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@RepAngieCraig "In search of a better life..." Yeah, no shit, that's why everybody does everything. If I were to go rob a liquor store right now I would be doing so because the proceeds of the robbery would allow me to live a "better life". That doesn't mean I'd be justified in doing so.

Denying Liam Ramos and his family asylum is not only cruel, it’s political retribution. This decision should be overturned. Liam’s family came to this country in search of a better life. That’s the American Dream - something the Trump Administration seems to have forgotten. cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…

@IterIntellectus "You're fixed. We're all done here. Mission accomplished. No need to come in here and pay me $175/hr anymore." - No therapist, ever

therapy is obviously mostly fake if it worked they'd have success stories on the wall like every other business and people would brag about how they were cured. they don't most of what gets called mental illness can be fixed with sleep, working out, and not eating garbage

"Therapy" is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately dangerous practices with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively taken by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "heal internalized racism trauma" and basically get oneshotted by it. Literally the most spiritually inept people in existence having their little lib brains rearranged by some 37yo divorced single mom who makes them quit their email job, divorce their bf/gf, and become a traveling circus stripper or whatever

are these instagram chicks finally starting to realize their "therapists" are just scamming them?

The year is 69,420AD. Humanity is a Kardashev Type II civilization. Total population is somewhere in the trillions with permanent settlements on every rock in the solar system with enough gravity to hold anything down. Generational ships reached nearby star systems millennia ago and there are thriving colonies on several exoplanets. Back on Old Earth, anyone wishing to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles simply hails their personal transport module and at the speaking of a single voice command it automatically it whisks them from any rooftop in SF to any rooftop in LA via a quick suborbital hop that takes about 15 minutes. There is still no high speed rail in CA and nerds are still crying about it.

just learned there are actual living humans who believe the california high speed rail project will ever be completed LMFAOOO

Reddit, Digg, Disqus, and every other platform with dislikes have already proven they're a horrible idea. Just stop throttling accounts for "mean" behavior and let likes speak for themselves

It would be nice if libs would apply their “this is fine because it doesn’t affect me personally” mindset on disorder in cities to other things: - immigration enforcement - “racism” - slashing budgets for homelessness/welfare - 3 strikes laws - voter ID requirements

@RiebvJanbeeck You can round up the criminals and surround them with razor wire, or you can let them roam free and surround yourself with razor wire. But at the end of the day, somebody's getting surrounded with razor wire.

South Africa is largely zombie-proof by now. High-trust societies have no idea how vulnerable they are.

@NortonMpls @Delta What would you have Delta do? Run an investigation on every ticket purchased to make sure it doesn't offend your sensibilities?

You can even see Liam’s dad carrying his Spider-Man backpack in the video. This fucking sucks, @Delta gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-d…

@FoundationDads Alternate ending: The smart kid doesn't learn anything either and pokemon evolves into a smart juvenile delinquent.

@FoundationDads The "classroom management technique": Cook up some stupid group project, saddle the smart kid with 4 juvenile delinquents, then act surprised when the smart kid does all the work himself and the juvenile delinquents learn absolutely nothing.

"You aren't qualified to homeschool your children." "Interesting. I need a graduate degree to teach my child 3rd-grade math?" "No, but you need to understand how children learn, different learning styles, and teaching methods." "How about I just get to know my child, and how he learns will become apparent very quickly." "No. You're ignoring classroom management techniques." "...Not sure I need classroom management techniques for my living room." "But you need to be an expert in teaching to teach your children?" "Will that guarantee better outcomes?" "Absolutely not. In fact, in most places, outcomes are getting worse with every passing year." "Sooo...what's the point?" "The point is that I spent time and money on a degree and you can't just go and do things without my approval it's totally not fair."

@CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier I will never understand how anybody finds this a compelling argument. Lets just accept your 3% figure at face value (press x to doubt). That's still a lot of crime. Crime that is completely optional and can be avoided by removing these people from the country.

“Immigrants—even illegal immigrants—are half as likely to be incarcerated for crimes. According to DHS, only about 3% of illegal immigrants have any criminal convictions,” said Cato’s @David_J_Bier in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee. Read full remarks: ow.ly/tGhb50YtzNi

@Justin_Bons Short it then pussy

BTC's price is based on pure speculation; there is no utility, no use cases & no future Wishful thinking props up BTC as it seeks out more greater fools Until the music stops & the naked emperor is exposed BTC will not survive the inevitable collapse of its security & scarcity

Commercial real estate down by 90% may SEEM like a bad sign for Minneapolis, but really this is creative destruction, opening up space for 21st century industries like medical fraud and anarchist street militia checkpoints.

@SomeBitchIIKnow Simulation talk is just dumb. "None of this matters. We live in a simulation maaann..." Yeah ok whatever, cool story. Simulated you still needs to put down the simulated bong, hit the simulated gym, get a simulated job and stop being a simulated loser.

If this is were true they would have stopped with Nikola Tesla or Issac Newton. Been downhill from there.

@BorisJohnson Short it then pussy

I've long suspected Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme and now I'm hearing tales of woe that make me fear I'm right. mol.im/a/15643681

@ZaidJilani @RepFine "We already have a large population of homegrown violent retards therefore we should go ahead and continue to import more violent retards" A+ argument there champ

@RepFine We have 10,000 to 15,000 murders a year in America but you’re only mentioning a handful of Muslims? I wonder why?

You're an idiot. Islam isn't a race. Anyone can practice it. But if it were, how many Americans have to be Allahu Akbar'ed before fear is rational? A shooting in Texas. A truck in Michigan. A university in Virginia. Bombs in New York. In two weeks. Get a brain.

@NickKristof You have disposable income that you could be donating for nutritional paste, bed nets, vaccination programs and community heath workers, but you don't. You spend it on other stuff. By your own logic you are failing to save those children too.

That money was enough to save the lives of more than 3 million children worldwide, with nutritional paste for malnutrition, bed nets against malaria, vaccination programs and community health workers. Instead we spent it blowing up people and things, and raising gas prices.

@ReichlinMelnick So the government slapping an onerous tax on a thing resulted in less of the thing? Fascinating thesis. Will you be considering that your party's zeal to tax things like labor, sales, savings and investment also discourages activity in those areas? LOL of course you won't.

An absolutely incredible statistic; Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee has actually lost the U.S. government $19.5 million in application fees.

@NortonMpls No flag is illegal on stolen land

If you’re demanding to fly the old Minnesota flag it’s because you value meaningless nostalgia over racism. It’s undeniable that the old flag had undertones of white supremacy and advocated for displacing indigenous peoples. If you don’t care it’s because you’re naive or racist.

The waste!! What are we going to do with the nuclear waste?! Nuclear waste byproducts can be easily stored in steel-lined concrete casks until the fission products decay. They are compatible and they take up little space. The photo below shows what 45 years’ worth of waste looks like stored at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station in Louisa County, Virginia. In fact, all of the waste generated in the U.S. since 1950 would take up no more than an area the size of an American football field stacked to up to a depth of 10 yards. Your fear is irrational.