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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52580373-all-the-young-men
Feel compelled to read her book now. Member reviews are never so unanimously admiring.
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These people's jumbo-sized senses of performance and audience mixed with a hefty portion of overall ridiculousness and their shared absence of credibility make this easy to laugh away, but you do have to wonder if it'll gain ground at some point as something worthy of any serious consideration.
If we lived in an egalitarian world, I suppose it'd be neither here nor there if certain girlies wanted to nonchalantly play Musical Races of an afternoon.
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26 minutes ago, Ciccone's Cheeks said:
Those 'Property Managers' (& highly likely other skunks) were ALL aware every single day of the 3 yrs the horrific shape that building was in. They're possibly the last people/snakes on earth you'd wanna be right now. And u know every one of them are alive, safe, happy, healthy and (still) could give two shits abt the tenants. What they're likely trying to flee the country over is what's coming w/ (at least) lawsuits
Oh, doubtlessly. Seems like they just weren't willing to give up their piece of the pie for long enough to have repairs made. @karbatal, the damage involved concrete: slabs, beams, walls, columns - all structural. I'm still aghast, can't remember seeing anything quite like it, but it's gotta be the explanation: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/06/27/before-florida-condo-collapse-9-million-in-repairs-were-needed/
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Holding out hope. The property managers may have a lot to answer for; reportage has it that consultants observed significant damage three years ago. Can't imagine every condo owner and tenant was made aware...
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I've just read that Ms. Jess has gone and had a gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss. Maybe she doesn't believe in EXERCISE. As, um, Rubenesque as she could appear, I wouldn't have had her down as an eligible candidate (still too thin), but it seems there's always a doctor.
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Also, somebody said she looks like Agnetha from ABBA and I almost SLAPPED him in the face.
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Her fundraising haul was illuminating earlier this year. Over three million. She's obviously a taco short of a combo meal, but it arguably makes her more dangerous because of the destruction that could lie in her wake. I hope she'll have to pay the piper for the Gaetz association, if nothing else.
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Not to jump the gun, but from this thread I surmise that fantastic diva @horn should be back in 2036?
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Always so pleased with themselves.
Much as the unscrupulous media entities are to blame, the burden of incompetence extends to these guys. How is it possible to be incapable of exercising any kind of critical observation and evaluation prowess whatsoever? And when will they get over it?!
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1 hour ago, runa said:
I refuse to watch that shit.
All of this because "she stole" 13.88$ worth pf marchandise at a Wallmart. Shameful.
God I don't blame you. Haunted by it and on edge for days. I hope she's had comfort.
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Who's read about the 73-year-old woman with dementia who had her shoulder dislocated and her wrist fractured during an arrest by these thugs?
The clips are grisly and heartbreaking, but it's important that we heed reminders of how the profession often appeals to subsets of the population that absolutely do delight in the pain that the authority they're afforded enables them to inflict. This is pure inhumanity. VILE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElPwmwP8co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wJZEmHcEg&t=1s
I'd lay into that punk for how he handled her. And the smugness that emanates from the pair of them, obviously thinking they're tough because they drew the blood of an elderly lady. What also beggars belief is to see them back at headquarters later on, patting themselves on the back and chuckling at "hear the pop?" as though it were some amusing quip. Sick fucks.
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Terrible. Heartbreaking. And there's no better reason than unearned good fortune it's not just as hopeless for most of us, as screwy as things may still be. And to think we still have assholes in our highly developed countries complaining about what they believe to be overzealous governance; try navigating this in a country with infrastructure - be it social or economic or public healthcare-associated, or what-have-you - so woefully inadequate for offering any substantive protection at all, to the point where staying safe is scarcely an OPTION, if this is something you'll DARE downplay. Then sulk and sputter about an "impingement" on your "freedoms."
Hope everyone's coping, wherever you all are.
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I mean, I think she bears more than a passing resemblance to some princesses.
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An abomination. I'm devastated by stories with malefactors who are young and stupid and horrible but possibly not irredeemable. In time, even they won't be able to fathom it, most likely. Just senseless and tragic.
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So demented but so oblivious to the fact and in reality smug about it. It's at the stage where you feel bad for their eventual fellow inmates.
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I don't know if we'll get out of this with any idealism left. It's been so dangerous, so deleterious. Every day I've been dumbfounded by acts of defiant, determined obliviousness and entitlement.
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She was really coded incorrectly, hey? Either that or she helped herself to everything under the sink.
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I'm not quite the polyglot she is, but do we merely observing Trans-lation 101 detect a whiff of "MARK YOUR CALENDARS, BOYS" to a lot of that?
Good for her.
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German Shepherds.
One of theirs is a former shelter dog as well.
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Forget prayers - I think some bait would be more effective? JESS, we've got Crisp 'n' Dry, Band-Aids, a J. Lo-shaped dartboard, and plenty of silicone products. Come back!
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Not the brightest bulb. But now that she feels emboldened I'm sure the self-incriminating depravity will be firing on all cylinders soon enough. I hope she feels invincible and promptly ruins herself.
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Her presence is so unsettling. Her ability to form government in any capacity tells people hers are valid, acceptable beliefs and stances. She must be totally ejected.
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It'll be increasingly worrisome as speech, video, and image manipulation continue to flourish and expand in ubiquity.
Totally agree, @San, about how much of it could be avoided if people weren't so willfully ignorant. So many just choose to be obtuse.
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8 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Pithy, I know a few hard core conspiracy theorists and it is staggering and sad to see. Another colleague of mine was telling me that he had to really work hard with his brother who had began sprouting crazy conspiracy theories. He asked his brother for his proof of these theories and he sent him videos of people who had no credibility but were speaking like experts in medicine and science. He managed to get through to his brother that they were frauds who had criminal convictions for taking money for fake cures ( he discovered that when he looked them up himself ) Also one woman was an American Southern woman sitting on her porch who was calling scientists demons. She had no qualifications. He could not believe his brother was being influenced by such flimsy bizarre so called evidence. It is truly mind blowing
Isn't it something how experience, expertise, and knowledge are to be looked down upon? While they'll venerate quacks with no qualifications that might license them to pontificate away on subjects about which they know nothing. It feels like a brew of a few things, but insecurity's got to be a major element - not understanding the ins and outs of something breeds suspicion, I guess, and along comes someone who'll speak with enough conviction and authority to make total poppycock believable. But another one rescued thanks to your friend. That is a promising sign.
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Sounding like those people you sometimes read or hear saying they still oppose gun control following the passing of a loved one of theirs in some horrible shooting. It is sad not to be able to "concede" when reason and logic and life itself contradict flimsy beliefs held too tightly. But I do hope her memories are blessings.
Also, love nurses, but why do so many wheel out their job title as though it makes them international authorities on EVERYTHING related to health and wellness under the sun?