Government doesnât want undocumented immigrants in the country, but they are more than happy to sell non-citizen cartel members high caliber ammunition.
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â˝ď¸ Ronaldo to boycott 2nd Al Nassr game in protest of PIF
Sources told ESPN that Ronaldo tried to block the transfer of French star Karim Benzema from Al Ittihad to Al Hilal on Monday because he felt the move was unfair and indicated that PIF wanted to pave the way for Al Hilal to win the title.
Who wouldâve thought the fake soccer league that controls the purse strings of every team and overpaid a bunch of old players would do things âunfairly?â Not to mention Ronaldoâs team is stacked still with JoĂŁo Felix, Kingsley Coman, and Sadio ManĂŠâplus a couple young Brazilians.
đ§ââď¸ Top Minnesota prosecutor says ICE cases are sidelining âpressing prioritiesâ
Actual criminals are absolutely loving whatâs happening right now. ICE isnât going after the (extremely small population of) undocumented immigrants that are in gangs because those people would actually fight back and have criminal attorneys on retainer and the idiot goons of ICE want nothing to do with that. Instead they go after people with disabilities, children, and people at court houses âdoing it the right wayâ so they can hit their outrageous quotas. Not only that, local police and prosecutors are now jammed up with all of this nonsense and dedicating less time to going after and building cases against actual criminals and fraud.
đď¸ The testimony of Aliya Rahman
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Itâs absolutely devastating to watch this. Iâd love to echo the sentiment Iâve seen on social media and say, âhow could anyone watch this and not be devastated?â But Iâve become too jaded. The people doing and celebrating this terrible shit are the people who tortured their pets like Sid from Toy Story as kids. This is exactly what the âanti-wokeâ folks wantâthey want to be able to laugh at people with disabilities after they illegally arrest them without reading them their rights or giving them their phone call.
There is no empathy from these people.
I started thinking, âWhen did this country lose all of its empathy?â But the truth isâand itâs a truth we all knowâthere never was any empathy to begin with in this country, and we continue to show our true colors as a country more and more every day.
We arenât a democracy or a republic; we arenât capitalists or socialists; we live in a corporatocracy, and no action or decision is made based on the will of the people or whatâs good for the peopleâonly what provides corporations the most profits.
Because if America actually cared about peopleâeven just a little bitâthis shit wouldnât happen to anyone, citizen or otherwise. Instead, we are a barbaric, third-world, fascist corporatocracy. And we pray to one god.
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đ§ Healing Together Conference
I love âFight Club,â âShutter Island,â and âAmerican Psycho.â (The movie and comic adaptations, too, for that matter.) Unreliable narrators are sublime. I donât begrudge authors or filmmakers playing fast and loose with complex, poorly understood mental issues for the sake of a good story.
Having said that, Dissociative Identity Disorder â i.e. âmultiple personalitiesâ â isnât nearly so bombastic. The real thing looks and feels different. And itâs really challenging.
Rant aside, hereâs a conference about DID this weekend thatâs got some interesting speakers and topics.
Itâs probably too late to get a scholarship, but most of the sessions are taped for review and available online for a few months. The websiteâs got some good general info, too.
