaryBucees
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Right wingers love to pretend they don’t know what words mean
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At 8:33 tomorrow morning, someone is going to have a bad day.
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I get three hours of discomfort so that he can work. What a bargain for him
wanye@xwanyex
I deleted my earlier, more forceful take, but maybe I’ll just reframe it this way: what else in public life has the same characteristics as seat reclining where the benefit to you for reclining is very small but the downside to the person behind you is very large? Can you think of anything else that has this property and for which we wouldn’t describe engaging in the behavior as antisocial?
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@GrantSlatton Saw a bike in Bend with a All My Friends Hate Prisons sticker. I probably should have stolen it as an act of resistance
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being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always
Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves
Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists
anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP
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These are the people that want you to shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
ICE agents fired about six shots at this man while he was driving. ICE agents know that killing a driver does not stop a vehicle.
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ICE agents fired about six shots at this man while he was driving. ICE agents know that killing a driver does not stop a vehicle.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
ICE shooting victim in Maine was a 26-year-old man from Colombia with work authorization and a Social Security Number, likely an asylum applicant. It'll be interesting to see how he came to be on ICE's radar.
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@GaryBucees @tracewoodgrains The headrest sits right at short people’s skulls, forcing us forward as well. Short people can’t sit back in their seat at all without reclining.
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against my will, I'm fascinated by how much conversation this has inspired. people want to establish a gentleman's agreement to not press the little button the airplane gives you? they're writing thinkpieces about this? people are comparing it to returning shopping carts?
The New Yorker@NewYorker
On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant. From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe
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@GaryBucees @tracewoodgrains It’s the tall ppl complaining the most tho😂
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@tracewoodgrains As a tall person I need to recline my seat or the head rest is sitting in my upper back hunching me forward. Short people can kiss my ass if they don't like me reclining
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Suboptimal but at least I could bring myself to photograph it
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@LoewyLawFirm @GregCasar Skipping breakfast & eating a late lunch required medical monitoring.
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It was a staged event similar to the stuff that @GregCasar likes doing.
Congressman Greg Casar@RepCasar
Unacceptable. I’m grateful to Rep. Khanna for speaking out and calling attention to the deplorable conditions in the West Bank. I’m glad he is safe. America must stop funding this insanity.
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@martynziegler qatar hosted the greatest world cup in history and got treated like criminals for it. america can’t get out of the round of 16 without calling fifa
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There are 18 members of FIFA's disciplinary committee but the unprecedented decision to lift Balogun's automatic ban was taken by just one person - the chairman Mohammad Al Kamali of UAE. No one else was consulted.
Full story: thetimes.com/sport/football…
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@LincolnRestler But a single factor like skin should definitely determine who gets in. Listen to yourself. Fucking white savior
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1 in 5 NYC public school students are Black, but at Stuy - our most prestigious high school - 3 of ~800 incoming Freshmen are Black.
We urgently need state legislation to modify the admissions process. A single test should never be only factor deciding who gets in & who doesn’t.
Gothamist@Gothamist
Just 3 Black students admitted to NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School, data shows gothamist.com/news/just-3-bl…
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@Schwarzwald77 Are you offended?
Let me clarify: I’m elated that he’s dead. Overjoyed….
Just like he was elated at seeing countless dead children throughout Middle East.
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@SarcasmStardust @MonicaLewinsky And because it was the right thing to do, cunt
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@MonicaLewinsky He didn’t do that for you. Or because it was the right thing to do. He did that because it was politically advantageous for himself. He was a vile, cruel war mongering fuckstick who caused immense pain and suffering for millions of people.
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I’ve disagreed with many (many) of Lindsey Graham’s choices and beliefs, but he was also — as one of the house managers on the ‘98 impeachment — the one who worked tirelessly to prove there was a smear campaign against me from inside the WH. RIP.
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@camkasky Why would the IDF back an antisemite american over Israelis you entitled twat
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Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.
It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.
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