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  1. 41 minutes ago, Barbie said:

    This Michael Jackson nose :rotfl:someone put HIM out of his misery already!

    Why would you wish death upon her? And this person identifies as a female so you should respect that. 

    I've said this on multiple occasions, but I just don't get the flat out hate for this person who clearly has body dysmorphic disorder. Even if she used the N word, which is super wrong, I don't think she deserves people saying she should die. 

  2. On 8/1/2020 at 3:12 AM, Raider of the lost Ark said:

    As a citizen of the Germany all those companies are dear to my heart. Well, they might be. Once they start paying income taxes on the billions of profits they make in my country. By using our infrastructure, skilled workforce, legal stabilty, large amounts of disposable income ...

    Please feel free to add your country, if you feel the same way.

    P.S. I was dishonest about Facebook. They can go to hell. I'm sure, Mr Zuckerberg thinks he is great innovator. I think his product has done more damage to the world than some wars. 

     

    I agree. I feel like the e-commerce, namely global e-commerce, is outpacing our global governments' ability to pass legislation aimed at ensuring a fair playing field. 

    However, and this isn't me making excuses, but if I sell certain products online and ship said products from the state of California to France, and France has no law requiring a person or entity in California to pay local taxes on said product, how is that my fault? I'm complying with all laws, regulations and tax obligations. Should I go and pay French profit tax just because it's the moral / right thing to do?

    And instead of our governments doing anything about it, they're all fighting internally over stupid shit like... whether black athletes should kneel or not during the national anthem in protest of police brutality. Or whether or not it's wrong for local police forces to brutally murder civilians because they gave them a dirty look or looked suspiciously black.

  3. 1 hour ago, horn said:

    consensus-2020-electoral-map-forecast.pn

    Let's hope it will stay that way till election.

    He's barely leading by 7 votes. I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but given what happened last time, if you check this map, Biden can't lose a single one of those states that are in light blue or he loses. It seems extremely unlikely that he'll win any of those swing states in brown, and it's very plausible that he loses PA by small tiny amount of votes and therefore the election (Trump currently has a 50% approval rating in that state). 

    To summarize, the whole fucking system is rigged. 

  4. 2 hours ago, horn said:

    'It was only done to make me look bad': Trump denounces border wall section funded by supporters :1251: 
    William Cummings | USA TODAY | 12 July 2020

    President Donald Trump said Sunday that he did not approve of a section of border wall in Texas that was privately constructed and partially funded by a group of his supporters in Texas, claiming "it was only done to make me look bad" in response to a report that it might be unstable due to erosion. 

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    "I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads. It was only done to make me look bad, and perhaps it now doesn’t even work. Should have been built like rest of Wall, 500 plus miles," the president tweeted. :rolleyes: 

    His tweet linked to an article from Pro Publica and The Texas Tribune that said experts fear the 3-mile stretch of 18-foot high steel fencing built on the banks of the Rio Grande is at risk of collapse. 

    A group called "We Build the Wall" raised the money to privately build parts of the barrier in response to "politicians in both parties obstructing President Trump's plan to build a wall on our southern border."

    The effort began as a GoFundMe campaign launched by Brian Kolfage in December 2018 amid a government shutdown sparked by Congress' unwillingness to approve the funds Trump requested to build a new border wall, which had been a central part of his 2016 campaign. Kolfage later registered the group, which has raised more than $25 million, as a nonprofit organization. 

    Pro-Trump messages feature prominently on We Build the Wall's social media pages. Its board includes former White House adviser Steve Bannon, and Trump ally Kris Kobach serves as its general counsel. It is unclear why Trump believes the section of wall the group helped fund was intended to make him "look bad." 

    After Trump's tweet, Kolfage posted one of his own saying the privately funded section of wall had been approved by the president's administration. 

    "The private wall that @WeBuildtheWall built and funded is @DHSgov @CBP ENDORSED and APPROVED. Never forget it," Kolfage said. 

    'It's all very positive':Donald Trump, once a critic of Mexico, now praises its president

    We Build the Wall ultimately provided about $1.5 million for the $42 million project in Mission, Texas. 

    The company behind the construction, North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, has been awarded a $1.3 billion federal contract to build miles of border wall in Arizona, the largest such contract to date. Another $400 million contract Fisher won last year was placed under review by the Defense Department’s inspector general.

    Fisher Industries CEO Tommy Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday he had "complete respect" for Trump but he thought he "just got some misinformation on this stuff." He acknowledged that there had been erosion around the fence, which was built about 35 feet from the Rio Grande, the river that defines the U.S.-Mexico border through Texas. But he said his company was addressing the problem. 

    "The wall will stand for 150 years, you mark my words," Fisher predicted.

    Fisher had promoted the barrier built by his company as the "Lamborghini" of walls, promising he could build it faster and better than the government and using it as a showcase to win more federal contracts. 

    We Build the Wall touted the section of wall in Mission as "the first ever border barrier in the state of Texas that is actually built within feet of the border, instead of miles inland like the US Army Corps of Engineers has been doing for decades." 

    But engineers who had seen the evidence of erosion told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune there were good reasons not to build so close to the river. 

    "When the river rises, it will likely attack those areas where the foundation is exposed, further weakening support of the fence and potentially causing portions ... to fall into the Rio Grande," Alex Mayer, a civil engineer professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, said in the ProPublica-Tribune report. 

    The construction near the river also led the U.S. government to sue Fisher Industries on behalf of the International Boundary and Water Commission, alleging the construction violates international treaties governing the use of the river. 

    A federal judge on Wednesday ordered attorneys for Fisher Industries and opponents of the private wall to set a schedule for experts to visit the site and inspect any erosion.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/12/trump-denounces-private-section-border-wall/5423818002/

    So, like... when does Mexico pay for it? When are we getting the bill? 

  5. On 7/6/2020 at 10:01 AM, karbatal said:

    She's behaving like a Karen

    Amen! She could've just given her point of view, which initially even got support from some in the trans community. Now she's just a fucking annoying loca Karen, rambling, not making sense / grasping at straws, liking pseudoscience / sexual orientation conversion associates. 

    Also, she's constantly saying "boo hoo we all have a right to our opinion and I've never received so much hate for just sharing my opinion", but the second Stephen King said he believes trans women are women, she un-liked his original comment. So no, she doesn't believe we all have a right to our opinion, she's just pissed off people have had the audacity to challenge her fucking stupid ass opinions.

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