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Its worth considering that prohibition was very much the birthplace of organized crime in the US. So if we're going to compare intended and unintended knock-on effects, it starts looking like a dumb argument to try and make, one way or the other.

what visa/mastercard and Collective Shout don't realize is....Prohibition didn't work. It just went underground. And got more dangerous. This is going to do exactly that. It's not only about adult content. It's about the fact where will it stop? Legal adults should be allowed to purchase legal adult content with the money they WORKED for. If people have the know how: looks like there's a nice big market for a new credit card/debit company.

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If it ain't broke, Trump'll break it. #immigration

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Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

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Cheaters cheat. Ask his wives.

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“A leaked memo from inside the Department of Homeland Security reveals what many of us feared but hoped we were wrong about: that the military is no longer a last resort in American governance. It’s now a first tool. A central player. A political weapon, just like in Russia. And they’re not even hiding it anymore. This isn’t some vague speculation or dystopian what-if. This isn’t a shadowy plot hatched in secrecy. The document was written, circulated, and discussed at the highest levels of DHS and the Department of Defense and it spells out, in clinical, terrifying language, a plan to normalize and expand the use of the United States military within our own country, on our own soil, against our own people. The memo, obtained by The New Republic, outlines a coordinated strategy to embed military forces into immigration enforcement not just at the border but across American cities. It calls for replicating the recent Los Angeles deployment “for years to come.” It uses phrases like “homeland defense” and paints immigration threats as akin to al-Qaeda or ISIS. It pushes for “new ideas” on how DHS and DoD can work together on “national security” threats inside the United States.”

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This leaked memo exposes an agenda so awful even Trump wants it kept secret

These fucking fascist fucks have declared war on America, and every single piece of shit who voted for Trump is getting exactly what they wanted.

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“It’s clear to me that the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 was a mistake which should be undone. ICE should be abolished and replaced by something more like the Immigration and Naturalization Service that preceded it. At a minimum, though, the mega expansion of ICE happening under Trump II should be undone. Making these things explicit now greatly improves the chances that they will actually come to pass.”

— The Fires Next Time 

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I hate the gymbro side of the internet because a lot of it is extremely toxic but I once saw a gymbro meme that was like “befriending the local trans guy so I can steal his testosterone” and I think that’s hilarious and a great plot idea for a movie. Deeply unhappy bigoted red pill meathead gym rat starts trying to befriend a trans man to steal his testosterone and ends up genuinely clicking with him and going on a journey of self discovery that either ends in the protag realizing he’s gay and in love with his friend or transitioning to a woman.

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i think the pushback against this post is kinda missing the point, op is not saying 'this is how all trans girls should be', she is saying 'this is how alot of us end up coping with how we are treated' this isnt blahaj and kneesocks posting

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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Reading Matthew Perry’s biography. It’s so sad that he felt absolute guilt about how Friends became such a moneymaker while he was going through his addiction.

Like, this is biggest hit show ever, keeping hundreds of people employed, and you are the one that is risking fucking it up.

Marta Kauffman: “Come back from rehab early, we need you for the season 7 finale.”

He didn’t want to come back early. But Matthew understood.

His mother went on the phone and basically told Marta to fuck off.

Her son is sick.

Matthew went back anyway, because, hey Monica and Chandler need to get married. Ratings, you know.

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living in a village of farmers is the fucking best i just left a party and the butcher was like hey i got some bones for your dog. your dog specifically because i like the cut of his jib. hell yeah

do you know how fucking great it is to get home tipsy as hell wake up your dog he is already exited to see you and you are like here you go a big bone for your majesty...my man thought he was damn heaven!! so good

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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I found this years later. But 2 things.

1. The post was initially about New York. And New York Farming. Anyone trying to force farming conversations to be about cities is an idiot. Not many farms in Chryenne, Wyoming either, but nobody thinks of "Wyoming farms" and thinks "obviously we're talking about their biggest city".

2. so I don't have the exact source on hand i used to, so:

The explicit sources were linked are:

It was outdated in 2020, but the typical contempt is expected.

"Somebody said a thing I think is silly! How pathetic."

Im on my phone (hence screenshots), but the general point of "NY doesn't farm anything" is jist silly.

We actually make more milk than Wyoming does, as a point of interest. Nowadays we're within 2% of Texas as the #2 milk producing state.

“Does New York Produce Physical Goods?”

We produce things more valuable than physical goods.

We know this is true because our income per capita is quite high.